The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-08
MISSISSIPPI.

A little daughter of Mr.. Lindsey Camp
bell. living near Lodi. Choctaw county,
aged twelve or fourteen years, was found
: dead IN bed on Sunday morning the 18th
inst.
q negro was accidentally shot and killed
= on the 3lst ult, in Shubuta- by another ne
: gro who was handling pistol.
e 1923 bales of cotton have been SHIPPED
! from Port Gibson to date.
5 A horse thief, only sixteen years of age
: was arrested in Pamela county and COM
e mitted to jail. on the 26rE. lie was taken
8 in the act, and no doubt Of his guilt exists.
! Prof. Frederick was rope-walking in Co
lunhus at last accounts.
The two-headed girl-the wonder of the
AGES on exhibition at Meridian
Some devilish negroes down by Dunn's
mill are becoming outrageous and bidding
defiance to law. They are burning houses
and bringing terror upon the whole neigh
borhood.-Me-idian Mercury.
Yazoo City has again suffered by fire.
Loss $4,000.
The Holly Springs Reporter is to be en-
larged.
A great deal of corn will be planted in
Marshall county. Miss.
There was a meeting of the citizens of
organizing Fire Company.
The citizens of Columbus. presented Capt.
Kelley. late commander of the post, with
fine gold watch. as a testimonial oftheir es-
| TEEN.
Mr.. Julian Montgomery, son of Mr.. \. V.
/ Montgomery, of the northern part of Madi-
son county, was killed by stroke of light
ming on Wednesday, of last week. Young
/ Montgomery was an only son-the stan and
hope OF an aged fathers family
James NJ Ray, Esq, for many years En-
giaeer on the Vicksburg and Meridian Rail-
/ road, died near Lake station, on the Goth
| inst, in his 18th year.
! The 4th of May next was set apart as day
| for general festivity, by Summit Persever
| ance Fire Co., No.1.
| The Vicksburg police made a decent on
| some deyotees of Keno" on the night OF
29th ult, and took charge OF twenty-nine OF
/ the number.
| A lady and gentleman came to their death
! in Meridian. under very singular circum-
stances on the 30th. They elying across
| the threshold of one of the front doors. as If
they bad fallen towards each other. Their
children could explain nothing, and an in
Vestigation only proved that they were
dead with no marks of violence upon them.
1t is thought that they committed suicide.
Owing to the recent vacatng of offices by
imperative. which necessitated the marry
ing yesterday of a happy couple from this
city, in DeSoto, just opposite Vicksburg.-l
Some half dozen parties have applied for
marriage licenses within the past few days,
we learn, and all were not little surprised
To learn that there was no clerk TO issue the
Misunderstanding Herald.
abe Signal has been informed that Com
pany of miners would soon arrive at Water
Valley to work coal mine near that place.
The LowRdes County Agricultural, Me
chanical and Fair Association" held on the
27th inst, officers for the ensuing year were
elected.
There is a street in Summit called Silk
stocking row."
The Holmesville Independent has ceased
to exist. Its editor, Mr.. Bonney, will com
mence on the LIST of April, the publication of
the Osyka Reporter.
An outcast named Molly Devices, died
suddenly, of want, near Meridian, few
days since.
A house in Columbus occupied by some of
the "frail sisrerhood" was burned on the
2Sth inst.
The county of Tallahtchie at this time has
but one officer, that of Probate Judge.
The Yazoo Fire Company has been invit- |
ed TO participate in the grand Firemen's |
parade and ball at Vicksburg, on tie 2Sth of
April.
Columbus is to be discontinued as mill
tary post.
a man has been arrested, imprisoned one |
night, and find SO and cost Of court, for |
using obscene language on the streets of
Summit.
f. J. CASTILLO has been appointed Post
master of Natchez.
On Sunday morning last, March 2sth, a
new Presbyterian Church in Holly Springs
was dedicated.
The City Marshall of C0rinth, recently
shot anegro who ran when he attempted to |
arrest him.
4 widow lady Mrs. LegertOn, living near
Enterprise, has had in her employ for two
years a negro man and his family; during !
the time she frequently permitted him to
use her gun. He recently moved off short
di1tance, and wished to carry it away with |
him. Upon being refused, his wife stole |
it, and when Mrs. Legerton went to his |
house to recover it, she was shamcfully |
beaten and maltreated by them. This out |
rage was followed up by the burning by |
them of her cor ncrib and its contents.
1t is much more than merely sus pected |
lower part of Warren county, engaged in !
running off mules and horses, and in dis
posing of and exchanging them in distant
portions OF tn State, or in Louisiana and /
ALABAMA nFny FARMERS ana planters IN
the neignboJ hood between Red Bone and
Hankerson's Ferry on the Big Black, have
been victimi zed-one of them, has lost half |
his mules in two years back; another lost /
eight mules and two horses in one night;
another, six in one night Hardly a week |
elapses ths.t depredations of the kind are |
not repeated.-Vicksburg Times.
CLARK CoUNTY.-The two Clerks. Justi- |
ces of tire Peace, and others in the county |
who could not swallow the oath. quit dis |
ehargin G the duties of their offices on Mon !
day last.
We do not know yet who are applicants |
for the places. We have an impression that |
Mr.. Barker, a Northern man came among |
us since the war, present Mayor of the town !
of Shubuta, will be presented for some po-
sition. Mr.. B. seem to be we'll thought of
by the people where he lives. and where, he |
makes himself as one, of them.-Merid ian !