The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-03
He CLARION.
NEWS AND NOTES.


fnll-asdged sensation is agitating
|l,matic circles in Washington. There
f,nr PARTIES to tia count in diplo-
| !. breeches, a society belle, a cautious
H. and an irate colonel in the United
tes army.
daughter of VIM. Howard Russell,
n ("Bull Run" RUSSELL the wife
H. Francis Edmund MacNaughten,
sloped with a young man, the agent
| he Marcartney estates in Ireland.
he death of Gambetta excites a good
of comment in diplomatic circles.
feeling is that, in the dea tn of
|obetta, France has lost the bulwark
popular government. There is a
Inc that the. future of France is
|rnant with uncertainties. Among
attaches of the foreign legations
h is good deal of speculation as to
|, gave Gambetta the wound which
lifted in his death.
rs. stillwell, wife of Jay H. Still
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, employed
lac C. b. and Q. Railroad, has made
| nfcssion on her death-bed of three
Her. She is at the house Of rel
les in Knox county. The first was
! /. Swigart, her first husband, who,
says she killed in Maryville, Mo-, in
| ch, 1877, with the aid of her mother
brother. The second was a stranger
| m the same parties killed for his
hey, while stopping at a boarding
| Sc The third was her own daughter.
b II years, who she strangled in the
ence of her mother, at Rulo, Neb.,
May, 1880. She also confessed that
attempted to kill her husband three
les to obtain his life insurance. The
|fessions we're first made to her hus-
ID, and since to others. She is dying
resumption.
p. Emily Wimberly Of Memphis,
i 30, was burned to death on the LIST.
dress caught fire while standing in
i Of the CRATE in her room, POI Main
1t.
letter from Tazewell Court House.
| gives the details of the lynching of
gro named Bluford Smith, on Thurs
might, at that place, for the murder
young white man, named Charles
ger, during a dispute on December
A mob broke into the Jail and took
| negro out and upon the jailer sum-
Hing assistance they began shooting
BE prisoner and wounded him. He
soon after being taken back to the
Selma Alabama, on the LIST, through
occidental overdose of chloroform,
by W. Bell, associate editor of the
bling Times, died. He was brilliant
|hg writer, and was remarked as one
e best local editors in the South.
be Tennessee Senate organized to-
| by the election of B. F. Alexander,
rutherford, Speaker, and I. G. Ling,
adison, Clerk.
|Pv. Cleveland, of New York, was in
| ID in Office with the usual ceremo-
p Edmund's bill to prohibit Politi-
assessments, of which notice is given
|lother column, has passed the Sem
Bastrop La, the county court
was totally destroyed by fire.
records and most of the valuable
s were saved. The origin of the
mystery.
Shreveport on the 1st, fire broke
a frame-house adjoining the mar
ouse, resulting in the destruction
i've one-story frame houses front
on Milan street. The fire was
ID by colored man, named Wesley
Oughs, throwing coal oil in the fire.
Of one of them occupied by a
ed woman. Burroughs was arrested
jailed.
We Roberts, a negro, confined in the
nlle, South Carolina Jail, on the
Seof cotton stealing and murder
ssault, was taken out and lynched
Slst. Admittance to the Jail was
ned by stratagem and the sheriff
powered.
-ssuDsp a-v
W. G. WoRTHINGToN, late of the
nbus Index, has become editor of
aspatch Of that city. He is a Wig
writer, trained journalist, and
Mics a democrat of the orthodox
/ The Dispatch gains largely by
Engagement.
gs that Should be Settled Now.
The Internal Revenue abolition ques-