The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-09-01
NEWS IN GENERAL.

2 NEWS IN GENERAL.
George W. Riggs, the well-known banker o
Washingto City died at his country residence
Green Hill, Prince Georges county, Nd, O
r hemorrhage OF the stomach in the Goth J ea
; of his age.
Ex-Congressman j. A. Whitehouse, of New
York, died on the oath in the 64th year Of his
age
/ The caterpillar is getting in his work in
Louisiana.
The tobacco crop of Virginia will he short
this year.
i Vegetation frishrfully parohed in Middle
Tennessee,
They are bowling in Savannah for the en-
forcement of the Sunday laws
The immigration to Georgia this year ex-
eeeds that of any previous year
/ At Manchester, N H., nine girls from Is to
/ Il years old, are under arrest for a systematic
course Of @Aop-iIfting and stealing from
clothes lines, covering period of several
weeks Dress goods shoes and other articles
pertaining 20 the fem ale wardrobe are among
the goods which have been recovered.
The Asiatio cholera has broken ont in Sian,
IN Asia, and hundreds of people are rerorf.d
dying daily. If the pestilenec follows
the law of farmer years, this is
startling notice to Europe and America of
what they may expect next Summer.
Daniel c. Deiearnette, of Virginia, a mem
Der of the thrty-sixth Congress of the Uni
ted States, and afterward of the Confederate
Congress, from the Richmond District died
on the 27th al Fredericksburg
The cclored population of the United States.
according the last census, j. now, in ronss,f
r,'...'.~~~. q zo9, 900.
special to the Register from Johnston 4
Edgefeld county. S. c., says terrible |
tragedy occurred about ten miles from this
place to-day, between J. W Brizzard and his
son. and J. W. Zimmerman, in which the latter {
was instantly killed, and Brizzard and hio
son seriously wounded. An old feud was the
cause of the afIraY. The weapons used were
double barrelled shot guns.
Eight desperadoes have just been lynohed
by the citizens of Orange, Texas The lynch
ing was carefully done after the gravest
considerations, aud the result of slowly /
formed determination ON the part of the best
citizens of the country. The eight men iynched
were not only rgtfians of the most dangerous ,
oharacer but they rad carried til cir bloody ,
insolenee so far to make itworth an officials
lite to execute the law against any one be-
longing to the gang The immediate occasion
of to days wholesale lynching was an attempt :
on the part of the desperadOes to assassinate .
Sheriff George Michael.
singular robbery is reported from Chero- :
kee county, Georgia. A respectable farmer
named Kemp had IN old miser Seaborn Jack
son, bachelor Of so, boarding with him.
Jackson had all his earthly possessions
81 $50 in gold, securely nailed in a wooden
chest in his room He went of for dav and
On returning found the chest pryed open and
his wealth missing. He suspected old man
Kemp, and had aim arrested Kemp readily II
gave bond few days after his son. married
but short time, lcft tor Meridian, Miss. with
ais bride. Ketchum, deputy Sheriff Of the Z
county, followed them to Chattanooga. where 0
re arrested and searched them, finding $500
n gold on the person Of the bride. which was
deatihed as part Of Jaskson's treasure Tbov {
we're brought back to Cherokee where Young -
Kemp on the promise Of freedom, confoqs u r
hat his father had stolen The -,Uney and given
art OF II to his wife. In company with the a
sheriff young Kemp went to a rock pile near
he house and took from il 81 loo in gold. Old
he SheriR, and father and son are in iail !.
jany OF the coins have been owned by Jack r
on since 1853. When going about the country y
e would distribute the whole amount between K
he lining of a sleeveless underbodv made for
he purpose, and sew it up He had never
aid taxes on cent Of his fortune, which for p
ears he had carried on his person r
The Legislature of Georgia passed q hin g.
'rbidding minors to sell liquor in the State
nd killed the bill to appropriate $4,000 to e
ne cotton exposition by heavy vote.
There are TO- 90 clerks in the WASHINGTON II
apartments, and the destruction of Stationery
their main employment.-.ohicago Times. Y
4 pre- est signed by forty-three women ,
sgally qualified TO practice medicine in tbair G
espestive countries, was presented to Sir >,
ames Paget against their exclusion from tba
lettings Of the International Medical Can
ress in London. AT the six Congresses which
ave been held in other countries duly anal 9"
led medical women were admitted to tho Il
lettings
The people Of Terry county, Ala. have "a In,
ard for deeeney and the fitness Of tbinrs ,, b.
hey drove out Of town one Clemens. who ma,
led second wife three days after the deatb
his first,
A horrible tragedy was enacted At Dover
a Terrell county, Ga, Thursday. A negrol /,
ian entered the residence OF Daniel Lee and
murdered him aud bis wife and coIored girl r
he bloody work vas done with an ar. After fe
ae triple murder he robbed the house af an th
he money and vnluabIes ii contained al is
hen made his escape. There is. Of oourse tn
reat excitement in Dover over the massacre se
y having resumed, it is likely to continra -
ntil late in the sutumn. There is now abor. =
], 100000 in gold in transit, which win arr;ve
New York within the next weeks. a.
W. G. Jones, prominent citizen Of McMinn al
'unty, Tennessee, shot and instantly killed he
ohn Langley last Sunday. who assaulted 81
life with intent to raYish her. Langley wa,
bad character. Jones surrendered h;msafS "
the authorities, but vas immediately s 81. in
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