The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-28
NEWS AND NOTES.

A Frankfort lky.l special SAYS Among
those who professed conversion at the meet
ing of the eMountain Evangelist" Rev.
George o. Barnes, at the Opera House, last
night, was Governor Luke Blackburn. It
is understood Governor Blackbaf4 ~.
unite with the Protestant Episcopal Church,
Of Louisville, nextSunday.'
Beecher says: "Early marriages are the
salvation of young men, and if young
woman does not love you enough to go down
and live humbly with you, and help you to
work your way up, she doesn't love you
leave the torment to somebody else"
A new work by Father Ryan, the poet
priest. is to make its appearance shortly.
His Secretary, Miss Louise Rigger, of Bill
oxi, Miss, is now in Baltimore revising the
proof-sheets.
The Senate yesterday gulped down the
Tariff Commission humbug all in lump
and with but slight gagging.
Lieut.. Flipper, the only colored graduate
of West Point, has been dismissed from the
Army for making fraudulent disposition of
Government funds
The Joint Committees of the Virginia
Republicans and Readjusters have recon-
mended John S. Wise for Congressman-at
Large.
There is great excitement in Waukesha,
Wisconsin, occasioned by the death of Mrs.
Magdalena Hell, from taking II grains of
morphine given her by the mistake of DR..
Hugo Peller, who supposed he was admin
istering quinine.
1t is now estimated that the total losses
by the great Iowa cyclone will approximate
So 600 o00 The loss of life is about 100.
Danville, Ill.,, has an extraordinary sui
eide sensation. Three young girls deliber
ately killed themselves this morning by
taking arsenic-one because her father
lived with disreputable woman, another
because she was an orphan, and the third
for reasons unknown.
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We are requested by Gen. Smith, State
Superintendent of Public Education to-
give publicity to the following;
Requirements for Obtaining and Holding
Peabody Scholarships ut the State Nor.
NAL College, Nashville, Tenn.
/. The applicant for scholarship must de-
clare his intention TO follow teaching as pro-
fession be at least II years of age, present to
the President of the College a certificate of
irreproachable moral character and gentle |
" adTT1fl hah hts 0riv plad
to remain at the College two years, if the |
scholarship is continued so long, promise to |
submit cheerfully to its requirements, in I
study, discipline, etc., and to teach in the |
Public Schools at least two years, if there is |
opportunity
2 The applicant must obtain from the State |
Superintendent of Public Instruction for his |
State, q certificate that he has passed a salts
factory examination before said Superinten-
dent, or other competent person appointed by /
him, in the studies required for admission TO
the second or middle class" at the College,
viz: in spelling, reading penmanship. gram
mar and alysis geography, civil and physi-
cal, elements of geometry, elements of chem
istry, physiology, United States history, ele-
ments of geology. No particular text books
didate should give evidence of such knowl
edge of the above branches as would Justify
emitting their further study.
8. Gentlemen or ladies thus admitted, who
complete the pFeSCTlDeu course VI stuuy anu
training satisfactorily, graduate regularly,
and receive from the University of Nashville
and the State Board of Education of Tennes-
see jointly, a diploma, admitting them to the
degree of "LICENTIATE OF INSTRUCTION"
A. Persons desiring to enter the senior class,
will be examined at the College upon the
studies of the middle class in addition to
those prescribed above. Such students will
not graduate with the senior class,
but viii pursue still more advanced studies
another year; and if character, attainments,
etc, Justify, will be admitted at the close
of their course, to the usual College or Uni
versity degree of BACHELOR OF ARTS, (B. Al
5. The Peabody scholarship money will not
be paid until the student has been a member
of the College one month, at which time, and
at tie close of each succeeding month SIS will
be paid to the amount of $500 for the year
and it is expected that this money will be APP
by the student to the payment Of
board and other College expenses first of all.
6. These scholarships will, in no case, be
to students whose rank or standing
is low, or whose general demeanor is objec
tionable.
S15 TO S18 month for board in approved
houses or private families. Ladies
pay in best private families $40 month. So
a year is paid to the College for the use of
books, ETC., and for incidental expenses.
The Annual Session opens on the first We'd
nesday in October, and closes the last We'd !
nesday in May There is no vacation during
the session, except the Christmas holidays.
EFs- Scholarship students will not be re-
ceived after the first Of November, except in
eases.
EBEN S. STEARNS President
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