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

tlFes Dill was introduced for the purpose
Of amending the divorce law so that di-
vorces may be granted on the grounds of gen.
eral misconduct
The City Treasurer of Savannah, Ga, is
$4,000 short in his accounts.
The Nebraska Legislature is about 10
pass law for the creation sf State Board
of Railroad Commissioners, similarts that
of IllinOis
Probably the only man in the United
States who has used Greenbacks for gun
wadding is J. L. Shirley, of Dallas county,
Texas. He went hunting with $500 in cur
rency in his pocket, and used paper for
wadding. He was loading from the wrong
pockat, however, and had shot away over
500 of his money before he discover. d his
mistake.
A convict in Georgia railroad cur slipped
on the handouts and jumped headforemost
through window, exactly like the harle.
quin's feat in the pantomime; but there
was no device for catching him softly, and
it was supposed that he would be killed by
the fall. However, he was seen to stagger
to his feet stand minute as though dazed,
and then dash of toward the woods.
An amendment to the Ohio LIQUOR law
was before the Legislature, and the member
who defended the traffic happened to be So
drunk that his arguments had am effect con
trary to that intended His cause was dc.
cisively lost
The Arlington Cotton Mills, in Delaware
4 has closed on account Of a strike, throwing
Tout Of employment 800 hands reduction
Of per cent in wages was made month
ago, and notice was given Of a further reduc
tion Of 10 per cent.
il Jagged, raggededged founees and rib
bons are coming in vogue.
Mr.. Peter Cooper, the New York philan
thropist, has attained the remarkable age :
J l92.
An effort to take from Jail and lynch
negro rayisher Of anegro girl, at Paola. Kas
: was frustrated by desperate resistance Of tn
! sheriff and deputies, who shot several men
! A second attack was made, and seeing
: likely to succeed, the negro cut his throa
! and fen dead, The corpse was taken ou
md hangedto tree.
!. The New Jersey Legislature has passed
act to prohibit the employment in factorie
of any child less than 10 years old, or an
under IA who has not had two years schoo
i ing.
s Women physicians have been refused PEE
i mission to practice in Austria.
Illinois derives an annual income OF ha
' million from the Illinois Central Railroad
S II is proposed to spend this amount in in
It proving the wagon roads Of the State
! Miss Minnie Lloyd, beautiful youn
i lady Of Decatur, H., died on the Wester
y and Atlantic train, near Atlanta, Of hea
). disease. She was en- route home from Flo
ida.
Luke Dunn, aged ten, was killed by Ri
companions near Ringgold, Ga The
W attempted to imprison him under
Y wagon-bed, and in fitting it it fell on hir
i breaking his neck. He was the son Of
;. prominent farmer.
McPike & Johnson extensive stock an
mule dealers, at st. Louis, have assigne
= Liabilities, $4,000; assets, $4,000.
i An old lady asked at the Sandersville, Gi
postofice for "yaller developments to
letters up in
August Gerhardy was attacke in ChicaI
= for the purpose ofrobbery. He drew p
g toll and fired at his assailant killing him
0t stantly.
= General Joseph E. Johnston has been
oe at Charlotte, ~ c., whittier he went on hui
ness. He thinks that he was poisoned fro
J.. the dye used to color the hose worn by hi
is Conductor zimmerman, Of the Waba
n Railroad, ILL.,, was Instantly killed by havi
he his head crushed between the cars VIII
n trying to couple them
mt The Boston Traveller says: "The larg,
In sheep owner in Texas is woman known
ne the Widow Callahan. Her herds numt
u fifty thousand. Perhaps she is that Ma
r who years ago, started a flock with "
ds lamb"
le- AtJacksonville, ILL.,, John Stewart, c
eil ored barber was shot fatally by We
Cooper, also colored, about Stewards wi
T. nu who had deserted him.
lie At jackson, Tennessee, quite sensati
I'm n was created by Mr.. N. v. Wilson finding
" child in q basket on his doorstep It wa
girl baby, three or four weeks old, and
lal plenty Of nice clothes with it. A busin
ed card containing the following: Joseph
er. Moore, manufacturer Of queensware, fact
ID at East Trenton, Trenton, n. ~" was 2
" found in the basket. Mr.. Wilson now
,s- the little waif at lis home. The VIII
affair Is wrapped in mystery.
.5 At Elizabethtown, KY, the Rev. e
~ Brown, religious imposter, who has a >
the 600 farm near Ssdgwick Kas., has b
fleeing the citizens by falsely represent
ith himself to be Baptist minister in ne'
.lly circumstances. After receiving several Z