The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-04-25
NEWS AND NOTES.

\ convention Of the State Pha-marcu-
teal Association Of Alabama will meet
in Selma May 5.
The Arkansas Legislature has pasSed
4 olli prohibiting the sale of liquor with
II two miles Of any church.
At CoTington, Ky. George T. KYLE
! eyed 10 years, was married - Lizzie Nav
hol!ingshead, aged IL years.
The daughter Of Senator Dawes has
become journalist, and the politicians
VII, now learn what it is ta have Dawes
peck n them.
a negro boy was Iynchcd at II Dora
| do ArE. for the pcrpetration Of name
less crime against the year old taurh-
ter OF widow lady.
| There were 200 applicants for the po-
sition on the Mississippi River Commits
SION, made vacant by the resignation of
Capt. Jas. b. Eadcs.
I. II. Malone, Of Talbottom Ga
WHO was bitten by supposed mad dog
On Tuesday last, has gone 10 Water
Ioro, Miss, 20 Try the so-cailcd infalliblc
MAIDSTONE, or porus stone.
\ conductor on q Massachusetts, rail
road has been found guilty OF man
slaughter, he having disoheved orders,
| thereby causing an accident which re-.
suited in loss Of life.
At Atlanta the jury in the United
states Court found j. II. Robinson DCrg-
ty United States Marshal, guilty ON nine
teen counts on indictments charriug
presentation Of false accounts.
II. Louis and Nashville are having q
smallpox scare. The disease il beco,n
ing alarmingly prevalent in both those
cities, New Orleans has not only the
scare, hut the disease itself.
There are ninety Mormon missionar'c,
IN the South who calculate to secure
about zoe converts this wear. The Ell
dcrs say Fast and Middle Tennessee are
the most fruitful fields for the mission.
aries.
Treadwell s. Ayres, one Of the Oldest
citizens of Memphis, at one time one of
the first members of the bar. died re-
Gently in his SEVENTEEN year. He at one
time lived in Mississippi and represented
Carroll county in the Legislature.
Near Norfolk, Va, negro last We'd
neSday assaulted a daughter OF James
Freeman, a respectable farmer of the
neighhorhood. He was promptly can
tured and lodged in jail and taken ont
and hung by lynchers.
The reports TO the Financial Chronicle
OF railroad earnings for March show that
as compared with the same month of
lSS2, there is, for the roads reported. an
increase OF ten per cent. in mileage and
OF twenty per cent in earnings.
A Kentucky hoy of fourteen has inst
married q girl one year y@uErcr. They
are not old enough 70 know better. but
tne parents and preacher should have
been. There is TO occasion for such un-
seemiiy haste in order to preserve the
usual democratic majority in Kentucky.
For nine months Of the current fiscal
year internal revenue receipts are $lO8.-
$40, '6S, being IN increase Of more than
two and = half millions over tho same
months Of last year. Receipts from the
LIST TO 18th Of April show decrease OF
$448,517. -.
Statistics Of crime in the seven largest
cities OF tie Union, compiled ut New
York and based upon POPULATION. ebow
! that san Francisco leads in the n1rohcr
OF homieides, followed in the order Of
mention ny Cincinnati, Baltimore, Now
YORK, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Eo.-
ton.
StilIwclI H. Raasell, late United States
Marshal for the Wcatagn District OF
IeHGa, who %as recently tried and CON
ylcted upon the charge OF presenting
raise expense accounts, lhls been sen
ter ccd by Judge Turner, 1T San Anto-
MO, TeGaa, to imprisonment for two
years in the pnitcntiary. He was ap-
pointed by President Hayes.
The Attorney General has ordered the
District Attorney for the Western Dis
trict Of North Carolina to have Col.
Robert NJ. Douglas indicted for the ab
stractlon OF government property. Col.
Douglas is the son Of the lato e3tephon
A. Douglas. For 10 years he was mar
shal Of the Western District of North
Carolina.
The scheme Of education for women
IN the department of arts of the Uni |
yerslty OF Pennsylvania, provides that
women shall receive the same course of |
instruction as the male students, but a |
different place and time, and they are to
be examined by the same examiners ~
the men, go through the same examina-
ton, and receive degrees on the same
terms as the male students.
At Forsyth, Ga, murder was COM
mitted by anegro girl, twelve years old.
A negro woman, the mother of two
children, one two years old, the other
four, had hired the girl as nurse
for the children. Two weeks ago the
youngest child died and was buried.
Last Monday evening when the mother
returned home from work she found the
other child missing, The nurse had
murdered them.
A big Gould combination is talked of
which includes the Seney, Erlanger, Wa
bash and Missouri Pacific systems, com.
bining $1,000 miles railways traversinp
the west, southwest and south and with |
Memphis, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Macon.
Brunswick, Meridian, New Orleans,
Mobile, Nickshurg, Savannah and Shrevc-
port and Fort Smith and Kansas CITY