The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-31
VERY LATEST.
The report of the death of Louis
kOssuth was without foundation

An Arkansas farmer IS driving a
large flock of turkeys l22 miles TO the
Little Rock market.
At Dallas. Texas. a stock firm We'd
nesday sold five thousand head Of cattle
for Sl50,000 cash.
William NJ. Evarts has written let
ter asking to be numbered among the
candidates for senator from New York.
At Ballyduff, ireland. private
vault was broken open and the coffin
of Mrs. Hiliers was thrown into a
glen.
The steamship Oregon has crossed
the Atlantic in SIX days six hours and
fifty two minutes, the quickest passage
on record.
a boy of was thrown down stairs
at Nanticoke, Pa, by an angry school
teacher, and so badly hurt that he has
since died.
Egbert Earl and his infant daughter,
of Albany, were suffoeated by gas
from a stove, and his wife and son are
in critical condition.
The president of the Mexican Cen
trail road calls on the stockholders 10
take IS. 900. goo in new securities to eX-
tinguish the floating debt.
Work was resumed Monday by the
steel shops of Hussey, Howe y Co., IN
Pittsburg. and the Spauldlng IRON
works at Brilliant Ohio.
Specimens of rock and earth yielding
an average of 81 900 gold TO the ton
have been picked up on several farms
in Clermont county. Ohio.
Exports from the Port of New \ ork
for tie week ended Tuesday. exclusive
of specie, were So, AS, GOO, against 81
$4,000 the previous week.
The failures reported throughout the
country for last week number S67,. OF
which nearly one-half were In the
western and Pacific states.
A clearinghouse in New York Sat
urday took 81. $685. 600 per cent. bonds
of the Rock Island road, to run fifty
years, at figure above los.
Major L. H. Sanger, of the 18th in
fantry, expired suddenly at Amooy,
Illinois. Captain Handy, of the navy,
died at Tarboro. North Carolina.
Congressman Holman of Indiana says
that Mcdonald is the man TO represent
that State in the new Cabinet. As for
himself. he does not desire place.
John Cooper. having abandoned cot
ton manufacture al Nottingham, has
arrived on this side with l40 OF his en-
ployes to start factory at Providence.
The trustees of the Indiana univer-
sity selected from a list OF forty names
that of Professor David 5 Jordan to
succeed Rev. Lemuel Moss as presl-
dent.
A small postoffice near Cincinnati
has redeemed ten raised postal notes
of the first issue. The swindle can not
be repeated with the latest form Of
note.
All the horses used on the stage line
between Bismarck and Fort ates
have been killed, because of an out
break of CHAMBERS in its most violent
form.
Plummer's planing-mill at Jackson,
Michigan, was blown to pieces by a
boiler explosion. One employe was
killed ana six othtse.- received serious
Injuries.
A large iron hotel in process of cree
ton near the exposition buildings at
New Orleans fell Sunday, burying
three workmen, one of whom was taken
out dead.
Colonel A. NJ. Beattie, one of the
pioneers of Montana, died at Helena
from the effect of wounds received IN
the army. His remains will be sent to
Rockford, Illinois.
w. X. Alderman, for many years
president of the Illinois Central road,
has been engaged to attend the general
interests of the Baltimore and Ohio
company in Chicago.
The directors of the Oregon and CAL
ifornia road, now completed i'll the
former state for a length of 100 miles,
have voted to transfer the property 10
the Central Pacific.
Some clothing and jewels belonging
to the deceased widow of Willard Fill
more were on Friday sold at auction in
Buffalo. The costlier articles brought
ridiculously low prices.
After being dashed to the rigging of
the barkentine Ephraim William five
days without food or water, the Cap
tain and crew were rescued by the life
boats at Cape Hatteras.
An officer of the New York police is
said to have offered 81 900 per annum
to as many members of the Winnipeg
force as desire to resign, TO be placed
on the Broadway squad.
The death is announced at Philadel-
phia, of Rev. II. Colelayer, who spent
fifty-seven years in Methodist pulpits,
and was one of the founders of the
University of Michigan.
George w. Walker, leading lawyer
of Virginia, having suffered for years
from the amputatiOn of his right leg
on the battlefield, killed himself with
revolver dI 11edtLNlllt.
A map found on the person of a
counterfeiter arrested i'll Chicago en-
abled the secret-service officers to un-
earth number of plates in the woods
near Saylesville, Wisconsin,
The state treasurer Of New Jersey,
by whom all checks from his office
must be signed, has been dangerously
| i'll for nearly three weeks. y OF even
| the smallest bill can be paid.
| Marshal Bierbower. of Omaha is
| said to be searching Chicago for fifteen
citizens who have been indicted for
making fraudulent homestead entries
in Brown county, Nebraska.
James Peoples. one of the wealthiest
planters in Louisiana, was riddled
with bullets by Joseph and William
Ellington, of Rayville, for the alleged
seduction of their young sister.
The snow blockade on the Northern
Pacific road is now confined to a stretch
Of seventeen miles between Portland
and the Dalles, where three ploWs and
three hundred men are at work
AS New York Central train pulled
up at Lockport Sunday evening there
was found lying on the pilot the head
.ess body of Lyman S. Gum. a we'll
known music-dealer of Medina.
Gu in ormation furnished by an an
)nymous letter. the sanitary authori-
les OF New i ork discovered huge
heaps OF moldy human skeletons in a
Oft at No. II West Third street.
Ohopasha, the chief of the Menoml-
nee Indians at Green Bay. Wisconsin,
was buried on Sunday. His tribe has
suffered greatly from consumption
since it adopted civilized methods.
John r. Walsh and others have in
corporated the Western News COM
pany, of Chicago, with capital of
S5O0,0 to prevent the seizure of the
title by parties havingno claim thereto.
]. Henry Hobart, the civil engineer
who built the Nfamous loop on the
Southern Pacific road, was frozen to
death IN the street at Omaha during
Thursday night after becoming intoxi-
Gated.
b. c. Winston s. Co., lumber dealers
OF 81. Paul, who last month handed
over thelI assets to trustees, have been
forced TO make an assignment. Their
Liabilities are $4,000 and their assets
Three hundred and fifty men are
thrown out Of employment by the con-
Migration which is raging In the Paint
ertown coal-mine near TWINS Pa. 1t
may be several weeks before work can
be resumed.
w. 7. Taylor. of La Grange, Wis
consin. distinguished himself by walk
ing seven miles to PALMYRA, and home
again, with the mercury standing 25
degrees below zero, to receive the first
degree of Masonry.
Rev. r. I. Jones. of Ithaca. New
York, a native of England. has been
arrested for illegal voting at the Presi-
Dental election. He was brought
across the Atlantic when an infant.
and was never flaturalized.
The schooners Lineria and Arundel.
which sailed from Manitowoc with