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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
Approved, March 4, 1882.
AN ACT to provide contingent fund for the State Boar
Of Health. Tor anarantine and other purposes.

SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted by tie Legtsza-
tire Of tie State Of Mississippi, That for
the purposes defined in sections eighteen,
nineteen, twenty -one and twenty three of an
actapproVed March 4th, 1880, entitled, IAN
Act to amend the statutes in regard to
Boards of Health" the sum of forty five
thousand dollars, annually, is hereby ap-
propriated, said annual appropriation to
remain in force until repealed; the warrants
for said appropriation to be issued in the
mode, and the appropriation to be expended
on the terms and conditions and for the
purposes prescribed in sections eighteen
nineteen, twenty-one and twenty three Of
said act.
Sec. 2. Be 1t further enacted, That all
acts and parts of acts in conflict with this
act are hereby repealed, and that this act
take effect and be in force from and afterits
passage
Approved, February 81, 1882.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

AN ACT to aid in the suppression Of the traffic stolen
seed cotton.
SECTION l. Be 1T enacted bar the LeqisZa-
tire Of the State Of Mississippi That here
after all persons, merchants, gin owners or
others, who shall buy, or barter for seed cot
ton, shall be required to keep a written
record or register of the same, stating there
in the name OF the party from whom bought,
the date ofthe purchase, the quantity bought,
and where said to have been grown, and
such record to be subject to public inspec-
ton at all reasonable times
SEC. 2. Be If further enacted, That any
one who shall fail to keep the record as re-
quired in the preceding section, or to make
entries therein, or who shall fail to allow
the same to be Inspected as required by the
said section, shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction be-
fore any court having jurisdiction, be pun
lshed by line not to exceed two hundred
dollars, or Imprisonment in the county jail
otto exceed three months, or by both such
line and imprisonment, at the discretion of
the court.
SIC. 3. Be 1t further enacted, That this
act shall take effect and be in force after
ninety days from its passage.
Approved. February %, 1882
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted 6y the LeqiSza-
tire Of the State Of Mississippi, That the
president of the board of supervisors of the
several counties in the State of Mississippi,
when thereunto authorized by said board, be
and he is hereby authorized and empowered
to insure such of the public buildings in their
said board may seem proper, and that said
board issue their warrants therefor payable
out of the treasury of said county.
Sec. 2. Be 1T further enacted, That this
act take effect and be in force from and
after its passage.
Approved, February "a, 1882.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
IS AeTto anen.the Homestead Laws d tbs State.

SECTION 1 Be It enacted 5y the LegisIa-
fure Of the State of Mississippi, That
every citizen Of this State, male or female.
being householder and having family
shall be entitled to hold exempt from
seizure or sale under execution or attach
ment, the land and buildings owned and
occupied as a residence by such debtor :
pToUtaed. the quantity Of land shall not ex-
coed one hundred and sixty acres, nor the
value thereof, inclusive Of improvements.
the sum of two thousand dollars.
SIC. 2. BE It further enacted. That this
act take effect and be ii force from and
after its passage
Approved, March 9, 1892
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted By tie LegiSlo-
ttre Of the State Of Mls8iSStppi, That SO
much of section three of "an act to require
the employment of convicts on works of in
ternal improvement, and provide for the
support of the penitentiary without loss to
the State" approved March 6, 1880, as au-
thorizes and requires the erection Sin the
main factory building in the penitentiary
walls, machinery for the manufacture of
bagging out of jute, with all necessary en-
gines, looms and spindles for bagging
factory" be and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. Be 10 further enacted, That this
act take effect and be in force from and after
its passage
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

WHEREAS Owing to the decrease in the
salary, which heretoforeit has been the Gus
tom to give the Clerk of the House, he has
been unable to allow his assistants the
amounts usually paid them-therefore,
Be 1t resolved By the House Of RepreSen-
toti0es, the Senate concuyrtng, That the
Reading Clerk of the House and the>Read-
ing Clerk Of the Senate be each allowed the
sum Of one hundred and twenty-five dollars
additional compensation, to be paid out of
presiding officer of the two houses respect
lively.
Approved. March 4, 1882.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

