The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-14
News AND NOTES.

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by the encouragement on the ground thai
the money received by Mr.. Wolfe, through
his bank, belonged to the State. The total
amount Of cash he received from Treasurer
Vincent is sl39,s76.
/ Twelve soldiers and Lieutenant armed
to the teeth, guard the tomb of President
Garfield at cost of 1881 month to the
country. Why is this9
Queen Victoria has twenty-five grand
children and will soon have twenty-four.
The Kansas House Committee on Rail.
roads has reported bin fixing the passen.
ger rate at three cents per mile, and author
izng the appointment of three railroad com.
missioners who shall receive a salary Of
5000 each.
An ear-trumpet has been invented in
England, by which the faintest sounds are
gathered up and made audible to the lis
tener.
The act of Congress links the United
States government with the proposed Cotton
Exposition of 1884. and assures it all the
strength Of its influence and'power at home
and abroad. 1t is to be opened and closed
by the proclamation Of the President. ali
entries by foreign nations are to be admitted
free of duty, and the medals to be awarded
are to be made at the United States mint
The government does not pay any subsidy
makes no appropriations or subscription
and is not in any way financially RESPONSE
BILE for the exposition, at which il viii be re-
presented by thirteen commissioners.
Since Friday the rains which descended
in the country lying between the lakes and
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, hay,
destroyed, it is estimated, upwards Of S25,
100000 worth Of property.
The House Committee on Railroads of the
| Kansas Legislature have reported an impor
tant measure for the regulation of passen
ger and freight charges and to prevent pool
ing to the detrimcnt Of the public and othei
abuses. Arailroad commission Of three mem
bers is also provided for.
! On q plantation in Laurens county. soutl
Carolina, some negroes killed and ate
goose which had been bitten by mad dog
Five of the family have died, and foul
others were in conyulsons at the time o
the last report,
bill for local option is before the Flor
ida Legislature.
| California is overrun by ramps, and he
legislature is discussing means of suppress
ing them.
The value Of the wood which is annual,
burned in this country is three hundred an,
| twenty-five millions Of dollars.
w. A. Childs has been arrested on tn
charge of robbing the mails. Childs had
hearing before United States Cammissone
Dimmick and pleaded guilty to the charge
Bond was fixed at $500. He was specia
Post Office agent in Alabama.
The bill having for its object the reviya
of the American merchant marine seems t
have been hopelessly stranded in the storr
which the tariff bill has raised in the house
7. Malone is not conspicuous u the senat
during the tariff debate.
i Much damage has been done by the over
flow of the Tennessee river. A considerabI
amount of corn and cotton of last year
crop was caught in the fields by the food
and destroyed.
At the request of the New York Societ
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Children,
nolle proscqul was entered in the twent.
four indictments against Rev. Edward Gov
ley, who served d term in the penitentiar
and paid $780, being convicted Of cru,
treatment Of child in the Shepherds Folt
of which he was manager.
At Detroit, Michigan, John Day fatal
shot young man named Freeman, who wa
elOping with his daughter, at Roxana, nea
Charlotte.
Ex-senator John B. Gordon expresses. n
: desire to return to public life. While a Ser
ator he was poor and overworked. In LEI
than three years after leaving the Senate !
: has become rich and happy.
4 At Chattanooga, Tom Virgins, colore'
cut his wife's throat and then his own. I'll
! cause Of the terrible act was jealousy Of
I colored parson.
1 AT Plaquemine, La, Daniel Scott and I
!, Sarrenl, his brother.in-law, colored, got in
! a fight. Scots wife stepped between the
to separate them, when she was killed OF
right by a shot from her husbands pistt
4 He then fred again at Sarrem, woundil
IS him severely. in the back. So far Sarre
d has eyaded arrest.
) From Lamar, in Barton county, M
I comes the story Of homicide, j. A. Dor
q having shot and killed his father-in-law,
4 M. Smith. Doran was ne,er-do-well, VI
y married the daughter Of Mr.. M. NJ. smit
one Of the wealthiest farmers Of the couni
= against her fathers wishes.
Marshall Jewell, former Postmaster-Ge
4 eral, died at Hartford Connecticut on I
= 10th after brief illness.
y Al game Of poker at Fort Worth led I
n Of the wealthiest men in Texas to draw !
yolyers for a settlement. Eight shots we