The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-29
GENERAL NEWS.


The oyeTseers Of Harvard co9ere de
cline 70 abrogate the rule reouir;n
attendance on daily prayers.
General Grant deeply regrets tn
fact that he is obliged to leave his wa
! memoirs IN an unfinished state.
The presidency OF the University c
/ Cincinnati has been rendered 10 Hor
I Jacob u. Cox, who VIII probably accept
Gen. Bethune. of Columbus. Georgis
( has been appointed guardian of BIN
4 Tom. the musical prodigy, now a
idiot
/ \ mad dog at Somerset. Iowa. bit J
/ II. Mason. his two sons. and Eve cow:
1 Dir. Mason has left home 10 end a mad
stone.
At Diamond island. in the Ohio rly
er, Mrs. Mary Draper and two childre1
were drowned 10y the capSlZing of
canoe.
Judge Benedict. Of New York. re
/ fused 70 permit James j. Fish. tn
sw1nd.lng bank president, 70 be reieaS
cd on bail.
Admira. Jouett telerTapls tha
trains ou tae Panama r8fQ are runnin!
regularly across the iSthmus withou
nlo,esGa3ioD.
Justice Nylc, Of the supreme cOur,
Of the lGScrIcy of Columbia. now =
years Of age. has asked 20 be placed ol
the retired list.
Thirteen wuTSmen were injured Fl
New Ork by the collapse of q block o.
eight houses IN IhITly->oC0ud street
near Tenth avenue.
The Hero al ThoruGale. "a stallion
with a trottlfS record OF IS, and Val
Ued az SS,tkA. aled of heart disease al
Bloomington, Illinois.
Frank Sidiall. of Philadelphia. paid
$1,000 fer ticket to lecture bya TeN
as journalist in aid of the pedestal IUut
for the BarthoiGi statue.
Rev. Thomas Spencer, coiored, OF
Norfolk, NlTEIulA. pleaded guilty oi
hOuSe-breaSinr and was sentenced K
five years IA The penitenti2Ty.
At am etinr .u London OI holders CI
N doaSa bonds. several speakers aCrg j
that the management OF the corpora
uon was an aud3cious swlDdle.
\ We'll in the Thorn creek district OF
PenuSv after having been toTpe-
doed. Tuesday, commenced Ia flow al
The rate Of $500 barrels per day.
Joseph ". Nichol, of indianapolis. q
friend of ex-senator Mcdonald, has
been appointed laW-clpTk of the post
The indictments for p0iyEamv re-
turned by the grand jurY at salt Lake
are believed To be against Bishop Claw
son and Mr.. bOsSiter of the thea,er
Two ballots for United States sena-
tor We're taken Friday in the Illinois
legislature, John y. Logan receiving
ltH votes. Senator Ruger was absent.
John Roach is said TO have been 0tfer
ed 10y the Russian government SlHUB
more Tor the dispatch-bO3t Dolphin
than the United States agrees To pay.
a party of twenty-five Canadian sur
geous and medical students PASSED
through Chicago. ON their way 10 the
scene of the rebellion IN the northwest
a dispatch from Quebec reports the
washing ashore al Huinte aux AnglaiSe
of several cannon belonging 10 IN En-
gliSh fleet wrecked there TWO centuries
ago.
The grand jury at Springfield. H..
has indicted General J. \. Reece for
procuring the signature OF eX-Marshal
Wheeler TO false returns and expense
accounts.
The careIessness of a lad in Chicago
caused a fire in the Reed building Nos.
- To - Wabash avenue. which was eX-
tinguIShed after "a loss of SI30,OO0 had
been incurred.
The Royal Legion of the United
States met in Chicago Wednesday.
called eE-PreSident Hayes TO the chair.
and sent a telegram of sympathy to
General Grant.
Charles Bieler. a Frenchmau who
was placed III Jail at Dayton, o., for
safe keeping. was the third member of
ms family III a direct line to hang him
self IN prison.
The people of Union City. Tennessee,
took from the sheriff and hanged q ne
gro named PieTSOn and a white man
named Ward, members of a well known
band Of robbers.
The New York senate has passed the
Niagara reservation bill providing for
a free park around The falls. The mea-
sure WIZ probably receive the COVER
nor $ signature.
m the district court at Dubuque. a
widow was given Judgment Tor $500
against an insurance company for the
loss OF her husband who is said to have
committed suicide.
In a divorce bin fled at Pittsburg,
Thomas Carney relates how his wife's
passion for baseball. intensified bv
reckless betting. made aWreck Of his
previously happy home.
At a farmhouse i'm Holt county, Mis-
sOuri. Monday evening. William Clark
shot Mrs. Harding and her son and
daughter. on accouutof d basJardy suit,
and then killed himself.
General Middleton has decided tQ
abandon the expedition up The South
Saskatchewan river. and VIII send 2
flying column to Battlefgrd. TO forest3li
an attack by Indians.
The owners of two thousand acres
of strawberry plants IN tie vicinity OF
Centralia. Illinois. report excellent
crop prospects. The weld is estimated
at two hundred carloads.
The legislature of Wisconsin has adj
jOuTned sine die. Governor Rusk We
tOed the bill creating game and fish
waTdens, for which position l24 appli-
cations had been made.
Some tramps who were driven away
from Senator stan ord s Biua ranch. III
California. revenged themselves by
burning the stables, roasting over one
| hundred horses ana mules.
Edmund McCurtin. chief Of the Choc
taWs, calls upon al freemen residing ID
| the nation and entitled TO citizenship
10 register themselves before June ol
sufierexpuision as intruders.
Emancipation day was celebrated at
Washington by 81 parade of about five
thousand coiOred people. which was
reviewed by President Cleveland from
| the p0rtic0 OF the white house.
The striking wOrknen OF the McC0r-
/ mick reaper factory In Chicago re-
! sumed labor Monday at al advance
/ of 10 per cent. 10 the dav workers aul
/ of - per cent. To the piece hands.
st the Barbour lax-spinning works
/ at Patterson. New jersey. fourteen
| hundred spiDners struck for an Incraast
OF 10 per cent. in wages to equalize re
/ ducu0ns made within TWO months.
Colonel BOudinOt, the noted Cbero
/ kee leader. was married in Washington
/ to Miss Mlnear, daughter of CaiifOr
nian. 1t is understood that BOudinO
4 IS to be given an Indian nspectOrShIp
Margaret 4. Sanders. n sch0Ol-teach
| er Of ITvingtOn. Illinois. has been takel
| to the Anna insane asylum. as the re
| suit OF a blow on the head with a slat
in the hands Of a boy pupil three year
ago.
The governor Of Illinois has nomina
Ted Y. II. Wright. Of Boone county. a
commissioners Of the Joliet penitentlary
| and Jacob GrOsch, Of Marion county
as commissioner 10 the prison at Ches
ter.
Benjamin NJ. Piatt, a well-knowl
| lawyer Of Cincinnati. shot himself dea'
in his Office on account Of iinancla
trouble. He was on General Rose
Grams staff in the department of tn
Missouri.
The Raisin Valley seminary. an IN
stitution maintained By the Society G
Friends. near Adrian. Michigan. find
that Treasurer j. B. Swan has absorbe
/ SD 600 Of its funds and is about to II
move to Florida.
The chief of the Blackfeet Indian
has telegTaphed TO Sir John McDonai
that he and his tribe VIII remain lOYs
to the queen. The Halifax battalion
$50 strong, left Ottawa Monday nigf
for the northwest.
The Understanding Datters' strike