The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-01-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Minnesota has adjusted her reFadiated
debt satisfactorily to her creditors

Minnesota has adjusted her repadiated
debt satisfactorily to her creditors.
Senator Beck very sensibly objects to the
.iuegle of a tariff commission. L. Is tImateo
that the arrears Of pensions act VIII cost
the taxpayers 5000, 000, 600. which IS very
nearlyone-third of the present total Debt
The Kansas State Grange has issued a
paner on education. proposing that the
uS1al course OF the public schools DC
abridged in an intelligent manner, and
that the time saved be devoted 70 snch
practical instruction as shall give children
a taste for agriculture. love Of nature, ana
a sense of the dignity of farming.
| The Prohibitionists should tie on TO Presi-
/ dent Arthur He has recently approved
the proceedings of several courts martial IN
which army officers we're convicted OF
| drunkenness and dismissed from the ser
vice. Mr. Hayes, though Temperance
/ President, had not the courage to do this.
| DIR. John Fl. Stevens, Stonewall Jaekson's
/ principal surgeon in the late war, was
/ found dead in his Office at Dallas, Texas,
| Friday evening, into which ne had gone
after returning from a pleasure ride
/ 81 wish YOU wouldn't talk so about good
people. " said a New Haven woman to her
| husband. "They all have their failings;
but many of them will get to Heaven before
YOU do" Il sincerely hope so, was the
curt reply. He was in no hurry to CO.
Exchange.
The Virginia House of Delegates almost
unanimously passed bill to relieve iorty
citizens from disability incurred by duel,
| ing. Included in the list are the names OF
4 H. H. Riddleberger, General Payne and
/ three members of the Wise family.
| Mrs. Irwin, sister of Mrs. Ro wena Web
ster. both noted beauties of Alabama, died
recently at Huntsville She was known as
"a the Southern Florence Nightingale
During the civil war she had hospitals
wherever the Army of the Tennessee
could be reached, and after the war she es-
tablished an asylum for the orphans OF the
| Confederate soldiers.
Lady tt-Bartlett-Coutts, who re-
signed, on her marriage, disputed property
in the Coutts Bank, has been allowed two
! fifths income therefrom for the rest OF her
| life. She resigned 1890 year to marry
a handsome young fellow.
The friends of poor man at Saltwater,
Mimi, gratuitously dug a grave for his
dead child, but the sexton refused to permit
the funeral procession to enter the ceme-
terry, on the ground that he had been cheat
ed out of the job
Steps have been taken in Chicago for the
establishment of an institution in which
women addicted to stimulants and TO
opiates may be reformed.
A traveller bought an excursion ticket
from Washington to Toledo, and, owing to
detention of trains for which he was not
responsible, its limit of time expired while
he was still on the way. The conductor on
the terminal road demanded regular fare
and put him off the train when he refused
to nav. He sued the company whose agent
sold him the ticket on the ground that the
contract was made with that official for the
entire journey, and the jury, on the direc'
ton of the court, gave him a verdict of $500
, There was nothing in the demeanor Of
, Miss Musgrove to indicate that she was moi
, overioyed at getting Frazer for husband
yet within a week she eloped with Thomp
son.
Prof Summer, of Yale, says that the
. present college fashion is to g teach bit o
Latin, bit of Greek bit of biology, and 6
bit of something else, so that in the result
; men hardly know anything"
A Chicago druggist sold to freckled cir
a lotion which he warranted would remove
+ the blemishes from her face. And so it did
but it also burned away the skin, leavin:
scars that permanently disfgure her. Sh'
: is suing for $4,000 damages.
James Rhodes, wealthy farmer, respect
, ably connected, was convicted at Harrison
e burg, Virginia, on the charge of perjury
: 1t is his second conviction of that crime.
E Mr. Gladstone, replying to a correspond
f ent who had called attention to the fac
a that bands of Mormon missionaries visi
t Great Britain annually, decoying thousand
: Of Young persons to life of immortality il
n Utah. and inquired if tue Government
p could not do something to stop the practice
:. says he fears it is not a matter wherein h
: can interfere, as it is to be presumed tina
! the young persons go voluntarily
It On Stones River a stream in Rutherfor'
r County, Tenn, fishing for perals is bein'
u vigorously conducted, some 500 persons be
F.; ing engaged in the business. One peral 70
e which $50 was paid and others worth $25
: have been found.
: A lover undertook to commit suicide il
> the presence of the girl who had rejectet
ri him at Chattanooga, but she prevented hin
; by force, first dashing a bottle Of poison
from his hands, and then, after hard strug
V gle dispossessing him of razor.
Il Two women called on a Maine DENTS
Il simultaneously, one to have all her teetl
o extracted and the other only three. TIL
IT dentist mistakenly put the latter under tn
If influence of ether, and rendered her tooth
u less. A jury will estimate the damage.
a Colorcd emigrants by the car load, con
# tnue to pass through Chattanooga for tn
IS West.
r In the Legislature of Washington Terri
d tory a bill giving suffrage to women pc;
s. sessed of $500 in property was passed tn
e lower house, but Killed in the council by
d vote of nays and yea.
4 A new Bankrupt bill has been presente
to the Senate judiciary Committee by tn
subcommittee that had the subject i
I charge during the recess, aud it is likely t
! become law. 1t places all bankrupte
/, business in the Circuit Courts of the Unite
II States, and is a somewhat radical departur
' from the old laws.
t Both branches of the Kentucky Legisls
e ture have passed bills providing for calm
b a Constitutional Convention in that State
: The wife of Eson Bolin, of Bentonvillt
! Ark, shot him dead in bed last Saturday
: Latest advises .ell of her suicide in prison
o The negro riot at Piymouth, n. G., ha
e been suppressed by the Sheriff and militia
a Arrests have been made, but the murdere
g of the white man, Butler, is still at large.
: 1t is reported that woman in Californi
; became the mother of six perfectly forme
! female children.
y On his plea of guilty, the man who i'm
r personated juror in Philadelphia was sen
:. fenced to five years and ten months in tn
{ Penitentiary.
Ill Minnie Brooks, Chicago white woman
drew public attention to herself year ag
by turning her beer garden into religion
meeting house, and taking the lead i
revival meetings held therein. She ha
now become conspicuous anew by marrying
: a negro.
E Della Rose, of Chattanooga, made up he