The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-16
4 FEW ODDS AND ENDS
A HIGHLANDER FOUND HANG NC
HEAD DOWNWARDS.
"The Maid of Liangorlen- Dies at the
Hand HoteI-The Wreck of the Ro-
gaiand-Driftfng About in the Sea-
Left to Perish-Foreign News

LONDON, Sept. 1.-The British assoeia-
ton devoted the morning to papers read by
the delegates in each section, AMI the even
ing TO conversations and to the inspection
of the rare selection of manuscripts and
autographs lent to the art gallery by the
Earl Of Crawford and Balcares and by Mr.
John Webster. NJ r.. for the delight Of their
fellow members. Among this collection was
vellum prayer book OF singular historical
interest. Tt was originally the property OF
Catherine de Medici IL ps ssed from her to
Francis IL, then TO Queen Mary and ulti-
mately to her uncle, whose signature appears
on the book. together with those OF its previ-
Gus owners.
The thousands Of American households
which have owned the famous song of years
ago, 1.-THE Maid of Llangolen," may be in
terested to know that, at that picturesque
Welsh place. the heroine of the song sudden
ly died OF heart disease Her rame was Jen-
ME Edwards. She was seventy-one years old
and was proprietress of the Hand hotel In
her youth, as Jennie Jones, she was bar
maid at the Royal hotel kept by her aunt,
where her wonderful beauty, naturally fas-
cinating manner, rich voice and her per-
formances on the Welsh harp attracted wide
| attention among tourists. Among these
were the late Charles Mathews and John
| Parry, the eminent musician and ENTER
tainer.n They respectively composed the
words of a song in honor Of the Maid Of
| Llangollen,n and the simple air to which
| they were set, and the composition soon
| gained world wide notoriety.
| S. Loates the Jockey, who rode Harvester
| when he ran a dead heat with St Gatien in
| the Derby of 1884, has got into hot water
no unusual thing for him and, as an
nounced in the racing calendar, has had his
| license withdrawn by the stewards OF the
! jockey club. 1t seems he had distinguished
himself at the Scarborough meeting oy strik-
| ing a fellow jockey named Heslop with his
| whip during the race, and after the race was
ended he assaulted the gatekeeper of the
paddock. Hence his punishment.
The following intelligence, important IN
case of any difficulties arising between Eng
land and Russia, comes from Muscat. The
sultan of Muscat, animated by sentiments OF
gratitude for the protection hitherto af-
forded him by England, has offered the
| English government the cooperation of his
army in case of an attack on India He has
at his disposal only 5000 men, but has great
| influence with the Mussulmans of India,
Afghanistan and the other MohammedaI
states of Asia. In the Mussulman world
nobody save the high sheriff of Mecca com
mands such general esteem as does the sui
tan OF Muscat.
James Bowman, the gamekeeper so fire
gently mentioned in the Queens Life IL
the Highlands was found hanging head
downward in wire fence in Ballohcbul
forest. The position OF the dead man for
bids the IDEA that he committed suicide. ID
had evidently gotten entangled in the wlr'
accidentally. He must have hung for nine
teen hours before he was cut down. Bow
man was one of the queens highlanders VIII
| cd Nv mi iaSr
much affected by his death, and was on he
way to his cottage when he expired.
Lord Rosebery, following in the path G
: Mr. Forster, has been speaking out in favo
of imperial federation at the farewell Dime
given to Lord Darlington at Beaconsfield
Bucks. He proposed the toast of The En-
pire" with heartiness which must have re
ioiced the shade of Lord Beaconsfield, VIII
is buried hard by. He expressed his belle
that the union of England and her colonie
d | is demanded by the peace of the world, an
secuted the thought of giving up one inch {
territory.
At the French cabinet meeting, while dii
cussing Spanish affairs, the minister of II
interior said that the Spanish demonstr'
lions in certain French towns had found L
i echo among the country people
. Probably the least satisfactory atteml
ever made to put Dickens on the stage W;
= witnessed in the Strand theatre in the pr
duction of nicholas Nickleby" The on
approach to fidelity was Mr.. l. S. Clarke
Newman Noggs with which portraiture b
him Americans are familiar
The expulsions of foreigners from Ge
many and Austria continue. Hundreds
q destitute Poles, expelled from Silesia, a
u focking into Warsaw and Cracow. Accor
; ing to the Austrian papers over thirty-fi
a thousand more Poles will shortly be eject
J. by the Prussian authorities, among the
? 90, O00 Austrian subjects and 1000 Of Fren
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