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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12
SELECTED MISCELLANY.
The cobbIer's wife is badly shod.

The cObbler's wife is badly shOd
He doth much, that loveth much.
Leave 6ffno clothes, till you see June
rose.
Much learning, shows how little mortals
know.
Better out of the fashion than out of
credit.
No one knows the weight of anolher's
burden.
Better diamond with a flaw than a peb-
bic without.
Peoples intentions can only be decided
by their conduct.
One hair Of woman draws more than a
team of horses.
No man is more miserable than he that
hath no adversely.
An effort made for the comfort of others
lifts us above ourselves.
The best way to silence a talkatiye person
Is never to interrupt them.
Wounds of the heart are the only ones
that are healed by opening.
Halfthe ills we hoard in our hearts are
ills because we hoard them.
Our deeds determine us as much as we
determine our deeds.-George Eliot.
The means to promote any end are as
necessary as the end to be promoted.
/. Trees in the forest may be barren, but
trees in the garden should be fruitful
We might as well have no opportunity as
not to use the one that we haYe.-James
French.
The folly Of others is ever most ridiculous
to those who are themselves most foolish
Goldsmith.
Conversation enriches the understanding,
but solitude is the school Of genius.-Ed-
ward Gibbon.
In crowd the average individual is small,
and the purpose Of parties is to take advan-
tage of this fact.
The moment man is satisfied with him
selfeverybody else is dissatisfied with him.
Arab Proyerb.
The law cannot supply brains for fools,
and those who attempt it are the ones who
hope to profit by it.
Is there ever hard question in morals
that children do not drive straight at in
their wide-eyed questioning?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12
Voters and Voting in the Several
States.

The males of voting age in the United
States in 1880, according to recent official
bulletin, numbered 12,571 ,437. The Presi-
Dental vote of that year, however, amount
ed to only 9,204, ,428. The disposition to
vote is not equally strong in all parts Of the
country. Indeed, the vote in proportion to
the voters varied very widely. This is not
strange in view of the fact that in many
States the contest is not sufficiently close
to call forth the interest and excite the
effort always awakened in doubtful loeali-
ties. But the figures show that apart from
this explanation there is a great disparity
in the voting propensity. The following
figures showing the voting population and
the actual vote polled in 1880 illustrates
the subject more fully:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12
The Walker Murder.
Mobile Register

AlODlIe heglstef
From a recent telegram we learn that
Judge J. P Walker, the father of the muir
dered boys at Aberdeen, was shot and
killed at Goodwin, Arkansas. Judge Wal
keF had been furnishing saw mill (owned
by Mr.. Snoddy) with both money and
goods, with the distinct understanding that
he was to control the lumber, etc 1t seems
that Mr.. Snoddy owed Judge Walker a
good amount, and was not disposed to let
Judge Walker get his money. One word
brought on another, and Snoddy shot Judge
Walker with large pistol, through the
bowels. After being shot Judge Walker
got his gun and killed Snoddy on The spot.
Judge Walker fingered until Sunday, at
4P.M. Judge Walker was a native of this
State, and raised large family. No one
ever spoke of him but to praise him, and
no one knew him but to love him. He was
brave, honest and good-natured.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12
The Second District Nominating COnTen-
tion Called for August I'd.
OxFoRp. Miss. june ID. 1SS2.

UNFoRD, Miss. june 20, 1882.
Pursuant to the action of the Democratic
Executive Committee of this, the Second
District, Convention will be held at Ok
ford, Mississippi, on Wednesday, the I'd
day of August, 1882, for the purpose OF
nominating Democratic candidate to rep
resent this District in the Lower House of
the 48th Congress of the United States.
Each county will be entitled to twice as
many votes in said Convention, as it now
has members in the lower branch of the
State Legislature.
The Executive Committee of the respec-
tive counties in said district are requested
to take proper measures for having delegates
selected by the Democratic voters of their
counties to attend said Convention.
III. P. BRAEAM, Chairman.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12
An Arkansas snake charmer.
Jnion County Times

