The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-25
MISSISSIPPI ITEMS.

Judge Stone was elected Mayor o.
Hazlehurst on the 9th inst.
Enterprise has the only Turner'S As
ISOLATION" in the State.
The fat men of Alcorn county have
held Convention /; so We learn from the
Corinth Ledger.
The Brookhaven Herald dominates
Hon. III. Cassidy, Jr., for Congress from
the 9th District.
The Water Valley Courier announces
the death, at Charleston, Miss, of Miss
Francis Lilly, aged 70 years.
Hon. H. NJ Street is recommended
for Congress in the LIST District, by the
Boonville Recorder.
II. c. Fairman, Esq, has informed
the Copiahan OF his intention to move to
Beauregard. Lawrence county will lose
good citizen.
The Franklin Journal says Andrew
Williams, colored, charged with shooting
at a mail carrier, some time ago, on the
Natchez and Liberty route, has been ar
rested.
The Corinth News regrets the death,
by burning, of the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Whiteside, living in two miles of
Rienzi, in Alcorn county, which occurred
one day last week.
Mr.. Mccormick, of the Shubuta
Times, intends to start another Conserv-
ative-Democrafic journal at Paulding, to
be called the Messenger Walter Acker,
Esq, is to be the editor. Success to the
enterprise.
The Oktibbeha New Era says freed
woman, Nancy King, living with Mr..
Harris on the Logan place, near May
hew, while burning weeds and brush in
the yard last week, caught fire and she
was so badly burned that she died.
The Marshall County Independent
South says the case of j. P. Broadway,
for the killing of Charlie Hoke, was in
vestigated before p T. Raiford, Esq, at
Bahalia. Upon the hearing of the case,
Mr.. Broadway was discharged.
Ike Chrystal Springs Monitor says
the dwelling house of Mrs Diana Terry,
a widow, was burned to the ground, no
doubt by incendiaries. Suspicion rests
upon some negroes who had been arrest
ed for cattle-stealing and had been set at
liberty the day before.
The Newton Ledger says the notorious
C. S. Swan, who perpetrated the vii
famous attempt to deprive the chosen
officers of the people of their offices, has
been indicted by the grand jury. He
may find his way into the penitentiary
yet.
The Louisville Banner says terrific
TORNADO visited the southern portion of
Winston county on Monday, the 18th
inst. The destruction of property is
to be great; but we are glad to
learn that, as far as heard from, no lives
were lost.
The Holly Springs Reporter says that
on the 18th inst, seventeen additional
immigrants landed at Waterford, under
the auspices of the Marshall County I'm
migration Society. Every week there
are arrivals Of immigrants in the Water |
ford neighborhood.
The Newton Ledger says: On the |
18th inst. Messrs. Jared Watts, w. b. |
f. H. Emerson and DIR. NJ. |
IL. Watkins were arrested by United |
States Marshal and bound over in bond |
Of one thousand dollars each, for their |
appearance before the United States |
Court, to convene in jackson on the 4th |
Monday in June next So the political
still continue.
The Pamela Star reports an atrocious
highway robbery, and probable murder,
near that place few days since. Mr..
Green Wright, while going home from
5ardis, was overtaken by a negro, who
-ode with him for several miles, and /
when in a few miles of home, the negro
hot Mr.. Wright in the back and robbed
him of all his money, leaving him in the
Dad Mr.. Wright's wound will proba-
bly, prove fatal.