The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.


/ v tChSDus% DEEAfu
| Three negroes of one family died neal
1 Raymond, on Monday lasr, il Is supposed
/ from eating a poisoned hog. which they
/ had stolen. A post norton was to be held
yesterday. in order TO determine the cause
OF their deaths, if possible.
GreervilIe Times
On the l2sh instant In lake back oil
/ Eggs Point Mr.. d. b. Bell and ten hers
with seine 800 feet long. brought TO shol 9
az one haul FOUR THOUSAND pounds oil
Fish? This is the greatest drag of fish we
ever heard of in this country.
Vicks5urg Herald.l
Some negroes in the Mount ALBION neigh
borhoo1 have found a box full of what is
supposed to be gold dust. Several months
ago man was found dead in the woods of
that vicinity who was so mutllaIed by hogs
and buzz ards, that he could not be certain
" Identified but the body was supposed to
be that OF an eccentric individual who had
been travelling around exhibiting this very
box, and alleging that iC was fun of gold
dust Ii may yet transpire that he was
murdered for wha%will prove to be few
pounds of worthless iron pyrites.
Calhoun Vidette.l
There is yet great deal of cotton in the
fields. 1t seem foolish to hear men talk
about going TO better farming country,
when they raise more here than they can
gather. Al least n third of every crop is
wasted in the fields.
Summit SENTINEL
Frank Jackson, (col.) who shot at Jim
Hill, (cOl) Saturday night, Sth inst, and
accidentally hit a small boy in the back,
was last Monday admitted to bail in the
sum of $3.50 which he gave. The wounded
boy is doing WELL
Okolons States.l
Another great heart has ceased its pulsa-
fal1o IN
Israel! The devoted scholar, genius and
patriot, d.. a. T. Bledsoe, has passed from
the vicissitudes of the visible world into
the life, and the beatitude, and the glory
beyond the golden portals of Paradise.
Kemper Herald.J
Last Sunday night some one set fire to
Mr.. Dan Mitchell's ginhouse, situated four
or five miles northeast oftown, and with it
ten bales of cotton and new ginstands
were consumed This is one of the mean
est acts on record.
Aberdeen Examiner
Mr.. Ben Mckinney killed dog and a hog
in the vicinity of his residence near Athens,
in this county, on Monday, that undoubted :
ly had the hydrophobia. Mr.. Mckinney
had narrow escape from being bitten by
the dog.
Issaquena Leader.
Last week negro child, was burned to
death on the plantation south of town. 1t
appears that the child's mother as was her
custom, went to the field to pick cotton,
leaving the child, two years of age, shut up
in her cabin, with fire on the hearth, into
which the child fell with the result as
above stated.
Forest Register.l
Robt r. Price has recovered judgment
| OF $4,000 against our V. & NJ. Railroad
! Company. The claim was for $50, 900 dam
! a1 nv min of fFaR
| last December, near Hickory, causing the
stove to turn over and frightfully burn Mr..
| Price.
Bay st. Louis Herald.l
Mr.. A. A. Ulman has just returned from
| the North, where, we understand, he has
| purchased mproved machinery for a Wool
and Cotton Factory, to be established at
once on Nicholson Avenue, Mr.. Ulman
! possesses money and energy to make such
an enterprise success.
Yazoo Sentinel
On the Sth inst, negro preacher on V. NJ.
Canon's plantation, walked into an0ther's
house picking up u revolver commenced
operations by frightening the children with
it. The mother OF the latter hearing their
screams, rushed into the house when the
pulpit official pointing the weapon at her
bosom told her TO say her prayers, adding
Pm "a dead shot" whereupon the mother
put in her objection, when che sable divine
turned the mUZZle on a brother churchman
| standing in the doorway, and pulle down
on him. The ball entered the middle of the
right thigh, grazing the forward artery,
| and imbe lding itself in the muscles; the
wound ia dangerous.
Natchez Democrat
The receipts of cotton over the Natchez
Jackson & Columbus K. T.. for a few days
past has taxed the road to the fullest ex tent
of its rolling stock, aud we have been told
that large number of freight cars could be
profitaOly employed for some time to come.
Crystal Springs Monitor
The passenger train going South ran over
and killed a man by the name of ames
Green last Saturday night, about mile be-
low town. He was drunk.