The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27

we IND the papers nlled with accounts OF
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe-will not some
body tell US about Mr.. Harriet Beecher
Stowe?
London has 1900 omnibusses and 5OOO cabs.
Gounod has already made $4,000 on the
copyright of his Faust.
lord Ainsley" is now bar-keeper In an
obscure Boston tavern.
Petitions against the ranking privilege
are pouring into Congress.
A Connecticut inventor has taken out a
patent for paper collins.
They are now importing hair-clOth skirts
TO take the place of hoops.
A clergyman in Ohio has sued his congre-
cation for 800 back salary.
Washington correspondents say Mrs. Sec
rotary Fish is "a fine blonde"
The New York Leader says the "fsher-
mems best luck" Is 'the net proceeds"
Vermont is making energetic efforts 20
replenish her streams with salmon.
The London papers record sthe first sui
eide from the new Blackfriar's bridge"
A house in Detroit caught fire on Sunday
night, and five children were burned 10
death.
A man who murdered a boy in Chicago
has been sentenced 10 one years imprison-
ment.
The Boston Times calls Mrs. Stoves new
Byron story ''the old one hammered out
| thih,"
The Indian Nation have passed laws re-
curing toll for all Texas cattle passing
through their country.
1t is estimated that $4,000 emigrants will
settle in Texas this tall.
Columbus, Georgia, wants city clock, a
new hall and a fair.
The spring races over the Metaire course,
near New Orleans, will be lively, and big
thing.
A lath and single machine factory Is 10
be established I'm GAINESVILLE Tenn.
The British Minister at Washington Ii
putting his house In order for the reception
Of III. II. H., Prince Arthur.
About two per cent of the fifty-two pat.
ent pavements with which humanity Is allie
ted, are good for something.
An English jury foreman recently an.
nounced, MY Lord we find the man who
stole the mare, not guilty"
Schenectady, New York, has Justice o
the Peace who decides that a 'verbal con
tract Is not good without a stamp"
One million Of the people OF London neve
lions of money to convert Asia, Africa an'
the Indies.
Partisan Barnum has offered 10000
francs year to be allowed TO cage the muir
derer Troppman and make travelling shoN
of him.
A machine having been invented to clea
> the Ramie fibrd, this. the New Orleans Plea
yune says, removesth only objection 20 Il
culture.
The 'lIon heart Of King Richard th
First, England, has just been removed froI
the treasury of Rouen Cathedral, and place
4 In a new tomb in the choir.
New York has a gentleman Of leisure an
wealth whose weakness Is the COLLECTION :
old tobacco pipes He has pipes MADE
! nearly every country In the world
A South African Chief has been snitte
with a passfon for Queen Victoria, and
e favorabiy open his suit, has sent her q tigs
e and $4,000 worth of diamonds.
The apathy in celebrating the anniversaE
n Of the battle Of New Orleans, January 81
II Is explained BY a colored brother % 1
'. since Jackson's bin gone"
y A German widow in Chicago has just T
covered In suit at law claim against u
q estate OF her decreased husband for mons
n advanced 10 him during life from her ov
private fortune.
Congreve I'm one of his comedies speaks
a lady @who has got that everlastlr
= rotation of tongue that echo hath no chan'
= with her, but must wait TIL she dies 70 eau
a her last word"
They have curious style Of love ma ~,
out West for a paper there says: "A
~ young people who we're seen feeding cay
\, other dove fashion, over a gate post tns y.
~ er evening, had better be q little mor0 On
=. ~ tious I'm the future"
"a A white woman is under indlctment
Virginia for marrying a negro
rn The New York Sun demands the suppre
sion Of masked balls.