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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-20
Gre.k in Milwaukee,.

Bya recent change in the curriculum
of the high school, Greek has been
dropped from the studies, though Lat
in is still retained, and city paper re-
CARDS the dropping of Greek as mis-
take. We think so, too. Years ago
we held old fogy notions upon educa-
tional matters, and thought that Eng
lish ought to be taught in. the public
schools. It seemed to us that as Eng
lish was the language of the country,
and the English sciences the only ones
used in business, it could not do chill
dren any particular harm to teach them
little English occasionally-not too
much, so that it would interfere with
their Greek, Latin, painting, drawing
and dancing, but enough SO they could
buy two yards of factory cloth at eight
cents yard and feel satisfied in their
minds that the two yards came. to six
teen cents. We were running a little
country paper at that time, and work
as hard as ever we might we could not
make any money, and we could not &C.
count for it. One day we dropped into
school examination, where Latin was
being peeled off in great flakes and
Greek was being talked like man
filing circular saw. We saw at once
where we were making our life failure
and wasting our energies, and we re-
tured TO the Office resolved to remedy
the defect. We opened on the public
in the next issue with plenty of Latin
and Greek, and the effect was wonder
full. The public had been suffering for
just that sort of thing, and the edition
was exhausted. Subscriptions began to
pour in from all quarters; we enlarged
the paper and came to Milwaukee, still
crowding its columns with Latin and
Greek. The public knows the rest.
Money has flowed in upon us SO that
we have to keep man with splint
broom at the door to sweep it back.
This is what Latin and Greek has done
for us, and we can truthfully say that
we had rather see boy able to write q
beautiful essay in Greek, any time, than
to see him hanged for horse stealing.
1t is mere creditable to him.-Milicau-
kee Sun. F-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-10-20

MRs. Langtry has DISAPPEARED from
London society. As a professional
beauty she paled before Whitelaw
Reid
A MINER is always q lucky man, be-
cause he can always take his pick.-To-
ledo american.
To find out who are the most pronis-
ing young men, ask the or.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
Employment of Women.

The Austin Statesman is jubilant over
the adoption by the Texas Senate of a
resolution requiring the employment OF
yesterday, in the halls of the Senate
chamber, there was walked light which,
fed, will lead poor woman in Texas to
feel that she is disenthralled, that she IS
saved, redeemed from that shame which
a cold and false society forces her to as
sumo because of poverty and wretched-
ness : because of false and foolish theo-
nv, too long prevailing, that woman is
fit alone to handle children, or to cook
and to wash and scrub, to hoe and pick
cotton or to become subject of prosti-
tuition. Women have attained brilliance
in the world of letters second to no man,
and were it not for her native purity of
purpose and of action man would, long
since, have descended to, or more prop
erly hewould never have been lifted up
out of, the position to which Darwin ira c.
ed him in the worlds forgotten history.
All that's pure in man is born of woman's
influence, and let man acknowledge the
truth, and assert that all which is base
in woman is enforced by man. If her
example be for good In the family circle;
if her presence In society lead to its ex
altation, why not lead her in the bust
ness walks of life, where her pure and
honest impulses may train man against
the arts of forgery and swindling, against
defalcation and fraudulent entries,
land frauds and the base purposes ofman,
and In favor of honesty Of purpose in
public and in private business transac-
tons
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
Things Learned by Experience.

IF your coal fire is low throw on
tablespoonful of salt, and it will help it
very much. A little ginger put into
sausage improves the flavor. In icing
cakes dip the knife frequently in cold
water In boiling meats for soups use
cold water to extract the juices. If the
meat is wanted for itself alone, plunge
in boiling water at once. You can get
a bottle or barrel of oil off any carpet
or wooden stuff by applying dry buck
wheat plentifully and faithfully; never
put water to such grease spot or liquid
of any kind. Broil steak without salt
ing salt draws the juices in cooking
it is desirable to keep these in if posi-
BILE ); cook over a hot, fire, turning
frequently, soaring on both sides place
on platter, salt and pepper to taste.
Beef having tendency to be tough can
be made very palatable by stewing very
gently for two hours, pepper and salt,
taking out about pint of liquid when
done, and letting the rest boil into the
meat. Brown the meat in the pot.
After taking up make a gravy of the
pint of liquid saved. A small piece of
charcoal in the pot with boiling cabbage
removes the smell. Clean oilcloth with
milk and water; brush and soap will
ruin them. Tumblers that have had
milk in them should never be put in
hot water A spoonful of stewed toma-
toes in the gravy of either roasted or
fried meats is an improvement. The
skin of boiled egg is the most effica-
cious remedy that can be applied to
boil. Peel it carefully, wet, and apply
it to the part affected. 1t will draw OFT
the matter and relieve the soreness IN a
few hours.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
Stand Rr the Old Lnnd.Mnrks.

