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The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-06-24

to the world the song OF Solo
mon and the psalms of that old
poet of the Lord, glorious old
David, The immortal verse OF
wandering old Homer, the blind
son of Solos Isle, was the inspl
ration of Samian wines, and good
old Noah, too, could have sung
some good and merry songs /
from the inspiration Of the vines
he planted, but having to wait
so long bis thirst, like the Dem
ocratic nominees here, became
so great that he was tempted to
drink too deeply and got so
drunk he could not sing. And
this, I fancy, is the reason why
this distinguished gentleman
never sings. Perhaps there is
no music 10 bis soul. The glug,
glug, glug of his ing as he tits
and pours from its reluctant
| mouth the corn 80 loved OF biz
soul, is all the music dear to his
ear, unless it is the same glue.
glug, glug asst disappears down
his oapacioua throat. Now. fell
low citizens, during this ardent
campaign, which has been so
tatiguing, ] have only been
drunk once. Over in Simpson
county, where the people are
poor and honest, [ Was COM
pelIed to sleep in the same
bed with.this distinguished NOM
inee this delight of the Democ.
racy; this wonderful exponent
of the principles and practices of
the unwashed Democracy, and
in the morning I found myself
drunk on white corn whisky. [
had lain too close to this soaked
mass of Democracy and was
drunk from absorption"
| This was more than the gov
ernor could stand, and he de.
clinel a further canvass with
| Prentiss. Prentiss and Wood
were elected, but by a very close
vote, and the governor, upon q
tecbnlcslity, refused them the
certificate of election, and gave
lit to Claiborne and Gholson.
The election was contested, and
though the right of Prsntiss aud
Wood to the seats was clearly
established, a Democratic Con-
gress remsDded the election
back to the people. and Prentiss
and Wood were returned.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-06-24

A young man who thinks be
can lead q reckless and profit
gate existence until he reaches
the middle term of life, and then
repent and make a good, steady
citizen, is deIuded. He thinks
that people are fools, destitute
of memory. He concludes that
If be repents everybody will for"
get that he was q dissipated fell
low. This is not the case; peo-
pie are apt to remember the bad
deeds and forget the good ones.
Besides, it is no easy thing to
break off in middle life bad
habits that have been formed in
youth.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-06-24

A lady had . favorite lap.dog
which she called Perchance. "A
singular name. " said somebody,
"for q beautiful pet madam. oh.
drawled she, ''it was named from
Byron's dog. You remember
where he says, Perchance my
dog viii howl 81 e3sAJ
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-06-24
CUTsaORT.

The New York Herald enters |
An editorial plea for short SER
mons at this season Of the year,
and sensib,y declares that iii IN
months like this 4 preacher i'm
poses sn hoor. long sermon 90
people. he deserves to SEQ emps,
benches hereafter ss long as ne
lives" Most Of the sermons OF
the present day are like . certain
sort Of boarding hoose pudding-
a few raisins and unlimited
dough. The parsons may far
better boil down their homilies
than suffer an auditor to boil dur.
ing e long irksome presentmeut
Of them. One oogent reason.
Why our churches are often 80
empty is that a preacher pads
bis sermou with such an excess
of verbisgs that be inficts q men
tai dyspepsia upon his congre7
cation. Fortunately, the pulpit
is wasting less time upon doct'i.
nal questions which are fast de-
composing in the intellectual sun
light of the day and is address.
ing itself more directly to mat
tiers Of personal conduct. But
even this effort is much embsr-
rassed by the frivolous methods
adopted by the cloth. Too few
strike clean, direct blows. They
fence prestily with the buttons
foil of speech, but they make no
penetrating thrusts. Hamlet
would call them the Osrics OF
the church. The devil, if there be
such an one, must smile at such
doughty knights in pastebosrd'
A good sermon half an hour long
may be 9 magazine Of great and
wholesome forces, but if it be a
mere dragnet for every sort OF
vhims, it will accumulate much
rubbish to be dumped upon the
nearer. Many persons ram q goo,
so to speak, full Of wadding and
are proud of the defamation, but
they have had no target, have
assaulted no error in. 9 practical
wise, have simply made needless
noise. They ere dress-parade
clergymen, not practical soldiers
of the church militant. The
average clergyman must learn
the lesson Of the editor
to condense, to boil down, il
he would attract folk to church
rather than repel folk from
church. It is just now an es.
peciaI question Of weather-it is
always q question of common
sense and practical servica.. To
day many who attend church are
at least equal in matured intel.
lect to the parsons and otter
superior. Preachir 6 means some
thing more than ventilsting ole
musty tones Of theology; it means
practical guidance OF practica
men and women.-[N. O. Times
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-06-24

"Teaoher.-"John, what ARE
your boots made Off, Boy
Leather" "Where does the
leather come flom?' From the
hide OF the Ok What animal
therefore supplies you With boots
and meat ?" "My father"
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-06-24

Bolted meal and homemade
meal always on hand at Leo.
pold's.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-06-24
'pRENTISs AZ A STUMP.SPEAKER.

