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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
Happy Children.

AS house-plants cannot flourish with
out sunshine, so children cannot thrive
and be happy without love. How radi
ant are their bright faces as they re
spond to the tones and words of afec-
ton from the lips of their parents
Little they know of the deep solitude,
of the constant care, exercised toward
them but they do fully understand
and appreciate protestations of love and
tenderness. Why should we be chary
of these, when they cost only speak
ing? II know now" said lady not
long ago, ''that my mother loved me
tenderly, but during all my childhood |
doubted it.
eff I were really dear to her,
queried, why did she never tell me so
Why did she never caress me, and as
sure me of her love? She thought her
actions spoke loudly enough without
words. / could not read her actions
then as I can now, and how / longed to
hear her call me loving names, and to
have her wrap me in the sweet embrace
of her strong mether love" Many a
little heart aches just as this ladys did,
and car be made happier by the spon-
taneous utterances of maternal affection
than by beads or dolls, fine clothes, or
costly toys.
Children who grow up in this con-
slant atmosphere of love are rarely mis-
chievous. never vicious. The mightiest
of all agencies to lead the young in paths
of virtue is in the hands of parents, and
to command this agency they need but
to give expression to the natural over
flow of their hearts.
Children to be happy, need eneour-
agement and praise. It IS not enough
that they escape censure. Negatives
are always cold and blank. Our little
ones want warm, positive approval when
they have done right. Thus they will
Be made to feel that the paths Of wis
dom are paths Of pleasantness and peace.
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
The Use of an Education.

AS EXPLAINED BY A SUCCESSFUL JOUR
NALIsT AND PUBLIC MAN.
Carl Schurz in Harvard College Address
AS to higher education, such as is or
should be afforded by our colleges and
universities, we cannot possibly have
too large 4 conception of its objects, CON
sidering the need of democratic society.
1t goes without saying that those objects
are not exhausted by cramming students
heads, with the knowledge required for
the drudgery of some profession or other
calling and still less by giving young
snobs that veneering which may enable
them to masquerade as superior beings
in the circles of fashionable superficial.
ity. Applause. The same general
principle applies to the college as to the
elementary school, only in larger sense.
The college can give its students more,
but after all only n little share Of the
general store of knowledge.
But while giving them only little Of
the ore that is in the mine, it can show
them the cleaning veins of precious
treasure, and furnish them the tools and
teach them the use of those tools with
which to work the lode. This will
quicken their ambition to keep those
tools effectively at work after the college
days are over. That is the way students
are formed genuine, thinking students,
| mean, who will remain students all
their days, whatever profession or occu-
patton they may embrace, whether they
devote themselves in quiet seclusion to
the researches of "science for its own
sake" or whether they engage in the
Dustling competitions and contests of
ife. 1t is of the highest Importance in
his respect that young men leaving col.
ege should take with them an intelli-
gent and just appreciation not only of
what they have learned, but of what
hey have not learned.
What student can learn at college
he should so learn that it impress him
With profound sense of his ignorance.
The more a man knows well the more
leenly he feels how little he knows and
low much moro he ought to know.
Among the noblest and most fruitful
Of a mans life are those when
deep and keen consciousness of his
'wn ignorance most seriously disturbs
lim, for those moments stimulate the
lealthiest thirst for knowledge. Moth
ng is better calculated to protect young
nen against that early bankruptcy which
5 apt to overtake those who rush at
nee into practical life with the little
hey have learned, thinking they have
earned enough, and trying TO do a large
usiness upon a very small mental CAPT
al
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
Pensions.

Up to the first of March last, $500, ,781, )
$50 had been paid out for pensions on ae-
count of the late war, and to 250, 600 pen
sioners. There are also $4,000 pensioners of
the war of 1872 on the rolls, drawing 81
100000 year. The total paid last year on
pension account was 10000, 600. During
the present fiscal year, the amount Is ex-
pected to reach $65,0Q0,o0o. But there are
bending 217, ,162 claims. Allowing for the
usual number of reflections, If these claims
and arreaEages are paif !, during ngns sns yei yg;
sr,of,nt 10 about $214, 900, 500, and the an
nual expenditures thereafter to about S54,-
001 600 But it is notorious that large
percentage of this money will not so to de-
serving pensioners. Fraudulent papers,
slick attorneys, corrupt examiners and
bribery in the pension Office, show how Il Is
done.-Sedalia MOI Democrat.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
A Mlsnamed Bin.


