The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-22
MISSISSIPPI.

APT - II. L AIlcOL Has tOIlIdClGO III LOU
isyille for new packet for the Yazoo trade.
y azoo Banner.
a wife whipper had to be shot by the po-
lice in Water Valley recently before he
would submit to arrest. So says the Eagle.
The Vicksburg Herald learns that DIR.
Blackman, living near Milliken's Bend, was
burned out last Wednesday. Dwelling
house, furniture, and supplies for this years
crop, all consumed.
The Goodman Star proposes to leave
weekly at the postofiice, a dozen copies di-
rected to The Stingg'' Tor the purpose of
protecting regular subscribers.
The price of eggs have again gone up to
20 cents in the Scooba neutrality-suspicious.
The Eagle announces the fact that there
is soon to be in Water Valley a shop for the
kinds, in the very highest style of the me
chanic.
The Sentinel says that German glee
club has been organized in Columbus.
There will be a Convention in the interest
of the Memphis and Selma Railroad, COM
posed OF delegates from the Mississippi
counties through which the road will pass,
at Columbus to-day.
The Falcon says that gentlemen in Oxford
amuse themselves by playing marbles.
a number of our late prominent citizens
have been walking our streets for day or
two past with their heads under their arms.
1t was a horrid sight.-Port Gibson Stan
dard.
The dwelling house Of Maj. Ben. Magru-
der and the dwelling and out-houses of
Mrs. j. B. Ward in Madison county were
recently destroyed by fire. Both supposed
to be the work of an neutrality-suspicious.
Mail.
The dwelling house of Mr.. Magee, near
Brookhaven, together with all its contents,
was consumed by fire on the night of the
18th. The flames were not discovered until
barely in time to save life; in fact, one of
the little children was so badly burnt that
its recovery is thought very doubtful. The
elder brother was badly burned in an at
tempt to rescue his infant brother from the
flames. Mr.. Magee had several hundred
dollars in cash which was also consumed in
the flames. The origin of the fire is sup
posed to have been accidental-Southern
Journal.
The Port Gibson Standard learns that
Joseph G. Jones, Esq. was badly kicked in
the face by mule on Tuesday last.
1t is talked about on the streets that the
newly appointed sheriff has made Isham
Stewart, negro and member of the conven-
ton, his jailor.-Macon Beacon.
DIR. Latimer, President of the Raymond
and Bolton railroad, and Mr.. w. NJ. VOs-
bnrg, civil engineer of the Vicksburg and
Meridian railroad, accompanied by the nee
essary number of laborers, commenced on
the 18th inst, the work of running line of
centres and levels on the road, and carefully
estimating the work for the entire line pre-
paratory TO the. commencement.-V
Herald.
In the Federal Cemetery at Alexandria,
Virginia, there is little hilloGk and head
board bearing this inscription:
'Asbury Tarpley, prisoner of war, Com
pany X, 18th Mississippi southern Star.
The Iuka Gazette learns that Mr.. Charles
Warren, while in a state of intOxicatiOn, was
drowned, on the End inst, in Twenty Mile
Creek, Itawamba county.
From the Iuka Gazette we learn that Mr..
AbsolOm Mcknight, an old and estimable
citizen of that place, was drowned recently
in small branch in the town. He was sub
ject TO commissions, and is supposed to have
fallen in while in that condition.
The Holly Springs Reporter recently pub
lished the marriage notice of Mr.. Cad. Tuck
er, it now learns that it had been imposed
upon, as no such marriage had taken place.
The Reporter says that on April 18th,
about daylight, the dwelling house, kitchen,
and outbuildings of r. Z. Chew, Esq, living
13 miles west of Holly Springs, on the
Byhalia road, were burned to the ground.
The fire is supposed to have originated from
the kitchen stove.