The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
VOLUME XIV.
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

The Massachusetts, House passed the bill
permitting women to practice as attorney,
at law.
The smallpox plague continues to spread
in Pennsylvania, from Leigh county tc
Berks county.
Christian Deineman, of Suamico, Wis,
committed suicide by drinking mixture
of Paris green.
A colonyof PennsyIyanians is purchasing
land and preparing to settle in Hillsboro
county, Florida.
Considerable excitement exists at Fort
Smith, Arkansaw, on the discovery of two
more cases Of small -pox in town.
Colonel William S. johnson, a wealthy
and prominent resident of Chicago, died on
the 21st at jacksonville, Florida.
Judge Harrington, one of the leaders of
the Indiana bar, suddenly dropped dead in
his Office in Indianapolist, last week.
Leopold Morse, the old Democratic MEM
Der of Congress from Massachusetts,, an
nounces that he will not be candidate for
reelection.
Owing to the strike Of operatives, the
cotton factories at Lawrence, Mass, are
shutting down. Over 5000 employees are
idle in consequence.
The Garfield Monument Committee has
issued circular appealing for additional
subscriptions to the fund in its treasury.
1t asks for $250,0OO.
Jay Gould's total wealth is estimated at
over s6O.O0O,0OO, of which $4O,O0o,0O0 is
invested in railroad and telegraph stocks,
and 500, 900, 900 in bonds.
Georgia will not be redistricted until
another Legislature is elected. One Con-
gresham at large will be elected The
decision gives general satisfaction.
J. NJ. Hawkins, of Mississippi, arrived
yesterday with J. D. GilIenwaters, charged
with the murder of his friend in ArkaIulla
Tate county, Miss, August 27, 1881.
Unless the Democrats bury the hatchet in
Tennessee, the Nashville World assures
them that Horace Maynard will be the next
United States Senator from that State.
Ex-President Grant and wife are now the
special guests of President Arthur at the
White House, aud were last evening given
a dinner by Secretary Frelinhuysen.
Mrs. Dr. Susan Edison denies that she
furnished news from the late Presidents
sick-room for the benefit of stock operators,
but intimates that one of the male physi
CLANS did so.
A woman died at st. Louis apparently of
sapsumption, but the discovery of large
g. q. - f morphine bottles in her apart
~, f1es:R' to the belief that she was a
4 csa3f i! iCfcotics.
r. lIliford, a railroad and express
- t5frio telegraph operator, at Cicero,
7s.itv Gle has mysteriously disappeared. A
Ipu gFgeceived to-day from him states that
9',.r5ad body would be sent home. His
friends fear insanity.
Rev. Charles P. Bahan, minister of
Woodstock College, Maryland, was found
lead in his bedroom, from aPoplexy. He
was born in Louisiana and educated at
D. c., College, and was twen-
ty-eight years in orders.
Nicodemus is negro colony of 367 fami-
lies, in Graham county, Kan. There are two
ehurces, two schools and several stores; but
the remarkable fact about Nicodemus is the
entire absence of money. All the trad
ng is done with the produce of the farms.
Governor Cameron, of Virginia, thinks
hat the gubernator:al chair is not a very
great elevation for man who has been
editor of an influential newspaper, and in
,he Capitol he retains the simple and affabe
manners which he formally cultivated in
,he journalistic sanctum.
Elder Morgan, presiding elder of the
Mormon Church for Virginia, North Caro-
ina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Mis-
,issippi, left for Chattanooga on the 2lst
for Colorado with 100 converts, which were
gathered in the above States. At Nashville
ne will be joined by so or IS more.
Thos. Edmonson, prominent citizen of
Good Hope, village near Macomb, ILL.,, was
by three roughs, whom he had
turned over to the police few days before
for improper conduct. Ed. Click was the
man who fired the shots, and after his arrest
there was difficulty in restraining the peo-
pie from lynching him.
Four cattle men en- route from Wichita.
Ka., to Fort Worth, Texas, camped about
thirty miles from Fort Reno. One named
Stevens was sick, another named John
Morgan drove the two remaining men away,
murdered Stevens, and escaped with the
stock and equipments of the party, going
in the direction of Kansas
At Lawrence, Mass, the gates of the Pa
,ifc Mills have been closed, to remain shut,
Is far as the mill party is concerned, indie
initely. BY the strike and lockout there
have stopped $4,000 cotton spindles, 25,500
spindles, $500 looms and other ma
,hiuery, throwing fully $500 employees out
Of work.
The news of the passage of the anti
oolygamy bill created great excitement in
Utah. Men hugged each other on the
streets for joy. The young Mormons are
slated, and favor the BILL They have been
Kept IN the background for years by the
Deastly old gray-beards, and chafe under
the restraint.
John R. Davis, who was arrested in Cor
ous Christi and brought to San Antonio as
John D. Gillewater, for the murder of 5.
T. Eaton, in Mississippi, August 21, 1881,
states that be has never been in the State
If Mississippi in his life, that his home is
Monroe county, Arkansaw, and that he was
in Texas at the time the murder was COM
mitted. Davis answers in every way the
description of Gillewater.
Mrs. Haggart is an Indiana woman's rights
.gitator. She recently headed delegation
% urge the passage by the Legislature Of
favor able to her sex. She says :
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