The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-26
STATE GLEANINGS.

pointed Clerk to the House Committee
on Post Offices and Post Roads.
Sheriff Wood has been going one
eve on it for the past two days, Ho
was examining the architectural APP
pearanee of the Eltrsngham buildhg,s
when his eye was plastered by some Oh
the falling plaster from the 'front.'
Natchez Democrat.
DR.. j. M. Taylor, of Corinth, has
been appointed delegate to the con-
vention of State Boards OF Health, 1or
the Mississippi Valley, to meet at Mem
phis, on the 3Oth, inst.
There was q case in Judge Beau
champs court last Monday IN which
both the plaintiff and defendant were
beaten, 1t was decided against the
defendant, who turned around and beat
the plaintiff with a stick.-Beacon.
The sad news reaches us that Judge
W. Drane died at $50 p, m. We stop
the press to make announcement, ana
will make fuller notice next week.
Enterprise Courier.
A black rabbit at the Ike saloon is
curiosity to us. It was sent to his son,
W. A. Payne, by our old friend, l.. b.
Payne, from the sea coast. Meridian
Mercury.
The remains of the late DR.. Reinach,
who died in Nashville on Saturday last,
were brought in on the morning train,
and inferred in the jewish Cemetery,
the funeral taking place from the resi-
dence of Mrs. J. Hornthal, at 2 p. m.
DR.. Reinach was identified with the
grocery and commission house OF j.
Hornthal & Co. for many years, but re-
Gently has been living in Nashville
Vicksburg Herald.
The many friends OF Mr.. D. Alright
will regret to learn of his death, which
occurred yesterday afternoon. Al
though it was looked for, yet when 1T
became known that he had passed away,
it was sorrowful tidings received.
He was one of the Oldest of our citi
zens, having come among us some
forty five years ago, since which time
his residence has never been changed.
Hhe he came, and by his industry at
tanned competency and an enylable
position as q quiet and industrious
citizen. -Natchez Democrat.
The two story framed court house of
Wayne County, was burned on the
morning of April 21st. 1t was get
ting in full blast as the passenger train
went north. All the records of all the |
county papers, deeds, digests &C.,
gone. Ny own library (my office was
in the courthouse) worth $500 also de-
Chancellor Wood arrived on
the train as it was burning, and OF
course there was no court. The excel
lent and popular Sheriff, G. IL. Cole,
had about completed his books ready |
for settlement with the Auditor. This
was to him peculiarly unfortunate, as
well as to the. county. Letter to the
Mercury.
Monday night, about o'clock, three
or four reports of q gun and pistol,
were,h heard near the Moss Factory, and
the suspicious of the Mas family be-
ng aroused that something was wrong,
hey went to where the shooting took
place, and found off piece from the
.oad that leads to tho factory in little |
oy-road, the body OF Moses (Fud( |
n negro boy who worked
with the Mas family, lying dead on
The ground, his body was filed and badly
torn with shot. Meridian Mercury.
Two negro men and woman, named
Emma Robson have been arrested and
lodged in Jail in connection with the
of Bounds, Rogers & Co.'S store.
They were caught with some OF the
goods on or in their possession, but
claim to have purchased them from
other parties. The Marshall is dilligent-
" searching for the other parties con-
nected with the burglary. 1t is to be
hoped he will be successful in his
endeayors to unearth them.
Since the above was in type, late last
evening, q GROVE Of negroes from the
captured and brought to town
Fate Warren, the negro that committed
he burglary, and delivered him to the
Marshall, who lodged him in Jail. The
conduct of these negroes deserve credit.
After the prisoner had been lodged in
all, the negroes, were taken round to
Avery's colored bar and given q grand
'set-em up" all around. Meridian
Iercury.
One of the most violent hurricanes for
lany years occurred on Monday of last
,eek, running in a nortberly and
asterly direction, with track varying
rom fourth to a half mile in width;
nd lasting but a few seconds at any |
me point. Beginning below Moscow, /
nd described as looking like a vast '
heet of rolling fire from one hundred !
o two hundred feet high and half q J
nile wide, it swept eyory thing to ruin e
lherever in its varying and whirling i
lovements it went. Houses were swept i
way and hardly a vestige left. i
,heyook's forty acres of woodland is 5
epresented as having been swept off as 1
rass before the scythe, with scarce ten
rees left standing on the whole ground.
very one of Lyles' houses were blown !
way. At Pocahontas the disaster was L
critic, nearly all the houses in the J
own of four hundred inhabitants being S
estroyed. The Cornith and Somerville !
nd Memphis papers mention only the h
ow exceptions. A gentleman who has a
cen on the ground informs us that for
lree hundred yards wide in the town of
'ocahontas he could walk the whole
istance on the planking, timbers and
Their material with which the ground
as covered as with blanket, Not a
0of, except that'of the depot building
emained when the storm was over.
he houses were all frame, and a row
{ six stores were swept out of sight
Ike chaff. One hotel was of brick, from
hich the roof and woodwork was
ripped, but the walls left standing
wo churches are destroyed, and the =,
cws and other parts of one of them car
ed distance of five hundred feet. At
section of the railroad track ten miles p
lst of Pocahontas. three houses were