The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-21

held. while out cunning, was accidentally
shot by another lad named Wych Vaughan,
and died from the effects.
A special to the Telegraph and Messenger
! from Baxleys says: A. N. Curry was shot
and killed this evening by Geo. Wilcox, his
father-inlaw
The Ohio river has now reached the high
est aood point ever known, being s. feet or
9inohes higher than the big food year of
1882, the highest on record hitherto, and Is
feet over the same date last year. The
same story of foods comes from all
of Its tributaries, The Monongahela is
20 feet, the Kentucky Al feet, the highest
water ever known; the Cumberland Al feet
X IS inches, s feet oyerrthe same date last year.
Strawberries are s5 a quart in New York
city,
call is published for "National Dele
gate Convention to be held in Chicago,
July 4 1888 for the purpose of organizing
a new political party to espouse the cause Of
legitimate industry in The irrepressible con
tlict already entered upon between the con
federate monopolies and the people" II is
to be an Anti Monopoly National Conven-
ton
The Memphis Appeal gays there il reason
for believing that flood Of unparalleled
destructive force threatens the whole lower
Mississippi valley, and may sweep away not
only the leyees in Coahoma, Tunica and De.
Soto, but in other counties in Mississippi,
as. well as those in the river counties of
] Louisiana and Arkansas; and that the peo-
pie of Crittenden county are moving their
stock and goods in dread Of an unusual
? overflow.
{ In various parts Of Illinois are reports d
small pox. The last place for an outbreak
J is Finchford, ILL.,, being ten cases.
The capital invested IN all the railways o.
/ the world has been estimated at twenty
i billion dollars. The toal mi cage is repor
tea as two hundred thousand IN length
d ofJudah P. Benjamin, Queens Counsel
J. who hss r tired from the practice Of law il
Z England, the London Times says: "the Eng
j lish mercantile law proftsd by the receptioi
it accorded Louisinas accomplished jurst. +"
T A ifteen-year old school boy in Unioi
T City, Pennsylvania, weighs 235 pounds
The unfavorable weather has had baY
n effect upon the cattle in the far West, am
as particularly in California.
:: james Livingston, Of Boston, killed hi
wife with a hatchet He then notified tn
neighbors that both had been drinking an
:. quarreled Livington was aged sixty an
his wife forty-fve.
- wealthy Californian, having only on
relative in the world, niece, employed fiv
n years in searching for her, and at lengt
found her at Burlington, VT, where she wa
lg employed in q mill She was at once trans
m ferred from poverty 10 luxury.
Ft II is said that the season will net Mr.
r. Langtry 75,00c; Nilsson win get sloOoJt
and patti $4,000. These three women 81
is maj ing more his season on the America
ey stage han any ten men in the business.
AIthar D. Thomas has been nominated b
n the President $ cretary Of Utah Territory.
bill prohibiting lobbying has bee
- passed by the North Carolina Senate.
d At Madison, Wis, John Sheffield, a diss
Lutte character, quarreled with his famil
aud set the house on fire, and two of h
~ daughters, one aged IA, the ether an infan
~ were burnedto death. Mrs. Sheffield bare
escaped in her night.clothes.
= Gov ireland, Of Texas, has advised in
7 message TO the Legislature that vaccinatiC
be made compulsory in that State, II al
as rule" he says, Every thoroughly oppo
~ ed to paternal governments, but on this su
81 iect am as firmly fxed'
pm The Alabama Legislature has passed b
m increasing the public school appropriate
.sh 100000
ng Ex-Governor VIM. E. Smith, Of Wisco
lie sin. and ex Governor Morgan, Of New Ys
died on the 14th.
eat At San Antonio, Tex, there is consid
as able sensation over dispatch from Mrs d
Der Smith, dated st. Louis, informing her hi
ary band that she had eloped with handsom
,tle man named c. N. Harris. Smith is a resp,
table livery man, and has the sympathy
the entire community. Harris came he
'oi- and obtained Smiths confidence und
y asn cover Of Odd Fellowship, and thus met
ne, wife, who, being Of rapid inclination,
came attached to him.
ION Times mutations were strikingly illust
ted at Columbia, s. c., when Major A.
: Hit, who before the war was one Of
nao largest cotton buyers in South Carolina a
less whose fortune was At one time estimated
a. $500, 900, died ia the aims house and rece
~ ed pauper's burial.
has E. f. Lewis, Democrat, is undoubte,
lole elected to Congress in place Of Heron,
ceased, by several thousand majority in |
9Th Louisiana District.
no.. The Texas Senate has inEtruoteda a CO
cen mittee to frame bill for the sale Of pub
ing lands at 81 to IS per acre, on forty yet
edy time, or to lease tracts for ten years at th
son- cents per acre.