The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-11-03
STATE NEWS.

The Southern Express Company has re-
duced its tariff of charges.
A bear weighing over 800 pounds was
killed near Sardis the other day.
Grenada has frst-class military
orgauization-the Walthall Grays.
Some Of the ablest men in the State
will he members of the next Legislature.
Fare on the New Orleans Railroad was
reduced to 8 cents per mile on the lst inst,
Land buyers are in Neshoba county,
examining the country and purchasing
homes
There has been no letting duv Of the
boom in lands that commenced several
weeks ago.
-Noxubee county has two-thirds cotton
crop, and enough corn To carry the people
through the season.
-Sardis was unanimously selected as the
place for the next meeting of the Baptist
State Convention.
The earnings OF the Mobile aud Ohio
Railroad have increased $1,000 per day in
excess Of last year
The proposition for Tucker fund.-
seems to meet with the general approval of
the press of the State.
Most of the streams and water courses
in the State have been swollen 70 overflow
ing by the recent rains,
Hon A. b. Heart, of Winona, has been
appointed first assistant keeper of station
cry of the U. 5. Senate.
Farmers around Water Valley are sell
ing their stock for want of forage to carry
them through the winter.
Ham, Carter (eol.) of Warren county,
has again come to the front, this time rs an
exodus preacher in Chicago,
Our State exchanges come to us having
much the appearance of illustrated weeklys.
Circus lads" are the cause.
Mrs. Jennie L. Sanford ofTppah coun-
ty, has been appointed by the Baptist Con-
yention missionary to China.
The Monitor says that Crystal Springs
is on the improve constantly, and is just
now having big business boom.
DR. Phares, of the A. and VI. College,
has written and published book entitled,
"Grasses and Other Forage Plants"
The Penitentary is constantly receiving
recruits and if the Circuit Courts keep up
their present lively rate, it will soon be full.
The course pursued by Mr.. Lanier in
killing Love is generally commended, and
meets the approval of all right-minded men.
The survey of the New Orleans & Me-
ridian Railroad has been completed, and the
work of grading, etc, will be commenced at
once.
"A railroad employee named Joseph
Mcdowell, had both his feet cut off by fall
ing under locomotive at Meridian on Sat-
urday.
-Shubuta has an organization called the
"Jolly Bachelors" The 'iollies of matri-
mony' was the subject of an address at the
last meeting.
The orange orchards on the Sea-coast
will not yield half crop this season. The
trees have not recovered from the intense
cold of last winter.
--Natchez is the growing city Of Missis-
| sippi Business is on boom factories are
being built, and things generally wear hive,
active appearance.
The Fair the Mississippi Stock Breed
ers Association is in progress this week in
Meridian. 1t is we'll attended and is prov
ing a decided success.
AT the Memphis Fair last week Missis-
sippi cotton captured every premium that
was ofIered-six in number, amounting
in the aggregate to Sl,4OO.
Bishop Jansenns appears to be greatly
beloved by the Catholics of this State. He
is said to be cultured gentleman, with
pleasant, afIable manners.
Mr. F. c. stattman, Of WoOdville,
committed suicide on the 2lst Of last month,
He was a highly respected citizen, and no
cause is assigned for the deadly act.
The Vicksburg Commercial learns
that Bishop Green had the misfor-
tune to break his right arm, near the
wrist, at Lake Washington on Sunday.
-Oktibbeha county has a new Court
house, and the Starkville Times speaks Of it
as the handsomest building of the kind in
} the State. Mr.. Fucker was the architect,
The merchants of Columbus are having
lively fight with the Chess-Carley ComPa-
; nv. proprietors of the Standard Oil monop-
/ oily. The merchants appear to have the
: best of it.
: jeff Wooten and Lima Borders, both
colored, charged with the murder Of Alfred
Borders, husband of the woman named,
we're found guilty by the Circuit Court Of
Lowndes county, and sentenced to death.
0 The Postoffice at Vaughan's Station
: has been closed by order Of the authorities
= in Washington, thereby causing great incon :
!. venienoe to the people living in the country
# around Vaughan's. They are clamorlng
T. !; for its re-opening,
II The CarroIlton Conservative is solicit
le Gus about the public well in Carrollton,
1t and suggests the propriety Of hav-
d surance Company 1t is the dryest thing in
y the town, and liable to burn.
y A meeting of the business men OF Port
Of Gibson was held the other day to consider
,r the practicability of establishing cotton
. factory In that town. A committee was ap-
' y pointed to work up the subject. Nearly
le 400 shares were subscribed on the spot,
y The Yazoo Sentinel is authority for
: : the statement that letter passed through
re the Yazoo City Postofioe a few days ago,
he addressed as follows
Hurry pe along at q rafting rate,
To Yazoo county. in Mississippi State,
And At SataTtia Postoffee, there let me be,
Till Miss Emm4 Jones calls fOr me-
The Noxubee County Temperance As
= I, sociation is circulating petitions through
d out the country for signatures, requesting
I. the Legislature to enact prohibitory laws
III Sneakers have been appointed to canvass the