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Year: 1875

Five weeks ago Alexander V.
Brewer, of Schenectady, lacerated
a finger by means of a co;n-cutter


He was attended by a leading ply,
sician, and in due course OF time
the wound healed, leaving mark
for awhile of a pinkish indigo
tint. While attending church
subsequently, at the East Avenue
Mission Chapel, a fellow pew oc-
cupant asked to see his hand
Observing the partly healed
wound, he whispered to Brewer
in his opinion the wound had
mortified. Brower's father sat in
the seat with him. His son took
a piece of paper and wrote there
on, and handed to his father a re-
quest that they leave church,
The father on reaching the out
side, asked the cause of The sud
den request. The answer was
that be (the SOM was going to
die. Mr.. Brewer ridiculed the
idea, but proceeded home. After
time following their arrival the
father found the son engaged in
prayer, and was again told by the
latter that his end was near
The son had to be soon removed
to bed, and the doctor was a.
gain summoned. The latter on
arrival found his patient with
high pulse, much excited, and
showing marked symptoms of ty-
phoid fever. The former wound
on his hand was found in the same
condition as when last seen-that
is everything presaging rapid and
permanent healing. Friday young
Brewer died-an evident victim
to fright.-Iroy Times.
Year: 1875

Conscience and Judgment.
l sat alone with my conscience,


In place where time had ceased,
And we talked Of eur former living


In the land where the years increased
And | felt should have to answer


The question it put to me,
And to face the answer and question


Throughout an eternity.
The ghosts of forgotten actions


Came floating before my sight
And things that thought were dead things


Were alive with terrible might,
And the vision of all my past life


Was an awful thing to face
Alone with my conscience sitting


In that solemnly silent place.
And thought of PARKWAY warning,


OF sorrow that was to be mine,
In land that then was the future,


But now is the present time.
And thought of my former thinking


OF the judgment day to be,
But sitting alone with my conscience


Seemed judgment enough for me;
And l wondered if there was future


But this land beyond the grave;
And no one gave me an answer,


And no one came to save.
Then l felt that the future was present,


And the present would never die,
For it was but the thought of my past life


Grown into eternity.
Then ! woke from my timely dreaming,


And the visions passed away,
And | knew the ar-away warning


Was a warning of yesterday
And pray that may not forgetit


In this land before the grave.
That may not cry in the future,


And no one come to save.
And so have learnt a lesson


Which ought to have known before,
And which, though l learnt in dreaming,


l hope to forget no more;
So sit alone with my conscience,


In the place where the years increase,
And try to remember the future


In the land where Time will cease,
And know of the future Judgment,


How dreadful soccer it be,
That to sit alone with my conscience


Will be judgment enough for me.
Year: 1875

Its almost too late in the sea-
son to talk about fircside fun,
but this may be tried at any
time. 1t is very silly, to be
sure, but quiet funny and harm
less. Two players are closely
blinded with bandages made of
their pocket handkerchiefs.
Each one is provided with ii
saucerliul of cake or cracker
crumbs, which is held in the
left hand, and a spoon, which is
held in the right hand. 4
sheet is spread upon the floor
upon which the players sit, and
at a given signal they begin to
feed each other. Their efforts
to find each others mouth with
their spoons, never fail to afford
much sport.
Year: 1875

Although people have not to
have free trade, it will be a COM
fort to know that one important
article of foreign manufacture
is to be admitted without taxa
ton. German sadSage ars TO
be exempt fromduty.
Year: 1875

A clergyman being much press
ed by lady of his acquaintance
to preach a sermon the first Sun
day after her marriage, complied,
and chose the following passage
in the Psalms as his text: "And
there shall be abundance OF peace
the moon endureth.
Year: 1875

The following story is very
good but rather apocryphal: A
young man out West was court
ing a pretty girl, but her mother
would rot permit him to stay at
ter ten o'clock, greatly to his and
her daughters disgust. Last
New Years Day that young man
presented the old lady with a pat
ent clock Of great beauty and in
genuity. The prospective moth
er-in-law was greatly pleased, aud
gave her old ticker to a poor wo-
m N who lived in the neighbor-
hood. Now that young couple
are happy, for this clock is so con-
structed that it will lose three
hours between eight and ten III
the evening and make it up
all right before morning. The
old lady watches the clock care
full and cries "Ahem!" as usual
when it gets to be ten. And yet,
she slys, she can't understand
what makes her get SO sleepy be-
fore ten, and hate to get up SO
bad the next morning.
Year: 1875

