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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
A Birds Grief.
REMARKABLE CONDUCT OF A DOVE WHOSE
MATE WAS KILLED BY A LOCOMOTIVE.

REMARKABLE CONDUCT OF A DOVE WHOSE
MATE WAS KILLED BY LOCOMOTIVES.
A year or so ago a little girl living
near the line of the Erie Railway, two
miles from Rathboneville, n. Y, was
presented with a pair of doves. They
were in the habit of flying about in the
vicinity. One day, three weeks ago.
they were flying across the railway
track, when the male bird came into
collision with the smoke stack of the
Pacific express, which passes the spot
about Z o'clock in the morning. The
bird was killed by the shock, and in
stantly thrown out of sight of its mate.
The female circled about the spot for a
few minutes, in evident amazement at
the sudden disappearance of her mate.
She then flew to a mile-post near bv,
and for long time gave utterance to
the mournful notes characteristic of the
dove. Suddenly she seemed to realize
what had carried the male from her
sight, and she rose in the air and flew
swiftly in the direction the train had
gone. She did not return until about
noon. She alighted at her cote, where
she remained the rest of the day, utter
ing her plaintive cries. Next morning,
just before Z o'clock, she was seen to
fly away, and take a position on the
mile-post near the spot where she last
saw her mate the day before. When
the express train came along she few
at the locomotive, lowered about the
smoke-stack and around the cab, as if
looking for her mate. She accompan-
led the locomotive for mile or so, and
then returned to her cote. Every day
since then she has repeated this strange
She goes to her lookout for
the train at precisely the same time
each morning, and waits until the train
comes along, no matter how late it may
be. She never goes further than about
4 mile with the train, returning then to
her cote, and mourning piteously all
Law.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
AROUND THE YEAR.

1--we came to me in The Spring-time,
with the soft. sweet April showers;
Her breath was the breath Of the woodland
And her lap was filled with flowers.
H.r step was song in the silence;
rs melody rose I'd fell
assEedauced through the fragrant twilight
10 the bower we knew so well.
And the Spring glided on to the summer
NFh the flame OF IT'S fervent darts
Auffh- noon Of fieeting season
Was the noon Of our beating hearts.
But the Autumn came with is shadows,
And noon was no longer hot;
And the frost crept into our pulses,
And Summer and SPrihg were not.
And Love was alive with the Winter,
Bur her beauty and grace had fed;
Mid tar SHOWS Of March left her,
Wilh cypress wreath at her head.
H sEr LYMAN, in Harper Magazine for No
yember.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
A Swell.

Correspondence of the New York Herald.
It may net be amiss 70 mention here
the ludicrous sight a japanese official
presents in foreign evening dress. His
trousers reach only to his ankles, his
sleeves are too long by two or three
inches, and his coat-tails come down be-
low his knees. An old-fashioned opera
hat, shaped more like bell than any
thing else, and white cotton gloves three
or four sizes too large, complete the
evening attire Of Japanese official and
swell of the period. One gets the idea
that the clothes must have been sent
out in general shipment, and that every
man had taken the first suit he could
lay his hands on.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
She Deserves a Premium.
Liberty Herald

On Monday we witnessed the sale of bale
of extra fine cotton, which was raised by
Miss Fannie Hof, from three quarters of an
acre Of land, and there isget some cotton
to pick from the patch. This young lady
cultivated and picked the cotton, without
ita interferencs with her domestic affairs,
and we were pleased TO see her rewarded BY
the highest price paid for any cotton sold
in the market.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

As by constant friction steel is kept
highly polished, so by constant exercise
is talent ever at its brightest. All our
powers grow by use.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
Another Convict for Life.