AN ACT making appropriation repair the Governors
Mansion, and Tor other purposes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

AN ACT authorize the Board Supervisors
buildings.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

AN ACT to authorize taxpayers to sue on certain oeia
SECTION 1. Be ii enacted By the Legis1a-
ture Of the State Of M1ssisSippi, That any
tax payer of any county in this State shall
be and is hereby authorized and empowered
to sue in his own name, for the use and ben
eft Of the county in which he pays taxes,
upon the official bond of any member of
the board of supervisors of his county,
heretofore or hereafter given for any breach
of such bond resulting in injury or damage
to the county, and the taxpayer thus suing
shall be responsible personally for all costs
incurred and no suit which has been, or
may be hereafter brought by any taxpayer
as aforesaid, shall be abated or dismissed
for want Of authority in such taxpayer to
sue on such official bonds.
SEC. 2. Be 1t further enacted, That all
acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed and that this act take effect@and
be in force from and after its passage.
Approved, February 81, 1882
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

The iorsgoin9 Act republshsd e correct : material
ezroEs g psinted last week.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
Approved, March 4, 1882.

AN ACT to amend Act require the employment of
eonvicts works of internal Improvement and provide
for the support Of the Penitentary without loss the
State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

House Joint Resolution providing for additional
ton for the Reading Clerks of the House and of the
Senate.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

leases in which the costs may be adiudged
] against the State, said clerk is hereby al
lowed the sum of one hundred dollars, at
& each term, payable out of the State treasury
on the order of said court.
act take effect and be in force from and
j after its passage
/ Approved, February %, 1882.
AN ACT to authorize the Boards Of Supervisors Of this
State in the various counties thereof to have their
eeedings published, and for other purposes
SECTION /. Be 1t enacted by tie Legisza-
tetre Of the State of Mississippi, That it
shall be lawful for the boards of supervi-
sors of the various counties of this State,
and they are hereby authorized to have
| their proceedings published in some news
paper published in their respective counties.
The said publications to be paid for out of
any moneys in the county treasury OF such
board ordering publication. not otherwise
appropriated, upon the warrants of said
boards; prooided, that the amounts paid
for such publication shall not exceed the
rates fixed by law for the publication of
| legal notices; pr0oided, that nothing con-
tanned in this act shall be so construed as to
require the board of supervisors to have
proceedings published, but the said boards
may, In their discretion, have their proceed
ings published whenever they may deem
the same necessary.
SEC. 2 Be 1t further enacted, That this
act take effect and be in force from and at
ter its passage.
Approved, February 10, 1882.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
[pUBIIsHED BY AUTHORITY

AN ACT to define the right Of parties engaged in running
timber, and for other purposes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

AN ACT to regulate the trial of causes in the
Circuit court Of Lauderdale county.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

AN ACT to make adequate provision for the eoored deaf
mutes of the State aud for the erection OF school build
ing to the Deaf and Dumb Institution, and for other
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

AN ACT to encourage the establishment of Factories in this
State, and to exempt them from taxation.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

AN ACT aid in the suppression Of the traffic in stolen
seed cotton.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

MANUFACTURING CHEH1srs, SOLE PROPRl
TORS.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

Approved, February 81, 1882.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

AN ACT authorize the Boards Supervisors OF this
State in the counties thereof have their pro-
ceedings published, and for other purposes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

AN ACT authorize taxpayers to sue on certain official
bonds.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-24
Poetry and the Barbarian.

