The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-07-18

Board states there were only four Democrat
| ic mem bers out of sixteen. Gov Nichols
| states he is very sorry any action has been
| tax N, aud still adheres to the determination
OF pardOning them if convicted.
| CLEvELAND, July lit is reported
| that an explosion occurred in the mines of
the Brook field Coal Company, near Wheat
| land, Pa on the Erie and Pittsburg Rail-
| road, between Sharon and Newcastle, Pa.
| Fourteen bodies were recovered Ii is said
there We're between thirty and fifty men
at work at the time OF the explosion.
Georgia Constitutional
Convention.
| ATLANTA, July 1.-The Constitutional
| Convention met o-day, and organized.
| Chas. j. jenkins was chosen President. In
| his address he SAID, it is unnecessary to eau
| ton you against doing anything that would
| infringe upon the rights Of the negro race
| This was received with applause.
HARRISBURG, Penn Frank Wilson, col
ored, was executed in IT," ill yard this
morning for the murder OF Jonu b Iseedy,
| in June, 1876.
GREENFIELD, Mass, July 1I.-An extra
engine and aboOse, running toward Green
field. on the Fitchburg railroad, at Wendell
station, ran into a team crossing the rail-
road at that point, killing Ira Davis, Mrs.
Jonah Davis, his mother, Mrs. Ira Wake
field, Mrs. Eugene Brown and Miss Nellie
Lacy. Mrs. Brown lived half an honr; the
| others were killed Instantly and were badly
cut up. The locomotive was not running
at very great speed. The party were re-
turning home from berrying.
NAsHvILLE.--A special to the Nashville
American states that the body of Miss Bar
ton, who had been missed from her house
at Point Oliver, Allen county, Kentucky,
had been found near the residence of her
brother-in-law, George Stark, with two bull
let holes in her head, and her body in an adj
vanced state of decomposition. Stark was
arrested As the murderer and placed under
guard at Scottsville. He was taken out last
night and hung
RICHMOND.-Tames Iraylor, white man,
aged iiftytour, was killed Saturday in
Prince George county by Il negro boy
named Jim Thatch, aged eighteen. The two
had III. alteration, in the course of which
the negro took brick and struck Tray lor
on the head, crushing his skull.
INDIANAPOLIs.-Judge G.. B. Steele, eX-
Ssate Senator from the Nation (Illnois)
district, died from apoplexy at his residence
in this city this evening.
New YORK Oakley |. Barker. grandson
of Commodore Vanderbilt, was indicted by
the Grand Jury day for stealing jewelry
from young woman named Lizzie Weeks.
Shortly afterwards Barker was arraigned
and. pleading not guilty, was remanded for
trial.
DUBUQUE.-A special from Lansing gives
the particulars of the murder OF Joseph EnOs
and wife, an old couple living on Il farm
five miles from Brownsville, just across the
Minnesota line. The house was discovered
on fire, and on being eXtinguished the dead
bodies were found in the cellar.
LAWRENCE, Mass.-This forenoon A. w.
Goodrich, an undertaken, noted for his vio-
lent temper, discharged a gun loaded with
shot at mum Der of small children, for no
other reason than that they were upon the
sidewalk of Elm street picking up cherries
that CHANGED to tail from the hands of a man
who was in a tree gathering the fruit.
Goodrich was in his house, nd, enraged at
the conduct of the children, took gun
loaded with shot. aimed it at the children,
and deliberately discharged it.
New YoRK.-Fully 4,OOC bales of cotton
have been purchased here the past few days
for export to Russia. The Russian Govern
ment purchased 5000 bales within few
weeks, and since the war commenced has
probably taken three times that quantity.
ST. LoUIs-On Friday last Mrs. John
Green, living near Roanoke, Randolph coun-
ty, Mo-, was shot by her husband and NOR
tally wounded. Green claimed that the
shooting was accidental, but Mrs. Green de-
clared that it was not. and shortly afterward
died Mrs. Green's father caused the arrest
of Green, ana he was taken 10 Huntsville
for examination. On Monday night par
ty of about fifty men took Green from the
custody of the Sheriff and hanged him to a
tree near at hand. 1t is said that Green's
intimacy with another woman led him to
murder his wife. The Greens leave seven
children.
PHILADELPHIA.-Unite States Marshal
KOuDz received an official letter from the
Attorney General, calling attention to the
Civil Service order of the President Tequir-
ing every officer of the General Government
ff1f 10
cations. This order was complied with by
the Marshal who gave the necessary in
structions to his deputies and court officers
PHILADELPHIA.-As the express train
from Washington for New York, which ar
rives at this place at p. NJ, was emerging
from GTay's ferry tunnel, it jumped the
track. The baggage car was demolished
and the train set on fire. Joseph Miller,
fireman, was killed, and engineer Fry seri-
ously injured. A passenger named Flame
had his leg cut off and sustained other in
juries.
WAsHISGToN.-It is stated the President
will appoint Cowgirl, a member OF the Flori-
da Returning Board, Marshal of Dakota.
The DakOtians here demonstrate.
WAsHINGToN-Secretar Schurz is repre-
sented as giving bOisterous support to the
Presidents order forbidding Office holders
from active participation in politics. The
other Secretaries think he Is oVer-zealous in
L.
In fact, Schurz is becoming meddlesome.
PATTERSON. y. Edward Holland, of
Carmel, n. T., in the American Hotel, IA
tally shot young man named Ellsworth
Holland was drunk.
ELMIRA. y. Y.--fhe Governor refuses to
interfere in the case of X. E. Newell, SEN
fenced to be hanged in this city on the Doth |
instant, for the murder of his wife.
MEMPHIS. AT 6 40 this evening sharp |
and well defined shock of an earthquake |
was felt in this city, lasting only for mo-
ment and doing no damage. wedding |
ceremony was being performed at Grace |
Church, and as Bishop Eierce, of Arkansas, |
who was officiating. pronounced the couple |
man and wife, the shock came and created !
3 CONJUNCTION among those present.
WAsHINdToN.-Wadeh has written a letter |
to the National Republican He regrets to |
say everything that has occurred North and |
South since the publication of his Painter |
has "but confirmed me in the correctness of
the sentiments expressed in the letter"
WAsHINaToN.-J. r. Fierce, Marshal of !
the Northern District Of Mississippi, has |
resigned, to take effect 31st July. His re- |
signarion was accepted Lake, Marshal for /
the Southern District, will resign to ohlige |
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