Meridian Mercury.
Jennings. indicted for the murder of Sui
livan, in Wayne county, along with Walton
convicted at last spring term and sentenced
for life to the penitentiary, and whose case
was continued then, having spent the inter
i'm in our jail in this city, has recently had
his trial in Green county on q change Of
venue at the late term of Wayne court and
was convicted of murder, the jury fixing the
penalty, penitentiary for life.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

The habit Of being always employed
Is a great safeguard through life, as vel
as essential to the culture Of every vir-
tue.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

Iwould not waste my spring of youth
In idle dalliance | would plant rich seeds
To blossom in my manhood, and bear fruit
When l am old.
j A Hillhouse.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

sLeonidas was the first dead-head OF
whom we have any record. He had a
pass at Thermople. But he didn't get
through because he wouldn't give it up.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

The worst education that teaches self
denial Is better than the best that
teaches everything else and not that
John Sterling.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

Look at the bright side. Keep the
sunshine ola living faith in the heart.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

Ceremonies differ IN every country,
but true politeness is ever the same,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

Endeavor to b what you would ap-
pear to u.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

Il is the little rift within tie Into.
That by-and-by will make the music mute.
Aud ever widening slowly silence OH.
me lttle rim within the lovers June.
Or little pitted spcck ln gtrnrrcI trlif.
That rotiug inward, slowly mullers ALL
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-07-29

/ their tendencies, in their denominating
principles, in their fidelity to the Union,
are the same parties that opposed each
other in 1860. They clash on the same
vital questions, and there is the same
need OF Republican success in 1880 that
there was in 1860. A vote for HANCOCK
is vote to surrender the great principles
for which he fought. A vote for GAR.
FIELD is vote to retain and sustain th ose
principles. A vote for HANCOCK is a
vote to help BLACKBURN make good
his threat that every vestige of war
legislation shall be wiped out from the
statute books. A vote for GARFIELD Is a
vote TO retain the advantages gained in the
war, and to continue the country united,
prosperous and happy. The people are
not likely to forget the records of the two
parties IN the past; they are not likely to
be deceived with the idea that there Is
no essential difference in the parties at
the present day; and they will not be
likely to grow careless, because, under Re.
publican rule the country has been saved {;
the finances put in the best condition
they ever were; the credit Of the
Nation made better than at any former
time,-we repeat, because Of these
things, Republicans will not become
careless, and give up all its glorious
achievements Through struggle OF TWEEN
ty years of strenuous effort, the sacrifice
Of life and money, in the cause Of Nation.
al honor and National unity. No; the
Republican party will, in 1880, IS it did
in 1860, arise in its might and place In
the Presidential chair its own candidate
the able, the gifted, the experienced
statesman, the gallant soldier, the up.
right and honest man, the noble leader
among leaders,-JAMEs A. GARFIELD. In
his elevation, the principles of LINCOLN
will be carried out; the advantages &C
crued under Republican rule in the past
will be retained, and the country will
move on in the eminently prosperous
career that has dawned upon it, and the
people will be happy and contented.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-07-29
Damaging Testimony.

