The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-26
THE STATE.

AooRAAS SouSn Il raging III haltOO-
hatcher has her city election December
9th.
The streets in McComb City are miser-
able.
Burglers are prowling around Bates
vile.
Book agents are now tormenting sena-
tobia.
Oyster suppers are in vogue all over the
State.
Many towns are rejoicing that the dust
is laid.
Raymond will soon have Catholic
church.
Batesville is gaining and improving
rapidly.
Moss Points shoe factory is a complete
success.
Mite sociables are the present rage in
Baldwin.
Dogs in YazoO City cost one dollar each
per annum.
Newton's amateur dramatic company
is a success.
The Kosciusko Star certainly does go in
for Prohibition.
Diphtheria continues prevalent around
Crystal Springs.
1t is about time for the little folks to be-
gin talking Xmas.
Bird hunting is the popular sport among
the Corinth boys.
Peddlers, tramps and beggars are nu-
merous in Winona.
| The De Lisle Mills turn out an enormous
quantity of lumber.
Pressing autumn leaves, is the rage
among Corinth girls.
The Methodist Conference is in session
at Aberdeen this week.
A carload of cotton was destroyed by
FIRE at Utica last week.
The Baldwin Signet will come out next
week, in all home print.
The colored Baptists of Okolona are
building brick church.
Crystal Springs doctors consider the
skating rink wind fall.
Two car loads of Wesson goods will be
shown at the Exposition.
Moss Point claims one Of the best Acade
my buildings in the State.
i The Eagle thinks Ellsville needs little
more "get up get about it."
There is a,great deal of sickness among
the children in West Point.
DR.. J. G. Brandon, an eminent citizen o.
Adams county, died recently.
The Presbyterian and Baptist churches
at Moss Point are without pastors.
The grand jury at Batesville, found forty.
seven indictments at its last session.
Liberty has resorted to Spelling Bees, tt
produce fun for the winter evenings.
We suppose, of course, that the drum
!. mer's ball at Grenada, last night was a sue
cess
The Corinthians complain that theirs ii
dead town from an enterprising point o
) view.
The prisoners in Batesville Jail attempt
ed their escape recently, but didn't "ge
there"
The Meteor thinks the Crystal Spring
girls ''superbly sweet in their fall cos
tunes"
A Yazoo county man has an eight dol
lar bill issued by the Continental Congress
of 1916.
DR.. Hoyt. the Presbyterian revivalist, il
conducting most successful revival a
Kosciusko.
Westville has only two shooting CALLER
les. Quite small number for a city OF it
dimensions.
Who is going to get that ten dollars TO
. the largest sweet potato in the Mississippi
Department?
Miss Rusha B. Steele and Mr.. VIM. l.
Lehman we're married in Vicksburg a few
days since.
, Crystal Springs has fifteen applicant
for the post Office and two more precinct
to hear from.
Nutting expeditions are the amusement
largely INDUCED in by young people al
S over the State.
Mr.. D. N Hebron, living near Vicks
burg, raised three tons of millett hay to tn
7 acre this season.
The Coast people think that, unless al
signs fail, they will be greatly beneftte,
by the Exposition.
Mr.. w. o. Eldridge and Miss Fanni
Nesmith were married last Wednesda,
night, in Hazlehurst.
Neshoba county's exhibit at the Word
I, Fair will consist of sample of wine
made by DR.. S. P. Nash.
Mrs. L. B. Kidd, of Whitworth College
Brookhaven, is seriously i'll, but her symp
toms this week are better.
The Senatobia boys have band com
posed of cowbells, fog-horns and tin pans
Their music is truly celestial.
The catfish peddlers in Natchez are
conducting the most enterprising business
in progress in that city, at present.
Some children, while playing recently in
the lint room, burned the steam -grist mill
and gin of Mr.. McLemore, at Ellisville.
The Pickwick Social Club of Vicksburg,
gave a masquerade ball last week, which
reflected great credit upon its originators
| Judge Trimble, OF tue bottom district,
is so badly paralyzed in his left side, that
he will haveto resign his place as Circuit
Judge.
Jacob Floyd's death sentence has been
committed to life impris onment. The ex-
ecution was to take place at Woodville,
Dec. l.
The Democratic demonstration at Brook
haven, must have been something Of which
to be proud, from the enthusiastic reports
We hear Of it.
l. c. Dick, of Summit, inserted a false
/ uOtlCS OL HIS III the sentinel ana
in consequence his father showed him the
use of the last.
Mr.. Scitz of Neshoba county has made
1872 gallons of fine syrup, fDom a third of
an acre OF cane, besides saving enough seed
for the next planting.
The new railroad bridge over the ITALIA
hatchie river has been completed, and is one
of the finest in the South, being made of
wrought iron and costing $4,000.
Died, on Monday morning, Nov. 18th,
| 1884, at the residence of his father, Col. 7.
A. Mitchell, in Tupelo, Miss, Mr.. Edwin
T. Mitchell, in the Goth year Of his age.
Rev. DIR. C. K. Marshall, of Vicksburg
has accepted an invitation to address the
meeting at the Centennial of Methodism,
which meets in Baltimore December 8.
Farmers in the neighborhood Of De Lisle
have met with such success in the manu-
facture of molasses this season, that
they will plant cane extensively next year.
The Democrats are just twice as numer-
GUS in Quitman county as are the Repub-
lieans. Nine votes were polled at the re-
cent election, six Of which were for Cleve-
land.
Rev. J. A. Ellis, Of the Jackson distric
was recently married to Miss Lizzie Ellist |
Of Amite City, charming young lady,
and sister of Hon. E. John Ellis, Of /
Louisiana.
Almost every newspaper in the State is
advocating the organization OF literary
club, or something on that order to keep
social life from dying out, during the win
ter months.
Mr.. ]. r. jackson over so years of age,
living near Pelahatchie, made, with the aid
of q small boy, six haIes Of cotton on four
acres Of ground and 200 bushels of corn
on Eve acres.
In order that we may have no cause to
Be ashamed Of Mississippi's display at the
1po, let every one remember that nothing
can be entered after December 10Th, and
set accordingly.
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