The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-30
THE STATE.


Ashland's tree schools are n session.
Duck Bin has public bathing houses.
Trade Is extremely dali in StsrkviIle.
The Piney woods oat crop is very fine.
The death rate in the State Is alarming.
Columbus rivals Scooba. Eggs FIVE cents.
Moss Point Is to have $ Baptist Parson-
age.
The cOrinth Herald has a question
box.
Crystal Springs is to have canning fac
tory.
State.
The ice factory in Meridian bu rms saw
dust.
Bay ST. Louis is to have Republican
paper.
The Batesville Bar wants one.'real live
Doing nothing is favoriie pastime a,
dance.
quality.
Heidleburg is good enough to starve out
lawyer.
Cotton is conspicuous by its absence in
Panola.
Natchez is languishing for want of
new hotel.
days recently.
An exchange tell us that the State has |
four dailies.
hon. Jefferson Davis was at the sea-shore |
camp meeting.
The Baptist church at Port Gibson is
badly defaced.
The work on Meridian National Bank
Is progressing.
Crystal Springs "breathes in suspense
the Female College.
Mr.. Treadwell of Lamar was bitten last
week by poisonous snake.
The 2Srd Mississippi Regiment will re.
unite at kossuth, Sept. 20, 1884.
Aberdeen is to have a new house.
to occupy whole block.
Washington county has appropriated
81 900 for the Exposition.
The prospects about Yazoo Tor the sugar
cane crop are excellent.
The ladies in Prentiss county have been
cheated BY feather swindlers.
Gen. Joseph Davis infant son Jefferson.
died at Biloxi last week.
Osyka is on boom. So is Martin. I'll
wants newspaper.
Delightful dances at Coopers Wells are
becoming pleasant frequency.
A year old child was burned TO death
In cabin at Columbus last week.
Rubber Parties" are the fashionable
amusements in Natchez at present
At Goodman, July II, Allie Sample.
aged twelve years, breathed her last.
Mrs, Inglehart, the sweet singer of the
Hill City, is summering in Nashville.
Thirty four persons were converted
during the sea-shore camp-meeting.
The convict and would suicide, Farkas
OF Vlcksburg, is steadily improving.
Crystal Springs chickens are growing
very sad. CamP-meeting there socn.
Hardy Brown Of Marion Co., has - des-
cendents living within four miles of him.
The Free Press says that each State
ONCE next year will have 75 candidates.
Heidleburg has bunch of oats number
ing 200 stalks, the prodaet of one grain.
Aberdeen had much needed rain last
week, valued at thousands of bushels of
corn.
And has had itever since it first began to
whoop for the Capitol. Its children have
it now.
Miss Lillian E. Burke makes A most
charming local editress of the Magnolia
Mr.. Jno. R. Gage of Lake Washington
4 e a.ys HE English speaking aros 1t the
Lauderdale and Holmes won't make an
appropriation for special display at the
A thief in Brookhayen, "got religion
the other night, when he stole the Bible
from the Methodist church.
An old negro in Bolivar county last week
was robbed OF $4,000, the savings of liz
time, by faith doctor.
Many thanks for the kind words of The
courteous editors of the State. We find
them most pleasant and encouraging.
valise was found on the railroad near
Durant recently, containing seven snake
and two terrapins. Curious travelling con-
veniences. SO
Inc working association near Water
valley recently took out man aud thrash |
ca nIm Tor not complying with their
The Mississippi Baptist State Couver.
ton, after an exceedingly pleasant session
at Kosciusko last week. adjourned 70 /
meet IN Aberdeen in 1885.
The deepest" story out is that poplar
re n = STATE OF perfect preservation was
s 1870 ooo leet below the surface, while |
eqr1ag wall q West Point.
DIzD-Nesr Holly Springs, Mi.sisxis,u;
o. Iussa4y morning, July 2lst. after lin.
gefmg Illness, MIR. Nathaniel Smith. In th~
1ast year Of his age.
PEEBLEs-BAxcRoFT-In EIlisvilIa
"Wednesday, July 16, 1884. Rev. 7 +.
PEBBLES, OF Hattiesburg to Mrs. n
Bancroft, of Meridian.
We are glad to welcome the return lei
the note casket, to the Corinth Herald T.
lmproves i greatly, and tells Us, too. thai L
biFdieA has recovered from her serions
illness. at'At
The Newton Free Press is bright one.
II offers one years subscription as a pre-
mfum Tor the largest watermelon premensea | /,
before Aug. l. Each contestant 10 become
the property Of the Press.
The Mississippi Bspsist STATE corvs.
ZION, IN session ut Kosciusko Iazt weak
sent Hp unanimous vote 10 ths d;rnet--7, | !
general OF the Worlds Exposition 10 aIIow
20 services on the grounds on Sabbath dssr. 9
lHg the Exposition. 10
The State Univsrzity appropriatioa al
advertising for 1884 as, was relnced ~ ~ ],
board Of trustees, 70 5000. hwns esoa
o last year. This may be retrenehme-.
= the wrong direction. @Let your ligh.l
hine, Is wholesome doctrine even for r. e
rustees OF State University. n
Dr.. James ". Cloud, formerly Of Wa,e- 5 5
alley, but for several years past = resi- :,
Ient, first at Ocean Springs and afterward = =
: biaoxl died Of pulmonary disease at the q
ast named plaee last Friday mornino WeI 3:
Iad long been i'll, but his death a tLis {.
lme was unexpected. =
On Sunday, Iofh.. two swedeu n.....s
lnstav Anderson and Il Eo---.n &,
mplsyed Al the State camp Of G. n HaI Il
Eeen near Faisonia, Suuaower county h.
listake took strychnine for aniniue. =. d
aif5ng IN The death Of the 1nrmer nn3 20
robahly the death Of the latter. In
A. Il. Sudoth, prominent merch ant of - -
rlar's Point, Miss. shielded at Helena Ark. =.
2 I'D, BY taking choral Sever al letter. | q
ritten just before his demise, showed that !.
e suicide was premeditzted, Deceased .
ID his life insured for 5000, 5000 in =
e Knights Of Honor, and 5000 IN he ri
ex2s Association. The cause Is m -
= y AFT
un
Amos, locomotive engineer Of De
e switch engine at jackson, on the yiekg- "a
lrg and Meridian Railroad, was killed n
personal difficulty By T. E. Etrnfton. Ere hil
A on the same engine. The circum- lna
Aiaees O The killing ~ related BY an eve Tor
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