The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-08-25


to create the impression of the Licking
ton Times that we have the slightest
sympathy with the Greenback party.
except in so far as it denounces the leg
ilation of the Republicans in the inter
est of the privileged classes. We re-
gard the organization of the Greenbaek-
ers into separate party. as pernicious
in the extreme, because it is calculated.
if not deliberately designed, 10 divide
the only party that is capable of accom-
plishing the reforms which the country
essentially needs. As for fat money.
it is bubble which no party can under
take to stand upon without drawing up
on itself the derision of every sensible
person.
HERE is a discovery which census
taker made in Pennsylvania. No such
examples of human ignorance and
.qualidness can be found in any South
ern State
Harrisburg Telegraph
The census enumerators of Robson town
ship, Berks county. came across singular
family on the premises of Col L. Huber Smith
in that township. 1t consists of SIX old maids
and two bachelors, the oldest member being
80 years OF age. and all born in the house in
which they live. there is no floor in the
house and the door is 50 low that no nerson
can enter without STOPPING nor is il possible
for man Of medium statute to stand erect
inside of the house owing to the low ceilings
The smallest person in the family measures 5
feet inches in height. None of the memb era
can either read or write. They are e gagged
in no occupation, and earn thsir subsistence
chiefly by picking berries on the hills.
COMMISSIONER DEDUc says that the
yield Of corn promises to be much lar
ger than ever before, while wheat and
cotton are fully up to the average.
Corn is made and so is wheat but we
would like to know how Commissioner
DeDuc, who probably never saw cot
ton stalk growing in his life, knows that
the cotton crop will be fully up to the
average. If he does, he knows more
about ii than experienced planters
themselves. So dependent is the crop
upon the vicissitudes of the season from
this time until it is matured, that the
wisest among them cannot make safe
estimate of its probable extent,
New ORLEANS is drained by its gut
tiers, underground sewers as well as eel
lars being impracticable, by reason of
the substratum of marsh which under
lies the few feet Of soil which alone
makes New Orleans possible In the
uptown streets the surface drains flow
perpetually with clean river water This
enterprise is due to a society of public
spirited citizens, calling themselves
''The Samaratans." The protection of
the city from yellow fever epidemics,
means it, commercial property.
AN official statement of imports and
exports of specie for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1880, shows that during
the last fiscal year the net imports of
gold to the United States amounted to
SIT, 1913, 331, a larger gain than ever be
fore in the history Of the country. The
figures in regard to the exports and inn
ports of silver are not rs complete as
is desired, but they are sufficiently full
to show that the United States export
ed much more silver than it imported
This does not look like verifying the
predictions Of the anti-silver prophets
that the reconciliation OF silver would
cause gold to flee away from the country.