The weekly clarion., 1877-05-09
MISSISSIPPI NEWS,


I ID ttesNiIIc al"
a white man named kiIso-e, and Dau
: Jone-, colored. we're drpW hed ia TtIIalIa :
chile iIVer last sunday, about ii We miles b.
low here. They We're ia a dusouL near the
o1"k AMI th- das.'ut tuTnt-1 over Thy
10 titeir tresei ce oi mind. cIasped each
other a'd ~-i=t down to death together
/ Han'Isbsro Democrat
Monday morning guard ssarte.i in
cht~Se ot tie lrisJ l,. : fro II this county -,
eoIn4nenoe e work ier the Stale IN tie penjieu-
/ tiA'y. The live prisoner, were linked 30
2ether and seemed perfectly reeonci ed 10
/ their late.
/ Liberty Herald
M.j"r Van F. Swearingen died very sui
denly at tii- residence on last Friday MORN
/ ing. He sat up ia bed aHd CON planned of
vertigo, lay back on his bed. and in Il few
disease. Major >. for many years and /.
tie time OF his death was a prom ineut ciGi-
Il N OF the county. and held high place IA.
the esteem and affections of our people
Oxford gle
The whites Anl blacks in the Clear Creek
neigh oorhood have uui. ed and organized Il
cub Tor the suppression OF all ldN ie>Suc>>-
They pledge themselves TO report to the pro
per authorities ali gam bling, stealing auI
other violations Of the avs. and not To couu-
tenance any person or persons guilty a.
these crimes. The best OIL feeling vXists be
tween the races.
Lexington Advertiser.
1t will be remembered that at the term OF
the Circuit Court when ended two weeks
agO, James I'll. Cook was tried for the kIu-
ing OF Wilson Sproles, and acquitted. There
was another Indictment against Cook, which
VAS for the larceny OF horse and when
he came cleO OF the first he then gave bond
for the last, and went back to his fathers at
Duraut 1t seems that he had married a
colored woman, shortly before being bIougt
To jail for the larceny case, over the river IN
Attala county, and that he had on one or
TWO occasions passed over the pike t.
visit her alter leaving the jail here. He is
said TO have crossed the pike late in the at
ternOon of last Friday, AMI early in the
morning of Saturday was found dead and
hanging 20 tree some three or four mil :
beyond the county line, in AItala, and at
no great distance from the nome Of his
wife.
Lexington Advertiser.
News came to this place last Sunday to
the effect that Captain SllAs McBec had di
suddenly and alone, on Deer Greek, in the
Mississippi Valley, on Tuesday night, the
24th of April.
PasgagouIa Start
Last Saturday afternoon negro named
john Wesley, was knocked off Foul Riv"r
bridge by the passenger train and killed. II
is supposed that lie allowed him self to be
killed. a he trld some of his family he in
tended committing suicide Conductor
Yard stopped the train and tishcd the body
OUT, and left it with the section boss for bu-
rial
Carroll Conservative
On lase Saturday night, young white
man named Levi Baglry, and c0lOrcd man
named Fayette Steadmln, were in town
drinking together until Il laGe hour. They
left town together, and when about th rec
miles out on the Lexington road, difficulty
or dispute arose between them, when Bag
ley shot and instantly killed steadman.
Carroll ConserYative.l
We learn from gentleman just from Du-
rant, that young man named James Cook
who lived near that place. was found Il few
mornings ago, about five mics from home,
hanging by the neck IT, a tree. From what
We learn, young Cook was a VIGOROUSLY
bad nun IL Killed his cousin about eight
cen months ago, was tried and acquitted at
the last term of the Circuit Court OF Holmes
county. Immediately alter his release, he
stole a mule, and was out on bail for said
offence at the time of his death He married
a negro woman in Attala county, and was
probably on his way TO see her when he was
hung.
Chickasaw MesSenger.l
With deep regret. we announce the death
of another old citizen OF Chickasaw county.
Mr.. c. f.. Taft, which sad event occurred
at Houston on the 25th of last month. Mr.
Taft was born near Boston, Mass, in the
year 1870, and when a boy fourteen years
old. emigratcd to Georgia, where he married
and resided until 1881, when he removed to
this county.
Natchez Democrat.
By the death of Mr. A. T. Cunning,
which occurred at his residence in this city,
on Sunday evening last. the business and
social community OF Natchez has sustained
a severe loss. Mr.. Cunning was about AZ
years of age at the time of his death. and
more than half of his life has been spent in
our midst, he having come to this city from
his birth place in Ohio while yet i boy.