The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31


nally she ceased tofeelit at all. 1ncours
Of time she married and had three chill
dren. The other day while bathing tn
youngest, about year old, she discoy
cred a hard substance in its thigh. Sh
picked at it and finally drew it fortl
when it proved to be the long los
needle.
The Kansas people are attempting t.
direct the tide of negro emigration to
wards some other Northern State. w,
advise the exodusters to be careful o.
they may get into State in which they
cannot vote unless they can read anC
write or own landed property. Massa
chusetts or Rhode Island for instance.
The Corinth Sub-Soiler in entering
upon its ninth year, among other things
says: eve have adhered to the nomi
'tnees of the party, when, by so doing
eve engendered feelings against us
(which have not yet, and, probably
"never will be reconciled and when
"our best friends told us that we were
"doomed to disappointment. They
"were right; we were disappointed, and
"because of our course we are still the
sufferers. The Democrat is not alone
in that experience. There is nothing
more common than for papers, which
stand by the nominees and principles OF
the parties they affiliate with, to en-
counter the enmity of men who would
be a party unto themselves. When
the Democrat has entered upon its 44th
year, as THE CLARION has, it will have
gotten used to it.
1t was a bad, bad, newspaper man
who said ''the only difference between
Bob Ingersoll and the man who puts up
telephones is that the latter is a bell
hanger while Bob is a - bangor"
The aberdeen Examiner has, in en-
dorsement of what we said of encourag-
ing immigration, the following:
THE CLARION is exactly right about that
Whenever we can have Legislature en-
Iightened enough to provide handsome
salary for competent man as Commission
er of Immigration and Chief of the Bureau
Of Statistics, and to appropriate ten or twelve
thousand dollars to be expended in "adver-
Using the natural advantages of the State,
and paying postage, there will be rapid in
1ux of population, and a rapid advance in
The value ofOur lands.
We have a thoroughly competent man
n the office now, but he mas been unable
% make the position effective for want
IF funds to advertise the State as it |
should be-
A debating society in Clinton, after
IN exhaustive discussion, decided that
the execution of Mary, Queen of SCOTS
vas unjust" This leaves Mary in the
anne fix that the court martial left
Porter, innocent but without
elief, like John Brown, cher body lies
in the ground" alice samee.
''The Bourbons" is the catch-word,
or the present, of extreme Radical jour
als like the Chicago Inter-Ocean, st.
4ouis Globe-Democrat and New Orleans
They roll the expression
nder their tongues as if with it they
ould attach some opprobrium to South
m Democrats to whom they apply it.
he term has been substituted, in a
reat measure, for ''red-handed rebels"
nd "un-hung traitors" with big T.
| Jail was recently burnedin Florida in
hich four negro thieves were confined,
nd burned to death, Notwithstanding
efforts were made by white
eople to release them. The Washing
IN Republican in leader headed "The
lid and gentle Bourbons" deliberately
larges the white people of Florida with
urning the Jail because the negroes
ere Republicans and possibly might
ave been summoned as witnesses in a
contested election case
though there is nothing to justify the
large, nor to indicate that the unfor-
mate prisoners would have been wit
esses, except the general fact that most
epublican election witnesses are taken
ON the criminal classes. Could the
ndictive hate of a Northern Radical
} farther?
Gen. Grant has resigned the Presi-
ENJOY of the Worlds Fair Commission.
did not pan out as a, third term
'omer for 1884 as he expected, and be-
des there was no money it.
The Vicksburg Commercial thinks that
} newspaper man need apply for office in
ississipPi. The newspaPe men have not
red so badly. At the last State Conven
on Maj. Kinloeh Falconer, former editor {
the Holly Springs Reporter, was nomi-
tied for Secretary of State Gen. Smith,
one time editor of the Brandon Republi {
n, was nominated for State Superintendent {
Education. They were elected Henry
Myers, Esq, for some time one of the
oprletors OF the Holly Springs South, was,
ter the death of Falconer, appointed Sec
tary of State; Col. 3. f. Jones' of the
mona Advance, was elected Sergeant-at- {
ms of the last State Senate; W. Fl. Coch- {
n, Esq, of the Starkville Times, was elect
CLERK of the House of Representatives !
j. G. w. Harper, of the Raymond Ga
tie, was elected Representative from
inds county in 1876; ]. L. Meade, Esq,
the Westville News, was elected Repre- 9
NATIVE from Simpson county the same
ar. In 1879 F. G. McGee, Esq, of the
Enterprise Courier, was elected Representa-
We from Clarke county; in 1877, J. S.
agee, Esq, of the MeadvilIe Banner, was !
ected Representative from Franklin
unity. We don't think the newspaper
en- have much to complain oE-Brook-
wen Ledger.
The Ledger might have added Mai.