The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20
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ules, and the various amounts offered fo
him. dead or alive.
/ Tie Marquis of L9rne aud the Prince:
Louise, avoided notice as much a. possibl
when in Chicago. While in Washingto
Park, however, they were stared at by abou
two thousand curious people.
/ Carl Schurz is accused By correspondent
Of tie Sun of suppressing report condemn
ing a fifty mile section of the Northern Pa
ciie road and issuing a certificate youchin
| that The road has been properly built au
that the company had acquired the title
the land grant.
Educational interests are not neglecte,
in Texas. Dallas is building five publi
school houses at a cost of 5000 each. Sal
Antoni is erecting High School house a
an expense of S34, 900, aud Corsicana hat
just built two school houses at cost o
81, 900 each.
The year 1888 is the periodic cholera year
The first appearance of the pestilence in
this country was in 1892; and it has since
appeared at intervals of seventeen years
in 1919 and 1866. Il is now raging in the
PHILIPPINE Islands, and has manifested it.
self at other points in the far Orient
The Tammany Hall Committee on Or.
ganization decided to send full delegation
to the Democratic State Convention, and
voted to send FIVE representatives to the
Anti-Monopoly State Convention, and to
ask that body to make no nomination until
after The adjournment Of the Democratic
Convention.
William H. Mcneil recently discharged
from the Queens county New York Asy-
lum, who claims he was, although sane,
confined as "a lunatie through con1piracy, has
brought suit for $4,000 damages against
his father and the asylum officials, County
Judge Armstrong and the certifying physi-
clans
General Gordon, of Georgia, is the guest
of the Duke Of Sutherland, They are deer
stalking in the Highlands, and the General
is making great reputation as a sportsman.
He is the most popular guest Of the county
side, his genial manner winning the conf
denee and liking of the "camsteriest Scot
among them a."
In Oscar Wilde, at Cape May, the mos
quitoes had a bonanza. He is big, vealy
and fabby, and the mosquitoes took lik-
ing to him. His slippers and silk stockings
gave them full play from his Toes to his
knees. In fact the only part of him that
escaped was the back of his neck, which his
ong hair protected. He finished the lee
ture, however.
General James Longstreet, who was nomi-
lated for COngressman-at-large by one fac
ion of the Republican party of Georgia, be
ieves that it is unwise for the Republicans
o nominate any distinctively party cand::-
lates in that State this year, and he has ac-
declined 10 run. He thinks that
he only way to defeat the Democrats is for
II the anti Bourbon elements to unite.
There was Republican Convention held |
It Winston, n. c., last week, at which a
ferman named Travis was nominated for |
'fice. He was called upon for a speech, |
'ut declined to make one. They said he |
ould at least accept the nomination and |
make his speech some other time. He
aid that he didn't know about that, he
rould think of it and ask his wife, and the
Convention had to wait until the candi-
late could get his wifes advice.
Henry Ward Beecher has answered the
uestion, 'Is it wrong for Christian to
ance ?" in characteristic way. at is
7icked,' he says, "when it is wicked; and
t is not wicked when it is not wicked. In
Lselfit has no more moral character than
7alking, wrestling or rowing. Bad COM
any, untimely hours, evil dances, may
1ake the exercise evil; good company,
'holesome hours and home influences may
lake it very great benefit"
A woman was bitten by dog in Paris
he vent at once and had the wound eau
erized at the Hotel Dieu. She continued
erfectly well until one day, when she was
assing the hospital, she was recognized by
ne of the students, who called out to her:
Holloa! you are not dead yet then? The
og which bit you was downright mad, as
ney found out afterwards" The woman
as seized Immediately with violent spasm,
nd in few hours died with symptoms of
1t is reported that Mr. Blaine is pulling
he wires to make straightout Republican
andidates pop up in opposition to misce-
enation candidates in the South, and that
e encouraged Carter, the Republican
to run against Chalmers, the
olitical miscegenationist, in Mississippi.
t is said that Mr.. Blaine's policy is to iden-
fy himself with the Straightout Republi-
an movement in order to further his chances
,r the Republican nomination for Presi.
ent.
A recent visitor TO Winnipeg, on the Red
liver, discovered the ruins of the fort which
elonged to a colony founded in 1911 by
ord Selkirk, Scotch philantropist. He
anne over with eighty families, and for sew
raj years they prospered, but the destruc-
on of wheat crop by grasshoppers made
aem poor again. Selkirk journeyed 10
'rairie du Chem in the dead of winter to
et. seed for the next years planting. At
his time there were 900 to 500 persons
j the colony. Conflicts as to the ownership
the land, ensued between Selkirk and the
hudson Bay Company, and in 1926, bank,
npt and disheartened, he returned TO Scot
and, some Of the people accom- panying HIM
nd the rest scattering throughout Canada.
The most conspicuous feature in the
vening scene at Saratoga was a lady from
Philadelphia, fair, and young and petite, a
FRS. Moore, whose sleeveless dress of rare
is said to have cost so, 900; and
q whose hair and ears, and on whose shoul-
ers, bosom, neck, wrists, and hands were
isplayed diamonds that must have run up
nto hundreds Of thousands in value, in sol
aires ereseents horIzontaI hands and I