The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-07-22

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There Is plenty NJ clay
In NoSubcc county suitable for
making toys.
Rolling ten.pins il one u the
amuscments Of the young Indies II
Mississippi City.
handkerchief Irritation Is fash.
ionablc among the young people
Of Pass Christian.
Smallpox Is raging among the
colorcd people Of the upper portion
Of Bolivar county.
The Grccnville doctors have or.
gained 20 protect themselves from
non'paying patients.
Aberdeen Is making nm effort To
build n fire-proof warehouse 10 cost
ten thousand dollars.
Ncar Moss Point a colorcd woman
recently gave birth to four babies
two girls and two boys.
AT Coilcevillc, on the 18th inst,
an ablc.bodied beer kcg knocked
a freight train of the track.
Miss Lillian Normcnt is editor Of
the S~tarkvillc Citizen, having sue
ceedcd her father after his death.
Water Valley had a 5000 fire,
in which six buildings were de-
stroyed, on the night Of the 18th
inst.
Ono evening in each week dur
ing the summer, the Yazoo City
Silver Cornet Band will give free
concerts.
Commissioner Loring has APP
pointed s. A. Jonas, of the Aler-
deem Examiner, crop reporter for
this State.
Col. J. +. II. Claiborne employs
his leisure hours writing poetry
for the press. Some of his cpntri-
buttons are gems Of verse.
a party from Mississippi City
went out 10 Horn Island and found
1000 turtle eggs-eighty being the
smallest number seen in one nest.
Owing to failure in business,
Albert Wassmcr, of Meridian, conf
mitted suicide n few days since by
sending a bullet through his brain.
Gov. Lowry spent commence
ment week in Oxford. The Falcon
says "the Governor positively looks
young enough TO he his own SON."
The old Board of Supervisors Of
Warren county has been indicted
by the grand jury for making mn
illegal allowance Of slO0 to an at.
torney.
4 Young Mr.. lIckcr was met by
| an armed convict near Bolton,
) Kinds county, recently and forced
to disrobc and hand over bis
/, clothing.
A rattlcsnake measuring five
feet, six inches long, nincinchcs in
T circumference, and weighing TWEEN,
. ty.thrcc pounds, was killed latcIy
near BALDWIN. !. IL said the skin
: of this snake holds three pccks oI
/. corn.
Peter James. f Stnncwall
! Holmes county, Is preparing akp
: the next overflow by huiljihk
= 80 y
. stable on a brick foundation which
: will be two fectabovc the high watcl
mark Of 1882 and large enough |,
T house all OF his stock.
During tho ak months Of thil
year, ending June Both. there hav,
been Iig failures among the bu.i
ness men Of this State, with liahil
: i,ics amounting 10 sl,s7s,200. Fo
Q tho same period last year Their
were no failures with liabilitic
amounting TO si,5o2 ooo
IN hempor county n lew night
: since, Dennis Mcclellan, a colcre'
boy, broke into the bedroom Of
little daughter Of r. @. King an
attempted rape. On trial n
! brute made a full confession. Til
officers started with him 10 Jail bu
he didn't get there. Served hin
right
al. Near Yazoo City on the fss
inst. Charley Persons muricre
! Henry Hawks with an axe, tho
's threw The body into q cistcrn an
burned The dead mans house. A
Ter learning the verdict If the jur,
whirh r. given alpvc. Pcr~a,ss IN
" rendered himself and went 10 jai
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