The testimony of JOHN /. DAVENPORT,
now being taken in New York City be-
fore the Wallace investigating committee,
is most damaging exposure of Demo.
cratic methods of carrying elections, ana
shows what is meant by the party in Its
National platform by "the right OF free
ballot" which it declares sis the right
preservatives of all right, and must and
shall be maintained in every part of the
United States" The main facts brought
out by this testimony are not new, but
they arc conhrmatory Of what were
known in 1868 TO be most stupendous
Democratic frauds upon the ballot box
They go further, however, and show con.
clusively that the extent of the fraudu.
lent naturalizstions was greater even than
was then claimed, and the whole story is
given with proof, under oath, by the msn
who at the time WAS knowing to the facts
to which he testifies, and who has since
fully and thoroughly investigated the
whole subject. He shows that IN
October, 1868, there were some CT 900
naturalization papers issued by only
two courts that certificates were
signed by the Judges in blank, to be fill.
ed out by the tools OF the party that 49,.
1873 blanks were given out, where the
court record showed that only 1884 ap-
pllcations had been made, showing a
clear steal of II 900 voters that there were
professional or standing witnesses. who
appeared for those whom they could
know nothing about; that aliens came
into court and served IN turn as witnesses
for each other; that men were natural
lied within three weeks after their arrival
In the country, in open violation OF the
law; that one Of the partisan Judges,
BARNARD, who helped to perpetrste these
infamous frauds, had pretended to hear
the cases and make out the papers for
543 persons in five hours, a thing abso.
! luiely impossible to be pertormed; that
on the files of the court this Judge had
forged the names of prominent citizens
used as witnesses, such as AUGUST BEL.
MONT, john I. HOFFMAN, WILLIAM II.
/ VANDERBILT and others, and Mr.. DAyEN.
PORT himself had gathered some 1000
/ certificates whose owners made affidavit
that they had not been in the country
. long enough TO be legally entitled to
such certificates. These wholesale fraud.
/ uleut naturalizsuons began in 1866,
/ and the notorious Judges CARDozo
/ and MCCUNN were ready and willing tools
/ 10 assist in the Infamous business. In
/ 1878, between 1000 and 5000 persons ap.
pesred before Mr., DAVENPORT and sur
rendered these false papers, tesutying to
the fraudulent manner in which they were
made out by these recreant legal tune
tionsries And this is the party whose
leaders propose to wipe out the National
election laws-the party which with such
sublime etfrontery pirates of free ballot
which is the right preservstive of all
rights, and must and shall be maintained
in every part of the United Siates--the
shotgun, tissue ballot party, whose whole
history is but series OF me most out
rageous violations of The sacred right Of
the elective FRANCHISE.
-
/, IS interesting to learn that Prince
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-07-29

/, IS interesting to learn that Prince
GuSrER T., of Schwartzburg.S ouderhaus-
en-, has sodicated in favor OF his son.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-03-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

Out of season-An empty pepper box.
Bufaloes are growing scarce at the
West.
IneIo o4.naA 900 hogs in the
United States.
Pork packing ranks as the third
American industry.
The only law in Alaska is the United
OGlEe5 IoVvnuO l's".
Barcelona, according to Olive Logan,
is the New York of Spain.
The American half dime of 1902 is
deemed bargain of 500.
A toy maker of Montrose, Pa, uses
60O, coo feet of Eastwood every year.
Tilton's son Carroll is preparing for
the ministry. He lives with his mother.
Arizona contains 100000 acres OF
land, 5,0OO,O 600 of which are surveyed.
The negro physicians of Tennessee
have organized State medical associa-
ton.
London Truth says that in the last
ten years there have been 2, 1859 strikes in
England.
The British national debt lacks little
of being twice as large as that of the
United States.
The total losses by fire in Vermont
during the four years ending January |,
1880, were $3.66l, 100.
Jefferson Davis expects to. gather
about 1000 bales OF cotton from ms
plantation in Mississippi this year.
Edison has a salary of $25 QUO a year
from the company he serves, besides
royalty from all sorts of patents.
If we could see others as we see our
selves, there would be more cookbook
lag people in the world.-Pcdyune.
To neutralize the sting of a gnat OF
mosquito, rub the part affected with a
little cerumen, that is, the wax of the
ear.
Alex. H. Stephens weighed only
seventy-one pounds at the end OF the
war. At present he weighs ninety
three.
Sam Ward agrees in the opinion OF
Ude that cookery in England is superior
to that of any other country in the
world.
'Ecarlate is the name of a new re-
color derived from coal. 1t is prophe--
sled that cochineal has had its day and
that the new color will take its place.
St. Louis girls ought to find content
ment in the fact that they can hold more
pins in their mouths at one time than
any other girls can.--BOSton Posi-.
Eight hundred and forty three rail
road accidents occrrred in the United
States during the year ending Septem-
Der 80, 1879, by which 1872 persons were
killed and 752 hurt.
4 SEALED PROPOSAL.
q What are sealed proposals. romI'
Archy asked bright-eyed miss,
Whose mouth upturned, Ikea rosebud sweet,
Seemed asking for kiss.
H Why, Fanny dear, I'll illustrate;
IT'S plain as a, BIC,
Give me your hand-you have my heart
And now It's sealed-you sect
--Middietown Transcript.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-03-12
Life.

