The weekly clarion., 1870-02-10
G,9e ddeeklp Clarion.
MISSISSIPPI.

H.
Kennedy, Levine and III. Boggan were ar
rested for uttering counterfeit money. Al
though it was understood that the affiant
was TO be required to give security for his
stav in the city, il seems that no security
yras taken. The examination of the gentle
men accused takes place tomorrow morn
irg. and as there will be prosecutor they will
doubtless be honorably acquitted.
The Meridian Mercury of the 27th saws
n seems that Capt. Payne had a suspicion
last night, and had put on an increased
force armed with double barrel guns, ETC.
one Fifteenth Amendment came, and he had
a Kew. and with it he unlocked a car door
The watchers waited and saw him 90 away
without molesting him. They knew he'd
come back and bring others,and they want
ed 10 bag the whole gang. And presently
they did come, but cautiously. One of them
melt mice just before the party got en-
yeloped in line of secreted sentinels. He
cave the signal, and they all broke and ran.
The word ~fire" was given, and a brisk rat
tIe of shot guns walked up the stiffness of
Tie night. There is reason tor believing
that one Of the party got hurt, but how bad
ly Is not known.
Friar's Point Delta says: Since our last
the river has risen so fast at this place that
+be steamers now make their landings in
front Of town. As we go to press it is still
rising, but not so rapidly as a few days ago.
The Brookhayen Citizen says: Deer have
become 50 plertiful in that immediate
ueighbOrhood that spOrtsmen do not take
the trouble 70 kill them. One ran through
the streets of the town recently.
The Crystal Springs Herald learns that
Mr.. Webb, one of the II. Il. employees, met
with most painful accident at that place
upon Yesterday morning. Endeavoring TO
lump aboard the train, his foot slipped, the
ear wheels mangling his legs in a most
frightful manner.
tbata gay. festive and rolicksOme Old gen
neman of siXty-five, residing in the South
ern portion of this county, decamped a few
DAYS since in company with a charming, vo-
luDtuOus and fascinating damsel of twenty
three leaving the lawfully welded partner
ot bis bosom and large family of children
behind. And says, in its next issue it will en-
deayor to give the names of the parties and
the PARTICULARS of this affair.
The Prairie News says: Mr. Abbott, OF
Chckasdy county, received ten German
emigrants by last Sunday evenings train,
from Chicago, and in the course Of a few
days will receive another lot.
The Natchez Democrat says: Col. john S.
HOlt Of that city, recently returned from |
Virginia with forty-live able-bodied negroes |
for his plantation. Lucky Virginia.
The Holly Springs Reporter says: Since
the date of our last report, January llGh, |
only four couples have received permission |
from our probate clerk TO marry.
Mr.. David Waldridge. colored citizen Of |
Yazoo county, died recently. The EaZOo |
Democrat says of him, ''he was ever actua- |
ted BY impulses as honest and honorable as /
any which even induced a soldier to draw /
his blade, a philanthropist his purse
Politically he took from the first, and mair- /
tanned throughout. firm and dauntless /
stand on the side of those with whom his |
interests had been for so many long and |
huctuating years. We are not sufficiently /
partisan in our feelings to eulogiSe him par
tcullrly for this but our unfeigned admi-
ration has been elected by that gentlemanly
undemonstrableness which he displayed,
while remaining steadily, untlinchingly, yet ,
quietly. on the side of those whom he had |
right to know the best. He went iRto the |
late war with the Hamar Rifles, 18th Miss |
Regiment. and stood by the boys whom he /
had known ut home, so well and so gallant |
ly, that the Legislature of Mississippi pass
ed a special act abrOgatng in his case the |
law requiring free negro to have a nOmi- |
nal owner. He died of consumption after a |
lingering illness OF several months, and |
through all his sutferings displayed to a re-
markable degree that quiescent fOrtitude
which was one of the principal attributes of
his character. His remains were attended |
to the grave day before yesterday by large
cOncourse of citizens of both colors, the i'm
pressiye services of the Catholic church--of
which he was Misunderstanding been per-
iOTmeu over luc corpse Dy L FaJUer LaCOuT.
at the church and in the cemetery"
White eravats for fail dress are becoming
quite fashiOnable.-EX.
Ii would be funny to see a fellow in full |
dress of that sort, but blamed uncomforta-
BILE in this weather.-Scooba Spectator.
Rather less comfortable than the uniform
of Georgia Maior-shirt collar and pair
OF spurs.
The Natchez Democrat of the 25th inst,
says We learn that during Wednesday
night last, tremendous landslide occurred
In the neighborhood of Fort RoSalie, pre-
eipitating some twenty acres of the bluff
down into the abyss below. The shock was
so very severe as to alarm persons living in
the vicinity.
The Holly Springs Reporter says; "a
band of gypsies has been encampcd in the
neighboThood of Holly Springs for some
months. They are seen daily upon our
streets. and in our houses. They are pro-
fessional fortune tellers, and make many
dollars off of people who want to know the
future, and who are willing TO pay their
money to any person who processes to tell
fortunes"
The Mail says that 1000 bales of cotton
have been bought by the merchants of Can
ton, up to this time.
The Yazoo City papers announce the |
building of new fire engine house in that /
place.
The Lexington Advertiser says: 1t is pro
posed to build a branch Railroad from that /
place to Durant on the Mississippi Central.
The Canton Mail says: new depot has
been built by the Mississippi Central Rail-
road at that place.
The Nallonian says: The ladies of Water
Valley, proposes to givesa Masquerade Socia-
ple and supper, at the New Factory Build
ing on the night of the lst of February, for
place.
The Central Star says: Two little sons of
our Mr.. W. III. Magruder were amusing |
themselves on Tuesday last, with powder
hSsS' winch they bad managed to get hold |
OF during the temporary absence of Mrs.
Magruder from her room. and with one of |
the explosions caused by throwing the pow
uer INTO the fire, that in the flask exploded, |
9nd both little fellows were badly burned
II Is hoped that no serious injury will result /
from the accident.
The Canton Mail says: Canton has beau
Iidl Courthouse yard. A rare feature is the /
deer which are there, and which are the !
property of the county.
~ The Natchez Democrat says John and /
Harris Calcot, of Adams county, were ar
rested and carried to Natchez, by order OF
Zen. Nmes. to be surrendered to the State OF /
louisiana for trial for the murder, in Jack
son PARISH, IN 1860, of 1t. Sanders, formerly
OF the Confederate States Army.
A correspondent of the Brandon Repub-
liean gives the following sample of the wri-
tings of a Jasper county Office holder:
Talla homa Nov 18th
1869
ITO the Bord of Police of Jasper county
Miss
yor enderSine Petitioner respectfully po-
ttions yor Hon Boddevs to take sum steps
fur my releaf en- regard to the amount of /
Money the former Bord of Perlece made me |
pay on the Delinquint tax list none Of the |
Sherifs has yiL accounted to nae for a single /
Dollar tbroup the many Dercufions hev to I