The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-21
NEWS AND NOTES.

!. . When the time wasNp he released her, and
she quietly went home.
4 little North Carolina girl got hold of
jug of Bhiskey, and draHk until she fell
dead.
, Every immigrant from Germany brings
woefuI tale of hard times at home, yet
Germany has in operation that alleged
blessing Of the workingmsn-a high protec-
tive tariff.
The aggregate ages of couple at Win
chester, KY, amounted to 147 years. The
groom is seventy-seyen and the bride
seventy.
The wheat harvest has begun in South
ern Illinois, and the yield is greater than
ever known before.
The negro. John Johnson, IS years of age,
who outraged Miss Mcdowell at Roekhill,
S. c., was lynched.
General D. II. Hill, has withdrawn his
recently published resignation as President
of the Arkansas Industrial University, of
Fayetteville, and consented to remain.
Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary for
a term of six months on the charge of petty |
larceny.
David A. Wells, who predicted the panic |
of 1873, is impressed with the opinion that
social and financial disturbances are immi- |
nent in this republic. The wary navigator
of the fiscal seas will have an eye to wind
ward.
Secretary Folger has issued an order pro-
hibiting smoking in the Treasury building
! during Office hours. 1t is understood that
number of ladies employed in the depart
ment called upon the Secretary and re-
quested to be transferred TO other rooms, as
! their male associates were lmost continual
y smoking, thus rendering it very disagree
| able to them.
| There is movement in Washington for
an appropriation by Congress of portion of
the public domain in the West for settlement
upon by the exodusters who are now resid-
ing in Kansas 1t is proposed, in addition
thereto, to ask that they be provided with
cost of the same to be repaid the Govern
ment at the end of FIVE years, when the
property is to be decided to them
The Committee on Commerce in Con-
gress will report favorably the bill proyid-
ing for duty on immigrants of fifty cents
per head TO be paid to the collector of the
port within twenty-four hours altar the
entry of the vessel. The bill also provides
for the return of all foreign convicts, except
such as have been convicted of political
ofenses. !
An appropriation of 5000 900 has been
made by Congress for the building of cus-
tomhouse at Pensacola, Florida.
Ex-Governor Moses of South Carolina,
has been sent to the pententiary by a N. a
Y. court. The career of this man, from the {
opening of the rebellion to his period of
revelry aud debauchery under reconstruc- :
tion, and onward to his time, has been with a
out parallel in the United States q
Mrs. Jennie Dixon, of ST. Louis, who de- !
serted her husband, children and opulence, a
two months ago, and went to Texas with (
John Curtis, young society blood just out
OF his teens, has been deserted by her lover : :
Mr.. Dixon has instituted suit for divorce t
and gone off to Iowa with the children. E
The Washington Republic suggests that
the custom of strewiDg flowers over the !
graves of dead heroes on Decoration Day
could be improved by introducing the Gus
tom of planting towering bushes, SO that
our silent acres of the dead might be con- t
verted into gardens of bloom and verdure. c
The New York Legislature, at it's recent
session, passed very stringent law against
the sale of oleomargarine under the pretense
that it is genuine butter. Right again.
General Robert Toombs, of Georgia, is in
failing health, and nearly blind.
the production of tea. The shipments from !
the port of Calcutta alone last year amount !
ed to over G, 1000, 900 pounds, of which 2,000,- /
900 were sent to America and Australia. c
whites and the blacks at Epps Station, in Z
Sumter county, Alabama, in which the e
negroes were driven from town. They re-
turned at midnight and set fire to the town, =
burning seven stores. Several negroes have
been arrested, and others are being pursued. Il
In a single school in Charleston, S. c.,
there are l,4O0 negro pupils. a
George Allen, a maehinist in the employ
of the South and North Alabama Railroad,
at Birmingham Ala, died last week from a
the effects of chloroform. The deceased !,
had been suffering greatly from toothache /
for sometime. An Intellectual attempt was L
made to extract the tooth. The dentist was :
opposed to the administration of chloroform /
and refused to take the responsibility. Two +
prominent physicians were called in and a
the chloroform was administered by Them.
Every precaution was taken, but in vain. 3
A negro man was lynched on the Sd in :
Fairfield county, S. G. He made an out !
assault upon highly respectable c
white married lady near Blythewood, in n
Fairfield county. The lady had gone to a
spring to get pail of water, and while she
was at the spring Campbell sprang upon her )
and would have accomplished his vile pnr- e
pose but for her strong resistance and the
timely arrival Of aid. He was hung. :
The Washington City Star says: "Per-
sons who arrived here from Rockville, :
reported that last night an out
rage vas committed at oantt's Gross Roads.
in Montgomery county, Maryland. Eve 9
miles from Rockville The victim was 5
white girl, seventeen years old, and the q
two negroes. Cne of the negroes q
was captured and confined in the Rockville
Jail. Theothera at the latest report was still
1t large, but men were scouting the country {
for him, and as he is known his capture was r
certain. There IS much excite 7
ment over the affair in the neighborhood of ! !