The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| tndG pace. several months since, was
arr ested in New Orleans last Saturday
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Gen. GIllem arrived in Galveston on
the 26th.
Sickles has been ordered before the
retiring board.
White kid gloves, double stitched
with black, are worn at receptions and
the opera.
Stanton is so feeble as to be unable
to leave his room.
Societies are to be formed in Vir-
| GINA 70 encourage immigration from
| Ireland.
The wood used for fuel by locomo-
| tives in the United States costs fifty
six million dollars per annum.
| A blushing bride of hundred sum
mers was married the other day in
Pennsylvania.
An Audubon Club, for the collection
of the birds of Michigan, has been
! formed in Detroit.
The Italian army Is 179,S9O strong.
This is more than $4,000 less than in
the spring of last year.
Cocoanut fibre Is now manufactured
into machine betting.
Schuyler is the county town of Col
fax county, Nebraska.
A suit of clothes can be bought in
Salt Lake city for six bushels of oats.
During his lifetime. Lamartine is
said to have expended $4,000 in
| charity.
A new cotton factory is to be erected
/ in New Orleans to run 100000 spindles.
\ cotton factory is to be started at
Vaucluse, ). c., with a capital of
100000.
Near Goldsboro, n C.. a sassafras oil
distillery is in successful operation.
Kansas has debt of $4,000 600. the
constitutional limit, and population
of 100000
1t takes a fleet Of five steamers to
carry.the Prince of Wales up the Nile
on his present tour.
/ A French College has lately been
established at COnstantinople, and now
has 800 students.
| Colorado has a newspaper that is
! printed on green colored paper; and
another on Manila sheets.
The heirs of Noah Webster receive
| $4,000 per annum, from the sales of
| the unabridged dictionary.
/ The Deseret News tells of snow
/ plow on the central Pacific Railroad
+ propelled by eight locomotives.
A Georgia boy of IA has hanged
/ himself for love.
Pittsburg has a man with u beard
| feet long.
Imprisonment for debt has been
! abolished Ia Belgium.
Kansas has ten daily and fifty w eek
! ly newspapers.
There are said to be twelve thousand
eroggeries Ia the United States.
There are thirty eight thousand
Mormons and eight Thousand Gentiles
az Salt Lake.
COnfiscation of rebel property is be-
ng talked of by the Spanish news
papers at Havana.
The '.oldest mason has moved to
Maine. and appears in the person of
| VIM. Kendall, of Fairfield.
In Georgia, recently, a negro wo-
man chopped up a little girl with an
| 6All aV-c
and ten cents.
Napoleon, to conciliate his army, is
now granting pardons to soldiers con-
victed of minor offences.
There is said to be more busts OF
Lincoln and Grant in North Germany,
than OF all the German Princes.
Kossuth earns a precarious living in
Turin, by copying legal documents.
In this country. more than two mil
lion dollars are invested in circusses
and menageries.
Large numbers of colored men arC
said TO be applicants for offices ir
Washington.
Distress is becoming to be quite pre-
( VAltHl III lxdilGdSAAlANF v" III ~ VIZ
prolonged suspension of work in the
cotton mills.
The New York Anti-gambling As
ISOLATION has informed agains 1903
clerks.
A newspaper is to be started by tn
Cuban refugees at hey West, to advo
cate the cause of the Cuban revolu
tiOn.
The first official act of Secretary
J Cox. OF the interior department, wa
the removing of Mr.. Charles II. Nc
knight, of Alexandria, Va, who wa
? employed in the Secretary's office un
der Mr.. Browning. Mr.. Mcknigh
had served in the Confederate army
{ | where he lost an arm.
There is a gentleman in Mason coun
: ty. Ky, who has wife old enough .
E be his mother. The former is seventy
six and the latter ninety-three year
of age.