The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-17
NEWS AND NOTES.

The coalition in Virginia which Malone
invented and managed as political speeu-
lation may be said to have collapsed.
Five children were deserted by their
parents at Neweomerstown, Ohio. The old
est was ? and the youngest baby. The
only food in the house was some corn meal,
and they ate it as long as it lasted. Then
they were two days without nouthtul of
anything but water. It was na aa-ii ls
infant died that they informed the neigh
bors of their plight.
The London Lancet warns the public Of
the great danger Of injections of morphine
under the skin, and says: TT is practice of
extreme hazard, and We are of opinion that
surgical Observation-Disclosures should refuse to
sell the requisite apparatus to slay persons,
and that the medical men should forbid
their use
Smallpox has broken out at Fort Worth,
Texas in epidemic form within the last
week. Over twenty cases have appeared in
the last three days.
John Owens said to Gath that the best
women he had ever known were little
cranky on their age, especially when their
daughters are growing up. He referred to
one lady who had a married son and several
manageable daughters, and who related
that she was married very young-when
she was not much more than fourteen-anG
the interlocutor looking at her wrinkles, she
said "Pll tell you how those come-on my
fathers side. Ny mother married 4 very
old man"
Two brothers named Hawkins had an
ARRAY with a man, name unknown, at Reed
Vile, IS miles out on the Little Rock and
Mississippi Both brothers were shot dead
and the murderer fed to the woods and es-
capped
A rumor has prevailed in Arkansas
that State Auditor Crawford's account Is
nearly twenty thousand dollars behind.
A committee is now investigating and the
facts will come out during the week. Mr..
Crawford has already served three terms
and is a candidate for denomination by Ne
Democratic Convention, and is a man Of
unblemished reputation.
Marie KONG, a German woman, at BJs-
ton, murdered her boy years of age,
cutting his throat with case knife; then
cut the throat of her daughter aged IS.
Alfred, another son, has cuts in a dozen
Places not fatal. Another boy, aged II.
was also wounded The woman then at
tempted to kill himself
Female candidates for the study of med
icine in Russia are constantly increasing.
The total number admitted within ten years
is $50. OF these PSI have finished their
studies, and 152 are now practising.
It is a common practice in Philadelphia
to take children to the gasworks to be
treated for whooping cough. There the
little ones are held over the purifying pans
to breathe the mingled fumes of ammonia
and sulphur. This affords relief by clear
ing the air passages. and the physicians
recommend it.
Chicago is the greatest lumber market in
the world. The single item of sawed lum-
Der received there is 1881 would lay an inch
flooring fourteen feet wide round the ear tn
at the equator. The amount of lumber
manufactured in the three States of Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota during
1881 would lay such floor fifty feet wide.
The expense Of the Missouri session of the
Legislature was only $4,000.
An ingenious method of arriving at an es
innate of the numbers oft the children who
succeed in eyading the compulsory bylaws
of the School Board has been adopted by
the Ragged School Union of Liverpool. A
band of music was hired to play for two
hours day during school hours in different
parts of the city, and record kept of all the
Juveniles who were attracted by the music.
In four days they counted no fewer than g.,
020 children of school age, for the most part
squalid and ill-fed, standing round the band
at time when they ought to have been at
school
Five thousand immigrants landed at Cas-
tie Garden, New York, on the 10th, most of
whom are Germans.
About 10, 100000 acres of land in Louisi
ana were submerged by the late food, which
will cause an estimated loss to the State of
100000 bales of cotton and so, 900 hos sheadaL
of sugar. The rice crop will not be serious
ly injured, as replanting can be accomplished
until the middle of June.
A bride who was married at her fathers
farm house in Hartford county, Md, last
week wore wild flowers at the throat and in
the hair. The parlor where the ceremony
was performed was decorated with wild
flowers only-arbutus, violets, dog-tooth
vioets and spring beauties.
Judge Mallory, of the Milwaukee Police
Court, recently sentenced one Henry Ber-
winger and his wife to six months at hard
labor in the House of Correction for cruelty
beating and misusing their little 2-ycar-old
son.
Attorney General Brewster has not been
at all successful in demonstrating that the
South Carolina people are ballot-box suffers
and ballot thieves. Not one of the five
juries found any of the defendants guilty in
the recent test cases.
Senator Hill, of Ga, is very low at Eureka
Springs. His daughter has gone to Join
him.
Miss AIedora Won Hoffman, Of New York, |
has just married the Marquis of AIores, heir
ofthe Duke of Votlumbrosa. She is young
and lovely, and wore white cut-yelvet The
next personal she gets win be about two
years from now, when she comes back to
New York with holes in her socks and a
nnngrY hahv In her arms 10 live with old