The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31
ALL OVER THE STATE.

| Circuit Court, Hon. j. b. ChrlSman, Judge
III. Cassidy, Jr., District Attorney; A. J.
Wilmington, Sheriff; and n Garrow, Clerk
were all at their posts. District Attorney
Cassidy left on the second day of the term,
in consequence of the illness of his father,
Judge Cassidy, ST.. and Col. c. P Nelson,
was appointed by the Court District Attor>
ney pro tenn, who ably represented the
State in that capacity until the close of the
term.
The Vicksburg Herald is informed Mr..
d. Mayer, the President of the Mayersville
and Rolling Fork Railroad, has made ar
rangements to get one hundred thousand
dollars for it, and that he will build the
road in time to move the crop of this year.
We learn thot Mr.. Mayer got English cap
ital on the most favorable terms.
Mr. J. w. Stanton, a respected citizen of
Starkville died Wednesday night,
The Chester Recorder reports a large
crowd of Alabama negroes passed through
Chester last week for the Mississippi bot
toms.
car of cotton, fifty bales shipped, from
Winona on the Oath caught fire from spark
and burned within half mile of town.
Only four bales were insured by the rail-
road.
MI OOuh VI OdIIOlIj OICQ IhSb
week.
Mrs. Caroline Hester, wife of VIM. Hes
ter, Esq. died at her late residence near
Terry, Kinds county, March 22d.
The Tupelo Journal says that Circuit
Court was held in Itawamba county, last
week, and three persons were sentenced to
the penitentiary-a white man for larceny
and two negroes, one for burglary and the
other for an attempt to commit rape.
Samuel Hawthorn, the slayer of McGehee,
who was out on bond of $4,000 pending
the appeal to the Supreme Court, and who
attempted to flee the country, was arrested
in New York and has been returned to his
bondsmen at Vicksburg. Hawthorn was
about to take passage for Ireland, with the
hope of escaping.
The Brookhaven Ledger says that Mr.. R..
B. Withers' horse ran away with him last
Sunday evening and he was thrown under
the buggy, dragged some distance and badly
bruised, and had two of his ribs broken.
The firm of Lyle, Morris & Co., general
storekeepers, of Lauderdale, is reported to
have failed.
Col Ed. Richardson has bought the stock
of Messrs. Pittman & Smedes in the Vicks-
burg, Shreveport and Pacific railroad.
Choctaw county offers cash subscription
of $35, 900 to the managers of the East and
West Railroad Company if they will let the
road pass ON to Chester.
The people of Moss Point and Scranton
propose to build railroad to connect with
the Louisville and Nashville. Half the
amount needed has already been raised.
The Port Gibson Reveille says that two
hundred conYiets from the State Peniten>
Ia ho mt IN OF
on the v & S, l. r. R., to work towards
Port Gibson.
The failure of Bush, Yates & Co., of Mo-
bile, caused a panic in Starkville. The
firm of Atwood & Beattie has failed and the
well-known house of Hogan & Lampkin has
suspended. The failure of the above firms
has caused a panic in Starkville. Both
firms are well known to the mercantile
world. The members of each firm were
considered the most substantial citizens OF
| the town, and the whole country is in SYM
pathy with them,
Gov. Stone has pardoned SalIie Murphey,
who, one year ago, was convicted of man
slaughter and imprisoned in the county
part of it is that she did not wish to leave
her prison after being pardoned.
The West Point News says Mr.. NJ. R..
Butler has made friends rapidly among the
lawyers and people of his judicial district
since he first became District Attorney.
The death of DR. William Fl. Baldwin, of
Franklin county, Is announced.
The people on the line of the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad between Memphis
Tenn, and Grenada, Miss, are indignant
over the removal of Robt. III. Matthews, a
youth of seventeen, from his position OF
Route Agent on the above~named road.
The Yazoo Herald learns that Mrs. L. A.
Kidd, of that place, but for some time con-
nected with Whitworth College at Brook
haven. has bought half interest in that
noble, fourishing institution, and will COM
mence to discharge her duties as co>propEie-
tor in the month of July.
Farman A. Brown died Friday last in
Artesia- He was seventy-ive years of age.
He was one of the Oldest. if not the oldest
telegraph operator in the United States.
He was associated with Professor Morse.
whom he assisted in constructing the first
line established between Washington City
and baltimore. In 1S49 he came South and
assisted in erecting lines in this State, hnal>
| II locating in Columbus. He severed his
connection with the telegraph company just
before the war and entered the Confederate
service as 3 private. He was native Of
| EennsylFania.