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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-28

Mr.. J. w. BAILY, of Crystal Springs
has been elected the orator of Cumber-
land University at Lebanon, Tenn. to
attend the Tennessee intercollegiate
oratorical contest which takes place at
Nashville on the 4th of May next. A
high compliment, that we are pleased to
note.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-28
The Small POx at Dry Grove.
DRY GROVE, March 26. 1852

IVV-V'
EDITORS CLARION: Wrote YOU on
10Th in regard to small pox here. Mr..
Nicolson is improving very fast-is CON
sidered out of danger now. No new
cases, and as his case was isolated from
first, no fears are entertained now of its
spreading. Yours respectfully,
j. Z. JOHNSTON.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-28

A PHILADELPHIA woman invited sales
girls from the stores to join her class in
Sunday School, and number Of them
did 50. At the close Of the regular ser
vices, the superintendent announced
that season Of prayer would follow.
"Fhe young ladies meeting will be held,
as usual, in the ante-room on the Ieft,''
he said, "and that of the shop girls on
the right" The woman lost her new
pupils Immediately.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-28
AttOrney-General Brewster Testifes
Special TO the Times Democrat ]

WASHINGTON, March A.--Attorney-
General Brewster testified before the no
.ary in the Chalmers-Manning contested
election case yesterday. He said that he
employed ChaImers'to assist In prosecu-
ting the election fraud cases in Missis-
sippi because the Department Of Justice
needed his services. II is said that Brew
ster's testimony was not very satisfactory
to the contestee, and that he may be re-
called for further examination.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-28

MEMPHIS AVALANCHE: The removal
of the tax from matches will have ten
dency to establish a match factory in
Memphis and to kill the monopoly that
has grown out Of the consolidation of
interests by the leading match manufac-
turers Of the United States. The new
law goes into effect on the first Of July.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-28

The N. Y. Sun says that Hon. w. S.
Holman, Of Indiana, the watch dog of
the Treasury, would make Jacksonian
President. No mistake about that.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-28
South Carolina Election Gases Dis
missed.

CHARLESTON, S. c., March 24.-The
preliminary examination of McFaddin
Wheeler and other citizens Of Clarendon
county, charged with conspiracy to in
timidate voters at the last election, was
resumed here to-day before United States
Commissioner Gayer There being no
evidence to sustain the charge, the Com.
missioner dismissed the case. The pris-
oners were released.
THERE are more counties than Carroll
interested in the return of Hon. II. G.
Williamson to theLegislature, and anx.
ious for him to come to the front.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-28
The Cattle Disease in this Vicinity

Our local reporter, in recent issue,
stated that "pleuro pneumonia" was in
epidemic form among the cattle at State
Lunatic Asylum. We are gratifed to
be able to say that the information upon
which that statement was s-publisked was
not correct. The disease was what
might be termed acute pneumonia, and
originated from some local cause At
the Lunatic Asylum, where about a
dozen Of the cows died, the calves were
with the mothers twice daily during their
sickness, and none of the calves became
affected, The disease at Col. Heming-
ways, and also at the Lunatic Asylum,
yielded promptly to medical treatment,
and we are happy to state that there is
now no sickness among the cattle at
either place. In this connection we are
glad to be able to publish the following
certificate:
JACKSON, Miss, March y, 1888.
I certify that | examined the lungs,
after death, of the COW, Raplea, owned
by Coll w. L. Hemingway and Judge
I. E. Cooper. On making an incision
into the lung the cut surface presented
dark red appearance and a frothy,
bloody liquid flowed in abundance. The
air cells were filled with serous fluid.
Inflammation Of the pleura is generally
. present with pneumonia, but there are
exceptional cases where the disease has
not extended to the surface Of the lungs,
which was the case in this instance, as
the pleura was not inhamed, showing
that the case was one of acute pneu-
monia and not pleuro-pneumonia. The
COW died in the first stage of the disease.
j. +. HUNTER, NJ. d.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
Queen Margaret's Memory.