The Republican bill to reduce taxation
actually increases the duty on cotton ties
and on all articles of which hoop, band or
scroll iron are an important part, nearly
one hundred per cent. So far from redue-
inc the burdens of the people or increasing
the revenue it largely increases the burdens
of the people and decreases the revenue
Moreover, the wording Of the provisions in
the bill IS such that elaborate calculations
have been required to determine the actual
increase prescribed under the promise Of q
reduction IN taxes, just IS the changes in
The tobacco licenses hold out 3 promise Of
reduction which IN most cases Is no feuuc-
ffon Al al. The bill throu ghout tfitles ID the
most nonstr6us way with the public inter-
psts. and Is 4 delusi0n and snare to the tax
payers and to the Treagnry--NeV York
Herald.
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THE WEEKLY CLARION
"Wednesday. August 2. 1859

Tor bread, and the miserable, frantic ana
itrenzied by want and sense Of Injustice
4 on cannot make war on your own. people
You cannot satisfy the cravinrs of hunger ,Sy
bring content to misery and wretchedness bv
the lmmolation of q few victims bv wav az n
terrifying example. These methods win mot
do in free country
The only thing left US is the best thing
that is, to administer the Government Witb ins.
llce and equity to all its citizens, to so foster
ara advance its indus tries among all its peo-
PIE and In every part of the Union as 10 cause
eaeh e, American citizen to feel and know that
,ll mere ls room in this broad land and under
her Deneheient institutions for him TO win by
m ms own honorable exertions that comfort ana
.nIe "a y, ReLhaence L without which il is mookery
TO tell him he is free and the equal Of ALI otbers
ana ana to cause him further to feel and know
tRat y IN Its oenefactions and its burdens the
government has no step-children and NO
iayorltes. Because this bill is not Of this
character, but on the contrary confers its hen
ehts on fayorites who do not need them and
not only denies benefits but imposes burdens
on others equally entitled to the protection of
the laws, | shall vote against il, unless these
objections be removed by amendment.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
Our voting Population.

A census bulletin just issued enables US
to get approximately at the total number OF
voters in the United States. It shows that
the number of males OF twenty-one years OF
age and over in the United States in 1880
was 1880. $40. OF these II, ,s4s, ,005 were
white and 1 4s7, ,344 were colored, including
Chinese, japanese and Indians. OF the
white, {, ,270, sis were native and S,0Iz, ,4el
foreign born. Turning TO the census q
1870 we find that there were then returned
g. .439. .2O6 males twenty-one years old and
upward. Included in this total were s, ,355,-
7i9 whites and 1,0S5, ,487 colored. The
whites we're divided into 6,S96, ,62S native
and 2,542, ,5e3 foreign born. 4 comparison
Of these figures shows an increase during the
decade Of 3 S,391, ,143 IN all males Of voting
age, 1889 ,288 in the white, 40I ,65z u the
eolored, ,373, ,s95 in those of native and
So. .9o4 in those Of foreign birth.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
Union County.

