The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

IL. have 0leQ OF q disease peueNsu W
,e rinder-pest.
CHEYENNE, for the first time since
ST. elected democratic mayor, py
majority OF lSc.
Imports of general merchandise at
he mort OF New York last week were
valued at SO, 5S7 eco.
Frank P. Tousey, apublisher Of New
work has made an assignment, CIV
mo preferences for $4,000.
The will of Willard Dodge, Of kala-
mazoo, Michigan, gives S40,Ouo to the
female seminary OF that place.
The British Government has proyid-
ea eos. COO for extra mail facilities with /
the United States and Canada.
The receivers of the Wabash road |
report a deficit of S252, SS1 in the opera |
lions for the quarter closing March l.
p. Spargo, postmaster at Knox, |
PENNSYLVANIA, being short IN his &C
eonDfS. shot himself through the heart.
D. L. Moody, in opening q revival
81 a rink in Des MONIES, had the COM
many of thirty clergymen on the plat
form.
The Superintendent of the Philadel-
mia mint reports having received over
fftv thousand trade dollars since
March4.
John Robbins, known throughout
the United States as manufacturer OF
bargage-checks, died at Chelsea, Mas
sachusetts.
The citizens of Cherokee. Iowa,
raised $500 and paid fine of libel i'm
nosed on an editor of Davenport NAM
ed Buchanan.
Richard Woodward, London bank
er. is soon 10 marry Miss Kate Hast
inps. of New York, a daughter OF the
deceased journalist.
A saloon-keeper at Des Moines,
named Mckee. was convicted ON
thirtv-five counts OF an indictment,
and was fined $3.50.
A party of twenty-four Chinese have
arrived at New York, bound to British
Columbia, and will not be allowed 10
land on either coast.
There were % failures in the United
States and Canada during the last sew
en- DAYS, an increase of five as compared
with the previous week.
David Lee has been appointed SUI
/ perintendent of the main line of the
| Baltimore and Ohio road, to succeed
/ William NJ. Clements.
| W. 2. Graham, county treasurer az
! Madison, Indiana. who died from
| misunderstanding, owned an interest in
seventeen noted race-horses.
An Ottawa dispatch says the Cana
| dian Pacific road threatens to stop the
work of construction unless assistance
is rendered by the government.
Joseph Villa, Boston millionaire, is
| charged by Mrs. Sarah III. Page, OF
Hallowell, Maine, with embezzlinS
| $4,000 sent him to invest for her.
Every gambling-house in Louisville
is still closed, and the chief of police
| declares that the sporting fraternity
must leave the city or find honest EN-
ployment.
Nearly three hundred pounds OF nj
tro-glYcerine were exploded in the new
Markham well in Butler county, Penn
sylvania, but the flow of liquids includ
ed no oil.
The body of Newberry Hills, a re
tired Chicago capitalist, who died {
year ago, was cremated at Lancaster
Pa, Saturday. The ashes will be sem
back to Chicago.
4 corps of engineers has left Bloom
ingtOn. Illinois, to survey an extension
of the Lake Erie and Western roaC
from that city to Peoria, a distance d
i forty-five miles.
The death is reported of p. J. Big
gers. one Of the wealthiest planters il
Georgia. and of G. o. Thompson, preSi
,, dent of the Polytechnic institute a
Terre Haute.
II. F. Newman, formerly doing bus
! mess in Chicago as an insurance brOk
r er. has been arrested for appropriatinl
i premiums. He is said to be default
CT for about Sc, 500.
: John Lipp, assistant postmaster a
/ Lincoln, Illinois. having been rul
> down by detectives, confessed havin!
rified registered letters, and restores
5000 thus obtained.
: The citizens of Sarahville, o., erect
: ed post near the center of the villag
l and severely whipped a man named
| Dayton, who had beaten his children
+ to an unmerciful degree.
= ]. S. Spafford, of Whiteside county
. | Illinois, has been nominated by the re
publicans to fill the vacancy in th,
legislature caused by the death of Rep
t resentative II. +. Logan.
Y George Strubinger, leading either
d of Pittsfeld, Illinois, while returning
with his wife from the New Orleans
exposition, was drowned from the
transfer steamer at Evansville.
: Early Thursday morning, at Weno
S ma, Illinois. Charles Volling deliber
ately leaped over the safety-gate of
: mine, landing on the cage $50 feet be
low, crushing himself to jelly.
d r. IL. Latimore, superintendent 0
a coal-mine near Sewickley, Pennsyl
vania, was nearly murdered by on
5 hundred riotous laborers and thei
i wives, who attacked him on the road.
n The directors of the Chicago, 81
o Paul and Omaha road reduced tn
quarterly dividend on preferred stocl
q to II per cent, and arranged to hay
/. only semi-annual dividends hereafter.
: Emigration from the southwest coun
| 2 I -. 10.
has been progressing all winter in suffi
, cient force to be called an exodus. TIL
i cause is drought and railway facilities
| Charles w. Stagg, the stenographe
q who accompanied the late Senate
Il Morton in all his campaign appoint
| ments. was found dead in bed in In
# dianapolis from an overdose of chloral
# About five hundred marketmen o
It Boston attended an auction sale of
n carload of fresh beef from St. Louis
one quarter being disposed of at
time. The scheme proved success
y full.
/ An alteration during working hour
l in the prison at Michigan City resulte'
d in the murder of Thomas Townsent
by a fellow-convict named Charlie
: Brown, who was serving his fourtl
?. term,
An assessment of 100 per cent ha
2 been ordered from Washington upo
the stockholders of the wrecked Rich
mond (Indiana) National bank, whicl
I has thus far paid creditors only 10 pc
0 cent.
> Henry Ward Beecher preached, Sun
day, on the development of liberty. He
asserted that, unless carefully admin.
istered, horse-races improve the breed
: OF horses by deteriorating the breed OF
5 men,"
E The Burlington road reports its gross
earnings for the year at S25, 4S3, 612, and
: its taxes and operating expenses at
$4,000, 746. After paying fixed charges
S511, Jos.
Photographs of the eclipse of the
sun were secured in Chicago and
Washington, Monday, but the fog at
san Francisco caused disappoint-
ment. A fine view was obtained at
Winnipeg.
: Leading iron manufacturers in the
: middle states expended 100000 of
pool funds in experimenting with the
t henderson method of making steel.
and reached the conclusion to abandon
the process.
Edmund Yard, formerly a million-
are lace merchant in New York. was
on Monday brought back to that city
nom Europe, having embezzled S4OO.-
90 from the estate of Charles G., Shaw
last summer.
j The Manitoba members of the Do
mlnlon parliament insist upon immedi.
ate steps for the construction of the
southwestern road, to prevent thou
sands OF farmers from emigrating to
the United States.
Someone who thinks he can beat a
] ankee has introduced in Boston $50
gold pieces, weighing only 80 grains.
Their composition is similar TO that of
bogus silver coins. and they are piIded