The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-11-18

come totally deaf.
~ The Ecvptian obelisk in Central PARK,
xew York. has been given coating 10
arrest the work of decay.
Matthew Quay, republican candlcate
Cor treasurer of Pennsylvania, mas d
nlnraiily of about 42,UOo.
p There Is steady decrease IN the
surnlus bank reserve III New olA'
which now amounts 10 S-o,t@1-,ooo
About fifteen thousand persons al,
tended the opening OF Tue Ia s.o ,.a1; an
D;scinles of the mind-cure in Boston
90 10 erect for Mrs. Eddy church on
the the hack bay costing from Soo,VOO 10
100000. c,..oh ,x,a
Ibid in lincoln park the cornerstone
Of n monument in honor OF the poee
Kn;gbts of Labor at Houston, Texas,
he number of four hundred, quit
work for the railroads and cotton COM
The nolice of Boston have requested
the baltimore authorities 10 arrest \.
T. Mellen for conspiracy TO muruer MS
sons wife.
Robert McKinistry, the new pension
apent at Detroit, was private S9luleI
in the Army OF TIC 1oe'HAN'
sides in Jackson
The census of Iowa SHOWS tMehss
cantenarians. jacob Heike, of Grumpy.
county, the oldest person III tlo Ste'0'
is I2I wears of age. ~:
The railway rate on gram from ohi-
cago to the seaboard has peeh au-
yanced to - cents per hundred pouDus,
to take effect Nov. -.
Four men were drowned and three
others had legs broken by the fan or a
seaffoIding on the new bridge at
Keithsburg, Illinois.
Bartholdi, the French sculptor. mas
arrived in Washington with TWO mod-
els for a monument 10 be erecteu III
that city in honor of Lafayette.
J. X. PIersal. the assignee OF bank
| ing-houSe at New Brighton, del mn 4
yania. is defaulter for Sl2.OUO, winch
he lost in wheat specuiations.
HI. Woodbridge, the Omaha street
| ear driver who recently killed robber
| named Ruckle. has been driven from
| the CITY by threats against his Ire.
The Virginia democrats most prom
| iuentlv mentioned for Mahone,S seal
| in the senate are John W. Danlel
| Walter II. Staples. and j. ,. Barbour
The body of Mrs. j. W. Taylor, OF
| louisville. which was inferred slA
years ago, has been found completely
petrified, with every feature life-like.
| The governor of Louisiana has grant
| ed a respite for thirty days to PatricB
Ford and John Murphy, the murderer:
of Captain Murphy, local politician
George j. Fryer, postmaster and ex
| press agent at Glencoe, Ontario, ba:
fled to the United States with about
$1,000 and a woman other than hi:
wife.
Stephen B. Walmsley. chief clerk o.
the bureau of collections IN New ork
was rendered insane by overwork IL
the campaign, and killed himself witt
a revolver.
Petitions are in circulation in New
York to abolish the postoffice i'll Brook
Ign and place the mails for that city
under the jurisdiction of the New
York office.
The St. Louis Crematory society, or
ganized by three hundred bushes:
men, has secured permit for build
ing on Grand avenue, near Tower park
to cost ST., 900.
The governor of Massachusetts, has
issued a requisition upon the governor
of New York for the arrest of A. l.
Mellen, charged with conspiracy t
murder his sons wife.
John Smith, a miser of Weston, Yves
Virginia, had S 600 in currency bidder
in hollow log in the woods. In at
tempting to add to the treasure he
found it was gone.
! The North American Telegraph com
pany proposes to complete as speedily
as possible lines from Duluth TO Chica
go, via st. Paul, and will issue stock K
the amount of 100000.
A jury at Washington awarded Rev
DIR. Hicks l cent damages against thu
Star for the libelous statement that ht
had offered to sell the bones of Gui
teau to the government.
Leland Stanford is to establish l.;
grand university on his ranch at Pale
Alto. thirty miles from San Francisco
and will endow it with lands and mon
ey aggregating $50, 100000.
Such deep interest in the subject o.
cremation has been aroused in Mil
waukee that leading citizens propose
to hold meeting within the next si1
weeks to discuss the issue.
Work has been resumed at JohI
Roach's ship-yard ON the cruiser Chi
cago, and at his New York shops I5t
men are employed on the cruiser At
lanta and dispatch-boat Dolphin.
In petitioning a Detroit court for
divorce. Louis Stewart alleges that hi.
wife habitually picks up rusty nails
old iron, and paving blocks in thu
street with which to fill the house.
The bridge about TO be built acros.
the Hudson river at Storm King noun
tain will be 225 feet high. 1t will give
the Erie road direct connection will
the Harlem and the New England
lines.
The dressed-beef contract with Ham
mond 81 Co., about which the st. Pau
road is so obstinate in it's relations Il
the pool, would in three years make a
difference of $4,000 to the company's
Golfers.
AT meeting held in Seattle, Wash.
ington territory, by the mercantile anC
professional classes, committee oil
three hundred was formed TO preserve
peace after the withdrawal of the
troops.
| General Mcclellan left his entire es-
tate to his vile, his military accoutre-
ments to his son, and his sword to his
daughter. He appointed as his liter
airy executor William G. Prime, of
| New York.
The Mormon apostles publish card
at Salt Lake announcing the eXcommu.
nication of Apostle Albert Darlington
after a patient trial by the authorities
of the church, for adultery and lasciv-
\ iOuS conduct.
A large dynamite cartridge was
thrown into cook-stove at Rockfield.
| Wisconsin, by 4-year-old-girl The
explosion shattered the house. killed
the child, and mutilated several mem
bers of the family.
A notorious woman of Birmingham.
| Alabama, wrote to Rev. Sam Jones.
| the revlvaIist. that she would reform
| If she could obtain employment. A
| citizen promptly took her into his
family as a servant.
Citizens of Ell Paso, Texas. have
| agreed to give $4,000 to an English
| syndicate toward the erection of a
smelter worth $4,000. Vast quanti-
ties of ore are constantly passing thro'
the city from Mexico.
Riley Pile, an illicit distiller in Ten
nesSee, who last year murdered United
SlateS Commissioner Mcdonald in
Plckett county, was traced to forest
on the mountains, shot in the leg, and
| taken to Nashville for trial.
| About $4,000 was sunk at Cham
paign, Illinois, in an attempt TO manu-
facture sugar from sorghum cane 1t
seems that cane grown in central Him
DIS does hot contain sufficient sacchar-
Inc matter to make the process pay.
The mysterious robbery of the Ne
Draska state treasury. last winter, has
been followed by a verdict of man
slaughter against Detective A. L.
Pound, who is believed to have melted
the crime and then shot his victim.
On Saturday afternoon at Fannin.
Texas, a lad of IS years, named Valen-
tlne Sanford Killed his mother with a
rlie- lie confeSseS having intended to
murder MS father, sell the plantation.