The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-17

| BANK CASHIER VI 4,av...-----.
has been lodged in Jail at Chicago, be-
cause of inability to secure bondsmen
| under the indictment.
At Rockford. Illinois. Mrs. George
Cunningham drew from her side with
pair OF scissors, q needle which she
swallowed two years ago. from which
| she has suffered great pain.
The fact has developed at Washing
ton that Senator Baydrd made a trip 10
Albany last Saturday, remaining atthe
| executive mansion with the president
elect until Sunday afternoon.
Nearly one hundred deaths from
smallpox have recently occurred in
the village OF StOcO, one hundred miles
east OF Toronto. and other sufferers
are dying for lack of attendance.
Mayor Edison of New York, indig-
nantly refused a request by a deIega-
ton OF the county democracy for the
appointment of Hubert 0. Thompson
As commissioner of public works.
Boatmen at Victoria, British Column
bia. receive S25 from each Chinaman
landed IN Washington territory. An
other vessel engaged in this trade was
recently lost, with twelve Celestials.
c. c. Shower, one of the wealthiest
citizens of Leavenworth. formerly q
poisoning, caused by carelessness in
giving himself morphine injections.
The workmen in the flint-glass fac
tory at Pittsburg have struck against a
reduction OF 20 per cent. in wages
Cotton-mllls at Columbus, Georgia. are
running at full time on large orders.
Track-layers on the Wisconsin Cen
tral road expected to make a junction
with the st, Paul and Duluth this
month, and trains from Chicago to St.
Paul are promised by New Years dav
a portion of the treasure buried in
Arkansas by the pirate Laftte in 1872
Is said to have been recently discovered
In iron safes BY convicts laboring on
the Pine Bluff and Swan Lake rail-
way.
Petitions have been presented to the
governor of Illinois for a pardon for
John r. BurreH. the embeEzling Ma
sonic official. now undergoing FIVE years;
Imprisonment in the Chester peniten-
tiary.
The books of the postoffice department
for the last fiscal year show that mai
service in Illinois paid profit of S347.-
4O, whlle the government contributed
SS4o,4O4 to maintain postal facilities in
Ohio.
Pierre Prefaux, blind beggar. whose
race was familiar to nearly everybody
In Pittsburg, and who recently died
While on his way to the hospital. is
bank. -
Mother" Mandelbaum, the famous
receiver OF stolen goods In New York.
IorIelted ner bail Thursday. 1t was
subsequently learned that she is into
ronto, where she executed deeds to her
real estate.
Drilling in the natural gas-weIls at
FIndlay, Ohio, has stopped at a depth
OF $50 feet. for fear of striking a vein
on salt water. The supply of light and
neat Is ample for the fullest demands
of the city.
The senate of Alabama adopted a
resolution favoring large appropria-
lions for the schools of the state. and
soiemly expressing the purpose of the
Wnite people to aid in the education of
colored children.
D. b. johnson, now in the peniten-
tiaTy at Jefferson City. who cost the
state OF Missouri $4,000 by firing the
PRISON shops last year, has been sem
ment for arson.
Kentucky regulators. to the number
OF twenty-five, made their appearance
az Farmers Station during Tuesday |
night, took from the officers murder
er named John P. Martin, and killed
him with rifles.
Neal McKeague, who escaped con-
vlctlon OF the murder of James T.
" lilson and wife, of Winnetka. nit |
nols, has been arrested at Thorold
ontario, for criminal assault on q I
lady at a hotel. w
PRESIDENT Arthur finds himself nm
aple 70 De present at the opening of the I
New Orleans exposition Secretarv