The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
THE STATE.
Baldwin has street lamps.

Bonneville rejoices in street lights.
Noxubee river is being cleaned out,
Hattiesburg has suffered severe fire.
Meridian girls enjoy frequent serenades
sardis enjoyed a colt show last Monday
Dangue fever is prevailing in Watcher
Tupelo has been enjoying calico parties
1t costs $31.65 to steal dog in Lexing
ton.
The Aberdeen Fair was decided sue
cess.
sardis had a heavy killing frost on tn
oath.
Meridian needs an increase on the polio
force.
SandersvilIe is said to be a thriving
town.
Alderman has been made votinI
place.
Grabs sell on the coast at ten cents
dozen.
Fall fights are rapidly increasing in Kos
ciusko.
Grenada INDUCES largely in lottery
tickets.
Blue Mountain has new post-oftc'
building.
sharxey county is free, at last, from
small pox.
Judge ]. NJ. Walden died at his home
October Is.
Chicken thieves are being caught W
with in Meridian.
Pittsboro's literary society has thirty-si1
members enrolled.
Pecans bring a quarter for every hun
dred at Bay St. Louis.
The Natchez city hospital is rapidly
filling up with patients.
NELSON'S Democratic club numbers over
three hundred members.
The Times thinks that the cleanliness OF
Winona might be improved,
Miss Sallie Carr, aged fifteen years
died in Hazlehurst October 10.
Cayuga has advanced TO the dignihed
possession of a dancing school.
A nest of alligators numbering 80 waf
lately found in Bolivar county.
Friars Points rrotracted meeting re-
suited in over fifty conversions.
peach tree in Alfalfa county bears if
teen varieties Of fruit every year.
The woods are burning in the north
eastern portion of Lowndes county.
Mr.. C. NJ. Green and Miss Josie Livall,
were married id Corinth last week.
The Womau's Christian Temperance
Union meets in Winona on Friday.
The musical department of Whitworth
College contains 124 pupils to date.
The new Ragsdale House at Meridian is
now open for the reception of guests.
Ninety bales Of cotton crossed the free
ferry and came into Canton Thursday.
A cotton wagon from AZ miles east was
seen on the streets OF Canton Thursday.
Mr.. R. o. McCarley aud Miss Onie
Hines, were married in Ripley last week.
Rev. Mr.. Carr, of West Station, has
been called to a church in Calvert, Texas.
St. James Episcopal church in Port Glib
son will have its cornerstone laid to-mor-
row.
Miss Jessica Thomas, OF the Huntley
Dramatic Company, is native OF Column
bus.
A Hazlehurst gardener cleared $500
from quarter Of an acre of ground this
year.
Hon. Jno. McC. Martin delivers the
annual address at the Jefferson county
Fair.
Mr.. Lee, Of the Ellisville Eagle, lost his
beautiful daughter, Addie Virginia, last
week.
Columbia has organized debating
society with view to her sons improve
nent.
The mineral water of Mississippi are
aid to equal those of any other State in
he Union.
Port Gibson cowboys object to the en-
'ouraging cheers of the college girls while
It their work.
The residence Of Mr.. Jack Evans, with
ntire contents, was consumed by fire Sat
Irday afternoon.
AT colored Methodist meeting in Me-
idian, few nights since, one negro dam
erously shot another.
An Artesia man possesses a mustache
Which measures twenty-five and n hall
inches from tip to tip.
Six marriages were announced from the
ulpit of St. Paul's church in Vicksburg
few Sabbaths since.
The Whitworth College dots in the
'rookhaven Leader, are exceedingly
right and interesting.
Mr.. VIM. L. Mcdaniel, an aged and
lbstantial citizen OF Itawamba county,
led on Sunday last.
Water Valleys torch-light procession
romises to rival Mardi Graz in its SPLEEN
Or, so says the Central.
The Meridian merchants will all give :
leir clerks holiday tomorrow, in order
lat they may enjoy the Fair. Ii
Base ball and tramps struck Winona u
and promise to rival the i
cycle excitement OF last year. r
III. J. McNutt, living near Baldwin, this g
,ar realized $500 from the sale OF soup a
'rnong grapes from one vine.
The new drop curtain for the Vicksburg
pera House has arrived, and is pro-
,unced a finished work OF art
Friar's Point wants a lumber yard. 4
hey say that there isn't sufficient lum- :
r in the town to bury pauper. d
A number Of young men in Yazoo City z
we formed a society for the purpose Of e
eking homes in South America. v
Mrs. Scruggs will make shipment Of o
ticles, from the hands of Columbus q
dies to the Exposition next week. p
The wife and two children OF Mr.. J. L. =,
links, of Kemper county, we're killed n,
It week by being thrown from a wagon. II
Messrs. Mannocci and White returned to
.tchez on Friday. The former from a pl
II through Italy, the latter through nc
gland. Ii
Little jamie, son OF the Chancery Clerk fr
Holmes county, Mr.. Dyer, fell from a 10
* in his fathers Office few DAYS since co
broke his arm at the elbow. an
Mr. Jas. Hit, Of Lodi, and Miss Alice Oh
lgleten, OF Winons, were married on the va
b after an engagement of seventeen VI
RS. Only three better than Jacob and ~
chel. pc
snake Of the blind congo-eeI species IN IN
! been confined in glass Jar at Ulman- ~,
Ie, Hancock county, Tor fifteen months. ~
although deprived OF food it still lives ~ ~
grows. ef
Ir. Henry Boyd, Of Illinois, while en- 10
te for Alabama, had a sudden hemor- N
&c at Meridian, and in few moments ne
athed his last amid strangers. in y
lnge land. a.,
he editor Of the Carthagenian is now AZ
Hot Springs, seeking relief from rheu- col
ism, and during his absence his little il
ghters have almost absolute control Of tn;
paper. These little ladies are already
King their mark in the world. pc,
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HE following is the result as official boi
announced Of the election in Ohio inf
Or Secretary Of State-Rob;nson r. 4