The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-12
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

A mob collected at Kokomo and organ
lied and marched to the Jail where Long,
alias jameson, charged with committing
the rape on the little daughter of Mr.
! Prichard, was confined. A crowd of sever
or eight hundred people had congregated a
the jail when the masked party arrived, bu
made no demonstration except to cheer tht
mob. At the Jail door the Sherifmet them
and on refusing to deliver the KEYS the mol
broke down the doors and took the culprl
/ to the Main street bridge, where Thousand
had gathered. Rev. MeCune was present
and offered prayer. He was placed on d
box, and his hands and legs tied. The
mob then asked him if he had anything II
say. He commenced singing, See THAT my
grave is kept green" After finishing, hi
said he hoped he would meet his father and
mother in heaven. It was ev ident that
not hing but large military force could
have prevented the hanging, The eulprit's
last wish was, "Hang me decent" and il
was done.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has passed
bill giving women the right to practice as
attorneys, and it will be approved by the
Governor.
The bill before Congress making 8 cent
postage carry an ounce instead of half an
ounce, is likely to become law.
At St. Joseph, Mo-, on the Sd, Jesse
James, the Missouri outlaw, before whom
the deeds of Fra Diable, Dick Turpin and
Thinderhannes dwindle into insignifeance,
as killed by boy twenty years old,
named Robert Ford, at his temporary resi-
on TIL irteenth and Lafayette streets, in this
city. In the light of all moral reasoning,
the shooting was wholly uniustifable, but
the law is vindicated, and. the $4,000 re-
ward offered by the State for the body OF
the brigand, dead or alive, will doubtless
go to the m an who had the courage to draw
a revolver on the notorious outlaw when
his back was turned.
The Standard Oil Company lost $4,000
worth of property by a fire at Pittsburgh
this morning.
At Charleston, W. Va, mob captured
the steamer Sallie Freepe at Raymond City
and went to Winfield and took a negro,
Joseph Smith, out of Jail and hanged him.
He had committed an outrage two weeks
ago on the wife of a section hand on
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, The
shock was so great that the woman was re-
ported dying last night.
At Waxahatchie, Tex while four children
off. Witherspoon were playing near the
bank of the creek, one of them slipped in,
and in attempting to get it out another fell
in, When a third going to the rescue fell in
and was unable to get out. The fourth child
ran to the house and gave the alarm. Two
were drowned.
Representative Thomas Allen, of Mis-
souri,, died in Washington City on the 9TH.
4 negro was arrested April 5, at Gun
tersville, Ala, on the charge of ravishing
small girl, from the effects of which she has
since died
South Carolina is to have an extra SEES
sion of her Legislature.
Georgia is without representation in the
the Senate. Senator Hill is i'll in Phiiadel-
phia and Senator Brown has gone home with
the bronchitis
A committee of investigation of Ar
kansas Legislature has observed that
Gov, Churchill, the present Executive of that
State, who was State Treasurer before he
was elected Governor was over 100000
short The Governors bondsmen will now
resort to the courts to evade payment, if
possible.
E. Brooks s. Bro, dry goods and clothiers,
of Helena, failed on the 4th. This is the
third failure in that city since the overflow,
the closing ofC. Wooten & Co., supply mer-
chants, and Jno. Knave, saddler, having
occurred previously.
Bertha Won Hillern, the famous ex-pedes-
trian, in her capital article on "Walking,"
in the Youths Companion, says: CRY to ac-
quire the habit of walking from the hips
1 had almost said from the shoulder, which
is really the true way"
Complete returns from the municipal
elections held in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan,
Connecticut and several other States, on the
4th, indicate very general Democratic
gains, bat a light vote, and only local issues
at stake.
Louisville, Kentucky dispatches an
nounce the failure of ingalls, and Co., whole
sale boot and shoe dealers. Liabilities
about 81 900, largely due to houses in Bos-
tnp and v-;oip;f,r