The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-18
THE STATE.
Thieres are q. YORK in viek.burr.


St. Patrick's day was celebrated by the
Vicksburg Hibernians.
The Examiner reports fishing about
Aberdeen as very sne.
Brookhaven is rejoicing, because her
streets are to be lighted.
Mrs W. W. HUMPHREYS, of Columbus
died very suddenly last week.
Mrs. Mary Pope, of Simpson county,
died February s, aged 81 years.
Our State University town is without
good preparatory school for boys.
The heaviest hail storm OF the season
was felt at Ripley last Thursday.
Prof. Sharp, OF Nashville, has formed
classin Stenography, at Meridian.
Hon. E. s. Drake h Is been elected Mas
ter of the Port Gibson Cotton Mills.
An Industrial Loan Association has
been organized in Claiborne county.
The Biloxi factories have already COM
menced the work of canning shrimp.
1t took S27 ,500.S6 to pay the railroad
employees at Water Valley last week.
Mr.. Fred Knabe and Miss Dora Gibbs
were married last week in Yazoo City.
The Vicksburg fire department proposes
to have gala celebration, April 22nd.
Two unsuccessful attempts were made to
ousglarize postofiice at Meridian Sunday
night.
A Starkville skater is reported as having
fallen six feet six inches, at one fall, re-
Gently.
Mr. n. \. Jones and Miss A. Morton
were married in Tippah county on We'd
nesday last.
The Water Valley Progress has P cor
respondent who bears the nom de plume
of Tar Heel.
One house in Kosciusko booked last year
$50, 900, and has already collected $47 600
OF the amount.
Joseph A. Bass a promising youth OF
nineteen years, died at his home in Shu-
buta last week.
Mr.. E. III. Buck, of Lexington and Miss
Lula Chiles, of Starkville, were made one,
on the 9th inst.
Shall we say again" Winter fingers in
the lap of Spring ?"-Brookhare Leader.
No, please don't.
Mrs. Kidd chaperoned party of young
ladies from Whitworth College to New
| Orleans last week.
Liberty is losing many of her citizens
Gloster on the new railroad, proving more
| attractive to them.
Twenty-three Thousand bales of cotton
have been compressed this season, at the
Aberdeen compress.
Levi C. Moore, aged 90 years, and fore
man OF the Mercury news room, died IL
Meridian Monday.
! Some of our exchanges already have
spring fever, and are treating their readers
| to original efusions on Spring"
The Columbus papers agree in speaking
of their retiring Postmaster, Mr.. w. IL
Kennon in terms very complimentary.
The celebrated Tramp" speech of Capt
| F. A. Wolff is still before the public. The
Louisville Farm and Home" published il
| last week.
| The Meridian Mercury says that "The
| Morning Telegram" will appear about
| April LIST. Does the Mercury intend that
as joke?
1t takes the Vicksburg people some
time to get used to the Sunday law. 1t is
something new, under the sum to the
native Vicksburger.
Pulltight wants skating rink. 1t may
get it, but we predict that a rink will moi
flourish in the village bearing the classic
name of "Pulltight."
Secretary Lamar has invited Missis-
sippi lady, Mrs E. V. d. Miller, to be-
come his private secretary, and she has
accepted the position.
Cooper's Wells are being improved at =
cost of $4,000, and the hotels there will
| rival taose of any Southern watering place
| in comfort and convenience.
| Mr.. J. F. Disney, representing the Music
house of H. C. Hollenberg, OF Memphis
died in Aberdeen Friday. His remains
we're shipped to his home in Mt. Vernon
Ohio.
The crying need of every town now is an
iron-clad ordinance, backed up by blood.
andthunder police regulations against the
boy who plays the kazoo.-Kosciusko Mes
senger.
Rev. W. T. Lowrey, son of Gen. NJ. P
| Lowrey, has been elected to fill the vacancy
| in the pulpit of the Ripley Baptist church
occasioned by the death OF his honored
father.
A Natchez young lady recently had a
private skating rink all of her own, where
an ordinary banana peel took the part oil
the usual roller skates, and. like the roller
skates came off conqueror.
Mrs. Monnie Keeling, nee Franks, .oi
| West Point, bride of but few months
died very suddenly Monday morning. The
death of this bright young favorlte has
cast gloom over the entire city.
The first death that has ever occurred
| in the Port Gibson Female College occur
| red there last week, when Miss Theresa
Parker, aged fourteen years, died OF heart
trouble and congestion of the lungs.
The colored Baptist consolidated con-
| vention has purchased the Walworth build
| ing at Natchez for $1,000, and will estab-
lish a colored Baptist college there, under
the auspices of their church.-C-Herald.
We hear that Is mad dogs were sent to
the happy hunting grounds from the Ethel
neighborhood last week. Let the good
work go on; and do not investigate closely
to see whether or not they are mad.-Kos-
ciusko Star.
The Canton Citizen, owned by Mrs. T.
A. Bosworth, is for sale. The reason for
this change is the rapid failing of Mrs.
Bosworth's health, Which warns her that
she can not much longer remain in the
profession she has grsced for so many
years.
Mrs Daniel W. Beall, died in Lexington
last Thursday. Seemingly in perfect health,
Mrs. Beall walked out into her barn-yard
after breakfast, and while there, fell in an
insensible condition, and expired before
her husband could reach her. She was
but twenty five years of age.
Two distressing fires occurred near Lex
ington recently. One of which consumed
the house and contents, including large
sum Of money, of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Gray. the oldest couple in the county. The
other destroyed the cabin of a colored man
and burned three little children with it.
VIM. Brown, ST., aged rs. died at Port
Gibson on the 3rd. He was probably the
oldest engineer living in the Southwest, hav-
ing been master mechanic in 1887 with the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, of Philadel-
phia, and ran the first locomotive over the
Vicksburg and Meridian road in 1888, and
the first one in Mississippi.-Ex.
Information reached here yesterday that
j. D. Chickering, Esq, clerk Of the circuit
court of Lefore county, together with sew
eral other gentlemen, last Thursday, went
on hunting expedition When about six
miles from Greenwood they were overtaken
by a severe hail-storm. Mr. Chickerinp
was SO badly injured that he was unable to
reach Greenwood and took shelter in some
negro quarters, but died in few hours
from the effect OF his iujuries.-C-Herald.
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