To her fell tb~ 'he tea table.
|" Viii youa ts- 2" she
asked, with II. -~o1 IN her
eyes, expressive OF anythh8 ratnef tnah
the administration of course creature
comforts. The robust barbarian aSsented-
cup of wa,rd tea on cold winters
afternoon was pleasant prospect.
Poetry .ed the way to the table. Look
ING back over her shoulder as she went,
ozd speaking to the youth In the corner,
she said:
"The divine ethosl 20
As she spoke radiant smile came over
her face-a smile that had been hired to
express spiritual illumination and the
consciousness of priesthood.
''Do you take sugar p she asked
sweetly, in preparation for her hospi-
taiity.
The robust barbarian answered: "No;
no sugar, thank you"
Poetry held the teapot In her hand,
poised in mid air-the tea unpoured.
"The grandsublimity of Dante marched
with the lovely tendness of Petrarca,
she said again over her shoulder to the
youth in the corner.
"Do yon take sugar ?" she then asked
the robust barbarian kindly.
"No; no sugar, thank you, this latter
answered.
Poetry poured out the tea. During
the process she said, with great sweet
ness and touching hospitality:
may give you sugar ?"
NO; no sugar, thank you, was the
reply.
The tea poured out, Poetry took up
the milk jug.
"The many sidedness of Shakespeare
and the perfect form of Goethe" she
said again over her shoulder to the youth
In the corner.
To the robust barbarian, "Sugar?"
mo" said the robust barbarian,
quickly.
Poetry poured out the milk. Still
holding the cup she looked back to the
youth N the corner.
"And add to this transcendent whole
the stately march of Spenser," she said.
''This is what the true poet should be-
and this is what you will some day be. :"
On which she hastily shoveled in two
spoonfuls of crushed sugar and handed
the cup to the robust barbarian, with a
charming smile.
You take sugar, think p she said
very sweetly. 81 hope have made it
sweet enough. Home Journal.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-24
How Mining viii Surely Pay.

"No: no hosting works-not II L
know it. You can fool away good deal
of good. hard coin on hoisting works.
"How in thunder do you run your
rninep' "On the assessment plan, SIR:
That's the latest and most approved
method. When we have good map Oh
the lower workings we don't need any
works to speak of. 1 keep man IN
Virginia at $50 month to superlntend
tha location and write weekly letters,
and 7 stay in San Francisco, In my ONCE
on Pine street, and levy the assessments
every sixtv days; that's as often as the
Law allows. I am the President, Board
of Trustees, Secretary, Treasurer, and
everything-more especially the Treas,
! nrer OF course / draw salary for ali
tbe offices. and when / get through
drawing salaries / turn the rest over 70
! the agent In Virginia to pay on 1ne
| hands: he saves enough to pay hlmsen.
4 This is what call scientific mining, sH;
/ You get the silver out of the pockets OF
tba stockholders and leave the vast ar
.-ant;ferous and auriferous deposits In
9onr claim for your children, who can
no right ahead and develop the mine
i5nst ss soon as the public quit putting
nm which isn't at all likely to happen.
AZ long as people are being born I'D
Nevada and California my mine will run
on ike a chronometer clock but,
said the Utah man, "my style OF mining
Lae,, lots of men at work" $50 does
nn;ne . ouoth the Golden Gate chap.
a Thousauds of men are working mgni
ond day to pay the assessments. Ii
Iaa,s the country as busy as beehive
aod the speaker sauntered to the tele
aranb ara. Office to order assessment No. 56
Denver NetOs.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-24
HISTORICAL.

