The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Gen. Early is to deliver several addresses
sn aid OF the Lee memorial fund.
\ deaf and dumb boy at Vineland, Y J..
burned his sister up with kerosene oil.
In a stretch Of SIS miles on the Texas Pa
Citic railroad there will be but six bridges.
over 1000 American girls are now re-
,eiviug their education in English schools.
Wild bear Is no longer to be preserved by
German game laws, and may therefore be
ported by the population generally.
The Georgia Legislature elected S NJ.
TrImmeI President OF the Senate, and a. o.
Bacon. Speaker OF the House.
The total losses by the burning of the
Filth Avenue Theater will reach from $780,
100 To- 100000.
some eighteen hundred emigrants arrived
20 Castle Garden on the 81, u number quite
Unprecedented for tins Indictment season.
The House, by a vote Of 100 to Z, has or
Ieged the doors Of the Credit Mobiier Com
mlttee W be thrown open to the public.
Rev. Samuel Watsons of Memphis, has
Withdrawn from the Methodist Church, on
account of his Spiritualistic views
A large number of white emig-ants from
North Carolina passed through Atlanta,
Thursday, en- route to Tennessee.
Louisiana boasts Of TWO brothers who sat
sss d jury and found their own brother gull
- OF murder, and hey also went and saw
nina hanged.
T.go Of Wiscousin's ex-congressmen are
u be .um Der woods chopping logs at $50
y.4 month. They have found way to be
#e- pesttb.r, honest and useful.
There wa good -<l5iGs on the Arkansas
river nd Pine Bluff, the day after Christmas
-Hi fhe Oldest iuhabitaut never saw the like.
before.
z farmer Of C1lrIosre, Mich, undertook
.a drive turkey to market, when the
proud bird made dash for liberty ami
broke si3D worth OF plate glass.
a Canton lIll.) man, who wanted $4,000
#9' blasted reputation, was glad TO take
one dollar and call it square after the Jury
came IND With "a verdict.
There were 1900 Republicans who scratch
I'd lao name of the negro Fred. Douglass off
.Heir ticket as a Presidential ElectOr in New
York.
Jacob Price, of Lancaster, Penn. lost
his nose in a fight, the other day. 1t was
priceless nose, but now he is a noseless
Price.
The hollowness of the world and the saw
lu-ty nature OF dolls led a young lady of
eight to attempt suicide ia Savannah, Ga,
last week.
A large number of workmrn are candi-
LF+n Mt )israeli viii be opposed By one
Ia Macon. Ca, n. c. Arkridge, while
drunk, shot and killed his brother-in.law.
James <. Greer, and Immediately left the
city.
Neil ;. Brown, ir-. was elected Principal
Clerk 81 the Tennessee House +. Il. Wade
Assistant Clerk and j F.. Williams elected
Lngrossiug Clerk.
htJQ2ht from the the plains of Western
Kansas 10 Delaware, to be made into ivory
ornaments for tile ladies.
Inflated rubber bustles are the latest pop
MAR Whm in fashion. 1t takes a young
husband with weak lungs half an hour to
blow his wife up To Il fashionable rotundity.
Mr.. James Warren of Louisiana. was re-
Gently married to Miss Angeline Bread of
the same State. Having got his Bread
james says he doesn't want any but her.
4 >hrewd old Yankee said he didn't be-
ileve there was any downright cure for la
illness IN man; but" he added, 1--WE
known second wife to hurry it some"
why do you choose to live single life ?'
asked q fashionable idler of an estimable
young lady. "Because,' she reDlied, II am
not able 10 support husband"
They have a petrified woman in Phila-
lelphid- She petritied with astonish-
meut at her husbands bringing her home
new dress which she had not asked for.
There are three pretty triplets, sisters, in
Eaton, Ga thirteen years old and looking
50 much alike that they can't tell "t'other
from which,
On New Years Day l76 able bodied cot
toa hands left Atlanta for Arkansas. Du-
ring the Week Psi have gone in the same di-
rectl'n. They were mostly from Houston
CUUutE.
The superintendent of a London work
house has been convicted of manslaughter
Ipr refusing admission to a poor woman
who afterwards died 81 neglect.
In the Senatorial field at Little rock, Ark
Judge Bowen is ahead, he having bought
on Governor Hadley Tor 100000 and a
promise Of the Governor>hip of Colorado.
There was another Deut-James Dent
No one knew it until he was appointed post
master in Virginia. The people were sim
enough TO believe the supply exhausted.
Somebody has said that the Warmoth
party in Louisiana gave Gen. Grant pref
~ JiEht piuch at the last election and that
now lie has given them a Pinch-back
UARRIsBURG, Jan. Simon Cameron
was renominated in caucus this evening for
the United Sta-eS Senate. The vote stood
Cameron GA, Kelly (, Wickersham ..
At Brattleboro, Vermont, between Nov
2i and Dee. 20, three sisters, aged respect
lively 80, % ana SO years died in the same
house where they had all resided as mem
beers of one family.
Chicago ministers growl because their
supporters bring in the bodies OF smallpox
victims TO be preached over in the church
one divine had two cases OF this kind last
week.
III tho Court of Christian County, Illinois
seventeen suits are pending against the In-
d2napoliS AMI ST. Louis Railroad for dam
ages occasioned by the importation of Texas
cattle.
Sj1uor Lama, Italian Minister of the In
terror, has directed the projects OF the
Kingdom to eNpel all gypsies. He says
'Ehey are nuisances in the cities, danger
Gus in the country aud indecent every
where.
Rev. VIM. Henry, colored preacher in
lexington Ky, is in jail on a suit tor has
tardy. lie had lived with the first woman
since slave times and by her had two chill
drvn, but recently took unto himself a legal
wife. Hence the suit on the part OF woman
number one
Within the next twenty days there will
be- thi-ty State Legislatures in seasonal
tile states ot the Union except New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware.
Maryland, California and Oregon. As Con-
g1es> Will be in session also, the newspapers
viii be gorged for some time with the saw
ifgS ana donSs of the "law making power.
\ man in bingham, Illinois, who had
parted from his wife and been separated
from his children. became insane a few dav,
ago, and in tit of insanity disinterred two
ot his dead children dressed their skele-
tons and seated them at the table sayinu
THAT it he could not have the living he was
bound to have the dead.
The appointment of Sam Bard TO the
postoiiice OF Chattanooga, has created great
Indignation among the Republicans around
there. and Crutchfield, the Congressman
from that District, says he is Determined