The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Fourteen houses burned at Fontania,
Kansa as.
nine year old boy was killed in n. Y.
by Il snow ball, thrown by playmate.
The Arkansas Legislature meets first
week in January.
The General Assembly of Tennessee will
convene the 9th January next.
Female car conductors are the most re-
cent.
An ice gorge broke above Memphis which
destroyed a large number of boats; and
caused the loss OF 200 900 bushels OF coal.
Mrs f A. Meriwether is a candidate for
School Visitor for the Fourth Ward, in
Mem Phis.
Members of the Massachusetts legislature
are going 20 try and get along with $500 pay
for the entire session.
Florida people are preparing to emigrate
in large numbers because Hart, carpet-bag-
ger, has been elected governor
King Kamehameha V. who has just died
at the age Of AZ, is the last Of the roya line /;
he did not name his successor Pity!
Two hundred colored Atlanta citizens
who DIDN'T pay their street tax are now call
ed upon 70 work it out.
A coored man, named Ell. Gaines, shot
and seriously wounded his wife Mary, at
Memphis, thesother day.
Hon. Charles Ready, Of Murfeesboro, re-
ceived "A fall on Christmas day, and un-
fortunately broke his leg.
Robert Haley, a Nashville drunkard, 50
years old, cut his throat in the workhouse
Tuesday, and is likely to die.
A colored man in an Atlanta, Ga, prayer
meeting had his devotiOns curtailed by
kneelIng down with pistol i'm his pocket.
Cheers in the Spanish Cortes greeted the
reading of the bill emancipating Poto Rico
slaves within four months, with cOmpensa-
ton TO their owners
Five negro women were shot during
Christmas festivities ut Memphis, two fatal
ly. by their husbands, and the others by
colored admirers.
The Vermont Legislature has passed a
sensible act. Furnishing with fine any per-
son who points firearms at another person
in sport.
One OF the insurance com panies that was
in full blast in Chicago at the time of the
lire, and met with losses amounting to
$5O0,OOO' had not one dollar OF assets.
CINCINNATI, Dee. 2s.-Hogs slaughtered
whole number from November Isl to date,
$4,000.
The death Of George w. Lamar, ST., of
paralysis, in Savannah, is announced. He
was 20 years OF age and the father OF Col.
a. X. Lamar, editor of the Advertiser.
The rear car on the indianapolis, Peru
and Chicago Road, ran of the track on the
10Th. Six persons were injured, three fatally.
NO Southerners.
A train leaving Cory, Ohio went
through trestle over Goose Creek, TWO
cars were burned thirty-tiye persons hurt,
nineteen OF whom have since died.
Ranger fame, died at his home in Pocahon- |
tas county, West Va, on the sth inst. in his |
10th year.
Capt f. NJ. Dunbar, of the merchant YES
sci Fannie, committed suicide at Calves
ton. Texas, u few days ago, on account of |
having lost nearly all his earnings by the
Boston fire.
The Franklin, Tenn, Review relates a
horrible casualty. While Mrs Williams
was gone 20 the spring, fire "popped" from
the fire place into the cradle and burned her
little girl to death.
A meeting of the citizens of Burke coun-
ty, Georgia, was held last week. and seven
white and three negro freeholders were
appointed TO canvass the county in favor Of
the abolition of fences.
Another of the most frightful of railroad
catastrophes! Fifty persons are reported
killed by the plunglng Of cars down
, - iiNs1i WtSSicAus new OTk, ana inc
horrors of confiagration are added.
At meeting OF colored citizens i'm Boston
asst night, resolutions were passed calling
on the American people to urge the ad-
nlnistration TO extend all legal aid to the
patriots of Cuba.
On the Georgia railroads, between the
10Th Of April, 1867, and the Both Of April.
S72- five years, the locomotives ran over
md destroyed cattle TO the value OF over
10000.
Theodore Tilton asks: @Where would
Ie now but for the Pilgrim Fathers ~ The
dea Is gradually gaining ground that the
whole mission of the pilgrims was to come
lere and found" Theodore Tilton.
In green room slang poor actor IA des-
gnated stick" or "duffer" Rich patrons
y actresses are known as spoons" Sec
ond-class swelIs who affect ballet girls are
tyied ''nashes."
NEW YORK. Dec. 4.-This has been a J
erriDie day for the firemen here. Fires.
Inaii ana large, have been going all dav. T.,
ne loss Will not fall short OF one million |
Sarnum's total loss Is estimated at SI75. ON
'eyond his insurance.
Capt Lindsey of Jackson. Tam !
laims to have made very importanf I'M
rovement in telegraphing. He has in +
ented printing telegraph apparatus, of
asy practleal operation, which it Is said
1ul print Dy telegraph four times as fant AZ
neold system Of signs. 4