The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-09-29
THE WORLD OYER.

THE International Literary Congress is in
session in Vienna.
Az epidemic Of smallpox is raging
in Philadelphia.
THERE are 1000, 900 Roman Catholics in
the United States.
THE thirty-eight States of the Union
contain 800 counties.
DUELISG is becoming popular pastime
among Virginia politicians
THE troubles with Indians in the West
are growing more serious constantly.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Mrs Garfield fund.-
10 u Monday, amounted to 1926, ,760 25.
THE familiar name of ''Scribner's Month
W. has been changed to ''The Century"
THERE will be elections in u States this
4sll-in most Of them full st ate tickets are
to be voted for.
Ro-coE CoSKLING was defeated as a del
ealra to the New York Republican Conven-
tjon from Oneida county, his home.
iIox. ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS author
iz.. the statement that he will not write
replv to President Davis history of the
war.
ARCHIBALD FORBES, the famous English
war correspondent, called for New York on
the 22i. He will lecture in all the leading
riif-- North
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is a widower, with
two Children son and daughter. His
sister, Mrs. McEIroy, will be mistress of the
White House.
THE estimatesof the Agricultural Bureau
indicate shortage in the corn crop the
present year, rs compared with the last, of
$4,000 600 bushels.
An international college, to be called
GARFIELD University" has been suggested
bv wealthy Englishman, who proposes tof
donate $4,000 to it.
THE Yorktown centennial will be the
craudest thing that has taken place inl
America for years. Immense preparations
are being made for it.
THREE young brigands, mere boys,
,topped a train near Hope, Ark, on the 23d,
and took from the Express Company and
passengers near $40, 900.
ExPo,rro, the Italian brigand, ar
rested in New Orleans, sailed from New
York ON the DIST, in custody Of officers
of the Italian government.
Hos. ]. A. CCTHBERT aged 50 years, a
member of Congress from Alabama in 1919,
died in Mobile on the 22d. He was the
Oldest ex-Cougressman in the Union.
THE Massachusetts Republican Conven-
ton on the DIST renominated all the pres
emit State officers by accamation. Several
women attended the Convention as delegates.
THE Governor Of Michigan has issued an
aupsal for aid, in which he states that it will
require p, least 81 100000 to take care of
the sufferers By the fire until another har-
vest.
!Iox. Ben. HILL, of Georgia, who
ha. been dangerously iii for several
months. is much better, and it is thought
his recovery will be complete and per-
mauent
NTF-srs. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN, auth
ors of "Pinafore," etc, has written another
comic opera, entitled Patience" which is
said by the press to far excel any of their
previous compositions.
Rov. WM. L. ALDRIDGE, of Rhode Is
land. the leading candidate for Gen. Burn
sides seat in the U. S. Senate, ia only 30
years of age. He is " present a member OF
the lower House of Congress
GEN. ARTHUR is the ffnrth Vice-Presi-
dent who has succeeded to the Office of Chief
Magistrate of the Republic. His pFedeces-
sors in this respect were John Tyler, Mil
lard Fillmore and Andrew johnson.
GUIrrEAc has spent most of the time
since the Presidents death in writing an
account of the assassination. He is surly
aud cross, and will not talk to any one.
What he writes viii probably be published.
AN extra sessiou of the L. S Senate has
been called to meet on the 10th of October
The Democrats will have majority of three
At the organization, and, it is thought will
elect Bayard, of Delaware, President foyq
TEN.
I. \. MARVIN, fcrger, thief and bigamist,
an account OF whose exploits we published
Il few weeks ago, has been Indicted in Rich
mond, Va, on a dozen or more charges, and
Is likely to pass the rest of his miserable
life inside the walls of prison
IL the Colorado Senate, the chaplain
offered the Lords Prayer When he fin
isbed the member from Leadville reached
over To the gentleman near by, and re-
marked :; she stole that prayer, or at least
the substance of it, for heard the same
ideas expressed at funeral some two years
ago.
THE soldiers reunion at Chattanooga last
vxest was complete success. Ten thous-
and veterans were present-6,oeo OF Whom
were ex-Confederates, and 1000 ex-Federals.
The addresses on the occasion were oi
brotheriy. conciIiatory character ana
another step was taken toward a'eompieee
reconciliation of the sections.
The graves of most of the Presidents Of
the United States have been shametully
neglected. A few of them are marked oy
cheap, plain monuments, but most are LETT
neglected and uncared for. Even the States
in which their remains lie buried are un-
known to most people. Washington, JET
ferson Madison, Monroe, and Tyler rest be-
meath the sod of Virginia the two Adams
sleep in the same vault in the State oi
Massachusetts, Andrew Jackson, Polk, and
johnson are buried in Tennessee; Zachary
Taylor, in Kentucky; and Harrison,
in Indiana; New York furnishes rest
ing places for Van Buren, and Fillmore
costly monument of italian marble IN
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