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The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18
The Nightingale in Verse.

1t comes to England every year fro II
Asia Minor to build its nest in Englisl
hollies and sing its song. 1t nestles il
the .'leafy quiet" of shadiest covert
hid"-
+" What more secret than nest o.
nightingales p" and there, sitting close
by his .brooding mate, the male bird sings
day and night. 1t has drawn for itself
what naturalists call "the nightingale
line across the English shires, and all
the loving articles of man cannot get it
east, west or north Of its chosen lin.
its and cannot recall any other fact
in ornithology so curiously picturesque
as this. That Waller knew the night
ingale left England as soon as summer
was gone is evident in the following
(from his Address to Sir w. Dayen.
ant J:
Thus the wise nightingale that leaves her
home,
Her native woods where storms and winter
Pursuing constantly the cheerful spring,
To foreign groves doth her old music bring
and that Cunningham poet who is
often conspicuously correct in his refer
ences to nature-was aware of the same
fact of PhilomePs migration is suggested
by his saying in The Contemplatist
"Tbe nightingale. a welcome guest.
Rehews her gentle strains
Mrs. Hemans also had suspicion of it;
and of Carew / am doubtful. But ]
have not been able to find any other
direct acknowledgements of the birds
precipitate desertion of the country
that gives it home when it needs one
most. Indeed, it is only in Longfellow
that can find expression given to the
well founded grudge. 1t is borrowed
from the German:
ooh, maiden fair, oh, maiden fair how faith
less i Thy bosom.
The nightingale, the nightingale, thou tak'st
for thine example
So long as summer laughs she sings.
But IN the autumn spreads her wings
The nightingale, the nightingale thou tak'st
for thine example"
That many British poets knew the
nightingale did not sing after june is
beyond doubt, but they attribute the
cessation of 'her" song either to Philo-
mela's own private woes (the treason Of
such a suspicion -
amute, for her false rate
Has fed and left her desolate."
or else to her being overwhelmed by the
contemplation of the dead spring OF
else, as Shakespeare does, to pretty
and even high spirited vanity:
{ AS Philomel in summers forest doth sing,
And stops her pipe in growth of ripper days,
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her mournful hymns did hush
the night,
Bat that Wild music burthens every bough
And sweets, grown common, lose their dear
delight
Other prominent errors of fact are
denying that it sings By day--calling il
the only songster Of Notwithstanding
/ it as singing on the wing making il
thigh perched. Tie Gentleman's
Magazine.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18
"a dismal, universal hiss,
The sound Of public seorn.
Lineoln,s Fitle 81 RaIl-splltter.

Frank D. Carpenter in the October Century,
Mr.. Seward was nominated in the con
vention by Mr.. Evarts, of New York.
Mr.. Lincolnwas nominated by Dir. Judd,
of Illinois. The nomination of Mr..
Lincoln was seconded by Mr.. Delano, OF
Ohio. who said II desire to second the
nomination of q man who can split rails
and maui Democrats abraham Lincoln.
This probably originated the term rail-
splitter. which Immediately became
popular. Decorated and Illuminated
rails surrounded the newspaper offices,
and became d leading feature Of the
campaign. sRail-spltter Battallons
we're formed in the different cities and
minor villages Of the North. AT the
ereat ratification meeting at Cooper In
sfitutes June 8, after speeches by Messrs.
F.garss. Blatchford, 6. w. Curtis, Gen
ersI Nge, and Judge Tracey, Of Califor-
Ma. the last-named said We wage no
var IA. uoon the South, We harbor no malice
aoaiinst the South. ne merely mean g
fsnce Hsenl Il (pointing significantly 70 2
rail exhibited on the PLATFORM tins =
aII ws propose 60 do to stop the *
tension Of slavery, and Abe Lincoln has
split the rails to build The fence.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18
NUMBER AZ
oUrRE MER.

A speek OF white in boundless sea;
heeey mote in the sky Of blue;
And the wastes that stretch round me
Are heeked with thoughts Of you.
A crimson streak in the evenings gray.
A lonely gleam through the siarles. nisbt
Aud you abide in the ray,
And in the golden light
A cadence soft from the night winds moan;
A diamond drop from the sullen rain;
And ghosts of yodr tear and tone
Invest my soul in pain.
Out Of my life the fairest thing;
Out of my heart a yearning sigh,
Til the mocking stretches ring
Nith my unavailing cry.
I'LL reaching grope my spirit hands
~, Anu spanning time, aud fate, and sea,
They reach to other lands.
And draw You unto me.
James K. Duffy.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18
PolIed Cattle.

