The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03
THE CITY.

Did you 90 to the circus?
Only twenty-five days to Christmas.
Gen. G. Y. Freeman, of Grenada, is in
the city.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen
meets tonight.
Can't y5p,e of our Sunday Schools get up
a Christmas tree -?
Cotton brought 10! q 1ls cents in
Jackson yesterday.
Our fire department was called out
Friday night-faIse alarm.
-DIessrs. Bradley & Hardy have com
menced work on the Masonic Hall.
Mrs. Lyman Quinn and children, Of
Fort Worth, Texas, are visiting relatives in
the city.
Hons. 4. C. McNair and J. F. Sessions,
of the Brookhayen bar, are in the city on
professional business.
Our talented young legal friend of the
WestviIle bar, Thomas A. Dickson, Esq,
gave us call yesterday.
Mrs. silas McBee, of North Carolina.
ing relatives in this city.
The Katie Putnam company, during
their stay in the city, will make their head
quarters at the SpengIer House.
Gen. Wharton, of counsel for the State
in the Holman case in Sunfower county,
returned home from that county last week.
-Rev. DIR. Markham, of New Orleans,
Is expected to preach in the Presbyterian
Church ON Sabbath morning next, and also
at night
Our local matrimonial department is
unusually full this week. To all the
happy parties Tine CLARION extends its
best wishes.
Rev. DIR. Hunter and family are now
established at the manse. w. II. Perkins,
Esq, occupies the house just vacated by
DIR. Hunter
Nearly four hundred dollars has been
contributed by Masons and friends of the
Order to defray the expense of repairing the
Masonic Hall
jackson leads in the matrimonial bust
ness-four weddings within the last week,
and always truthful Madame Rumor says
the end is not yet.
Mr.. and Mrs R. F. McGill left yester
dav morning, directly after their marriage
ceremony, for New Orleans, where they will
pass the next few weeks.
Miss Mary Glen Redfield, an accom-
plished young lady of Madison county, is
spending n few weeks in this city. She is
the guest of the Misses Bailey.
A large number of Presbyterian minis
tiers and elders were in the city yesterday
IN route to Brandon to attend the meeting
of synod, which begins to-day.
The ladies of ST. Peters (Cathelc)
Church are making preparations for Fair,
10 commence on the night of the 10th inst,
and continue TO the night Of the DIST.
-Farrar Morrison, Esq, Sheriff elect,
Capt. w T. Ratlif, present and future
,Chancery Clerk, and B. w. Henry, Esq,
Assessor, were in the city yesterday.
Some of our young people, under the
direction of Miss Mary Johnston, are
preparing charades and theatricals, which
are to be produced at an early date.
Hon. O. R. Singleton passed through
yGe was accompanied by Mrs. Singleton,
who will spend the winter in that city.
by reference to Announcement Depart
ment, it will be seen that Col. VIM. B.
Taylor is candidate for the Office of
Mayor at the approaching city ELECTION.
Col R. F. Holloway, formerly Repre-
sentative from Choctaw county, and at
present of the well-known law firm of HOl-
Ioway ana Ellis, WinOna, was in the city
yesterday.
The Board Of Trustees of the Agricul-
taral and Mechanical Collegs viii meet in
shis city tomorrow morning, for the purpose
of electing President and Faculty for this
institution.
1.-The Board of Supervisors was in session
Yesterday and the day before They al
lowed a number Of accounts, appointed the
Grand jury, and transacted other important
business for the county.
H c. Fairman, Esq.,, Of the Auditors
Office, started last night for Monticello,
having received a telegram that his brother
A. C. Fairman. who has long been an
invalid, was rapidly sinking.
The remains of our late ismented towns
man, Mr.. w. H. Donnell, who died last
June in Tennessee, were brought to this
city ON Thursday last, and inferred In the
family burying ground in the city eeme-
stery.
The COMMITTEES on repairs 81 Masonic
Hall Is meeting with liberal encouragement
from members Of the CFan and other
wsaeMN