The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Tickets from st. Louis to Indianapo-
| lis are selling at 3, while the regular
rate is IS.
Mrs. Walker, the only sister of James
G.. Blaine, died Tuesday morning at
1 Baltimore.
For the first quarter of the fiscal
year the deficiency in the postal service
| is $, ,06S, 20.
Charles r. Woods, retired major
! general was found dead in a bed at
| Newark, Ohio.
| The Michigan house has passed bill
making six the number of jurymen in
| courts of record.
| The supreme court of California has
| decided that Chinese children must be
admitted TO the public schools.
| Mrs. John l.. sullivan says the bruis-
| er smokes opium. She tells horrible
| stories of his ill-treatment of her.
| 1t is found that the strawberry-fields
in the vicinity of Centralia, Illinois.
have not been injured by the ice.
Lloyd Breeze lost $1,000 in Detroit
| since Christmas by publishing the
EceIafng Times, which suspended Thurs
| day.
A gas war at Savannah. Georgia has
resulted in reduction of the price of
| the article to 80 cents per thousand
| feet
| The scouts in the Pennsylvania oil
| fields are said to have organized a club
| to control the market for their own
| benefit.
| The senate of Arkansas passed bill
| to change to Cleveland the name of a
| county originally named for Stephen
| W. Dorsey.
So deep has been the frost on the
i island OF Nantucket that two houses
| were filled with corpSeS that could not
/ be buried.
b. f. Avery. who built up an extern
| sive plow factory at Louisville, died
| Tuesday, III his S5th year, leaving a
vast estate.
| ist of New York, has been held in
| $500 each on charges of inciting riot
| and OF resisting The police.
James l.. Clark. who died Friday at
Oshkosh. spent twenty-five years in
| building up match-splint factory,
| which he sold for $3.50. 900.
The New York Herald has given up
| its fight against the newsdealers, and
| reduced the price to the dealers to II
cents from Ii cents per copy.
Stephen Clarke, afflicted with hydro
| phobia. was lodged in Jail at Picton,
| Ontario. where he takes every oppor-
iuuily ~ ltdI anu ute HIS ON IL litSu
Honore Beaugrand, proprietor of a
| French newspaper, has been elected
mavOr of Montreal relieving j. l..
Beaudry. who has held the position for
| ten years.
Capitalists from various points have
been examining the country in the vi
cinity of Augusta, Indiana, where sill
yer ore is said to have been found in
the hills.
Orrin S. Skinner, formerly connected
| with leading legal firm in Chicago,
has been lodged in the Tombs of New
York for attempting to swindle bank
ing-houses.
Albany, n. Y, was visited by a de-
structive fire which consumed railway
and manufacturing property valued at
about sos, 900. Several acres of ground
were burned over.
The forty-ninth anniversary of the
independence of Texas was observed
at Austin by the laying of the corner
stone of the new capitol. The build
ing is to be of granite.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria are rag
ing in Sycamore, III. Many persons
have died and new cases are reported
every day. 1t is thought the diseases
will become epidemic.
The receiver of the First National
bank of st. Albans, Vermont, has at
| tached the property of the late officers
and directors on suit to recover 500, =
600 for mismanagement.
Rumors have reached the Dakota
| towns that the Winnebago reservation
| has been opened to settlers by order of
| the president, and there is wild
scramble to secure farms.
| W. III. Wilson, of Dallas, Texas. a
| confederate officer under StoneWall
| Jackson, claims to have been engaged
by Ell Mehdi to take charge of fortifi-
cation engineering in Egypt.
The legislature of British Columbia
has passed bill, to take effect within
two weeks, imposing upon Cinnamon
attempting to enter that province fine
| of $50 or Imprisonment for six months
| The Ohio consistory of Scottish
| Rite Masons has raised a large sum
with which to purchase and remodel
| for it's purposes the Seventh Presby-
terian church, on Broadway, Cincin-
natl.
Thomas L. Townley, a farmer of
Mattoon, H., is going to England to
assert his claim to the Towniey estate,
! left without an heir in 1878. The es-
| tate brings an annual income of $780,
| OOO
The attorney general of Wisconsin
]
| court against the Pullman Palace-Car
company to determine the question of
its gross earnings in that state for tax
| alton.
| A party of cowboys stopped an ex-
press train at Mingusville, Montana,
and made the conductor dance on the
| platform while they fired occasional
shots at his feet. The entire gang was
arrested.
The circuit court at st. Louis has
been asked by Circuit Attorney Glover
to restrain Jay Gould from voting at
the Iron Mountain election stock To the
| amount of 81, ,000, 900 which he holds
as trustee.
The lieutenant governor of Kentucky
granted thirty day respite to William
Neal, the last of the Ashland murder
ers, and he was transferred under
guard from Grayson TO the jail at
Mount Sterling.
Cyrus W. Fitch, the hermit of Nc
KEGS park. has been sent TO the work
house at Pittsburg. He once owned
eleven hundred acres of timber land in
Jefferson county, which he lost through
legal complications.
Governor Sherman, of Iowa, has is
sued an order removing Auditor Brown
from office, because of the non-approv-
CaltelI to the position. Brown refuses
to surrender his books
Nearly one thousand men employed
in the railway shops at Moberly. Mis-
souri,. marched out Friday and held a
meeting to discuss their grievances, re-
fuSing to obey an order from the mas
ter mechanic to return to duty.
S. ID. Street. for two terms clerk of
the courts at Council Bluffs, is found
| T. IrxEs g. h.
been held for trial for embeZZllng
school funds. Rumors of his deficit
served to defeat him last November.
A firm in New York has already
shipped one pump to England, on q
contract with the British government
to run a pipe line 260 miles across the
desert from Suakim to Berber, 10 fur
nish water for locomotives and troops
Thomas J. Navin, the absconding
mayor of Adrian. Michigan, was ar
rested at New Orleans, under rewards
of 5000 offered III 1882. He offered tC
return without a requisition, saying
that he was on the way home to sur
render.
George L. Davenport. who was born
at Rock Island in 1917. grew up among
the Indian children, and made the frs
claim to land under the treaty of 1892
closed his dayS at st. Augustine. Flor
ida. His father founded the city which
bears his name.
Milton Weston. who is said to be
Chicago capitalist, has been convicted
of voluntary manslaughter in connec
ton with the gas-weil riots at Murrays
vile, Pennsylvania, and is liable Il
. twelve years imprisonment in the pen
. itentiary and fine of 81 900.
Six convicts escaped from the Michi
gan penitentiary through tunnel fort,
feet in length. ON which they had prob