The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-10

NOTES, NEWS AND NOTIONS.
The last conference of the Northern
Methodist church In Louisiana removed
one minister and sent another to the
Ames church in New Orleans. where
upon the congregation had big row.
Of this the Vicksburg Herald says;
These church scandals have been
| very rare in the South, and we trust
there will be no more of them We
can afford to allow the North to take
precedence in this respect. The Herald
must not be aware of the fact that
the Northern Methodist church in
the South Is composed almost entirely
of negroes; and that the conference
| that made the charge referred to, with
the exception of the Ames church, rep
resented negro congregations exclu-
sively. So far as our knowledge extends
it is the only white church of that de-
nomination in the South, and was estab-
lished during the war, after New Orleans
fell, by Northern Methodist s. missions
aries" Its row can hardly be spoken
of as Southern church scandal. 1t is
more properly a Northern church on
Southern ground and is entitled to con-
duct itself in every respect in accordance
with the customs of churches in the
North.
A little orphan girl who resided with
farmer near Columbus, Ohio, last
week, fed to neighbor's and claimed
protection, saying that she had been
beaten by the sixteen year old daughter
of the farmer, and would be killed if
she remained. Upon examination she
was found to have one finger broken, a
piece bitten from her cheek, the scalp
cut to the bone, the pelvis bone frac-
tured from blows, and her head terribly
burned with red hot poker. Really 1t
is time something was being done to
humanize the people that live just
across Mason's and Dixon's line. There
is no use sending missionaries to China,
Japan and Africa, while such field of
labor is so near.
The census shows that there were
$40, 9484 bales of cotton raised in Mis-
sissippi, in 1879, and of this amount
549, 9901 bales was raised by negroes. |
The whites raised 300, 9573 bales, con-
siderably more than one-fourth of the
whole. This exhibit will open the eyes
of many people who have been insisting |
that the entire cotton crop Of the South
was the product of negro labor, and
unless the exodus was stopped the South
would be everlastingly ruined. 1t must
be remembered that the other industries
are for the most part performed by the
whites.
The Batesville Blade, Yalobusha
Standard, and Benton Argus, Greenback
papers, are ominously silent about the
meeting of prominent Greenbackers and
Republicans at Memphis recently.
The father of Charles Ross has given
up hope of finding the boy. He says
the only tidings he has ever received
from him, was demand for ransom of
$40, 900; he refused to pay this amount,
which would have insured the return of
the boy, and has spent $50, 900 in search
for him.
The N. Y. World, which claims to be
a Democratic paper, still insists that the
silver dollar is not "honest money"
Jay Gould, its owner, contributed
S120,0 to elect Garfield. That's the
kind of Democratic paper the World is.
1t now appears the mother of the lit
tie girl, who was chained like wild
beast in New York, is dead, and her
father had married again, so it may be
the cruel treatment she received did
not spring from the inherent brutality
of our Northern brethren, but was
merely another case of step-mother.
A telegram from Dallas, Texas, says,
IA large party of Indiana farmers are {
there making a tour of the State to in
vest for themselves, and friends, and :
ocate." We have no hope of large
party of wealthy farmers investing and
coating in Mississippi until the Legis- {
ature advertises the natural advantages
IF the State. /
Eighty-one immigrants landed the {
,ther day in New Orleans, bound for
Texas. They were principally English, {
he balance being Irish, Scotch and Ger @
Mans Texas, you know, desires immi- +
grafton and advertises all over the world 1
or it.
The Northern papers have just dis :
covered that olive oil is adulterated, Il
lown this wayi has been an open secret P
or years that almost the entire product q
f the cotton seed oil mills is shipped to n
tally to be manufactured into "olive +
ILL.," and re-shipped to this and other h
ountries. !.
Louisiana is repairing her old state .
louse at Baton Rouge, at cost of
200, 900. As soon as the work is COM
leted the State government will be re- = =
.o.-1J f.oro Oaru OrIao1z n
Down and out-s'Senator Bruce, of r
Mississippi is no more. We have no al
of the report that barber :,
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