The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-07-26
mULTuM IN PARVO.

more BrNiH Wall 10 pho""~
than ever know. Silver bullion for
coinage purposes was sold last week TO
the amount OF $500, 00O.. Mobile has
auarantined against Memphis''''The
engineers and drivers of tho Fire DO
partment Of yicksburg have not re-
ceived cent OF pay in five months the
Commercial is outspoken for them'.'
w. e. handler has been interviewed.
Ho thinks Tilden will be nominated,
but Hancock would run better. Burg
lars are at work in Vioksburg,..E lex SEN
ator Ramsey, OF Missouri, is spoken OF
as McCrary's successor as Secretary OF
War. Hope, Ark, has got burglars too
Jacob Frolich, Arkansas Secretary OF
State, is quarantined at Memphis
Guess he's tired of the Frolic(h)...Ex-
Secretary Fish is 71...Jem Mace is IN
Melbourne. Julia Ward Howe is COM
ing home. ). Tom Scott feels better since
mis- European visit. Talmadge says he
wouldn't give ten years now for tive
hundred in Mathuslah's time. Gas in
Pittsburgh sells for seventy-fve cents n
thousand feet; cause-three Companies.
-. The passengers of the steamship
State of Virginia. have been rescued,
and are of Halifax. The Albany, N. T.,
ice house was burnt on the Goth inst.
Ge. Vests name has at last reached
Washington City,. The Washington
View says nothing but a plague Will
save the Bourbon Democratic party OF
Mississippi from overthrow by the
Greenbackers. A man can learn more
abroad than he can at home. The Solar
Ray stopped its press last week to an
nounce that Ross had fresh keg OF
beer. 4. The Vicksburg Commercial says
the RAIDS are better organized in War
rem than they were six years ago, and
still there is no Radical paper there.
Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Hull, has
taken an appeal. The relatives of Mrs.
Dorsey will contest her WILL. Ewing
suppressed the circulation OF the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, Oh account OF its
reasonable utterances.. The Prentlss
Pleader thinks Gen. West will break
down before he reaches the M. " o..
Railroad. The Messenger says that
Jamison and his robber band had bottor
beware how they Cypress the taxpayers
of Chickasaw.. :. Okolona, with its popu-
lation of over sixteen hundred whites,
has had but two deaths this year, both
children, which speaks we'll for the
States. Macon has Quarantined against
Memphis and all otner infected places.
The circular issued by the Mayor says
there will be no child's play, and that
persons from infected districts must stay
away . Galveston has quarantined
against passengers, freight and mails
from New Orleans. Senator Bruce Is at
the head of q committee which has been
appointed to investigate the Freedmans
Bank frauds. Grenada is perfectly
healthy terrible suicide has occurred
near Atlanta. A man put his head
across the rail and let the train run over
it. He was not drunk. =. The Zulus got
q sound licking the other day. Eight
thousand are reported killed, and the
war is virtually ended...A Memphis
special of the 23d says the old bomb
proofs kill time in swallowing milk
punches, and those who have not been
through the mill drink beer and lemon
ade with fear and trembling. Ninety
nine deaths from fever in Havana this
week, decrease of nineteen as COM
pared with last week.. j.. The citizens Of
Little Rock have adopted resolutions
requesting the city authorities to ap-
propriate $4,000 for sanitary and
quarantine purposes. Louisville has
two cases of fever. Mobile is panicky...
Gov. Nichols has left for Virginia. Elk
Gov. Witt is at the helm of State...
Roman, grocer of New Orleans has
been arrested for passing counterfeit
money. The New Orleans papers still
harp about the troublesome dog. The
wealthy match making mamma is now
at Saratoga. She goes there to show
off her manageable daughters to the
best advantage.