The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-11-10
NEWS IN GENERAL


CHAE5orTE, Il. C.-AlIea Johnson. colored,
was hanged here to-day for the murder, under
most brutal circumstances and for few cents
Of blind old negro man named Crump, about
the last Of January.
Minis PORK ExAs,-Two masked strangers.
armed with shot guns entered section twenty
two, on Texas Pacific railway. and drove out
the oc -upants, appropriated groceries, smashed
the contents of the house and rode away.
BREMoxD, Textile last Of 500 families Of
Danish farmers arrived Nov. LIST. There we're
twenty-odd families in the party. They locate
in Falls County. The others were distributed
along the Gull, Colorado anG Santa Fe rail-
road between Bolton and Morgan. Large
numbers are to follow.
THE star-route cases are now before the
District Court at Washington, on motion Of
the defendants counsel to ''quash the infOr-
nation.
ATLANTA, GA,-Gen. Loring, United States
Commissioner of Agriculture, delivered an
address on statistics and the advancement Of
agriculture in America.
NAPOLEON, oHIo,-The jury in the trial of
Gov. Scott, of South Carolina, for the murder
of young Drury, brought in a verdict of not
guilty. The verdict appears to give general
satisfaction.
FINGER nails two inches long are the pride
Of a Baltimore woman.
OsE of party of girls who ran five mile
race at Rio, Texas, died from over exertisn.
The boots worn by vain bean at Denton
vile, Iowa. have cork lifts two inches thick in
side under his heels, in order to increase his
stature.
A San Francisco physician believing that
he has discovered eure.for hydrophobia, and
desiring to test it has had himself bitten by a
rabid dog.
AN enraged belle at White Sulphur Springs
bit the the cheek of Of a young man at mo-
ment when he expected kiss. He had hel
arrested on charge of assault, but failed to
appear before the Justice, and she was dis
charged.
CHARLESTON, S. Cit is reported that a
negro named Bob Williams has been lynched
in Greenville county for an assault committed
upon a little girl eight years old. He confessed
his guilt.
COLUMBUS. GA.-John Reid, colored, who
killed a negro girl and: threw her body in
well, near Scale, Alabama, has been found
guilty of murder aud sentenced to death.
Att ANITA, GA special to the Constitution
from Cammack, Georgia says; At negro
supper near here, drunken negro shot and
MORALLY wounded Elias Edwards, respeeta-
BILE white citizen.
JERSEY CITY N. martin Korkowski, con :
victed of the murder Of Nina Muller, was to-
day sentenced to be hanged January b.
GEN. L. ]. GARTRELL, it is announced, VIII
make the race for Governor of Georgia on the
independent line. He says thas the people OF
Georgia shall say by their votes whether they
want him. He is a Democrat, was member
of Congress before the was aud is the leading
criminal lawyer of the State.
NASHVILLE, TExN.-Massy Hill, colored,
who attempted to rape little girl, was taken
from Jail by mob and lynched.
THE President has appointed Thursday No
yember A-the last Thursday in the month
as day of national thanksgiving and prayer.
INDICATIONS are that 10000 will be New
York's figure of the immigrants arrived at
| Castle Garde for the year 1881, or an average
of 500 per working day. As they were all
carried in alien ships, foreign merchants
pocket at least sl5,O00,O00 of passage money
for immigrants alone, to say nothing Of the
enormous sum they derive from other classes.
BROWNSVILLE, TENN, November IA white
man named Davis was shot in the back by a
negro, named Rolas, and afterwards beaten
over the head and robbed near Shepard
switch, on the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road. Denis lived long enough to give an &C
| count Of his death.