Pursuant to a call of the Chairman of the
Demoeratic-Executive Committee of Union
County, a mass Convention was held at the
Courthouse, on Saturday, July 22d, 1882,
for the purpose of selecting delegates to the
Congressional Convention to be held at
| Oxford, on the I'd of August.
After stating the object of the meeting
/ by the Chairman, J. II. Dalton, Capt W.
P. Stewart was called to the Chair, and L.
D. Owen was requested to act as Secretary
| On motion of II. L. Holland, the follow
ing resolutions were unanimously adopted
Be it
RcsoEred, That We, the Democratic party
of Union county, in mass Convention as
sembled, hereby endorse Hon. Van III.
Manning, our present able and efficient
Representative in Congress, who has never
proved recreant to the great trust reposed
in him by the people, and who has ever
been found the champion of the peoples
rights when assailed by hostile legislation
in the interest of monopOlists and high
tariffs, and that the people may continue to
have the benefit of his experience and
ability, we again place him forward as the
StdHQdIO-DChlGA vi bl4C OCHAoNAdI4S Al
the ID Congressional District. Be it fur
ther
Resolved, That the delegates appointed
by this mass Convention to represent Union
county in the Congressional Convention to
meet at Oxford on the I'd of August, be,
and they are her eby instructed to cast the
vote of Union county for Hon. Van H.
Manning, for Congress. And having in
view always interests and principles of the
party, above the ambition and promotion
of individuals, to use all honorable means to
secure his nomination.
The following named persons were ap-
pointed as delegates to represent Union
county in the Congressional Convention,
and to carry out the above instructions
lst District-W. I. Mallory, J. n. Dodds,
FL. Marshall, 7. J. Morris and o. P. Major.
ID Dist. NJ. Norrell, 7. J. Sanders,
J. F. Smith, w. S. Parks and A F. Dorsey. |
Sd Dist. H. Dalton, w. NJ. Wood, H. |
W. Mayes, w. 2. Stewart and ]. S. Nor
ris.
4.h Dist.-W. R. Ramsey, J. P. Robin
son, G. w. Kelly, VIM Pannell and J. X. |
Guyton.
5th Dist-Wm. Nelson, John Magill, ].
A. Robertson, S. L. Nelson and w. E. Cor
don.
County-at-L Large-S. Heard, C. G. Mitch
ell, !. L. Young W. A. Stocks, I. B. Sloan,
E. G. II. Haynie, T. P. Williams and j. J.
Henderson.
On motion, the following named persons
were elected to serve as an Executive Com
mittee of Union County for the ensuing
year:
1st Dist--T J. Morris and w. T. Nal
lorv
ID Dist.-T. J. Sanders and Chas. Will
liams.
Sd Dist.-Dr. A H. McAllister and j.
K. Wray.
4th Dist.-C. o. Potter and D. C. VIII
liams
9Th Dist-H L. Holland and J. H. Rob
ertson.
On motion, the New Albany Democrat,
Jackson CLARION, Holly Springs South and
Sentinel, be requested to publish
the proceedings of this meeting.
On motion, the Convention adjourned
sine die.
w. P, STEWART, Chr'n.
L. D. OWEN, Sec'y.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
VOLUME xiv.
NEWS AND NOTES.

Two harnessed crocodiles tamely drew a
wagon into Atlanta.
Miss Fox, who sues Mr.. Low of New Or
leans for breaking his promise to marry her,
places the damage at one dollar.
An Arkansas bridegroom caught the bride
in his arms, at the conclusion Of the cere-
mony, and dislocated two Of her ribs with a
violent hug.
Capt. John s. Wise, Readjuster candidate
for Congress in Virginia, and John s.
Crockett, commonwealth attorney, of
Wythe county, fought bloodless duel or the
25th of July.
On the night of the 24th July, VIM. H.
Reid, farmer in Gage county, shot and in
stantly killed his wife, who had sought
refuge from his brutality with her son-in-
law. The murderer is in Jail at Beatrice.
A special to the Union from Palatka,
Fla. says: a fire broke at $50 last night,
which destroyed the store of B. L. Lebien-
thalI and the office of the Putnam County
Journal, Several persons narrowly escaped
with their lives.
In the case of the six negroes who were
run over and killed on the Mobile & Ohio
r. R., near DeSoto, Miss, on the oath, the
coroner's jury, after careful examination,
finds no blame attaching to any persons for
the accident, except to the unfortunate vic
tins
Commissioner Loring has appointed
President T. c. Morehead, of the Cotton
Planters Association, the State Commits
sioner of the State of Mississippi, to secure
crop reports, and designated Vicksburg as
the headquarters of the service in this
State.
A young man named Julian Boyd was
gaylaid near Thomaston, Ga, on the 18th
July, while riding through the woods, and
fatally shot. Suspicion was directed to
three brothers named Martin, whose sister
charged Boyd with seducing her, and war
rants for their arrest have been issued.
The House Elections Committee adjourned |
until the first Tuesday in December. This
action on the following contested !
election cases until winter: Cook VS.. Cults, |
rom the Sixth District of Iowa; Buchanan
1s Manning, from the Second District Mis-
issippi; Lee VS.. Richardson, from the First
District of South Carolina, aud Zassinghans
IS. Frost, from the Third. District of Mis-
ouri.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
ONLY a SMILE.

