The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-17
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

Holly Springs South
One hundred aud five head Of beeves pass
/ ed through this place last Saturday from
| Pontotoc county, on their way to Mem phis.
| We were informed by one of the gentlemen
! Aho owned them, that this was the second
| drove and that something was to be made
| at the business. Cattle can be raised in NJ is
| sis,ippi at half what il costs to raise them
| IN the North or Northwest.
Holly Springs south.I
| On Tuesday. the 2nd inst, our citizens
I were shocked by the intelligence that coll
| Ored man named Nathan Hancock had been
| found fOullY murdered on the road some
seven miles Southwest of this city. An in
quest wa, held, and the verdict Of the jury
! was that the deceased had come to his dea til
| by guu-shOt wounds inflicted by Jordon
| Dobson, "A white man who resides in the
neighborhood of the killing. Dobson is
now in Jail.
Winona Advance.
Chancery Court has been going on at Wi
mona several days this week Judoe William
son gives satisfaction to all parties. He is
a just Judge
Carroll Conservative
A mob from the T4llahatchie river, said
| to contain twenty-five or thirty men, all
heavily armed, sWoo ped down on tie coun-
ty jail in Greenwood last Sunday night,
overpowered the tiIor, Mr. Jno. Groves,
anu getting possession OF the keys, entered
the Jail and took out two men, Shelton and
Moore, the former g which they shot and
Killed on the spot, the latter was taken
across the river To the plantation belonging
TO Mr.. Allie Topaz hung in Ills gin house.
shelton was in Jail for shooting and rob
bling Mr.. Bush Woods, at his home near
Walnut City, on the Tallhatchje, and
Moore for waylaying aud shooting Mr..
Markham, an ihhrm and.decFepid old man.
Yazgo Herald Democrat
The many friends Of Stephen Eggleston,
one of tha best citizens of Holmes county,
will learn with regret tho Intelligence OF
his death, which occurred at his residence,
near Ichula, on Wednesday last. His dis
ease was maIarial feyer.-He was a good
his departure hence.
Holly Springs Reporter.l
Mr. 5. NJ. Harris, of this county, last year
hired two hands in April, one on the Bird.
the other the 18th, and pitched q crop. The
result: Three bales o. cotton, 800 bushels
OIL corn, $50 bushels 81 oats, 5000 pounds of
meat, potatoes, turnips, pumpkins, vegeta-
bles, etc, in proportion This was the re-
suit OF the wages system.
Yazoo Herald
DIED.-At his home, six miles southeast
of Cryst Springs, September Is, 1877,
JACKSON ADCoCKs, son of William aud
Mira Adcocks, born in Smith county July
18th, 1856, emigrated to Copiah 1S70-aged
Il years, two months and two days,
Rev. James A. Bahb, a mem Der of the
North Mississippi Annual Conference, and
pastor of the Methodist churches at West
Point and Tibbee. died Tuesday, October
% at II O'Clock z. NJ, in the District Parson-
age in Brooksville, Miss. Mr.. Babb was in
the Goth year of his age ana near the close
of his fourth year of the itenerant ministry.
series of public meetings are to be held
in Kinds county, in the interest Of the
Natchez. Jackson and Columbus Railroad.
This road is being pushed forward with
great engergy. IL has been built from
Natchez To point beyond Fayette, and in
twelve months longer it will probably lie
built to Utica, and possibly to Raymond
When lJ is COM leced that distance, il will
take away from US some Of our best trade
Vicks burg Herald.