The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-31
News AND NOTES.

tactea OF murder IN the second degree.
Four hundred lives were almost certainly
lost with the ocean steamer ,Cimbra. The
fight for life, the panic and confusion, the
emigrants sinking in groups, the families
slinging together to the last, the women
powerless to save themselves, six wretched
Indians forced away with axes from the
boats, the struggle in the icy waves, the
shrieks which died away in means, the
means which ended in awful silence, is the
startling way u contemporary describes the
scene.
Two men were killed aud eight injured
by boiler explosion in the Ledger Paper
Mills, EIkton, Nd
A gang Of robbers alta cked train on the
Central Pacific Railroad, robbed the train
hands, but were repulsed by the express
messenger.
At Franklin, Pa. the trial Of Mary f.
McClelland, for the murder Of her husband,
in French Creek township, on Monday, No
yember 9, is progressing, Alex McClelland,
the murdered man, had a bad reputation,
and when under the influence of liquor,
was desperate of the worst kind and a
terror to the neighborhood in which he
lived. On the date mentioned he went
home drunk from Oil City, and abused all
about the house. Mrs. McClelland, who had
been delivered Of q girl baby few days
previous, was still in her bed, and because
the child was not q boy, McClelland had
threatened to kill it and its mother. Mrs.
McClelland, to protect herself and child,
had hidden . revolver III her night dress,
and when McClelland advanced to carry
out his threat, she drew her revolver aud
fired, the ball entering the right eye, causing
instant death. Mrs. McClelland was arrest
cd, but allowed to enter bail. The sympa-
thy Of the community was with her
The London Medical Press says: ait is
indisputable that the success gained by fe.
male students at the outset of the movement
in favor Of admitting them to equal exami-
nation with males, have not been maintain.
ed. In the Cambridge University Higher
Local Examinations marked decrease is
yearly observable in the number Of women
who succeed in passing in the Natural Sci
ence group of subjects"
In the Druggists Circular, a simple test is
given for ascertaining the presence of cot
ton seed oil in olive oil. An aqueous solu-
tion of acetate of lead is stirred up with
the oil and the mixture put aside for twelve
hours If there be present even so small a
quantity as per cent of cotton seed oil,
the mixture will have reddish color. This
reaction is said to be peculiar to cotton seed
oil
Orange, Va, Jan. 22.--The trial of Grant
White (colored) for murder is progressing
In the CountyCourtt tto-day before jury COM
posed entirely ofnegroes-the first jury of the
kind ever impanelled in this county. On
the panel of sixteen were four white men,
but they were stricken off by the defence.
Pittsburg special in Cincinnati News
John Beabout, aged eighty-four years a
wealthy farmer, who lives near Ashland, o.,
came to this city on Monday to marry a wo-
man whom he has been in love with for two
years. Her name is Miss Maria Sanders,
and she is thirty-four years of age, just
fifty years younger than her new husband.
The wedding took place in the presence of
few friends.
The National Board of Trade, in session
at Washington, adopted resolution favor
ing the establishment by the Government
of postal telegraph and telelephone sys-
tenn.
A cotton Exposition, similar to that at
Atlanta in 1881, is assured for this year
at Louisville. Two hundred and fifty thou.
sand dollars have been subscribed by the
citizens, and the necessary building will at
once be erected.
At Newport r. l., prominent and
wealthy citizen is suspected of throwing a
stone through the window Of the residence
of Mrs. Edward R. Sherman, and Mrs. Sher-
man and daughter are seriously i'll from the
shock
One of the wealthiest of United States
Senators is George H. Pendleton. 1t takes
at least 100000 year to maintain his sew
eral places of residence--his elegant winter
home in Washington, his large city mansion
in Cincinnati, his cottage at Conway, N. H.,
and his villa at Mount Desert Maine. No
one knows exactly how he got it all, but he
has been in Congress for good while. He
is the author Of the sham Civil Service Re-
form bill lately passed
The ocean steamer imbria collided with
the Sultan last week, and only ffty-six per-
sons are known to have been saved.
There is little doubt that letter postage
will be reduced to two cents.
Col. William Preston Johnston has tender
ed his resignation as President Of the Loui1,
lana State University and Agricultural and
Mechanical College, at Baton Rouge, in
order to accept the charge Of the Tulane
College, to be started in New Orleans.
The chances for tariff legislation at this
session Of congress do not improve.
Judge z. Hupt, one Of the leading law.
yers and jurists of Texas, died suddenly Of
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