The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-10
NEWS AND NOTES.

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capital offenses or crimes involving Iisbi,i-
ty to imprisonment for life, the right to
make the closing argument to the jury, i'm
mediately before the judges charge, shall
belong to the counsel for the defendant, in
stead of to the prosecution, as heretofore.
The Supreme Court of Maine decides that
Masonic Lodge Is not charitable or benev-
olent institution within the meaning of the
laws of Maine, and consequently that its
real and personal estate IS subject to TAXA
ton like other property.
Latest specials from Washington indicate
that the Senate bill for the improvement Of
the Mississippi viii fnd its way to the House
table. and be left there while the Thomas
Bill will become a law by incorporation with
the River and Harbor Bin. This will give
/ the great river but 100000 70 BE- expea-
ned below Cairo, ana only $5,9O0,000 in all.
European immigrants are passing through
Chicago on the railroads in companies of
hundreds daily. Nearly 5000 passed
through las; week, bound for homes in the
States aud Territories Of the Northwest and
Manitoba \ colony of 800 Danes arrived
here on Friday, destined for Southern Illi-
nois.
At Moberly No, Alfred n. Jones shot
and killed Dr. S, H. Blair. The coroner's
jury found the act was preme ditated on the
part of Jones and was caused by criminal
intimacy between Dr. Blair aud Jones'
wife.
Robert W. Fagin, who left Terre Haute,
Ind, with his wife and child few days
ago for Texas, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself on the train near Grand Saline,
Van Zandt county, Texas. He was under
an insane delusion that somebody was on
the train who was going to take him back
to Indiana, and he said he would die before
he would go back.
| A mad dog which created conformation
in EdgefeId 5. c., was shot and killed by 4
little girl, Miss L. Lanham.
At Greensburg, Pa, the house of Mrs.
Jonathan Stump, three miles in the country,
was broken into by three masked men. The
women were bound and gagged, and one Of
them strung up to the rafters in order to
extort information in regard to where their
money was secreted. Mary, the young
daughter, was brutaIly beaten, but all
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refused to give the information.
A carload Of fancy grass-fed Texan steers
of 1920 pounds everage, direct from the
rancho of Frank Houston, Terrell, Tex,
sold at ST. Louis the other day for IS 80
per 100 pounds. An Eastern shipper was
the purchaser. This is fully 81 per 100
pounds higher than ever attained in that
or any other market; SCI for long horn is
big sum.
Rev. James 0. Steadman, d. D., for thirty
years a Presbyterian pastor of Memphis,
died on the 23th The immediate cause OF
death was a stroke of paralysis, with which
he was attacked several days ago He had
reached an advanced age.
At CoIusa, Cal, on the night of April
81 an Indian was hung by a mob on stony
Creek, thirty miles west Of Colusa. He
had threatened the life of J. NJ Pugh, a
prominent farmer, aud, As he had been en-
gagged in one murder and was 4 desperate
character, he was taken and hung. He had
been arrested and was in charge Of 4 Con-
stable at the time.
An innocent couple at Wabash, Ind,
went to the postmaster to be married. The
official was innocent, too, thought he had
authority in the premises and performed the
ceremony all in good faith. The next day
came enlightenment and confusion.
An Austin special says the Indications
are that no bill regulating charges on rail
road freight will be passed by the present
Legislature. A bill providing for three
railroad commissioners, whose term Of office
shall extend to the meeting of the eighteenth
Legislature, will be enacted, and there the
matter will rest. 1t would have been diff
ferent but fot the timely arrival Of promi-
nent railroad men in the lobby.
Columbia Spectator: The negro doctor,
Porter Moss, who was sent to the peniten-
tiary for rape from Campbelsville, treated
a negro who was suffering with rheumatism
in this county. He put the negro into
kettle of boiling water, and succeeded in
curing him of rheumatism, but killed his
patient.
There is nothing like being rich. The
Yanderbilts have just paid the funeral ex-
penses of an uncle who died in the Brook
Ign poor-house-New Haven Register.
Edward Hoyey, stepped up to his sister
in-law, Mrs Fannie Vermilye, aged 10, and
pointing pistol at her, said Don't you
want this ?" He Immediately fired, and the
young woman soon died.
Georgia has been visited by thirty-three
tornados from 1901 to 1881.
At Tallahassee, Fla, last Saturday, Fitch, |
the city editor of the Economist, fired three /
shots at R. Don Mcleod, the editor and /
proprietor of the Land of Flowers.
Reports come from Georgia that Senator
Joseph Z. Brown is a very sick man, chiefly /
from throat and lung troubles, and that
worse is threatened
Hon. Horace Maynard died suddenly on
the Sd, of heart disease at his home in
Knoxville. He retired in his usual CON-.
iition last night, but awoke shortly after
midnight, feeling unwell, and on getting
from his bed fell dead on the floor. He was
born in Westborough, Mass, August 30,
1914, and was graduated at Amherst in
1888.
Ed. Stokes, the man who shot Jim Fisk,
runs bar-room in New York. 1t is
palatial establishment. He sent out 1000
for the opening, which fwas at
tended by both men and women.
Hamlet Grigg, freight conductor on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad fell be-
tween the cars on his train near Grand
Junction and both legs were cut of, causing
lcath in two hours. He leaves a wife and I,