The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19
TELEGRAPHTC.
THE CHOLERA.

ON
Twelve lntermcnts here to-day from di.
e;ise> against seventeen Yesterday For ul
week ending last evening. the iuterment
were one huatred and nineteen. thirty-eigh
being from cholera.
NASHVILLE. june l4.-The leading phvs
iclvus are now aud have been from ne firs
divided iu regard TO the question whefLe
there has been single case Of real cboleri
in this city during the season. The mortal
NY certainly increased for ten days. unti
four days ago, when it began to decrease
The doctors report the cases. of whatever
nature they may be. as entirely Under con
troll. The average number OF deaths wer,
from twelve 10 fifteen per day, occurring
manly among the negroes.
MURDERER COMMITTED.
MEMPHIS. June l4.-Salter, who murder
ed Jack Radley, an engineer on the NIis.is-
/ sissippl and Tennessee Railroad. some ten
J days since. mt fernando. Miss Ia, hran
/ sent to Jail without bail. 70 answer "A charge
/ OF murder.
THE COTTON DESTROYER Al WORK.
! MEMPHIS. June l5.-The caterpillar ha,
again appeared In the adjacent country. and
/ d destroying the cotton They are worse
i'm North Mississippi than ever before.
{ owing 20 the inceSSaut rains. the grass aud
weeds are also damaging the crops
RIVER STEAMER CIvH-RICHTED TO THE
AMOUNT or $1,000.
NEW ORLEANS, June l4.--Judge T.. North
CuilUm. uf the Firth District Court to-day
rendered "a decision OF one thousand dollars
DAMAGE in the case OF Josephine Dreiver
against the owner of the steamboat Gov
eruor Allen for refusing plaintiff. "A colorcd
woman, cabin passage aud such accOmmo-
dations as were extended 10 white ladies.
This is the first decision under the state law
relative to common carriers.
GAY DECavER "rLuGGEp."
ZANEsvILLE, ONO June l4.-La-t eve
ming DR. Lewis. a physician OF tins city.
learned that Thos. Smith, clerk in the
Baltimore and Ohio shops. "a married man
and having three children. had taken his
Gewi~) daughter in "a buggy and LEFT town.
The doctor followed and overlook them.
and shot smith through the lung. besides
beating him severely. He is not expected
TO recover. Lewis was arrested.
sUDDEN DEATH.
CINCISNATI June lI.-Joscph G. Butler.
President of the Lafayette Bank and of the
safe Deposit Company, of this city, died
suddenly at halt-past ten O'Clock last night
from rheumatism OF the heart. ON the
steamer Fleetwood. "A few miles below Mays
vile. He was on an excursion 60 West Y Nir- |
giHia, having left home yesterday in appar-
entity good health. The Chamber of Com
merce. of whom Joseph G. Butler, deceased, !
was eN-Prcsident. appointed committee |
on resolutions this afternoon, consisting of |
eN-Presidcnts Of that body, and adjourned |
out ot respect 10 his memory.
ARMY DIGNIrAKIEs RETURNED TO WASH /
INGToN--ANorHER NEW PLANET
DISCOVERED.
WAsHNGroN. June l4.-Generals Shor- /
man and Nhipple returned to- day from
w est Point, and Secretary Belknap is ex- /
pected Wednesday or Thursday next
The President of the Smithsonian Insti- !
"A 4
Watson. Of Ann llarbOr, Michigan, an-
bouncing the discovery of "a new planet I'm .
seven hours and sixteen minutes, right as
tenSiOn south, and in twenty-one degrees
and torty-three minutes deciinatiou, with "a
rapid motion north, in the eleventh magni-
.ude.
vILLAINoU5 ASSAULT on A WOMAN.
CLEVELAND, June IA German woman
was assaulted last night about halt-pa-t
eight o'clock, on the corner of Pros pert
street ana CAss avenue, by man who en-
leavorcd TO choke her uscnsiOle. Her
screams attracted the attention of some
men passing aud thd villain was captured.
Ion" Reck- The girl was only slightly
hurt.
LATEH.-The man who assaulted the Ger
man girl on Prospect street, last night, turns
put 10 be insane.
A BRUTAL MURDER.
n EW IBERIA, La. June lI.--Mr. Daniel I
Lanet Frenchman. aud Alexander Snacr /
a colored Justice of the Peace, doing busi-
leSS together, about five miles below here. |
we're brutally murdered i'm their store about
10 O'Clock last night, aud their store burned
20 the ground.
Their bodies were burned 70 crisp. n
.eems they were simultaneously struck. /
heir heads being beaten to Jelly.
Robbery was the object, a. the money de-
posted in their safe is missing.
TIE act was committed by three negroes
If the nei ghbOrhOOd.
MURDERER ENECUTED-A BUNGLING JOB.
PARIS KY, June l3.--Joc Duncan. the
negro who killed john Hawkins. colOrcd, in
A pril, 1872, was hung here to-day at 1
o'clock. The trap was sprung, but the rope
stretched and DuncOu's feet touched the
ground. His neck was not broken, and the
poor wretch partially straugled, was taken
again upon thc scatlold ana the rope re- adj
u-ted, and was swung off the second time.
About 5000 persons, mostly negroes, wit
messed the execution.