Queen Margaret, who speaks four
languages perfectly, and has none of
Kings constitutional shyness, is really
remarkable for the tact and grace with
which she contrives to say the right
thing to the right person. The Countess
Can American Catholic lady married
to a man of high rank here-told me
the other day that, after having a pri-
vate audience with the Queen, she had
remained quite astonished at the mem
DRY she displayed of all the characters
tics of persons whom perhaps she only
saw in the more formal reunions of the
court. The Count and Countess c., it
may be observed in passing, are of the
liberal modern school of Catholics, who
find the performance of their religious
duties quite compatible with a display
of respect for the reigning sovereign.
After pleasant little conversation with
Countess c. in English (Which the
Queen speaks perfectly, Queen Mar
garet said: ''And your husband, what
does he chiefly occupy himself with?"
''Well, your Majesty, at present nothing
seems to interest him more than the
building of the large new barracks in
our quarter of the town"
"Ahr' exclaimed the Queen, 81 would
have predicted that. l always say to
the King, when Count c. meets us out
driving, that, from his mere mode of
saluting, am certain he is more vieux
militaire than anything else, and that
his heart is with the army"
But the Queen displayed a still greater
proof of that keen memory of details so
valuable to royalty on the recent occa-
sion of the presentation to her of the
English Admiral, Sir Erasmus ON
nancy, who was here for the carnival
season with his family. She said: 81
know your name very well, Admiral
for, apart from your distinguished SER
vices, l remember that you were in
command of ship at Gibraltar the first
time that my brother, the Duke of
Genoa, touched there, and that you
showed him great kindness and atten-
ton"
Sir Erasmus himself told me soon
after the interview that he was quite
struck with admiration, not only of the
grace and tact with which she said ex-
actly what was likely to be most pleas
ing to him, but at the fact of her pro-
| digious memory for details, which
| might well have been forgotten in the
passage of time. Rome Cor. Boston
AUocoIJ ..r
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
The Return Of a Jack.Knife.

A gentleman on Lisbon Street Satur-
day was talking of the wonderful re-
turn of jack-knife that he lost twenty
five years ago. The gentleman has been
visiting the clerk of courts in Lewiston
during the past week. He made his
jack-knife himself upon his own forge,
and in his leisure moments covered the
bone handle with his initials and num-
Der of odd devices. A year after, in
the deep SHOWS on the road to Kings
bury, Me-, he overlook man attempt
ing to tie up his sleigh that had broken
down. He jumped out to assist the
man, lent him the iack-knife, and for
getting it, rode off without it. He
never saw the man again. Fifteen
years afterward his daughter married,
and her husband, struck with the west
ern fever, took trip west and brought
up in Minneapolis, MINI. Among the
people in that State with whom he came
into contact was one who was proverbi-
ally hard up. Reduced to straits he had
pawned everything. Coming along one
day, with apeculiar-looking jack-knife,
he offered it for sale. The gentleman
bought it and came home soon after,
and a day or two after his arrival he
took the knife out of his pocket. His
wife bounced upon him. With a thou
and rapturous expressions of surprise,
she demanded to know where he got it.
He told her he bought that knife in
Minneapolis. She said twas fathers :"
"Father was brought in and the knife
was identified as his. No explanation
could be offered by the gentleman as to
how his own identical iack-knife, lost
on a country road in Maine, could be
found by his son-in-law in a western
country. This was ten years ago. The
gentleman has the jack-knife now
LeooiSton (Me,) Journal Q.. 4..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
WOuldn,t Tell.

The old squatter's spirit. A gentle
man while driving along in buggy
came to a very muddy, not to say dan
gerous, place in the road. Seeing an
old man sitting ON fence, he called
out:
"My friend, I'm bothered here"
$50 am L.
'Well, then, we are in the same boat.
What's the matter with you9"
"Shot at a man.
"Why does it bother vou?"
"'Cause didn't hit him.
"Who was the man?"
"My son-in-law."
''Why did you shoot at him?''
"Cause | stole his jug, an I shot to
keep him from shootin'. :"
''But, as | was saying, am bothered
here. l don't know which side of the
road to take. l am afraid that nv
horse will mire down. Which is the
best side?"
BLAMED if l know"
(Which side would you takeP"
1.-THE cheapest" ,...
"Here, now, no fooling 1 want to
know which side
'That's none of my business"
The traveller, irritated up to the dan
ger line, drew pistol, leveled it at the
man on the fence, and said: Jump
down and show me the best road, or
I'll shoot the top of your head off"
Certainly, sir, he said, anything to
oblige you. If I'd er knowed that you
was in SIGH earnest fit, I'd told you
early this, mornin'. Why didn't you
send boyson ahead with one of these
here telegraph dispatches? You remind
me of an old Teller that lives over here
at the bend. Nearly all of the boys say
he's goodun. So you want to know
the best side of the road here, and the
beauty about the thing is that you are in
earnest. 1t is only these earnest men
that set the forks of the creek afire.
Say, do you know Big Goose Creek
forks?"
''Look here" again leveling the pis-
tol, 81 want you to hurry up and show
me the best side of the road. l don't
want to ruin my horse and lose my
buggy. 1t wouldn't take a minute to
tell me-"
eyes, I'm hurrying up continuing
to move around, "but you see a mans
got to think these days. There was
time when a man what thought much
wasn't respected in the neighborhood,
and that is thereason why the folks over
my way didn't care so much for my So
ciety until lately. Let me see which
side, now. l don't want to make mis-
take. Well, sir, up where the Big
Goose Creek forks is where my father
used to fish, and when was boy 1 had
the dingest fight there you ever seed,
but good day and leaping the fence,
and keeping a tree between himself and
the traveller, he ran away All of this
unnecessary work was done to keep
from saying to the right Or to the left of
the road.-ArkdnSaU IraUeler.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

