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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22
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A High School girl in a West End
car. yesterday afternoon, took a Hat
oxidized silver box from her handbag,
carefully removed the cover, pinched
few grains of snuff-colored powder
on the pink tips of her dainty fingers,
and pushed it up her nostrlls with q
dexterous grace that a confirmed snuff
taker would have envied. Half a
dozen passengers stared at her in
amazement. She smiled placidly,
brushed off her upper lip with lace
handkerchief, and remarked to her
companion: e.
"Oh, I've such cold. y 555
''So've /, = was the meek response.
4 Off came the cover again, the silver
box was passed over as man hands
out a paper Of tobacco and another
pinch Of the brown powder vanished
up another charming little nose. Both
girls sneezed once, very mildly, aud
got off the car. .5s, 81
A fashionable ieweller said: 1--WE
have frequent calls for snuff-boxes.
silver and gold ones, from young men
as we'll as young women. It is simply
what you might call a motion.
can't say whether anything is put in
the boxes, butt do know that young
people buy them and carry them. 2
"a druggist said: Oh, no; it wasn't
snuff. The girls have an idea that it
is fashi0pabl to carry those boxes, and
naturally enough they want something
to put in Them Genuine fermented
tobacco snuff would make them sick.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22

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pages, sent in single packages Of not
less than 8 ounces, prepaid, cent an
ounce, or if not prepaid, lcent. Books,
bound or unbound, less than 4pounds,
under 5000 miles, / cent an ounce;
over 5000, 2 cents an ounce; so per
cent. added whom not prepaid. By
the act of the same year postage
stamps and envelopes were ordered.
BY a law passed March 8, 1856, and
taking effect July OF the same year,
the rates on single inland letters were
reduced to 8 cents for all distances un-
der 8, 600 miles, and no cents for all
over that distance; and all inland let.
ter postage was to be prepaid. The
charge for advertising letters was re-
duced to I cent. 1. FL. fs ss i.
Il In 1868 the rate of postage was made
uniform at 5 cents on all domestic let
tiers not exceeding half an ounce, and
5 cents additional for every half ounce
or fraction thereof; on drop letters not
exceeding allan ounce, 2 cents The
quarterly postage and period ideals sent
to subscribers, and not exceeding four
ounces, was fixed as follows: Weekly,
5 cents; semi weekly, 10 cents; tri-
weekly, Is cents; six times q week, 80
cents; seven times a week, So cents.
Periodicals issued less than weekly
and not exceeding four ounces were
charged at y l: cent each. The rate
for transients newspapers and period
ficals was 3 cents for each four ounces
or fraction thereof. III 1868 the law
was 90 amended as % allow weekly
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22

hgtOl creamery reports the aVerag6
net earnings per cow, for the year 1884,
to have been 1854, the gross process be-
ing $40 per COW, short of $15 per COW
for expenses -. ...,5 ~
s The farmers Of the interior of
West Virginia are truly afflicted. A
heavy loss Of stock by the great search
t. of food and the extreme cold is now
followed by ravages by wolves, which
infest the Elk and Greenbr1er noun
tains, ard by eagles. a flock of eagles
have carried off sheep and other small
stock to the value Of 81 200 in Union
district, Clay county. #@ XII
The making Of a good mixer de-
ponds not only in the ability Of the COW
to produce milk at a minimum cost,
hut essentially, also, in the training.
not only to develop these qualities to
the highest degree. Proper feeding is
necessary, and Of fully as much value
will be the training that induces reli-
sance upon the feeder ard mixer, and
absence Of fear. 81 .55
& Utica parties have procured fifty
Thousand brook trout from the state
hatchery at Called onia, N. Il, for re-
stocking the east branch Of the West
Canada Creek. The young trout ar
rived In Prospect IN ednesday, and
were ut once started on the road to
MorehOuseville. They will be deposit
ed id the creek near the latter village.
Several farms IN Yorkshire, and Lin
scolnshire, England, have recently been
let at enormous reductions ii rent ia
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23
Whs Can Beat it ?

