The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-01
THE STATE.
The YauOO Delta is finished.

Hazlehurst has lady photographer.
Meridian has had several fires lately.
Winona boasts of her superior sidewalks.
Moss Pointers spend much time fishing.
Tramps are abiding IN Fulton at present.
Walden complains Of two much shooting.
shuqulak viii soon have big brick
kiln.
cantons Y. NJ. C. A. is doing a noble
work.
Pittsboro hasn't yet received her @6rst
bale
yicksburg is going to have a race
course.
Baseball Is dead in scOoba. Hurrah for
Scoobal
Cotton is selling in Baldwin for 10 cents
pound.
Yicksburg's average daily cotton receipt
is $50 bales.
Our neighbor Brandon, Is to have Cath
Ollie church.
Col. o. R. Singleton has returned to his
Forest home.
At last the BALDWIN sidewalks are be-
ing repaired.
Archusa enjoyed a grand political meet
ing yesterday.
Lamar will have several new business
houses this fan.
Houses and building lots are in demand
in Holmesyille.
The coast is rapidly losing its large sum-
mer population.
An extra train was wrecked near Lamar
few days since.
Port Gibson had a grand skating tour
nament last week.
The reign of the oyster has been inaugu-
rated on the coast.
Many towns are rejoicing over recent
refreshing showers.
The Normal School at Troy opened with
about nifty boarders.
The pupils of Water Valleys city
schools number 465.
The Planters Compress in Meridian has
been repaired for the fall trade.
The music of the hammer and saw is
heard in every part of Ripley.
The time "when the leaves begin tc
turn" is rapidly drawing near.
The price of cotton seed in this State
has been fixed at $500 per ton.
An unsuccessful attempt was made re-
Gently to burn the Jail at Rosedale.
Two cars were wrecked on the NJ. & 0,
Il. r., near Lauderdale on Monday.
Baldwin wants tight rope for the ben
eft of the murderers in that county.
''Hill City Guards" is the name OF the
new military organization in Vicksburg.
The young ladies of Port Gibson Female
College furnish interesting dots to the
News.
1t is reported that Northern capitalists
are going to build several fine hotels on the
coast.
Henceforth frst-class post-ofices will be
6 p. m.
The opening of most of the colleges in
the State, we are glad to learn, is very Hat
tering.
The Meridian Opera House is being
furnished with two hundred handsome new
chairs.
The Vicksburg Jail is no longer impreg-
nable. Two men escaped from it on Fri
day last.
The Winston Signal man has been going
into rhapsodies over the beautiful sunsets,
recently.
Lightning struck a business house in
Monday, demolishiug one OF
the chimneys.
There were one hundred and fifty Access
sions to the church at the China Grove
camp-meeting.
Joe Fisher didn't know it was loaded"
and killed VIM. Thomas near Tchula, with
pistol recently.
The Presbyterian church at Houston,
large, handsome building, will soon be
ready for occupancy.
Macon is fast little city-one of her
merchants has already received large
stock of Xmas goods.
Aberdeen is ahead of Columbus on the
mail question. 1t has two Northern and
Southern mails daily.
Meridian is going to have competitive
drill between number of companies in the
State, during the Fair.
The Young Missionary, formerly pub
lished at New, Orleans, will hencetorth be
issued from Moss Point.
A respectable old negro man was shot
at Bay St. Louis few days since, and died
from the wound yesterday.
A son of Mr. E. w. Brown, Circuit
Clerk of Copiah county was last week
crushed to death by horse.
DIR. J. NJ. Byrd was seriously wounded
while boarding the train at Vossburg last
week by an'unknown person.
The hero in the late Mead-Sickle elope |
ment in New York, has a brother, Mr. |
Mike Mead, elerking in Meridian.
Mr.. James B. Marmion died Sept. 2lst,
at Pass Christian, of malarial fever. He |
was about twenty-one years OF age.
One of the drums used by the Water
Valley Cleveland, Hendricks and Barry
hub is a relic of the Mexican war.
The little Virgins triplets of Shuqulak
will be included in Noxubee county's rep
at New Orleans this winter.
Enterprise enjoyed miniature cyclone
asst week. No damage done beyond the
of good deal of window glass.
Louisville is possessed of two many
,oisterdus negroes. The Signal complains
hat they keep the town in continual
ow.
The building of Col. Richardson's mar
ow gauge railroad from Carolina Land
ng to Lake Washington, has been aban-
oned.
The citizens along the Valley road, near
are making great complaint OF
band of daring convicts at large IN that {
ouuty.
Mr.. Richard F. Reed. of Natchez, has
cen elected one of the editors OF the Van
erbilt Observer at Vanderbilt University, l
The ladies of the Episcopal church in
Teridian, last night gave Japanese tea t
arty, at Which japanese etiquette was
richly observed.
A sprig of oak containing seTenty-two b
,orns within the area of one square foot T
i'll be one, of Neshoba county's exhibits a
e Worlds Fair. +
The Meridian Mercury says that the .
lmber of gamblers in that city among a
e small boys scarcely old enough to be t
t alone, is alarming. n
Mr.. and Mrs. Terrell Rose, of Duck
III, celebrated their golden wedding on
4Clu lust A<dSAA WIZ = PoA eAOA "a -,
cir original wedding suits. Z,
Troy is said to possess more pretty girls Il
an any town in the State. So the ),
cient city's reputation is being we'll sHs- =
ned BY her modern little name-sake. - -
Mr. A B. Nance, of Washington coun- e
has plneked one Of the fairest flowers &
the Old Dominion, Miss NJ 3. Berkely, q
] brought her to grace his Mississippi ii
ne. Fl
9oy. Lowry has appointed as trustees Of Re
East Mississippi Insane Asylum, a.
ssrs. w. w. George, n. Fl. Whitaker, an
w. Meyer, a. Fl. Smith and L. A. e,
gsaale. til
Dunk Smith, an old Indian agent Of this
te, is getting up company Of Choc- on
. TO play ball at the Exposition. II =,
ldoubtless be novel and highly inter- ii,
ng to many. AZ
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