The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-21
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Hon. Thomas S. Flournoy, died sud |
denly at his home in Halifax county, /
Va. He represented his district in Con-
gress before the war, was candidate for
Governor on the Know-Nothing ticket /
against Henry Al, Wise in 1865; was dis
tinguished at the bar, and ON the rostrum
for the last forty years.
Four Chicago men have contracted to
build a Capitol for Texas, to cost S., 3,000,- |
600, and take 100000 acres of public |
land as payment. Their scheme con
templates an immense business in graz
ing, and they have secured S6,000,000l
for investment in cattle and improve
ments
At Marlin, Texas, +. T. Glover, a
white man who has been teaching a /
colored school in the Bra8os bottom, and
who has been in town on drunken de-
bauchfor several days, went into saloon
and sat down on chair. In a short
while he fell over stiff and stark in
death. Whisky did the work for him.
Senator Dan Cameron is very sick
man, and political circles are already
agitated in view Of the possibility Of
his death. Should vacancy occur
Governor Pattison would appoint a
Democrat to succeed him, thus disturb
ing the existing Senatorial political
status.
A Dispatch Butler (Pa) special says
Col. John M. Thompson, ex-Congress-
man Of that district, has been arrested
on a charge Of raising note from $40OI
to $4,000. The arrest occasioned great
excitement, but the general opinion pre-
walls that the charge cannot be sustained.
Col. Thompson gave bail for his appear
ance in court.
A bill to encourage tree planting in
Ontario has been passed by the Legisla-
ture. 1t provides that any person own
ing land adjacent to the highway or
street may plant trees on the portion
adjoining his land, and any owner Of
lot may, with the consent Of the own
ers Of adjoining property, plant trees on
the boundary line.
At Pittsburg, March II, Nicholas
Kretsch was murdered. He had attend
ed christening at the house Of man
named Utter During the festivities
q row occurred in which Kretsch was
beaten about the head and stabbed in
| the back By two brothers named Will
| helm. Kretsch finally made his escape
and went home and died.
i The business of canning fruits and
vegetables has grown to enormous pro-
portions. Over 81, ,000, 900 cans of toma-
\ toes were packed last year, making one
for every man, woman and child in the
country. Nearly half this work was
done in Maryland and Virginia. Tie
wholesale price of three-pound cans
ranged from four to five cents each.
Dr. George L. Walton denies the
remedial value Of the climate Of Florida
for Northern invalids, especially those
: afflicted with pulmonary troubles. In /
Q Popular Science Monthly article ht
4 advises consumptives to keep away from
{ there on account Of the warm, humid
$ relaxing, cnervating, character Of tht
$ atmospheric conditions.
Al Villa Rica, Georgia, a woman
!, named Mrs, Grubbs, in the absence o
! her husband, the miller, essayed to rul
the machinery of Folks mills, when he
hair was caught IN an upright shaft an,
G shewas literally scalped, the skin peelin
o off from her eyebrows to the back Of he
h neck. After the accident she shut o
the water and sent for neighbor. Th
n doctors say she is doing well.
" A Northern contemporary introduce
Q column Of dark deeds with the startlin
y headlines, all commemorative Of hal
pening on the North of Masons an
d bixon's line: Double Tragedy in Phili
A. delphia--a woman shot by her brothe
Il in-Iaw. Another "didn't know the gu
n was loaded Murder in st. Clair coul
ty lila woman the victim. Infanticid
e in Danube Damaging testimony in ii
II Nutt-Dukes murder trial at Uniontowi
n Pa, etc, etc.
n Catherine Edwards young lady OF
years, living at Caseville, st. Clair count
ID ill., was shot and killed last Saturda
le evening by John Jacobs, an intima
,f friend, who thought TO frighten ~
have some fun with her by pointing
shotgun and swapping cap at be
,o The gun however, to Jacobs surprl
i and horror proved to be loaded, and y
I'll voung lady received the charge Of sh
u u Ia her left breast, and died almost
stantly.
.o- A sickening sight was presented
al Richmond on Tuesday last upon 4
Is arrival of the train on the Danyillc IRA
le- road. Two young women, both viii
were handcuiied together, and und
90 the charge CT the Sheriff Of Roano
n. county, cn route for the penitential
ds Neither can be over 20 years Of q
nv They were convicted Of use.breaki
M before the county court Of Roanol
\, and sentenced to be confined in the p,
~ itcntiary. Both wore calico dresses q
'Is ah ordinary bonnets They did not seem
M IN be IN the least detected on the cont
f .Sn nv. we're rather pleased at the. no
~ n sights and scenes which greeted them
this big city.
am A FRIEND Of the Clarion sends "
OF. club of seven subscribers, and kin