The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-07
NEWS NOTES.

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NEWS NOTES.
The President has named Thursday
November ., as Thanksgiving Day.
The educational fund Of Texas. pres
ent and prospective, Is 800. .0Oo, 600.
Texas organized sixty-eight new coun-
! ties last year, making 200 IN the state.
The increase Of her taxable property IN
the year was $130, ,090, 600.
Mrs. E. D. f. n southworth, the
story-writer. still lives IN Washington,
where she was school-teaeher thirty
| five years ago. Her home, Prospect Cot
tage. Is empowered in honey-suckles, and
occupies a commanding position over
looking the city.
Hotels expressly for ladies travelling
without male attendance are being e,
tablished in Holland. Unprotected
gentlemen viii soon be safe If the plan
is adopted.
It il said that every other Mormon Is
liar by force Of habit, every third one
horse thief, every fourth murderer,
every fifth a polygamist, and every NIL
Iionth an honest man.
Senator John b. Mcpherson, of New
Jersey. saws he feels quite sure that Iii
den will. if his health permits, be the
Democratic nominee for President IN
1884. and that Hendricks will be the
candidate for the Vice-Presidency
The State of Texas has recently purs
chased 100000 school bonds OF Wise
county, and the Fort Worth Gazette
mentions that this spectacle OF state
investing its surplus capital IN the bonds
of one of its own counties and drawing
interest instead Of paying 1t out, Is q
rare one.
The Attorney General of Massaehu-
setts has laid the foundation for no lit
tie trouble, by deciding that woman
is not "person." Most men can recall
moments in their lives when they were
willing to swear that woman was not
only a person, but several OF them.
Mr.. Blaine gets from the publishers 0
his new book 10000 cash down ana a
ROYALTY of Is cents volume. There are
advance orders for 100000 copies, and It
is expected that fully 100000 viii be
sold. This would yield the author
$12O, 900 in ALL
The post Office authorities decide that
when publishers without request from
a person either expressed or implied,
.end q paper to his address, the mere
fact that the party takes the paper from
l post Office does not itself create ma
k;i;t1, 70 nov for IL
Ex-senator Gwin, of California, who
is in New York, has been interylewe9d re-
in regard to the next Presidency. III lie
strongly favors the nomination OF l II
den and Hendricks, being contident thet
tLey would ''sweep the country llk a
whirlwind. Mr.. Gwin thinks all signs
noint to Hon. James G. Blaine as the
Republican candidate, in the. event OF
which ''he will be backed by incredible
sums of money"
Georgia has 137 counties and totai
If about 300 towns, cities, villages and
hamlets. She has seven cities OF over
| 7 600 population, and twelve of upwards
Of $500. Eighty cotton and woolen
miIls-which is nearly half the number
in the entire Southland over z, IO0 mills
| of various kinds. There are but 70l
Eouor saloons in the entire State, ano
she has 79 gold mines .
The South Carolina Railway, Is sale
by the Railway Record to be the mos
| remarkable railway in the United States
aft ia the first railway built In the South
LIZ not in the United States; its mileage
has never been added to or reduced
since it's completion; it has never passef
ont of the hands of the management o
its stockholders, and has always beer
successful and profitable. 1t runs iron
Charleston, 8. c., to Augusta, Ga, ant
from Charleston to Columbia.
The Irish informers, Michael kava
paugh, Joseph Smith and Joseph Han
ian. have arrived in Calcutta. They wer
shipped as grooms on the steamer whicl
took horses from Melbourne to the foI
eign ports.
France proposes to pay Mr.. Shaw, th
English Missionary to Madagascar I l
900, and officially expresses regrets 10
, the iniurie, and insults offered by tn
French under Admiral Pierre.
A number of young fellows in Georgi
, thought to enliven political camPalg
, by mercilessiy maltreating number
e defeuseless eolored men. Its grautyln
=, 10 observe that eight of them have bee
s eauoht. convicted, and will be sent I
D prison to expiate their brutal crimes
: hard labor.
1t is charged by the Washingto
Republican that there "have been n
valid elections in North Carolina, Sout
!, Carolina. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
Louisiana, Texas, or Arkansas Is
years. To this the Little Rock Gazeti
7 reioins: "Twenty-six States are no
Democratic; and as in the Republican
oninion no State election is valid whle
e does not return Republican ma]orlI
only twelve can now be found. but q
. American eagle flaps his wings as usus
!. Mr.. John L. Brooks, who died I
= cently at Napa, Cal, leaving an esta
! Of about 800 900, willed most OF 10
!; personal friends, saying in his VIII:
!, prefer chat INV estate should go after n
: daath tn those who have been kind, al
1. devoted to me here, rather than to re
: lives far away who are, most OF them
3 3 least we'll able to take care OF the
aeIves and from whose lives and mt
= ats have long been removed.
- saw this without any disparagement
!. them. and in order to show that | ma
ns dulv considered and deliberately deed
m as to these my testamentary wishes,
sr Al the annual meeting of the
,er academies in Paris, Count DelessI
he Iactr,red on the t'The Scientific and =
IN iI;zing Character of Great Enterpri
,es Intended to Facilitate the mtercou
in "a Nations He insisted that nlaTlLl
vi highways should no longer pc snDlss
he IN the yicissitudes of the active polll
On. of governments. Seas; STRAITS
in nhoruses and maritime canals must
tor freely open at all times, lrresPec'
of of All international conflict. he
Ill the construction of the Panama %
cut will have effected the introduction
!, a new principle which is more mPorl
Is aven than the execution ol Woh1
90 namely. the vast association oE the
yed tal of the world, which condaeea g
re- solidarity Of the interests q Al hatl
ans The Republicans of the first dig. z.
pro- ~ North Carolina have nominated z
TO ls Poel. for Congress 70 MI INC
arg. q HE brother Walter F. Pool, deees
end Mr. Pool IS collector OF the port ol e
sted beth City.
lilies - p
sks 4 Good Filter.
mt. mt n. o. States.
II + mav be ! matter Of interest TO-
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