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The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03
AFrERsooS sEsslos.
kentucky Highways.

You will not find elsewhere in Ameri-
ca such highways as the Kentuckiaa
has constructed all over his country
broad, smooth, level, white, glistening
turnpikes Of the macadamized limestone.
1t is luxury to drive upon them, and
also an expense, as one will discover
before he has passed through many toll
gates He could travel more cheaply
on the finest railway on the continent.
though of course it will not be himself.
but his horses and vehicle, that are paid
for. What Richard Grant White
thought it worth while to record as q
rare and interesting sight-a man on an
English highway breaking stones is no
uncommon occurrence here. All lime
stone for all these hundreds Of miles of
roads, having been quarried here and
there, almost anywhere, near each of
them, and then having been carried and
strewn along the roadside, is broken
by hammer in the hand OF man.
BY the highway he sits usually an
Irishman--pecking away at a long
rugged pile as though he were good to
live for thousand years. Somehow, in
patience, he always gets 70 the otla9 end
Of his hard row. But II. some brirj5
Easter morn, you sit fora moment be-
side him. and speak to him 4iiIialllef
oally Of labor and Of lifa bis X sfs WI
sprinkle his dusty hands showing his
heart is elsewhere.
One ean not soiourn long here with
out coming TO conceive an interest in
this limestone, and loving TO meet its
rich warm hues on the landscape. 1t
has made deal Of history: limestone
bluegrass, limestone water, limestone
roads, limestone fences, limestone
bridges and arches. limestone engineer
ing architecture, limestone water-mills,
limestone sprine-houses and homesteads
limestone kentuckiansl Outside of
Scripture no people was ever so like to
be founded on a rock. 1t might be well
to note likewise. that the soil of this re-
gion is what scientists cell sedentary-
called so because it sits quietly on the
rocks, not because the people sit quietly
on it.
Undoubtedly the most picturesque
bits in the bluegrass country, archi-
teeturally, are those old stone water
mills and old stone homesteads- land
marks each Tor separate trains of ideas
that run to poetry and to history The
latter, built some Of them BY descend
ants of pioneers nearly hundred years
ago, stand gray with years, but good
for nameless years to come: great low
chimneys, deep little windows, thick
walls. mighty iire-places; situated
usually with keen discretion on an ele-
walton near q spring, just as a Saxon
forefather would have placed them cen
turtles ago. Happily one will see the
water of this spring issuing still from a
recess in a hillside, with an overhang-
ing ledge OF rock the entrance to this
cavern being walled across and closed
with a gate, thus making, according TO
ancient fashion, a simple natural spring.
house and dairy -,janles Laae Alien,
tn Harper's Afg9uziae for February.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03
Cotton States Agricultural Field
Contest.

The Natioual Cotton Planters Associa
ton Of America, with commendable
enterprise and public spirit, proposes to
holda great Cation States Agricultural
Field Contest IN a representative city Of
the Southern States, in the Autumn Of
1887. The Executive Committee Of this
important Organization, al late meeting
III Viekshng, issued Il prospectus
embracing the premiums TO be offered
for acreage crops, agricultural imple-
ments, improved machinery, farm dwell.
ings, ginhouses, etc and will raise
through interested sources a fund Of
100000 for that purpose What
hiss boon accomplished IN the past Is an
earnest wish Of the success that is sure
70 accrue TO this new aud, perhaps,
most impoAant undertaking Ia the his,
tory Of The Association. Through the
rivalry produced, il is safe to expect the
most surprising aud beneficial Of results
from this contest of the Cotton States.
The premiums fer cotton, grain, grass,
and root crops are so large as to induce
a general competition; no such attrSp.
tive prizes have been offered before
covering tie agricultural, industrial and
manufacturing interests of the whole
South
The New 0rleans PicIgRR, says: "The
Association enters a new and most val
liable field wheni, oilers large premiums
for plans and specifications for a model
farm. residences to cost from $500 to
$4,000, and cottages for laborers, to cost
from $50 to $500; also, for plans for
model gin. houses and stables OF various
sizes and prices. Nor is the inventor
neglected, a large premium Of $4,000
being offered for cotton picker or har-
scster Of such practical value as to be a
salable article on the market
The picayime concludes its excellent
editorial on the contest as follows:
ave have only touched on this valu.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03

