The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-05-31
st. Louis is working hard to secure
the Texas trade.

st. Louis is working hard to secure
the Texas tra@e
We are informed that it wa not MIR.
John Burruss, son of Judge Burr uss,
that killed the man West in Bolivar
recently. Tt was man named John
Burruss, managing the old Polk place.
-Greenville Times.
A wolfe, wild cat, or some other raw
enous animal has visited tile residences
of several of our citizens IN the ont
skirts of town during this week, doing
more or less mischief at each place.
We were pleased to learn the Hon.
JAS T. Harrison, who has been so dan
gerously i'll, was improving at the latest
accounts, and hope by next week to
record his complete recovery, Mace n
Sun.
B. H. Todd retired from the eduo-
rial control of the Benton County 1 p
gus because he and the proprietor Of
that journal did not entertain the sal g
political faith. Mr., Todd is Green
hacker.
Jim Baldwin, colored, of Lexington,
Miss, separated from his wife some
time ago, and recently married again.
The grand jury heard of it, found
true bill, and at the last term Of the
Circuit Court he was convicted of bigl-
my and sentenced to the peniteutialy.
Advertiser.
The case of the State VS.. Taylor, the
man who is charged with tn killing of
DR.. Bob. New, several months ago on
Tallahatchie River, was postponed un-
til next November court Judge Powell
lessened his bond, and it is II ow Thought
he will be able to make tt same. -
Talahatchie Sentinel.
Messrs. Frank Hardesty and Geo.
Anderson, ST., residing some seven
miles from Clinton, on the Plank Road,
recently killed rattle snake twortY-
three years of age, and which at the
time it was killed, had cooled itself
around large wild cat which it bad
succeeded in holding in its deadly en-
brace until life was extinct. Magnolia
Herald.
On Sunday night last fire was dis
covered in the old blacksmith shop at
the foot of the hill in the rear of
Grigg's store. 1t was soon destroyed,
Mr.. Sanford had stored quantity of
lime in the old shell, the theory is that
the water from the rain ran down INFO
the lime, Stacking it and producing heat
enough to fire the building. No greet
loss, except Sandford's lime --Missis
sippi Sun.
Charley Reynolds, the colorl stew
ard of the Southern garden, applied
to Constable Little and Specia Office
Adams this morning for aid il the It
covery of his three little children, age
four and two years and an infant on
month old. from his wife, who Ia
been suddenly stricken with the Kan |
sas fever, and having left her husband |
md hcme without cause to seek home |
Of plenty and prosperity in the fT |
West. These officers, accompanied
by the grief stricken father, found the |
children on the Delta wharf boat, took
Them from the mother and returned
hem to this city. The mother sail
she was going alone, and was left on
he landing awaiting the arrival of the
steamer Vicksburg. Charley Reynolds
las the sympathies of this community
or he is hard working and honest
,olored man and is fully appreciated
lere. -Vicksburg Commercial.
Mr.. II. A. Tibbs, of Pelahatchie has
/ nice flock of sheep. They have ordi-
larily been healthy, but few days |
,ince one of them was taken sick,
which sickness was characterized by |
hat severe coughing, SO common |
.mong sheep, attended by foolish &C
ions and shaking the head and run
hing backwards. The sheep died on |
Saturday last, and Mr.. T., dissected its |
read, finding deposited in the orifices
If the head passing from the nostrils
oward the skull surrounding the brain,
thirteen creatures resembling what is
Known as bots in horses, which were |
he cause of the sleeps death, it being |
otherwise in good health. Mr.. Tibbs
lad read in some agricultural journal
hat strong tobacco tea injected into
he sleeps head through the nostrlls
would kill those creatures, which he
ried before the death of the sheep,
md as. a result, he found that three OF
hese sheep enemies, which had not 4
so far into the head, and /
rad been reached by the fluid were
lead. the Others having made their way
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