The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK

g WAsHINGToS.-Henry w. TIilleard, o
, Georgia has been appointed Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Pienipotentiary L
Brazil. vice Jas. Partridge, OF Maryland.
MEMPHIs.-The negro levee hands her,
struck to- day, and attempted t. proven
boats crews from working. They wer'
n prom pity dispersed b. the police.
: HAvAxA,-Teleg-apa adyices from
e Jamaica report revolution AMI two days
: eoufagration at Port-au Prince, Hayti.
e WAsHINGT OK, ID. C.-The President anC
Cabinet to-day accepted the invitation oil
Gen. Harlan, behalf of the Louisville
J Exposition, To be held in September, to be
; present at the opening. Every member oil
the Cabinet agreed To attend, unless detan-
ed at the time in Washington by pressing
business.
Observation-Disclosures is somewhat
agi5ated over the discharge of thirty odd
employees of the government depot for petit
tloning Gen. EkIn 10 increase their sala-
| rIeS-
CoLUMBUs-S. h. Mann, an insurance
agent, has been discovered TO be an embez-
zler of his Company's funds TO the amount
OF $4,000. His present Whereabouts IN
known.
LEAvESwoRTH.--Anni Mosher, the
youngest daughter of one OF our we'll
| known citizens, was bitten by a rattlesnake
last evening, aud within three minutes be-
| came speecAless, and died in great agony in
an hour
ATLANTA, GA The constitutional con-
vcntion has decided to elect judges of the
suprt me aud superior courts by Joint bal
lot of the Legislature. The election occurs
| in 1850.
PATTERSON, y. j Two striking silk en-
ployes (women) have been sent to Jail Tor
assaulting another woman who had return
ed TO work.
BUKAREsT.--One hundred thousand
troops We're engaged on each side at Plevna
The Russians were routed, and poured
across the Sistova bridge, retreating into
| Roumanai.
New IoRK.-Eighteen women clerks in
| the Treasury Department have arrived here
| with the commis sion appointed by Post
master General Key. to count l76,000,000
postage stamps of different denominations
reported in the vaults of the postage stamp
agency OF this city.
LoUIsvILLE.--At Orangeburg, Ky, John
son Mckay yesterday mortally wounded
Il. Z. Tale by thruSting a knife through
his lungs. Mickey surrendered.
CHICAGo.-The remains Of Gen. Custer
arrived here to-day from Fort Lincoln, Da-
kotO territory. a I'd were forwarded at 5 :l5
| P. NJ by the Michigan Southern railroad To
| West Point, where they will BE- inferred in
| the receiving vault until the funeral in
| 'ctober. The remains of Col. Cook, Lieut..
| Reilly and DR.. Dewoolf arrived on the same
train. They.will be forwarded respective
ly to Hamilton, Ontario; Washington, ID.
c., and Norwalk, Ohio.
WILKEsBARRE.-Au except night trains
are running on the Valley road. \ divis-
ion of troops are guarding twenty miles of
the road for the Leheigh and Susquehanna
| Company. Their trains will not be run for
several days.
BLOOMINGTON, IND.--A SOW having small
| niu WI ilp hpi u ed nv q ms
named Mayiield, living a short distance in
the country, caught him with her teeth,
pulled him to the ground and tore his arms,
| hands and one thigh in a horrible manner
before he could be rescued
SCRANTON. PA,--The feeling of insecurity
which has pervaded the community for
some days was this morning dispelled by
the arrival at O'Clock of about 1000
| soldiers, regular and State troops, under
| the command of Maj. Gen. Brinton. They
| encountered numerous Instructions on their
| passage from Northum beriand to this city,
| and were obliged to proceed very carefully,
marching in advance of the train a conSid-
| cradle portion of the distance, Near Ply
| mouth he track was found torn up and they
were met by crowd of rioters, enrenched
| behind some coal cars. After "A short Strug-
| gle, during which no shots were fired, and
no one on either side seriously injured, the
mob was routed and large number of rio
| tiers captured.
NEW YoRK.--John Francis Murphy, a
| sporting and turf man, blew his brains out
| in a gambling house Cause, financial EN-
| barraSSmentS and lady.
WAsHINGToN--EX-D Detective c. S. Bell,
l arrested last night on Teguisition from the
{ Governor of Texas on a charge OF murder,
was released to-day by Judge Humphreys.
WILKEsBARRE, PA,-Twenty- five hum
dred miners have just resolved to continue
the strike and stop the pumps until % per
cent. advance is conceded,
CAIRO, ILL,-The Levee negroes last
| night attempted to prevent the coaling of
| tOwboat Norton, had asSailed the coalers
| with shower of stones. Mr. Anderson,
the mate, put the mob to flight by few
shots from revolver, and the coaling pro-
| ceeded
INDINAPOLIs In the United States Court
this afternoon, Judge Drummond sentence
ed the strikers arrested here, at Nincennes,
and at Terre Haute, tor interfering with the
operations of the railroads in possession of
| the courts, to three months each in the
county jail. Sayre, of the krem ems Broth
erhood, was discharged.
RIcHMoND.-Judge Hughes. of the Unit
ed States District Court. decided that the
| gold from the Virgi ia Treasury, which the
state officials distributed amOlg themselves
on the evening of the evacuation OF Rich
mond, was the property of the United States
Government, and that an action brought
against said officials by the United States
Government can be maintained in his court.
The amount involed is $4,000.
| NAsHVILLE.--A man named Goddard,
| supposed to hail from Texas, was run over
and killed at Cowan, on the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and st. Louis railway, Saturday
night.
New YoRK-The chief of police of Chica-
go telegraphed to Superintendent Walling
this afternoon that a woman kidnapped
three children there and had fled to this
city, with the intention of taking them to
Germany by to-day's steamer. The woman
| was arr ested and appeared to be a lady of
| refinement and said she was taking the
children to Germany to be educated.
| ALEXANDRIA, Mo-Information has been
| received here of a terrible murder commit
ted in this county last night. The victims
| are Lewis Spencer, two daughters, Alice
and Jane, aged fifteen and eighteen, and
two little boys, aged ten and twelve. Only
| surmises can be given of the case. Mr..
| Spencer was Town Treasurer, and is be-
| lieved to have had from $500 to 81 900 in the
/ house at the time of the murder, which was
| probably committed to get possession of the
money, which would have been turned over
to the county in few days.
| CINCINNATI, August 4.-Seven colored
| men arrived in Cincinnati to-day on the
Louisville ShOrt-Line train, having been
| banished from Kentucky soil and forbidden
to return, under penalty OF death, They
were taken out of their fields in working
| clothes and driven away ny an armed mob
of several hundred neighbors. Smith