In 1923. the two orders of Dominican
md franciscan monks amounted to 80,
200 in Spain. - sff
The Egyptian mode of attaching
horses to chariot WAS to have one trace
On the inner side of each horse.
In THE time of Julius Caesar 800, 900
poor people received, once a month, a
Tree gift of several bushels of corn.
ANToSIUs and Marcus Aurelius dedi-
sated to the memory of their wives in
'ututions Tor the support of girls.
CARDS are supposed to have been in
Produced into France for the amusement
Of Charles VI, who was deranged.
PoPE SUTus inserted into the mass the
words, " Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God
of Sabaothl" and he commanded that no
woman should touch the vessels or cloths
of the altar.
A BAsALT monument nearly six feet in
height, having several lines in hiero-
glyphics inscribed ON one side, has re-
Gently been sent from the Euphrates to the
British Museum.
AMONG our British ancestors the 14th of
May was considered the most unlucky
day in the year, and nothing of conse-
quence was ever done upon it. In May
and January they did not marry.
IrwAs one of the laws of Constantine
that on ''the day Of the sun" no servile
work should be performed except agri-
culture, which, being dependent on the
weather, could not, it was thought, be
reasonably postponed.
THE quicksilver mines of Almaden
were of peculiar Importance to the Span
iards at the time of the discovery of
America, for without this metal the gold
and silver OF the New World could not
be extracted from their ores.
In TIE latter part of the eighteenth
century Spain signed treaties with Tri-
poll, Tunis and Algiers, and, for the first
time in ten centuries, found herself at
peace with nations she had formerly alb
horred and believed it her duty to ex-
tirpate.
JAMES l. hated tobacco, and wrote
book against its use. Popes Urban VIII.
and Innocent XI. issued bulls against
smoking. The priests of the Mohamme-
dan religion carried out against it, and
the Sultan Amuret ". cut off the noses
Of those who used it.
SOME of the most valuable specimens
Of wall paintings, centuries older than
the Reformation, are preserved in the
chapter-house of Westminster Abbey,
and have been recently brought to pub
lie view by the restoration of the chap
ter-house now going on.
A POSTSCRIPT from n letter written by
Col Butler of the American army. after
the battle of Yorktown, says II think
may now with propriety congratulate
you, my friend, and country in general,
with certain independence and the pleas
ing approach of peace"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-24
The revenues of Our Government.

The revenues of the Federal Govern
ment from customs and miscellaneous
sources come within about $35, 900, 600
of meeting current expenses, including,
of course, payment of interest on the
public debt and payments on account OF
pensionss The Government realizes
about S135, 900, 900 from internal taxes,
and with the 800, 900, 600 surplus makes
payments on account of the public debt.
If the present rate of taxation should
continue twelve years, and the country
meantime be spared the expense and
disturbance of war, the National debt
would be actually paid, as the money
would be at the disposal of the Govern
ment to make such payments. This
condition of affairs has led TO the sug-
restion In some quarters that the Gov
eminent might relinquish this resource
of internal taxation to the States, and
make up any deficiency in revenues that
might arise from tax on tea and coffee,
which were placed upon the free list
several years ago. The remission of the
taxes ON spirits and tobacco, however, is
! not generally regarded with favor.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-24
3.5OO,OOO Seals Robbed of Tfeir Fur
TO Make Sacques.

The Providence Journal has looked
into the statistics of the seal trade and
presents the following interesting points
relating to it: A seal skin sacque costs
fifty per cent more than it did five years
ago. Seal skins have not been worn
more than fifteen or eighteen years.
Fashion and the discovery OF new
methods of preparing and dyelng, or flrst
the latter and second eformer, brought
them into use. The seal fur, as seen
here. Is the inner coat. When on the
back of the seal this fine fur IS hid by
coarse hairs, which are removed by
process of pairing down the under side OF
the skin. The color of the fur as known
to wearers is artificial Ii the govern
ment had not taken measures TO protect
the seal new wearers OF seal sacques
would be few in short time. The Shet-
land seals were once numerous, but have
been exterminated. The Newfoundland
seal is in the market, but is inferior to
the seal of Alaska. The islands OF the
| Behrine Sea are the only ones IN the
world where seal catching has great COM
mercial Importance. :,
From 1751 to 1870 the scientific world
/ knew nothing In regard to the history ol
| tbe seal. The Smithsonian Institution
did not possess a perfect skin and skele,
ton of the seal, although thousands o.
men and millions of dollars have beer
employed in capturing, dressing and sell
| inc fur seal skins for the last hundred
wears. The vast breeding grounds Dor
| derino on the Antarctic have been en-
tireiy 9depopulated. Between the years
1897 and 1921 3, 49,, ,374 seal SKINS wer'
taken in the Pribylov Islands; petweel
1921 and 1912, ASS, 5O2 skins, and IRON iron
1912 to 1861, 372, coo skins. In the yea yea
1868 the number of skins taken was 242;
600. In 1870 only 9,965 were caPSureo I tsu
During the last ten years 1ne ooo caecn iaa lia
been little less than 100, ,Ooo per yeaI yn
The whole number taken between 179
and a i'd 1880 was 8, SCI, ,Q51 skins. The sea
catching is done in june and July, July, Aite nn
that time the fur begins to shed an an
IS s'tr worthless. The natives are paid fort
cents a skin for their labor.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-24
Bolt From a Clear Sky.

