The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-15
THE STATE.


Corinth boasts i've good hotels.
The BatesyilIe Jail IS completed.
Business is improving in Chester.
Meridian has fertilizer factory.
Gillsburg is still suffering for rain.
Newton's wedding season has gun.
Biloxi makes daily shipments Of oysters
The umbrella fxer has struck Winona
Gillshurg has dourishing Democrats
club.
Rt Rev. Bishop Janssens is visiting tn
coast
The. Gainesville barbecue scored BIZ
success.
screech owls are on The rampage in anc
near Ellisville.
The Canton merchants are painting theil
store fronts red.
Excursion days are Slmos, over for thi
season, at least.
The State Female College building
have been insured.
In Clifton the "erops are short, slocl
poor and no money.
The marriage license business in Starks
vile is improving.
Crystal Springs shipped 762 bales o.
cotton in September.
The young Democracy OF Natchez speaks
of adopting uniform.
Natchez is now enjoying the possession
of a handsome carpet house.
Another case OF small pox has beer
developed near Rolling Fork.
Col. P. C. Quin, of Pike county, died OF
the 9Th inst, of typhoid fever.
Senator Lamar will deliver an address
at the Aberdeen Fair this week.
The editor of the Live Stock Journal i,
an accomplished elocution teacher.
Strange vagabondish characters" are
roaming around Fayette at present.
Pecan trees in Hancock county are suf
fering from the depreciation of bats.
The Meridian Rifles will give grand
ball at Arhory Hall during Fair week.
"The horn of the hunter is heard on the
hill in many localities about this time.
The Meridian Mercury is now issued in
the morning instead of evening, as formerly
The Danner, Michigan and DeSmet
mills of Moss Point will open soon again
Pass Christian needs a change in heI
police force, and the Beacon is advocating
it.
Mr.. S. z. Bloom, of Wesson, while
skating last week, fell and broke his right
arm.
Columbus had fallen 1927 bales short Of
last year, in her cotton receipts up to Octo-
Der 8.
Vicksburg has given up the prospect OF
good brick sidewalks this winter, with a
groan.
A petition is being circulated in Harri-
son county, requesting a repeal OF the gill
net law.
Neshoba county comes to the front with
an unequalled crop of pSrsimmons and
'possums.
Holly Springs had fire last week, and
is now lamenting the non-possession OF a
fire engine.
The Citizen says that Missitary instead
of Military discipline now rules the A. d
Il. College.
1t has recently been discovered that Kos
ciusko has mineral waters Of rare medlcl-
nal qualities.
The cattle around Brooksville have been
dying in large numbers recently, from I'M
known causes.
Natchez has one gallant son who with
support the fair Belva on her road to the
White House.
The marriage of Mr.. w. M. Rutherford,
and Miss Rosie Walker, of Vicksburg, has
been announced.
The Catholic cemetery at Pass Christian
has been greatly improved by the erection
Of a neat new fence.
The News wagers ten dollars that Port
Gibson has the two prettiest girls m the
State of Mississippi.
A colored woman named Thomas is de-
livering edifying lectures to others of her
race, on the Sea Coast.
The nights are growing darker and the
Newton boys are lamenting the vanished
promenades.
The presence of diphtheria of a malig-
nant type i'll the suburbs of Crystal Springs,
is causing great uneasiness.
Miss Hoffman, a Bay st. Louis young
lady, has consumed 400 yards Of white
thread, crochetting quilt.
Glover Acorn, the only and talented
son of Ex-Governor Alcorn, died at his
.ather's home on the 18th inst.
The Madison county Circuit Court
adjourned Friday after disposing of one
hundred and ninety-four criminal cases.
Noxubee county is going to have the
orettiest exhibit from the State at the Ex-
group Of her fair daughters.
The Refuge Oil Mills at Port Gibson
operations on Wednesday last,
With the prospect of fine business season.
The Sardis base ball club has at last |
ound its match. The Memphis club en-.
Dyed the honor Of pointing it out to them.
Mr.. A. J. Sykes, son of the late Mai. A. |
!. Sykes, of Aberdeen, died after brief |
Illness, i'll Nashville, Tenn, on the 9th |
nst.
Only eight girls have matriculated at
ne A. and NJ. College, yet they have
lready had Leap Year party at Gen.
.ee's.
The Port Gibson College girls claim the
ardest study, incest desks, handsomest
hapel and loveliest college grounds in the
tate.
Mr.. Alexander, jailor at Meridian, has
violin one hundred years old, which has
cen in his possession for nearly forty
ears.
The river is rising so rapidly at Vickt.
urg that it will soon admit of all the
ibutary packets receiving freight at the
ty landing.
No white person has died in Brandon,
uring the past ten months, except an
lfant, who was i'll when it reached there
ON Meridian.
The first regular through train on the L.
!. o. & T. Railroad left Vicksburg Sun
ny evening October IL, with Pullman
eepers attached. Is
The name of Leighton, a station on the /
n. 0. & T. Railroad, near Rolling Fork, t
Is been changed to Carey, in honor Of /
rs. Carey Clark. d
The residence of Mr. VIM. Muller, in S
was consumed by FIRE Friday y
ght. The alarm system failed to do its il
ny, on this occasion. Il
Prof. James Mcclure Jr., Of Jefferson :
'lIege, Washington, Adams county, was Il
arried in Fayette last week to Miss Eta $;
Campbell, Of Fayette. s.
Jno. Creel, Biloxi boy of ninetee n, q
ped with Handsboro widow, and her II
rec children, last week. His father is
lrching for him now, but as yet without 4
ecess.
Mr.. G. E. Standiford, prominent young =
Eyer of Belen, was assassinated by some i
known party on the 9th. The shot 4
ne through the window, killing him in q
ntly. ',
4 portrait of Rt Rev. William Mercer tr
cen, Bishop Of Mississippi, from the h
lsh of Miss Annie E. Simmons, Of N
shville, Tenn, will be on exhibition at g
Worlds Fair. Se