The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-02-06
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The Magnolia Gazette says there is
Court IIouse question pending in Pike.
Lemuel Harren shot and killed Monroe
Smith, in Amite county; both negro boys
The Goodman Star advocates the epea
of the usury laws which it regards
clog upon trade and commerce.
The Brookhaven Citizen says the Legisla-
ture should make some provisions for the
collection of taxes assessed to "unknowI
owners"
The Yazoo Democrat re-produces Hon
George Torrey's letter 10 THE CLARION and
calls for the formation of Immigration So
cieties in Yazoo.
| The Riverton Record, new paper in Boil
war county, announces that Jackson has
contributed five hundred dollars to the
sufferers by the Boston fire.
The Board of Supervisors of Rankin
county has appointed Abner q. Norrell de-
hnquent Pcll tax collector. A better selec-
ton could not have been made.
The Meridian Sun records that several of
our staunchest and most enterprising mer-
chants are Offering their stocks at cost, pre-
paratory to leaving Meridian at an early
day.
The Pamela Star says that the delinquent
fands in that county amounts to two hum
dred and eleven tracts. There are about
eighteen hundred dollars delinquent poll
tax.
The Natchez Democrat suggests that the
Legislature will pass law to give the juries
in capital cases the option between the pen
atty ofdeath and that of imprisonment for
life.
The Tallahatchie News records the death
of Judge Crofford, an old citizen of that
county. While Judge of the Probate Court
he filled the position with honor to him self
and satisfaction to the psOple.
The Liberty Herald says that about 800
names are on the delinquent tax list (real
and personal of Amite. Nat. Garrow was
appointed delinquent poll tax collector. IL
publishes number of notices TO non-resi-
dent land owners.
The same paper advocates the election Of
County Superintendent OF Education by
the people. 1t also proposes that he shall
u
instead of 50 per day; and that there shall
be two instead of six Directors.
The Winston Banner warns the public to
look out for a negro man, Dave Eggleston,
who was convicted of horse-stealng, at the
last term of that Circuit Court, and sem
fenced to the penitentiary for five years,
and who made his escape from the Jail in
that place last Monday night. Dave has
only one eye.
The Brookhaven Citizen says that the pa
rents of students at Oxford University, and
those who received their education in that
institution, in its days of purity, will read
with regret, and we might add shame, the
statement of the Jackson Pilot, u Radical
organ, that Prof. Walton, of the University,
is engaged in delivering political harrangues
of Radical nature.
The Raymond Gazette, in the name of one
hundred school teachers (male and female)
in Kinds county, who have claims upon the
school funds, calls upon the Legislature at
its ensuing session to pass a law requiring
the immediate payment to Kinds county of
its rightful portion of the State school fund,
with provision also that the fund shall be
forthwith paid out on falr pro rata OASIS
on the school warrants now outstanding.
The Chickasaw Messenger argues strong
ly for consolidating the county funds, and
says:
We can see no sensible reason why the
common county, bridge, and pauper funds
should be kept separate. 1t seems to Us TO
be about as ridiculous as it would be II one
of our planters should come to Houston.
sell bale of cotton, and as soon as lie re-
ceives his money for the same, divide it in
to three separate funds, call one his coffee
fund, another his calico fund and the third
his clothing fund, and when he purchased
any of the articles above mentioned be par
ticulaI to pay for the same out of the spec
ial fund set apart for that purpose. All the
various county funds come out of the peO-
pie by taxation and instead of levying 80
per cent. for county purposes. 10 per cent.
FOR bridge, and per cent. for pauper. why
not levy so per cent. for general county
purposes at once and have but one fund.