She lived in New Orleans,
and the tombstone says she was
seventeen. She had a can of
coal oil in her hands, and she
heard her little sister crying
out in the yard. She innocent
ly set the can on the stove and
started for the door, but the con-
tents got there before her, and
then the little sister had some
thing to cry for, indeed.
Year: 1875

A CURE FOR Loss oE APPETITE. There is
curious anecdote of Henry VII. The king
Ir1t had been out hunting in the neighborhood Of
Wlnasor' HIS eagerness in the pursuit of the
chase had carried him out of sight and bear;no
of his retiuue. Night was falling; return to .
the castle was impossible, and close at hand
lay the Abbey of Reading. Thither according
Iy the king turned his steps His habit was
simple. and the good monks took him for one
OF the royal foresters, while Henry, for reasons
OF his owo, did not care to uodeceive them. He
was Hospitality entertained, and the lord alb.
oott looked on with an approving smile at the
hearty performance of his guest, At last he
saic Truly. | would give bis grace, your
master, half of my revenues for so good an ap-
petite Three days passed suddenly the
aooott was arrested in the kings name and
hurried to the Tower, where a diet of bread
anu water was assigned him. The end of the
story may be imagined. Before the month
Was over the abbott had recovered an excellent
appetite for beef and beer.
Year: 1875

Administrator are liable to account
for interest on funds in their haads,
although no profit should have been
| made upon them, unless the exigencies
of the estate rendered it prudent that
! they should hold the funds uninvested.
When a house is rendered untenant-
able in consequence of improvements
made on the adjoining lot, the owner
OF such cannot recover damages, be-
cause he had knowledge of the ap-
| preaching damage in time to protect
himself from it.


A person who has been led to sell
goods by means of false pretense can
not recover them from one who has
purchased them in good faith from the
| fraudulent vendor.
Permanent crectioDs and fixtures,
made by mortgage after the execu-
ton OF the mortgage upon land con-
| veyed by it, becomes a part OF the


mortgaged premisis.
A seller Of goods, chattels or other
property, commits no fraud in law,
when he neglects to tell the purchaser
of any flaws, defects or unsoundpess
in the same.


An arrangement by the holder of a
note to give the principle debtor time
for payments. without depriving him
of the right to serve, does not dis
charge the surety.
The opion of witness as to the value
of a dog that has been killed, is not
| admissible in evidence. The value of
the dog is to be decided by jury
Money paid for the purpose of set
thing or compoundiDg a prosecution
for supposed felony, cannot be re-
covered back by the party paying it.


A day book copied from a "blotter''
in which original charges are first
made. will not be received in evidence
as book of original entries.
A stamp impressed upon an instru-
ment by way Of seal, is as good as a
seal if it creates a durable Impression
in the texture of the paper.


Ii any person put a fence on or plow
the land of another, he is liable for
trespass whether the owner has sus-
tanned injury or not.


A private person may obtain an in
junction to prevent a public mischief
by which he is affected, in common
with others.


If a person who is unable from ILL.,
ness to sign his will, has his hand
guided in making his mark, the sig
nature is valid.


Ministers OF the Gospel, residing in
any corporated town, are not exempt
from jury, military or fire services.


A wife cannot be convicted for re-
ceiving stolen goods when she re-
ceived them from her husband


An agent is liable to his principals
for loss caused by his misstatements,
though unintentional.


No man is under obligation to make
known his circumstances when he is
buying goods.


The fruits and grass on the farm or
garden of an intestate decend to the
heir


Money paid 80 Sunday contracts
may be recovered.
Year: 1875

A st. Louis clergyman who,
while preaching . sermon on Sun
day evening last, perceived man
and woman under the gallery in
the act of kissing each other be
hind . hymn book, did not lose his
temper. No, he remained calm.
He beamed mildly at the offenders
over his spectacles, and when the
young man kissed her the fifteenth
time, he merely broke his sermon
sLort off in the middle of s.thirdly, :"
and offered a fervent prayer in
behalf of the young man in the
pink necktie and the mai.len in the
blue bonnet and gray shawl who
were profaning the sanctuary by
kissing one another in pew IS, and
the congregation said amen Then
the woman pulled her veil down
and the young man sat there and
swore softly to. himself. He does
not go to church as much now as
he did
Year: 1875

Toledo papers announce that
there is plenty of work in that city,
but carefully conceal the fact that
said work is sitting on a bench in
front of coal stove and wishing it
were spring.