We print a note from Mr.. Frank Bur
kilt announcing himself the author OF
the pieces signed "Wool dat" in TIE
CLARioN, attacking the State Female
College. II Mr.. Burkitt can stand the
position in which he has placed himself
by the articles, we certainly have no
cause Of complaint, and cheerfully sub
init the case to the public withost argu-
ment.
Any discussion Of the subject would
be fruitless, because it Is beyond Mr..
Burkitt's power to convince us that the
State ought not to have one frst-class
College for girls, when it has two for
white boys and one for negro boys. Aid
We beg to be excused the task of trying
70 convince Mr.. Burkitt Of the truth,
juHice or fairness Of any given PROPOSE
ton. Commercial. Herald.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03
A Strong Speech.
Aberdeen Examiner. ]

Aberdeen Examiner
Hon. Ethel Barksdale last week made
a very strong speech in the House Of
Representatives upon the question Of the
Government Withholding moneys justly
due State on account Of amounts I'M
paid Of the States quota Of the direct
war tax. He showed conclusively, by
the evidence Of the Secretary OF the
Treasury himself, that this tax was a
personal charge against property owners
and in no sense charge against State,
and that the act OF holding back moneys
due the State, as an offset, was extra
judicial, unjust aud tyranical.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03

able enterprise sufficiently 70 show iis
vital Importance 70 the country The
plan 81 the Cotton Planters Associa-
ton is most thorough and comprehon-
size, and we win have much more to
say on The .ubject 10 due course In the
meantime, III honor aud praise 10 the
brilliaucs and boldncss Of the idea, the
execution o. which shall have our
hearty support"
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03
Repeal Of Lien Law on Crops to be
Grown.

The Senate, ON yesterday, by u vote OF
, 20 to II, passed House Bin No. 25--in.
troduced by Mr. Madison, Of Noxubee--
which Is as follows;
An act 10 repeal section 1859, chapter
o. Of the Revised Code Of 1880, entitled
an set III relation 70 contracts n eaeum.
lcf fs0Nl xcrqps
~ iuA / o. II onacted by the isag
Nlesnfe II The State 81 asiAsi@ippi, That
ehaftfr On Rapihd Cf1e
6f 88sUtH flse STATE 81 Mississippi %
gW Va sa,M stergty repQHle1
Ea II fnnhe cnaclia, lhat
tbit acf flspli he q foroa aesi lsat eani
saEl u tsls llsg sWy Of Juiy, 1856, and
the crop grown IN the year 1886 shall
not BIO Affected thereby.
The Section referred to made II law.
tul for any one to cucumber any crop TO
be crown within fifteen months from
date Of deed Of trust Said section
being repealed, the common law provis-
ions on that subject are again in full
force and eileot II will henceforth only
be lawful to cucumber crops that are
actually growing or grown at date Of
mortgage, and not such as are to be
grown.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03
FORTY FIFTH DAY.


TUESDAY,, March :, 1856.
House met pursuant to adjournment.
Speaker Sharp in the chair.
Under suspension of the rules the
following bills aud resolution were intro
duced:
Mr.. Loagstreet: 70 provide for the
election of 4 public cotton weigher for
the city of Grenada. Passed.
Mr.. Bush: To pay the Capital Light
Guards for active military service.
Claims.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03

Of justice and fairness which becomes
intelligent gentlemen, who 10 this free
country are said to have the right TO
free thought and speech, without i'm
putting 70 the author Of the articles to
which you have called attention, any
improper motives. Disclmming any
spirit Of bravado, but in order that
friendly discussion Of the matter at
issue may be had. (if you desire it, /
respectfully stake OF my Wool Hat" to
the Herald and "show my face" 10 the
public. Yours truly,
FRANK BURKTrT.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03
Jackson. February n 1sss
Editor Commercial. Herald