PRENTISS AS 4 STUMP'SPEAkEh'
VIM. II. Sparks has written.
for the Philadelphia Times, a
yery interesting sketch Of Miss
issippi's great orator. Sargent s.
Premise, from which We clip the
following extract:
EXCITING CANVASS.
The Democratic party had al
ways held undisputed power in
Mississippi. and it was deemed
madness on the part Of the Wings
to nominate q ticket for members
of Congress and attempt Q can
vass of the State. Bingaman
had twice failed Of an election.
The State had but two represen-
tatives, and the vote was by gen.
eral ticket, the State not having
been districted. It was deter
mined, however. to nominate o
ticket with Preptiss at its head.
It was done, and that canvass
was an era in che States history.
Prentiss and Wood were the
Wing nominees; Claiborne and
Gholson the Democratic.
Prentiss commenced the can
VASES of the State, which bis OPP
ponents wisely declined to do,
and thus avoided q conflict on
the stump with him. McNutt
was the nominee of the Democ-
racy for Governor, and by that
party considered competent to
meet Prentiss. They met but
once, and SO overwhelming was
the triumph Of Prentiss that
McNutt declined to canvass fur
Their with him. Premises march
through the State was an ovation.
| Crowds followed him from county
to county. There we're quite q
number of Democrats 10 his train,
who were, equally with the Wings
Impressed by the great power
evinced in bis addresses. Every
speech seemed new one and
equally appropriate and etfeo-
tive. The meeting with McNutt
was accidental, but it was turned
to account Won lerfully by his i'm
prudence and Premises retort.
! NcNutt in his speech urged as
q reason for the defeat OF Prem
tiss his dissipated habits. He
admitted his great abilities, bis
mastery genius, pronounced him
the first man of the State, intel
\ iectualIy, but regretted his want
of morals and deplored the con-
sequences to the State and to
himself. He urged that his
slavery 20 the bottle was render
ing him useless despite his gen.
ius, learning and eloqoence.
| ARRAIaN1NG HIS OPPONENT.
Prentiss said 10 reply:
"My Fello,0- Citisens-You have
beard the charges against my
morals sagely, and J bad al,
most said soberly, made by
the gentleman. Had | said this
it would have been what law
yers term a misnomer. II
would be impossible for him
to do or say anything soberly,
for he has been drunk for ten
years. Not yesterday or last
week, in a frolio or socially with
the good fellows, his friends, a,
the generous and genial board,
but at home by himself, save bis
one solitary loved friend his dem
John. Not with the h;gh.hearted
or high. melted men whose souls
when mellowed with generous
wines, leap from their lips subj
mated in words swollen with
thought brilliant and dazzling as
the blood of the grape inspiring
them. No, but by himself, sell
fish and apart from witty mer
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-06-24

Cash buyers are offered cloth
ing 81 Oehlber A Goldman's at
10 per cent. above cost.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-06-24

John. Not with the high. hearted
or high.mettled men whose souls
when mellowed with generous
wines, leap from their lips subli.
mated in words swollen with
thought brilliant and dazzling as
the blood of the grape inspiring
them. No, but by himself, sell
fish and apart from witty men
or ennobling spirits, in the SO.
cret seclusion Of q dirty little
back room and on corn whisky
the son of old Virginia and the
spirits OF old Kentucky. Why,
fello"-citizens, as the governor
of the State he refused to sign the
gallon law until he had tested by
experiment that a gallon would
suffice his cravings for q day..
"Now I will admit, fellow-citi-
zens, that sometimes when in
this enjoyment Of social com.
manion with gentlemen I am
made merry With them aud the
1 q , = ~ q
rich wines Of glorious France.
It is then I enjoy the romance
of life. Imagination, stimulated
by the juice Of the grape, gave
The daily gazette., 1881-12-28
Engineer NIelviIIs's Home.
Philadelphia Times.