Union County Times.
Mr.. Black, who resides in Hillsboro,
Ark, exhibits control and influence over
the reptile family astonishingly mysterious.
In the woods, creeks, or wherever he finds
4 snake, it matters not Of what type Of
deadly poison and venom it may be, he sue
ceeds in capturing il alive and suffering IS
little from the clasp Of its fangs as If it were
an ordinary pin scratch. He handles and
Iondles them about his person with a much
indifference IS If they were 50 many harms
less toys. He viii allow the largest rattle
snake &c deliberately strike and bury his
fangs into his flesh, and apparently suffer
no Inconvenience or serious consequences
from the tragic risk By certain weed or
growth Of vegetation be claims to destroy
the effect Of the bite. When bitten, be
cheWs and swallows the juice Of the weed,
which acts like 4 charm.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12
HydrophobIa and TOBACCO.
Michigan City Dispatch. !

The Erwry boy, whose suferings from
hydrephobia have been terrible, appears to be
getting better every day. "A marked pecu-
liarity Ia the boy case thathe Graves cigars.
The boys father says be never knew him to
use tohace0 ia any form. He called for
cigar on last Wednesday for the first time,
which was given him. He smoked It en-
tiFely up without showing any signs Of
sickness from its effects, but, on the contra
ri seemed greatly soothed- He has smoked
three or four cigars since, and each one
seems to do him great deal Of good.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12

4 son ef the late President Tyler was
lately arrested in Washington for drunken
ness Although ppor, bezotted creature,
says Syracuse journal CORES pondenf, sshe
ls one q the most eouktly and polished men
p demeanoE and conversation, fo be found
~ Washington. One who has not seen
him accept an invitation % take i drink.
and the aiI With which he viii take II, has
never seen true Virginia gentleman of Tie
real old style.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12

A LITTLE 5-year old boy was being in.
structed in morals by his grandmother.
The old lady told him that all such terms
as ''by golIy,p "by jingo," "by thunder"
etc, were only little oaths, and but little
better than other profanities. In fact, she
said, he could tell a prOfane oath by the
prefix "by." All such were oaths. "Well,
then, grandmother" said the little hopeful,
sis, by telegraph which | see in the
papers, swearing@ enc" (" said the old lady,
i'that's only lying Rome Sentin Y
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12

The Carroll Conservative re,
death on Miss Mabry, the acco
daughter Of Mr.. Phillip Mabry, at
dence Of her father. 4 few miles nc
Carrollton, on last Sunday night,
spell Of typho-malarial fever.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12

"A woMAEsa wit 8 more frequenasyF
"a into the service Of her folly than Of
sense.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12

AMONG the most interesting Of the
census bulletins is one recently issued
that shows the number of males Of the
voting age, 81 years or over, classified
as native white, foreign white, total
white, and total colored. 1t is seen By
these tables that in only two States does
the male colored population Of the vet
ing age outnumbcr the whites Missis-
sippi has 13O,278 colored to 108, ,254
whites, and South Carolina has 1888
colored to $4,000 whites. Louisiana is
nearly divided, TIE colored numbering
1O7, ,977 to 108,810 whites. Some States
have surprisingly few of these colored
males of 81 years or over. New Hamp-
shire has but 237, Vermont 314, and
Maine GG4. Nebraska also has remark
ably few-S44. In these tables, also,
Chinese, japanese, and Indians count
rs coIored.
IN the House Mr.. Berry, of Califor-
MIA, has introduced bill to abolish the
State of Nevada and attach the Terri |
tory to California. We woull Ike toI
know where Mr.. Berry firIs constitu-
tional authority to abolish Stete after
il has been once formed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12

Do not sids iii you ere ready, Or You
may fall of
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12

The new Chicago directory contains 1885,
600 names, making the population accord
ing to published estimates about $4,000 in
the city proper The publisher's estimate
lnr 1850 ,ras hnlnr, the Gems Ntnrns
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-07
The Alpine Glacier.

