The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-27

{ by the 1st of February there will no
t be distillery, saloon or place wher,
n liquor can be had in that State. If til,
7 news gets out among the Mississippi
e darkeys the spring exodus will come t,
: dead halt. They will stand the bull
4 dozers rather than 90 where Publican
candidates do not set up free whiskey
! Gath says Wilmington, Delaware
: Twill be the next large city to grow VI
2 Sin the East :" If it grows much ii
f will spread over the whole State.
Garfield gave the colored men from
the South some good advice, but he did
: not say Office once.
The Governor of Minnesota intimated
in his message that his State had repu-
dated, and he was Immediately sent to
r serve his term in the lunatic asylum
for not knowing that none but the
Southern States ever repudiate.
There is a bill pending, introduced by
Senator Hoar, to pension ex-Presidents
at SO, 900 per annum.
An obituary writer in the New Or
leans papers had good notice of his
departed friend and then spoiled the
effect by closing with, Goodbye old
boy, goodbye" as if the old boy was
going home.
The Washington Republican threat
ems that if this talk of darkey in the
cabinet is not discontinued at once, one
will be appointed to ''fret" the South
Another case of cutting off the nose to
spite the face.
The Natchez Democrat says very few
! of the Adams county prisoners work
out their fines. Most of them manage
to raise the money. This shows the
great improvement in the present over
the old law Now, offenders must con-
tribute to the school fund or work then,
they had only to take the pauper's oath
when they got tired of staying in jail
Within the past three months not less
than $500 German immigrants have
sailed from Europe for Texas direct,
landing at Galveston. This makes us
inquire why Mississippi cannot quit her
penny wise and pound foolish policy
and adopt measures to induce immigra-
ton
It does not follow because the 'divine
Sara" is slim, her audiences are.
A bill is pending in the New York
Legislature providing that twenty lashes
shall be laid on the backs Of wife beat
ers
E. A. Southern, the famous =" Lord
Dundreary', is dead.
The House of Representatives have
decided that Bisbee, Radical, and not
Hull, Democrat, was elected from the
I'd district of Florida, and the former
has been seated. Such delay as this is
an outrage. The contest was begun two
years ago. Hull has been permitted to
occupy the seat and draw the pay until
the term has about expired and now
another is seated and will draw pay for
the whole term, $4,000. The case
could have been and should have been
decided within sixty days after Congress
met two years ago.
Grant says that the only thing for
Americans to do if DeLesseps begins to |
build the Panama Canal is to stop it. /
There is a great deal of cotton along the =
line of the Great Jackson route which the
farmers are still holding owing to the impas-
sable condition of the roads leading into the '
various towns, and some that is still unpick- L
sd.-N. o. Times. +
Don't you deceive yourself There is b
very little cotton upon the route you b
peak of, either picked or unpicked. b
THE Funding Bill which has passed d
he House is Democratic measure, not s
such as we would have pre- a
erred. but its chief merits and essential u
eatures are that it provides for the
peedy payment and not the perpetual n
ion of the public debt as permanent d
ntaxed income for the benefit of CAPT =
al, and for reduction of taxes by Il
educing the interest to 8 per cent i
mother commendable feature of the r
ill is the issue of $4,000 in silver RI
certificates. The Democrats carried v
MS feature without a division. 1t D,
irtually expands the currency to the Sc
mount named, the certificates being !;
,r sums as small as SO and made of m
INSTANTLY increasing value by bearing = =
nree per cent. interest. y
THE Water Valley Courier says that g
oil. E. NJ Watson, the law partner of :. =
oil. Manning, is accompanying Capt fr
Buchanan on his rounds, and holds his en-