The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-21
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E, We notice several Missiszippians Vi
o aad gone to Texas 70 live. are returnii
3 this fall
q Mf. Robert Wilson, deceased, Of 8
z taTtia, left q legacy Of 1900 70 Jud,
Bowman Of Yazoo CITY, and made hi
executor Of his viii.
I Mr. J. G. Houston, a Young man /
! Meridian, employed on the Alabam
4 Great Southern Railroad vas run oEt
and killed BY the train at Tuscaloosa
few days siaee.
/ A negro woman at Haziehurst We
( terday gave birth to four children. NV
boys and two girls. They we're prems
. taTeIy born and were dead, but wer
well formed and perfect children.
j At Forest during the night service
while Mr.. and Mrs. ID. E. Idom were a
church. tramps entered their dwellin!
and took LOT of valuable jewelry anC
abou; $50 in money.
The Vieksburg Herald and the Golam
bas Index are cJutcnding which shall b,
the great city Of Mississippi, Eicksburs
or Columbus. and in the meantime thes
are overlooking Meridian, which il oul
opinion will in short time surpas-
either.-Heidleburg Review.
The Canton, aberdeen and Nashville
Railroad, branch of the Illinois Cen
trail. was opened on Monday, Nov. ..
| from Kosciusko, Miss, to Ackerman,
| Miss, a distance of 81 miles. The in
termediate stations on this road are
McCord, Weir's Mill and Fentress.
a correspondent of the Durant News
gives a rather uDenviable account Of
affairs at the little town of West, in
Holmes county. He says: 1T is un-
safe for lady to appear on the streets
alone, especially ou Saturday. Guns and
pistols are fred at any time in the cor
poration, even on the Sabbath
Sunday, the 4th, seems to have been
a good day for housebreakers. The
house of the Rev Mr.. Sibley at Browns
vile, was entered while the minister and
his wife.were at church. Miss Wise.
relative who remained at home and who
heard the burglar, was knocked down in
the effort of the thief to escape. He
proved TO be a mulatto. One Nelson
Hunt has been arrested on suspicion.
The lumber business in the swamps of
the Yazoo and Tallahatchie rivers, Mis-
sissippi, is assuming immense proportions
Besides the great amount of cypress lum-
ber that is being gotten out, thousands of
walnut logs are being cut for Northern |
Of furniture and other ar /
ticles in which walnut is used One
Boston firm alone has raft of 300 wal /
nut logs ready for Shipment at the
mouth of the Tallahatchie river.
On the day of the election in Coffee
Vile, town marshal Ferguson attempted |
TO suppress noise made by Messrs. Ed. |
Allen. and VIM. Hardy, and was chal- |
enged to fight. This he accepted, but
the parties were arrested before any
1amage was done. As the Aliens re
turned home they insulted Mr.. Duncan
Dew who had testified against them as
70 the disturbance, whereupon Dew fired
lpon them, wounding Mr.. Hardy in
The arm.
We rejoice to hear of the success of
,ur friend, Capt. B. L. Dale at the State
Fair, at Jackson He carried mum
Ser of his finest horses down, and be
ides receiving several premiums, sold
.wo fiilies to Mr. f. Virden for S600,09 +
Thu HIS HDESbg NNON. Js kllDItt lO a.
Wolfe for $1500,00. All these animals
we're Mississippi raisen and thorough
bread trotting stock, for which Capt.
)ale's stables are noted, no. only in the
state, but throughout the Southwest
'hickasaw Messenger.
Ben Jordan, city marshal of Crystal
springs, Copiah county, was shot on the
light of the 9Th, and it is thought NOR
ally wounded by some unknown person.
lie was a firm friend of Wheeler, the
aan who killed Mathews at Hazlehurst,
aade himself very active in the election
t is thought that this assassination Is
ne of the resHlts of the killing of
fathews. Jordan was shot down in his 4
rort yard with a double-barreled shot
un as he was returning home. There
J very little hope of his recovery. No
rrests have been made yet.
The people of the Yazoo and Talla-
atehie rivers are to be congratulated
pom having a new line of steamers ply !
ng in those streams. The new steamers
ill be known as the Ghoetaw Line. and
re under the same management as the
'ool Line which plies between Vicks-
urg and New Orleans. The boats al
eady put into the trade are the Hope,
Ihich runs from Greenwood up the Tai
ahatchie, and the New Era, which con
ects with the Hope at Greenwood and {
be Pool Line at Yicksburg. Tobin, /
.eathers & Co., the owners of the new 1
ne, promise to put in other boats. Thus |
geuine competition is secured which I
as already resulted in great reduction +,
] freights.
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