The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-06-09
NEWS NOTES.
The drouth in Texas has been broken by
a rood rainfall

+ a good rainfall.
II Maine Democrats have nominated Clark
e s. Edwards for Governor.
r There is no place like Deer Park for s
g couple of newly welded dears.
Mr.. Cleveland's. honeymoon is a nice
thing, but he is missing all the school com.
mencements.
The grasshopper is already burden in
Texas, myriads OF them having made their
appearance there.
The United Presbyterians, by small
majority, have decided to allow instru-
mental music in their churches.
1t is stated that nearly 800, 600 worth
of wedding presents have been received at
, the White House in Washington.
The New Jersey Legislature has reject
ed the bill for the regulation of the LIQUOR
traffic in that State by local option.
Queen Victoria testified her good feeling
by telegraphing her congratulations to the
President Yesterday. The Queen takes an
, interest in weddings.
II is little unpatriotic on the part of
the stove manufacturers 10 advance their
prices lust as Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland are
about to go TO keeping house.
The last surviving officer of the regu-
|
war of 1872, died at Far Rockaway. n. Y.
on the 4th inst, at ninety years of age.
VI. Pasteur has successfully inoculatei
Percy Perkins, the little Pullman, Ill, boy
who was recently bitten by mad dog, and
his parents are on their way home with
him.
Ii the President has married all the Miss
Folsoms whose pictures adorn the daily
newspapers, no wonder an anti-polygamy
amendment to the Constitution is proposed
| in Congress.
| The knights of Labor held stormy
session at Cleveland and elected radical
men as members of the Executive Board.
Disruption is feared between the order and
the trades unions.
Gen. Sherman's explanation as TO why
he did not attend the funeral of Vice-Pres
| ident Hendricks is sufficient. He would,
| no doubt have attended il with pleasure.
l-Codrier-J ournal
The young women OF church society
in a New York village recently gave a
CLOTHES line sociable." The local paper
suggests for the next entertainment "a
wash-tub festival"
The National Stove-makers' Associa-
| ton, at its meeting Friday at Cleveland,
| organized the "Stove-founders' National
| Defense Association" and advanced the
| price of stoves y per cent.
Those newspapers that have begun adj
| vising Mr.. Cleveland how to manage his
new wife would do well to reflect that even
a President has some rights which the
press and the public are bound to respect.
People talk of the war and its events as
things of yesterday, and yet our new Lady
OF the White House was not born until the
year after Vicksburg and Gettysburg had
practically decided the great struggle -
Globe-Democrat
John W. Young, the Oldest son of Brig
ham, is the leader of the Mormon lobby at |
Washington, and is said to possess many |
OF the personal characteristics of his father. |
His mother was the first of Brigham |
1oung's seventeen wives.
Gen. O. o. Howard has an article in one /
of the magazines on what he knows about |
the freedmen during the war. But an arti-
Gle telling what the freedmen know about |
Gen. Howard since the war would doubt
less be more interesting.
A three year-old girl fell from the bal
cony on the fourth floor OF Hartford
house the other day, but she struck square
ly across clothes line stretched from the
third floor, and the rebound threw her
Buffalo society people were disappointed
in the Cleveland-Folsom wedding-first,
that it didn't take place in that city, and,
secondly, that none of them were hidden.
Miss Ida Gregg, a school friend of Miss
Folsom, was the only Buffalo lady invited.
The last official act the President per
formed before the wedding, was to make
the holders of Alabama claims award 8
happy. He signed the bill for their pay
ment at O'Clock, and Immediately after
wards proceeded to dress for the wedding |
There are nearly 10000 owners of real |
estate in Philadelphia, who pay taxes
upon the 225,000 separate properties assess
ed in the city limits. These figures show
larger proportion of taxpayers than can
be found in any other city in the United
States.
The swift justice that has overtaken
Most ard his side-partners is notifca-
ton to Anarchists who are displeased with
this country that it would be well for
them to take advantage of the present
low rate of steerage tickets for the big
steamships
A Syracuse lady has a friend who saw a
letter from Miss Folsom, some weeks ago,
in which she wrote: 81 have but one re-
gret, and that is that / am to marry the
President of the United States. | would
much rather it had been the Buffalo law
yer with whom | fell in love-"
c. G. West, of Butler, Ga, went fishing
two weeks ago, and wore an old vest.
After getting home he hung it up. On
Wednesday Mrs. West was feeling in the
pockets Tor a match when rattlesnake
two feet long dropped from the torn lining.
1t must have got there the day Mr.. West
went fishing.
About 500 kilograms, congratulating the |
President on his marriage, have been re-
eeived at the White House They include /
messages from ex-President Arthur, Mrs. |
Grant, Ministers Pendeton and Phelps, |
and many public men throughout the
country. Many messages were received at !
| Deer Park Md, where the President and |
his bride are sojourning.
A correspondent writes that young
woman in Washington makes a good liv-
ing teaching American small talk to the |
young attaches of the Chinese and Japa-
| nese Embassies. Not long ago she taught
six young fellows precisely the same round |
OF pretty phrases, and at a recent ball they /
lowered around certain pretty girl, and
| all said the same things to her.
THE sure effects of Ayers Sarsaparilla |
are thorough and permanent. If there is |
lurking faint of scrofula about you. |
Ayers Sarsaparilla will dislodge it, and |
expel il from your system.
| What the Children Said.
| Speaking of little Miss Breckenridge, |
who thought her papa was regarded in
| Kentucky as a very smart speaker. re-
| minds me of story heard of the In
| gals children.
! Il tell you what. mamma" said the
little son of Congressman -. Il
don't like those little ingalls, children so
much as did,