The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
senator samnerisin bad health.

Senator Summer is in bad health.
The Texas ladies are getting fusds for a
Magrnder monument.
Mayor Hall, of New York, proposes q
public reception To Judges Campoell ana
Kennedy, OF New Orleans.
England has built steel steamboat nine
TT feet long and dra 1ing only twelve inches
of water for one of the rivers of Brazil.
A married pair in Kentucky. aged res
pectiveIs nineteen and thirteen, have appli-
ed to the courts for guardian.
When Othello admitted that he ''did take
away this old mans daughter, he pleaded
guilty 10 grand lasSeny.
The Christian Union (Beecher) viii. in
future, advocate universal suffrage, without
regard 10 sex or race.
a woman in lie Suer county, Mimi, has
applied for a divorce from her sixth nus
band
The Louisville Jockey club has withdrawn
its offer of a $4,000 prize to be run for at
its spring meeting.
Ohio has law by which any husband
who opens his wife's letters can be made to
pay right smart for it. 1t isn't good state
for jealous husband TO live in.
One thousand turkeys were shipped
through Nashville from Louisville 90 New
Orleans via the Louisville AID Nashville
and Great Southern road, a week or TWO
since.
The rise in the price of lumber on account
of the great fire at Boston viii add at least
$4,000 to the profits OF the purchasers OF the
Coliseum.
A western editors statement. I'VE are
living this moment under absolute despot-
ism" is explained by his contemporaries OY
the fact that he has lately been married,
Small pox imported from Boston is spread
ing in the country towns. In 1orkmolth
ali the churches schools and other places OF
public resort are closed.
The Georgia State Emigration Conven-
ton is in session. Hon. j. +. Long mas 0een
elected permenent President. Two hundred
delegates.
john Z. Hale is q confirmed paralytlc, ana
has Sottening of the brain. Once upon a
time ii was very busy, and the deYlls per-
feet workshop.
Lewis c. Parsons of Alabama, and Geo.
Macy, of Tennessee, are candidates for
cabinet position. Tney are both after the
Secretary ship of Interior, but with little
prospects OF success.
Four girls in Augusta, Ne, were married
about eighteen months ago at the same
hour. Two have since separated from their
husbands and the other two want divorces.
Some negroes at work on the chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad used nitro-gly cerlne to
kinIle a fire. Three of them were killed
instantly, and several others were severely
wounded. 4
We have the record of the last words OF
many of the great men of the olden time.
We have none, however, OF Socrates, Tor
Xautippe would never allow him 10 nave
the last word.
A marriage recently took place at Lam
sing. Mich in which the groom was 80 and
the bride 76. lie had been a widower for
four months and she widow for forey-slX
years.
LONDON, Jan. 2-Hundreds agricultural
laborers are out of employment here, be-
cause the farmers refuse to pay the wages
they demand. They are preparing to emil
CRATE to Brazil.
Separate applications for the pardon of
the persons confined in the Albany Peniten-
tiary for KukluXism, are coming In very
rapidly from the South since the official
announcement that the President will not
pardon them indiscriminately. Y
A free school of political science has been
established in France. The institution aims
at qualifying young men for every branch
of the civil and diplomatic service. 1t in
structs ninety pupils in eight branches OF
study.
Francis Preston Blair, sr., who is the only
man living that enjoyed close political and
social relations with President jackson, IS
represented as being the most hale and
hearty man OF his age in the whole State of
Mary land. He is over eighty.
The fight between President Orion of the
Western Union Telegraph company and
Postmastcr-General Creswell is waxing
warm. The have begun to call each other
hard names. Orion tnI1mates that Creswell
is a fool, and Creswell says that Orton has
become unbearably insolent.
The Cleveland courts have decided in
favor of the insurance companies in case
concerning policy for $4,000 on the life of
man in favor of his partner, the evidence
showing that said partner was aware of an
incurable disease Of the spine.