The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-04-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
al sorts.

The hoas committee on po=t-ofters have
agreed on bali Fray!ulng Ter q IL o-ceHt postal
card Ii : differ trem the present card in
having a x4b-e Zap or cover 10 conceal tie
writing
Mrs. Em.iy Carter, while in a fit Of insanity.
near TLousa-ton, Ga teck her babe into the
woods u cut iIs throat from ear 10 ear with a
razor
D-ca' a., Georgia. Is greatly excited over the
discover 5hat James jolly y lie murderer IF
his neIcs Ni1o tnrHed up missing three years
ago. waits VISITING his family Since that
time jolly mas been resident If Mississippi
and dnrla- his absence Sufficient evideace
was gath Ted fo warrant her investigation,
and ne was arr, led upon a T,qUISlfiou and
brought T. &c RIA, and Jailed 81 Decatur
He admits sr he and Weaver. s brather-in-
law had allied Miss Norris bv cutting her
throat aai buried hes ii q lav5ue near MS
Of the nj sslng oang lady were found. jolly
admits tAAt Ee ray.sheI Mss Norris. ana
fearing pun sAment killed her 90 avoid it.
The asa husctts Legislature has just
PISSED syringe II tramp law 1t declares
that any person csnvIcte of being a tramp
shall be imprisoned IA t.e house of correct on,
or IN Inc stat work house al BrijEewater.
for not less rhyH * months nor more than
TWO years. >ubftcf TO ne provisions OF all Ell
listing laws regulating sad institutions. A.
persons y hp -oNe from D'ace u lace begging,
or Twin. without labor or visible means OF
support, are held 10 b. trSmps.
Ga thu 18Th Of Js!ue ayt negroes will be
hung al Gceeuv VIII. South Carolina, charged
with burning the Academy OF Music there in
Decent r- Their names are Joe Burton,
etch Maddox Pies Adams Richard Bates
AMI BIZ Watson W lille tfse Judge was pass
Tag sentence TWO of the negroes tainted.
A Young daughter Of D. B. Hall promi-
nent merchant Of Savannah, Ga while cut
riding with her parents was fatally injured
by . blow Oh the temple from the horse, which
Z -n.5 l. Ia b,+ f,a.i D.,
in the bottom Of the buggy. Her skull was
fractured aud driven into the brain.
TIE United States Govnrnment has ordered
that twelve 2 rIs and twelve boys of the Che
rokee Indians, residing in the western coun-
ties Of North Carolina. be educated AT the ex-
pense of the Government IL the Ashville Fe-
male aud the Weavcrville Colleges. the girls 10
be taught at Ashvilie and the boys at Weaver
VILE for the purpose Of enabling them to in
struct their own people.
France has the largest national debt in the
world. The total at present is $41I7.6Sg 600
The yearly charge for rent, OF Interest, i S2l3-
100000.
The Grand Jury Of Dinwiidie County Vir-
ginio report they are unable, after the exam
ination of 4 number OF persons TO learn the
namss OF those engaged in lynching the negro
Black who attempted TO outrage Mrs. Ferris
1t i said Black, before beng hanged, had
both ears clipped and suffered other fortunes.
4 conductor on Colorado railroad cooIly
shot and killed a man " no would neither get
OF the car nor pay fare.
About forty men visited the Jail at Moberly
Missouri, and, with drawn revolveers, forced
the officers on duty to admit them. They then
seized Henry Mitchell, Dick Yancey and
Alfred Cateou, three negroes charged with
numbering another negro named George Mat
thews near here short while ago and took
him to the railroad trestle, about three miles
from town, when they hanged Mitchell and
Gaucey. and as Cateon was not "a party 20 the
murder he was strung up until he told ali he
knew about the affair, and was then relea sed.
dispatch from Los Angeles, California,
says k. Hoyle, defaulting tax commissioner
from Georgia, whose case has been before the
Superior and Supreme Courts for several
weeks writ OF hdbeas corpus. committed
suicide in his cell last night by shooting him
self Ia the presence of the guard and Mr.. Col
Inns, agent Of the State of Georgia. How he
obtained the weapon is unknown.
Seth Green Of North Carolina, advocates frog
culture. He says that many farmers have for
tunes in frog ponds and that little care and
cultivation will produce crop Of frogs large
enough for family use after supplying the
market.