The Rev. Mr. Gillespie, Secretary Of
the Galloway Cattle Society Of Scotland,
said at the last annual meeting at Dunn
fries that, while the polled Angus was a
magnificent breed for particular circum-
stances, the GalloWays, he believed,
were the best adapted of all breeds for
the purposes Of American breeders who
wished to rid their horned cattle Of these
needless appendages. He yentured toaf-
firm that where pure, Weli-bred Gallo
way buH was put 70 cows ofany horned
breed the produce IN nine casees out
Of every hundred would be polIed
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

ToTING YoUR OwN SKIILET.--Alex.
Stephens said in his Atlanta speech
that he proposed to ''tote his own skill
let, !" and then he related to the laugh
ing audience how the expression had its
origin. HGen. Dodge, Of Wisconsin"
said Mr.. Stephens, ''told me that during
the war of 1912 he was taken prisoner
with a number of others, and the In
dams were taking them out 200 or 300
miles. The Indians made the prisoners
carry the cooking and camp utensils.
The second night he got little tired Of
IT. ana stopped and threw down his bur
den and said Mr.. Indian from this
time out every man has got to tote his
own skillet :"
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

In the light of the Republican de-
mand for absolute fairness in elections,
it is interesting to recur to the fact that
the credentials of the Tilden electors fol
Louisiana were signed by the represen
tative of the party whom Hayes after
wards recognized, thereby impeaching
his own title.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

THE Sun says Frank James letter to
Gov. Crittenden is ga marvel of literary
style, sometimes Addisonian, sometimes
Johnsonian, sometimes distinctly indi-
vidual, and evidently acquired only
after long and faithful study of the mas
terpieees of English composition in the
eighteenth century"
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

NEMESIS. I'm Greek mythology, the
name Of the terrible and mysterious
being, the daughter Of Night, who lear
RED out the sentences pronounced BY
the fates. Sometimes she appears as
the personifcation Of the pangs of re-
morse, sometimes as the punisher Of
strong and proud wrong-doers. But her
real character was that Of the minister
of the dark, unknown, impersonal fate
which ruled gods and men alike, and
was the real supreme being to the Hell
lenic mind.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18
AVALANCHE: Mr.. HubbeH seems to
ra4l ....I.ss. liz s,,,,,os;t;o

AVALANCHE: Mr.. Hubbel seems to
have aroused an implacable opposition
to his corrupt plan of securing a con-
tinuance in office; and as his is but
another mode .sof bringing the patron
age of the federal government in con-
flict with the freedom of elections, the
rebuke which the Democrats of Penn
sylyania administered to the President
is as pointed, if not as patriotic, as that
given him by his own party in New
York. In 1874, the Whig cry was
"Hurrah hurrah the people are rising,
For Henry Clay and Frelinhuysen I!
Thank heaven, the people are rising
Against the tide of federal corruption.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

In 1876 the Democrats of New York
elected sixteen members of Congress
and the Republicans fifteen. The pres
ent delegation stands, twelve Demo-
Gratis and twenty-one Republicans.
With so popular candidate as Cleve-
land at the head of the ticket, with the
party united and harmonious, and the
Republicans rent by internal fights and
jealousy there is reason to hope that We
will regain our majority.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