Capt. J. III. STIGLER, of Holmes coun-
ty writes to the Bulletin as follows con-
erning an unusual yield of corn: |
planted nothing but the genuine Mosby
prolific corn. / gathered two hundred
and five bushels off of two acres. OFF of
six acres I gathered four hundred and
twenty-five bushels. / think left at
least ten bushels per acre on the six
acres, ungathered, by reason of two
heavy winds that blew it down in July,
which caused it to sprouJ and rot,
rendering it unfit to house, though not a
total loss, as my hogs got it. 1t was fine
creek bottom land--no fertilizer used.
This certainly is the best corn have
ever seen. A -four barrel we'll slip.
shncked and filed, will shell out Il
bushels corn, and the shelled corn out of
the same, will weigh So lbs. 1t has a
long, deep grain and very small cob. If
our farmers would plant this corn on good
land (if not good make it so by treating
it literally to cotton seed) our corn
cribs and smoke-houses now located
north of the Ohio river would move
south. The press is forever calling on
the planters to put more land in corn,
but the truth is they ought to put in
less. prepare it properly and get the best
seed
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23
The M. E. Conference at Koseiuskc

EDITOR RIPLEY ADVERTISER: The
North Mississippi Conference NJ. e
Church South, at Kosciusko last week
was the largest by far of any session
since its organization. Bishop Hargrove
presided with great ability and genera
acceptability.
The very best preaching every day
Doctors Kelly, of Nashville, Tennessee
and Dunlap, of Georgia, were among
the ablest of the preachers from a dis
lance But our own eloquent, inimita
hle, and powerful Galloway, as usual
took the premium.
The session was very pleasant one
made so in a good degree by the kind
ness and hospitality OF the good people
of Kosciusko. In this connection want
to make my grateful Acknowledgement.
to Hon. J. T. McCool and his good lady
for their kind and generous entertain
ment, which contributed very much tc
make my visit pleasant. May the good
Lord bless them abundantly in thi.
life, and after while take them, and
their manly little boy to Himself above
would not object to Conference hold
ing every session in the city of Kosci
usko.
Delegates to General Conference:
CLERIcAI.-Revs. J. w. HonnolI, r
Fl. Davis j. ID. Cameron and DIR. Weir
LAY-Lieut. Gov. G. ID. ShanGs, Pro
lessor r. w. Jones and Captains J. B
Streater and L. b. Sykes.
Many changes in the appointments
for this year, but all the preacher.
accepted their work cheerfully and
started straightyay to their several field,
of labor. Next Conference at West
Point. Yours, J.Y. NJ.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23

From the Times Democrat we get the
following as some of the attendant
conditions under which locomotive on
the Mississippi Valley Railroad, hauled
1916 cars, $50 of which wer e loaded
The locomotive was of Mcqueen
make, 50 tons, a new engine purchased
by the road and under test upon the
occasion under consideration It is
numbered on the road "5l," has 10
wheels, drivers of 4 feet 6 inches, with
IS by 24inch cylinders, and constructed
to blow off at $50 pounds of steam.
The loaded cars, $50 in number, were
made up of 1874 cars of cotton, 10 of oak
slaves and 2 of various merchandise.
In the cotton cars there were no fewer
than 1927 bales. The ears themselves
averaged weight of $4,000 pounds,
making a total of /, 844,S31 pounds; and
the freight amounted to SAP, S37
pounds: making the net weight drawn
by the engine up to the enormous figure
of 1886 pounds, to which must be
added the 55 tons of the engine and
tender.
The cars average & length of 81 feet
and the full length of the train was 81
feet over mile, exclusive of 425 feet oil
slack. There were two cabooses ant
four other cars, making total of lot
cars.
The total was drawn a distance o
90 miles over a track whose maximum
ascending grade is 2-10 of foot in th'
100 feet, equivalent to 10 feet per mile
The maximum descending grade in tn
90 miles is $40 in the 100 feet Tn
maximum curvature of the space coy
cred is two degrees. The maximum
speed attained was II miles an hour
With II less cars the train was draw
go miles further over a track of the sam
condition.
The only trouble in hauling the i'm
mense load of nearly 100000 pound
was in the weakness of the coupling
near the engine and in the delays o
side tracks. The couplings were o
ordinary capacity, designed for 10 NOR
than forty or fifty cans, aud this dii
fculty necessitated the dropping G
the fourteen cars. The side tracks wer
not long enough for the immense train
and tedious saving was necessary.
AS to starting the train the only di
fculty was as to the couplings. Th
slack had to DE taken cut OF the la
train gradually, that is the engine woul
: make a short pull, drawing tstunt til
couplings of the first few cars, then
stop and another pull tautening NOR,
cars, and so on. This was necessary L
avoid the immense strain upon tn
coupling o. the cars nearest the epgin
t by sudden jerks and a continuous pull
tautening the whole slack at once.
The train at greatest length wa
started once on 2 curve, equiyelan
5 to l04 foot grade.
} The officers of the road express tn
opinion that at least ten cars more eoul
have been drawn.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23
An Important Transaction.