Judge Powell in the Prentiss Pleader.
Some of our contemporaries are discussing
the proprety OF having a Democratic State
Convention THE CLARION, Raymond Ga
zette, Yazoo City Herald and other papers
are for adhering to the old landmarks and
time-honOred customs of the party, whilst
the Vicksburg Herald and the Vicksburg
Commercial are not 80 pronounced rs regards
their future course. We must adhere to
the ancient usages Of the party. We must
not only have n State Convention but Dis
trct and County Conventions, to nominate
all officers when there is the least show Of
contest And we will moreover say that
we consider it the duty Of all true Demo
Gratis, who 60 for principles not for men"
to support the nominees of the party, wheths
er they are personal favorites or not. This
is the only way to achieve party success
Our political opponents understand this
WELL aud always go into the fight, when
there is any show Of success, thoroughly
organized.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
ALL SORTS.

The cheerful giver-He who give.
three cheers.
The dog with the longest tail is the
biggest wag of the pack.
The soft corn is hard enough to bear.
IN. o. Picayune.
The machinery of steamboat is often
a mere screw driver.
Turf note.-"Keep off the grass. y
Richmond Baton,
"You will love only me, George, dar.
ling ?" Sometimes, he says.
An oeulist is always in an eve rate
mood when making out his bill.
The blue pencil fend travels with an
opera troupe.-New Orleans Picayune.
Its tallow calumny to call Russian
Czar-dine. Boston Globe.
People who go crazy over Bernhardt
have not far to go.-New Orleans Plea
yune.
The New York News declares that
sit was far-seeing chap who invented
the telescope"
The ''Ironclad Oath" is when a fellow
reclines on the zenith end of tack with
his bare foot
Shipwrecked sailors never need starve
while there is a blight of rope left
Lowell Citizen.
Inquirer-A heather is a man whose
idea of God is different from yours
Hartford Evening Post.
If we were girl, we would select a
lover from among tailors-for they all
know how to press a suit.
The mythical bull in china-shop is
parelleled by the modern 'bull" in a
'bucket-shop. Boston Glope.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
VARIETY.

There was no encore when Sampson
brought down the house.
Josh Billings says that "a good doctor
is gentleman to whom we pay SO q
visit for advising us to eat less and ex
ercise more.
Curiosity-"Oh, what lovely vase.
It's antique, is it not "No, ma'am
it's modern" What pity. 1t was SO
pretty"
There is no such thing as well run
ming dry. When a well is dry it can't
run it stops. The only thing that runs
when it is is dry is toper-to the near
est saloon.-Bufalo Express.
The fashionable spring bonnet for 1881
is to besprofusely decorated with flowers
and provided in the rear with fire
escape, so that the wearers friends can
climb to the top and see the trimmings
Philadelphia Chronicle.
A sign with letters fifteen feet high,
so fixed that all who sailed on the East
river at New York, could read q David
Jones Kipp's Bay Malt House." was
the special pride of that bachelor
brewer, who died last week worth
$10,000,000.
Binghamton Republican GLOW can
we prevent murder ?" asks a Chicago
editor. An effective way would be to
kill the murderer about an hour before
he committed the crime Did this plan
never occur to the grand intellect of
Chicago?
A hundred and fifty thousand acres of
land in Missouri have been sold to a
Scotch land-company, and they will be
lotted out to a colony of Scotch farmers
who are coming over very soon. This
is a land-league which will doubtless be
worth millions to Missouri.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
The Cotton King.