Editor Commereial-Herald.l
DeAE SRI notice in your paper Of
this date the following:
"A fellow who signs himself ssWool
Hat is making use Of the columns Of
TaE CLARION 10 attack the State Female
College. II "Wool Hat or TON Cat >
or whatever his name is, viii sigh his
name to his pieces, his motirss can be
considered in connection with his asser.
tons. We dare him to take of his
Wool Hat and show his face
| have do desire to engage in an acri.
monious controversy with any one, for
am tolerant enough to eoncede the fact
that Others may differ with me honestly
and | would not because of such difer-
ence impugn their motires. / trust YOU
may be willing to discuss the questions
presented BY "Wool Hat in that spirit
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03

that be never had mother, sister, OF a
female friend, who feels that retrenchment
ought to begin on the only educational
institution the white girls Of Mississippi
are free 70 enter, then an adverse vote viii
be excusable, and we can wish him we'll.
Bot he must be content 70 II quietly at
home next time while his constituency
sends somebody there 10 undo Sc mischief.
VAS PELT
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03
Dot Your Is and Gross Your rs:


What the compositor asks (but at
present cannot ohlain) is. not that the
u and 4 be made alike, but that each
have its distinctive shape: not that the
be made similar 10 { but that it be
crossed, or else formed after the fashion
much in vogue. namely, stroke more
or less sloping, with loop in the center
on the side farthest from The letter fol-
lowing II; and lassly. that the i be
dotted, an omission which seems to
meet with great favor among authors.
though it is very tantalizing to the COM
positor, since in bad manuscript the I'M
dotted may be taken to represent
either c, c, or z, or even be supposed to
form part of what in reality IS the letter
n. But If the is were dotted and the
Is crossed, few complaints would ema-
nate from printing Offices, or, indeed,
ever be heard, so great an aid is the
due placing Of these letter belongings in
the task Of deciphering. scientifc
american.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03

standing indebtedness Of Issaquena county,
and for other purposes.
To amend an act entitled an act 10 ircor-
porate the town Of Como, in the county Of
Pamela, approved Feb. 10th, 1880.
At 10 o'clock the Senate adjourned.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03

THE election for Superintendent Of
Penitentiary win take place next Tues.
day night II the House agrees to the
Senate amendment providing for the
eleefiuu
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03

Nine. Nilsson has at last secured her
quarter Of million francs from the
Rouzaud estate to reimburse her for
money spent in her husbands industrial
enterprises.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03

Dir. Mitchell: To provide for tie
blind OF the colored race Of the State.
Benevolent Institutions.
Mr.. Crawford: To prevent stock run
ming at large in Pontotoc county. Passed.
Mr.. NorFell: Resolved by the House,
the Senate eoneurring, that the two
Houses meet in joint convention in the
hall Of the House on Thursday evening
at 80 o'clock, for the purpose Of elect
ing a Superintendent of the Penitentiary.
Adopted.
Mr. McKie: To amend sec. 463 in
relation to pay Of assessors. Judisiary-
Consideration of the special order
pending at adjournment, An act ia
relation TO free pubic schools, was
resumed in committee of the whole. Mr..
Williamson, Of Kinds, in the chair.
After some progress, Committee rose
and asked leave to sit again.
Dir. Lee: A resolution by the House,
the Senate concurring, that the Speaker
OF the House and President OF the
Senate adjourn their respective Houses
at 2 o'clock, P. NJ, Saturday the 18th.
inst. Lies over
MIR. Selman called up FL. b. l75, and
Senate amendment to same vas con-
CURED in.
At o'clock the House adjourned
until $3.50 O'clock
AFTERNOON sEssIos.
Speaker Sharp in the chair.
House resumed consideration OF
special order in Committee Of the
Whole.
Mr.. McCabe in the chair.
At $40 the House rose, reported pro-
gress and asked leave to sit again.
BY Mr.. Selman-hy request: An act
to change the rule of evidence in certain
cases. Judiciary.
The GoyEnor has approved bill to
Incorporate the town Of Scranton in
Jackson county, and to regulate the
powers of the same.
At 5:42 the House adjourned til 1880
tonight.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03

CALL at Browns Oil Depot and Sc whs t
be has; he viii treat yOu very politely.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-03-03
Our Colleges.

