The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-11-30
VOLUME xiv.
THE WORLD OVER.

NdshFllIe uauuldcbuItS obVVV3oV1 SisaiS
annually.
Ten murders were committed in North
Carolina last week.
The North Alabama Methodist Confer
ence bas 81, 900 members.
An international exhibition of fine arts is
to be held in Paris in 1882.
Since the 1st of January to. October 3lst,
114,7S9 emigrants sailed from Bremen for
the United States.
Mrs. Gov. CoIquitt and Mrs. Gov. Brown
are booked for an old fashioned spinning
match at the Atlanta Exposition.
NAvAsoTA, TEx.-Hon. ]. S. Mills, of
this place, prominent politician, died of
congestion, while taking cold bath after
/ dinner.
The Chicago Presbytery find the Rev. J..
Fl. Bournes guilty of Several acts not con-
sistent with ministerial character" The
acts we're lying and stealing.
There will be four clergymen in the next
Massachusetts Legislature, and they are to
be called upon to perform the devotional
exercises, thus saving the cost ofa chaplain.
Eight of the jurors who acquitted Belle
Spaulding of numbering her husband, at
Galesburg, H., accepted her invitation to a
banquet in celebration of her escape from
the gallows.
The State of Wisconsin has been dis
graced by the lynching of an alleged out
law, one of the Williams brothers, at Du-
rand. He was dragged out of the court
room and hanged. 1t was not for rape.
AUSTIN, Textile Capitol Board deter
mined to postpone the opening Of bids for
building the new Capitol until December
lst. Two million dollars has been appro-
priated by the Legislature to erect the
building.
EVASION, ILL-William Hesle, widow
er was found dead in bed this morning,
with his head crushed and bloody. The
house house evidently had been plundered
The murderer left some OF his clothes, which
seemed to be those of tramp seen in the
neighborhood yesterday.
ROCKVILLE, MD.-A negro named Chas
Rigney was brought to the Jail here last
night on a charge of outraging a daughter
of Charles Lochte, who keeps store at Mon
rose, about five miles from here, The tienc
induced the child to accompany him to
barn where he committed the assault.
LITTLE Rock, ARK.-A special to the
Gazette from Alma says that Bland, thu
murderer of DR.. Cathey, of Alma, has beer
found guilty of murder in the first degree
DIR. Cathey was shot by Bland last fall while
he was on his way to see patient, the muir
derer having concealed himself near the
road.
New YoRK.-Mrs Abraham Lincoln ha
been in the city nearly two months, sub
mitting to medical treatment at the hand
of DIR. Lewis A, Sayre. A Times rePorte
SAYS she has needed the means to secure
proper attention and nurses, and thre
thousand dollar pension granted by Con
press is utterly inadequate to supply he
wants in her present condition.
C1NcINNATI-A special from Athens
Ohio. states that CHS Davis, mulatto i
iail for an outrageous assault upon Mrs
Lock, an elderly woman, was hanged by
mob last night. The Sheriff was overpoN
cred and held while the mob broke into tn
cell and took Davis out. This mornin
his dead body was found hanging to tn
bridge over Hooking river.
DALLAS, TEx.-Fannie Smithson,
Young woman we'll connected at Woodour.
Tenn, few months ago ran away with
man named Tucker. He deserted and lie
her in destitute circumstances, was afte
ward arrested, and is now in Jail at Woo
bury on a charge of bigamy. To-day h
victim died. A few weeks ago her paren
learned her whereabouts and endeavort
to induce her to return, but she was t.
proud to do so, and took up abode in far
lily of negroes.
Mr.. Robert Catlin has been assassinatt
on his plantation on the Yazoo river. ID
plantation is located near Huntsville Ian
u ing, ON the Yazoo river, about 100 mil
above Yazoo City. He was one of tt
wealthiest men in that section of the cot
+? try, and seemed to be universally esteem'
bv white and colored people on or abol
his place. A negro who fed the count
after the assassination is accused OF Il
crime, and the officers of the law are In h
pursuit of him.