The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-12
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.
Missouri forbids by statute the sale and

manufacture Of oleomargarine.
/ The number of immigrants arrived a
New York during the past three months
reached the unprecedented figure of S,6S5
Arkansas win elect one Congreszman-at
Large this year. Among the Democratic
candidates for the honor is Colonel Clifton
r. Breckenridge, a son of the late Vice-Pres
ident John c. Brenenridge, of Kentucky.
OF the fifteen New York nominations by
President Arthur, fourteen are said to be
Conkling stalware
Seven miles east of Knoxville, VIM.
Nance murdered his three-year old step
daughter by crushing the childs skull
against the floor, because it was fretfai and
disturbed his rest. Nance escaped for the
time
The health OF Gov. Brown, of Georgia, is
said to be seriously impaired, and he viii
leave Washington City at an early day by
advice ofhis physician. His disease is said
to be bronchitis.
Governor Hagood has ordered Attorney
General Youmans, of South Carolina, to
repair to Charleston and defend the election
and other officers Of the State, indicted
and to be tried in the United States Court
Joseph Yerger was assassinated at his
home, near Antonia, Jefferson county,
Missouri, yesterday. and his house burned.
He was the postmaster of the place.
Rocheport. Missouri, OIL the night of the
"a, was thrown into furore OF excitement
by eight young men Of that town being shot
By mob Of iufuriated drunken negroes.
About ten of the negroes were arrested.
The steamer Leipzig, at New York on the
ID, from Bremen, brought / ,05S immigrants
Ali went West
At Louisville, KY, April %, little two
year old child, named Caroline Weissert,
fell into a cistern in hei mothers yard and
was drowned
Many citizens of AIarengo County, Ala
bama, favor a universal prohibitory liquor
law
Augusta, Ga, has an estimated capital of
$5,O00000 invested in manufacturing enter
prises.
Runnels County, Texas, recently sold two
leagues Of school lands in Crockett county
at forty cents per acre.
An old couple were walking down the
street the other day reading signs when
they ran across one which the old man read
thus: Johnsons Shirt Store" "Well, |
dec!ars,' exclaimed the old lady, Il won
der how he tore it !"
The Louisville Courier-J ournal represents
the ghost of Hamlet's father as very much
astonished at finding when he saw Anna
Wilkinson, that his boy was girl.
OF the 17,o61 persons committed to pris
on in Massachusetts, last year only about
eighteen per cent. were women.
James Tremaine, wealthy roker, for
merly OF New York, but for the last six
months resident of Boston, committed
suicide at his residence last night by cut,
ting his throat from ear to ear.
The pablic debt statement for March
shows decrease of SIG, 4G2, ,946.
Reports from one hundred and fifty differ
ent points in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, To-
diana, Ohio and Michigan represent the
wheat to be in an advanced state, and the
prospects favorable for a good crop.
Scattered through the classes in the Wes-
leyan University are sixteen young women,
the standing of every one of whom for
is above the average, while sew
eral are close to the top.
Forty thousand acres oflandin Arkansas
have been secured for an italian colony.
The immigrants are to come from the Tyrol,
and will be agricultursts.
About a thousand Italians have already
settled in that region.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Brooks, of Argus,
Alabama, have returned home from a trip
to Florida. They loaded their three chill
dren aud baggage on two handcarts and
travelled afoot, camping out on the way.
The journey was undertaken, Jake says, for
health and recreation, and resulted satisfac-
torily in both respects