The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-05
STATE GLEANlNGS.

ca,,,,yvrrr. March 81. This city l
/, o ZEN hpon visited by the fire memo, y
nus t,rn If our business houses were
antalIw DESTROYED and several e o'iers
S So' damaged The stores OF otoWu,,
p DuatI ,o"s and McMullen, together WIN
pro-. StocE were entirely consumed;
'iT rhe business houses OF N. b; John-
on ~ No. A. Bugman. n. Q. Skinner n
amp G. +. Archer we're o@u tSo " 6ra Is at |
The cause and origin oil the ir0 10 ~
present unknown. 80, ;rsrred.
Some of the buildings were lhsu ut y,
Int am unable to state the "mounv W.
the companies, -VicksDufg Ooi'iA'
cial.
Col d. A. Holman was brought
,lo,vn on the steamer Sunhower yester-
Jaw morning to be transferred from sne
S"y county Jail to the jail OF inns
county. Col. Holman, IL WI MiA shoot.
membered, was engaged N tae snoG j.,
inc affray on board the ouhilom a nr
Which Dr. w. l.. Lowry anu "a
Walker were killed. lie Is cii",eon
with the killing, and is brought , "1ie
nortlv because the Jail Mt JohnsohVili"
wos hardly large enough to accom- ,1d,..
Goto the large number OF pflsoJInieLe
o%s confined therein, Mr., William
TaSLore. charged with the killing 81
WiIgon was also brought down anu
, "i,So in the Warren county jail
: Vicksburg Herald.
. Tost Friday night whilst The con-
atrrction train was at the depot u hesio
7 named Jim Jones, went into the klscn-
an cor and demanded a cup Oh colaeo,
Jack lee the cook, refused the Gomez
o~I ordered him to leave the car winch
Il ha ala but returned i'll u few minutes
L called Leo to the door, and snot nin
% t thmo"oh Tie heart, the wound caused
> iiiS Hn,a , u was committed in cold
J. Mood and should this black hena no
" bronoht to trial, the severestt penai'y
tbe law can inhict should be MS oA-
II ford Falcon.
Of Mr. George Goodwin end several Of o.,
h, nis neiphbors, arrested two stoch
r th , and j. Il. Moore, ESQ., SEM
a t t, 70 iail, Frank Dew wanted some
~ iiaot and Attic Dew wanted some pork,
" "a now they both want to see the way
CT ont Of their troubles. --Beacon'
70 nooro was tried before Justice
TO- c+nna Yesterday on a charge OF man,
'ct n;ons mischief, in shaving the ina l
he and tail of u horse belonging TO M MI
nd 95- # Higgins. He was fined Slo'
lie. and a., in default of paying the fine went
est to iail.-Mercury.
ere Tvo nersons were arrested yesterday
the for CARRYING concealed weapons anu 1t. y !.
Of the notice would just observe mol'
~ closely there wouldn't be less thai
Oh tbirtt or forty of our very best citizen
3 % ynti his honor, each day on tn
above charge. -Vicksburg Commercial
A colored boy about thirteen yeai
pt> of 400 was drowned yesterday aiIe'
I,v VI "S IN III, pond on the Fatherlan
ii. n nD",a From what we learn, ther
-, paro some white and colored boys hst
pr1l w. M1.0 ,yLan one of them concluded t
Oh take swim and got beyond MS aepsl
ian Mr.. Rob. Boyd, who was near Dy' heai
and inc the cries, hastened to the spoe, nn
ad, succeeded in bringing the BODY ashore DC
inc The name of the boy drowned wa
a Phil Walker. -Natchez Democrat
tar Mr. J, NJ. Hoskins arrived on tn
nei r,arn;nr train and will immedlateil,
are nommoHee building quarters for I'll
10, 1yorlTmeu that are expected to-morre
A. +n Looin work on the new railroad ell
md to,nrise, --Vicksburg Commercial,
E. A very repulsive looking nesr'
r. named Parson Maddox, living nei
in Shuoualal1 in this county, OF bad rep
tation, and who has been forbidden
'on the more decent members OF ms churc
Is to come on their premises, was concerto
GUS and base enough to make an lmpTop
ID nronosol to a very respectable iau
,or- yhose husband was at Wahalak. 81
" ordnred him off the place, but Wh'
he said he MUST come in, she ti
recourse to her pistol, and would ma
eak used it to good purpose had 1t De
oot nronerIv loaded. The cartridges III
o, not been pressed down, and 1t snapp
eA several times before she succeeded
non @attino Il to go off The shoot
M oolornoed the whole neighborhood, a
re- Maddox seeing several persons runnl
Cir toward him, leaned up in the corner
nore the fence with his arms partly ralSeu
he is if he was dying, and remarked TO th(
- d who first approached that he was 81
> p in the heart and would die IN t
am minutes After waiting several mimi
kind to see him die, they went up to h
and found that he had not been ton
,,;o,, cd He was arrested and carried t.
-. - store in Shuqualak, where he mad
ilzso mi confession of his diabohcal int
wish in the presence of a number OF Y
# in nesses. His passions had taken the it
ouse. ii q religious mania it might be cal
and he said the lady had appeared
him twice in a vision, and he felt ca
mon to take her to himself. Her I'M
LIZ nant friends and the commul
Thought such a visionary scoun
vered ought not to live any longer in
..nov sphere. and that night he took his
part,lre for the land of spirits.
len The coroner j. Faser. and jury
nm IN Owens. e. N. Hamiter, JOS. Holt,
nphlet O'Neil, Chas. Hardin and Leo. l
But held an inquest on the body the
N the day, and found that he died from
lod TO shot wounds at the hands OF unkn
how 10 parties Macon Beacon.
ngrcss us. senate.