Only q smile that was given me
On the crowded street one day
But it pierced the gloom of mT saddened heart
Like : sudden sunbeam's ray.
Tie shadow of doubt hung over me,
And the burden of pain bore,
And the voice of Hope could not hear,
Though listened Ger and Ger.
But there came rift in the crowd about,
Aud face that knew passed by,
And the smile caught was brighter to me
Than the blue of q summer sky;
For 1t gave me back the sunshine.
And ii scattered each sombIe thought,
And my heart rejoiced in the kindhag warmth
Which that kindly smile had wrought.
Only smile from friendly face
On the busy street that day.
Forgotten as soon as given, perhaps,
As the donor went her way.
But straight to my heart it went speeding,
To guild the clouds that were there,
And l found that of sunshine ard life's blue
Iaiso might take my share. [skies
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
AMERICAN ARTISANS.

A writer in Chambers Journal, speak
ing of American workmen, says:
"What L have said of the building
trades applies to all others. Indeed,
the higher dexterity, taste and skill a
business requires, the more does the
American workman respond to the de-
mand The Elasticity of type to which
| have referred is nowhere seen so plain
ly as in the domain of useful arts. Ger
mans and Frenchmen have given q
finish to American manufactures that is
wanting in our own. Besides, there is
a native neatness, the result of a high
ideal of excellence. This matter de-
serves the serious attention of British
manufacturers, who are losing many
markets simply from the clumsiness of
their goods. There is rising in the
United States a race Of artists, design
ers and artifcers, who promise to sur
pass those Of all other nations. The
fervor of the climate develops the esthe-
tic side of man, the clash of millions
of eager, inventive minds is producing
a standard of excellence that is both
novel and exalted; the possibilities of
wealth are vastly beyond those of any
European State, and the love of the
elegant and the beautiful pervades all
classes. The inevitable sequence OF
these conditions must be widespread,
all-dominating art. 1t is seen in the
gorgeous public buildings, IN the ex-
quisite villas, in the light yet strong
furniture, in the beautiful appointments
of drawing-rooms and table equipages;
while every American lady, yea, though
black, is living evidence of an innate
taste in dress that makes the English
suffer by contrast. Into every avenue
of life this characteristic of taste goes,
manners and behavior as
much as architecture, furniture, dress,
and tools"
-~4Op<-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
A LULLABY.

Sleep, my child the shadows fall:
Silent darkness reigns Ger all:
Bird and bloom are lost to sight
In the folded arms Of night;
Stars will soon from cloud towers pasn
While allnature lies asleep.
Beathe thou softly Rest is sweet
For tired hearts and aching feet;
No dull care nor toll is thine
Nor sin, thou blessed child OF mine.
Tranquil on thy soft couch rest,
with dreams Of heaven in thy breast
Buds are sleeping close thine eyes
Waken with soft surprise;
Greet the morning with thy smile.
And sweet prattle without guile.
Scents lie sleeping in the flowers;
Slumher till the daylight hours.
Sleep Thy Father guards thy rest:
Lay thy head upon His breast;
Safer than these arms which hold thee
His dear love will firm enfold thee,
Higher love than mine shall He
Give, beloved one, to thee
sleep the waves have long been sleeping
Angels Ger thee watch are keeping;
Ger us both the pale stars shine
With a radiance half divine.
Slumber, innocent and light,
Fall from heaven on thee tO-night
Chambers Journal.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02

EDITORS CLARION The foregoing is
strong endorsement of eo-education by one
who speaks from experience which is safer
guide than any theories As this subject
is now exciting some interest in our State
in consequence of the late action of the
Board of University of Mississippi in OPEN
ing the doors of this institution to young
ladies', think said article would be read
with interest if published in The CLARION.
Truly, ETC., !. III. LONG.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
Col. Jones s. Hamilton-No Man Do
ing More.
Grenada Sentinel.]

Grenada Sentinel.
There is no man doing more for the mate
rial progress off State than Col. Jones s.
Hamilton, of Jackson. He is not seeking
place in Congress, nor is he salting a claim
for Governor, nor is he aspiring for military
fame by way of becoming Major General,
but he is utilizing forces that without him,
or such an one (and he would be hard to
fnd) Mississippi would be thrown into a
bushel instead of s'peck of troubles" how
to manage or what to do with the conYiets.
He is paying the State well for her convict
labor, and thus, making the Penitentiary a
paving institution. With this large and
effective force he is building railroads at
various points in the State or making con-
tracts to that effect. With few more such
men in our State it would not be long be-
fore all sorts of public Improvements would
put us ahead of any Southern State With
energy, courage and intelligence combined
he is the sort of man to build up States
from dilapidation, and put them on the
high road to prosperity. his latest con-
tract is to build the road from Holly
Springs to Memphis, and he IS the man to
put it through.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
SELECTED MISCELLANY.

