The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-19
NEWS AND NOTES.

A jury decided that the Louisville and
Nashville railroad owes $4,000 to the pa.
rent. ofthe brakeman, W. R. Neil, who was
killed in October last, while the train wa:
crossing Chef Menteur bridge The TOP
crossing of the bridge was 50 low that il
knocked the unfortunate man, who was on
top Of freight car, into the next world
The steamer City Of Cairo, of the Anchor
/ Line, which left St. Louis for Vicksburg on
the 18th, took down 10000 Government
rations for sufferers BY the food in the State
of Mississippi, and steamer City of Helena
which left on the 18th, will take down the
same amount.
| Ex-Governor Holden, of North Carolina,
who was dangerously i'll of paralysis a few
days ago, is believed to be recovering.
Louise Montague. the prize beauty o
Forepaugh's circus procession last season
had leg bruised in Kentucky railroad
collision. The hurts were not permanent
and did not disable her for exhibition pur
poses, vet she brought a suit for $4,000 anG
has obtained 81 900 by compromise with
the company.
/ The President has notified Gen. Fitz John
Porter, in answer to his petition for relief
from the sentence of the court-martial, that
he can DO nothing in the case, as it is entire,
/ ~ beyond his power.
BENZ F. Jones, son of welI-to-do far.
mer in Gordon county, shot and killed
Charlie Payne, negro, at Calhoun, and
succeeded in escaping arrest.
The Chairman of the Executive Commit.
tees of both wings of the Democratic party
will issue calls for a State Convention o.
the party to meet in this CITY on June goth
to nominate candidate for Governor
A. T. Stewart & Co. announce that they
have determined to discontinue their dry
goods and manufacturing business, and
offer their stock of merchandise and mill
property for sale
The Canadian Senate has passed bill
legalizing marriage with deceased " ;fe' S
sister.
Near Penfeld, Ga, live two ladies', who
since the war, started to farming with one
old blind horse, Now they own good plan
tation well stocked, all paid for, and have
eighteen or twenty bales of cotton on hand
They manage for themselves, one attending
the farm while the other managed the house.
hold affairs.
The Cincinnati Gazette records the elope-
ment of Mr.. Peter Shinkle, an estimable
citizen of Covington, Ky, now in his S7tE
year, with Mrs. Martha Bedgood, widow
of 81 years, and also a resident of CoYing
ton. They gave the young folks the slip
took the train for Louisville, and were there
married.
At Sedalia, Mo-, a number Of persons
who were in the same division with Jesse
James when he was a soldier in the regular
confederate service, have started a subscrip
ton for his widow and children Over $3.50
is already raised.
The report of singular death comes from
California. The child of William Allen
Observation-Disclosures was smother ed to
death in its cradle by large cat. The
father and mother left the house for 8
few moments walk, leaving the babe asleep
in its cradle. On their return, after an
| absence of fifteen minutes, they found the
cat coiled up and asleep on the infants face,
andon examination the painful fact was
disclosed that the babe was dead.
Near Selma, Ala, forty masked men
largely hites, took two negroes, Henry Ivy
and Sim Acof, from the guard at Brown,
Station yesterday morning and rode of
with them. The lifeless body of Ivy wa;
subsequently found hanging from the limt
of tree in the vicinity, but Acoff7s body
has not yet been found. The men were con.
cerned in the brutal murder Of an old man
named Messenger, and Ivy made a volun;
tary written confession of his guilt.
Miss Rosa Rosenthal, of Atlanta, Ga, has
received from the Georgia EIectc Medical
College the first diploma ever conferred
upon lady in that State, granting the title
of NJ. D.
U. B. White, Treasurer of Newberry
county, South Carolina, has absconded and
is i'll default $4,000. He is said to have lost
money in gambling, and is supposed to have
fled to avoid the shame of exposure. He
has been County Treasurer since 1876, when
he was appointed by Gov. Hampton to col
lect the voluntary tax.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Texas Western Narrow Gauge Road Com
pany, at Houston, on Wednesday, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Frederick D.
Grant, President: S. K. McIlhaney, Vice
President; Jesse R. Grant, Treasurer; and
~. G. Tracey. Secretary.
The New York Supreme Court has de-
cided that wife may sue her husband for
damages for assault and battery.
The Kentucky Senate reconsidered the
vote submitting the question of prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors in Kentucky to vote of the people,
and then sat upon the bill by yeas ten, nays
seventeen.
The ladies of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union of the State of Illinois
are preparing for vigorous political cam
paign, with a view OF capturing the next
Legislature.
A ripple of excitement was occasioned in
the Massachusetts Legislature by the state
ment that an attempt had been made to
bride member by the offer of free pass
on q railroad.
Strikes among carpenters, shoe men and
factory operatives are reported in Northern
cities.
Patti warbled thirty-three nights in the
TTnitad States and s.iIad the othar dav FIR