The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-12-27
rzws AND NOTES.


Rev. Chas +. Evans one Of the most elo
onent dirinss ia the South, has been trans
fsrrsd from the Little Rsck CoafsFense 4
the Louisiana Conferences Of the Methods:
Episcopal Church South.
j Galveston News special says: SIN .
shooting AIRY st Santiago yesterday between
Thomas Drake and Stephen Lewis, the
fornasr vas killed and the latter wounded.
A bystander was also shot It w5s an elec-
tion quarrel.
The house Of Singleton james, On plan
tatioa near stSckbride. Gsorgia. vas burned
to the gfoaa1. Thons4 Knight ana two
children vera burned = death. Kaight
was laying drunk in tie house whsa the
FIRE occurred.
It Is now said that the trustees of the u.
E. Church will decide to locasa The Uaiver-
atty they propose to build in the South il
Chattanooga. L will bs 4 large institution,
and fully 100000 viii b. spent on the
buildings. Nearly adozsn ether cities have
striven to secure it.
William c. Frazier, school teacher Of
Cumberland, Ohio, during an attempt to
discipline his pupils, became involved in a
general fight, in the course Of which he
stabbed and killed John Hayes, aged twen-
tY years and severely cut Charles Luce.
Frszier gave himself up and Is nor ia jail.
The people Of Stokes county, North Car
olina, are excited over the sale By one man
of his wife TO another. Alfred jenkins, the
owner of a farm in that section, few days
since sold his Wits to Noah Glidewell, u
neighboring farmer, for 500. He then
sold his farm and moved away, leaving
GIidewell in quiet possession Of the newly
purchased wife, The transfer of the wife
from one man to another was done as though
the men had simply swapped horses.
F. w. Warren, charged with the murder
of one Kingston, in Dankin county Mis-
souri,, has been captured, for whom a re-
ward of 5000 was offered.
On the road from Memphis to fernando,
Mississippi, Mrs. John Wright, with her
little girl, was in charge of her husbands
grocery, he having come to Memphis to
make purchases. An unknown negro man
entered the store Finding Wright gone,
he demanded the money that was in the
drawer. Mrs. Wright refused, whereupon
the negro fired, killing her instantly. Tae
murderer then robbed the store of 500 il
cash and two pistols. Mrs. virgins little
girl, who witnessed her mothers murder,
c1uld give but vague description of the
The tenth missing girl whose absence can
not be accounted for since the Istof the
month December has been reported at Chi
,ago This time Norton Jackson, book
keeper for the Illinois Central Railway /
JJmpany, waited on Mayor Harrison with
,he information that his eldest daughter, |
Annie LOTUS Jackson. II years of age, had
1een missing since Monday last.
Hon Robert Ould, one Of the most prom
uent lawyers Of Richmond, and Consed-
rate exchange Commissioner during tue
var, died at his residence in Richmond on
he 18th, in the sixty-second year Of his
ge, Of acute congestion Of the lungs, after
nly a few days illness.
On the 18th, the South and North bound
reight trains on the Mobile & Ohio road
ollided at Kushla, eleven miles north Of
Iobile, the North bound train making The
witch and the South bound train running
wenty miles an hour The engine and five
ars were wrecked. The conductor of The
Jorth bound train, Hunter Meyer was kill
d. Before dying the conductor acknowl-
dyed he had forgotten he was to meet the
rain at Kushla.