The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-08-22

TIE 0cea isIatdrt Tuesday
passed general locsl ADOPTION law for tie

asd 3 geaefal local.oplion law for g
There are alarming symptoms 0
another earthquake on the Italian islan'
Of Ischia.
Cholera carried Of twelve per cent. B
the inmates Of the Cairo insane asylun
in four days.
There was frost in some localities il
Wisconsin on the 18th, inst, but no sc
rious damage is reported.
Eighteen and twenty bushels to the
acre is the average Of the new wheai
crop in Dakota. The harvest Is IN pro
gress.
Near Dallas, Tex, August 1T-Mal
tin Bradley, coiored, was lynched BY {
mob of citizens for attempting TO out,
rage white lady.
According to testimony before the
Senate committee on labor yesterday,
40 out of 100 strikes have succeeded IN
the past two years.
The Kansas railroad commissioner
are examining case in which II - al
legged the railroad company levied ex-
cessiye charges for loading cattle
John Simmons, merchant Of Deep
Greek, Virginia, killed his wife and com
mitted suicide On Saturday night. No
cause is assigned for the deed.
Stephen Green, Of colleton county,
s. G.. gave his wife and children NOR
phine. in mistake for qninine. Two of
the children are dead and his wife is
dying.
A jury in London forbade a woman
the administration of her own affairs be-
cause of the peculiar bird-like formation
Of her head, which they believed was an
indication of insanity.
In an election riot at Bryantsyille,
Kentucky. Yesterday, two colOred men
were killed and two others MORALLY
wounded. Several others we're severely
wounded, among them two whites.
At the election in Utah, last Monday,
the first under the Edmunds law, the
Mormons carried every county. the Ten
tiles eleeting few Justices and Consta-
bles in mining camps.
A Justice of the Supreme Court of llli-
noisahas disappeared, and is believed to
be in Dakota. Pleasant Henderson,
filed a bill for divorce from his wife
alleging adultery committed with tie
aforesaid Judge.
Returns of the State election in Ken
lucky, held few days since, indicate a
light vote and a Democratic majority
estimated at 10000. The Legislature is
believed to be more largely Democratic
than before.
Information has been received from
Pensacola to the effect that Surgeon
Owens is down with the yellow fever;
that there are five cases in the yard and
three outside, and there is danger OF Its
spreading.
The Surgeon General of the Marine
Service is informed that the
steamship Amethyst left four cases OF
yellow fever at Havana, and sailed
thence on the 4th instant for Boston.
The health authorities Of the latter city
have been notified.
Mr.. Stilson Hutchins, editor of the
Washington Post, is on still-hunt for
the Clerkship of the next House of Rep
resentatives. The most formidable can
lidates have hitherto been ex-Representa-
lives Atkins, of Tennessee, and Clark,
Of Missouri.
At Memphis the police arrested j. B.
Burdick on the charge of bigamy. He
came to Memphis about six months ago
and when arrested was employed as a
telegraph operator. He has wife re-
siding at Boscoble, Wis, notwithstand-
ing which he married a Miss Matte
Thomas, of Memphis, one month ago.
In the convention Of the National
party of New Jersey on the 18th, reso-
buttons were offered favoring Govern
ment control over railroads and tele-
graphs, demanding that all money
issued shall be legal tender, favoring
postal telegraph service, and equal taxa
ton.
The trial of the jenkins brothers for
killing Rev. Lane Borden at Mansfield,
which was to have begun at Shreve-
port Monday next, on account of some
error in drawing the venire, is post
poned until the first Monday in Sep
TENDER. The defense will seek to prove
that Miss Butler was engaged to Ben
jenkins and that she did tell him that
she had been seduced by Borden.
The elopement of Miss Cora Wisaid,
aged thirteen years, and Henry Burns,
sixteen years old, is the sensation of the
hour at Westmoreland, n. Y. The
Juvenile s"Juliet," is petite little miss,
with light brown hair, dark, flashing
eyes, and pretty features, while "Romeo"
Burns reyels in ford hair and complex
ion, and walks, looks and talks awkward
ly.
At Utica, n. Y, Aug. 3, Frank
Stowell, manager of f. A. Aliens i'm.
mense glove mandatory at Gloversville
a member of the Methodist church and
prominent society man, has eloped with
Miss Maggie Leayenworth, member OF
the Presbyterian church and a niece Of
W. X Heacock, president of the Fonda
| Johnston and Gloyeryille railroad
Stowell leaves q wife and two children
At Atlanta, Ga, August 8, Mrs. Ash
by, living in James place, has beer
weak in mind for some time. A LADY
entering the house found the unfortu
nate woman with small kitten almos
/ down her throat, only the hind legs be
ing visible. The kitten was seratchin.
furiously. With rare presence of min'
the lady grasped the animal and pullet
it out. The kitten lives, but the womal
is in desperate condition.
| At Columbia, S. c., August 8, durin
a recent storm in the county of York
| in the upper part of this State, a mos
remarkable accident by lightning an
miraculous escape from death occurred
Mrs. Mary F. Starr and Miss Irene Starr
mother and daughter, were returnin
from 2 picnic in buggy drawn by
mule. The mule was killed. The ladie
barely escaped with their lives.
Special reports from forty-fye coul
. ties of Georgia and Florida upon til
condition of the cotton crop, state tbs
i the drought is generally broken and tt
outlook brighter. Some fear rust an
damage by worms and caterpillars
J tsome counties. The prospects of FloI
da are better than in Georgia owing
more frequent rains. CaterpillaIs a
numerous in the latter State. PickiI
! has begun to a limited extent, VII
labor generally in good supply.
In Prague last Wednesday night
, mob Of fiTe hundred men attacked Il
Jewish quarters and, after doing mu,
damage, was finally suppressed by t
/ military. kilograms from Vienna sta
5 that the frequency of these riots is car
1 ing the government much uneasine
and orders have been Issued to the mi
tary and police authorities to treat the
e with the utmost severity whenever a
il wherever they occur.
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