A friend is easier lost than found.
Pleasure is the reward of modera-
ton.
A man can be man in any honest
work.
The latest fashion is often the latest
folly.
Cruelty to animals is the crime of
towards.
Pride that dimes on vanity sups on
contempt.
If thou canst not see the bottom
wade not.
Not work, but worry, makes havoc
of health.
Fortune does not change men it only
unmasks them.
| He who would eat the kernel must
crack the nut.
If God lights the candle, Satan can
not blow it out.
Men make laws-women make man
ners.-De Segur.
Every man is occasionally what be
ought to be perpetually.
To get rid of bad friend ask him
for what you most need.
Recolleet that trihes make perfection,
and that perfection Ia no trife.
Love can gather hope from mar
velous little thing.
1t is barren kind of criticism that
tells you what thing is not.
When man is wrong and won't ad-
nit it he always gets angry.
A man is only as old as he feels
Douglas Jerrold.
We finish by excusing our faults, but
we always blush at our blunders.
One is alone in crowd when one
suffers, or when one lOyes.-Rochpedre.
There is great art in knowing how
to give without creating an obligation.
An obstinate man does not hold opin-
ions they hold him.
When you meet heart that is true,
don't be afraid to trust it.
He who wants to do a good deal Of
good at once will never do any.
A mans life is in an appendix to his
heart.-South.
Some men in marriage seek company
rather than companion.
That which is bitter to be endured
may be sweet to be remembered.
Adversely borrows its sharpest sting
from impatience. Bishop Horne.
God created the coquette IS soon As
be had made the fool Victor Hugo.
Flowers that come from loved hand
ire more priced than diamonds.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02
LeprOsy-A soasOnable Warning.

The Sedalia Mo- Democrat notes
that there is being accumulated an
alarming large amount of substantial
warning against the habit of cigarette
smoking, and the most startling yet de-
veloped is the danger ofcontraeting this
horrible disease by the indulgence.
Upon the Pacific slope, where Chinese
abound, cigarettes of all kinds are as
plentiful as the leaves; and the less re-
markable feature about the industry is
that there is to be found boy for every
cigarette. As result, there are said
to be several well developed cases of
leprosy among these youthful smokers.
The victims undoubtedly contracted the
maIadv from the Mongolian lepers en-
ployed in the native cigar factories
where these cigarettes are made. On
this point, the physicians who have ex-
amined the cases unanimously agree,
and as leprosy is SO contagious it is not
remarkable for it to be communicated
in this way. In the cases referred to,
the disease has revealed itself about the
lips and tongue in the form Of a sore,
which viii rapidly spread, it being in
a very sensitive and susceptible part Of
the human organism. The Dem ocrat
further observes that hitherto the dis
ease in this country has been confined
almost exclusively to the Chinese,
among whom there are said to be many
victims, one physician having in range
Of his own observation as high as one
hundred and seventy cases. The de-
velopment Of this malady being in such
a dangerous form and through such an
unexpected process, it will now become
i question whether it wouldn't be the
proper thing TO do to pack up all Mon
golian, and other cigarette-makers, for
that matter, and Danish them with their
embargoed eountrymen.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02

The Railway age finds that during
the first six months Of the present cal
eudar year five thousand miles of new
railroad have been laid down in this
country, sidings and second tracks not
being included. This activity in rail
road building is enormous and altogeth-
er unprecedented. 1t would be futile
to speculate on the productive value Of
the new roads, and to boast of our mile
age, which is almost equal to that of all
Europe combined But it is worth
noticing that the additions to our rail
way net are mostly the work of home
capital This matchleSs building Of
new roads illustrates the abundance of
ready money in our country, which is
growing faster than ever before in popu-
lation, business and prosperity. The
money paid for the new Snis may not
all bear fruit 10 the sh' holders, but
it is neither wasted nor, perhaps, mis-
applied, since nearly every road pro
duces more to the community at large
than it consumes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-08-02

The River and Harbor bill passed the
Senate and was referred to a Committee
of Conference whose report was rejected
by the House. 1t appropriates s4,-
152, 900 to the Improvement of the Mis-
sissippi river.