The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-11

The death OF Dr. J. ia. Wilson. late Of "a
roo City, is announced.
: The cotton plant Is small bat generally
, well-bolled in Clarke county
. The same paper records the death Of DR.
W. 81. Statham, prominent citizen Of Choc
: faw county.
According to the census just taken, thu
! Blacks, T40.
The News has information that severa
persons appointed to Office in Tallahatchis
county, have refused to qualify.
The Durant Times Is in receipt Of infOr-
nation that the army worm has appeared
In the cotton crop near Black Hawk, Carroll
county.
The Meridian Flag has been merged with
the Gazette, and in future Mr.. j. L. Morris
of the Flag, viii be OF the editorial corps OF
4 the Gazette.
The Spectator says that ''connubial in
feiicitiesr inspired freedman John Rush to
shoot another man and brother in Kemper
the other day.
Bob Perry and Tom Habric (colored) were
| AOAhO SuAAtJ Va hhuA0Chtuk NWnAeC
at the late term of the Clarke county Court.
New trial granted.
The Oxford Falcon regrets to see the
growing tendency of the negroes of that
community to take the law in their own
hands whenever an offence is committed,
and one of their color is concerned.
In reference to crops the News says that
| pro r. in Ttoll hat ohf
aging. And further mentions report that
the newly appointed Circuit Clerk of that
county came to jackson as boot-black for
Mckee.
The Aberdeen Examiner says that for the
first time since the organization of the coun-
", the State failed to purchase a single tract
of land at the annual tax sales. individuals
bought all that was offered for amount of
taxes and costs.
The Falcon says that crops in that section
have been greatly injured by the protract-
ed dry season, and, in some localities, ire
parably so. Corn has been cut off at least
one half even with the most favorable sea-
son from this on:
The Shubuta Times says that freedmen
were highly incensed because the proprietor
of the hotel refused to accommodate them
at the late term of the Clarke county Court.
Having been promised Social Equality by
the RAIDS, they don't understand it.
The Okolona Monitor is informed that the
corps of Engineers of the Memphis and
Selma Railroad, have completed their sur
veys and estimates from Columbus to Aber-
deem, and that they will now commence
their survey from Aberdeen to Okolona.
The Goodman Star says: ave hear con-
tinually of our farmers losing horses and
mules, by diseases caused from eating dam
aged corn sent here from the North and
West. Perhaps this will teach our farmers
the necessity of raising their own corn"
CROPS IN CALHoUN.-An esteemed
subscriber at Big Creek, writes us under
date of I'd inst: "We had shower yester-
day-the first in seven weeks; consequently
crops of all kinds are inferior. The heavy
taxes and light crops are not pleasant to
contemplate.
The Lexington Advertiser records the
killing of one negro by another in that
county, and then threatens that it has be-
come SO constant that it has ceased to inter-
est the readers of that journal, and that it
mnst be desisted from, or the Advertiser will
refuse to notice.
The New Era says that the Conference for
the Starkville District, met on the 18th ult,
in that place.
The Conference was organized with +. NJ.
Featherston, Presiding Elder. in the Chair.
J. T. MCGEE and Judge Scarboro, were cleo
ted Secretaries. Bishop Paine subsequently
arrived.
The Ripley Advertiser says that in Judge
Orlando Davis Court, in Tippah county, 'no
negroes are found on any of the juries, eth
er grand or pettit.' 1t will be noted that
in Tippah the negroes are in the minority.
Hence, according to Radical ruling, they
have no rights which other folks are bound
to respect. Here, where Sambo is in the as
cendant, it is directly the reverse.
The Greenville Times accounts for the
defeat of the Levee bill. 1t says that the
original measure, prepared by Gov. Alcorn,
authorized him to appoint the Commission
ers, &c. In the House, this feature was
changed by inserting the names of the COM
missioners in the bill-chief among whom
was Peter B. Bailey. 1t went to the Senate
| in this shape; and on motion was laid on the
table where it slept until the adjournment.
The Herald is after the appointed Mayor
On Vicksburg with sharp stick.
The Herald says negro officer shot at
man for being drunk. Let us have
Peace"
The Banner reports promising corn crops
in Yazoo county down the West banks of
the river.
J.E. johnson, one of the aiders in the
murder of DIR. Tully Gibson, has been APP
pointed Sheriff of Sunfower county.
Bay st. Louis, the Gazette says, is consid-
ering the propriety of organizing volun-
teer militia company under the new law.
The Okolona Monitor learns that Mr..
Isaac Harris killed his brother-in-law, Mr..
Moseley, near that place, by shooting, on
the 31st prox.
We learn from the Crystal Springs Her
aid that over thirty persons were baptized
recently at Palestine (Baptist) Church,
Copiah county.
The Holly Springs Reporter says Dooes'
Mills, in the extreme Northern part of the
State, on the NJ. c. r. B. has been bought
by party Of Northern gentlemen for the
purpose of building a cotton factory.
The Yazoo Banner has seen printed let
ter in circulation and for sale among the
negroes said to be written by Jesus Christ