From Brieg we went by rail alongside
the rapid-rolling Rhone to Vernayaz,
village which is the point of departure
rom the noted valley of Chamonix. Inc
water of the Rhone is not very clear. Ii
is a sort of soapstone blue. That is the
color of all the rivers and mountain
streams that are fed from GLACIERS. Inc
glazier, though it shows no more motion
than an inch or so year. is a river OF
ice continually flowing down the mount
ain gorges and melting away. 1t ronS
the stones beneath it over and over I'LL
it polishes them off round and grlndS
their sharp corners to powder. AS the
ice melts and the water flows away TINS
limestone dust mingles With, saturates
and colors it. Thus the streams tnaI
flow from the GLACIERS are always OF an
Opaque blue-grsy color from the grinu
ing Of the glazier over rocks, while tne
mountain brooks from melted snow sLs
clear and pure as crystal. You can ten
which is which the moment you see ::
stream of vater.-CoT. CtIaci'l''o"
Commercial
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-07
The Texas e. st. Louis II. r.
Globe.Democrat.

Reports detrimental to the credit Of
the Texas g. st. Louis railroad, known
Familiarity as the Paramore road, were
circulated yesterday on the street in
connection with Mr.. Paramore visit
to New York. 1t was asserted that
he had gone east to raise funds to de-
fray construction expenses and iqui-
date overdue Indebtedness to contract
ors. The charges were clearly defined,
and from hearing them person would
be inclined to favor the belief that the
Texas & st. Louis had met with the
fate of other narrow gauge railroads,
and was financially embarrassed.
To dispel all doubts on the subject,
a Globe-Democrat reporter visited j..
w. Paramore last evening and re-
ceived the following information:
The object of his visit to New York
was to exchange the stock of the
Texas & st. Louis railroad for stock
of the Texas and st. Louis railroad
in Arkansas and Texas, divisions
which have heretofore been built and
managed as separate corporations.
Under the unified management ex-
penses will be reduced and only one
board Of directors and general officers
will be required, doing away with the
cumbersome machinery of several cor
poratons operating the same road.
He also placed bonds to the amount
of SSO0,000 at par in the New York
market in order to raise money to
complete the road.
rs the Texas & st. Louis behind
in Payments9" =,
Il should say not; and it don't leok
very much like bankruptcy, does it,
for me to pay out $4,000 to-day?
According to the subscription list, i
am authorized to draw 5 400,0 900 ev-
cry fifteen days for expenses. Well,
you know as a railroad approaches
completion the percentages grow, and
when the contracts were settled up
there was balance of some $4,000
or $4,000 over the regular $500, 900
remaining unpaid. AT the end Of the
next fifteen days the percentages were
smaller and everything cleared up.
We have more money to-day to our
credit in the bank than any other
railroad in the country free Of debt. |
I'd like you to show me 8 read that
can check ont a balance Of 1000 |
in cash" '
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-07
To Prevent Badness.

Some of the greatest scientific dis
coveries of the known world have
been made by men when they least
expected it. Some accident has
caused the thoughts to go into the
right channel, and before the man
knew it he had thought out prob
lem that other men had attempted
for years to solve and failed. The
idea of scratching matches on the
elbow of the pants was first given to
man by an accident. Mr., Wentworth,
of Chicago, known to science as Long
John Wentworth, was the first to dis
cover that the pantaloons contained
the friction necessary to ignite brim-
stone. He had accidentlly got some
pancake batter on the west side of
his pants, while conversing with the
cook in the kitchen of a Chicago
hotel, and leaning against the bread
tray. The pancake batter became
hard BY exposure to the elements, for
q season, and one day, when Mr..
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-07
TEXAS TOPICS.

