The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-03
NEWS Or THE WEEK


party. tn roll call will show 40 Republic
cans aud 80 Democrats There are tire,
Yancauc e.. ole from South Carolina ant
| two from Louisiana.
! CIScISSATI.-Hon. Cassius Vi. Clay, yes
/ tcFIay morning, shot and Instantly Killed a
negro named Perry White.
LoUIsvILLE.-The Louisville, Cincinnati
and Lexington Railroad, extending from
Louisville To Mount Sterling, and from
/ Louisville to Cincinnati, was sold by order
OF Chancellor Bruce to-day
AUGUSTA, Gait is reported four deaths
/ of yellow fever occurred at Port Royal yes
terlay. and that number of citizens have
/ lett that place.
| ST. LoUIs.--A private letter from Fort
| Ellis, Kansas says party OF cattle thieves
were captured in extreme Northwest Kan
| sas. Seven were killed and another hung.
/ The thieves were surprised while eating
supper. Seven hundred head OF cattle were
| recovered.
| CINCINNATI.-Eight colOred men quar-
relied at the corner of George and Elm SITS.
Four were wounded, one fatally.
RICHMOND, IND.--This morning the Rev.
f. c. Holiday aud the Rev. DR.. BaylesS old
personal friends of Senator MOrtons. and
| leading ministers in the Methodist Church
in this State, called upon the Senator in
obedience to instructions from the Southern
Indiana Conference, and presented him wi b
a series of resolutions passed by the Con-
ference at their session yesterday, together
with letter from Bishop Haven. The hrst
resolution declared that the Conference re-
garded the Senator's condition as an event
of such grave importance as to demand
from it a formal recognition. The second
puts upon record their high appreciation of
the eminent services the Senator rendered
the State and Nation both since aud during
the war, comm anded the highest respect
and prom pted the wish that his life may be
spared. The third declares that the calami-
ty that has Overtaken him is one before
which the clamOr of parties should be
hushed bv the voice of patriotic prayer.
The fourth and fifth thaC Bishop Haven lead
the Conference in prayer to God that Sena-
tor Morton may be spared, and that two
persons accompany the Bishop 10 this city,
to present these resolutions to the Senator
in person.
WAsHINGTON.-The President and Mrs
Hayes with the party accom- panying them
returned to Washington this evening. The
President considerably fatigued and
without much delay entered a carriage and
was driven to the Soldiers Home.
CHICAGO Sidney Myers. President of the
Merchants and Mechanics savings bank
which uspended last week was indicted by
the grand jury to day for the EN- bezzlem ent
of two hundred thousand dollars, and was
subsequently ged in jail in default of two
hundred thousand dollars b all. The grand
Protection life insurance company on the
charge of deirauding its policy holders.
CHARLEsToN.-Thos Keitt, of Newberry
Court House, arrested for bigamy and sub
sequcntly convicted, was a colored mem Der
of the Legislature, and not Col. heitU, of
NeWberry, and no connection OF the late
Law renee NJ. keitt, as enormously stated.
DISPATCHES from SandovaI, ILL.,, says: A
train on the Illinois Central Railroad was
10 n r < O'pIpek
day morning, killing seven passengers, and
injuring number of others.
New kYORK-A San Antonio dispatch
says: An Austin special TO the San AntO-
MO Express states thai not only one, but
several regiments will be organized imme-
dIately for active service on the Rio Grande.
PITTsBURG-Major-Ge o. L. Pearson,
commander of the State troops during the
strike has been arrested, charged with MUIR
der. The charge sets forth that one person,
sitting in his own door, was killed by the
fire ordered by Gen. Pearson. He waived
examination, and was committed TO jail.
COLUMBUS, MIss.-Nathaniel Pierce, who
was IMPLICATED in the killing of Storey and
Fitzpatrick, in Pickens county, Ala, last
August, was taken from the CarrOlltOn,
Ala, Jail, last night, by about twenty masked
men, and hanged.
WAsHINGToN.--Gen. Hancock writes to
the War Department that affairs in the min
ing districts of Pennsylvania have not yet
assumed such a shape as would justify the
withdrawal of L. 5. troops and their con-
centration at Carlisle Barracks and the AL
leghany Arsenal. The Secretary of War
will soon present to the President a report
on the condition of the army, and also
comprehensive plan for its increase.
CHICAGO dispatch was received at
military headquarters from Lieut.. Allyn,
10th Infantry, from Buffalo, Kansas, dated
yesterday, stating that TWO of the robbers
engaged in the Union Pacific train robbery
were killed and eighty pounds of gold re-
covered.
New YoRK-Nine steamships sail for
Europe to-day, taking about four hundred
thousand bushels of grain, besides a large
quantity of cheese, butter, cotton, lard, oys-
tiers, -four, hops, beef canned goods, horses,
cattle, and full lists of passengers.
NEW YoRK.--The steamer Wisconsin ar
rived to-day with live hundred Mormon
emigrantS, who were forwarded by a special
train to Salt Lake City. They consisted of
English and Scandinavians, with fair
sprinkling OF Germans; they are nearly ali
artisans and far nerS. This is the last party
to arrive.
FERNANDINA, FLA There were four
deaths in the past twenty-four hours. and
three new cases. OF the sixteen hundred
and thirty-two inhabitants two hundrad and
thirty are sick and eight hundred and fifty
three have been sick.
New YORK. -ROcO Pelito and Luigi Per
cello quarreled obout debt of fifteen dol
lars, and Pelito killed PercelO with a stilet-
to.
PITTsBURG Gen. Pearson, arrested f~r
murder while commanding the State fol ces
ag inst the rioters, was admitted to bail IN
$4,000. Pearson made no defense in the
prelim mary hearing.
CHTCAGO--Chas l.. Woodman a promin-
ent broker, has failed.
The Strike Continues.
HAzLEToN, PA.--The coal operators in the
HazletOn mining districts have resolved
that the prices are too low to justify an in