The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-09-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK

| DIXON. ILL.-About week ago a tramp
named Barth. Hayes, called at the house OF
| *. Watkins, aud asked for something TO eat.
| Mr.. Watkins fed him, procured him work,
and last night Mrs. Watkins eloped with
him, taking all the money she could find in
| the house.
MoNTREAL.-W. II. Jackman. living near
| Windsor Mills, shot and killed Robert Col
| by, wood surveyor. Jackman alleges that
Colby attempted a criminal assault on his
wife.
BOsToN, MAss.--John Riley, charging
John Clancy with improper liberties with
his (Rlley'S) wife, killed him.
HAKrFoRD.-John Conden killed his bro
ther-in Jaw, John Mahoney. Both drunk.
PANAMA-Callao dates to August Ist re-
port serious earthquakes at Coquimbo and
Serena in Chill. The extent of disturb
anceS and amount of damage are not given,
The cable from Callao south is broken. ow
ing to earthquakes. Details of news there
fore, are not received. Many priests are
leaving Ecuador on account of hostility TO
the government.
ST.. LoUIs.-Ben DeBar, proprietor and
manager of DeBar's Opera house Of this city,
after gradually sinking since his return
from New York died at 6 o'clock this morn
ing. He will be buried at o'clock Thurs
day afternoon with Masonic ceremonies.
Worcestershire President to-day COM
missioned the following PostmasterS: VIM.
Firth, MoBerly, Mo, and Cyrus j. Frey,
Great Bend, Kansas.
WAsHINGToN CIrY.-The Comm issioner of
Internal Revenue has received notice of the
arrest of Deputy Marshal VIM. IL. Deaver,
u. 5. Comm issioner, James w. Green and
his son, j. a. Green, at Statesville, n. C., for
printing alleged fraudulent vouchers for
awards on account of giving information
for the arrest of criminals.
CINCINNATI-Judge John L. Miner. for
merly of the Supreme Court of this State,
tell dead on the sidewalk in this city this
morning.
WAsHINGToN.-JudgeA A, B. Sloanaker, of
Louisiana, has been appointed Special Agent
of the Internal Revenue office.
LoNDON.-Owing to the depression in the
cotton trade. it has been decided to close the
NOncatone Cotton Mill, EN- ploy ing over five
hundred men.
CoLUMBIA.-The Grand Jury returned
true bills for breach of trust, to day, against
eX- LiPut.-GovernOr Gleaves, eX-Presdent
of the Senate, Montgomery, Ex-Governor
Moses, eX-Clerk of the House Jones, eX-
Treasurer Parker, also against Clerk of the
Senate Woodruff, for forgery against one
f. 5. Jacobs, for forgery of over $1,000;
against Scott Parker, L. ). Senator Patter
son, for conspiracy in the same forgery :;
against Patterson for bribery in the matter
of the Blue Ridge Railroad, and against
Patterson, Parker, II. III. kempton of New
York, for conspiracy to bride the Legisla-
ture.
WASHINGTON. A special to the New
York Times says Chief Justice Carter, of
the Supreme Court of the District Court OF
Columbia, says it is not true that he has
made up his mind to refuse to honor a re-
QUESTION from the Governor of South Caro-
lima in case the latter should call upon him
for the arrest of Cardozo and other South
Carolina Republicans now in Washington,
who are said to have been indicted by De-
mocratic Grand Jury in that State.
MEMPHIs.-A. B. Haynes, Grand Master
of the State Grange and leading farmer,
died at his plantation, near this city, last
night, after brief illness, of congestion OF
the brain.
PHILADELPIA. = Among the Executives
who are here and who will visit the per-
manent Exhibition Tomorrow are the fol-
lowing: Hartrantt, of Pennsylvania; Por-
ter, of Tennessee; Anthony, OF Kansas;
Young, OF Ohio; Newboid, of Iowa; Gar
Der, oil Nebraska; Hampton, of South Car
DINA; EXtell, of New Mexico; Prescott,
of New Hampshire; Bedle, OF New Jersey !;
COchrane, OF Delaware. Some of the Gov
ernors spent the morning calling upon
friends in the city, while others engaged in
| social conversation at the Continental.
COLUMBIA, Aug. 29-The Grand Jury to-
day found true bills against eX-Lieut, Gov.
Gleaves. eX-Treasurer Parker and CardOzo,
eXComptrOlier Dunn and HOge, cX-Spcaker
Lee Clerks of the General Assembly Wood
ru fl and Jones, eX-State Senator Owens aud
others, on various serious charges of fraud
inc onnection with the discharge of their
duties.
WASHINGTON CIrY.-The following was
received at the War Departments
HELENA, Mont, Aug. 2S.-Gen. e. D..
| Townsend. Washington, ID. c.: Just back
from Benton and Shaw. All well. The In
| dians have got across Yellowstone below
| the lake and above the falls. killing two
| parties of visitors to the Geysers, sparing
| the ladies. Howard has repIenished his
stores, and is in pursuit. Other parties watch
| their issue east of the mountains. l will
start west for Missoula the day after to-mor-
| row, and continue to Walla Walla, but the
garrisons here are so small that i will have
| little escort. Gibbons should be reinforced,
and the Sd infantry seems the most avail
| able. If Sheridan applies and the Secretary
/ of War approves. you may order it TO Og-
| den, Utah, thence to march north to Mon
| tana. After this affair is over, Howard will
| return again, leaving Gibbons here too weak.
| | see no signs of danger from the north, but
| it is apprehended here. w. T. SHERMAN.
WATERFOWL. n. Y.-Stephen Barber aud
| his wife were shot by a tramp at their resi-
| dence in Belmont, Franklin county, last
night. Barber is dead, and his wife not eX
pected to live. Robbery was the object. The
murderer is at large.
LITTLE Rock, AKA brutal assault was,
this afternoon, com mitted by w. d. Blocher
of the Gazette, on X. E. Onield. private
| citizen, whom Blocher had reason 10 sup
pose was the author of a communication in
the Evening Star accusing him (Blocher)
and his partner, John B. Adams, of making
| a corrupt bargain in the buying up of State
| bonds, pronounced by the Supreme Court
of the State to be fraudulent, with a view of
saddling the people of the State with their
payment.
CRCISNATI,-A freight train on the In
dianapOlis, Cincinnati and Lafayette rail-
road run off the track yesterday, at Han
sells Station. Of four tramps, who were
| stealing ride, two, Geoge HOgle and Fill
more Fagley, were killed, and the two 9TH
| ers badly wounded.
| WAsHINGTON.-E. L. Stanton. son of the
late Secretary Stanton, died this morning
| after brief illness,
| CLVELAND-The different Communicates
| of knights Templar, who have been in at
tendance on the Twentieth Triennial Con-
| clave of the Knights Templar, are fast leav-
ing the city for their homes. Apollo Com
mandery No. 1, of Chicago, left this even
/ ing. Others leave tonight and in the MORN
| ing. The Grand Encampment, in session
/ to-day, elected the following officers: Grand
Master, Vincent L. Hurlbut of IChicago;