The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23
VERY LATEST.

Paul Hendricks, cousin of the late
Ice-president, dropped dead Thurs
day, at Madison, Indiana.
The sculptor who took the death
mask of Vice President Hendricks has
commenced work on a bust.
Thirty Hungarians were drowned in
a mine at Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. 10y
a rise in the SusqueHanna river.
Hugh O'Brien was reelected mayor
of Boston Tuesday by a majority of
,597 over J. NJ. Clark, republican.
John l.. Sibey, the late librarian of
Harvard college, left 100000 to the
Massachusetts Historical society.
The California roads have made a
reduction of $40 per carload IN the
freight rate ON oranges to Chicago.
Mrs PaInell. the mother of the Irish
| leader, lies seriously i'll at her home in
! New Jersey, from rheumatic fever.
Flames which originated on the dock
at Jacksonville, Florida, destroyed
/ business houses valued at Si5U,tUO.
A huge black bear held possession
OF a street in Kalamazoo on Sunday
until he-chose to take TO The timber.
The grand Jury at Peoria, H., IN
dieted Judge \ ates for embeRlmg
money from a farmer named SheareT.
| James II. Ward. the new congress-
man from Chicago, has given his wife
| the salary of his position for the term.
The tomb of W. II. Vanderbilt is
guarded constantly by one of four
watchmen, who will remain on duty
! all winter.
| De Lesseps. the famous civil engi-
| neer, now over 50 years Of age has
! been presented by his wife with an
| other daughter.
The St. Paul road still has two sur
/ veying parties at work ON an extension
| to Kansas City, aud has decided to
| build to st. Joseph.
Earl S. Gillett. a veteran bank
| cashier OF Fonda, New \ ork,' lost hlS
! life by dose of acOnile gwen through
mistake by his wife.
The Hendricks Monument associs-
| ton of Indianapolis has issued 10 The
nation an appeal for funds. Francis NJ
! Lhurchman IS treasurer.
The Farmers bank of Ouville,
| Ohio, holding the deposits of several
| adjutant townships, closed its doors
! permanently on Saturday.
Mrs. Mary Cooper, Of East st. Louis,
so years Of age, ana her accomplish In
writing obscene letters to a young
! lady, have been fined 500 each.
Rev. Asa Tanner. the famous pio-
| neer Congregational minister OF Iowa.
| who gave literally TO the unfortunate,
! has been gathered to his fathers.
The owner of the Trek, the fastest
! British cutter yacht, sends from Dub
! lin the information that she VIII next
year contest for the American cup.
! Apoplexy is believed to have been
! the cause of the demise of Bishop
Krautbauer, Of Green Bay, who was
/ found dead in bed Thursday morning.
Failures throughout the United
! States during the year now closing
! have steadily decreased. the number
| for The past seven days being only III.
| The reserves of the New I ork banks
! are increasing. the excess now being
| SO, 954,33S. The clearings OF the CHI
! cago banks for the week were So, al
523.
A sudden rise in the EmbaTass
| river, near Olney, Illinois, caused a
/ farmer named Jacob Lewis to lose
twenty-nine head Of cattle by drown
| ing.
Burr Winton, the earliest postmaster
| OF Aurora, Illinois, died Monday 8t
| the age of 81 years. His SON. J.. B.
| Winton, expired at I orkviIie On sun
| day.
The Grant eulogy committee of B0s-
| ton has expended S215 for a watch to
present to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
to replace one recently stolen from
| him.
The people of St. Louis have pre-
| scented Rev. Sam Jones with a purse of
| $500 for his labors of a month. lie
viii tackle Cincinnati after the hoii-
days.
A residence in the western suburbs OF
| Detroit took fire from an oil stove dur
| ing Tuesday night. Frank Knock, his
wife, and two children persisted in the
| flames.
A marble-eutter at Dubuque named
John a. Mueller committed suicide by
driving chisel through his head with
a mallet. His reason was destroyed
by liquor.
An explosion of gas in vault in the
city treasurer's office at Terre Haute
resulted in fatal injuries to City Clerk
Davis and considerable damage to
property.
Negroes from South Carolina to the
number of one hundred. discouraged
by poor crops and high rents. are
making their way 10 Arkansas, via
Nashville.
Samuel d. Clay, criminal lawyer of
Grand Rapids. Michigan, has sued
Enos Putnam, lumberman, for $50
600 damages for inducing his wife 10
leave home
Friends of George II. Pendleton send
out from Cincinnati a denial of the
rumor that he intends to resign the
mission 10 Germany and return to the
United States.
A sehool-boy in New York, named
John Harmon, has been sent to the
Catholic protectory for making three
attempts to hang himself rather than
attend school.
The gas war IN St. Louis led to a re-
duction to Sl.50 per thousand cubic
feet. A dissatisfied stakeholder has
applied to the courts for an injunction
against the cut.
The mayor and other citizens of Far
go, Dakota. have secured for that city
smelFing-werks for iron ore from
Manitoba. which pays a duty of only
as cents a ton.
Maggie Behony, 10 years OF aga, liv-
ing near the railway track at Yates
vile. Pennsylvania, sat up ali night 10
signal a train, and saved it from going
into an abyss.
The water-works just completed at
Nation, Illinois, at cost Of $4,000,
tap an IN xbaustible lake at depth of
fifty feet. The city is to pay all annual
rent al af s. naa
TRUNKs.-We have nice stock of them ana
viii sell them at close figures I.kx