The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15
MISSISSIPPI.

g or of Natchez. The Vicksburg Times lear
o that he is conservative republican.
r Iuka had heavy frost on the 3rd. II
Gazette thinks the fruit is all destroyed al
D garden vegetables wilted.
e vicksburg is enjoying Under the G
4 Light, with new scenery, effects, etc.
A large panther. measuring nearly mir
feet in length, was killed last week in Nor
roe county-the first one, says the Aberdee
Examiner, that has been seen in that regio
{ for many years.
: Three little girls at Water Valley. tw
Misses Jennings and Miss Lula Lonl
students at the Babtist School, repeate
each. on Sunday last, over 100 verses froI
the Bible, memorized in one week.
The Tallahatchian says, it is a matter Q
peculiar pleasure, that we learn from on
farming friends, that the wheat Gro
throughout this county, is promising in
deed.
Water Valley will soon have large tan
merry in operation
The fruit was not badly injured by thu
late frosts in Tallahatchie county, and ther'
is prospect for good crop.
There viii be an agricultural meeting il
Water Valley on the 18th inst.
Last Sunday evening. a negro grocery.
keeper living just beyond bayou on Cherry
street, (Vicksburg) tied his wife's arm down
| TO the counter, aud with most horrible bru-
tality, deliberately chopped off her hand
| with Ratchet .-Patrick's Bulletin.
The Goodman Star is to be enlarged.
From the fernando Press we learn that
a negro escaped from the DeSoto county
Jail on the End inst.
The two Martins. husband and wife, whose
mysterious death was announced in the dali
~ Meridian Gazette of April 1sr, were the
feathered species.
William Vaharsdale, a citizen of Alfalfa
county. residing but a short distance from
this place. attempted suicide last week, by
swallowing a drachm of morphine, and also
using cloroform.-Goodman Star.
The Reporter says the President has nom
mated Capt. Nelson g. Gill to be Postmas-
ter at Holly Springs, vice Capt. Chas. III.
Townsend.
For the convenience of persons along the
line of road, the Mississippi and Tennessee
Railroad now runs train on Sundays.
Active operations are commencing on the
Memphis and Selma Railroad. Large guam
titles of provisions have been shipped from
Memphis to the hands at work upon it.
Mr.. James Dooms was fatally shot at IL
O'Clock last Saturday night, at Walden, Miss,
W MS hSuTI Munger. lie sIOOltDG
was mistake of Ringer, who mistook
Dooms for drunken man who had threat
ened his life, and his grief was excruciAting
when he found what he had done.
Captain Ike A. Hood has taken charge of
the surveying party that are TO lay out the
Yazoo Valley railroad, beginning at a sta
ton on the Mississippi and Tennessee rail-
road, called Harrison, about forty miles
south of Memphis.
r.
plction of the Memphis and Little Rock
railroad. Messrs. Carlisle q Henderson have
contracted TO build the bridge at Duvall's
Bluff.
The New Orleans and Vicksburg railroad.
which is to connect with the chain of river
railroads from St. Louis, has received the
sanction of the Governor of Louisiana and
will be put under contract at once The
people of New Orleans. Baton Rouge, Bayou
Sara, Natchez, and Vicksburg are alive TO
the Importance of the work. and are said to
be impatient for its commencement.
The Herald learns that there will be six
new stores erected in Crystal Spring during
the coming season-besides the free-school
building and town hall.
Miss Floyd, blind lady, and a pupil Of
the Blind Asylum of Mississippi. is giving |
in BatesVille.
The Pamela star says that at last the farm
ers have been favored with a spell of good
weather, which they have put to good use /
in getting in the corn crop, and making /
other preparations for the ensuing year.
The Times announces that an enterprising |
Vicksburger has ordered lot of veloci- /
pedes, and is TO open a school soon. Oh, /
wont we sail.
The.Herald congratulates Vicksburg upon |
the reduction of the price of labor by the |
BARRIERS of that city.
The purchasers of the old Methodist |
Church have reprinted and refitted the |
building for the purpose of converting it /
into dramatic hall-Columbus Index.
Miss Harriet Spencer has been appointed
post-mistress of Okolona. The Prairie
News says that she is lady well known for
her energy and business capacity.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Hogshead. one of the editors
and proprietors OF the Pamela Star, has re-
tired, and his associate. Mr.. f. j. Walsh, will
hereafter have exclusive control
The Falcon announces that the Lafayette
County Agricultural Society meets in Ok
ford on the 18th inst.
Mr. David Caldwell. an old and useful cit
izen of Madison County, departed this life
on the 22d ult. in the Goth year of his age,
after an illness of three days.-Canton Mail.
The Carrollton Conservative is hopeful of
the prospects of the proposed railroad from
that town to the Mississippi Central.
The Lexington Advertiser learns that
Mr. Reuben Wright, living near that place
and his son-in-law, Richard Davis, were out
hunting beaver; and that while Mr.. Wright
was recapping his gun, it accidentally went
of, the load lodging ia Mr.. Davis head and
killing him instantly.
We find the following item going the
rounds of the Northern papers:
Mississippi enjoys a menagerie free of
charge. The wild beasts experienced a rail-
road accident by which they were set Free
and are now wandering through the woods.