Sos i'uG tlAulox
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-28
ALL SORTS.

Mr.. Smalls point is well taken. It will be
IMPOSSIBLE to construct a conduit for a cable
line until there is q means of draining it.
Council should put in few sewers.
The good Deacon Netteton and other good
men who are holding these ''non-partisan''
high license meetings should remember that,
despite all their talk. the Repu bicans have
never passed a high-license BILL The public
generally and Democrats in particular,
should remem Der that under the lions skin,
high license, project the jackasS ears OF Re-
pubicanism.
According to the Chicago Daily News the
Democrats of Minnesota are running their
campaign very much on the proposition that
the Republican candidate for governor wears
corsets. Their opposition to manly corsets
the Daily News does not altogether approve
of and we would say that every citizen who
wishes to wear corsets has, under the Declar-
alton of Independence, an unquestionable
right to wear them. But when we come to
the question whether the wearing of corsets
constitutes qualification for the governor of
great state we must say that we are on the
side of the Minnesota Democrats. The only
exception that should be made would be in
the case of q certificate from physician that
corsets are necessary to the life or health of
the candidate, but in the Minnesota canvass
no such certificate has yet been produced
New York Sun.
The old fight for the motor is on again and
there is no doubt that the council will listen
to the voice of the poor people of the Eighth
| ward as against few wealthy property
owners 1t is the old fight of the rich against
the poor. The rich would take from the poor
his one eve lamb.
The action of the W. c. T. O., which was
emphasized yesterday, strikes the Republican
patriots and saints right between the eyes,
No one can doubt the loyalty and sincerity Of
these ladies and when they say the Republi-
can party is a hypocritical straddler of the
louor question, there can be no doubt of it..
Faulkner, the wrestler, may not have made
any money in the Northwest, but he has ac-
complished one thing-he has taught the peo-
pie of Minneapolis what good wrestling is.
The adroitness Of the Tribune can be
gagged by the fact that 1t calls upon the
| Irish to vote for McGill and against English
| free trade.''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-28
SCHOOL MATTERS.
New Buildings Approaching Com.
pleli0n..Night Sc h DOL Teachers.

New Buildings Approaching Com.
pletiOn--Night School Teachers.
At the meeting of the board of education
yesterday propositions were received from
several banks to advance money for current
expenses, as follows: Union, 6% per cent;
Security. s; Farmers & Mechanics, 6%; Mic
ollet Z. The committee on finances was in
structed to borrow $4,000 from the Union.
This is the bank that charged month ago
per cent. on $4,000. The report Of the SUI
perintendent showed II, 9l6 pupils were adj
United on Oct. I9, and that 1,2l4 enroiiments
had fallen OF on account Of contagious dis
eases. The committee on printing and in
surance reported insurance placed on build
ings at total of $477,625; on furniture,
S3l.375; total, $50S, 200 The present rate on
all risks is 1.5 for three years, except on the
high and Tuttle schools, where On account
OF exposure per cent? paid. This insur-
ance is placed in eighty-two companies. The
sum OF s.. 9S9. II was reported expended last
month on the Lowell, Longfellow and Holland
schools. The first two will be ready by next
week, together with an annex of two rooms
for the Monroe school. Rufus Cook. sanitary
engineer, reports estimates of heat
ing and ventilating changes In
the Holland, Adams. Winthrop,
and Horace Mann schools, to cost S7,080. 70.
Sundry changes were made in the salaries OF
teachers and the following were selected tor
the evening SCHOOLS this winter: L. w. VIM
terer, Franklin; A. q. Durdesin, Adams; c. G.
Joyslin, Washington; w. s. Pierson, Win
throp: d. W. Knowlton, Jackson; M. w. Con-
nor Humboldt. Assistauts-W. F. Decker,
H. G. Gates, 6. E. Boswell, w. d. Richardson,
Donald Harvey, J. J. Skardonswall, Il. S.
Child, P. A. Benson, E. Nj. Spaulding, g. T.
Halbort, FL. E. Wilson, A. S. Dibble, L. Nil
man, l. Aleson, Levert German, j. B. Haw-
lef, A. c. Eggleton, JIM. Doolittle, A. j. Rus
np nv
S6O0 for Supt. Bradley'S knowing expenses,
was Cancelled. it having been placed In the
pay roll. and 800 was allowed Prof. Moore in
full for his services.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-28
Political Points.

