The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-28
SOUTHWEST KINDS ITEMS.
By TALLAHAI.A.

UTICA. Mss, May 26, 1879
HoWdy do, MAN. old fellow,
Measles are still spreading.
Some of cur farmers were laying by corn last
week.
/ Two new stores are about completed at Mar
| tin.
/ our doctors are not kept busy now, but drugs
and patent medicines find constant sale.
There is still fair cash trade here, and the
demand Tor goods seems 10 improve.
! Hill land has been getting too dry and hard
for cultivation. but rain fell Tuesday night
Bottoms and swamp land III fine order.
DIR. R. Cessna, of Rocky Springs was in town
last week. and il is reported he thinks OF NOV
ing back here to live and practice medicine.
There was in printing item in last
weeks CLARION as to Mrs. Brooks insurance
money. She received il last year, not last
week.
for cotton on account At Toe. to be delivered
next fall. We hear now that Crystal Springs
buyers offer 12l4e.
Simon Berkson, Esq, Of New Orleans in
town last Tuesday. He is senior OF the large
house of BerkSon K Bro, and one Of the most
successful business men of Mississippi.
Mr. F. b. Hull ofJackson. builder and contract
and is to submit plan and estimates for the new
bridge TO be built over Tallahala.
1t Is not my business specially but about as
much mine as anybody else's, and therefore, l
may say, it is the wish of many that Col. :. b.
Thomas be nominated for the next Legislature
and elected.
There are quite number of foreign born
persons, aud people from Northern States, in
this part of Kinds. They are generally thrifty
aud valuable citizens.
1t is thought there is from eight to nine
thousand acres under cotton in this township
No range west And this is a sample of all
the adjoining parts of Kinds, Copiah and Ciai-
borne.
We are to have ut or near Utica large Sun
day School picnic on Friday before the second
Sunday in June. Short addresses will be made
| by the larger scholars, and abundance of
good things are to be provided
The school Of Mrs Lizzie Roach at her resi-
dence five miles east, closed last week. Mrs
Roach has maintained a successful school of
high grade Tor girls and small boys for past few
years. Several boarders attend and "a good
number from immediate neighbors
Saturday evening the saddle horse of f. f.
Mimms taken from the gate where he
was hitehed, and rode of by some one. Search
was made for him at once over the country and
he foundHn the road six miles south yester-
day near the residence of j. z. Roberts.
Magistrate courts regular terms for this dis
triet at Utica, ID and 4th Saturdays each
month by Justice y. q. Martin and by Justice
j. Il. Collins, LIST Saturday at Cayuga and Sd
Saturday at Auburn, each month Times for
Justice Woods courts not known.
Regular term of the Circuit Court begins in
Claiborne county to-day, Several Of our peo-
pie are summoned to Port Gibson as witnesses
One noted ease of SANDER is TO be tried-State
vs.. Breathway-in which Bland, Clark, and
other parties are concerned, and il is said nine
tv witnesses also. One or two associates of the
negro desperate Page, are to be tried.
Three new books attract attention here now,
and several aim To get copies, viz: Gen. Dick
| Taylor's History of the War and Times since the
| War, or Destruction and Reconstruction Ex-
| President Davis forthcoming History Of the
War, and Col Claborne's History of Mississippi.
The two first are from the great publishing house
| of ID. Appleton & Co, New York The second
edition of Taylor's book is now selling rapidly.
| Price 81 by mail. jeff. Davis History will be
ready for sale in June or July this year.