The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-11-14
THE STATE. .
Grants majority was 77s in Aberdeen !

soldier, died at Greenwood on the 18th.
Col. Duncan Clark and Rev. j. T.
Freeman have gone to reside permanent
" in Corinth.
But one colored Greeley voter in Tai
lahatchie county The News proposes to
honor him with testimonial.
The News complains that school teach
ers in Coahoma are drawing the ITALIA
hatchie School Fund
Mr.. James Mitchell of Water Valley
walked twelve miles to vote for Colonel
Lamar.
The Newton Ledger complains that
about three times week drunken Indi-
ans take possession of the town.
The proposition submitted to the vo-
ters Of Amite county to take stock in the
Liberty and Magnolia Railroad failed
for want of two-thirds majority.
The Beauregard Herald says, one ne
gro shot another there recently. Result,
in jail in default of $1,000 bail.
Adam Bradford and Anderson Hern-
don, both freedmen, got into a fight at
Aberdeen. Adam was cut and Ander-
son jailed.
The Canton Citizen says that Hal.
Magruder, negro. for the murder of
Fanny Greenwood, negro, has been SEN
| fenced to the penitentiary for life.
The Conservative says that Edward
Home, Treasurer elect of Lefore county,
and Mr.. w k Brosius, Assessor elect,
will make efficient officers.
The Westville News says that in Simp-
son county Radicalism died last Tuesday,
and the Democratic and Liberal ele-
ments buried it so deep that it will rise
never more.
The Kosciusko Leader says that a GER
tain elan known as johnson Boys" in
Attala, are plotting federal soldiers about
the county on a mission to bode no good
to her peaceble and law abiding citizens.
The Conservative says that difficulty
between Mr.. P. E. Moore, and Mr.. Schu-
bert, both of this place, resulted in the
shooting of the former by the latter on
last Sunday. The wound is trifing.
The Carrollton Conservative says the
first case of perjury that has ever come
before the Court in Carroll was tried this
term. The parties were colorcd and
were acquitted
The Crystal Springs Monitor says, that
John Lewis, negro, shot a colored
woman near that place on the night of
the 9Th. Arrested and in Jail.
The Gazette complains that the delin-
quent land list of Kinds county has not
been furnished for publication in its col
umns as prescribed by act of the last
Legislature.
The Ledger says, in the month of
October Newton had shipped 924 bales
of cotton from this place and up to the
1st Of November we had shipped 1869
bales.
The Crystal Springs Monitor says some
fiend attempted to throw the train off the
track near Magnolia on Tuesday night
last by placing Instructions on the track
which were fortunately discovered.
The Newton Ledger says, that the
house, household effects and three bales
of cotton belonging to a colored man
were destroyed by fire a few days since.
The citizens subscribed for his relief
The Raymond Gazette says Mr.. Casper
who wounded DIR. Dupree in recent
afray, was required to give good and
sufficient security in the sum of eight
hundred dollars for his appearance at the
next term of the Circuit Court of Kinds
county.
The Carthagenian says, Mr.. John A.
Walker informs us that he has picked
out the sixth bale of cotton which he had
this year gathered from four-acre field. |
The land had been well MANFRED, and |
paid well for the trouble. All the cotton
from it has not yet been gathered.
The Crystal Springs Monitor says,
a veritable Louisiana Pelican was caught |
on the place of DIR. l. n. Tower, some
three miles east of town, on the 4th inst.
He was a fine specimen of his species,
nearly four feet in height and
seven feet from tip to tip of
his wings.
The Crystal Springs Monitor says, an
extraordinary case of cotton picking oc-
Cured in our neighborhood last week
Two men, Grow and Thompson, picked
a bale of cotton from the plantation of
Mr.. 10. Mattheny, carried it to Halle
hurst and sold it. What renders this
feat extraordinary is the fact that the
cotton was picked in the night, already
ginned and baled. The pickers were
picked up and picketed in jail.
From the Newton Ledger we learn
hat on Friday last, Mr.. 10. Moore shot
and killed DIR. Hall, north of Hickory.
1t seems that Hall shot at Moore first
without the least provocation and that
Moore killed him in self-defense DIR.
Hall has not been in the county long and
S known to but few of our citizens. Mr..
Moore is a man of strict integrity and
stands well in the community in which
lie lives.
The excitement over the promised
Cunningham revelations continues una I