The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
NEWS AND NOTES.

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Fourteen hundred immigrants arrived al
Baltimore on the goth from Bremen, and
left for the West.
The immigrants arriving at New York
on the 18th numbered 5, TSG, ana the estf
mate for May IS 100000.
The Philadelphia Medical and Surgical
Reporter says: "The records of the Police
Department disclose 195 cases reported a:
missing or having run away, 45 of whom
We're afterward found. Fully one-haif Of
this number were boys and girls who, hav-
ing drunk in the Inspiration derived from
dime novels and other productions of that
character, ran away from home to seek fame
and fortune"
In the Tennessee Senate, Senator Barrett
offered resolution in which he charged
Senators Taylor, Smallman and Tillman
with conduct unbe9oming them as gentle
men and as members of the Tennessee State
Senate. This brought Tillman and Tay Ior
to their feet, and they denounced the author
of the resolution as a damnable and per
jured liar and villain. The scene which
ensued was of the liveliest character Ev-
cry Senator was on his feet, and the Presi-
dent could with the greatest difficulty only
preserve even the sembance of order.
The French Cremation Society now con-
sists of 400 members. The receipts for the
first year were 1000 francs. The average
cost of cremation has been but three francs.
A terrible tragedy occurred last week at
Fort Payne, Ala, small town q few miles
below Chattanooga A man named Bates
attempted to ravish the wife of man
named Burke, and when the latter met him
to-day he riddled him with bullets The
parties are prominent citizens.
A married couple of Leavenworth, after
living together thirteen years, are asking
for a divorce on the ground that they are
uncle and niece, a relationship which they
have only just discovered. There is no
Kansas law against such a marriage, how
ever, and they are not likely to get a legal
separation, though they have already parted
When the Chicago, st. Paul and Omaha
train from Chicago to st. Paul reached
point near Baldwin, Wis, the other day,
one of the lady passengers gave birth to
three children, a boy and two girls. The
mother was taken from the train at Bald
win under charge of physicians who had
been previously requested by telegraph to
be in waiting.
The death of Capt j. w. Cannon the
master of the grand old steamer Vicksburg
in ante-bellum days, and since the war, of
the R. E. Lee, Ed. Richardson and other
boats, is announced.
The bill granting the st. Louis & San
Francisco r. R. the right of way across the
southeastern corner of the Indian Terrific
ry, for its Texas extension has passed the
Senate. There is no probability of any fur
Their obstacle being interposed to the con
struction of the line.
Marshal Snodgrass, of Cresline, was fatal |
ly shot on the 22d, by a supposed tramp,
whom he endeavored to arrest on suspicion
of carrying concealed weapons.
In West Somerville, Massachusetts, Mrs.
Mary Russell, aged seventy mine, was killed
by her son-in-law, Edwin R. Prescott, aged |
sixty-six. RusselPs daughter, who is Pres
colts second wife, went to Boston this fore
moan and on hnr raturn wac mat a H. ,l,.x,u
Of her hoouse by her husband, who told her
he had just killed her mother. The
woman, Mortified, ran to police station,
and officers going to the house found in the
back shed the body of Mrs. Russell with
her skull fractured, face crushed in and
throat cut from ear to ear. The murderer
was secured and taken to Jail. The tragedy
created intense excitement, the parties to it
moving in the highest social circles.
Ex-Congressman John T. Harris, of Vir-
;inia, is said to be employed by Hunting
on and Gould to represent their railroad
interest before Congress this session. The
x-statesman moves around in the lobby !
nd on the floor of the House as though he
vas familiar with his duties.
Columbus (Ga) Sun: Last Wednesday,
ne week ago, colored woman named Mar
aret Sims, at the residence of Mr.. H. H.
lpping, was cleaning fish, when she acct
emily pierced her hand with a catfish fin.
he next morning she got up and her hand
'as so swollen as to prevent her from doing
er usual work. 1t began to pain her and
be pain increased until she soon was com
elled TO take her bed She suffered vio- v
entity with it until yesterday, when she \
led. a
The Iowa House refused to pass bill pre- i l
enting the issue Of railroad passes.
Mary Cathcart has been sentenced to inn
risonment for life in Massachusetts, for sell :,
ill perhaps be her punishment unless the i
legislature should pass pending bill to re- p
ease her. She was sent to Jail for six a
lonths, and additionally condemned to pay !,
lie costs of prosecution. She had no a
oney, The statute formerly provided n
lat in such cases three months more of p
nranee should satisfy the sentence, and y
len, on a report by the Sheriff to Justice, f
lie prisoner should be discharged. But in b,
recent revision the latter provision was te
omitted. Hence there is no a u
resent authority for letting Mary out. CT
james Adams, who was arrested by the q
olice at Kansas City for vagrancy, was !.
und to have on his person $500. T
Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia, is the m
ere !shadow of himself with a frightfuI y y
lcking cough. It is thought his seat in Ii
e Senate will be vacated, and that Gen.
ordon will be appointed to fill his place.
The colored citizens of Boston, in mass CT
Getting, April 10Th, denounced in the til
trongest moral terms the ejectment of
shop Payne from a railroad car, in Flori- nj
:; ask colored people as American citizens r.
demand their rights in all sections of the pu
untry, and ask the mass delegation in in
'ngress to protest against the evils that ar