The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-12-30

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4 Horace Greeley appeals TO Ben Butler. IN
an open letter. to place himself at the head
| Of . movement to grant complete amnesty
to all persons who favor the adoption OF the
Fifteenth Amendment.
Galveston is applying twenty thousand
barrels OF shells TO its streets.
The Virginia tobacco crop Is about seven
thousand hogsheads short this season.
In Virginia, win written wholly by ones
self requires no subscribing witnesses.
The New Haven Palladium says that il
has lately come to light that Rev. o. B. Judd,
d. D., was some time since married to Miss
Susannah Reynolds. who will be remembered
as figuring conspicuously in the trial of the
famous Judd divorce case.
Some weeks ago the Emperor of Russia,
in a fit of hypochondriasis refused food for
three days, and serious apprehensions were
felt that his disease would pass into insani-
ty. Similar attacks are said to have occur
red at various tiues during the last few
years.
The 'Khedive," the title applied to the
Viceroy of Egypt, is the Arabian equivalent
of king" and was conferred by the Sultan
upon Ismail Pacha and his successors in 1867,
Ismail Pacha was born in 1916, and his heir
and probable successor is his son, boy OF
six years of age.
Gen. Ames has Issued an order dismissing
suit brought by citizen of Clark county
against the Probate Clerk appointed by him
for unlawfully issuing a marriage license to
which the plaintiffs daughter was party,
without his knowledge and coRsent.-Merid-
ian Mercury.
Grant says in his message that God is the
giver of all good gifts. He can afford TO
acknowledge the fact, for the Lord 1--WE hope
we say 1t reverently) wants no appointment
from him.-Prentice.
The new Lord Mayor of London CALDER
man Besley) is printer. Born i'm 1900, he
served as an apprentice in his fathers prin-
ting Office, and at twenty years of age Joined
firm of type founders in London.
candidate for the Tennessee Constitutional
Convention
American Built horse cars were recently
introduced in Liverpool and the Courier of
that city says 1.-THE public were not slow to
recognize the superiority OF this Yankee
notion"
Rev. r. McInnis writes to the S. w. Pres
byterian that he has organized two new
churches in Mississippi-one at Edwards
Depot with nineteen members, which has
called Rev. j. j. Daniel to give them half
his time; and one at Madison Station, which
invited Rev. S. L. Brown to supply them.
N. o. Picayune.
Cholera has broken out in Russia, and the
daughter and two servants of the Governor
of Kief have died of the disease.
Carrying umbrellas with a dagger in the
handle is one of the pleasures of life in Rome.
which the police try To suppress.
The Prince of Prussia put salt in the soup
which the Emperor of Austria's cook had
made, and the cook put an end to his life.
The famous Independence bell in Phila-
delphia is in danger of falling, from the in
security of the frame on which it is hung.
Jeffersons is Rip Van WInkling in Indian
apOlis.
"Bugmaster General is another name ter
State EntomOlogist in Illinois.
An old man in Connecticut, was buried
last week in the suit he had worn at his
own four weddings.
Owens is 'Solon ShingIing" in the Cries.
cent City.