The wife OF Chief Engineer George W.
Melville. of the Arctic xploration yacht
Jeannette, is living In a pretty little
cottage at Sharon Hill, O few miles from
the oity, on the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad, where for
over year she has mourned her bus.
band as dead. When her husband was
chosen out OF three hundred applicants
In the United States Navy to go with
the Tigress In search of the POlaris, she
suffered great anxiety, but he Gained
holding out the posi- bilities OF honor
and Advancement might bring. One
night In April, 1879, soon after the
youngest child WAS born, Lieutenant
Melville came to his wifes bedside, and
she saw at once by his demeanor that
something extraordinary had happened.
"You have received orders to 60 away"
she said, at once diviDing the worst, and
quieting her as best he could he said 1t
was true, and told her he had been COM
missioned to go on the Jeanette. "rhe
last words he used as he went out OF the
door," Mrs. Melville says, "were that
The vessel would never return, and In
the last letter got from him, mailed at
San Francisco, he SAID the Jeaunette
was prettily and completely equipped,
but was utterly unfit for the service in.
tended. Then in the last letter 1 ever
received from him. mailed at Onaloska,
he said they had passed through a severe
storm and would inevitably have be n
lost had 1t not been for the convoy that
accompanied them. Under these cir
cumstances it 10 very natural that |
should have despaired of his safety, but
l felt II any one could brave the danger
1t would be oe, for he always was fortu-
nate In overcoming difficultiesn Iieu-
tenant Melville was all through the war
In the service of the United States Navy
and was an officer on the Wachusett,
which captured the privateer Florida.
He has always been an adventurous and
daring spirit. His great grandfather
before him was an Arctic voyager and
gave his name to Melville Bay and
Sound, circumstance the lieutenant
regards with great pride.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-28
naa . arorsu.s rhru.t Upon H,m


John E. Uwsley, an extensive
Chicago property. .owner and capita,
list, died last Thursday. He came to
Chicago when 1t was in lis infancy
He lived in Kentucky and came here
to collect a bill for whisky. The man
who owed the bill had no money and
offered him q tract OF land on the
west side In payment. Mr.. Owsley
refused to take it. Finally, by trick
this man succeeded in getting Mr..
Owsley to sign a receipt. In the
morning Mr.. Owsley rendered his
deed to the proprietor OF the old
fremont House in payment of his
board bill. The proprietor refused to
accept 1t, and Mr.. Owsley put his
deed in his pocket and went back to
Kentucky, believing that he had been
imposed on. In time, Chicago real
estate increased in value, and Mr..
Owsley's tract felt the benefit of 1t.
What at first was yalueless turned
out 10 be the foundation of his large
furtune, He became rich in spite of
himself.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-28
TAKE NOTICE.!
Read what we say for the Holidays:

Read what we say for the Holiday
We have the largest, the
finest and cheapest lot.of Chill
dren's Tea and Dinner Sets ever
offered in this city.
Majolica ware we have q
large llot Of, sand it must be
sold to make room for other
goods. Come and see our prices
on it. We also have q full line
of Vases, Toilet Sets, Smokers
Sets, Cups, and Saucers, China,
Dogs, &C., &c. These goods
must be sold to make room for
others, coming in after the first
of the year, and you will find
we have marked them away
down.
We have also received an
other invoice of that elegant
SO and 60c. Teas. On these
goods we know we can save you
full 10c. per pound. Our Cof-
fees, we always have fresh roas-
ted; hundreds of persons know
what they are, and tell us we
save them &c. per pound on
every pound they buy. That is
equal to a loaf of Bread, don't
forget it. Our Spices are strict
ly pure. Don't forget now what
we have told you.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-28
..Hy Rack Aches SO,

and feel miserable" said a hard-works !
ING man. The doctor questioned MIN
and fund that he had been haoituaiIy
costive for years, that now MS kluneys
deranped. Kldney-Wort was recon-
mended and faithfully taken, and in q
abort time every trouble was removed.
The cleansing and tonic power OF this
medioine on the bowels and kidneys 10
Congregational'st.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-28
LYDIA E. PINKHAMS'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND,
Is q Positive Cure

