The Clifton clarion., 1885-02-18
CLARION CLIPPINGS.

 lowed by death still has many ad- herents in the most civilized com munities.
 Pennsylvania is still loyal, praise the Lord. Its legislature has just re- jected the nomination as notary pub | lie of a man who served in the Con- federate army
 John Moody of Montpelier, re- ferred to Susan Smith as that "gander- -shauked Smith gal" and Susan got right up and secured $500 damages to buy her q ,seal-skin sacque.
 A man in Michigan has been awarded SS,OO0 damages for being kicked down flight of stairs. some men are born lucky, some achive luck, while others are kicked down stairs for luck.
 Monsieur De Lesseps announces that on the lst of March there is to be a grand ceremony on the Isthmus of Panama, formally inaugurating the canal works, and it is intended It
 shall rival the splendor of the old Spanish fetes in those attitudes. Queen Victoria's determined an- , nouncement that she shall still keep
 Beatrice with her after her marriage
 to the impecunious Prince Henry Of Battenberg is believed to be prompted f partly by her love for Beatrice and . more by the belief that she can board the beggarly Battenberg cheaper 5 then Beatrice can.
 A San Francisco gentleman re- I ports a curious natural freak in the shape of one orange growing inside ? another. The inner one is perfect, l except that it is quite small and has n an opening at the stem, through which it apparently receives nour' T ishment from the outer one. The }, orange came from Mexico.
 s Times must be corky in Prescott
 judging from the following iten
 clipped from a local paper, which t'
 the initiated means a great deal: "Th' U first faro game, whose limits are 5; l. to doubles, and S2.50 to cases, eve , opened in Prescott, began operation
 last night. But little nerve is re al uuired to press the limits of such d bank.
 if Bridwell, who introduced a bill il
 the house to create the county o le Sierra Bonita, had, according to tn d Clifton Clarion, pledged himself il writing to oppose such measure IL In a civilized community such le step on the part of MrBridwell woul r. cause him to cease to be recognize
 in the society of fgentlemen.- Tucsoi
 Tailings.
 A writer says there is but on rs clean spot in the whole Jewisl es district of Jerusalem-a small parct to of land at the western wall of Haran 'o where, on Friday nights, lewis ny pilgrims congreate to mourn over tn as fall of the Holy City, bewailing i os departed glory in loud lamentation "o and leaning with their heads agains at the walls to kiss the stones. II, As an illustration of the way ,a- which town may be completel plotted out by change in the tic of traffic, says san exchange, 'ra shown in the fate which has owe
 taken Lisbon, Ga., which fe
 years ago was at the head of nav
 gdtlOn OH tue SuNanHdu iiNSA- " h' ,o- thirty stores and did fourishir of business. Now there is not a sing
 house left to mark the spot where u 'o old town stood.
 .i' Professor Hugo Arnolds, of Clifto he the well-known mining expert al .kn scientist, and a most genial gentl
 man socially, today received aiii invoice of exquisitely carved pip ln and tobacco, which he intends too present to the members of the G respondents Club of Prescott, lon assist them in their profound deli a erations over the momentous que
 tions of state polity which they g
 constantly called on to review duri
 the Legislative session. Presc' las Miner, 18th.
 rSe The ugly fashion adopted by N, de- York's fashionable men of weari colored shirt and cuffs and wh 10 collar is directly traceable to Hill Prince of Wales. The story, as ,ba runs, says that he ran up to Lond from his country seat at the height ne the season. His trunks were delay sti- by railway collision, and, on II tb ming through his wardrobe, he fou 'no only colored shirt and white coll
 He donned them hastily and went
 his club to luncheon. Fashiona 1ha men saw him, the style was copi and it has now caught on in N ieS York.
 old Judge Zane, before whom cas- tba polvgamy was tried on the 5th il
 ,1- oh oV, iury as follows: s'In the acts of e ton gress you will find polygamy, unl' -,;o1 ful cohabitation and other offen -i i"' defined, and no matter how comm age, the offease may be in the conn ,nu- nity your duty requires you to in,
 tigate it so much the more thorough
 and if any man be guilty-whoe he may belt is your duty as gr' the jurors, under your oath, to in, age him." He told the jury they had
 right to take into consideration VI" jurors any consequences to tho we selves, but that they must. do u ,ust full duty.
 Apropos of the banquet given VIZ Prescott this week by the press g and 10 their friends, the Prescott ID. respondent of the Florence En
 prise says: ssThe wealthy newspa
 men sojourning here will give It of $500 banquet about the middle of mos month to 100 invited guests.
 menu will be the most extensive 'usl- ever gotten up here, and the cro owns ing glory of the feast will be ~ baskets of champagne ordered fl io San Francisco expressly for the ty is casion. It is not often that the rous tocrats of the press indulge in and wai'oii tSo;, orod;,,