THE new hotel at Houston, Texas,
will cost 100000.
The Texas Pacific railroad com
pany recently completed a sale OF =
100000 acres of land to an Enghsh
syndicate.
Several carloads of machinery
and about thirty skilled workmen have
arrived at Austin from Chicago, and
work has begun on. the new state cap
itol. f+
An artesian well was completed
at Crawford, McLennan county, a
few days ago, from which the water
flows seven feet above the level of the
ground. The bore is less than 4OO
feet.
President Stanford, of the Cen
trail Pacific, says the line from San
Francisco to New Orleans, via. the
Texas Sunset route, is practically
completed, and that trains will soon
be run from the Pacific coast to New
Orleans.
In the most reliable quarters the
crops of Texas for this season are es-
timated at 100000 bales of cotton
and 1876, 100000 bushels of corn.
Texas now stands first on list of
southern states in the production of
cotton and corn. .-
st. Louis Globs-Democrat: Col.
Hal L. Gosling, United States mar
shall for the western district of Texas,
was at the Southern yesterday, accom-
panied by four deputies. These gen
tlemen have Just returned from Ches-
ter, ILL.,, where they placed in the pen.
itentiary eighteen prisoners, convicted
recently in the United States district
court at San Antonio. Col. Gosllng
is an ex-knight Of the Faber, and is
the president of the Texas press as
ISOLATION. His district is the largest
in the United States, extending from
east to west a distance of 100 miles,
including 10 counties. 1t lies along
the Mexican border, which accounts
for the trial in the district court Of so
many cases of smuggling. During
the last session of the court there
were 1913 convictions for this offense.
Col. Gosling has about 100 deputies
to assist him in preserving federal
dignity in the district, the majority
being stationed along the frontier.
The Colonel leaves this morning for
Washington, to make his quarterly
settlement with the government. His
four deputies will return to Texas.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-07
One Item Of Expense.
Brooklyn Eagle.

@What do you charge for death no
tice in this paper?" snapped diamond
pointed nosed woman at the advertising
desk of the Eagle last night.
"Half a dollar, ma'am," replied the
clerk.
Folks can't die without paying for
it, 1 suppose, snarled the woman.
"Oh, they can die. responded the
clerk, "but it costs that to publish the
fact"
Twenty dollars for a coffin, SIS for
the grave, $40 for hacks, and only $500
for my mourning, and now I've got to
pay fifty cents to draw a crowd Think
I'm made of money!"
Il don't know, ma'am,' returned the
clerk, scratching his head.
%Mean TO say you won't print this
notice for less than 80 cents2'
That's the regular price, ms'am.'
Then 1 s'pose I've got TO pay il, or
there won't soul see my new hat and
veil. Take your money, but you bet it
will come out of the coffin. i won't
knock q cent of my mourning, if have
to mince him up and plant him in q
seidlitz powder bo1l'
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-07

"How much did the actual cost oil
the Texas & st. Louis, including
equipment, overrun the estimates OF
the engineers" -
of the estimates, and l would ask
Won. how does that compare with the
6oasted nickel.plate, which could only
be finished by calling for an additional
$40, OOO, 900. 1t is credit to anyone
10 construct a railroad like the Texas
& st. Louis, $50 miles long, ana not
have draft 60 to protest IL iS d
wonderful performance.
"What is the condition OF the line
today" ..
Law. The line is graded, ties are de,
liyered and rails are being laid as fast
as two track-laying forces can 40 IT,
They average one mile a day each,
and in less than thirty days will meet
and finish the work. Allowing time
for ballasting and settling, the ROAD
will be in operation for January l.
1883. At the Arkansas river we have
the finest bridge south OF st. LOUIS
It is 1,7OO feet long and has draw
span of .855 feet. The fixed spans are
on the combination principle OF iron
and wood. We have entered into a
traffic agreement with the Arkansas
Midland railroad from Clarendon to
Helena, distance of 81 miles, ana
will interchange cars, they having
changed their gauge from q, three e feet
six inches to three feet. The Brink
lev & Batesville railroad, in Arkansas
has also changed from 8 feet + inches
to the S-foot gauge. The line is built
for 10 or Is miles, and when finished
will extend 20 miles more. We have
Ga engines on the side track at Cairo
to begin running as soon as the gaps
are completed; 800 new freight cars
6 sleepers and 80 passenger coaches,
the finest you ever saw all built al. al
Pullman.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-07
Alarmed at America.