Mr.. B. Young, of Salt Lake City,
is sick nigh unto death. MIR. Young
is-a married man, and we have a
great deal of sympathy for his wife,
but not enough to go around
Newtown Herald.


We modestly inquire whether those
who are so anxious to vote GOD in the
Constitution have Him in their
hearts?
Year: 1875

Mrs Livermore illustrates one of
her lectures by this choice bit:
Among the Brahmins in Southern
India when the husband takes q
wife he binds around her neck the
badge of ownership, as you bind
your badge of ownership about the
neck of your Spitzbergea dog. She
cooks her husband food stands be
hind and serves him, and when he
has finished his meals she eats what
he has left, if he leaves anything,
and if not she gets along the best
way she can.
Year: 1875


Life has some souls, supreme and intense
Spirits half freed from the fetters of sense,
Who in vision flash down fate's mystical


pages,
Wrestling some secret from far future ages,
And holding it high to the waiting world,
Show a banner of hope and truth unfurled.
And the world laughs back in madman


scorn-
What cares the world for a truth new borne
Its power we defy, its prophets we stone!
Thou Jesus of Nazareth, leave US alone!
Our name is legion, and each of our host
Pray thee at once to depart from our coast.
But the prophet-like soul in masterful


might.
Holds high over all its banner of light,
And ever it's truth through the wide world


winning,
Draws men aside from their sorrow and


SHINING,
Till history writes in the heart of its pages
This is the light and the hope of the ages.
INDIANAPoLIS IND.
Year: 1875

A man whose wife hung herself
IN his presence, on being asked
why he did not prevent the tragedy,
replied: Il cut her down three times
last week, and I can't be always
cutting her down.
Year: 1875

The American Newspaper Advertising
Agency of Geo. P. Rewell & Co., New York,
is the only establishment of the kind in the
United States which keeps itself persistently
before the people By ADVERTISING in newspapers
They evidently receive their reward, for we
have it from reliable source that advertising
orders issued by them for their customers
have exceeded three thousand dollars day
since the commencement of the year and this
rs not a rery good year for advertising either.
Year: 1875

husband returned home from the city
somewhat intoxicated. When near home
her husband testifes that he ran on
ahead to build a fire, and further than
that could give no account of the affair
Inside from the fact that he searched for
her that night and Sunday and Sunday
night, but could gain no clue to her
whereabouts The body was disfgured
by exposure to the air, but partial
post mortem did not exhibit any traces
OF violence, that could be said 10 have
caused her death. The affair is clothed
in mystery.
Year: 1875

About three o'clock last Tuesday after
noon difficulty occurred at Messinger's
livery stable on East Crawford Street
between a white man named Jacob Ba-
ker and negro named Bill Dunson,
in the course of which the latter stabbed
the former In the left side with a pocket
knife, cutting a frightful cash about
seven inches tn length, and also wound
ing him in the right arm. Baker was a
hostler In Messinger's stable, and Dunson
was kind of hanger on about the place,
doing odd jobs occasionally as they were
given him. On Tuesday afternoon Mr..
Messenger was absent from the stable
and Baker was in charge. Some work
was to be done, which Baker wanted per-
formed In his own way, but which Dun
son claimed was not according to Mr..
Messlngers instructions. A hot dispute
followed and while the two were wrang-
ling in the Office of the stable, Dunson
drew his kline and stabbed Baker as
above stated. Afterreceiving the wounds
Baker shouted for help, and Mr.. j. r.
Clark and Mr.. Henry Byal rushed in and
found the negro, with a knife in one
hand and chair in the other, preparing
to renew the attack. He was at once
secured but not before he had tried to
strike Mr.. Clark with chair. After
getting away from Dunson, Baker went
out of the stable Office on the street.
He had only gone few PAGES, however,
when he was taken back and placed in
bed. Messrs, Clark and Byal took the
negro nearly to Main Street, when they
gave him into the hands of Marshal Ruhi,
who placed him in the calaboose for a
short time, and then lodged him in jail.