Mobley, who died the next day after tn
fight. At that investigation several ne
groes admitted in their testimony that
Cash had not spoken there would have beei
mo disturbance. ]. W. Meacham, whit
Democrat, testified at the same examination
that he heard Bill Crockett, the negro lead
er who was killed, declare on the mornin;
of the riot that he (Crockett) would hay,
damned dead Democrats for breakfast,
and that he was ready and wanted to NEE
the red shirts. At a continuation of th,
eoroner's Investigation on Tuesday last
Nathan Ballard, mulatto, brother-in-laV
Of Crockett, and who witnessed the troubl,
at the political meeting from the limb of q
tree, testified as follows: He says, %
had to attend court that morning; went tc
the Court House saw my little girl going
to the school house, and when 1 got to Mr.
Sisters house caught her by the hand
Just at that tins met Mr.. Donnovant and
Mr.. Perry going toward the school house
some party was standing on the road Mr..
DonnoYant rode near him, and be said that
he cursed at him and told him not to ride
over him. Donnovant s.id that he would
not ride over Him; Jack Gardner (colored)
drew his pistol and cried, Crowd up men
crowd Ep!'" Witness supposed that he
drew his pistol to shoot He did all he
could to quell the fuss. Then he went
down to the stand where Cash was speaking
and remained until he (Cash) got through,
when Albert Clinton was introduced. After
he finished, Mr.. Carter was introduced, aud
in his remarks said that he was as good a
friend to the eolored people as Cash. Then
Jim Mccain got up and contradicted Car
ter and said that he Garter had not proved
his assertion. Carter replied that ST you
say that you lie !" Then somebody pulled
down the stand, and about that time saw
Esther Fletcher firing off pistol she was
hallowing, "Kill himl Men, kill him
Witness said that Mr.. Carter was shot
while Albert Dickson came to the stand
very hurriedly and shouted, eco up town,
men, they are fghting!" then the whole
crowd dispersed and came up town, and as
Bill Crockett came by him he caught him
by the leg and pulled him off his horse and
begged him not to come up town. He (Bill
Crockett told him to turn him loose, that
he would "Go up town and raise hell.'
Witness is a brother-in-law of Bill Crock
stt; witness thought that Aaron johnson
struck Mr. Carter with stick; witness
Iays if the blacks had behaved there would
nave been no difficulty; also says that Bill
Jrockett's wife was begging him to go home;
When Mr.. JEFF Straight caught the reins
md tried to persuade him to go with his
wife, Bill told Strait that if he did not let
70 the reins he would blow his brains out
hen Mr.. Strait let go; Bill made threats
he day before about two certain men he |
Intended to kill; witness says that Mr..
and Mr.. Donnovant were the
men to whom he had reference.
Three or four other colored Republicans
estifed before the coroner on the same Gay
nd expressed it as their opinion that the
Olored people brought the trouble on them
elves.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18
PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE.

The village has not since been disturbed,
but heavy guard of citizens is kept at
night to prevent an attack or the firing OF
the houses by the negroes. A military
company has been formed and furnished by
the State with arms and ammunition.
The air is filled with threats of the destruc-
tion of the village by fire. None but the
more panicky believe that any such threats
will be carried out. 1t was reported last
night that the negroes in the Waxahaw
settlement are drilling every night and de-
clare that the trouble is not yet ended.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

Ex-VICE PRESIDENT WHEELER de-
clined the nomination for Congressman
at-large, vice Hepburn Withdrawn. sIt
is unreasonable to expect man to rush
into the open jaws of defeat.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

LAocooS, wrestling hopelessly with
the twin gerpents, says the Springfield
Republican, is the fit prototype of Judge
Folger's attitude.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

GES. GRANT says Conkling's force lies
in his magnificent oratory; Conkling
says Grants talent is in his appreeiative
mind.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

WHITNEY, 4 New York merchant
and not Senator Benton as supposed by
some, first suggested the idea of a rail
road across the continent.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

ST.. LOUIS REPUBLICAN Jay Hubbell
shows that it is George William Curtis
who is the bold corruptionist, and that
he and his committee are pure as
the driven snow. This is not the way
the people have looked at it, but Hub
bell certainly would not misrepresent
ANYTHING.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18
FAYETrE. October Z. 1SS2

Al Ell AEJ OCLODCE ., 4OO-'
EDITORS CLARION Seldom have the
people of Jefferson felt more highly honored
than they have been to-day in having in
their midst at one time His Excellency
Gov. Lowry and that distinguished gentle
man Maj. Ethel Barksdale
We are fully sensible that Major B. is
the fittest man to be the standard bearer of
Democracy in the eth District, by virtue of
his pure record, unvdrying consistency, un-
doubted ability and persistent attachment
to Democratic principles.
If there was before any lack of harmony
and zeal in our county, the eloquent rea-
soning of those gentlemen has this day
more than supplied the deficiency. This is
plainly evidenced by the following resolu-
tions that were enthusiastically received
and adopted by the meeting at its close,
and which / am instructed by the executive
committe to transmit to the Clarion for pub
lication:
turn greeting to their fellow-citizens OF
Madison and Rankin, and in response to
their communications to the Democratic
Executive Committee of this county, do
hereby authorize said Committee to send
back the pledge that Old Jefferson intends
to stand true to her historic record in the
present contest, and show by her votes in
November that she is aligned with her sister
counties of the 7th District in contending
for good government and home rule-in re
pudiating the presumptious pretensions of
an illiterate aspirant, and elevating to
seat in Congress, the patriotic citizen, the
cultivated gentleman, and the enlightened
statesman Hon. Ethel Barksdale.
Yours truly, L. w. CARRADINE.
CHAIRMAN.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