The Young Mems Democratic club sur
prised the members of the county committee
last night by the number and enthusiasm of
it's members. The committee of the club on
arrangements would hear of nothing less
than 400 torches for the rally uext Saturday
night, and the county committee finally sue
cumbed to the pressure, and agreed to furnish
the club with all the torches its members
could carry. Tonight they hold their prin-
cipal meeting at the hall of the Algonquin
club, at 81 Washington avenue south. All
young men are cordially invited to be pres
ent. Good speakers will address the meeting.
1t is being reported to the injury of Matt
Walsh that, in his speech at Hartmann's on
Saturday, he referred to the ministry in poll
tics. He did not, as the report will show.
He referred to Burchards defeating Blaine
by his celebrated Rum, Romanism and Re-
belion," and then said the Republicans would
defeat themselves by the same tactics in re-
ferriug to Irish-Americans as ''bog-trotters."
There is no use trying to injure Matt Walsh
by Misrepresentation.
The Democratic precinct committees of the
First ward are hereby requested TO meet at
the livery stable of Robert Irwin, corner Of
Adams street and Fifth avenue northeast, to-
night for the purpose of transacting import
ant business. Per order Hugh Butler, chair
man executive committee.
A deputy clerk of the district court will be
at Democratic headquarters every evening
this week to issue naturalization papers. Let
every Democrat remember this.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-28

A parlor meeting was held at the home of
Miss Nellie D. Prior yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Barnes and Miss McClees addressed the
meeting.
Mrs. Bradley, of England, will address a
meeting this morning at 10 O'Clock at the
Centenary NJ. E. church to mothers, teachers
and Christian workers on "Home Seeds" end
Home Weeds"
number of delegates and members Of the
convention went out by the motor to visit
Mlnnehaha One of the delegates rendered
Minnehaha for the benefit of the excursion
lists.
Miss Esther Pugh was chosen treasurer for
the Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance
union, and For God and Home and Every
Land" was proposed by Mrs. Benjamin for
the motto, which was accepted.
A joint meeting of the executive committee
and of the superintents will be held at the
Free Baptist church at 9 q. N.
Miss Willard was called upon TO define
mon partizan.'. She said she was obfusti-
Gated on that point.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-28
Sample of Republican Misrepresen-
t-tion.

The Democrats who find their largely-at-
tended and enthusiastic meetings belittled
and ridiculed in the Republican papers, were
not surprised to find that the Pioneer Press
yesterday reported that "Ames and Ankeny,
the Minneapolis postmaster" spoke at Fer
gus Falls Tuesday evening. AS matter
of fact Mayor Ames addressed a meeting
in East Minneapolis and Postmaster
Ankeny has not made speech this campaign.
Further, the speaker at Fergus Falls was
Hon. E. NJ. Wilson, man who is equally re-
spected by Democrats and Republicans where
he is known. This is but fair sample of the
manner In which the campaign of Mayor
Ames is being constantly misrepresented by
the Republican papers, whose blind partisan
ship is leading them to adopt the most des-
perate means possible to blind and deceive
the voters.