The Mirror, of the Sth inst, of FernAn-
dina, Florida, has the following:
"Mr. Richardson, of Jackson, Mississippi,
is the largest cotton planter in the world,
and is the cotton king of America. He has
worked hard all his life, and is still work.
ing. He is popular with the masses, and
especially so with his colored laborers. He
is generally believed to have accumulated
from sl5,0O0,000 to $20,000,000, all made
in the South, the poor South. Eight hun
bred hands are employed in the factories,
three-fourths of whom are women, gathered
from the surrounding country, good, faithful
and intelligent The remaining fourth are
boys, gathered from various places, few
from the North and few from England and
Scotland, who work 400 looms and $4,000
spindles, In cotton these mills consume
daily from eighteen to twenty bales, besides
an enormous quantity OF wool, obtained
mostly from the Florida parishes of Louisi-
ana on Lake Ponchartrain. The prices Of
the products of these mills are kept down
to rock bottom, and these mills being situa-
ted in the Southern cotton belt and in the
wool-producing districts, and no freights 20
nav on cotton, their facilities for buying the
raw material are without doubt unsurpassed
and they can taus undersell all others. Their
savings in freight, having to pay none az all,
amounts to seven or eight dollars per bale
These goods find ready sale mall the large
cities. The mills are now running day and
night, using the Brush electric lights, max
ing the building as bright as day. The
night hands are separate and distinct from
those that work in the day. All hands
work harmoniously together, There has
never been a strike, nor any threats of such
a thing. There 10 no colored labor employed,
excerpt five men as iremen. This labor
cannot cannot be utilized to manage the
looms and spindles. The monotonous
humming and dFoning Of the machinery, it
is claimed, would invariably s0othe the
negro to sleep and let the looms run wild
and the spindles foul. Hence he Is not con-
sidered available as 8 laborer in cotton
factories, Weas0n il very thriving town,
and its population orderly and temperate
There Is not q grog shop in the town.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
Cold Feet.

Very many persons do not properly
care for their feet. They use cotton
stockings and thin shoes i'm winter;
sometimes they sit, perhaps for hours.
with their feet damp and even wet It
is not unfrequent for females too 20 about
their household work half q dav at a
time with feet inadequatclv protected
while the cold currents Of air cause
temperature 80 degrees less near the
floor than overhead
Some people become SIP habituatcd
to cold feet A. not 10 feel" the chill
the long continued cold having contract
ed the blood vessels and DESTROYED the
proper sensibility of the nerves. Not
a few persons go TO bed In a cold room
with the feet still cold. 10 have them
vet further chilled hv cold bed.
Now, the feet sustain close nervous
relation To the rest of the BODY Hence
II Is that the physician applies heat to
the feet to relieve conge-ted brain
The feet of one whose legs are paralvzed
will kick when tickled, though the per-
son is not conscious of the tickling. nor.
except by sight even of the kicking.
This indicates, too, one of the reasons
why rusty nail in the foot causes that
fearful disease, lockjaw. Good health
can not be enjoyed unless the blood cir
culates warm and strong through the
extremities.
Mothers should see 10 il that their
children's feetare well clad; and should.
from time to time during the day, re-
move their shoes to make sure tIat they
are warm. They should further train
them to right ideas and habits In this
respect
With all persons the rule in winter
should be WOODEN stocking and thick
'oled shoes, and rubbers in wet weather
Extra soles, whether of cork, felt, or
sven thick pasteboard, may be- used to
great advantage. Slippers or shoes that
AN be easily removed should be worn
about the house. If the feet are per-
nanently cold from the shrinkagc ofthe
Hood vessels, this will tend 90 enlarge
hem again. In such cases they should
,e soaked every night for time in
Iuite warm water.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
Co-Education Of the Sexes.

