The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
NEWS AND NOTES.

It is brass whistle, and has diameter of
20 inches The bell is q inches long,
while The whistle is feet and 8 in
ehes in length and weighs 400 pounds. This
monstrous tooter, which looked, as it lay
in repose in its huge packing-box, more
like the cylinder of a steam engine than a
whistle, win require a boiler of $50 horse
power, having pressure of $50 pounds of
steam, to blow it. When it is once started
its mellow notes may not be entirely linked
sweetness, but what sweetness there is will
be long drawn QUITO distance of fifty
miles, in fact.
The Castle Garden bureau is receiving
many requests for laborers and for families
from the Gulf States.
In Lafayette county, Ark, on the Louis
lana border, a negro named Wade Beed was
reprimanded by Mrs Reeves for passing
through the yard and leaving the gate down.
He left, but returned soon after with gun,
evidently looking for the lady, but not
finding her, found Mr.. Reeves, and fired
both barrels Kidding Mr.. Reeves body
with shot and producing instant death.
Mrs. Jeremiah Billingfelt, after spending
eighteen years in an hospital at Lancaster,
Pa, has just been discovered by her rela-
tives, and taken to her mothers home in
Fremont. They had supposed that she died
long ago. She was placed in the hospital
by her husband, from whom nothing has
been heard since 1870.
The man who buncoed Charles Francis
Adams out of $4,000 is on trial for the
crime at Boston. 1t is believed that he
will be found guilty aud sentenced to be
frozen to death by one of Mr.. Adams
smiles.
The Ohio Supreme Court has decided on
the question of the constitutionality of the
new law of that States taxing the liquor
traffic. The court pronounced the law I'M
constitutional and void, because it is in the
nature of n license law The Ohio Con-
stitution prohibits the licensing of liquor
saloons.
Our Northern Presbyterian Assembly at
Springfield, resolved against the running of
railway trains on Sundays
Carrie Massie, convicted OF the murder of
Mr., Evans at Summerfield in March, has
beer sentenced to hang. The woman is only
II.
Mrs. U. S. Grant as the years wax, is
growing binder, and when one approaches
her she is obliged because of acute near
sightedness to contract her eyes until their
expression is almost disagreeable squint
before she can distinguish features Mrs.
Grant has bluff, hearty way, quite popu-
lar with social eynics who tire of prim re-
ceptions, where Mr.. Retired Grocer and
Mrs. Retired Grocer receive visits in all
the state ola Baron and Baroness, and the
chilling atmosphere of snobbish ignorance
fills the snufy drawing-room. The EXPIRES
idents wife will smite a gentleman over the |
back with her fam, and call him by his first
name if he is familiar friend, and will send
him on an errand as quickly as she would
one of her own sons.
Army worms have appeared in some Of
the fields and meadows of Madison county. .
A little daughter of the proprietor of
White Rock mills, on the west fork of
Ouachita river, in Montgomery county,
Arkansas was caught in the revolving belt
ing, several days ago, and dashed with great
force against the wheels, meeting with in
Simultaneous death.
Capt. E. G. Carroll, of Vicksburg, prom
inently mentioned as the successor of Capt |
Eads on the Mississippi River Commission.
One day last week Mr.. G. w. Morgan,
a prominent citizen of Barlow, Polk county,
Fla, was riding along the highway, he was
fred upon by parties from ambucade and
badly wounded After Morgan was shot,
he was taken home and his wounds were
dressed. The wounds were of such seri-
Gus character as to confine him 10 his bed.
Monday night about 9 o'clock, a person
with handkerchief over his face, entered
room, and placing pistol in the
wounded mans face fired and killed him
instantly. The assassin, who is unknown,
escaped.
Samuel Martin and Samuel Watson, liv-
ing near Itasca, Texas, between whom an
old feud existed, settled the matter yester-
day by fighting duel, in which Watson
was killed and Martin wounded. Only one
other person witnessed the affair, and he
and Martin were arrested Martin used a
shotgun while Watson had a pistol j
Mr. Calkins, of Indiana, leader of the Re
publicans in Congress in the struggle for c
honest elections, is only forty years of age.
He is tall and finely formed, with massive
head crowned with plentiful dark brown
lair, and fresh, bright face lighted by large !
blue eyes.
A woman who died in Albany few DAYS
lgo bequeathed $4,000 to the Methodist ,
church, $1,000 each to her two doctors and
.wo lawyers, and $500 to her servants.
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