The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-05-02
NEWS AND NOTES,

The anu-pass crusade Is raging in the /
New York and Pennsylvania Legisla- /
ture.
At Annapolis, Nd, VIM. Pack. for
whipping his wife, was given twenty
lashes
The political division of the Illinois
House stands rs Republicans and IS
Democrats
The Pennsylvania Senate has defeated
the bill prohibiting treating to spirit
uous or malt liquors.
The House has ordered engrossed the
bill permitting women attorneys to be
Justices Of the Peace.
Louisa B. Stephens is the FIRST woman
to become President of a bank. She
succeeds her late husband in the First
National Bank of Marion, Iowa.
! The Northern visitors in Florida had
a good airing last Sunday the 22d What
was a cyclone in Mississippi and Georgia
was boisterous tempest in that State.
In New York, April 9th, VIM. Mae
duff, financial broker doing business at
No. 70 Nassau street, shot and killed his
wife, his six-year old son and himself.
The Iowa Supreme Court has again
declared the Prohibition amendment
unconstitutional, null and void, because
the Legislature bungied It's part Of the
work.
At Houston, Texas, says a special to
the Picayune, John Cone, negro, con-
yicted Of rape upon a white woman
about year ago, was sentenced 10 be
hanged, or July 6th
The Connecticut Legislature has passed
q bill creating State Board Of PardoAs
The board viii consist of the Governor
= a Judge Of the Supreme Court, and foul
members Of the Legislature
The United States Government has re
} covered verdict at New Orleans o
D 100000 against the bondsmen Of Gen
= eral Steadman, ex-lnternal Revenue
0 Collector whose shortage amounted t.
1859, 600
/ A most heart-rending affair is reporte'
from AIiddletown, Ohio. A mothe
rushed into the river to rescue her littl
daughter from drowning, and her hus
band rushed in after her, and all thre
We're drowned.
Nothing seems too costly for raj
road president. The estimated cost Q
: Mr.. Sidney Dillon's new car is said to b
= = over $4,000. 1t is to be 60 feet Ion
y and 10 high, and Of course replete wit
4 every luxury.
g In Barnwell county, S. G., OF the pit
d April, n cyclone cut path three-fourtl
II of a mile wide through Selkehatch
II swamp as if the timber had been feIlc
10 for Il railroad. Residences, cabins an
~ out-houscs were swept away.
r At Norfolk, Va, April 9th, Lux
is Haulscy, a negress, was arrested +
is whipping her sisters orphan child, seyt
wears. Old, to death. The child "
!. logged with cowhide and burned on
= stove. The husband was arrested
= accessory.
he A special from Eastman, Ga, says
n cyclone passed over that town early i
Ia morning doing great damage. L
NJ, house Of John Register was blown do
nj and two children Killed. Samuel Hari
oct house was demolished and his wife a
ice children badly injured.
ort Gen. Reagan, of Texas, is d2termf
in to push his interstate commerce b
with all the zeal and energy OF
nature, in the Forty-eighth Congrt
l1t and will begin The fight by making Il
dl' test question in the caucus that ass
81 bles to nominate candidates for
y. various offices Of the House.
- The Democratic National Exocn.
bor Committee will meet next February
tIo the purpose Of filling vacancies
on selecting time and place for hold
H. the convention to nominate canAle
~ for President OF the United States. :
a. York, Chicago, Boston, and St. l.,
! !. will bid for the convention, which
In. be one Of the most interesting ever b
,co- The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle is 6
ing darkly, but is hopeful. "Mr.
!. phens," it says, was not q man oraui
ooH " TO admit that any political prot
4IeFs1 was TOO tough for his solution, but
aea had to confess that the negro cues
IAN was beyond his ken or demonstrat
the It is growing more and more exas
.orn atine, but viii probably, in the dim
'fm i ture, solve itself in some uneApe
~. M way"
IN, en,o A Wisconsin farmer, pretentions
l,itu piety, took ten-year-old boy out
ii ny charity institution, promising to
~ "a him properly. The lad lied one
a nna and the good man slit his tongue wi
anu mir Of scissors. As this punishl
was preceded by horse-whippings,
es it dinqs with pitchfork, and suspen
Mess by the heels, a grand jury has ind
1t the disciplinafian.
3, IN The Maine Legislature has pa:sse
this act prohibiting the sale Of toy plsto
It be- nroYides that whoever has in his pt
such Sion a TOW pistol for the explosion o.
yers, cussion caps or blank cartridges,
$, to intent to sell the same, shall be fine
none, less than SIS or more than $40; and
tness nersons shall be liable for all dar
1reds Resulting from such selling, or g
ourts away, to be recovered in an actlc
Pl1o the case.
oe II il estimated by persons thoroo'
III = familiar with the subject that undo
neuy' new law reducing letter postage an
rohg ulating the pay Of postmaster. II
'ue CENTS Of not more than one office
votes, UP ,,,orol avarara will