Tbe Hawaiian earthquake of 1887 is
described for the first time by an eye
witness, in Missionary Coan's new book.
| On tie 7th of November, 1887, at the
evening prayers, we were startled by
heavr thud and a sudden jar of the
earth The sound was like the fall OF
som, vast body upon the beach, and In
few seconds the noise of mingled voices
rising for mile along the shore thrilled
us like the wall of doom. Instantly this
was followed by like wall from all the
native houses around us. / Immediately
ran down to the sea, where scene OF
wild ruin was spread out before me; the
sea, moved by an unseen hand, had, all
on sudden, risen In a gigantic wave,
and this wave, rushing in with the speed
of racehorse, had fallen upon the
shore, sweeping everything not more
than fifteen or twenty feet above high
water into indiscriminate ruin. Houses,
furniture, fuel, timber, canoes, food,
4 clothing, everything hoated wildly upon
the flood. About two hundred people,
from the old man and woman OF three
score Years and ten to the newborn IN
fant, Stripped of their earthly all, were
struggling in the tumultuous waves.
so sudden and unexpected was the
catastrophe that the people along th'
shorewere literally "eating and drink
ing, and they ''knew not until the fioot
cameand swept them all away" Th'
harbc was full of strugglers ealing TO-
help,vhile frantic parents and children
wlVesand husbands ran to and fro aiont
the bach seeking for their lost ones; A
waveafter wave came In and retired tn
struglers were brought near the shore
when the more vigorous landed wit
desprats efforts and the weaker and 81
haused were carried back upon the re
treating wave, some to sink and rise n
more till the noise of judgment wake
then
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-24
TRomnnce Of a Street Car.

Ten hrs ago, one oppressive SIM
Iner 'Ss' a gentleman, who was then
ealsr in teas and spices il.
10 ti1e.c>
were al. amustIneIifs that evening, and,
receiving a negative answer, inquired
where he could find cool spot TO spend
IN hou OF two The clerk advised
ride ON he street cars to Abba and back.
The peDleman boarded car. Next 70
him sat. young lady, the daughter of
poor. bU respected Englishman, then
residenof Abba. The young lady was
not veryyoung, neither very handsome,
but vasattractive and bright. Her oc-
cupatio was school teaching. A re-
mark r the gentleman led to an IN
formal conversation, which became SO
interestc that when the young lady's
residene at Abba was reached she was
not awae of it until the conductor called
her attetion to the fact. After she had
gone TN gentleman asked the conductor
who tbIady was. The conductor, who
had suposed the two were old friends,
gave lie Young woman's name. Said
the gentleman al would like to meet
her apiu. I am a widower with two
childre and live In New York. L have
never net a lady In my life who looked,
talked md acted so much like my wife
as the oung woman L accidentally met
on vou'car. . The conductor, taking an
interes in the romantic case, answered
the vared questions of the wldower, and
| finally agreed to take his card to her
and asl for an interview at her home.
| On tn following evening an lntroduc-
ton tok place, which was followed SIX
month later by marriage, lnyeshga-
ton oi the gentleman's statements con
cernin his standing having verified
them in detail. The former widowel
now hss five children and happy hons
~ all respects. .-TTou Iimse.