The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-24
THE STATE.
flourish n Viekahnnr.

The Aberdeen warehouse is completed.
Cotton comes into Wesson at a lively
rate.
Rankin will have large hay crop this
year.
No sickness, poor corn and good cotton al
Sugg.
Whitworth College, at BrOOkhaven, opens
to-day.
Public schools open in vicksburg octo-
Der LIST.
The 1. C. depot at Lamar is being re-
paired.
Schools seem to be iourishing all over
the State.
Natchez has few idlers of the colored
persuasion.
The Cotton Exchange opened at Vicks
burg Monday.
The court of Itawamba county is toe
lenient, by far.
The levee at Friars Point is in great
need of repairs.
Mr.. Jno. Oliver, Mayor of Duck Hill
died last week.
The cattle in De Soto county are dying
at lively rate.
The game law expires in Claiborne
county October LIST.
The festive cotton pickers now hold sway
over our sunny land.
White men now guard the peace of oul
neighbor, Vicksburg.
Copiah county has $1,371 ,25S.50 worth
of personal property.
The Synod OF Mississippi meets in Crys'
tai Springs October 29th.
Archusa Springs will have a grand Dem
ocratic rally on the S0th.
Martin and Port Gibson will soon be con
nected by telegraph wires.
New brick walls are rising all over the
burnt district in Grenada.
A large saw mill near Pennington, was
destroyed by fire recently.
A vast mine of brick clay has been dis
covered in Kemper county.
Aberdeen is going to have a large beef
brewery in the near future.
Kirksey is the name of new post-ofhce
between Sardis and Longtown.
The Weekly wishes it distinctly under
stood that Aberdeen is not dull.
Lee Boyd was crushed to death while
coupling cars at Shubuta recently.
A horse thief-Prince Berry was ar.
rested in Vicksburg few days since.
The Natchez Centennial Concert to-
night, promises to be grand success.
Mr.. Marion Smith, aged about sixty
years, died in Alfalfa county last week.
Deaths among the colored people of Clay
county are becoming alarmingly frequent
The Southern Live Stock Journal cele-
brated its ninth birthday September 18th
Lucien Henly, of Aberdeen, died on the
18th with strongsymptomso of hydrophobia.
The cornerstone of the new Presbyterian
church in Columbus will be laid this week
A Natchez gentleman recently received
bequest Of 1886, from across the water
A Leake county man gathered sixty
bushels Of apples from one tree this sea
son.
Rock Spring is having fair weather.
So are many other places-decidedly too
fair.
Chas. Brown, farmer living near
Glendale, was killed by a train on the
18th.
The Pickens Station people are clamor-
ing for a new depot, and they ought to
have it.
A B. Hurt, one OF the Exposition Com
missioners, is i'll of gastric fever near
Winona.
Durant boys are blue over the departure
of the city's summer Visitors-all. young
ladies of course.
Chicken thieves in Meridian make CON
tracts to deliver their spoil ere rosy day
begins to dawn.
Jimmie Miller, lad of fifteen, was
killed by kick from colt near Water
Valley last week.
Col. Ed. Richardson has twenty-three
cotton plantations in Washington and
lssaquena counties.
Fifty-nin men were suspended tempo
rarily from work in the railroad shops at
Water Valley last week.
Mr.. F. L. Arnold, an old citizen Of
Holmes county, died at his home near
Lexington few days ago.
Bishop Janssens dedicated the new
Catholic church of the Choctaw mission
near Philadelphia, last week. ,,
The Planters Compress Company and
the Vicksburg Compress Company in
Nicksburg, have consolidated.
The Prohibitionists got the best of the
discussion for and against them. at the
Brookhaven picnic on the 10Th.
John Crawford, of Pontotoc, had his
hand crushed in sorghum mill last week
and will lose three of his fingers.
One of the Columbus nol;cemar was
assaulted on the streets of that CITY a few
nights since, by an unknown person.
The demands for shares in the paonla,s |
Loan Association Of Meridian Is 800 IN
excess of the number offered for sale.
Pike countv farn,er will have bor
her mole at The Xno nod ~ ,b;rtv
varieties of t;mher oro,v;na on he 49,
9o.., "a "a. 49,
,;lvar detern, ;n;n, 70 Ia, i roro.;, hU,;ad
until he needed II He Az Il mn Ias,
week.
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Inc DaDy Aetresses, Maggie ana Della
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law az oven ,i ,ou ~ '"e ia''er Guy last Aues
80 -
-, a httie daughter OF mr.. feery, near
iell from fence recently and
roAe her arm so severely that amputatlon I
'as necessary "
large mogui engine belonging to the
queen ana crescent llne, slipped Its fasten-
1gs ana was preclpitated into the river at t
flcksourg Saturday. e
The game of base ball between the 7
tarkvilIe and Scooba boys was thrilling
a the highest degree, the score standing
tarkTIlie, Il Scooba, 2.
In our last issue we uninteutionalIv mis-
PEELED the name OF the successful compel 7
or for Cadetship at Annapolis. Instead i
{ James A. Howsee. it should be James n
:. Howe, of fernando. g