And he was capering about the room
with wild joy. 4 ~ ~ =
@ Beant they Elegant, mother? Oh.
mother, look! Did we liver. see the
loikes? An twas April-Fool that
fetched emit says April-Fool on the
paper! Sure. it's foine ould gintle-
man he is. Oh, mother, it's crying for
gladness | am, sure! Twas April-Fool
fetched 'em till me"
"Then April-Fool never did better
piece of work." said Teddy, feeling NOT
bit ashamed of the tears that filled his
own eyes almost to OVERLOOKING. 'But.
| say, old fellow''-and he began to
laugh.
think you can not imagine two more
| astonished boys than those who slid
softly away from Mrs. Lanahan's win
dow and fastened offhome in the dark
ness.
Z" Such a good joker laughed Fred.
| never was so glad of anything in my
life.n
"We'll pay for those shoes, anyhow"
SAID Teddy. Cant you guess who did
it, Fred?"
81 think twas Flo and Flora" Fred
answered. Anyway, I'm almost sure
Flo had finger in the pie"
Hewas quite sure of it when, little
later, he opened the hall door at home
For plump little form glided up to
him, a dimpled little hand tucked itself
under his arm, a rosy little mouth was
placed close to his ear, and soft little
voice whispered: "April-fool"- Har-
pe'''S Young People.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
Women Can Only See Dead Fish.

Two ladies walked down to Mr.. G.
w. Tappan's fish pond the other even
ing, and as they got very near the
pond thought they could see the fish
playing, or rather jumping almost out
of the water. One of the ladies re-
marked that if they would be very quiet
they might slip up and get good sight
of the carp. Thereupon arose a dispute
as to whether fish had ears, and the
nearer they approached the pond the
louder grew their voices. By the time
they reached the banks the commotion
in the water had ceased, and so they sat
down to wait awhile, concluding that
fish did have ears, but that they would
be very still and let the carp make a
show of themselves, Somehow they
forgot to be. silent, and the more they
..wished the things would come up" the
more they didn't come. They finally
concluded that there was no chance for
a woman ever to get sight of one of the
fish, if it depended on silence, and sadly
rose to go home.-Greensboro (Ga.J
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

servation it takes to settle many of the
facts in the lives of the birds, animals
and insects. Gilbert White was all his
life trying to determine whether or not
swallows passed the winter in torpid
state in the mud at the bottom of ponds
and marshes, and he died ignorant OF
the truth that they did not. Do honey
bees injure the grape and other fruit by
puncturing the skin for the juiceP The
most patient watching by many skilled
eyes all over the country has not yet
settled the point. For my own part. L
am convinced that they do not. The
honey-bee is not the rough-and-ready
freebooter that the wasp and humble
bee are; she has somewhat of feminine
timidity, and leaves the first rude as
saults to them. l knew the honey-bee
was very fond of the locust blossoms
and that the trees hummed like a hive
in the height of their Towering, but l
did not know that the bumble-bee was
the sapper and miner that went ahead
in this enterprise, till one day placed
myself amid the foliage of locust and
saw him savagely bite through the
shank of the flower and extract the
nectar, followed by honey-bee that in
every instance searched for this open
ing and probed long and carefully for
the leavings of his burly purveyor.-
Erchnu0P
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
For Young Readers.
AT NIGHT.

The night came darkly down;
The brides mother said:
Peep! Peep!
You ought to be asleepi
Ills time my little ones were safe in bed!'
SO, sheltered by her wings in downy nest
The weary little birdlings took their rest.
The night came darby down;
The baby's mother said:
"Bye-lOwl
You mustn't frolic so! 90.
You should have been asleep an hour agov'
And, nesting closer to its mothers breast
The merry prattler sank to quiet rest.
Then in the cradle soft
Twas laid with tenderest care.
"Good-night
Sleep till the morning light"
whispered the mother as she breathed O
prayer.
Night settled down; the gates of day were
barred,
And only loving angels were on guard.
Josephine Pollard, in Our Little Ones.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
=" Thank You'll"