Under the terms of an act of the Leg
stature of 1884 the lease of the Missis
sippi Penitentary has been transferred
and assigned to the Gulf and Ship Is
land Railroad Company, which to-day
assumes the obligations to the State
fixed by the act referred to and the
terms and conditions of the transfer
the lessees having, few days since, &C
counted to the State for the indebted.
ness accrued under their contract.
The lessees are to be congratulated
that they are no longer the targets at
which are aimed the shafts of all to
whom the leasing system is odious, and
the State should rejoice that the convict
labor has been so disposed of as to result
in the development of the grandest
public enterprise, of local nature, now
under consideration.
We have been informed that work on
the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad will
be Immediately commenced near its
Southern terminus on the Coast, and
that it will be prosecuted vigorously,
until the road is completed. Capt. w
III. HARDY, the able and energetic
President of the Company, has been
measurably successful In enlisting the
aid of capitalists, and does not doubt
that all the funds needed wiz be forth
coming as often as occasion shall require.
In the meantime every possible influence
must be brought to bear to secure the
renewal of the grant from the United
States. The road may be built in any
event; but should the grant be renewed
it will be certainly and speedily COM
pleted.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23

The progress of temperance work in
the South presents some interesting
features; rot the less worthy of notice
because there is little or no tendency
there to carry the subject into politics
in the direction of third party. In
Alabama, for example, a local option
law is in force. Under it the question
of license or no license is settled by
each voting precinct for itself. No man
can open saloon without first filing in
the Probate Court petition Tor 1T
signed by a majority of the citizens of
the precinct who voted at the next pre-
ceding election, and paying license fee
of 1925. 1t therefore rests with ma
jority of the voters to determine whether
or not liquor shall be sold. The result
is that practical prohibition prevails
throughout a considerable portion OF
the State, and that portion is being in
creased year by year. Violations of the
law are few indeed, not many men
having the hardihood to defy the
openly-expressed viii of the majority of
the people. The law is probably as
effective prohibition statute as could
be framed, for it gives absolute prohibi-
ton wherever that is demanded and sus-
tanned by popular sentiment, and does
not impose upon other places measure
which tine public does net demand and
will not sustain.-N T. Tribune.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23
A Deplorable Accident.


From a special to the Times Democrat
we get the following account of the
killing of Miss JESSIE CLARK, at her
home in Mckenzie, Tennessee, on til
evening of the 18th:
1t appears that EDWARD MCGHEE,
aged seventeen years, student of Nc
Tyeire Institute, whose father, J. G
McGHEE, resides at Concordia, Miss,
had called ON the young lady when, ac-
corning to the young mans statement,
Miss Jessie playfully took a pistol from
his pocket, extracted the cartridges, then
pointed the weapon at MeGHEs's breast,
saying as she did so that she would
show him how young ladies sometimes
killed their recreant lovers. McGHEE
says he stopped down to regulate the
fire, and Miss CLARK laid the pistol on
the nlantel. When he arose he took up
the pistol and told her he would show
her how young men in Mississippi
killed their sweethearts when false to
them, at the same time telling her to
turn her head, as he did not want to.
shoot her in the face. She turned, the
report of the pistol simultaneously rang
out, and Miss CLARK fell forward on
her face corpse.
Her father rushed into the parlor,
when McGaEE told him Miss JESSIE
had shot herself In a few minutes,
however, he admitted that he had done
the shooting as detailed above. A jury
of inquest was impaneled, but failed to
agree and was discharged. 1t is under
stood that five of the jury exenerated
McGHEE, and two refused to enter any
verdict, except that Miss CLARK was
killed by pistol in the hands of Nc
CREE. Her father claims that the
shooting was intentional Most of the
citizens of Mckenzie believe the state
ment made by McGHEE, who has always
borne a good character in the COM
munity. McGHEE viii have pre-
liminary examination.
LcGHEE is held in $1,000 bond to
await the action of the grand jury,
which is investigating the matter. His
trial will be had upon the arrival off his
father.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23
Hon. C. III, Williamson, of Kinds
for Speaker.

