The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
THE STATE.

/ Fulton has french-harp band.
Durant INDUCES in stag" dances.
Ripley enjoyed circus last Thursday.
Natchez is still longing for compress.
Pass Christian is said to be at its dullest.
West Point has a kinder garter school.
Flora will enjoy grand calico ball to-
night.
Oxford has new paper called the
"Bug."
Vicksburg had three shooting serapes
last week.
Raymond will surely have county fair
next fall.
Gamblers are becoming too numerous in
Meridian.
Handsboro ia now the resting place of a
gypsy band.
The hunters on the Coast are enjoying
a fine season.
Rishop Green is now filling his appoint
ment at Canton.
S. G. Peele, of Hazlehurst has invented
a valuable hay press.
\ A wedding boom, has struck Pass Chris
tian with vengeance.
Mr.. S. W. Bryan an old citizen of Car
rol county, died last week.
Water Valleys Gotten receipts up to this
date have been very light.
The East Miss. Asylum will be ready for
occupancy by December LIST.
~. Moore, of Summit, was fined $25
for selling whisky on Sunday.
The latest name for drummers is "Gen-
ial Commercial Solicitationist."
Carrolltons mayor is fond of base ball
and all such boyish amusements.
The salaries of the mayor and marshall
of Magnolia have been discontinued.
Mr.. c. S. Jobes, of Kosciusko, was fined
800 recently for mistreating prisoners.
Doll weddings and tea parties rage
among the very young ladies OF Fayette.
The Picknick social club Of Vicksburg
will give masquerade ball on the 18th.
The Handsboro college was dedicated
with appropriate ceremonies last Friday
night
Several of the State papers are advertis-
ing one Mr.. Woolsey, matchmaker, as =
dead beat.
Vicksburg is looking well to the Deer
Creek trade. They think there are mil
lions in it.
The Methodist church and Academy at
Scranton were burned recently. lnsur-
ances light.
The schooner Coquette, laden with oys-
tiers, was capsized near Pass Christian
few days ago.
Police circles in Natchez are so quiet as
to fail even in furnishing locals to the
hungry reporter.
The Central claims that Water Valley
has more intellectual young ladies than
any town in the State.
Mrs. n. C. Bell, OF Vicksburg, has made
a very fine collection OF Warren county
fruits for the Exposition.
Mrs. Victoria Little, formerly Mrs. Early,
the most prominent insurance agent OF Ne
ridian died very recently.
The Handsboro Sunday Schools are
already on the increase, in view of the
regulation Christmas tree.
Two hundred bales of cotton were ship
ped to France last Saturday by A. J.
Mitchell & Co., of Aberdeen.
Judge NJ. E. Norris, of Shubuta, died
October 20, from a stroke OF paralysis,
and was inferred in Columbus.
The Okolona compress, which has under
gone such tribulation in the construction,
is at last working successfully.
Walden has an apple tree which has
this year borne three crops, one in June,
one in August and one in October.
Mr. Louis LAWN, of Aberdeen, and Miss
| Bella Curtis, of Pass Christian, were mar
ried at the latter place on the goth ult.
Cards are out announcing the marriage
of Miss Nathalie Whitfield and Mr.. Nor
man q. Winn, of Corinth, this evening.
Byhalia is happy. The liquor license
expired November and now whisky cam
not be procured within five miles of the
| town.
w. T. Davis formerly Chancery Clerk
OF Alfalfa has been sentenced to the peni
Tertiary for seven wears war
rants.
Okolona will soon have well OF ,nized
fire department. The apparatus II the
Hook & Ladder company has alr' ID yar-
rived.
The Natchez Fencibles .de most
excellent display parade last Thu fsday, |
and won admiration from their many OBJ
servers.
The elegant light draft steamboat +.
Barksdale is expected in the Yazoo river
shortly TO form one of the l Line
Steamers.
Miss Julia Jayne VINO mas been for
year pupil of the New England Conserv-
atory at Boston, has returned to her home
in Brandon.
Warren county last week boosted po-
tota weighing eight pounds, and now Boil
var comes to the front with one weighing
eight and half.
Mr.. J. n. Mccoy, of Hattiesburg posses
ses sword, worn by his grandfather,
Redden Mccoy, in the Revolutionary war.
1t will be sent to the Exposition.
Wedding bells rang merrily in Bay st.
Louis, Wednesday evening for the mar
riage of Mr.. Jno. J. Mcdonald of the Pass
and Miss Taconi, of Bay st. Louis.
Mr.. Cornelius Hankins of Lee county is
picture of Col. Ed. Richardson
to hold place in the Mississippi Depart
ment of the Exposition Art Gallery.
An insane man at VHazlehurst grabbed
Mr.. Cranfeld by the whiskers the other day
and stabbed him in the face with fork.
The assault was without proyocation.
Elder R. N. Hall, pastor of the Moss
Point and Scranton churches, has resign
ed and will hereafter canvass the State in
the interest of the Young Missionary.
Jno. Bridges, brother-in-law of Mr.. |
Standiford who was recently murdered at
Bolton has been arrested and is held for
rial for having committed the foul muir !
Ter.
A youth at Liberty, some days ago,
FAMED VIM. Nunnery, cut his brother
Napoleon, in a boyish ARRAY, infictiDg Sc
1ere, but it is believe9 not dangerous inju-
lies.
The next issue Of the Itawambian will
We under the auspices of the Lawrence
listers. It goes without saying, that it 7
will be the best number issued from {
flee. {
When the. mail service over the L. n
}. & 7. r. R. between Baton Rouge and
Iicksburg is established there will be a
ally mail route between Natehez and New t
orleans. I
The citizens Of Mayersville are taking {
teps to have the Greenville & ] Ike Wash :
1gton branch of the L., N. O. & I. r. r.
ztended through Issaquena as far down 4.
3 Nancy Ferry.
A lot Of cotton was recently shipped S
ON Mobile, Ala, to New Orleans via n
leridian, and the experiment proved so a
that much more is expected
} follow in its wake. &
A "cross-grained @Citic" is in serious c
oubt as to whether the Kinds county 2
omet is bright enough to write it's own =.
-ticles or whether it borrows its brilli- y
lcy from other sources.
The Star says that a man liyingswithin 3,
ur miles, of Kosciusko will make wenty m
lies Of cotton and corn to spar. upon r.
acres Of ground. He ard his 81
n with the aid Of two horses made the
Op. IL
Mrs. Frances Willard, president Of the q
emperance Union, accompanied by -
r. Merriek, wife Of ex-chief Justice ~ "