The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-08
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.
Humbug is a town in California.

!. Humbug is town in California.
= Queen Victoria still wears tie deepe.
.. mourning.
The Tennessee Republican Convention
TO be held April 2Oth
d The Cinnamon in san Francisco are sai
. TO be great cigar makers.
r \ heavy earthquake shock was felt in til
. north of England March l..
e Fifteen members Of the new Spanish cor
ties were saloon keepers.
: Paris makes 100000 dozen toy drums cv
cry year.
Jenny Lind's daughter aged twelve pro
misses TO have a fine musical career.
=, The theory ofvelocipede riding i, '.strad
Ole, paddle. and then skedaddle~
They now make paper collins in Europe
~Straddlc dresses is the name of the fe-
male velocipedist costume.
New York has had wedding between 2
groom OF 50 and a bride of Is.
The Russian Cars grandchild received
S6OO,OOO worth OF Christmas gifts.
The best-dressed European princess is
SAID TO be the Austrian Empress.
\ new color, resembling a very brown
cLarct, Is called the prison door"
Gen. Thomas recently had a purse o T
SlOO,OOO rendered him and refused il.
Monticello, Va, Thomas Jefferson's resi-
dence, is to be sold by the sheriff May 18th.
France is anxious to cultivate the Chinese
pam boo, III Order to open new branch of
| industry.
| The New York papers are again attacking
the bakers for not making good bread or
! big enough loaves.
Cervantes should be living lust to inter-
pref the high-sounding Spanish reports of
battles in Cuba.
\ workman IN New York had his shirt
taken off recently by the machinery in a
factory, but escaped unhurt.
lady in Minnesota lately gave birth to
four boys. but they all died at the age of
two days were buried in one grave.
England has produced a pair of bogus
Siamese twins, bound together Dy cord of
India rubber, filled with warm water.
Connecticut hen laid an Easter egg tn at
was y inches around lengthwise, and 6l5
inches around the centre.
The Pope, according to custom, blessed
the symbolical golden golden rose during
Lent. and there is some curiosity to know
what Sovereign will get it. Isabella, of
Spain, received it last year.
The Buffalo man who made the 5000 pair
of boots for the President, now swings a
sign, "boOtmaker TO his Excellency L. ;.
Grant"
Mexican bandits have a reg liar tariff for
their prisoners. The Superintendent of
silver mine is worth $4,000 a rich banker
100000, etc.
A young scoundrel in Indiana. recently
knocked his mother down and kicked her
TO death because she reproyed him for spill |
ing his coffee on the tablecloth.
The Pail Mall Gazette noticing the recent
rise in price of Government loans. in conse- |
quence of the passage of the public credit /
bill says: This evidence ought to satisfy |
even General Butler that honesty is the best |
policy"
The fashionable female lip is very pale |
according to the latest Partisan account |
Coral cOloring has quite gone out offashion, /
and the expression of the elegant mouth is /
that of WEAKNESS and scorn.
Mr.. James Harper, of the publishing firm |
of Harper Is Brothers, was thrown from his /
carriage in New lork and received injuries |
of which he subsequently died.
General jefferson C. Davis has made an
official report of the late Indian troubles IN
Alaska. He says that on hearing of the
murders of traders by the Rake or kekeon
tribe, he sailed to their village, and finding
it deserted burned it. This, he says,
the Indians into fair promises.
y million dollars in gold was received in
New York from Hamburg last week, to be
used in buying bonds for German capt.
tallsts.
Two Chinese villages were destroyed, re-
Gently, by the English fleet in Chinese
waters, in revenge for the ill-usuage of Brit
ish taTs.
few days since, the beauties of Radical
ism were practically illustratek by the mar
riage, at the st. Louis Cathedral, New Or
leans, of white man with yellow woman.
Mrs Glenn, convicted of complicity in the
murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Young, has been
sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
A woman of Jammapes, Belgium, has
been arrested on a charge OF having caused
the death of one of her daughters children
by thrustihs pms into its head.
Items about land buyers from the North
fill all the Southern papers.
Dean Richmond is to have granite and
marble mousoleum erected to his memory
at cost of $4,000.
Schuyler is the county town of Colfax
county, Nebraska.
The expedition of twenty of Brig
ham Young's wives" to Chicago, which has
recently been so glOwingly described, has
turned ont to be visit of one wife to her re-
latives in that city.
Harrisburg mechanic has invented still
another flying machine. The wings are tif-
teen feet in length, and will present to the
air a surface of nine hundred square feet.
An oyster was recently fished up at Siam
ford, Conn, which contained l27 pearls; and
one at New Haven which had 1913, varying
in size from that of a buckshot to a mustard
seed.
The London surgeons complain of the
scarcity of dead bodies for dissection pur-
poses.
Paris makes two hundred thousand dozen
of toy drums every year.
The Journal of Pharmacy, Chicago H.,
says: We saturated piece of cotton with
placed it in a barrel, and next
morning found nine dead mice"
BaInum has just recovered 100000 in a
lawsuit at New \ ork from the companies in
which his recently destroyed museum was
insured