The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-03-28
NEWS AND NOTES.

49, ~" NVHhSSeCu og teiCpnOne.
At Raleigh, March %, James Holt.
colored, convicted of rape, was hanged.
The Kentucky State Prohibition Con-
yention will be held at Louisville April
19.
One hundred and fortyreight cmigrants
LETT Connemara Ireland, on the oath,
for America.
The Tennessee Senate has adopted ex-
Treasurer Folks proposition to make
good his defalcatiou.
A Georgia man raised $l0G worth of
watermelons on seyen-eights of an acre
Of land last year.
Twenty-Five cmigrants from North
Carolina passed through Chattanooga
ON Friday for Pueblo, Col.
This is the heading of news item in
our exchanges: A christening in New
York winds up in a free fight and mur-
| der.
The Missouri House of Represents
tives on Saturday passed bill fixing rail-
road passenger fares at 3 cents per
mile.
Governor Bates has signed the bill to
pay the State debt of Tennessee at fifty
cents on the dollar and three per cent.
interest
Every session of the Connecticut Legis-
lature costs the state more than 100000,
and the people are now agitating the
question of biennial sessions.
At Corsicana, two car loads of cotton
were fired by spark from passing
engine, and each bale was more or less
burnt. Loss $4,000, covered by open in
surance.
The Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention nominated Ex-Governor
William Sprague for Governor. lie had
previously been nominated by an Inde-
pent" Convention.
| At latest accounts, the total visible
cotton supply for the world was 3,292,-
SOP, of which 2,2S6,502 was American,
against 290S,1l2, and 2,l73,Sl7 respec-
lively last year.
A bill is before the Tennessee Legisla-
lature to repeal the Four mile law"
which prohibits the sale of any wine,
liquor, o. beer within four miles Of a
church OF school.
/ Capt. James i. Eads has sent sent in
his resignation as a member of the River
Commission. He has recommended that
Col. Henry Flood, Of St. Louis, be APP
pointed to fill his position.
A drunken engineer on the Western
and Atlantic railroad, few nights ago,
ran his train from Chattanooga to Boyce
station, distance of five miles, in six
minutes. He was discharged
Gold from France to the amount of
$4,000 arrived at New York on the
22d and ODD and $550,000 more was on
the 2fth drawn from the Bank of Eng
land for shipment hither.
This is the head line of column of
Ohio News Double tradgedynear Green
field, @. The Taylor brothers murdered
by Wrh. Kees-A young lady despoiled
of her tresses-A bullet in the brains
J. T, Brown, recently appointed
United States Marshall for the Eastern
District Of Arkansas, has been arrested
and charged with forging large num-
Der of vouchers and collecting money
on them.
The farmers III the vicinity of Char
lesion, S. G., have been picking straw
berries for several days; the crop
promises a good result. Some sales have
been made of choice kinds as high as
So 80 per quart.
At Houston, Tex, March, IS, Henry
Campbell (colored) fatally.shot Police
man Richard Snow. Campbell was
fourishing six-shooter at negro ball
and upon Shows entrance to quiet him
shot him in the Head
Ella Linsey, a young girl l6 years old,
living at Sandersville, Ga, went into the
woods to get some frewood, when big
dog ran towards her. She uttered a
piercing shrek and fell backwards
dead.
At Helena, Ark, five members of the
McCool family, consisting of six persons,
all of whom were food refugees, from
the mouth of the st. Francis rive, have
died from pneumonia within the last
twelve days The mother, the surviving
member, is now dangerously ILL.,
United States Senator's are human.
The fact that Senator Mitchell of Penn
sylvania, had appointed his son to sine
cure place in connection with a commit
tee has called attention to the fact that
seven committee chairmen in the Senate
had their sons as clerks during the last
session.
The Tennessee Legislature to-day
passed bill to pay bill to pay pen
sion of $40 per month to all Tennessee
federal and confederate) soldiers who
lost an eve or eyes during the late war.
Considering that the same body has just
repudiated half of his debt, it is sug-
gested that she is generous before just.
1t is started that the charge against
Associate Justice Hoover, of the Supreme
Court of Arizona, who was suspended by
the President, is that he borrowed a
large sum of money from bank, against
which the government had brought suit,
that the case was to have been tried be-
fore him, and that he indefinitely post
poned it.
The Mississippi River Commission now
on tour of inspection is dispensing
with the services Of quite number Of