Following is an extract from an
article which recently appeared IN a
St. Petersburg paper:
Since 1850 the population of the
United States has doubled, but It's
production of wheat and corn has
increased five times. Their surplus
of grain they have sent to Europe.
The grain market of England is now
in the hands of the Americans.
They send their grain also to France
and Germany. Even at Fiume, the Aus
trian grain exporting port, Amencan
grain has appeared. Our own alcohol
distillers are importing American
corn. 1t lis evident that Americans are
step by step driving their competitors
from the European grain market.
The Americans have a perfect system
of transportation. To their lakes
and rivers they have added numerous
canals and numberless railroads. The
grain freight from Chicago to Ham
burg is lower than from Pesth (Aus-
tria] to Hamburg. The grain market
of our neighbor, Germany, is more
and more occupied by our transatlan-
tic friends; in 1880 we furnished to
Germany "a per cent. of wheat and
the Americans % per cent; OF corn we
furnished per cent, and the Amer
cans % per cent.
Now, what are the particular cir
cumstances which enable the Amen
cans to drive away European grain
producers from European markets?
it would be quite wrong to attribute
their success chiefly to the natural
qualities of the country OF the Yam
KEGS.
In our opinion the American citizen
of a free country has done more for
his own welfare than nature has done
for him. The Americans hold their
destines in their own hands. Their
government costs them very little.
Their soil tillers can get plenty of
good land. They have no huge stand
ing army to consume their substance.
They save mans labor by substituting
for it the forces of nature and ma
chinery, thus preserving him for the
field of labor in which their can be no
substitute-mental work. This is the
picture that the Yankees present, and
the European countries are on the
other side of the medal.
Young America is going, in good
earnest, to thrash old Europe. Have
we any means of defense? Some say
the American competition cannot con-
tinue long, for the population of the
United States is rapidly increasing,
and before long the Americans will
need all the grain they produce for
their own use. But we believe that
Europe can be bankrupted ten times
before the United States will be dense
" populated. Well, shall We give
Up the business in which we cannot
,ompete with the Americans? But
hat is impossible, at least so far as
Russia is concerned. Then shall we
adopt the American plan of farming,
If transportation, of education, and
% on7 In other words, shall Europe
,e Amencanized In order to Withstand
American competi6on9 But our life
,annot be Amencanized unless our
is first Amencanized.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-07

"CAS you tell me, little girl, why We
pray for our daily bread2" asked AZ
Austin Sunday-school teacher OF one
of her pupils. Because the oreaa
would get stale if we didn't get II
every dsy.-Teras SiftSaes.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-07

AL good clothes come high except
ball dresses.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-12-23
Food AdultcrntIon In Paris.

Food Is much adulterated In Paris.
Out Of siXty.two samples Of butter
analysed at tho municipal laboratory
last month, only eleven were found 10
be pure. Most Of this bad butter il oleo-
margarine, large quantities Of which are
shipped from Holland TO ports in Nor
mandy and thence sent up to the Paris
market. Flour, OF which more than
5000 tons are used daily in France, is
very generally adulterated and only
eighteen out Of thirty.one samples were
found to DO free from any admixture.
The most common form Of ad~ulteration
consists In the mixture Of -four made
from beans, peas, lontils and Indian
corn with the wheaton flouri but in
some cases II has been found that tho
flour has been adulterated with dele
FERROUS substances, such as composites
OF lead, copper and zinc, sulphate OF
lime and chalk and IL is reported by
the official analyzer that a steady trade
Is done Mt Rotterdam in corn adulternt-
cd with thirty per cent. Of plaster, for
importation into France. Chocolate is
adulteratod by the addition Of bean
meal, powdered date stones, and min.
eral substances; and coffee Is very
rarely to be had pure when purchased
ground. There Is no certainty Of get
ting pure coffee, even by buying II
whole for n short time ago there was
an establishment in one OF the suburbs
OF Paris where artificial coffee berries
were made from n paste composed Of
ground acorns, burned wheat, and
coffee dregs. IN. y. Sun.