The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-04-04
NEWS AND NOTES.

About one hundred and fifty Mormon
converts left Nashville for Utah on Fri,
day.
Miss Annie Dawes, daughter of the
Massachusetts Senator, will il is said,
accept an editorial position on the Pitts
field Journal.
A bill has passed the Pennsylvania
Legislature forbidding the issue of
passes by railroad companies to public
officials of every class and description
whatever.
Among the bills favorably reported
in the Pennsylvania House was the fol-
lowing; Requiring all persons who may
be elected to the office of District At
torney to have had at least three years
practice as an attorney.
The Association of the Confederate
Army of Tennessee is arranging for the
erectionin New Orleans ola monumental
tomb and equestrian statue of General
Albert Sidney Johnson, the cost of which
will be at least $4,000. 1t is desired to
lay the cornerstone April 6, aud to push
the work to speedy completion.
A Georgia paper says that at a recent
term of the court in Wilkes county,
this State, the Judge went through the
remarks which usually precede his call
ing attention to special laws, and com
menced that part, when the foreman,
in very distinct voice, remarked
Judge, You can abbreviate that part of
your charge. | have heard it so often
that am perfectly familiar with it.
A woman was hanged at Windsor,
Vermont, { Vermont mind you) on the
30th, named Emeline l.. Meaker, who
horribly maltreated and finally poisoned
a little orphan girl in 1881, the victim
being her husbands half-sister, and the
object being to ''get her out Of the way"
Mrs. Meaker's own son--a young man
was an accomplice in the crime, Of which
he made full confession.
Mount Etna is now in eruption. No
very serious outburst has occurred so far;
but, according to recent cable news the
activity of the volcano is increasing,
and it is said that several villages in the
neighborhood of the mountain are in
danger After the extraordinary series
of storms, floods, earthquakes, and other
disastrous events which have marked
the last three months, great volcanic
eruption would appear to be quite in
the fashion of the year.
At the last session of Congress an APP
priation of $4,000 was made to pay the
State of Georgia for expenses incurred
in the Revolutionary war. Judge Law
renee, comptroller of the treasury, has
decided that rs Georgia owes more than
the amount appropriated by Congress on
account Of the direct tax levied in 1861,
the money will be withheld. The sum
of $4,000 was also appropriated for
Oregon for expenses incnrred by that
State during the Modoc war, but as
Oregon is delinquent to the tune Of
$4,000, that amount will be kept back
Attention has recently been drawn to
the fact that the new civil service law is
silent as to any distinction to be made
between male and female applicants for
places in executive departments, and the
problem of reconciling this state of
affairs with the present practice in most
of the departments of giving male appli-
cants for Office preference in appoint
ments is now the subject of considera-
ton by the Civil Service Commission.
The rules to be drawn up by the com
mission will, it is understood, contain
some provision bearing upon this ques-
ton, the commissioners being cognizant
of the necessities Of the public service
and opposition on the part of heads of
departments to any large increase in the
number of female clerks.
Controller Lawrence, of the Treasury,
has decided that the language of the
constitution providing that Senator'S and
Representatives in Congress shall re-
ceiye compensation for their services,
is imperative; therefore that the salary
Of Representative Ochiltree, of Texas,
cannot legally be withheld because Of
his Indebtedness to the government.
With regard to the two territorial dele
gates, whose accounts as United States
disbursing officers have not yet been set
tied, Judge Lawrence holds that they
stand upon different footing; their office
are not created by the constitution but by
statute, therefore their pay can be held
as a set-off. This opinion was trans
mittcd to the Acting Secretary Of the
Treasury, who decided to abide by it,
Hence, 0chiltree will get his pay the
same as other members Of Congress.