lisa Positive Cure
for all those Painful Complaints and
Weaknesses SO common to our best
female population.
II Will cure entirely the worst form OF
Female Complaints, all ovarian troubles,
Innamatton and U Liberation, Falling and
Dfsplacements, and the consequent Spi-
nal Weakness, and is particularly adapt
ed to the Change of Life.
1t VIII dissolve and expel tumors from
the uterus in an earlv stage of develop
ment. The tendency to cancerous humors
there is checked very speedily by its use.
1t removes faintness, fatulency, de-
stroys all craving for stimulants, and
relieves weakness of the stomach. 1t
cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Pros
tration, General Debility, Sleeplessness
Depression and indigestion.
That feeling of bearing down eau ,ng
pain, weight and backache.is always per-
manently cured by its use.
1t will at all times and under all cir
cumstances act In harmony with the laws
that govern the female system.
For the cure of Kidney Complaints of
either Sex this Compound Is unsurpassed.
Lydia f. Pfnkham's Vegetable g
Compound is prepared at 233 and 235
Western Avenue, Lynn Mass. Price $l
Six bottles for S5. Sent by mail In the
on receipt OF price, tl per box for either
Mrs. Pinkham freely answers all letters
ofinqairy. Send for pamphlet. Address
as above. Mention this paper.
No family should be without LYDIA
Il. PINKHAM'S LIVER PILLS. They
cure constipation, bili0usness, and tor.
pidity of the liver, 25 cents per box.
~Sold by all drugg sts.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-28
- EGIsTER's ORDER.
REGIsTER's OFFICE,

New Castle Co.. December I'd, 1881.
Upon the application Of Joseph n. Har-
man, Adm istrator OF Hanson Harman,
late OF W ilmington Hd., in said county,
deceased, 1t is ordered and directed by
the Register that the Administrator ,afore-
said give notice of the granting Of letters
Of Administration upon the estate Of the
deceased, with the date of granting there
Of, by causing advertisements to be posted
within forty days from the date OF such
letters, in SIX of the most public places OF
the county of New Castle, requiring all
persons having demands against the es-
late to present the same or abide by an
act of Assembly in such case made and
provided. And also cause the same to be
inserted within the same period in the
WILMINGTON GAZETTE, anewspaper pub.
1shed in Wilmington, and to be continued
therein three weeks, 9: o. d.
49,, Given under the hand and seal
IL. 8. of office of the Register aforesaid
S--) at Wilmington, In New Castle
county aforesaid, the day and year above
written. 8. G. B1GGS, Register.
NOTICE.
All persons having claims against the
estate of the deceased must present the
same duly attested to the Administrator,
on or before Dec. I'd. 1882, or abide
the act OF Assembly In such case made
aud provided.
JOSEPH N. HARMAN,
Administrator,
dec2-sweod.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-28

DIR. q. ". HENSON, Of baltimore.
Md., Inventor and proprietor OF the ceie.
brated Celerya and ChamomiIe Pills
These pills are prepared expressly to cure
Sick Headache, Nervous Hes dache Men.
ralRia, Nervousness, Paralysis, Sieep.
lessness and Dyspepsia, and will cure
any case, no matter how obstinate. if
properly used. They are rot a ourrall
but only for those special diseases, They
coutaiu no opium. morphine or qu'nlne
and are not purgative, but regulate the
bowels and cure constipation by curing
or removing the cause Of 1t. They have
. charming effect upon the skin, and a
lovely quieting effect upon the nervous
system simply by feedldg Its ten thou
saDd hungry yes. in some cases starving
81 stsorbents. They AXE or create nerve
matter and give power, force and buoy
ancy to the nerves. and In that way in
crease mental pdwer, endurance and
brillisncy OF mind. Nobody that has a
nervous system should neglect TO take
them two or three months III each year.
az nerve food, II for no other purpose.
Sold by all druggists. Price 50 cents a
box. Depot, l08 North Eutaw St.. Balti-
more, Md. By mail. two boxes for 81. or
six boxes for 81 ~, TO any address.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-28
From the Manufacture.
Wages In Free Trade Eng Iaad.

From the Manufacture.
Wages In Free Trade. England.
During a recent festivity at
Rochdale, England, in celebration
of John Bright's seventieth birth"
day, Mr.. Bright made speech to
the factory operatives of that place
in which he alluded to the often
heard claim of protectionists that
free trade has reduced English work
ing men to paupers. He compared
the rates of wages as recorded in
the Rochdale wage books for 1888,
1910 and l84l, with present rates,
lie fond that in 1889 throstle-
piecers received Be-. a week and
worged II hours day. now they
receive lbs. O week at 10 hours a
day, II they were paid for that work
at the same rate for IL hours, they
would receive les week or exactly
double what they received in 1889
1910 and 184l. The young women
working at the frames then had Is.
Cd. a week; they now have 15s. and
work two hours a day. less. The
rovers and slubbers got IS. week;
now they get l4s. a week. In the
meantime The cost of the necessities
| of life, with the exception of food,
has been greatly diminished.
THE Potato, truly American prod
uct Ii there be- such thing in the world.
now demands proteotion' Dutch po,a.
tots are now sold In the market to the
manifest wrong and injury OF the great
American potato crop. On what plea
which will hold water tor moment
can Pie-Iron Kelley aud Pennsylvanls
refuse 10 cl ~ tohbitive tax on the
Importation of these foreign and aggres'
siye tubers p World.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-28
Health is Wealth 7