EDITOR CLARION +: Correspondents in
your columns have suggested number OF
able and worthy members of the next
House as men suited for the post of
Speaker. From a tolerably extensive ac-
quaintance among the members elect who
are likely to be prominent in It's councils,
| am of the opinion that on no one could
this high honor fall more suitably, and by
no one could its responsible duties be more
admirably discharged than by the honor
able member whose name we give above
He is a native Mississippian, having been
reared in Pamela county a man of superior
education, extensively read in literature.
law and the science of government. For
his attainment in the classics, both ancient
and modern, he was honored when but q
years OF age with the degree of Master OF
Arts by the State University at Oxford, of
which institution he is an alumnus. As a
lawyer, he ranks with the ablest at the
Kinds county bar, and enjoys an enviable
practice. A more evenly balanced and
carefully trained mind than his is seldom
to be found. He is a man gifted with a
superior judgment, of laborious habits and
a hard student. As Chairman of the Dem
ocratic Executive Committee of Kinds
county for several years past, he showed
himself counsellor of rare value a safe aud
sagacious leader. So thoroughly has he
won the confidence of his county, that
without aspirations on his part, he was
unanimously nominated to seat in the
House and then elected without contest.
We do not know that Mr.. Williamson is a
candidate for the Speakership. 1t would
be in keeping with his character not to
aspire. But, for all his modesty, he
possesses just that combination of qualities
which make him worthy OF promotion at
the hands OF his colleagues. Besides his
marked fitness as a scholar, jurist and a
political leader, Mr.. Williamson is an
affable and cultured christian gentle man,
progressive in his views, and in thorough
sympathy with the moral and educational
advance that is felt throughout the State.
MADISON COUNTY.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23
A Tempting Offer and Compli-
ment.

Mr. KIzo TAMARr, who is a professor
in the Imperial College in Japan, and
now visiting the Agricultural College of
Michigan, has just offered Prof F. A.
GULLEY, our accomplished Professor OF
Agriculture in the A an d NJ College a
salary of So, 900 year, and furnished
house, for three years, If he will instruct
the students OF the Agricultural College
in Japan in scientific and practical ag-
riculture for that period-his expenses
to be paid going and returning, and the
contract to be made by the japanese
| Minister at Washington.
We are gratified 20 say, that Prof
GULLEY has declined the tempting offer
preferring to remain at our College, ano
complete the encouraging work, now
ripening under his supervision. The
offer is compliment, as it is made from
Michigan, which has the oldest, and il
many respects, the most successful Col
Iege in the United States.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23
The Amended Rules.

If, as has frequently been stated by
the special friends and admirers of Mr..
RI NDALL, the proposition to amend the
House rules was blow aimed at him,
what answer viii they make to the vote
by which the report of the Committee
on Rules embodying amendments which
Mr.. RANDALL opposed with all ms
power, was adopted2
We have not understood that there
was desire on the part Of any respecta-
BILE Democrat to humiliate or discredit
Mr.. RANDALL. We would be the last
to give countenance to any such scheme
But if, as many believed, his power as
Chairman of the Committee on Appro
priations enabled him, with the assist
ance of minority of the House, t
obsiruct and thwart the measures O
the majority, then it was right that h'
should he shorn Of that power; not as {
means of discrediting him, but as putting
the majority in a position where j
could give legislative effect to its con
illusions.
/ But if, as stated time and again b.
Mr. RANDALL's satellites, the object o
the movement to amend the rules was
purely personal one, We would be force'
to conclude that the influence of tn
DISTINGUISHED gentleman was on tn
wane. This we do not believe.
The vote on the test clause OF tn
report-that involving a distribution o
the appropriation bills among severa
committees-stood2 26 for, to 20 against
The members from Mississippi, excep
Mr. CATCHISGs, who was not presen
when the vote was taken, are name
with the majority.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23
Al Good Report.

