The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21
NEISSHSSHPPI.
House adjourned.

! The Central Star says An Amateur Ora
matte Association has been organized a
| Goodman.
The Port Gibson Standard says: An Ole
| negro woman living ut Mr.. Shanahan's a few
nights ago went to bed. apparently in good
health, and before morning was corpse
Natchez has colored Fire Company
The Scooba Spectator thinks that from the
way Shoup gets up in the Senate he must be
a rising Senator.
The Tupelo Spectator says that an unfor-
tunate difficulty occurred in our neighbOr-
ing town of SaltillO on Monday the llth
inst. in which several persons were serious
ly ifnot fatally injured. 1t is thought that il
grew out of an old feud and the parties being
somewhat in liquor. John Watson was
shot through the lungs and jeff. johnson,
was also seriously wounded in TIE lungs and
Il man by the name of White was knocked
are in precarious condition.
The Macon Beacon under the head OF
Another Chapter of Robberies, has the fol-
lowing:
The residence of Mrs. Wissler was enter
ed one day this week. during her absence,
and considerable amount stolen by the ne
gro thieves.
A negro was detected stealing from the
store of Tarrant q Hunter and brought to
bay by Mr.. Sam. Tarrant, with a pistol, and
properly cared for. He was brought before
a Magistrate the same evening and bailed-
and the same night was detected stealing
several articles, two pairs CATERS, five OF
six bars of soap, etc
The other day pocket book containing a
considerable amount of money was abstract
ed from the drawer of MARI Il Bro. by an
other 18th Amendment. The rascal has not
been caught
Macon should have a branch penitentiary
~ Ianl thieves
The Nallonian says that two negro men
were badly burned in that place lecently by
projecting with a flask of powder over a
lighted lantern.
The Meridian Mercury says: An elderly
man, named Nichols, committed suicide in
that place by taking grains OF strychnine
on the 18th. Melancholy is supposed to have
been the cause.
She CoriAth News says: A freedmen in
dulging in pastime of shooting off gun a
few days since was horribly mutilated in the
left hand by the bursting of the barrel.
The Wilmington On. c. journal says
Radicalism has destroyed the Universities
of North Carolina, South Carolina and Al
ALBANIA. The Legislature of Mississippi is
preparing TO reconstruct the University
of that State. The fate of the institution is
therefore sealed.
The Corinth News says: We had a call
to-day from Mr.. Charlie Montague, of Iuka.
who showed us n metallic paint or dye found
not far from Iuka. He says there are three
colors to be found-the red. blue, and we
forgot the other. This gentleman is going
to prepare a quantity and believes it will
prove very valuable.
The Oxfofd Falcon says that little negro
boy shot his fore finger on the left hand OH
in Lafayette county while playing with a
"pistol."
Miss Fannie 3. Price. supported by the
Vicksburg Opera House, is playing in Port
Gibson.
From the Greenville Times we learn that
a meeting of the citizens of that place was
held on Thursday the 9TH inst, for the pur-
pose of discussing a project for building a
railroad from GreenvIl to Deer Greek.