An English syndicate proposes to buy
l ,3O0,O acres of land in Mississippi
for timber and cotton purposes.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

FEDERAL taxation is too heavy. 1t
takes s150, 100000 year more than is
needed from the hands Of industry, and
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

FoLGER and Cleveland both write bad
English. One uses the expression Sin
this connection" and the other sin our
midst"
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18
FRATERNITY COLUMN.

We invite to this column items, Of inter.
est to the several Benevolent Orders--Aa.
sons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Honor,
Knights Of Pythias, Knights of St. John,
etc.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

Cart JOKES, according to Gen. S. D.
Lee, who was present on the occasion,
fred the first shot of the late var.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

Dr: g. A. Teunisson, OF Monticello, Mas
yer OF Eastern Star Lodge, No. 20, in a re-
cent ieiter says; Thanks TO the generous
Cfait throughout the State, our hall isIin-
'shed and We are ready for work again."
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

JUDGE HoUsroN, the late opponent
Of Hon Z. John Ellis for the Demo-
cratic Congressional nomination, has
written that gentleman rendering him
his services throughout the canvass.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

WE have the color-liners on the run.
Why not sound the bugle, "Up,
Guards, and at them, and keep them
there q?
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18
T1DIEes FROM JEFFERsoN.
A Big Day Greetings from Rankin
and Madison.

EDITORS CLARION: On Saturday last
9th inst, we had barbecue and grand turn
out of the people OF Jefferson county in honol
of Gov. Lowry and Maj. BarlsdaIe, who
were to address Us on that occasion. At an
early hour the people came pouring in, and
the roar of cannon, the. crowd, the wild
hurrahs, the marching and counter.
marching, the flying flags the battered
and historic banners of the days q
rs and rs all reminded US Of those days
that tried mems souls, and served once
more to inspire US with the spirit that ac-
tuated US in those times of darkness and
gloom.
The distinguished gentlemen above mem
toned, both of whom are especial fayorites
with the people of old Jefferson, were on
hand and gave US most able, eloquent and
effective speeches-speeches that stirred
deeply the hearts and memories of our peo-
pie, and left profound and lasting impres-
sio1s.
Before the speaking, communication
was read from Rankin county, sending
greetings to Jefferson, and pledging one
thousand majority for Barksdale on the 7th
of November. At the conclusion of the
speeches, that staunch, distinguished and
dauntless old leader and war-horse OF Jeffer-
son county Democracy, Capt. Jas, S. john
ston, came forward and read a resolution
returning the greetings of Rankin, and
pledgiDg that old Jefferson would be found
true to her colors, aud to her past historic
record. That such resolution in Jefferson
was adopted with storm of applause goes
without saying-not only so, but it may be
relied on that the people of Jefferson mem
just what they say. They are being
thoroughly aroused-aroused to true sense
of the situation and the vital issues at stake
aroused to full sense of the dangers that
beset us-aroused to full sense of the fact
that the same emergencies that were on six
years ago are on US again, and that if we
would not forever lose the splendid results
OF the hard labors of those days We, and
every man of US, must be up and doing on
the 7th day of next November. Jefferson
county proposes to toe the mark. And row
we want to hear through the columns OF
THE CLARION from each and every county
in the District, and to know how many of
them propose to toe that mark with us.
This is no time to be airing our disahec-
tions and differences. 1t is life or death. |
Which do we choose? JEFFERSON.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

THE patronage of the federal govern
nent should not be brought into con-
fict with the freedom of elections"
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

SENSATIONAL reports are again being
spread that the great corNA now blazing
in the morning sky wfA@eturn next
year., fall into the sun, and by the col
lision increase the suns heat to such a
degree that all living things upon the
earth may be destroyed.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