nI.u.Z w Esr's NERVE AND BRAIN
M, SnaST AN Aspeoific for Hysleria, Dig
EN- WhVnlsions, Nervous Headache,
oppression, LOSS of Memory,
Eaiontt Impotenoy, Involuntary
oyas, fremature Old Age, caused
zsOceherh0n, zsOcs self-abuse, or over-in-
d.s,n which leads 70 misery, decay
Th. One box will cure recent
Each box contains one month's
hn ~, one dollar a box, or six
y on % INV. nVe dollars sent by mail pre-
h. IN 'ecelpt price. eeuarantee six
kiysc gnte h any case, With each order
viz viz asy US for six boxes, aecomp n
trsssn 1--WE dollars, we will send the
b ibs r our written guarantee to re-
hi money II the treatment does not
IVvANFuRTa, Druggist. corner mi
saasn,s streets, Wilmington, Del.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-08

upon its cap. His eyes eagerly followed as
the moon-fames swept on from roof to splre,
from spire to chimney until the city had
been traversed by the fairies. Then he Won
dered why his golden friend did not come to
him as he had promised Impatiently he
turned in his chair, but his motion was ar
rested as his eye reached the fire, for upon
the hearth, in the light of the flames stood a
tiny golden figure with silver starin its cap.
Again the metallic voice vibrated in the ears
of the poet.
''Hast thou kept faith with the fairies of
the golden-thought? Speak quickly, mortal,
for the hours are swift
"Many have my efforts been, oh golden
spirit, but few my works. I-''
''Happy mortal! The fairies of the gold
en-thought count not in numbers but by de-
gree. Thou hast deserved the fairies gift.
Behold
Then the poets outstretched hand closed to
take the fairy's gift. At the touch he start
ed up erect. Fair in his hand it lay An
other hand, delicate, beautiful. The vacant
ottoman was filled. The freight shone by
him and fell upon pale face with lustrous
smiling eyes whose light was turned full up
on him.
''You dream,'' she said. ''You caught my
hand. Tell me your vision"
But he held the hand more closely, bend
ing down, and only whispered: ''The gold
en- fairy's gift! Oh fair Elfrda."
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-08
III.
CHRISTMAS COMES AGAIN,

But the poet did not watch for it from his
attic looking over the misty roofs.
This Christmas-eve found him still in
sight of them, of their smoke columns, and
of their tall belfrys, but in chamber look
ing over a mile of country covered with
white snow, and dotted with houses, trees
and hedges, which lay between it and the
outline of the citys roofs and spires.
Within this chamber, as the daylight faded,
walls. They came to life and activity noise
lessly, aYd gradually, and yet, when once
their restless energy had taken protean
shapes, it really seemed as though they must
have been there all the time, only the
daylight had concealed them, just as it con-
ceals the stars in heaven. In the freight
sat the poet, one hand dropped upon low
vacant ottoman by his side. He was ab-
sorbed in looking out upon the night, as the
moon rose over the city and sailed up, like
vast fire-ball, into the blue-black sky above
the roofs and belfrys. As background half
held in his memory, he saw the warehouse
loom, wherein, a year now gone, he had
watched former Christmas-eve come on.
These things he was seeing, of past, of pres
ent. Into his musings came the tones of
single bell, whose reverberations pulsated in
the buoyant air. Then again it sounded, and
at its call asilvery chime began toplay, whose
music foated from the turreted city, over
the shining snow-felds, and filled the night
with rythmic melody.
In unconscious retrospection the poet re-
viewed the closing year. Was it tear that
the moonlight made to sparkle as the ra-
dance was poured upon his head while the
bells flooded his ears with melody? From
the moon, high in heaven, long streamers of
light began to issue. A thrill in his heart
recalled to the poet the promise of the gold
en- fairy. He began to watch the flaming
rays, and soon he saw them reach down to
roof and chimney in the mist-veiled city, and,
when at length they landed and rested there,
again he saw the aerial avenues glitter with
the trooping fairies, each one clothed in shin
ing armor, and each with the tiny silver star
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-08

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