The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-11-06
4 SENSATION IL CHURCH cIRcLEs

! CISCINNATI, Oct.-S0mething OF a sensa-
/ ton was created in church circles to-day
+ by the announcement that DIR. SDrg. prom
4 i8ent physician OF New port. aud mead of a
/ family, had entered the priesthood under a
/ special dispenSafion from the Pope DR.
/ , rig was formerly priest AT Sharps-
/ burg. Pennsylvania but abandoned
! the ministry tor the practice OF medicine
i has two grown daughters He now re-
neunees his family relations by consent OF
all interested, and by special dispenSation
obtained by Rishop Tobbe. while in Rome
recently. re-enters the priesthood.
A PETERSBURG VA RADICAL LEADER LOSES
HIS LIFE.
NEW YORK. Oct. 30.-A special from
Petersburg, Va. say: The body of Davy
Stith, cOlored, Radical politician OF Green
Vile county, was found in the road with his
mead and body iull of buekshot.
LATER NEWS FROM HoME-THE RAIDING
TRANP5.
CINCINNATI, Oct-A special SAYS Yes
terdav, at Como, Miss, the first section
train No. s. on the Mississippi Central rail-
road, in charge of Conductor StrIggins, was
boarded by about 100 tramps. They or
dered the conductor to start the train, (which
he refused to DO unless they got OFT. The
tramps thereupou beat the conductor Sc
verely and started the train them selves,
ana were running it TO suit themselves at
last accounts.
THE PRESIDENTS THANKSGIVING DAY.
WASHING TON, Oct 3I.-The President has
issued a proclamation appointing Thursday,
the 2Sth OF Novem Der. as Gay OF thanks
giving and prayer. The following l. writ
ten in the Presidents I'll thanksgiving procla-
nation:
'.The general prevalence OF blessings of
health throughout the wide land has made
more conspicuous the sutferings and sorrows
/. has
cast upon portion OF our people ms
heavy affiiction. even the Divine Ruler has
tempered To the suffering communities in
the universal sympathy and succor when
have flowed To their relief and the whole
nation may rejoice in the unity OF spirit in
our people by which they cheeriully share
one another's burdens
CONVENTION PROMULGATED.
WAsHINGroN Oct 3O.-The President has
officially prOmul gated through the State
ID partment the Convention which has been
ratified between the United States aud all
nations OF Europe, except Great Britain,
together with most of the South American
Republics, providing for the establishment
and maintenance at Paris of an information
al bureau of weights and measures.
WILL NOT JUDGE WATSON SAY HERE IS A
CASE FOR JUDGE LYNCH.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-AccOrGing to dis
patch from Port Jervis. the people around
Thompson, Pennsylvania, are earnestly
searching for two tramEs who entered the
village school after the children had been
dismissed, seized the teacher, Alice Kenneth,
and grossly assaulted her; then, TO prevent
her telling the story, cut out her tongue.
The young woman managed To reach the
black board, wrote the circumstances of the
terrible affair and descriptions of the scoun-
drels, and then died
NINE YEARS MASQUERADE.
velopment transpired at Fort Lincoln yes
tcrday. Mrs. Sergeant Noonan, who died
Wednesday night, turns out to be a man.
Mrs. Noonan was lauudress at the fort and
most popular midwife. She had been
married three times, aud was one of tue
widows of the Custer massacre. Her hus-
band is member of the Ninth Cavalry,
now in the field. There is no explanation
of the unnatural union, cXtepr that the
supposed Mexican woman was worth $40
900 and was able to buy her husbands 81
lence. She had been with the Ninth Caval
ry nine years.
THE REUNION OF THE (UNIoN) ARMY OF
TENNESSEE.
lNDIANAPoLIs. Oct. 3l.--At the morning
session to-day of the Society of the Army
of Tennessee, the officers OF the society
were reelected loranother year and Chica-
go selected the next place OF meeting.
Admiral ID. ID. Porter was made an homo
rary member.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
PITTsBURG, PA, Oct. 30-As four miners
were being drown up the shaft of GabeFs
iron ore mine, at BoYerstown, to-day, the
pinion wheel broke, and the bucket con
tanning the men was hurled to the bottom,
fifty feet No one has yet descended, but it
is not thought any escaped.
VIRGINIA STATE FAIR.
RICHMOND, Oct. 30.-The fair of the Vir-
gnia State Agricultural Society commence
ed yesterday. The exhibition is equal to
any OF former years. Among the exhtbi-
tors are many from the Northern States.
UNWILLING OF THE CONFEDERATE MONU-
MENT.
AUGUSTA, October 3l.-The Confederate
alton was unveiled to-day, in the presence
ether distinguished citizens were present
Jones. The military were headed by the
18th Infantry post band from Atlanta. The
monument is 76 feet high. made in Italy,
and is said TO be one of the handsomest In
the country. The statue of a Confederate
soldier at the top, and four statues of Lee,
Jackson, Walker and Cobb on 20 feet base.
Several Confederate battle flags were dis
played on the stand; in front of the monu-
ment the Star Spangled banner ana the
Confederate flag were blended and sur
mOunted by an olive fringed streamer,
with the watchword Peace" The city is
crowded with visitors from South Carolina
AID Georgia.