The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-08
TIE STATE.
Ripley invalids are convaIescing.
Drnmmers are scarce in Scrnnton.

ASAAA5N oA OAA nils are very SUCCESSFUL
4 ByhAlia is having her sidewalks repaired.
,S New Albany is begging for . pAo'osra-
] Lexington win have . military COM
Pany.
Rolling Fork wants Knight OF Honor
Lodge.
Astala county has a colOred teacher's
institute.
Coal brings sixty cents per barrel in
Natchez.
Shannon boasts of its wonderful musical
Prodigies.
The Baptist Association is in session at
Bonneville
Fulton is enjoying prOtracted meeting
and revival.
The days of marble playing have gone
by in Ripley.
The school funds ia Lafayette county
: are exhausted.
Novus Homo in the StarkviIle Times is 3
great punster.
The Young Democracy 81 Natchez keep
the ball rolling.
The Holly Springs girls have organized
cooking club.
Incendiaries have been al work in and
about Meridian.
, There is not Jew inside the corporate
, limits of Houston.
The medical men of Fulton are kept
extremely busy now.
The season has already opened st the
Meridian opera house.
Natchez had a grand organ recital at
the Temple last night.
The editor of the New Albany Democrat
is taking music lessons.
Meridian's Mayors Court was lively
place Monday morning.
The Utica Comet has changed its name
to Kinds County Comet.
The City Fathers are having plank
walks laid in Batesville.
The young men of Ripley have organ
lied Christian Association.
The Scooba huntsmen brought in four
deer last week from one hunt.
Two extensive new business houses are
being constructed in Pickens.
The oyster business on the coast promi-
ses to be very fine this winter.
Locals we're "scarcer than silver dollars"
with the Rosedale Leader last week.
WaIthaIl has been elevated to the honor
of possessing bed-spring factory.
The past month was the hottest Septem-
Der that we have had in twelve years.
Miss S. C. Cornelius, of the faculty of
Aberdeen Female College, died last week.
The order has greatly improved in
Vicksburg, since the change in the police
force.
The Enterprise soldier boys have re-
ceived their guns, and will soon appear in
uniforms.
Lexington needs a cotton factory, but
whether she will have it is q question Of
the future.
The molasses ''crop" in Mississippi this
year is very fine from both sorghum and
sugar cane.
A Neshoba county farmer has so far
honored st. John, as to give his name to
favorite pig.
One young lady has matriculated at the
A. and NJ. College, and there is room for
200 to follow.
Mr.. c. B. Bostic and Miss Bette Par |
sons, of Hazlehurst figured in a runaway |
match last week.
Mrs. Hardlink, of Natchez, is on the
search OF a runaway husband She would
better let him run.
The East Mississippi Cotton Mills, loca-
ted at Meridian, will add about 1000 new
spindles this season.
The Mercury's local page of Monday |
made a.pi, which, it is said made the whole
force sick to contemplate.
1t is reported that hot spring that
emits steam and sulphuric vapor has been
discovered near Osyka. Miss.
The Louisville Signal wishes fathers of
small boys to block and chain them before
turning them loose after dark.
Mr.. E. A. C. Davis killed an eagle near
Ashland last week, which measured five
feet six inches from tip to tip.
Scott McCuiston, boy of IA or Is, is in
Jail at Winona, charged with stabbing a
boy OF his own age, near Mars Hill.
The river looks, from the bluff at Nat
chez, as If the bottom was trying to get on
top of the water, says the Democrat
The residence of Mr.. o. B. Collins, of
Quitman, was consumed by fire last week,
while the family was absent at Archusa.
The corner stone of the Columbus Pres
byterian church, which is to be the hand
soonest church in the State, has been laid.
Hancock county only made a small APP
preparation, and she is already prepared
with splendid exhibit for the Exposition.
Winona's witty dude left home for the
State University last week. They expect
him to at least be an usher at commence
ment.
Mr. P. ]. Myers, of Myrtle, was wound
ed in the knee while squirrel hunting Sat
lrday, SO severely as to render amputation
necessary.
The railroads connecting at Meridi an
have agreed to pool rates, which will have
i very injurious effect upon that enterpris-
ing little city.
The Kemper Herald says the sore st
trial in a young mans lot is writing in a
girls autograph album. How exceeding ]
ly ungallant.
Meridian has purchased three dozen fine 4
street lamps, with splendid lighting capac- :
ity, to be set up at corners where gas 9
maines do not run. III
Walden, with population of about one a
thousand, has no meat market. II seems b
a good field for some euteFprising man n
engaged in that husineAs. Z
A SANDER suit is being brought in the d
circuit court of Lauderdale county, by "
DR.. Oliphant against Prof. J. L. Cooper. b
The amount sued for being $4,000.
Prof. r. w. Jones, l.. L. D., of the Ia
University of Mississippi has been elected L
President of the State Female College. fl
de is the right man in the right place. il
Baldwin has musical prodigy in the Of
person of little Miss Kittie Burress, aged ia
en-, who has, for two years, been organist bI
n the Baptist Sunday School at that w
,lace. h.
As Fayette couldn't get THE College ~
he has done the most sensible thing, and Fl
pened two very fine schools of her own, hs
Ihich are receiving unusually good pat til
onage. bu
Rev. DR.. BardWell's resignation of the
astorate of the Presbyterian church at -
Ieridian was accepted last Thurpday. II
lie will make his home henceforth in New y,
rleans. 20
The Carroll Watchman thinks 1t is u,
me to lay aside the "horrid Mother Hub NJ NJ
ard and don the becoming Jersey tT3
Acket.D Shows how much he knows =
bout it. ~
A farmer near Shannon has invented ~
ece of machinery, which, when attached -
his gin, enables him 10 gin as many ~ ~
lies per day, with one horse, as others M M
N with six. ~
The West Point New Era and Leader ~ ~.
e about at daggers' points, and all about ~
e looks Of the West Point men. The -
q says they are ugly and the Leader - -
rs they are not. LOT
Miss Alice Heath was found dead in the AZ ~.
&c OF the river, just below her uncIe's w ~
Iidence near Yazoo City, . few days ago. ~
opposed to be voluntary drowning, In -. a..
moment of insanity. "a
The. Deputy Circuit Clerk of Union Vie ~.
unity threatens to organize marriage a. = -.
stations unless the youths come fnrward ~ 20.