The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-03
THE CEEx
Summer time.


Local items of interest are not to
= had.
4 jackson is booming in the way of in
: provements.
?. The Glee Club has decided to give
concert soon after Lent.
City Council met last night-proceec
/, ings will appear in our next.
}. We learn Of several new residences tina
are to be built during the Spring.
J. Col. J. N. Wesson was in the city yes
d terday and favored us with call.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Nall are visiting
friends in Memphis the present week.
z The City Public Schools will close OF
the 1st of April, just month earlier thai
last year.
= The Gem boys are going to have their en-
CINE and hose reel reprinted and put in frs
class order.
We have at last got the Government
Building, and the next thing to be settled
is its location.
"A Temperance Society was organized
on Friday night with a charter member
ship of twenty-five.
The Mardi Gras people are beginning
to come back home-al expressing them
selves delighted with the visit.
We had call yesterday from J. B.
Blackwell, Esq, the popular and efficient
Chancery Clerk Of Scott county.
Mr. and Mrs S. w. Hall, who have
/ been residing in our city forseveral months,
returned to their home in Dover, Delaware,
last week.
We are glad to see our young friend,
Mr.. Robert Shotwell, again on the streets,
looking not much the worse for his long and
serious illness.
Col. J. 5. Hamilton is having the
ground broken for the building of his new
residence at the Park. The building, we
learn, will be large and handsome.
We acknowledge the pleasure of visit
from our friend, Eugene Jones, Esq, ofthe
Jefferson county bar, who was in the city
last week on professional business.
"A stereotyping machine has been added
to the facilities of THE CLARION, and is
being successfully and advantageously
worked. Mr.. Thad. Potter being in charge.
Mr.. John Hunter, of the firm of Hum
ter & Harrington, returned on Saturday last
from New York City, where he has been at
tending lectures at Bellevue Medical Col
lege.
Eight prisoners sentenced to the Peni-
tertiary at the Raymond Court, just closed,
were brought to the city yesterday, and
were Immediately assigned to their new
quarters.
Mr.. J. w. Beatty is having a house
built on Main street; when it is completed
Mr. Beatty, with his family, will remove
from Vicksburg, and once more become
of Jackson.
Mr.. Henry F. Bailey has purchased the
Angelo Miazza property, just north of Mr..
Jno. Fl. OdeneaPs which, as soon as neces-
sary repairs can be made, will be occupied
by himself and family.
Mr. Scott Evans, of Canton, and Miss
Ella Hammond, of Jackson, were married {
at the Catholic Church in this city on Mon
lav night last Mr.. and Mrs. Evans will {
make their home in Canton, where they |
went soon after the marriage ceremony was {
concluded.
Gen. Writ Adams, of this city, has
been appointed by the Appletons as General
Agent for Mississippi for the sale of Mr. |
Davis work, ',The Rise and Fall of the
Confederacy." The work will be sold only
1y subscription County agents are now /
being appointed.
We find the following in the New Or
cans Picayune of Monday ''HOn. Henry
= Myers, Secretary of State of Mississippi, 7
las taken rooms for the Carnival season at
No 81 Dauphine street. where his friends (
will find his latch-string out. He is ac- t
,ompanied by his family and will remain f
lere several days" Auditor Gwin is also {
Tisiting the Crescent City. i
The ladies of the Presbyterian Church, c
West Point, Miss, have undertaken to build /
church edifce. Their plan for raising a t
portion of the funds necessary is unique and I
and we have no doubt will \
ucceed. In behalf of our West Point friends T
We solicit the cooperation of the young gen. \
leman of Jackson, and We trust that the +
State Capital will nominate the May Queen. c
The sites mentioned among our citi- IA
ems for the new Government Building, v
re: the Public Square in rear of Executive h
and fronting the Baptist, Metho- l
list and Catholic Churches Mrs. Kerr's S
orner, on Capitol street, now used as s
'olkes' lumber yard, Spengler's vacant lots, il
n north side of Capitol street, the Bowman b
IoHse lot. the corner opposite Stapleton & v
Bros, on State street, and the south end of n
,apito, enclosure. West Jackson will a
oubtless have something to say. 8
Among the Jacksonians who witnessed i,
be Mardi Gras Carnival in New Orleans,
'ere the following: AIRS. F. G. Barksdale,
Iiss Jennie Morancey, Capt. and Mrs. II.
!. Myers, Auditor Gwin, Miss Prestidge, :
:. T. Cooper, Miss Lizzie Cooper, Mrs =
hrs. johnson, Miss Florence Yerger, Mrs. :
ames Yerger, Miss Anna Bailey, Miss :.
lara Atkinson, Miss Bessie Fearn, Mr..
Vm. Van Hook, Miss Matte Van Hook,
FRS w. L. Nugent, Mrs. T. A. Melville, r
Irs Dr. Buck, Miss Amanda Buck, Col. a
nd Mrs J. S. Hamilton, Miss Cola Barr,
Irss DAmbrosia, Mrs. F. G. Spengler,
Iessrs. w. @. Lowd, 4. yirden, Jr., Chas. 1
'raneioli, w. Z. Cage, isydore Schwartz. 5
B. Rice, c. P. Winkley, Chas. Buck and Q Q
theirs whose names we did not learn. ID