THE New York Herald speaks the
truth when it says The announce
meut that the Republican candidate who
has just been defeated by Mr.. Alexan-
der H. Stephens in the race for the
Georgia Governorship proposes to con-
test the election, is probably made for
political effect at the North.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

The New York Herald thinks the
Republican Campaign Text Book should
cost that party about 100000 votes. 1t
is full of venom and denounces the
Southern people as "slugs and assas-
sins" Jim Hill endorses it. His or
gan grinder chirps in an approval.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

BLAINE, it is reported, has no hope
of the Presidential nomination in 1884.
He desires if possible to name the NOM
inee that, if he is elected, he may re-
sumo his position as Secretary of State,
which, it is understood, he characterizes
as the most pleasant he ever held.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18
A Correction.

In justice to our correspondent ''One
of the Boys" We reproduce his communi-
cation of last week with errors and
commissions corrected and supplied.
The second clause should have read as
follows:
Robert Alcorn, a recreant renegade to his
race, political Hessian who sells his ser
vices to the highest bidder, sort of Dugald
Dalgetty, without that blunt soldiers hon
esty or courage was next introduced. Robert
has stern Visage, is of grave department
and tits thought must be hypocrite for it
cannot be conceived that any one is as wise
as he looks, When addressing an audience
he throws himself back at a sharp angle,
places his right hand upon his hip, extends
the left to the front, index finger slightly
forward, and generally so sets himself for
deceit that he promises ycu lie before he
speaks-an engagement he more than fulfils
before he closes. The Judge is failure
an impecunious failure. He has absolutely
no influence with either race. The colored
people regard him as "po0r white trash,
and think him immeasurably inferior to them
morally and socially. The white people of
course know that he has sacrificed principle
to interest, and for the miserable hope
never to be realized, of keeping ''Posteofiis"
sold out his convictions and bartered away
whatever of talent he possesses. His degra-
dation is absolute, and his condition pitiable.
He hears on all sides:
"a dismal, universal hiss,
The sound of public seorn.
In truth, he has sunk beneath contempt,
and is not worthy and would not receive this
passing notice but that it is desired to call
attention to the moral OF his example. We
dismiss him from our attention, and leave
him to those tortures, which if he be not
altogether abiect, returning conscience will
some day inhict.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

The widest excitement prevails in
Lee county, Ala, over reported upris
ing Of the negroes. Whole families
have fled to Columbus and points near
by for protection. .---...
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

DID you ever hear Of a man bribing
himself? That's what the people do
when they permit the employees
of the government to be Hubbelled." p"
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

Howard CoRRALL makes the sacri
fee and accepts the nomination declined
By Hepburn and Wheeler.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18

showing some Of the taxes which the farmer
na,ryss On common articles.
The weekly clarion., 1882-10-18


Fifteen or twenty negroes we're wounded
and some of them seriously, but strange to
say, none of the wounded fell from their
saddles, Thomas Cunningham, who sus-
tanned wound through the kidneys, died last
Tuesday night. He after receiving his death
wound galloped of and returned to the town
later and obtained SOME provisions he had
purchased Of one of the village merchants
before the disturbance began. He returned
to. his home in the Waxahaw county, where
he died, as stated. Among the Others seri-
ously wounded are Joe Brown, Mack Cure
ton and Ham Robertson The latter is
quite an old man and is shot through the
body. He was not participant in the
fight, but was in town getting some metli-
cines, his friends say, and IN returning got
IN the range Of the fire Of both parties,
probably. Robertson will most likely die.
The names of the others believed to be
wounded are not known here. The conflict
lasted, it is supposed, Eve minutes. It oc-
CURED almost i1sfrent 1.-The Court House,
where Judge WItherspoon was holding
term of Circuit Court A negro vas on
trial fefimnrder. During the riot members
of the jury and officers of the Court lelt the
room o. went 70 the windows to learn the
cause Of Che firing. The Judge retained
his seat upon the bench and tie prisoner
sat il his box andImight have escaped il
the confusion. During the row Colonel
Cash was il IS said ssin his room at Crock
ettsz Hotel within 100 yards Of TIE scene
Of the confict He i represented e. saying
after il vas All Ger that he ka6ss nofAing
eft until Ie Was told ab0ut Il b sersant.
The Colonel i somewhat deaf
coRosER's INQUEST
Al Inquest Was held over ihe BODY of