The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-17
NoTRs. NEws AND NoTToNs.

NOTES, NEWS AND MOTIONS.
! Nevada has population of only 81,
/ 265. Something less than Copiah and
Claiborne counties. Still the former has
two Senator's in Congress while the lat
. ter have only one in the Mississippi
Legislature.
! Delaware STEPS to the front with a
population of 1864 and remains
placid. Like Nevada she will have
her one Representative, it matters not
what the ratio of the new apportion-
ment may be.
Fl The states of Colorado, Florida, Ne
vada, Delaware, Rhode Island and Ore
gon combined have $4,000 inhabitants
less than Mississippi.
i Oregon has but 11S more inhabitants
than Colorado, and neither of them can
brag over Delaware much
The Kinds county Gazette thinks the
SHO"CI NAlU cA PSGtC0 10
make $50, 900 on his orchard, but had
the crop destroyed by the cold weather
deserved to lose it for having so
much money growing on trees. Why
more than the peach grower, or the cot
ton planter who may lose his crop by
| bad weather?
Instead of losing his crop we are of
the opinion that the orange grover de-
served success. 1t always gratifes us
when we hear of an attempt to diversity
the crops of the South. Too much cot
ton is what's the matter. We regret |
the failure of the fruit crops in Florida
and trust the orange orchards in South
Mississippi have not been injured by
the cold weather.
J. L. Withers left Cape Girardeau last
Friday morning with % head of good mules
for Holly Springs, ssippi.-Missouri
Republican.
The above item has caused us to Won
der why all the mules required in Mis-
sissipp are not raised here? 1t surely
can't be on account of the war? That
ended sixteen years ago.
A hundred and fifty thousand acres of
land in Mississippi have been sold to a Scotch
land company, and it will be lotted out to a
colony of Scotch farmers who are coming
over very soon. This Land League which
Will doubtless be worth millions to that
State-Exchange News Item
We had not heard of this colony be-
fore and much fear it is mistake.
The land must have been purchased
elsewhere. We have no hope of i'm
migration until the Legislature appro
PIRATES money to employ gents and cir
culate documents descriptive of the re-
sources of the State.
All of the Northwestern States distrib-
ute innumerable pamphlets and circulars
annually, inviting immigration Texas
and Missouri do the same, and they are
reaping the benefits. In these days
Immigrants worth having do not go to
places of which they know nothing.
IF Mississippi desires to compete for
this trade, and it has gotten to be a
trade, she must do like other States,
and like any successful man would do,
advertise.
Yes advertise is the word. Through
out England, Scotland, Ireland, Ger
many and Scandinavia, the States of
Kansas, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minneso-
ia and Texas are as we'll known as with
us, while Mississippi has never been heard
of. Why is this Because in every
Railroad depot, Steamship companies
Office, and place of public resort books,
circulars and pamphlets printed in the
language of the people descriptive of the
States named can be found. No thrifty
emigrant now leaves the old country
without knowing the State, and gener-
ally the county or town, in Which he
intends to settle. Frequently he has
a through ticket from his old to his new
home. He has read the advertisements :
Of the States, he knows the inducements
they have to offer, he has selected the
one heprefers, and he goes there. Those $
States want immigration and they adj
vertise for it: i
What would be thought of a whole II
'ale merchant who had large store s
illed with merchandise which he desir- T
ID to sell who would not advertise, dis h
,ribute circular, or send out a drum T
ner? Why is it that the names of the Il
arge wholesale and retail merchants of t
New York, Cincinnati, Louisville,
chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Mobile
md New Orleans are known to every
'ody? Why is it when you have just Ii
purchased new article that you tell p
our friends you sent to Cheapseller & il
20. for it without naming the city in 81
which they do business ? Because you d
re aware that your friends know as n
much about the firm as you do. Be ct
ause you can't pick up a newspaper
Without seeing the advertisements of :,
hese wholesale and retail merchants in
'ou can't go anywhere without meeting G
ne of their drummers, and every two
r three days you find one of their cir :;