At the last Church Conference for the
Conference year ending December 8, held
at the Methodist Church in this city on
that day. the ladies of the Wesleyan Aid
Society made the following report which
was received and ordered published in the
city papers and the New Orleans Christian
Aduocafe. 1t speaks well for the labors OF
these Christian women-and pays glowing
tributes to two of their late deceased
members, Mrs. F'earn and Mrs. Ledbetter,
both of whom were well known to this
community for their many good works and
pure Christian lives:
| To fAe Church Conference
1t was the wish Of the Wesleyan Society that,
according 10 our usual CUSTOM the annual report De
i prepared and read to-day in Church Conference.
| In i with pleasure We announce the Society in .
| much prosperous condition Than iof TWO 81
| three years past. The meetings nave Gen he.d
| promptly every Monday afternoon the entire year,
and Tor the last few mouths the attendance has ese
/ excellent.
| The meetings arc always pleasant, socially, aud
profitable. 1t would be added source 81 pleasure
as well as profit if all ladies would believe this
| and and join as. ne, who comprise w
Society, think that every lady IN the OhuFeh sAoua
Receipts Tor the year past are $1,000, all Of which
has been expended on the parsonage 70 esiair4el1e
To its comfort, within aud without The most heta
BILE improvement is the fence enclosing the eRtife
lot, built last spring, for which Si24 was pad.
| We began the year with fourteen actiNe tneHi"et5
and fifteen honorary me9Rhers. Now the nuuleei
OF active members is nerly double that OF one yeai
ago Three have lost-one by removal Two
by death II the sentiment Of our last meeting
that some appropriate reference be made 10 oai
recent sorrow and IN this connection We say WIZ
gratitude that within the organization OF fourteen
wears existence, not often has death invaded TINS
circle bat now called to mourn anu record
the loss OF two OF cur most beloved and earnes'
workers Our dear sister FEARS, who, though II
feeble health for long while, failed isled 4
be present when it was possible. The sweet, gentle
patient spirit She invariably possessed hene-
diction hearts and seemed 10 leave IL
I impress our meetings. Ii was a sharp wound q
the heart to know she could never come again
| And Sister LEDBETrEs, who has 50 recently
and suddenly lett Us, inValuanie- ehe wa
one of the original members, aud in all these year
the Society and its work never once neglected
| but was ever dear 10 her. We cannot realize ye
that she has bid good bye Tor the last time
But whilst mourn her loss and miss her thought
ful kindness and usefulness, are not sad OF iis
tressed, for know the place Of her abode. Ii j
| home, a mansion not made with hands, an
| where flowers immortal never cease 10 bloom
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23
Justice" Endorsed.

LOUISVILLE, MISS, December Is, 1885.
CLARION 1 indorse every word of
"Justice" on the public school question.
admire especially that portion of ii that
advocates curtailing the school age, and
restricting the curriculum, and hope that
these changes will be made IN the free
school law. Winston county is marketing
big crop of cotton this fall, but our peo-
pie are too poor to send their daughters to
the Female College in Columbus. This
county, l believe, has no representative
there. Nothing left to send our daughters
off to school after taxes are paid. Give
this place in your paper, and oblige.
q. Y WOODWARD.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23
The State Printing.

Elsewhere will be found the report OF
a committee appointed to state an ac-
count with the Public Printer, growing
out of the manner of publishing the
Acts of the Legislature from 1876 to
1882 inclusive. The investigation was
patient and thorough, and the matters
of difference are clearly and coDcisely
stated.
The Report is entirely satisfactory to
the Public Printer, and, we believe, 1T
will be to the Legislature and the pub
liz He claims no credit whatever for
declining the amount awarded him
II the adjustment, and for the reason
given by the committee. All that he
deaires il that he be credited with an
honest, faithful and efficient discharge
of his duties. He has the satisfaction
OF knowing that during the ten years he
has been honored and trusted, there has
been steady decrease in the cost OF
public printing, and that for the years
1884 and 1885 the cost was less than for
any biennial period during the past
forty years, which cannot be said of
any other department of the State Gov
eminent.
The last Legislature made general
reduction of twenty per cent. in the
prices to be paid the Public Printer,
and if there can reasonably be any