The weekly clarion., 1882-01-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Nine prisoners escaped from the Spar
tansburg (Ga) Jail, Sunday night.
Mss Violet, Of Alexandria, Va, com.
pleted fiity-six days fast on the 1st.
The Medical College at Keokuk has been
closed on account Of the presence of small
pox. There have been nine cases in all
two fatal
The Conference Of the Louisiana Aetho-
dist Episcopal Church South, is holding its
thirty-sixth annual session. Bishop Nc
Tyere Is presiding.
Over !, 400 miles Of railroad have been
built in Texas within the past year, and
during the same length of time ,48s miles
of telegraph wire have been erected.
The estimated value of railroad property
in Texas is placed at sl5O,000, 600, which
is thought to be rather an underestimate.
Mrs. Charlotte Kemper, of Virginia the
Kempers, aud lately teacher of higher
mathematics and Latin in the Augusta
Seminary, is about to 90 as missinary to
Brazil Miss Kemper Is known through
out the South as a woman of great acquire
ments and much strength of character.
At the last session of the grand jury at
Marshall, Texas, thirty indictments against
gamblers were returned. All the indict-
ments and papers concerning the same have
been stolen.
Orders have been received at New
Orleans from San Francisco to provide
freight room in March and April for 1S0,-
600 bushels of wheat to Great Britain.
This wheat will be shipped from California
to Orleans by the Southern Pacific railway,
thence by steamer to its destination.
Did the daddy dollar have anything to do
with the present prosperity of the people =
ELogansport Pharos.l No, it was the crops. |
f indianapolis News Perhaps the daddy
dollar moved the crops. How about that?-
Courier-Journal.
Chattanooga Times: As things are now go |
ing, the South will in the year Of 1900 supply |
her own markets with every grade of cotton /
goods, and with every form of iron and steel,
fine cutlery included.
Representative Ford, of Missouri. leader /
of the Greenbackers in Congress, says his
party will oppose al legislation for the con-
tinuanee of national banks, and antagonize
all refunding legislation, as they believe the
bonds should be paid off at once in green
backs.
The remark by venerable member of
the Trenton, n j., School Trustee Board, /,
that married ladies, as a rule, were the best
reaehers, was the means of preventing the
adoption of motion requiring the reslgna-
tion of sll married lady teachers.
A member of the Ohio Legislature en-
deavored to have his wife appointed
deputy clerk in that body.
National bank notes require millions Of
dead capital. earning nothing, but eontinu-
ally consuming.
The United States begins the new year
with a public debt of $l,7S5, ,49l,7l7, or
about 81, l,O00,OOO.0OO less than the maxi
mum amount reached by the debt in 1860.
Henry Ward Beecher says: Not only
do moss men over eat on the weekdays, but
on the seventh they gorge like anacondas.
Murfreesboro (Tenn.) News: Some OF our
older citizens remember Mr.. Guiteau, al
ieweler and matchmaker, who lived in Mur- I
freesboro about forty years ago. The Cur
team who lived in Murfreesboro was an
uncle of the assassin. and his son, the boy ,
born in this city, was named Henry =. |
Gniteau. Henry c. Guiteau is now con-
inetor on some railroad running from St.
Louis. and is a worthy gentleman.
Miss Charlotte Kemper, who for ten years
has been a member of the faculty of the !
Augusta Female Seminary, and who has
for some years filled the chair of higher
and senior Latin, has ieit /
preparatory to going as q mission q
,ry to the Presbyterian Mission at Cam
pinas. Brazil. !
A meeting of the officers and directors of .
.he American Mission Association has been
held 10 Nashville. Tenn, at which It was
resolved 70 institute full course in the
,chool in Talladega, and in Straight Uni N
gersity.
DR.. J. ". II. Williams has been pastor
i the first Baptist Church Of Baltimore,
Nd. thirty-years. In this period he has
Daplised 1,0l6 converts.
4 woman Of 50 committed suicide At Ak G
90, Ohio 9
The Hamptoa element Of the South Caro- E
ina Democracy favor col. Theodore G. P
Baker foF Governor. :
Tie Southern Pacific 10 New Orleans win &
IS completed July 1st e