Lille.
Short days flying, swift years rolling
Downward toward eternity;
Ere we understand our longings
Oft the open grave we see.
Cares and wishes crowd together,
Changing ever in the breast;
With the morning comes the knowedge,
Joy fulfilled can take no rest.
Schemes OF life and plans for living
Fancy bids us ever try,
But their sweet fulfllment never
Brings us that for which we sigh.
Young, we fancy pleasure deathless,
A tar-s:retcbing Wonderland;
Soon it fades, and sorrow follows;
On the desert waste we stand.
Yes, from out the brightest morning
Oft we harvest bitter pain,
Joys soon past, OF lightly gathered
Lite so iruitless and so vainl
All what weary hours of longing
Lost occasion brings the mind
How the wounded soul may languish,
Never balm or healing find
Then when evening closes on thee,
Weep not as thine hours depart;
Only peace and holy stiffness
Gather close within thine heart.
Then, the woes of life forgetting,
From its stain and guilt set free,
will thy last and lowly pillow
Like the tender rose Leaf be.
-Harper'S HeekLy
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-03-12
Death in the Coal Mines.

The report of inspectors of anthracite
coal mines in the Schuylkill region re-
lating to casualties in the mines is a
CHASTITY list. In 1878 the killed num-
bered eighty-seven and the injured 247.
In 1879 there were ll3 killed and 1897
injured. OF the fatal accidents. twelve
deaths were caused by explosions of
fire damp, seven by blasts and other
explosions of powder, tifty-five by fall
ing coal, slate and rock; twenty-five
by cars and mine wagons, and seventeen
in miscellaneous ways. The ways in
which some men meet death are strange
indeed. Patrick Casey was caught by
a rush of coal in shute and carried
with it to point where plank caught
him by uhe neck and choked him TO
death. Griffith Watkins, a boy eft his
place in the breaker and went 0 get u
drink of water AS he was passing the
boiler.house runaway Car crushed
through the side, struck him and killed
him. Charles Dreshman, a miner, aged
twenty-five, who was engaged shovel
ing at the mouth of shute, was found
lying dead, with one leg down the shute
and a small quantity of loose earth lying
on him. No indications of what killed
him could be found, but it was sup
posed that his foot slipped into the hole,
and he imagining that he was about to
fall to the bottom, was literally fright
ened TO death.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-03-12
EXnerience With an Earth Quake.

W. A. Gorrill, OF the Pacific bridge
company, San Francisco, had the
good fortune to be in the port of San
Salvador, Central America, so badly
shaken up by the recent earthquake.
Mr.. Gorrill had just lighted cigarette
and was sitting without the door Of an
adobe house when the first terrific shock
came. He picked himself up from the
ground to ask what such proceedings
might mean, but instantly another shock
answered the half-expressed conun-
drum. Mr.. Gorrill then kept quiet and
held on to tree, which trembled from
root to the topmost branch for many
minutes. He thought the thing couldn't
last long, for old mother earth, at the
rate she was going on, must soon crack
her ribs. And mumbling over after old
King Leah:
g. And thou, all shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o the world;
Crack natures moulds, all germins spill at
once"
Mr.. Gorrill waited for cessation. lie
waited a long time, however, as the
shocks were continuous in the imme-
diate locality where he happened to be
-"the Valley of the Hammock" so
named because it is always. swinging
for two nights and one day. The two
villages between which he was did not
save q hut, and 1000 persons found
themselves homeless. The earth cracked
in many places and foaming water
spurted out of the ground. The huts
tumbled alone way, rs if mown down
by an immense 81 kle, sulphur impreg-
mating the whole air.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-03-12
Saved by a Spaniel.

