The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-06-30

Since December last, Hope Fire Com
pany No 3 has buried six Of its members
The sacrament Of the Lords Supper wi
be administered at the Presbyterian churcl
next Sunday.
Mr.. c. W. Carraway is at home from
the Deaf Mute Academy, Washington City
+ for the summer.
We are pleased to learn that Judge
Campbell Is rapidly recovering from his re
I cent severe sickness.
The Institute for the Blind closed OF
oath inst, and will be re-opened on the
first Monday in October.
Capt and Mrs Harris Barksdale leave
early next week for Green Lake Wisconsin,
to be absent two or three months.
Mrs. J. W Robinson and family leave
tomorrow night for Huntsville, Ala. They
will be absent from jackson till fall.
Mr.. Orlando Green returned home the
first Of the week from Princeton, New
Jersey, where he has been attending college.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Green, and Mrs
Sturdivant left last night for Green Lake,
Wisconsin, where they will spend the sum
mer
Misses Mabel Browne and Jennie Ra-
worth, Of Vick,burg after pleasant visit
of Two weeks to Jackson, returned home
Monday.
The long continued drouth is having a
I,a ff,ay
not an early relief the crop will be hope
iessly injured.
Governor Stone, Judge Chalmers, Capt
Myers and others of our citizens, are at
tending the University Commencement at
oxford to-day.
jackson was largely represented at
Brookhaven aud Clinton this week during
the commencements Of the schools located
in those places.
The closing exercises of St Margarets
Hall will be held in the Opera House to-
morrow (Friday) night. The graduates are
four in number.
The steamboat, Jimmie Baker, former
Is in the Pearl River trade, is now running
on the Yazoo River, between Yazoo City
and Greenwood.
r. L. Saunders, Esq, has been elected
one of the directors of the Natchez, jackson
4 Columbus Railroad, in place of Jno. w.
Robinson, Esq, deceased.
-Messrs. J. II. Neville, of the Kemper
Herald, f. f. Frantz, of the Brandon Re
.,l.l;1., II L - NXr;l.,, e Tho NVaTtbalI
Pioneer,were in the city yesterday.
Some weather prophet asserts that the
intense heat of the past two weeks is but a
foretaste of what we are to have in July
only period Of preparation for that which
is shortly to come.
Mr.. Spengier chairman street commit
tee, is having Capitol street in front of
McDonnell's foundery, graded and made
level. This will be quite an improvement,
and one much needed.
The approaching term of the Circuit
Court will be called upon to consider the
case Of the negro Mick Flemmng, charged
with the murder of Mr.. Brannan. A
hanging may be the result Of the inyeIti
CATION.
Capt. T. w. Hunt has forwarded to the
President his resignation of the office of L.
:. Marshal for this (the Southern) District
There are numerous applicants for the posi-
ton, but we are not advised as to the sue
CessOrs.
The comets are attracting the attention
and interest of almost every one inourcom-
On the gallerys Of houses, on the
street corners and elsewhere, groups of en-
bryo astronomers are to be seen nightlY-all
giving their individual theories and ideas
On the subject
We are sorry to chronicle the death of
Mrs. Laura A Mitchell wife of Isaiah
after few weeks illness. She
has been for several years an efficient and
favorite teacher in the colored public school,
and her place will be difficult to fill. Her
funeral took place on Sunday morning last,
and was very largely attended
We learn that commission was issued
to Gen. Geo. c. Mckee as postmaster for
this city, and that the Republican Execu-
tive Committee, having protested, in the in
terest of Col. w II. Gibbs, further action .
On the appointment has been suspended. f
Ia the meantime, and until the brethren .
Mr.. Green will continue to dis f
charge the duties of the ONCE.
The lecture, by Rev. DR.. Hunter, on /
The Revision of the Scriptures, attracted a
large congregation to the Presbyterian /
church last Sunday evening at six O'Clock. /
The merits or dement's of the revision were /
not considered on this occasion. the lecture /
being confined mainly to history of the
authorized, or King James version, and
those preceding same for several hundred
years. The next lecture viii be devoted to
the manuscripts of the Bible, especially the
originals, in Hebrew and Greek, written in
the earlier centuries, and still in existence.
Service will begin promptly at six O'Clock,
and close at seven.
The closing exercises of the Deaf and
Dumb Institute last night we're witnessed
by large audience of interested spectators.
The entire programme was rendered in the
some of the recitations and
dialogues thus given were most interesting.
The Lords Prayer, reeiGsd by twelve of the
small children of the Institution, was per
feet in itsway, and received large share
of meritedapplause. Prof Dobyns, the
of the institution, and his
splendid corps CT assistants, have discharged
the duties of their responsible positions ably
and with fidelity, as was clearly evidenced
by the proficiency of thepupils at the enter
tainment last evening.
for Orphan Asylum
Thu follo xing amounts have been received