The weekly clarion., 1879-10-15
THE CITY.

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cue
Main street and the Park were full OF
promenaders Sunday evening.
The fall term of the Supreme Court
begins on Monday next, the goth inst
Hon. L. @. c. Lamar while in the
city, was the guest of Gen. T. J. Wharton.
Maj H. 5. Foote Jr., and family pass
ed through the city on Friday last, en- route
TO Canton.
Union services next Sunday night will
be conducted by Rev. DIR. Zealy, at the
Baptist church.
jackson Council No. l, l. o. T.,
meets every Friday evening at u o'clock
at the Gem engine house.
Fall goods have arrived, and all the
new and latest styles were visible at church
and on the streets last Sunday.
Judge II. H. Chalmers and family,
are at home again after visit Of several
weeks to Abingdon, Virginia
Col w. L. Nugent and family are
among the returned since our last issue
They spent the summer in Virginia.
Hon 0. r. Singleton will address the
citizens of Jackson on the political issues
on the night of Thursday, the 23d inst.
State Treasurer w. L. Hemingway
and family, returned home Saturday morn
ing, after an extended absence in Missouri.
There will be A meeting of the G. X. of
A on Sunday at 3 o'clock P. NJ, at the
usual place full attendance is desired.
Some needed repairs are being made
ON the bridge which spans town creek on
Pearl street The city wards are doing the
work
Miss Sessions, of Natchez, and Miss
Kausler. of New Orleans are for the present
adorning Jackson society with their pres
ence.
The State Institute for the Deaf and
Dumb opens to-day. The exercises in the
Institute for the Blind began on Monday,
the 9Th inst.
There will be a meeting of the ladies
of the Presbyterian congregation in the
lecture room of the church Thursday even
ing at o'clock.
Mrs. Crandall nee Miss Bertha Buck,
of Vicksburg, who has been visiting friends
in this city for the past few weeks, returned
home on Monday last.
For the convenience of the general
public the city authorities have had cistern
dug, and pump attached, in the cemetery,
near the summer house.
Judge J. Z. George, of the Supreme
Court, and family, who have been residing
for several months in Carrollton, will
return to this city in few days.
SO far as we can learn all the schools
in the city are doing well and are rapidly
filling up. There are near thousand
children in the schools in Jackson.
Jas. Robinson's circus, "the largest
and most complete affair of the kind in the
country" ;" is soon to make Jackson visit
OF course it will be well patronized.
The young gentlemen of Jackson will
give social dance at the residence of Mr.
T. NJ Scott on Friday night next. A pleas
ant evening is promised all who attend.
On Saturday night last twenty-five or
thirty negroes from in and around Jackson
left for the happy land of Kansas Ihey
will reach there in time to enjoy the Deau
ties of Northern winter.
Remember the barbecue on the 24th
inst Some of MississippIs most dlstln-
Cuished orators will be here to tell the truth
as it is No pains or labor will be spared to
make it the event of the campaign.
On Sunday morning last one of the
engines built for the use of the Vicksburg
Street Railway Company, passed through
this city 1t is a handsome piece OF
machinery, and complete in every partlcu-
lar.
Mr.. f. r. Stedman, for many years a
leading merchant of Jackson, late Oh
Lynchburg, Va, has returned to this city
and will soon reopen his business in the
building now occupied by the CaPltai ota.e
Bank, the Bank removing to more deslraole
headquarters.
Hon. W.D. Gibbs, Senator from fazoo'
was in the city yesterday, en- To''te 70 nA'
home He has Just returned from Saiem'
North Carolina, where he has been to Place
his daughter at school. He VIII eh.el
actively into the canvass as soon as nc
reaches home.
Owing to the threatening CONDITION oi
the weather last Saturday night Dut
comparatively small audience was OUT 70
hear the speech of Hon. Martin Marsnall
before the Central Club. Those who were
fortunate enough to be present heard . nne
address, and the talented speaker rose
higher than ever in the estimation OF lno
citizens of Jackson, who learned during ene
last Legislature to regard him as young
man of the highest ability.
When in Ripley recently, we recon-.
mended John Martzs candy to q house .na'
had some dilapidated sweetness in . glAss
lar. Mr.. Martz shipped one nunor9u
pounds to Ripley this week, and u ou.
Tippah friends don't find that the Dsss
candy they ever eat we are no judge oI 'ns
tastes Of little people. The m0des1y =
John Martz IS ~ pure and genuine = an. ne
candy. It is only on rare occaslons 80
he appears in print, ind @hardly 'evex =