The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14


NEw YoRK. April l2.-The Adriatic brought
81. 2s5 900.
LosDox, April IL Forty thousand pounds
sterling of gold principally from private
sources in Holland and Russia, was obtained
yesterday Tor the United States.
The Little Rock Democrat is authority for
the statement that Congressman Money, Of
Mississippi, just now sojourning at Eureka
Springs, contemplates erecting at that place
bathhouse to cost $4,000.
German immigrants continue TO arrive in
squads at Columbia, S. c., from Castle Garden,
New York.
AT Evansville, Indiana, George Sch mitt,
two years old died of hydrophobia, after
thirty hours Of suffering. He was bitten on
March I.
Serious floods continue throughout Spain,
and they are more widespread. There is great
distress among the people, and general des-
truction of properly and crops.
The n. O. States says that Tuesday, April 4,
was no bad day for Democratic victories
They elected the Mayor and entire city ticket
in Chicago; in Cincinnati they elected VIM
Means, Mayor over Jacobs, Republican, the
present Mayor; in Dubuque and Keokuk
Iowa they elected the Mayors of the respec-
tive towns.
At sunbury, Pennsylvania, while Mrs. Hs-
yer and family were at dinner to-day her
daughter, aged seventeen years, and son,
aged fourteen years quarreled. The boy left
the table, and returning with a shotgun, fatal
ly shot his sister. The boy gives as a reason
Tor committing the crime They would not
give me enough to eat"
Dispatches announce the suspension Of
Sims, Foster & Co, cotton and commission
merchants of Mobile, Alabama.
Jay Gould when in Florida was informed
by New ork friend who owned grove Of
twenty-five acres. that it yielded him a net
income of from so, 600 to 80, 600 year. lie I
heard Of one tree which yielded annually six |
or eli ght thousand oranges.
bill has passed the Legislature OF Illinois |
to prohibit the sale of dea lily weapons to mi
nors. and good bill it Is.
A lady graduate of medicine in Washington
has been rendered the position president ply
stefan one of the largest Indian reservations
in the West.
One thousand n nd ninety-two German immi-
grants arrived from Hamburg, in New York
newcomers are nearly all farmers, bound for
the Southwestern States.
The Tennessee Legislature adjourned on the
8th having passed. ali the necessary laws to
provide for the payment of interest on the
State debt. :
The Indiana House of Representatives, yes 7
terday, by vote of 81 to -, passed resolution
constitutional amendment giving y
women the right to vote at State elections. =
The Senate of Connecticut defeated tenn Y
perance bill CHASING cider an intoxicating b
beverage. t
John Williams, of color, was hanged the
9Th, at Waverly, Tenn, for the murder of his a
wife, five years ago. n
The richest immigrants who come to this a
country are the Russian Mennonites. TWEEN b
~ families of these people recently gave the
Treasurer of Castle Garden $50, 900 to keep for
hem over night. I
special from McKavitt Texas, says that
Emm Hall, white lady, while seated at her !
loorstep was shot dead by an enraged ne !
yress +
The Rev. DR.. Ramsdell pastor of n PIesbyte h
ian church in Washington City, is having o
rouble because he married a woman of the $
Roman Catholic Church. A part Of his con .
yregation asked him to resign and the ques-
ion was dicussed for several days in meet
ng of Presbytery. In the end a committee of q
he Presbytery reported to indefinitely post t
zone the consideration of the matter, and by r
lose vote the subject was laid on the table. l.
The pastor touched the hearts Of his brethren
,y saying that the woman of his choice was
owing wife and good christian.
General W NJ. Carey, an ex-ConfederAte
General and leading lawyer and Democratic a
politician of South Carolina died at his home
n Edgefeld on the 9Th instant
Samuel NJ. Thomas, Of Shreveport shot and I
lilled Hugh NJ. Dickson on the Ilth near il
hat city. Dickson was his brotherin-law and 7
friend who had chloroformed and s
'uined Thomas's daughter She married 8
our months ago and gave birth to a child last c
week when she made affidavit charging .
Ter uncle the father. All the parties con- !
,erned are of prominent families. Thomas &
but his course is too strongly
ndorsed to give him any trouble. Y
Chief Justice Waite announced to the bar
II the United States Supreme Court on the
9Th that the court will hear no more argu- P
nents after Friday, the twenty-second Of II
4 pril, and will adjourn for the term Mon d
Law the second of Nav "