l once knew an old man who was
jogging along on the down-hill side of
life, and he was about as disagreeable
an old mortal as it was ever my lot to
meet. He seemed to elbow, and push,
and thrust, and shove his way through
the world, instead of walking through
life in a aightforward, honorable
fashion. There was always frown
on his surly old brow, and timid
persons jumped when he looked
at them. The most confident child in
the world never dared ask him to ring
refractory door-bell, and no sane dog
would ever think for moment of
thrusting his nose into that clenched
fist His favorite proverb was the
selfish old aphorism: every man for
himself and tEe devil take the hinder
most" l used to speculate great
deal on what had turned Mr.. Cur
mudgeon's milk Of human kind
ness into gall; finally, one day L
asked an old playmate of his, man
who had known him since boyhood,
what the reason was. "Why," said my
informant, promptly, "Jack Curmud-
geon never learned how to say: Thank
you He always fairly hated to ac-
knowledgea kindness, and his favorite
phrase was: No thanks to you,' using
the word mo- as an adjective instead of
an adverb, however, This explained
everything in a moment. This world
of ours treats us pretty much as we
treat it; if we hit it, it surely hits back.
If we persist in humping against, and
jostling every one we meet on life's
pathway, we will be bumped and jostled
in return. But if we live and let live,
and give as well as take, this world is
not such bad place after all to livein.
In fact, we are all dependent on each
other; it is foolishly to deny this, and
ungenerous not to acknowledge it, and
the consequences are very sad for the
person who attempts such a course; an
unhappy, disappointed, miserable and
friendless old age will be his portion,
and | would save every boy who reads
this article from such fate as that if |
could.
What a pleasure it is to do some
thing for a grateful person. What
task to serve one who takes all kind
ness as a matter of course. There is
another thing to think of, we must
learn to express our gratitude while we
are young, for, after we reach middle
life, even if we have the feeling in the
heart, the tongue seems to be tied on
that subject, the words come slowly
and awkwardly, and we are unable to
express ourselves. But, while it is the
height of rudeness and ingratitude to
scant ones thanks, yet it is quite pos
sible to 90 too far the other way, and
be too prodigal of them. The greatest
charm of gratitude is in its sincerity,
and while it is, perhaps, better to over
whelm friend with acknowledgements
than never to thank him at all; yet to
thank a man for giving you "a glance
at the morning paper with as much
fervor as would be- appropriate if he
had saved your life takes all the beauty
away from the courtesy, and renders it
only bore. Several seasons ago an
English lady, who was staying at one
of our fashionable watering places, and
who evidently realized this fact, used
to grade her acknowledgements accord
ing to the size of the favor received.
| thus: .. ... ..s.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

"A scheme is proposed for lighting
the whole of the Swiss Canton of Vaud
by electricity. The motive force would
be derived from turbines of five thou
sand horsepower at Vallorbes, and the
water supply being constant it is be
lieved that gas, which is very costly in
Switzerland may be entirely dispensed
with throughout the district. @uIa'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

The famous race-horse Kincsem
which was never beaten in any race
was shot the other day in London with
its foal, having been taken ill of gland
ers. She won fifty-four races, but wa.
lately withdrawn from the turf. Ter
thousand pounds were several time,
offered for Kincsem.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

Mary Currie writes to The House
hold that the housewife can make their
fuchias bloom in this way: Take a
small piece of copperas and lay it on
the dirt. When you water the plant it
will dissolve. / have a nice one that
had 1872 buds and blossoms on at one
time. l was afraid it would blossom It.
self to death, so 1 quit putting on the
cOpperas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
=" Thanks"
i" Thanks much"
F" Thanks awfully."
=" A thousand thanks"
" Thanks no end"

And set of saucy young Americans
who heard of it, and who were staying
at place very much less fashionable,
but infinitely more Jolly, used to fire
the whole set off in one terrific volley at
each other in return for the slightest
civility. But the English lady was
right in principle, if she showed it out
in an absurd manner. Thanks should
be appropriate to the occasion. But,
above all, do not use that curt, under
bred word "Thanks," when you have
occasion to acknowledge favor Say
heartily and kindly: "Thank you"
The slightest civility is worth as much
as that, and it will make friends and
keep them as nothing else will. The boy
who forgets to say " Thank you." is a
boy whom none will remember to try to
please. Why should they? If he does
not appreciate a favor enough to return
so easy an equivalent as simple Thank
you, sir" no one will care to do him a
favor at all Christian at Work.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

1t is estimated that nine-tenths of
all the mercantile failures of the United
States are due to speculations in affairs
outside the particular lines of business
in which those who fail were engaged.
This looks like an exaggeration, yet
the percentage is known to be very
large. In the haste to be rich men
make hazardous adventures, and, if un-
successful, find themselves so crippled
that assignment is inevitable. Chicago
Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

The census of missions to be taken
next year will, it is estimated, show an
increase of 100000 native Christians in
India, Ceylon and Burmah for the last
ten years 800, 900 in all.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

There are forty thousand square
miles of almost unbroken forest in
North Carolina, comprising Pine, chest
nut, oak, maple, beech and hicAoI'
timber.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

1t is said that the Mormon emissa-
ries in the South have never succeeded
IN converting a negro to Mormonism,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

The United States admits tea and
coffee free of duty. England taxes
them.