The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-06
THE STATE.


McComb City has two ice houses.
Sardis' last saloon closed last week.
Many strangers are in YazoO City.
Osyka has many summer boarders.
| Quitman county has only one store.
Camp meeting at Oxford this week.
Yazoo City hasn't vacant residence
The Sub-Soiler has campaign poet.
You can't even buy cider in Sardis.
Hazlehurst is besieged By drummers.
Copious showers are falling in Oxford.
weddings are SCARCE at Bay 81. Louis.
Warm days and cool nights at Oxford.
Ripley is to have new Baptist church.
Water melons are on boom at osyka.
BAY St. Louis has Republican paper.
Corn is particularly good about Meri-
dian.
Aberdeen has new steam fire COM
pany
Iuka is becoming fashionable summer
resort.
EIlisville has shipped $4,000 pounds
of wool.
Brandon has a well in the Public
Square.
Mrs. J.. D. stapleton died at Hazlehurst
July 30th.
BALDWIN and Marietta are to have a
telephone.
Yazoo business has assumed summer
appearance.
sardis is going to have another paper.
/ Success to it.
Water was struck at depth OF % feet
at Duck Hill.
In comes another. Enterprise wants the
Female College.
Brandon is up with Natchez. 1t has had
a bubble-blowing.
The Young ladies of Hazlehurst indulge
in horseback riding.
Five car loads of cattle were shipped
from Osyka last week.
Mr.. J. H. Stewart OF Hazlehurst died
July 26, aged "a years.
The city hotel at Oxford has suspended
for want of patronage.
/ Drummers in Summit are as numerous
as the leaves on a tree"
The Congressional Nominating Conven-
ton meets in Oxford to day.
Mrs. NJ. G. Rowell, of Ripley, has COM
pleted quilt of 10, 1876 pieces.
The Vicksburg gymnasium club gave
an entertainment last night.
Geo. Klein, late President of the Valley
Bank, is i'll at Ashville, N. c.
The editor of the Ashland Register has
been picnicing at Yalla Rabbit.
The gentlemen of McCOmb City are
about to organize social club.
An exchange has made the startling an
nouneement that times are dull.
The golden spike of the G. A. & NJ.
Railroad was valued at $4,000.
Capt. B. F. Jones will be home this week
| How sad for the New York widowsl
During recent rain in Columbus, the
Tombigbee rose ten feet at that point.
Meridian is improving rapidly. The
mayors court received s., 200 last year.
The son of Mr.. Rockers of McCemb
City was bitten by moccasin last week.
Mr.. Bob McCree, formerly OF Shuqulak,
was killed at Demopolis, Ala, last week.
At the last meeting of board of Pamela
Graded School, all the trustees resigned.
Cholera is prevailing in Yazoo, Madison
and Coahoma couuties-among the hogs.
The Southern Chataqua," Mont Eagle,
Tenn, is we'll represented by Mississippi.
The n. o. Picayune of 81 inst, came in
to Vicksburg on the day OF its publication.
The State lost an able son, when Col A.
J. Baker removed to San Angeles, Texas.
The Bank of Oxford claims to be one
of the most solid institutions in the State.
The Summit Sentinel presents one of the
most interesting local sheets in this State.
The ''Irving Literary Society" of Oxford,
is one of the most interesting societies in
the State.
Miss Eugene McCune took the prize at
Prof. Wyatt's Writing School in Decatur
last week.
Mr.. ]. H. Martin, brother editor, has
been elected Mayor of Utica. A deserved
compliment.
Senator Lamar was welcomed home with
a delightful serenade, on his return from
| Washington.
The closing exercises of the Lake
Literary and Music school were exceeding
ly interesting.
The "Senior Editors" letters TO the TIA
wambian from various points in Texas,
are interesting.
Hazlehurst has formed a Relief Assoc
citation of 100 ladies and gentlemen, to
wait on the sick.
Mr.. Nick Greener, once Master Mechan- |
ic at McComb City, died in Galveston,
Texas, recently.
Jno. r. Lynch is to be orator at the
Emancipation Celebration in Lockport,
N. Y, August II.
an. & D." waited some pleasant
"zephyrs" from Mount Eagle to the PIANO.
la Star, last week.
The Philadelphia Democrat wore mourn
ing last week for Mrs. c. A. Stanton,
mother of the editor.
In the past twenty years Washington
county has had one hundred homicides
and three executions.
The answer to the Free Press numerical
enigma No. 2, can be found in the whole of
the 9th commandment.
The Durant News says that the "West
House" is now conceded by all TO be the
best hotel in the South.
The Coast news in the Gulf Coast Ad-
vertiser is exceedingly interesting, and
becomes more SO, every week. !
The residence of B. s. Kicks, at Belle
Prairie near Yazoo was burned Aug. l. /
Value $780, No Insurance. I
The Copiahan of last week contains I
most interesting letter from Rev. p. A,
Johnston, dated at Chatauqua.
The Clay County Leader says that West :
Points greatest need now is money. West Z
Point needn't feel lonely, at all. !
J. B. Deason has been removed from Il
3rookhaven post-ofiee and V. S. Tyler
ubstituted. Both are Republicans. k
A colored man has celebrated the fourth n
+ July, for many years, by paying his 81
Inscription to the Sardis Star.-Ex. n
Rev. Mr. Mumford, Rector Of st. PauPs o
hurch in Columbus, left last week for ~
DALLAS, Texas, which will be his future :
ONE. q
Capt. W. P. Davis, of Enterprise, died Il
ast week. All the business houses in the w
laces were closed during the funeral GER til
monies. IN
The Newton Free Press says that all tn
neir girls haven't discarded bangs, in il
'ite Of the desire Of the State papers to til
ave it so.
r. r. SpeiFs, large dealer in furniture w
Columbus made an assignment to-day. kr
rs creditors are all in Cincinnati and
Mrs. A. NJ. Smiley, wife of the late p
ldge ]. N. Smiley, died last week at New
1rt KY. For many years she was a OF
sident of Summit Fl
Vicksburg pays $500, per year for gas
.ckson $4,000; Meridian 5000 and Coi1n1-
. $685.. Aberdeen pays $1,000, and is j.
ghted by electricity. CO.
The ElIisville Eagle complains that x
cir merchants send elsewhere to have ~
cir job work done. Why not teach them
At eturn shout Is fair play p al
Great preparations have been made for VI
: Crystal Springs Camp Meeting which prt