The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-12
NEWS AND NOTES.

The new Chicago directory contains l96,-
600 names, making the population accord
ing to published estimates about $4,000 in
the city proper. The publisher's estimate
for 1850 was below the Gems burns.
Smallpox RACES in Dakota0
1t is estimated that upward of thirty
thousand lives have been destroyed by the
explosive products of petroleum.
OF the /, $50 convicts in the Ohio pepi-
tentiary, but II are women.
1t is said that Alabama has had but four
Governors who are natives of the State.
1t was a mother who eloped at Bennett
Springs, New, and her sons and daughters
who pursued her, chastised her companion,
and carried her home.
A cruel persecution of the Jews is re-
ported in Hungary.
The national debt was reduced in the
amount of $l2, ,560,696 during June.
The people of Iowa, after a very animated
contest, have just decided at the ballot-box
that the manufacture and sale of all intox-
icating beverages, including wine and larger
beer, shall be forever prohibited within the
boundaries of their State.
There is a Chinaman in San Francisco
with red hair. His countrymen treat him
with superstitious respect. At the table he
has the best of everything, and at all cere-
monials he takes precedence.
1t is announced that, in consequence of
the large number of suicides that have re-
Gently taken place from the platform of
the Vendome column, in Paris, the public
is no longer to have access to the interior OF
the monument.
Prot William j. Land, chemist OF wide
reputation, committed suicide in Atlanta
This was a second attempt 1t is regarded
as strange that ne did not utilize his knowl-
edge of chemistry to provide a painless
death, instead of which he used razor and
pistol.
Awidow named Hauley, living near Strea-
tor, ILL.,, poisoned herself and five small
children by eating toad-ssools. She sup
posed them to be mushrooms.
Business failures for the past six months
show an increase of . per cent. in number
and liabilities over the corresponding period
of last year.
The Galveston News Brenham special
says c. w. johnson, from Kentucky, was
shot by Clara Christian, aged is years
The cause of the tragedy was a scandal,
alleged to have been put in circulation by
johnson.
Rhode Islands first case under the Fif-
teenth Amendment is that of negro law
yer. who was refused admission to skat-
ing rink on account of his color, and pro-
CURED the indictment of the managers,
Tue funded debt of the United s.Atf } is
now only 81, ,46S, $4,000. There were re-
deemed in the last fiscal year, ending June
so. sI57, ,600, 900 bonds. At this rate t will /
take only about eight years to pay off the
whole bonded debt.
The Legislature of Louisiana has adopted
a constitutional amendment settling the
State debt. The terms are interest at ? per
cent. for five years and 4 per cent thereafter
on the face value of the bonds.
At Pittsburg, Pa, in a fit of jealousy,
Joseph Rodgers, moulder, shot his wife IN
the breast and then attempted suicide py
shooting himself in the temple. The vile
will die and he will recover.
In preparing baths for children, the cold I
water should be put in first. A fatality is
lately reported where the nurse, having half
filed the tub with boiling water, went into
an adjoining room for the cold. While she
was absent a small boy fell over the edge OF
the tub into water and was so badly scaided
that he died almost Immediately
The conference committee on the bank
charter bill disagree on the gold and silver
certificate section and the clause prohibit
ing national banks from belonging to clear
ing-house associations.
Chauneey Black, who was last week nom
mated Lieutenant Governor BY the Penn /
sylvania Democrats, is a son of Judge Jere-
miah s. Black. He lives at York. Pa, near
his fathers residence, where he has for years
devoted himself to literature. politics and
journalism.
Robert ToOmbs says he is for his friend
Stephens for Governor Of Georgia
"Aleck. he asserts. '.is all right He
never stole anything You never heard Of
his stealing anything. did you You never
did, and yon never viii. intend 70 Wrll :