The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-10-13
NEWS IN GENERAL

sess them.
The Republicans have carried San p.
cisco.
General Peyton Wise and L L. Levi.
and fought a duel in Forbes's wo,ss
Fauquier White Supher Springs, vir,i,'
about eight miles from Warcenton. Gen.
Wise received Lewis shot unhurt, ana a.
his own weapon in the air
Jealousy is responsible for two bor,a
crimes committed last week. Al d.
burg Andrew Kount sman, German shoe,
ker, made an attempt to brain his wife a.
boarder named Joseph Mentzer, and tAA,
/ his own throat. Kountzman is dead a
woman will die, but Menrzer Is not serion..
| hurt. At Rockland, Me-, Chas. Smith l4.,
his wife, an infant daughter and his mob..
| in law, and tried to kill another woman a.,
two children, but they escaped.
William B. Horner, one of Pittsbnrg,
brilliant journalists, and for the mast a.
years managing editor Of the Comms,,,
Gazette, died recently after an Hines, q,
several months, the result of too constant a.
plication to business.
The Washington Republican puhN,be,,l. "
ter from General Sherman in the inter.,, \,
law and order in dealing with The s,,,,.,
| Guiteau
Director Swift, of the Observatory. saw,
new comet appeared at the very Aour Pee.
dent Garfield was passing away, With A,
aid of good telescope four comets are MOI,
visible, = circumstance unusual, Diro,y,
! Swift adds, if not porte nteous-
An old scandal involving the sister.in.,,
Of one of the highest officials of he Po.,oa,,
! Department, has been revived. 4 wear or a.
,go it was charged that Maj. Evans, Of n,
Sixth Auditors Office PostDfiicc Departnen.
was caught taking undue liberties with Miss
Hines The matter was hushed up. but r.
Gently Evans discharged a clerk named Lala
| by. Now Lazenby has preferred charg,
against Evans, and among other things reiDg,
ates that old charge of misconduct with Mis-
Hines. The matter is now being iuyestirs,s
in the Treasury Department, to which h,
Sixth Auditor 5 Office belongs, but the isre.t
gators say that so far the charge has not been
sustained.
Toe anti-monoply people have had 2lNl
copies of petition Ia iayor Of the Reagan BILL
in favor of Congr ssional control Of the rail-
roads, prepared for distribution for signatures
next week in all the principal cities Of ID,
Union.
The legality of taxing borrowed money tn
been raised and will soon be decided
SAN ANTONIO Tx Sept 2sth-A German
family named Dresich were poisoned YESTERDAY
IN Post Oak neighhorhood by poison put IN
pa rel ofdunking water Three little children
we're taken sick, and the eldest died
Seven hundred and eighy.oue Immigrants
arrived on the 8th, making total Of 73iO fa
the week. An Immigrant Commits Toner start
ed on Monday moving on an exten lei tour
through the West, and will probably "
through TO San Francisco to study the methods
Of Immigrant travel.
Senator Hampton thinks that president h
Arthur will follow a conservative course, NJ
only from his own convictions hut because
public opinion will demand this Of bin
Should he do This | do not see why he Should
be any shock to the business interests OF The
country, anu have strong hopes that ever
thing will move on smoothly In this event
no harm can come to the South. As a membr
OF the Senate propose to trear President
Arthur precisely as l treated President Gar
held, sustaining his administration in all h F.
measures that meet my approval, and Opposing
those that do not but in no event shall | %
pose him in a partisan or fractions manner,
a man named Church, confined ia aiI
Newton, Catawba county, charged with h
murder OF Miss Thompson, in Alexander coar
ty' in August last was taken out and haugd
by a mob
Passengors via the Southern Pacific BSb
ROAD report that when the train was passing
wilcox Station on the road in Aurora, q flb
was IN progress between the citzsus and A
Indians.
In Savannah the annual death rate for io'
whites for the year 1880 was 1885, and f,r b Z
cOlored, 45.49.
1t Is estimated that the fruit shipped fnn
the Sacramento valley this season will brinl
INTO California q return Of about two millo'
dollars.
A nephew of John Sherman, who was FEEDER.
Al Marshal in New Mexico, has been srr@a
for heavy embezzlement.
d woman, not known, was bitten by a rabbi
Jog near Bellfonte Station. on the Memphis
ana Charleston RailrOad, Monday night. The
mad animal got the woman down and IAcer
ated her terribly.
H. .-.
The commissioner Of pensions. in the prose
cution Of the investigation into the alowapg
OF fraudulent pension claims bv A ring q
clerks in his Office, finds, il is understood, th'i
large number of clerks are involved, snd
mat the fraudulent claims allowed aggregas
millions of dollars,
one OF the Arkansas train robbers, recently
caught, IS reported to be a brother.in.aw q
United States Senator Garland. He has s.
ways been hard case.
Ara prayer meeting in Springfield, Mas.
Inc other evening, one of the brethren priysi
LOT the President, the Cabinet, and especially
the Postmaster General
A special from Kansas CITY. No. says;
terrible plague has broken out near Waldroh
0'unty. Eleven persons have died
nse days. aud none of the victims give sig''
q recovery, The bodies of the sufferers 'l'
covered with black eruption, and after ,D
mesh falls from the homes, o that the death 6Odl'
cannot De lifted into the cofins without falh'S
to pieces,
Zen families Of exLatriated Jews arrived
castle Garden recently from Russia. ids.
are the first Of large number Of similarly
6auished emigrants who are coming 20 lns
country. A committee recently formed y,
the relief Of banished Russian Jews met 'n'D
At the garden.
- barge company having capital OF 49,
W with Jay Gould as head, has lately D. s.
Iorned for Mississippi freight traffic 10y
company has twenty.three powerful tags sas
one o. hundred and fifty bargss plying bs'''''
Virginia Is to have State Industrial hlp
sl.lon' the first since 1859. II will Opeh =
haehmond eA October 10, and cOntinNs uA''
November II.
The worlds Methodist sOEnoil in LOnu.
travel By ministers on suS S,s,.
holding that thev sho1ia travel on the oa