The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-05
VOLUME XIV.
NEWS AND NOTES.

A bill has paased the lower House Of
Congress- to pay for the use Of the orphan
asylum property at Natehez during the war.
The great California miIlionaires don't
run to family. Leland Stanford has but
one child, a boy of thirteen. Flood has a
son, not very satisfactory specimen, Of
twenty-five, and daughter, a fine young
lady. Mrs. Mackey has a daughter, Miss
Bryant, by her first husband. and two sons,
who are yet boys, by Mr.. Maekey.
Miss Jesse Green, of New Orleans, La,
daughter Of Protestant Episcopal parents,
embraced the Jewish faith, and was married
to Mr.. Isaac Feitel, Hebrew, in that city
recently. Shortly before her public declara-
ton of her change of faith they were mar
ried by civil magistrate; after it they
were united by the Jewish rabbi.
Ashland, the home Of Henry Clay, has
come back into the possession of his family,
having been purchased a few days ago by
Major Henry Clay Mcdowell, who married
the daughter of Col. Henry Clay, of Buena
/ Vista fame, granddaughter of the states
man. Ashland, fifteen years ago, was pur1
chased by citizens of Lexington, as site
I for an agricultural college, which proved
an unsuccessful project.
Missouri has law forbidding the manu-
facture or sale in that State of bogus butter
no matter whether represented to be genuind
/ or not.
The Athens factory pays dividend of 12l
! per cent, besides a sinking fund to purchase
new machinery when needed.
! A school for training shepherds has beer
established in Algeria. The pupils are inI
structed in all that effects the breeding and
rearing of sheep.
/ Newbern, n. c., has cannery with a ca
pacity of 5000 cans per day. 1t is now
canning berries and will soon can peaches
also, vegetables and oysters in season.
+ A saloon keeper named Smith shot and
killed his wife in Chico, California, on the
29th inst. He was soon afterwards captured
when it was found that he had swallowed
poison. A physician was called but it was
expected that if his efforts proved success
full Smith would be lynched. The cause Of
the tragedy was domestic trouble.
An Italian laborer was stoned to death byI
a gang of ruffians at CatskilI, New York
The Democratic State Convention of Cal
ifornia has nominated John Daggett fo1
Lieutenant Governor. J. 4. Glasscock, Of
Alameda, and G. A. Sumner, of San Franz
cisco, were nominated for Congressmen-at1
large. General Rosecrans was nominated
by reclamation for Congressman from the
First District. The other Congressional
nominations were James Ii. Budd, Second
District; Barclay Healy, Third District,
and P. D. Tulley, Fourth District. The
State ticket was completed by the nomina-
ton of G. p. Dunn, ex-Auditor Of San
Francisco, for Comptroller; Thomas L..
Thompson, of Sonora, for Secretary of
State Mr. Baldwin, of San joaquin, forI
Attorney General Prof. w. D. Wicker, of
Alameda, for Superintendent of Public ln-
struction J. w. Mccarthy, of Stanislaus,
for Clerk of the Supreme Court, and Mr..
Wiley, Of San Diego, for Surveyor General.
The latest snake story from Georgia isl
thus told by the Rome Bulletin. "TheI
other day certain young lady in Rome
started out shopping. While putting on
her hat she thought it felt rather heavy,
but not noticing anything put it on her
head. On her return she asked her sister
to take off her hat, that she thought some
thing was on it. Her sister took ofher hat,
and while doing so came near being bitten
by snake. The lady had worn the snake
around with her all the time, unconscious
of its presence"