The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-03
THE STATE.
The State oyeraows with cirenses.

Port Gibson has at last enjoyed we'd
ding.
Cotton receipts are booming in K0sei
usko.
Enterprise doesn't seem fond Of cir
cuses.
Eggs sell at fancy prices all over thu
State.
The Juveniles Of Natchez enjoy mask
socials.
The Natchez oil mills are doing fins
business.
Macon has organized Lodge of Good
Templars.
Corn brings seventy Eve cents per bushe
In Walthall.
The Biloxi canning factories are KEPT
extremely busy.
Bay ST. Louis is to enjoy grand bal
New Years night.
The publication of the Yazoo- Delta Re
view has been resumed.
1t is said by the Star, that Kosciusko is
booming with great big B.
Whisky petitions still manage tc
breathe family in Kosciusko.
Senatobia seems TO feel a pride in her ex-
ceptionally fine book keepers.
Pass Christian will have grand torch
light procession Friday night.
The foundation of the U. S. building at
Oxford is steadily progressing.
Mr.. Tyler Logan, quite an old man,
died last week, near Abbeyille.
The Hattiesburg Herald will this week
bid farewell to its patent outside.
Mr.. Bruce NJ. Moore, aged % years, died
at his home in Meridian, Nov. %.
Lee county is sending out many of her
inhabitants to Texas and Arkansas.
Mr. Emory Moddux, of Union Church,
in Jefferson county, died at his home No
vember S0th, after lingering illness.
Miss Nellie Tyson, of Baldwin, has
made silk quilt containing 10000 pieces.
What has become of the college Dots"
which formerly adorned the Port Gibson
News?
Mr.. J. w. Wright and Miss Hattie John
10Th inst.
All that is now lacking to complete the
East Mississippi Insane Asylum is super
intendent.
SUBMITS dudes "are dwindling away.
What will they be when the dwindling pro-
cess is completed?
r. NJ White, of Neshoba county, has
mulberry tree which measures eighty feet
in circumference.
The Grand Jury adjourned at Aberdeen
last week, after finding about seventy true
bills of indictment.
The West Point Rifles visited Aberdeen
last week and made as we'll as took away
a very fine impression.
The Carrollton Conservative was gotten
out last week by editor, printer and pub
Usher, three in one.
Little Tommy Sheridan, of Natchez, was
run over by carriage last Thursday, and
received severe Injuries.
Hon. S. H. Ford. appointed Attorney
General, is still dangerously ill from pneu-
monia, at Bay st. Louis.
Okolona claims the honor that should
be accorded to "the reddest town the world
ever saw" after the election.
Geo. E. Birdsong, constable of Bolton,
was killed last Thursday in the attempt to
arrest. two men near Brownsville.
The young men of Greenville expressed
their Joy over Cleyeland's election by a
grand ball in that city last night.
Grenada has six female applicants for
the postofice, innumerable males, and sew
eral precincts from which to hear.
The Mayersville youths are given to un-
hitching their neighbors' horses and letting
them roam at their own sweet will.
The Leader Office, West Point, Miss,
offers printing office for sale, very cheap.
1t Is not the Leader Office, however.
The corner stone Of the United States
building at Oxford was laid last Tuesday,
during very interesting ceremony.
More small pox has been developed on
Deer Greek, this time near Leland. 1t is
feared that it will spread extensively.
The Senior of the Moss Point Advertiser
will bestow the favor of his presence upon
Washington during the inauguration.
The Winters mill and gin, five miles
from Oxford, was consumed by fire last
week, causing great loss to the farmers.
Geo Cobb, near Aberdeen was accident
ally shot last week by oolored boy, and
at last accounts was not expected to re-
cover.
A young lady, by name, Miss Stevens,
was instantly killed by an incoming train,
while crossing the railroad, in Hattiesburg,
last week.
The Kosciusko Star wishes to know if
the fact that weddings are to be numerous
in the immediate saeeharine subsequently,
is due to leap year.
The Local, of the Newton free Press,
hna1s IF hir noIap,r NTH 4ba foII1uyi,,r,
modest invitation "Kiss me, Darling"
We wonder who responded.
Mr.. N. A. Mott, of the Yazoo City SEN
tinel was united in marriage last week to |
Miss Sue B. Everett, of that city. We |
extend our congratulations.
Bro. Barr, of the Corinth Sub-Soiler, and
all the other "best men OF the country" |
stand opposed to dancing consequently to
an inaugural ball on the 4th.
A "real live" fish has been discovered to
be the inhabitant of the oyster shell in the
river. Is 1t necessary to add
that twill be at the Exposition?
November 18th, 1884, at Shiloh Church.
BY Rev. J.. w. Bates, Mr.. james Robert
son md Miss Minnie Killebrew, we're
oined in the holy bonds OF matrimony.
They say that so many pretty girls
haven't been seen ''sinee the woods were
burned, y as can be seen on the streets of
as the Whitworth girls pass
'y.
November 18th, 1884, at the residence Of
he BRIDES father near pleasant Grove, by
he Rev. A. G. Coleman, Mr., NJ. +. Will
on and Miss Emma Gillespie were mar
led.
VIM. Crawford and Mr.. Raines, both OF
Jovi ngton, had a difficulty last week
growing out of jealousy on the part Of the
ormer, and resulting in the death Of the
after
The young gentlemen of Durant are re-
luesting the neigh boring towns to send up
bout twenty pretty girls from sixteen
o twenty, beauless, and matrimonially
Inclined
A very sad death occurred recently at
Egypt Station. Mr.. Augustus 0Connor,
n esteemed young man, was found across
he railroad track lifeless and horribly 9
tangled. $
The floor Of the Presbyterian Church, at :
,atchez has been covered with a crimson I
BRUSSELS carpet, the gift of an unknown I
'iend, whose ..left hand kpoweth not the c
-ork Of his right = z" I
Mrs. Profe, Of Natchez, is very anxious a
} obtain CROW, a dove and a iay-bird Il
that she may fnish the ex- V
ibit for the Apo. she Is preparing e'the
urial of Cock Robin" with stuffed birds. a
Mrs. NJ. /. Goodlett, of TupeIo, has con- y
ibuted beautiful piece Of work to the 4 Z.
foman's Department of the Mississippi Z
Isplay in the shape of a lambrequin Is
amed maptel of black silk velvet banners. 81
and painted and laced together with e
light silk cords. S n
Mrs. Ellen Adair Beatty, one OF the "
ost cultured and gracious women Of our SC
nd, breathed her last, at the residence OF OF
+. NJ, Y. Sullivan, November q, aud now II
sts beneath The sod in 1xfords City Of
e Dead, after q life rich In all that con- he
ibutes tossthe making perfect woman. N