The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-14
NEWS AND NOTES.

At the Iowa Agricultural College girls
are taught to make good bread, roast and
broil meats, and to make cup of coffee.
Iowa girls expect TO marry early this year.
George Bennett, an Iowa farmer, was
accused of criminally obtaining money by
contracting to deliver grain which he did
not possess. He protested that he knew
nothing whatever about the matter, but the
evidence against him convinced jury, and,
year ago, he was sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary. The man who per-
sonated Bennett has now been detected, and
the convict's innocence is made clear. The
! Governor has pardoned him, sand will ask
the Legislature to vote him $4,000, besides
| parchment on which the facts in the case
are officially inscribed.
George A. Stewart, the defaulting Secre-
tary of the Brooklyn Board of Education,
seems to have got away easily, and to have
no trouble in keeping his distance from
pursuit. In ten or twelve years of peeula-
tion he got away with over $3.50, 900 of ed
ucational money, and a reward of $4,000
was offered for his capture, but this, it
seems, was not enough. He and his wife,
and his sister and her husband crossed the
ferry to Jersey City and took the cars for
Canada, and this is as far as Stewart was
ever traced.
The "Sweet Sweeper" craze is going
through the South like a cyclone, and every
city of Importance has a band of the beau
ties, or intends to have soon.
Winter and spring came in close compe
tition at a recent wedding in Coffee county,
Ga. The groom was ninety-six years old,
and the bride just sweet sixteen.
One Georgia farmer has $4,000 sweet
potato plants set out in three and half
acres of ground, and says the product will
beat that of twenty acres of the best cotton
10 value.
The Mormon missionaries are still busy
taking converts in Europe, and the Nor
mon recruits are coming at about the same
rate of immigration per year as they did
before the passage of the anti-polygamy
law-about 800 year at the port of New
York. A ship-load of S7s of them landed
at Castle Garden the other day in charge of
a halfdozen Mormon elders, and were hur
ried off towards Utah before the gentiles of
New York could get in warning word.
A London lecturer on female attire said
recently: 'fDressed as women are, the less
exercise they take the better for health. In
fact, they are seldom fit to stand erect or
walk block, but should be rolled around
or carried on a planquin. Not one woman
in 10000 has room inside her clothes for the
rise and fall of the ribs in breathing, and
there is not one in 10000 whose vital organs
are not displaced by external pressure.
While this is so, the less exercise the bet
ter"
A divorce suit was on trial at Mount Yer
non, Ill. The parties were Mr.. and Mrs
Moore, aged 63 and Ga. The evidence had
all been put in, showing that the "ineonpat-
ibility of temper" for which the wife de-
manded a separation arose from an old and
originally trivial quarrel. A recess was
taken, after which the lawyers were to sum
up; but in the meantime committee of
neighbors brought about reconciliation, |
the case was dropped the judge congratula-
ted the husband and wife, who had not pre-
viously spoken to each other in four years.
and they went home to a merry making |
which their nine children had prepared.
Charles Lochbruner weighs about 100
pounds, his wife 200, and their relative /
strength is fairly represented by the same
figures. He ostensibly keeps restaurant
in New Orleans, but she is its real boss, as
he complains to Police Justice that three
days in succession she took him across her
lap and spanked him terribly. Being arres-
ted, she gave bail to keep the peace, though
at the same time she avowed her intention
to subject her husband to discipline when
ever and however she pleased.
A man at 0gIethorpe. Georgia, has inven-
ted wagOn-wheel in which the spokes can
be put in or taken out without removing
the tire.
man and woman patients - the 1VAs
Worth, Texas, smallpox hOspital, we're mar
ried recently They are certainly to be
pitied.
A divided hygienic skirt Is the new gar
ments recommended to English women by
the advocates Of scientific dress.
According to . local papers man died il
Minnesota from what was pronounced to
Be ieprOsy BY physicians q The most hiaeous
Over twenty thousand immigrants landed /
it Castle Garden last week. bringing the
.core since January ], up 70 about 2le.ooo.
This s over IS 900 more than the total for
lhs 1aua period Qf ths hitherto nnpEeeedens
te1 year