William Prince of Orange on the
morning of the twelfth of September,
1872, was saved from assassination at
the hands of his enemies by the action
of a little doy. The Spanish army under
the command of Alva, invading the
Netherlands, and the army of patriots
under the command of the prince, were
encamped near the city of Mons. The
plan was formed for the surprise OF the
patriots and the capture or assas' indtlon
of William, and for this purpose a band
of six hundred disguised men were
placed under the command of Julian Ro-
nero. The historian oftl!e " Rise OF the
Dutch Republic, narrates that near the
hour of two O'Clock in the morning,
Z" the boldest, led by Julian in person,
made at once for the princes tent. His
guards and himself were in profound
sleep, but = small spaniel, who always
passed the night upon his bed, was Il
more faithful sentinel. The creature
sprang forward, barking furiously at the
sound of hostile footsteps, and scratch
ing his masters face with his paws.
There was but just time for the prince TO
mount a horse which was ready saddled
and to effect his escape through the
darkness before his enemies sprang into
the tent. His servants were cut down,
his master of the horse and two of his
secretaries. who gained their saddles q
moment later, all lost their lives and but
for the little dogs watchfulness, Will
liam of Orange, upon whose shoulders
the whole weight of his country's for
tunes depended, would have been led
within week TO an ignominious death.
To his dying day, the prince ever after
ward kept spaniel of the same race in
the bed chamber" This event occurred
but a short time after the Paris we'd
ding, and short time after the st.
Bartholomew tragedy. The historian
and moral philosopher can more appro-
priately discuss the influence which the
watchfulness of The little spaniel had
upon the destinies of the world,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-03-12

When General Grant had completed
trip through Florida, he gave the
'w York Tribu,,e's correspondent his
Rclusions as to the future of that State.
think" he said, "that florida has
bright prospect. Her productions will
Ia monopoly; and besides her oranges,
leapples and semi-tropical fruits and
|Eetables, she will in time produce the
gar for the consumption of the entire
lntry. Then she grows the finest
lg-staple cotton, the best of tobacco
/ cigars, and her timber is of immense
lue. Then, when the swamp land is
pared of the timber, there wiQ remain
e choicest kind of a rice country. The
fl, while apparently barren, is suited
the climate, and there are extensiv,
IDS Of material for fertilization tina
ILL not only supply the needs of tn
Snd, but will be ap article of export.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-03-12

Speaking of difficulties, the Modern
Argo says that wasp or a well-organ-
lied hornet is the only chap on record
that can back out of serious difficulty
at his own sweet will.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-03-12

society?" he asked, smiling in her beau
tiful face.
"Oh, but you great honest goose |!
you do not know what that sometimes
implies" she replied, quite seriously.
When there is crowd of handsome,
brilliant women trying to do the same
thing, it sometimes means all sorts of
petty tricks and spites."
John became serious and looked down.
He had heard of such things.
And it isn't Impossible that ! might
have accepted the marquis il it had not
been for you and the pennyroyal."
Johns face flushed, and he looked at
her sternly. "How could you accept
him when you had never refused me,
and knew that was waiting and hop
ing for youPn he demanded.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-03-12
ISLAND POND, VERMONT, FRIDAY. MARCH i2, 1880.

/" You do intrude awfull, John" she
said, giving him her hand, "there are
two persons in the housewife will be
enraged at your coming"
Zone is your aunt, +" he aid, coldly.
" And the other is-whoPr
" Never mind, come and get some
breakfast. The bell is ringing and am
hungry. Oh, you needn't hesitate about
the invitation; we all ask whom we
please. l have had one or two persons
to breakfast. They will already have
laid a place for you"
she was turning away, half waiting
for him, when he took her hand:
IF you are going to marry him will
not sit at his table. Tell me the truth;
don't play with me, Margaret"
She had never heard his voice so