Sea Shore Gazette
The advisory committee recommends that
females be admitted IN the State University,
at Oxford, and it is very probable the mat
ter will be faY0rably received by the Board
of Trustees. 1t seems that this is a very
strange step for a body Of men with the
intellect this committee is blessed with to
take. Oxford University was intended in
the outset for the education Of males, and
as an institution Of this kind 10 is prosper
ing to-day, and ranks with the best schools
of the South. AS everything Is going on 50
well, why not continue TO make this noble
institution the place for the education Of
our sons, and let the State Of Mississippi do
as much for our daughters, but let us have
seperate institutions by all means. We are
as much in favor Of female as male educa-
ton, but a motion to mix sexes in this
school will certainly not be satisfactory 10
parents, brothers or young ladie. themselves.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
The Negroes in North Carolina.
leigh Farmer and Mechanic. /

Raleigh Farmer and Mechanic.
Race troubles are nearly extinct with ne.
The better elements of the negro people ris-
ing; the worse elements sinlsing-through
viler sort have exodusted North and west
Already there is pronounced aristocracy
among the negroes. At tLeir fashionable
weddings the array Of silks, white kids and
jewelry is Gorgeous. There are blacks i'm
Raleigh worth from $1,000 to $4,000 in
good city property. There are negroes in
this county who own 200 acre farms, with
all necessary Improvements. One recently
built a school house for his neighbors and
got county road changed to pass his house,
More than 100000 worth Of property is
owned by negroes in Halifax. Warren and
other counties. Odds and ends Of lands are
picked up for almost nothing, sometimes as
gift, and are soon made 70 thrive. Per-
haps 10000 negroes in the State to-day own
from ten to 300 acres.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
ITO be reported
:. N. APPERsoN, EFT AL, J
V. No. $3.50.
y ~ W.

V. No. $3.50.
q. C. WILBoURN, EFT AL.
Appeal from the Chaucery Court of PIANO.
Ia County, Hon. J. B. Morgan, Chancellor.
The opinion of the Supreme Court, which
efficiently states the case, is given in full ::
cAMPBELL. J.
Both sureties on a bond died The estate
mf one was solvent; that of the other in
blvent The creditor proved the full
mount Of the liability under the bond as a
him against the insolvent estate, and re-
lived on it an amount less than one-half OF
Me claim, and the remainder of il, being
ore than half, was paid by the estate OF
be solvent surety. The other creditors Of
MR lnsolvent estate, uniting with its ad-
Illustrator, exhibited this bill against the
ATent estate, to compel it to pay back one
tf Of the sum paid by the insolyent estate
me claim under the bond. The bill was
missed on demurrer, and the question is,
ether the administrator of the insolYent
nc can, for the benefit of its creditors,
yer Of the solvent estate the excess over
would have been the sum paid by the
nsolvent estate, if the claim by virtue
be bond had been proved for half of It's
nt instead of the whole of il,
neither surety, who has paid the whole
- entitled to a dividend for the whole
st the estate Of an ins0lvent eo-surety
N for 50 much as exceeds his Just pro.
un, has been n disputed question. and
zen answered differently.
Aesf Estafs, 10 r. r. Smith. 272. ii
~ that such surety might prove fol
&. because the creditor could. amid
Hhelituted 70 his righfs
e|'5s tt1ssQFs HaQn rats.aA6
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
A Blessing in Disguise.

Columbus (Ga-) Enquirer.1
The effects of the late severe cold spell
have been season of rejoicing among the
orange-growers in Florida That it did a
great deal of damage among the oranges none
will question, as a large number of them
were frozen and thus spoiled, uniting them
for the trade. It is also true that a large
number of trees were killed, but at the same
time it killed the oranges it killed the scale
insects, that We are told, have grown very
formidable enemy. The insects are now
gone, and their eggs put beyond any fear Of
Matching, and this viii doubly Offset the loss
of oranges and trees.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
A Hidden Romance.

AN ACCIDENT ON TIE mississippi RIVER
THIRTY~FIvE YEARS AGO.
The following advertisement appeared in
a New York paper:
About thirty-fve years ago a little girl
named Mary T. Wells, while playing near
the banks of the Mississippi river, was
carried away; fathers name was John
Wells; had brothers and sisters; forget
how many remember the names of some
William and Benjamin Wells; baby's sis
teF's name was Amelia. Any information
respecting any Of the family will be thank-
fully received. Emma Raymond, lockwood
Asylum, kingston, Ont.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
Census Incident.

a census-taker, whose name We were
requested not to disclose, related the follow
ing as an incident in his experience while
taking the recent enumeration In his
district:
.sWhat does your husband do r asked the
census man.
ssHe ainst dofna n0thins at this time or the
year replied the young wife.
Is ha paupef asked the census man.
Size binshed scarlet t0 the eafs.
Law. n0 sha exclaimed, somewhat m
diRnantIy Hme airsk been married mort
fA6n ki7' months. Index ppeal
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
The Vicksburg Herald and the Democratic
Senators.


