The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-10
NEWS AND NOTES.

Blount's hotel and restaurant, Hicks wagon
and blacksmith shop and several adjoining
small buildings.
At Syracuse, N. Y, Joshua Clifford, aged
TO- residing near Cranky, oswego county,
killed his wife, aged CO. Clifford surrender
ed.
The will of Norheet R. sledge, of Como,
Miss, was admitted to probate on trans
cript from Pamela county. The estate is es-
timated at 100000
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, has been elected
to Congress to fill the unexpired term Of
Mr.. Lowe, deceased, by majority Of over
1000 in the Huntsville, Ala, District.
The Louisville Commercial, for thirteen
years the leading Republican newspaper
of the South, has changed to strictly in
depedent of all political parties
AS thirty penitentiary convicts, mostly
negroes, and two white guards, engaged at
Carnee Tunnel on the Western North Car
DINA railroad, were crossing the Tuskasee-
gee river on fat Saturday morning, one Of
the cOnvicts discovered that the fiat was
leaking, and gave the alarm, which caused
panic. The men all rushed to one end of
the fiat, and it Immediately sank. The
Tuskaseegee, at the point they were cross
ing, was swift and deep with rapids just
below. The men chung together in knots.
those who could not swim holding on to
those who could Some were carried into
the rapids and drowned. Only twelve of
the convicts were saved.
The inhabitants of Cape Town, South
Africa, are being decima ted by scourge
of smallpox. Out of 5000 cases during the
past two months, 2 400 proved fatal
Samuel Colley, whose term as Mayor Of
the city of Salem, Massach usetts, expired,
committed suicide in the afternoon of the
same day, by hanging himself from the
bannisters of his back stairs. He had served
two terms as Mayor and was about so years
of age.
So great was the indignation among the
whites at Lynchburg, at the arrival of the
Uncle Toms Cabin Company and the FIVE
bloodhounds which were paraded about the
streets, that it was believed it was imprac-
ticable to have any performances there. The
company was generally frowned down in
Southern cities, and at Richmond had only
twelve auditors Their play was broken up
at Norfolk by the public clamor.
husband in Massachusetts, whipped his
wife, who employed lawyer to prosecute
him. Then he took proceedings against her
on the charge of common drunkenness, and
she engaged the same counsel to defend
her This lawyer sued the husband for the
value of his services, relying upon the rule
of law that husband is liable for "neces-
saries" supplied to his wife, The Supreme
Court accepted this view 50 far as pay for
her defence was concerned, but ruled that
the charge for prosecuting the husband
could not be allowed.
Pensacola, Fla, celebrated Christmas by
holding an election. George s. Wells, Re-
publican, was elected Mayor by over 400
majority.
The school fund of Virginia has been in
creased by S50o000, one-fifth of which sum
is to be devoted to the maintenance of a
colored normal school
Al Plano H., the wife of Charles G. Slo-
cum recently applied for divorce on the
ground of infdelity Last night her hus.
band called her out, confessed his guilt,
promised to reform and begged her return
She refused, when he drew revolver, shot
himself in the head and died in ten minutes
+. }. Baldwin a well known capitalist at
San Francisco, was shot in the arm by a
woman in the Baldwin Hotel. The woman's
namesis Fannie Baldwin, and she claims to
to be a COUSIN of Baldwin Public sym.
pathy is with the woman.
Governor Plaisted, of Maine, upon grad
Mating at the State House, will become edi.
to- OF the Lewiston Gazette. The editor of
the Lewiston Journal is an ex Governor.
A Henderson Texas special SAYS: "The
negro Andrew Jackson, who attempted an
outrageous assault on u young lady, was
taken from Jail by large mob and hanged
to tree in front Of hotel Don JUAN