DIR. Hurd was called and dressed Ba-
kers wounds. An examination of his
person showed that cash had been cut
in his left side, as above stated, of nearly
seven inches in length. The cut was
diagonally across the eighth and ninth
ribs, cutting the cartilege of the former,
the blade of the knife entering the = plural
cavity. The wound is a dangerous one.
and may prove fatal. The second cut
was on the right arm below tine elbow,
and was very painful After his wounds
had been dressed, Baker was taken to
Fremont where his parents reside
Flndlay Jeffersonian.
Year: 1875

@ SEALED PROPOSALS TO BUILD A TRUSS
~ Bridge on the site of the old one. of GO
feet spans over the main stream, benches TO
be set on piles, and tine truss work on the east
side Of the stream to be in spans of 20 feet
each. One and one-fourth round iron to be
used in all bolts, of which there is supposed
to be enough in the wreck. False caps TO be
used on the four main benches Double bolts
in foot of each brace. AL sound flooring and
timber Of cypress, or heart pine may be used
in rebuilding said bridge, except in the main
spans, which must be all new and of long
leafed heart pine.


The bridge will be two feet higher at the
east end than the old one, with an apron OF
thirty feet projecting over the turnpike tc
ascend TO the level over the brick abutment
when this level will be maintained to the west
bank of the river which will bring the top OF
the cap sill eleven feet below the present tor
sill on the west bank. 1t will be seen by thi.
that the bridge will BE- eleven feet lower thar
the old one, and on q perfect level from banl
to turnpike.


These general i.ems are given in order tha
bidders may know what the Board will con
slider.


Plans and specifications will accompany
each bid, describing the size of timbers pro
posed to be used


The lumber must all be sawed


All scared Dlds accompanied with specimen
tions will be received up to Tuesday, the sec.
ond day of November, 1876, directed to Chan
cery Clerk, Jackson, Miss, and marked Bids
for Bridge over Pearl River"


The Board reserves the right to reject any
or all specifications and bids.


W. IT, GRAHAM,


A. N. KIMBALL,


.- CARTER STEWART,


Committee.
Year: 1875

We ask the special attention of the busi-
ness men of Jackson to our schedule of ad-
vertising rates for THE DAILY CLARION.
They are exceedingly low, and must COM
mend themselves to all who have any faith
in printers ink. The business season has
now opened, and for the next few weeks
THE CLARION will be extensively circulated
in Jackson and elsewhere throughout the
State. Send in your orders.
Year: 1875

The only campaign which has any life
in it is that in Mississippi. The interest
there seems to be all ON one side. The
Democrats are holding immense mass
meetings throughout the State, and q
notable feature of these gatherings is the
attendance at of large numbers of negroes.
The signs of a defeat of the Republican
party multiply daiIy.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1875

From the fact that the people ct Hyde Park
do not often enter into movements Of the Kind,
the masquerade party Of last Thursday evening
vas undoubtedly tho social event Of the season.
Year: 1875

THE DHUNMERs are again around in full
force, much to the annoyance Of the better
class of business men. The Legislature should
impose license tax upon "drummers,' aud
IN that way rid the Territory of u growing
.4ui-ance.
Year: 1875

A supernatural incident is said to have
occurred in the wilds OF Kerry, a short
time since. 1t seems that woman re-
siding in Genflesk received call from
the spirit of her husband, a imam OF the
farming class, dressed in a shroud and
white stockings and gloves" The far
mer in white gloves stated that since
his death, some months back, although
ne ought to be in heaven, he was .detain-
ed elsewhere on account of owing sum
of 915 to friends OF his, and he begged of
his wife to give him the money. The
womah in good faith handed him f10,
and promised to give him the rest in a
few days if he came for it. Meanwhile
she went and told the priest the circum-
stances of the case; and this gentleman,
seeing the fraud, made proper arrange
ments tor dealing with the poacher on
the ecclesiastical manor. When the
ghost, in complete burial costume, ar
rived for the bank note he was at once
received by couple of police, and
proved, as ghosts do in our day, to be a
mere pretender. He will now have to
answer for his misconduct before mag
istrate.
Year: 1875

