The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-27
TIED CITY.

Hamilton Allen & Co., is the style 0
the new Penitentiary firm.
Gen. w. 5. Featherston, of HolI!
Springs, is IN the city on professional bust
ne ).
/ The mud is rapidly disappearing before
the cheerful sunshine-and no one Is sorry
. for it,
United States Court-Judge Hill pre-
iling-convened on Monday last, and Is
now in session.
A false alarm of Fl re brought out the
department Tuesday night-only burning
chimney in West Jackson.
The number of our people who intend
visiting New Orleans during the Mardi Gras
festivities is unusually large.
1t gives US pleasure to note the fact
that the health of Rev. Dr. Watkins has
materially improved in the past week or
two.
The patent medicine man, the bird
show, and halEdozen hand organs are
some Of the attractions our city offers at
present
/ Our young friend and former townsman'
/ Mr. r. F. Lyon now OF Kansas City, Mo, is
on a short visit to his relatives and friends
in this city.
The meeting of the Masonic Grand
Bodies on the 18th of February, will bring to
our city upwards of three hundred and
/ fifty visitors.
Work on the rev Rii"d A.,
which was suspended on account of bad
Weather, has been resumed, and will now
be pushed rapidly forward.
Cotton is beginning to come in; and
should the weather continue good and the
roads improve, the small quantity that re-
mains will be soon delivered.
The Glee Club has moved from its old
headquarters over the Capital State Bank
to the larger and more commodious rooms
over DIR. Lemly's Drug Store.
A quieter and more law-abiding com
munity than ours wonld be hard to find.
The Mayor has not had more than half
dozen cases before him since the first of the
year.
Col r. L. Henderson, the popular
Sheriff of Lauderdale, accompanied by his |
charming aud still more popular better
half was in the city on business with the
Auditor.
We see from our exchanges that Law
renee Barrett, the world-famous tragedian,
will make a Southern tour during the pres
ent winter. Jackson will probably have
the pleasure of seeing him.
Col William Handy, of Canton, late
of the Census for the ID
District, was in the city this week repre-
senting that staunch institution, the Mobile
Life Insurance Company.
We see it stated that the steamer
Clifton was burned on the Kentucky river
a few days since. this is mistake for the
Clifton is making regular trips between this
place and Carthage OH the Pearl.
There is a movement on foot to get up
an excursion to New Orleans from Jackson
Turing the engagement of Sarah Bernhardt
IA that city. Her engagement begins on +
he 9th of February and continues to the !
10th
The steamer Oliver Clifton came down l
rom Carthage Monday morning with a '
largo consisting Of 1863 bales of cotton and |
,ther freight. Several hundred more bales i
ire on the river bank awaiting the next a
rip of the Clifton. v
At a special election for Foreman and v
Assistants of Pearl Hook & Ladder, No. l., v
leld Saturday night last, Mr.. H. G. Hill v
helm was elected Foreman, and Messrs. W v
l. Van Hook and w. II. Millett, respect
vely 1st and I'd Assistants.
Judge and Mrs. Chalmers entertained .
large party of friends at their home on
thursday evening last. The entertainment, \
fhich was most elegant one, was compli- E
to their accomplished guest, Miss .
]arrie Glenn, of New Orleans. !,
"A Cooking club is the latest with the I
Dung ladies of Vicksburg. We respectful t,
( the fair ones of Jackson. Such things Ii
o not harm, and then they might come in 81
cry "handy" some time or other. d
Snow fell in New Orleans from o'clock Il
unday evening to o'clock Monday. 1t Il
lust have gone by the L. and n. route, as h
was also at Pass Christian ten inches u
eep Tin a drift, it did not take the Great 81
ackson route as we had none of it here.
The following are the newly elected
Ulcers of Central Lodge, Knights of Pythi- w
): Jno NJ Smylie, p c.; H. F. Bailey, n,
. c.; b. w. Griffith, V. c.; w. Q. Lowd, n,
II. I. Persons, NJ. of F.; E. NJ Parker, q
I. of f. and K of K. and s: Geo. Frazer, 10
lat A Sol Dreyfus, l. g.. Louis Stranger, ~
Z. G.. at
The Committees of the several Fire c,
ompanies to divide the city appropria- of
on of 81 800 among the different compa- pl
les, met on Monday night and determined m
make the same apportionment as is at fir
resent in force, to-wit: Jackson No. l, A
$50; Gem No. and Hope No. 3, each H
300; West jackson No. ] and Pearl Hook &C
nd Ladder No. !, each 1855. ol
Jeffrey Washington (col.) }, for the past Ell
nirty-five years sexton of the Methodist ~
hurch of this city, died from pneumonia -
n Monday last and was buried from the IL
lethodlst Cnurcn on tuesday Ills Iuneral OF
-as largely attended by both white and
olored. A faithful tribute to his memory, -
rom the pen of one who knew him we'll, is fc
in another column. b
a:
The effect of the ordinance passed by Il
be Board of Aldermen in relation to tax
ng drummers, relates only to such as sell
irect to consumers Heretofore the tax ;,
as been but SO per week by the amended OF
rdinance it is made 5000 per year, payable 81 81
II in advance. This includes merchant 81
ailors, who take individual orders street Z
orner medicine vendors, etc, etc. n,