The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
OVER THE STATE,

The Jackson Fire Department
will have q grand parade the first of
May.
The Meridian boys got up jolli-
ficatlon over the resignation Of Gov.
Amos.
Forest Register Mr.. J. J. Roberts
boys have killed nine wild turkeys
this year.
Mr.. A. J. Gibson. long q promi-
inent citizen of Scott county, died
Of cancer last week.
The Grand Council United Friends
of Temperance of Mississippi will
convene at Crystal Springs on the
18th inst.
Oxford Eagle: Corn meal is SELL
ing upon the streets at SO cents per
bushei, eggs 10 cents per dozen, and
butter 20 cents per pound.
Rev. NJ. McClintock of Hunting
ton, West Virginia, has accepted a
call to the pastorate to tho Presby-
terrain Church in Columbus.
Columbus Democrat: The wheat
in this section is not seriously dam
aged by the cold. The fruit will
not be a total failure as we at one
time feared.
Winona Advance: We are sorry to
state that our friend, Capt. w. T.
Turner, had a crib of corn burned
last week.evidentIy the work Of an
incendiary negro.
Our neighbors of jackson, the
Clarion and Times, are az
itating the "nigger-shooter" nu-
isancF aud want the city fathers to
take some action looking to it's
abnte ment.
Tho Meridian Savings Bank, G.
IL. Williams president, suspended
last week, after career OF ten years.
The Mercury gives the names Of
several widows who had sums va
rying from 81 900 to SIC, 900 depos
tied therein.
Meridian Homestead: We learn
from q correspondent that the
dwelling house of w. C. Hardee, of
Jasper county, was burned on tho
night of the Goth ult. The fire in
to have been accidental.
No insurance.
Yazoo Herald: Mr.. Charles Ro-
berts, president. and Mr.. Benjamin
Price, cashier, propose starting q
bank at this place at an early, day,
with capital of 100000. These
gentlemen have been dong business
at Oxford for the past several years.
Winona Advances: We very much
regret to announce that our young
friend Jno. D. Forrest, son of Mr..
Frank Forrest, committed suicide on
Wednesday night, by shooting him.
self with doubie-barrel shot gun.
He was q son-in-law of DIR. FL. p.
Turner, and leaves . wife and two
No cause given for the
sad occurrence.
Carrollton Conservative The
planters of Carroll county as q gen.
eral thing, are better up with their
work than they have been for sew
eral years. The bad weather has
retarded farm operations greatly,
but still the farmers are not dis |
They spend the time.
whom they can't pillow, clearing up
heir lands, rebuilding fences, clear |
ng away bricrs, etc.
Geo. e. Mack, alias Jno. e. Moss,
representing himself as . drummer
FOR the house Of Schmidt 4 Zeigler,
New Orleans was arrested in Water
Valley last week for forging checks
IN the before mentioned house, and
.lso for obtaining goods under false
Our former fcllow.towns-
nan w. P. fowler, caught up
With the gentleman and had him
Irrested.
Yazoo Herald: Rufus Robinson,
! printer by trade and an itinerant
'endor Of patent medicines by &C.
died very suddenly, at
capt. Pat. Burns boarding house,
N "Wednesday light. He was tax en-
lick, and wishing to be better, he
dose Of ono of his COM
POUNDS, and in about an hour after
yards he died in great agony. From
y autopsy of the dead mans stom-
oh it appears that it was entirely
'urnt out by some liquid substance
whisky, perhaps.
Enterprise Courier: Deputy Mar
hal w. II. ChamLliss on Monday
light arrest J. c. Carlyle, an illicit
istiller, who has been carrying on
usincss near Quitman for some tims
he property was all coniscated,
nd will bebrough there. Carlyle had
preliminary hearing before U. S.
VIM, and in default
f $1,000 bail, was remanded to the
ounty Jail where he still sojourns.
| seems that Carlyle was shipping
is whisky to brother who lives
, Choctaw county, Alabama, who
ill himself no doubt be arrested.
The Sentinel re cords the suicide
y shooting of Mrs Joseph Shipper,
, Summit last Tuesday. The ball,
ntering just below the left breast,
merged near the spinal column,
arely missing the heart. The c. usc
the melancholy event is assigned
} mental alteration, produced by
disease, under which she is :
opposed to have been laboring for
me time past. The decd, howev- !,
:, was deliberately planned by her, !;
she left Eote saying in sub
ance that she was afflicted and de-
red to be released FROM her mis-
y. She leaves a child about two
ears old.
In Vicksburg, last Sunday morn I
&, in a difficulty between Col.
artin Ksary and his son-in-law, 9
hr,stie Jones, the former was struck .
, tho head with doublc-barreI t
ot-gun, the hammers burying
emselves to the brain, by the lat a
r; Keary then obtained possession f
the gun and striking Jones on
g head with it several times, K illed
m, ont r;<~bf Kanrxy - not n~po.f r