The weekly clarion., 1882-05-24
NEWS AND NOTES.

{ The protected monopolies are anxious II
have their paid attorneys appointed mem.
bers of the Tariff Commission.
4 colored man, Robt. smalls, ex-Con-
gresham from South Carolina, was refused
room in Boston hotel last week.
The author of the Morey letter, which
, was used so effectively for Republican pur-
poses in the Presidential canvass, it now
seems from recent discoveries was a Repu6-
lican named H. H. Hadley, of New York,
who palmed it off on the National Demo
cratic Committee.
The Treasury Department seems bent on
restricting or stopping entirely the coinage
OF silver dollars The Pacific Coasters in
Congress viii doubtless be alive to the
advisability of defeating such a movement
In New York City, Philip spey-
er, sixty.four years of age, died
on Friday from the bite of cat. The
marks made by the teeth of the cat were
very small, but the blood freely spurted
from them. A daughter of Mr.. Speyer tied
his thumb in a rag, thus stopping the flow
of blood, but the pain increased and soon
became unbearable. Mr.. Speyer then OBJ
atined lotion that temporarily relieved
the pain. During the night, however, he
was restless and could not sleep and almost
before daybreak started to work, fancy ing
that in the hustle of business he would
/ ny,1 - L; l.,
and arm began to swell he grew feverish
and excitabIe and requested his daughter
to send for the family physician. The
doctor found his patiert suffering from
lymphangtis-an Inflammation of the lynn
phatic vessels-that turned into erysipelas,
crept up his arm and made suppuration
of the tissue. Remedies were applied and
the arm was lanced in several places, but
the agony of the patient still continued,
and his arm hogan to swell to immense pro-
portions. In spite of all efforts to save
him he finally died of most excruciating
agony.
Venuor hasn't missed it very much so
far this season. He said it would be cold
and wet. He also said there would be frost |
in June and August, but he need not insis
upon it just for the sake of establishing his
reputation.
General Robert G.. Schenck has been, it
is said, cured of Bright's disease by the use
Of SKINNED milk. General Schenck believes
it specific for that disease.
Charles Stewart, colored barber, was
arrested at indianapolis charged with COM
mitting an outrage on little girl five years
old. The next thing we hope to hear is
that he was burnt alive.
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion
conference denounced the action of the
steward of the Hudson river (N. Y } steamer
who refused to allow Bishop Moore and
other colored clergy to sup at the table with
the white passengers.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson says that the cot
ton crop of this country is regularly depre-
ciated at the rate of one cent per pound by
bad handling between the field and the facto-
ry. In a crop of 100000 bales this loss
amounts to $50, 900, 900 year
At Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, Joseph E.
Jenkins shot his brother-in-law Raphael
Castillo, in the night. The next day, on an
affidavit by the coroner, DR.. A. Guilbeau,
he was arrested and put in Jail at st. Mar
tinsyille to await trial. To-day about 800
men gathered here and went to st. Martins
vile and took him. They brought him to
the spot where he killed Mr. Castillo pass
ing through Breaux Bridge, and hung him
to tree about half mile from town. AT
the same time the same crowd took hold of
a black man that had lately killed a young
man living at Valery Thibodeaux, and who
had been released on bond and hung him
up to the same tree.
The Postotfice Department is arranging
for fast mails between New York and
San Francisco, and between Boston and
New Orleans, under the new Congressional
appropriation.
tom" Ochiltree announces himseIfas an
Independent candidate for Congress in Gal
weston District, Texas
DIX thousand swedish and Norwegian en- |
grants sailed OF the 18th from Hull for the t
United States.
A graphic writer on the Chicago Tribune {
describes a girl of that city as hsging
'lustrous brown eyes that one often sees in
3rahma hens, and complexion that never
costs less than 81 a box.'
There are now in the Missouri peniten-
iary 1898 convicts. Thirty-six of the
lumber are females.
Nearly 1000 immigrants laaded in New
York yesterday.
The reports from South Carolina show an
EXCELLENT condition of the crops. Labor is
plentiful, in spite of the alarm some months
go regarding the movement of laboEers
West.