From an Occasional Correspondent


JACKSON. October q. Your editorial
in the APPEAL or the twentieth in regari TO
agricultural schools in France is well calcu-
lated 10 do much good. This IS a subject to
which the various oranges in West Tennessee
should turn their attention. Let US have boys
educated as farmers as well as lawyers or doe
tors What more ennObling pursuit than ag
riculture? Amy industrious young man, who
Will work on tarm and take care Of what he
makes, can in few years own farm. He
can get one-third of what he raise S,
and have land, supplies, and work.
stock furnished him. II he only makes
two bales OF cotton a year, aud an
abundance of corn and meat, the next year
he would get One-half what he raised by Iur-
ntshing his own supplies. The first year his
part would only be twO-thiTdS of q bale of
cotton, but the second year he would get one
crease every year If he were industrious and
economical, and in that time he could buy
work-stOck, and then soon after he could buy
land. have heard suggestion made here
which think good one and that Is for the
farmers TO sow their fields that are on the line
OF the various railroads IN rye and wheat
early so as to cause them to present a cheerful
appearance in the winter and spring, and also
to pasture their sheep and calves upon them
In dry weather, and in addition
TO this 1t was suggested that they should put
good fences around these fields. in this Way
all persons travelling on the railroads would
receive good impression of our country and
this would induce immi grafton. If you ever
come To jackson, be sure 10 stop at the Lam
caster house. 1t is certainly one of the best
eating houses in West Tennessee, and the pro-
pTietOr is very gentlemanIy and accommo-
dating. There Is report that the supreme
court is equally divided on the Memphis
court question: ee in favor OF sus-
tanning the act abOlishing the courts
aud three against. How this is, l can
no. say. They are now picking cotton rapidly
In this county, and IL is nearly all open.
Year: 1875

This afternoon ct hslf,past three
O'clock The chamber Of commerce will
hold nesting 20 consider the subject
of the Southern Pacific railroad and the
Memphis terminus If there is one
subject more than another which should
crowd meeting in Memphis, this is it.
Already the managers OF the Northern
Pacific railroad, conscious how a SOUTH
ern road would secure a grand business,
are moving in opposition. Let the
members Of the chamber Of commerce
bring all the weight of their excellent
Institution to besr on this subject at the
meeting this afternoon.
Year: 1875

From DR.. Hammer, one OF the physicians
who examined Colonel Houses wounds our
reporter learned that Colonel House received
I'VE wounds, the most serlcas OF which was
made by A silot entering his body from the
right side, between the sixth and seventh
ribs, passing through the lungs and COM
was in the left gr 10, penetrating the pelvic
cavity. The third was on the right, striking
the bone, dancing around, so to speak, ana
fourth was through the right arm. The fifth
struck the right shoulder and was irnbedded
therein.
Year: 1875

AS has been stated, the canvass in North
Carolina for the election of delegates to con-
stitutional convention was most bitter and
the Democratic papers breathed spirit of
implacable hostility to the present constitu-
tion and their political opponents. The fol-
loving extract from the Raleigh News will
serve to show the spirit of the Democratic
press in that state:


1t is certain that as between parties GER
tain definite lines must be drawn. Men must
be known as belonging to one order or the
other. This delicate blending of one party
with the other, and this kindly preservation
OF the social relations suiH not do. The Radi-
cal party has drawn its line; it has sunk its
foundation, and the foundation is built on the
negro vote. Now, here in Wake, in Meek
ienburg, in Wayne, in New Hanover, we see
Democrats and Republicans in full social &C :
Year: 1875

Hon. REvERDY JOHNSON of Maryland
has written long letter to the New York
Tribune on the curr ncy question, which he
declares to be the most important issue be-
fore the country and that it rises above mere
party interests, whicl are for the most part
ephemeral; but the state of the currency az
fects the welfare of every citizen, the general
prosperity of the country. and the reputation
of the government. In the course of his let
ter he comes to the following conclusions:


First. That the only currency known t0 tue
Constitution is gold and silver, or paper con
vertIbie into it on demand.


Second. That nothing but gold and silver
can be made a legal tender.


Third. The government uow being perfectly
safe, no danger threatening it or ing sppre-
hended, Congress has no power to authorize
the issue of an irTedeemable currency aud TO
make it legal tender. This is the clear mean
ins of that part of Judge Strong's opinion
quoted. on


Fourth. That the credit of the nation, the
true, permanent prosperity Of every class of
our citizens, aud the arrest Of the demoraliza
ton consequent upon the present state OF
ihings demand as speedy a return as prsctica
BILE to q specie currency i---ii---i1.----
Year: 1875

We do not read Anonymous letters and commnni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nicatiOns that aie not used