The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-08-16
NE VS. GLEANINGs.

1 The rank of"General of the Army,
Justly conferred upon Garibaldi, is
equivalent to that of Marshal Of
.France, or of Field Marshal in Eng
Hand.
In Iowa, recently two husbands trad
ed wives, one giving the other 81, SOC
to boot The citizens don't like that
STYLE, and drove the husband who re-
ceived the eboot' from the county with
his new wife. The other couple yet
remain.
A young girl of fourteen years has
been tickled to death in Indianapolis
by her mother,
The last defendant of the great re-
former, Martin Luther, has expired at
Marialhif, small German village well
known as a favorite resort for pilgrims
to the shrine of the Virgin. Catherine
Luther was Catholic, her father hav-
ing been the first of the family who alb
iured the tenets of his great ancestor
That the race of Martin Luther should
expire Roman Catholic is indeed pecu-
liar.
Pen PALsY.--A literary gentleman
in Washington is afflicted with what is
called the 'pen palsy" an affection
which is supposed to be caused by the
use of French copying ink, which. it is
said, contains arsenic. Both his hands
and feet are badly swoolen, and his
health is in precarious condition.
Mr.. HORACE B. CLAFLIN, the New
York merchant and rival of A. I.
STEWART, returns the comfortable in
come for the year 1865 Of one million
two hundred and ninety thousand dol
lars, cents not counted, or four thou
sand dollars per day.
A Mr.. Dobler, of Nashville, charged
with the heinous crime of outraging
his own daughter, was acquitted, the
evidence showing that if any outrage
had taken place, the mother of the
child had procured some man to do it
that she might fasten the crime upon
her husband, and thus get rid ofhim, in
order to live with another.
Doctor Buffers income last year was
only S2S, 552. This beggarly return
results from his sacrifices for the cause |
Of the Union in New Orleans.
1t is stated that Acknowledgement
Speed carried away with him all the |
as q LAWYER that he brought |
into office.
DEAN RICHMOND, President of the
New York Centeral Railway Company,
and leading Democratic politician, re
ports his income for the past year at
S10S, 72l In early life he was poor
boy and canal driver.
A farmer in Franklin, n. Y, lost
both eyes by the explosion of bottle
oil of vitriol and turpentine
which he was applying to some diseas-
ID sheep.
General Frank Blair has sued the
Missouri Democrat for publishing q des-
patch rejecting on his honesty.
There was a singular fact connected
With the decease OF the editors OF the
Troy Tines. Mr.. FOnde, expecting
Mr.. ThOrn's death of consumption, had
prepared a sketch his life for publ
alton, whenever it should occur. yet
Mr.. Fonda $ preceded 8ir. Thorn's by
wo hours.
On the leg of Mr.. Jones, who was
Tiled by lighting in Piqua, Ohio, and
IN the back Ofhis little son, was daguer-
in perfect image of the tree
IndeF which they were standing at the
inc OF the accident
Frederick d. Taber, a prominent
grocer, in Chicago, has sud
lenly disappeared from his elegant
mansion on Wabash sveHue il that
.ity caused.-an over jealous wife.
Ben Wood Of the New York NeWs,is
/ fast one. and seems to havelots of
til" He is sid "a. have lost $50. coo
L the SsratOga races. He has sold
lis interest IN the lottery business to
Tohn Morrizev. for $3.50. 900.