The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-08-02
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Talmape gets $500 nl8nt III Cn6
and. Minnesota pays two dollars anu
nftv cents a day to hands in her harvest
fields. Tramps are scarce out mere"
Woo President Wheeler is in bad health
He thinks of spending the summer IN
Colorado. "A sword of Ethan Allen' inc
hero of Ticonderoga. has been present.
ed TO the Kentucky Historical Society
". W. Corcoran, a. well-to-do Washing,
ton banker, sent to the authorizes ~
Memphis on the 3Oth, check Tor W. ooo
which he desired to be used in aiding 'no
moor md destitute in leaving the city,
Messrs. Davidson & Son, OF Vickspurg'
hove moved into their new building
No. 1874, Washington street...schu Is
TO canvass Ohio in the interest OF nos,
ter. Gov, Marks has put the colofe''
military companies on dutyin Memphis IN,
thew are making good soldiers 'Tne
Memphis Howard Association has 40
nurses on duty. The bodies OF TWO
white men were found drowned on
the 25th at Duncansby on the MIS-
s;ssippi river. .Leake county speaks
ont for Hon. o. r. Singleton. 'Capt'
pnt Darden is the Chickasaw Mes
senger's choice for the United States
Senate. Bert Cassidy, son OF Hon. H.
Cassidy, ST., who has been i'll for some
time at the residence of his brother IL
Brookhaven, has sufficiently recovered
70 he taken to his home in Summit
Summit is to have Pinafore again.
Mr. McGraw, an old man, was foun'
dead near Stonewall factory in CLARK
county last week.. Clarke county VII
hold its primary on the 4th.. Benjamin
NOT the one the Bible speaks OF, ou
the one who lives lives in Boston, some
times called Butler, is candidate o.
the Greenback ticket for Governor.
Robt Rabbit, of Marshall county sho
Young man named Jones the othe
) day. the ball grazing his forehead
: Jones ran. Rabbit then put the plst(
to his own head, pulled the trigger an
was a dead man. No cause can L
oiyen for the tragedy. The youn
men were good friends, in fact the
y had slept together the night before
= and were then at Jones house prepa
v ing to 90 to a singing school togethe
). But it is surmised that jealousy did l
:. The skeleton of Mastadon was foun
l. in New Ninsdor, near the city OF Ne
e York it is described as terrible b
6 thing: the head will weigh six hundr'
h oounds.. The State House of Loulslal
70 has been seized under judgment
o Charles p. james takes the seat on Il
o Supreme Court bench made vacant
u the death of Judge HUMPHREYS. Ne
- lucky has shotgun quarantine; let
~ infected man escape seems to be t.
- order of the day.. The Chickasaw MIG
senper is severe on Jamison. 1t ha
II got a speck OF mercy on him...Lot
v men want to serve the "dear peopl
" in T,owndes. One column in the l
d, dedent won't chamber oil the
as nouncements.. The Little Rock Boa
10 of Health positively refuses to oil
ct mails to be put off there. They s
lg fumigation does no good. The Sta
he vile Senatorial Convention nominal
he DIR, J. G. Crigler. His oppone
to were Woods and Montgomery. Da'
os- Minge, of Alabama, says this will b
us good crop year because the year Ell
y with 80" He says he has been tai
ice ing since 1886, and has found this
cN infallible rule. The Fall River tron
,ra is not over yet...The New YORK Her
49, is after the police of New York agar
on The W. S. Brewery in Forest Aven
&c East williamsburg, has been destro.
ri; by fire-loss $50, 900. Mrs Benner,
ant widow of Lieutenant Bonner, the vel
if fever hero Of year ago, is being PR
be ded for by the Government. 1.-The y
oes rian plague has made its appearance
es, Nova-Ladoga, and is very destruc'
his to CATTLE. Freeman, the Pocasset
his ventest, who killed his little daugh
leir as he claims in obedience to div
are command is in Jail with his wife.
I'M refuses legal advice, and says it cou
leir is furnished by the state he will III
'mS rupt him, and will not allow hin
,nT smooth over the tragedy. His
y ~ clings to him, and is OF the same b
he is.