The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
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Fourteen hundred immigrants arrived at
Baltimore on the 10Th from Bremen, and
eA for the West {
The immigrants arriving at New York :
N the l9th numbered ass. and lie s.
mate for May is 100000. .
The Philadelphia Medical and Surgical
SAYS: The records of the Police
Department disclose I95 cases reported as
or having run away, 10 of whom
afterward found. Fully one-half 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"
Ia the Tennessee Senate, Senator Barrett
offered a resolution in which he charged
Senators Taylor, Smallman and Tillman
with conduct unbecoming them as gentle
men and as members of the Tennessee State
Senate. This brought TiIlman and Taylor
to their feet, and they denounced the author
Of the resolution rs a damnable and per
jured liar and a villain. The scene which
ensued was of the l~ivelicst character. Ev-
cry Senator was on his feet, and the Presi-
dent could with the greatest difficulty only
preserve even the semblance 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, a small town a few miles
below Chattanooga. 4 man named Bates
attempted to ravish the wife Of a man
named Burke, and when the latter met him
to-day he riddled him with bullets. The
parties are prominent citizens.
4 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 q
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 othe.
= boats, is announced.
; The bill granting the St. Louis & Sar
Francisco r. r. the right of way across the
: southeastern corner Of the Indian Terrific
ry, for its Texas extension has passed tn
Senate. There is no probability'of any fu
Their obstacle being interposed to the COZ
struction Of the line.
Marshal S~nodgrass, of C~resline, was fatal
ly shot on the 22d, by a supposed tramp
d whom he endeavored to arrest on suspicion
of carrying concealed weapons.
r In West Somerville, Massachusetts,, Mr..
d Mary Russell, aged seventy-nine, was kille
q by her son-in-law, Edwin R. Prescott, age,
sixty-six. RusselI's daughter, who is Pre-
colts second wife, went to Boston this fore
noon, and on her return was met at the doc
of her hoouse by her husband, who told he
he had Just killed her mother. Til
= woman, Mortified, ran to a police station
d and officers going to the house found in th
back shed the body of Mrs. Russell wit
II her skull fractured, face crushed in an
throat cut from ear to ear. The murdere
n was secured and taken to Jail. The TRACED
created intense excitement, the parties to
moving in the highest social circles.
Ex-Congressman John 7. Harris, of vi.
ginia, is said to be employed by Huntin!
ton and Gould to represent their ~railroa
interest before Congress this session. I'll
= ex-statesman moves around in the lobb
III and on the floor of the House as though
re was familiar with his duties.
II Columbus (Ga.) Sun: Last Wednesday
E. one week ago, a colored woman named Ma
lie garet Sims, at the residence of Mr.. H. I
a. Epping, was cleaning fish, when she acc
IDENTIFY pierced her hand with a catfish Fl
n The next morning she got up and her han
was 50 swollen as to prevent her from doir
her usual work. 1t began to pain her al
re the pain increased until she soon was COZ
lie PEELED to take her bed. She suffered vi
a lently with it until yesterday, when s
died.
rt The Iowa House refused to pass a bill p
bo venting the issue of railroad passes.
Mary Cathcart has been sentenced to il
p~risonment for life in Massachusetts, for Sc
ing rum without a license. At least su
will perhaps be her punishment unless t
1t Legislature should pass a pending bill to
of lease her. She was sent to Jail for s
months, and additionally condemned to p
the costs of prosecution. She had
money. The statute formerly provid
~ that in such cases three months more
durance should satisfy the sentence, a
then, on a report by the Sheriff to Justi
the prisoner should be discharged. But
a recent revision the latter provision v
- accidentally omitted. Hence there is
present authority for letting Mary out.
James Adams, who was arrested by t
police at Kansas City for vagrancy, Y
found to have on his person $500.
I'D Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia, is
asst mere Eshadow of himself with a fright
hacking cough. It is thought his seat
TN the Senate will be vacated, and that G.
no. Gordon will be appointed to fill his place
OF The colored citizens of Boston, in ma
meeting, April 18th, denounced in
strongest moral terms the ejectment
Bishop Payne from a railroad car, in FlC
da ask colored people as American citiz,
ne to demand their rights in all sections of
not country, and ask the mass delegation
hat Congress to protest against the evils Il
re arise from the imperfection of the pres
Fry 'Ci7il Rights Bill"
on Mr.. Mclean, the youth who fred
uf Queen Victoria, isto be confined in a Ia
tic asylum "during the Queens pleasur
ed A special from Richardson Texas sa,
Rrawn piarca a farmer thraa miIaz east