The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-22

| n HuuuiEd ucszlDCs, eutieeu from south
Carolina to Texas by some enterprising ex-
odus manager, are in a bad way for food and
shelter
NEWTON, KAN.-The first whisky case
trial under the prohibition law here wa
held to-day, the jury rendered verdict of
not guilty.
Members of the Mississippi river COM
mission continued their testimony yesterday
before the committee on levees aud river
Improvement.
DR.. Strother, Kentucky lecturer, holds
that the Garden of Eden was the Mississip-
pi Valley, and that Noah's ark started from
Manhattan Island.
At Terra Haufe, Ind, Issac Kendrick
shot his wife twice and killed her, at their
house, two miles east of Grant Station,
northeast of that city.
A Washington special says it is common
ly known among Senators that Senator Ben
Hills malady is mortal, aud that he can
not live much longer.
The National Assembly of France is pass
ing Compulsory Educatson bill. 1t has
already passed the lower House, and is now
going through the Senate.
The President has been notified by Judge
Samuel Blatchford, of New York of his
acceptance of the Office of Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court.
Nearly every day from 100 to $50 per-
sons pass through Chattanooga, going West.
They are from Western North Carolina and
Southeast Tennessee.
Prohibition has been defeated in Harrison
county, Tex, after bitter contest, the ne
groes voting almost solidly against the
measure, the whites being eveHly divided.
Sarah E. Howe, the President of the
woman's savings bank which swindled in
1880, has been sentenced to three years
imprisonment in the House of Correction.
J. Russell Young, Gen. Grants reporter on
his tour around the world, aud who wrote
book about it, has been nominated TO the
Senate by the President for United States
Minister to China.
Twelve hundred persons were present on
Wednesday last at bimetallic meeting in
London, seven countries being represented.
The Governor of the Bank of England advo-
Gated the free coinage of silver.
New York Tribune: Public money ought
to be voted for Improvements in the Missis-
sippi Valley. The effect of the disastrous
floods is proof that some>of the levees need
repair and that more should be built.
The two hundredth anniversary of the dis
coyery of the mouth ofthe Mississippi river
is to be celebrated. The Mississippi itself
has>already got "on high" in anticipation
Of the eevent.-Cincinnati Commercial
The Chinese anti-immigration bill which
passed the Senate, prohibits the landing Of
Chinese on our shores for the next twenty
years. It does not interfere with those
Cinnamon who are now in the country.
A I0-mile race, horseback, for purse of
$500 and gate money, between Miss Nellie
Burke and s. w. Beardslee, came off near
San Antonio, and was won by Miss Burke,
making 8 miles in 3S minutes and sec
onds.
In the United States Senate, Mr.. Garland
has introduced bill for the construction
and repair ofthe levees on the Mississippi
river, which was laid on the table subject to
his call. (It apnropriates s15,0O0,000 for
leyee purposes.)
WASHINGTON, March.-Chairman Bar
mum of the National Democratic Committee,
is here to-day consulting with Democratic
leaders in Congress with regard to the
formation of the Democratic Congressional
Committee and the management of the
coming political canvass.
The House of Representatives of Iowa
has passed with but one dissenting vote
bill providing for a gold medal to be pre-
sented by the Governor to Kate Shelly, the
heroic young girl who saved an express
passenger train on the Chicago and North
western Road, last Summer, from wreck by
a wash-out.
A sensational shooting afray has occurred
in Little Rock Miss Matte Davis, aged
II, was followed home BY a man named E.
c. Brecklan who, after arriving at the house
where the young lady was staying, attempt
ed to violate her person. The girl seized
pistol and shot Brecklan in the back of the |
head.
Governor Hawkins, Of Tennessee. has
issued proclamation conyening the State
Legislature on the 9th day Of April, in ex-
traordinary session, for the purpose Of tax
ing some action with reference to the State
debt, and clso to re-district the State, in ac-
cordance with the new Congressional ap-
porEionment law.
The whole country to the rear Of Mayors
vile. Issaquena county, is under water, and |
as it Is rapidly rising the indications are, |
Col. Mayer thinks that the whole section
around MayersyilIe, including the town II |
sell, viii Be entirely submerged il fen
days.
In the United States District Court the /
case Of Bishop Richard B. Cain and wife /
". the Galveston, Hornersbnrg and San
Antonio Railroad Company for 50 900 |
damages judgment rs given for tie plain /
tifg lor four dollars and eighty cents. !
difference between the court 81 travelling IN |
! Pullman car and otheruiss. Tie suit
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