The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24
NEWS AND NOTES.

The father of Senator Morgan, of Ala
bama, died in Nashville last week at the
advanced age of ninety-four
The bill introduced into the House by
gallant Congressman Dunn, of Arkansas,
''to authorize females to enter upon public
lands" would seem to have arguments in
its favor
1t turns out that the coIored man found
dead on the railroad track near Collinsville
was put there by four tramps who had muir
dered him. The scoundrels robbed another
man and have been captured.
A cargo of Chinese in San Francisco har-
Dor have rebelled against the quarantine
regulations, and it is reported that boat
upset on the way 10 the pest house with a
load oft the Mongolians, many being drowned.
James Wick, the distinguished florist of
Rochester, n. Y, died few days ago of
pneumonia, in the sixty-fourth year of his
age. He was born at Portsmouth, Eng,
but came to this country with his parents
in his fifth year. During his boyhood he
was playmate of the late Charles Dickens.
He was type-setter by trade, and worked
at a case by the side of the veteran journey
man Horace Greeley. At an early period
he assumed the managing editorship of the
Albany Cultivator. and subsequently vari-
GUS other rural journals. In 1850 Mr..
Wick became engaged in the cultivation of
choice fower-seeds, which occupied his
attention to the day of his death. He was
very widely known throughout the United
States, and Europe. He was the largest
dealer in fower-seeds in the world.
Katie Morrison, a negress, of Columbus,
Ohio, was firm believer in conjury, and
when Doctor Charlie, an operator in spells,
handed her a bit of root wrapped in red
flannel, assuring her that it was voudoo
charm, she fell down in a fit and nearly
died.
NEW YORK, May. 12.-Roscoe Conkling,
according to the observation and belief of
many of his old friends, is meditating the
design to run for Congress from the Utica
or Oneida District, which he represented
fifteen years ago, at the next contest.
The date for holding the Indiana State
Democratic Convention has been fixed for
August ,.
Capt Jas. B. Eads has rendered his resig
nation as a member of the Mississippi river
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ed health He will go to Europe to recuper-
ate.
John N. Cameron, farmer, living twelve
miles West of Muscatine, Louisiana, aged
60 years, was shot and killed by his fifteen
year old daughter on the Goth. The father
and daughter were quarreling, when the
girls brother, aged IS years, handed her a
revolver, with which she shot her father
through the breast. 1t is supposed the chill
dren desired to get possession of the fathers
Their mother is in the insane
asylum.
All State officers in Indiana, except Gov
ernor and Lieutenant-Governor, are to be
elected in November.
There have been about six hundred
deaths from smallpox in Cincinnati since
the first of January, and the papers of that
city say the disease has been permitted to
run riot because of the criminal inefficiency
of the Board of Health.
Sixty-one Democrats and Greenbackers
in the lower house of Congress voted for
the three-year limit to National Bank
charters, and lit Republicans and Demo
Gratis voted against it.