The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-19
VOLUME XIV.
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

IN one wagon on a hdH>ds TOdd recently
there were handeuffed man going to prison,
his crazy wife going to an insane asylum,
their three living children going TO the
poor-house, and dead baby in the mothers
arms going to the grave.
A northbound train on the Gulf, Colora-
do and Santa Fe Railroad was stopped and
robbed on Friday night at water station
called Blum by six masked men, who en-
tered the train with cooked revolvers and
forced the passengers to give up their money
and yaluables No resistance was offered,
and the robbers escaped.
Mr.. Malone Wheless, of New Orleans,
has recently invented very ingenious ma
chine for reporting, by which he claims be
is able to report over 200 words minute.
He has so arranged the language that any
combination of sounds can be instantane-
ously produced by the mathematical per-
mutations represented on the instrument.
The band of which Jesse James the noto-
rious freebooter, who was recently killed,
was member, robbed the bank at RUSSELL
vile, KY, the bank at Gallatin Mo-, the
bank at Corydon, Iowa, the bank at Column
bus, KY, the treasury of the Missouri State
Fair at Kansas City, and the bank of St.
Genevieve, No. In September 1876, Jesse
James killed the cashier of the bank at
Northfeld, Mimi, in cold blood. The
business was profitable one, and was not
attended with extraordinary risks. In its
course, however, Jesse James and his con-
fsderates resorted to murder whenever they
thought it necessary. He and his crew
started the horrible business of railroad
train robbery, and practiced it with success
in numerous cases.
The Atlanta (Ga) Constitution is urging
the Introduction of pennies in the South,
and suggests that it might,be effected by an
order from the railroad commission re-
quiring the railroad companies of that
State to charge exactly cents a mile and
to give exact change. This plan, it says,
would carry pennies not only to the chief
towns of the State, but into every other
part of it and keep them in circulation, and
Georgia would in that way become the
pioneer in a reform that would soon sweep
over the whole South.
The Legislature Of Wisconsin at its late
session passed $50 bills. The Governor
vetoed six bills because they conferred
excessive powers on private corporations, or
violated distinct constitutional provisions.
The vetoes were all unanimously sustained
| by the Legislature.
We learn that the ladies of New Orleans
/ have nearly completed arrangements for a
meeting to be held on Tuesday evening, the
25th inst for the, benefit of the endowment
fund of the Southern Historical Society.
Hon. Jefferson Davis, Major John NJ. Daniel,
-tongued orator of the South, who
distinguished a canvass last sum-
vernon of Virginia, Gen. Jubal
dent of the society, Rev. DIR. B.
+, Rev. Dr. Gutheim and Rev
Rubert are expected to be presen
liver addresses on the occasion.
3n Thursday of last week nine steamships
4 from Europe arrived in New York, loaded
with immigrants, a total of 6,478-from
Bremen, Harve, Glasgow and Liverpool
Nearly all of them are of the well-to-do class
and the proportion Of women and children
was much larger than usual.
Women have been allowed to vote for
School Commissioners and Town Clerks fol
two years past in Vermont, but very few of
them avail themselves of the privilege.
More than 5000 Chinese arrived in San
Francisco between the first Of last Decem-
Der and the 23d of March. Had the Presi
dent signed the Chinese bill it is estimated
twelve more cargoes of coolies would have
landed before the law took effect, and this
would have added 5000 more.
The South Carolina jury empanneled to
try the persons indicted for violating thl
election laws, is as follows John I. Tin
dali, white, Republican; J. Duncan How
ard, colored, Republican; NJ. K. Robertson
white. Republican Gus. Rainey colored,
Republican J. W. Fountain, white, Demo
crat; PARIS Simpkins, colored, Republican
E. J. Pinckney, colored, Republican Jos
Collins white, Republican; Geo. Steven
son. white, Democrat; J. F. Chestnut, col
ored. Republican; B. T. Straus, white, Dem
ocrat. The government exhausted the pan
ell in standing aside jurors. The court then
adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow when
teyidence will be taken.