The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27

All of our Mississippi exchanges are COM
claiming OF bad roads.


All of our Mississippi exchanges are COM
planning OF bad roads.
The Columbus Index says: A party Of
Wisconsin gentlemen in the city few days.
They say that Mississippi is moving in the
right direction when she imports Danish Ia
Dor, for there are not more laborfous, honest
sober minded people on earth than the work.
ingmen of Denmark.
Col. j. NJ. Smith, correspondent of the
New Orleans Times, who has been residing
in Covington, KY, for six or eight months
past, died of heart disease on Wednesday
last at the Commercial Hospital in Cinein-
natl. He was Major of the Twenty eighth
Mississippi cavalry during the war.
The Bay st. Louis Gazette says: San eff
fort is being made by our neighbors of Har-
rison county to start there an Agricultural
Society, for the better development of the
abundant resources of this country. The
plan is an excellent one, and ought to be
followed in this county also. We have nu-
merous intelligent farmers among Us, both
professional and amateur. who would take
delight in giving their aid to a project so
fraught with benefit to themselves. their
neighbors and the whole community
The Columbus Index says lit is wonder
full to think that CatoOaves and 10 Hahn,
the ringleaders in the Mahan robbery, as
the head centres of the Loyal Leaguers
Cato carried the pole, we believe, and Joseph
carried the Holy Bible in his sanity arms
when the professions of that pious body en-
lived our streets. Oh. Cato and Joseph, how
could you go and do it!
From the Bay Sc. Louis Gazette.
There is an abundance of room in Ham
cock county for many thousands of people,
and promising future for every one that
chooses to come with the intention of hon.
estly working for living.
More farmers are needed to cultivate the
good lands along our bayous ard on the in
Vulnerable oak ridges and hammocks, and
20 raise stock of various kinds The Ger
man farmers who are so thickly scattered
around Bay st. Louis, are examples of thrift,
industry and contentedness..
More capitalists and moneyed men are
needed here, 20 improve and beautify our
watering place, and to disburse money
among the laboring classes Tor improve
ments and labor, and to create a healthy and
confident state of public feeling. -..f-
More laborers are wanted to perform the
hard work, to help the farmers cut wood,
burn tar. work in saw-mills, ship-yards,
gardens, &c.
A great many more house-servants are
wanted, if they can come well recommended
and are clearly, Industrious and honest.
The completion of the Chattanooga Rail
road will supply all these wants, and we
may look forward to prosperous future tor
Hancock county.
the Courier.
Since writing the above, we learn that
there was real and extensive landslide
just below the ferry landing, at this city,
but whether the shock felt here was caused
by said slide, or whether the latter was caus-
ed by the earthquake, remains to be decided.
The fernando Press says that during the
year 1869, the Probate Clerk of DeSotO coun-
tY, issued licenses to marry 479 couple. OF
these Isl were white couples and 297 ne
groes.
The Bay st. Louis Gazette says, that the
Grack-laylng Is progressing on portion of
the railroad bridge over the Bay of st. Louis,
on the New Orleans aud Chattanooga Rail-
road.
The Columbus Index says: Bill stevens,
freedman, was tried in the County Court,
Monday, for stealing and sentenced by
Judge Van Hook to twenty days imprison-
ment in Jail. Cheap stealing!
From the Natchez Courier
a number of our citizens assert that they
felt the shock of an earthquake about five
O'Clock Sunday morning. Jan. 9th. Reports
from the country seem to confirm the fact
as trembling and shaking of the earth, ac-
companied by low rumbling sound was
noted at the same hour by quite a number of
| persons living at distance from Natchez.
We felt the shock, If such it was, but did
! not attribute it to any internal connection
of this mundane 81 here; we thought it was
distant thunder ''and nothing more" But
| if the majority decide that it was an earth
/ quake, why we will, on pure democratic
| principles, submit to that decision. 1t may
| be though, as the Democrat of Yesterday
| inundated, but another landslide, as such
| things are of frequent occurrence, much to
/ the qualification and edification of our citi-
zens. We of course mean those who read
The Tallahatchie News in speaking of the
| man Quincy, who was candidate for Sec
rotary of the Senate, says:
/ a after Gurney's appointment as Sheriff in
| this county, he was priyy to forged bond :
and after his removal from that Office. he
| sent his former deputy, Mcbride, to the
/ River, to collect money which had been lert
there with Mr.. Powell to pay the Cotton tax
| of several gentlemen. He got $50 which
he pocketed, and took away with him. He
| played the same game at Harrison Station.
He never accounted for any money that
came to his hands, unless compelled to do
so; and finally left here in the night, with
mis- board and washing bills unpaid, as Capt.
Dawson, who has his wife's trunks in pawn.
/ will testify. All that we have said can be
proven, and still the half is not told"
That what we consider fine specimen
of carpet-bagger. 1t is strange he was
not elected.
From the Bay St. Louis Gazette, we learn
that are on the assessment roll of personal
property in Hancock county: % clocks. 1e
carriages, 16 watches, Is pistols, 2l0 guns,
33S dogs.
The Natchez Democrat say: 1--WE regret
to announce the death of Col. Martin Burke
late of st. Louis. Col. Burke, commanded
the LIST Missouri Regiment, in Bowen's Brig.
ade of gallant MissOurians, T.. ). A. so dis
tinguished in the operations around Vicks.
burg, in 1868. His remains will be inferred
in the n atcheZ Cemetery at 10 q. M, to-day
The funeral to proceed from st. Mary's Ca.
thedral."
The Columbus Index says, the river is .
blooming again. The heavy rains have push
ed it over its banks far into the flats.
The Washington county Times says M
one was shot, cut, or robbed, at Greenyille
during the holidays.
Capt. VIM III. Fox, formerly of Co. III. 21s
Miss. Regiment, (Humphrey's) Barksdale,
brigade, died in Sunfiower county, last week
The Meridian Gazette learns that Morde
cal Horne, the negro mule thief, who wa
shot by city Marshal Peters, last Sunda,
night, died at Enterprise, on the 9th.
! The yicksburg Herald of the 21st inst
says:
a Mr.. S. B. Denzer, employed as clerk il
the store of I'll. Bodenheim' * Co, shot him
selfthrough the head last night at the cit
hospital where he was for treatment. FL
was alive at last accounts, but will die. N
cause is assigned for the act.
The Columbus Index says:
1.-THE darkies are in a considerable ste'
: over the arrival OF the immigrants. The
go to the Home, and gaze at them like the
, were so many wild animals, and as animal
come to upset some of their lazy comforts.
One radical negro was heard TO say
"Well, we've caught 1.-THE colored folk
y voted for northern men, in the election, al
. here they are, sending their laborers dow
South to take the bread out of our mouths.
The vicksburg Herald complains that th
? road TO the cemetery of that city is in sue
q condition that il is almost imossible TO cal
~ the dead to their graves.