1AUULIC
The vicksburg Herald denounces the
action of the Democratic Senators in refils-
ing TO place General Grant on the retired
list as sssilly blunder,n and says that the
fact that he is the greatest General in the
United States and has twice been Presi~
dent, shouldhave been enough to make the
Senate unanimous in placing him in an
honorable retirement Upon the whole Is
NAV Be concluded that the Democratic
Senators have as much sense as the editor
81 the Vicksburg Herald. This denoune-
ing business is getting tires0ma.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
VI. PHMLIPs,
Y. , No. 5000.
lIPH WOENfTEY,

appeal from the Chancery Court of Tuni-
county, Hon. J. B. Morgan, Chancellor.
rhe opinion of the Supreme Court is
en in full.
soEGE, J.
After this cause was argued on final,
bring and while it was in the hands of the
3cncell0r on submission and during the
cation, the appellant went before the
hncery clerk and dismissed his bill and
j d the costs. Three days thereafter the
laneellor, knowing nothing of the dismiss
so far as the record shows, rendered his
eree also in vacation dismissing the bill.
The rendering of of this decree after the
luntary dismissal by the appellant is now
Signed for error, the appellant insist
q that he had a right to have such a
smissal As would not have prevented his
Singing another suit for the same matter.
There is no merit in the assignment.
is true that the complainant may at any
Ne before final decision by the Chancellor
miss his bill: but if the dismissal is made
er the cause is set down for final hearing,
Nill have the effect, unless otherwise or
led by the Chancellor, of a dismissal or
merits. and may be pleaded in bar tC
Ather suit. Daniel CHI Pr. Ed. p. 1913
Decree A6frmed.
LUCENT & Melville, for appellants.
V. w. White and F. Johnston, contra.
IT. II, II
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
7. FEBRUARY "a. 1881.
GOOD NIGHT.

GOOD night. my sweet, good night
The time has flown so fast,
For light and sweet with tender thouSbt
The moments swift fly past.
Good night. my sweet, good night
Far off the sleepy town
Lles hid in misty veil of cloud
The night throws idly down.
Good night my sweet, good night
need no starry skies,
Nor could they match in light divine
The splendor of thine eyes.
do2d night, my sweet. good night
One kiss, It's mine by right,
A yielding sweet to loves embrace,
And then again good night!
-AnOuvmous
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
Kept His Oath.
Nashville American.

N$oSAANAAC 1AACAACon-
4 man who had claim against the Gov
emmett went to Captain J. G. Dougherty,
agent Of the quartemaster's department at
Franklin Few days ago, when the Captain
asked him if he bad been loyal to the GoE>
eminent during the war.
st0h, yes, sir, very loyal, sir
aDid You ever take the oath AT allegiance
to the United States Government r.
81 did, sir.
And have Jon rigidIy kept it r.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
The Spirit OF the Democratic Press OF
Mississippi.
Walthall Pioneer. ]

Never, IN the history Of Mississippi, were
the newspapers Of the dominant party 30
fully and completely the opponents Of pub
lie sentiment, as now. True they differ
upon minor details Of party management
But they are united IN a determination 20
preserve the State nom the hands af the pi-
ratlcal gang from whose grasp they rescued
her ia 1915. And ID this tl.ey are in accord
with the people who will rule thc desliuio1
81 orr STATE
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-24
ANACREoNTIE.

Friend of my soul this goblet sip.
Twill chase that pensive tear;
|Tls not 80 sweet as wOman's LIP,
But. On Ills more sincere
Like her delusive beam,
twill steal away thy mind;
But. like affections dream,
II leaves no sting behind
Come. Irvine the wreath thy brows to shade
These flowers were culled at noon
Like womlnis love the rose will fade.
But. an not half 20 soon
For though the flower decaye1,
Us fragrance is not Der;
Bat once when loves betrayed,
The heart can bloom no more.
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