The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-20
THE STATE.

Ripley streets are DelnS Worked-
A thief has been sitting Summit.
Durant hasn't vacant residence.
Kosciusko has lady pottmistress.
Circuit Court is in session in Macon.
Harrison has a negro woman 100 years
old.
Ellisyille is going to have wooden
mill.
ElisvilIe wants to be "se. down as on
boom"
Water Valley Camp Meeting begins
Sept. >.
Gold has been discovered in Pamela
county.
Bermuda hay sells at SIS ton in cOpiah
county.
The City Hotel at winona is said to be
very fine.
Bicycles are extremely fashionable in
Winona.
Apples sell at ten cents bushel in
Baldwin.
Port Gibson's Exposition Society has
fickered.
Port Gibson's latest aquisilion is skat-
ing rink.
Meridian has three art classes, OF seventy
FIVE pupils.
The editor of the Carrolton Conservative
has mumps.
The Methodist church in Dnrant has an
electric lamp.
One Meridian business house has seven
gins in one lot.
Trout shooting is favorite pastime on
Steele's bayou.
Bangs" are no longer az .taa with the
Starkville girls.
A telephone will soon connect Grenada
with Graysport.
Amusements of every description abound
in Bay st. Louis.
Natchez has been cooled by refreshing
shower, this week.
Moss Point is one of the best numbering
points in the SJuth.
A lost and lonely dude perambulates the
streets of Carrollton.
The people of Perry county desire
speedier mail facilities.
An epidemic OF rabid dogs is prevalent
in Canton and vicinity.
catherine Cole" and Betsy Jane" are
rusticating at the Pass.
Thirty six kegs of beer were drunk in
Crystal Springs last week.
Judge B. T. Kimbrough has removed
from Ashland to Oxford.
The Teachers Institute has been in ses-
sion at Meridian this week.
Fires every morning were comfortable
in Crystal Springs last week.
The ubiquitous drummer foul ished at
Crystal Springs Camp Meeting.
Tooth pick shoes at $1,000 per pair are
now worn by the Bolton dudes.
Fayette is going to have a weight party
for the benefit of the orphans.
Miss Della Apologize condenses the State
news for the Winona Advance.
The Natchez Gun Club wants to chal-
lenge the Vicksburg club again.
Dr. P. K Whitney last week exhibited
So pound watermelon in Fayette.
An interesting revival Is in Progress in
the Presbyterian church in Canton.
The Mississippi Valley train killed a
man at Kenna Station on the 18th.
Lexington is to have public WE'LL and |
hose to sprinkle portions of the town.
Thos. Vance, aged Is, died near Meridian
on Sunday the 10th OF typhoid fever.
A shark attacked bathing party at Bay |
st. Louis last Saturday. No harm done.
An average of three cars of beer daily
pass through Meridian, for various points.
The telephone wires are now being
erected between Vicksburg and Edwards.
There are indications of the existence
of coal oil near Bayou Pierre, in Jefferson
county.
The Crystal Springs Meteor has an
interesting column OF society notes"
weekly.
The costly tomb of John Palmer, at
Pittsboro, was last week paintcdwith tar by |
vandals.
1t only takes forty minutes to go from
Aberdeen to West Point, over the c. A. &
n. r. r.
A cat cremation took place in Water
Valley last week. The owner has bottled
the ashes.
Lightning stru * the Poor House in
Bolivar county, recently. Bat little harm
was done.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Wood, OF Louisville,
Miss, lost two little children in one week.
recently.
The Summit boys gave another Hub
bard party" the other night. 1t wasn't
patronized.
The temporary suspension of the Rosalie
Mill at Natchez has thrown many out OF
employment.
A colored woman is spoken Of as post
mistress of the Washington postotice In
Adams county.
The engagement of Miss Pauline Levy,
If Summit, and Mr. A. Vomus, of Green
lille, is announced.
Mr.. j. F. Stokes of Bolivar county has
hipped 900 sacks of wheat from his plan
alton to St. Louis. 1
The ladies of Attala county have organ
zed an Exposition Society with an efficient
orps OF managers.
Rosedale has more dogs to the square
10 says the Leader.
Miss Josephine, daughter OF Judge Han
ock, will soon take a clerkship in the /.
deridian post Office.
1t is now the fashionable thing with !
anton fishermen to go out and return )
nth lines untouched.
Camden, Madison county. has a silver
ornet band, of which Miss Willie Alden, ,
ged IL, is conductress. =
One hundred and thirty professions Of c
sligion was the result of DIR. Jones' meet g
lg in Corinth recently. =
The weather has been sufficiently de-
ressing in Cofeeville, to cause tho dudes b
appear with lifeless collars. 3
Mrs. Dubys, daughter of Gen. W. T. Sher- tt
AN, owns one of the richest flower gardens eI
i the South, at Pass Christian. P
Grenada has town clock, which "pealed
nth the solemn notes Of departing time" re
r the first time last Wednesday. Al
A rattle snake six feet four inches in FL
myth, was killed near Pontotoc last week. lii
had sixteen rattles and button. Ia
Mrs. O. J. Moore died in Winona last th
lex. Her husband was in Virginia, ca
len he received the sudden news. nc
The competitive examination for position hi
Military School at West Point, takes W,
nee at Alderman on the 9th inst. NJ
From the length Of his stay the Rev. tn
NOR editor Of the Itawambian, must find no
xas good field for religious work. en-
A FIRE originating in furniture house WI
Grenada, on 18th, destroyed $500, 900 gls
rth Of property. Insurance $65, 900. tn
Irs. J. N. Drane, relict Of the late Judge e
Drane. was buried in Enterprise last MI
*. Her death occurred in Salem, Va me
S. lin
Fne Sheriff put stop to, the proposed
ne of base ball between McComb City 40,
Canton clubs, near Canton, Sunday fra
arnoon.
deridian received the first new bale Of be-
ton on Wednesday. It was raised in WI
Nton county and classed as strictly car
ldling. -