The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-13
THE STATE.

The coast people are already enjoying
Lamar is to have paper-the Herald
IF Liberty.
The street gas lights in Columbus cost
he city - so each.
Blind Tom the musical prodigy is max /
ing a tour Of the State.
Landsowne Park, near Nstchez Wa
formally opened for tie season yester-
day.
Ms. Cecilia Woods, mother Of Hon
Thomas Woods, of Meridian, died last
week;
Mr.Simeon Mcleod, one Moss Points
most promising young men, died last
week.
H. H.Howard, postmaster at Carthage,
has resigned after a service OF thirty /
years /
W. B. Reaves of Coahoma county, has /
invented an atmospheric Washing ma I
chine.
Mr.. Milton Mckay of Salem, Greene
county, was waylaid, shot and killed on
Sunday.
Col. Hooker is to address the pupils of
the Moss Point Academy at the June
commencement.
Most or the wise (aud other wi~e)
editors Of the State are now enjoying the
Press Convention.
Columbus street sprinkler sprinkles
too freely, and makes many muddy
spots in the streets.
Water Valley Is going TO entertain
the members of the Press IN right
royal manner this week.
Fishing is the presentstyle at McCool,
and crickets for bait bring the large
sum of five cents for sixty-hye,
The Episcopal Council was in session
in Natchez last week The venerable
Bishop Green was in attendance.
The Favetre Chronicle viii hereafter
bave a Temperance Column conducted
bv the ladies of the w. G. I. I.
While returning to his home one night
last week. MIR. L L. Trombe, OF Maguo
liza was assissinated near his house.
The safe of Poitveant and Farve, Of
| Pennington, was burglarized last week.
Suspicion rests on some book agents.
Hon. c. b. Howry, of Lafayette coun-
/ tv. Is before the people, as candl-
1 date for State Senator from his county.
The Jackson county Board of Health
4 held a meeting last week and recon-
mended that quarantine be put IN elect
May TO-
Harrison comfy Democrats, ia mass
meeting last week endorsed NJ. NJ Evans
/ for Secretary of State, and Robt. Lowry
for Governor.
The ladies of the different denonomi-
nations. all owe the State, seem to have
turned all their attention Of late to straw
berry festivals.
Little Laura Mabry, of Strayhorn
aged about two years, helped herself to
a dose of morphine one day last week
and came near dying.
The Raymond people VIII give thi.
week a beautiful rendition OF the play
Damon and Pythias,' for the beueh'
Of the lodges in that town.
An exchange says that an alligator
three feet long. and two catfish, eacl
weighing one hundred pounds, were
found recently in Pearl River.
The Aberdeen Memorial Association
will. on Friday next, decorate the
soldiers graves y very extensive
programme has been laid out for the
day.
Near Walden on the night of the End
Archie Logan, who was returning home
from MS work, and who was thought tC
be drunk, was run over and killed by ;
train.
The Meridian authorities have mad,
a contract for lighting their city will
street lamps at a cost of one hundred
and seventeen dollars per month. %
lamps will take the place of gas
. Inquiries come from Washington a
to the whereabouts of one Lieut. Alfred
Mott, who formerly resided near Por
Gibson. The inquiry is in regard 20 4
pension and his family may be glad Il
: learn this.
: Crystal Springs has an amateur tieat
2 rical CLUB which has been admirabl,
drilled by member of the Shaksperial
e society Of New Orleans. They propose
5 to give the Capital Capital City the ben
} eft of their talent at an carly date.
Mr.. Jno. H. Martin, the Utica Come
man, still enjoys The honor of beiul
Lord Mayor of his town. lie wa
, reelected last week, and he attribute
his success chiefly to the ladies, who
. one and all labored earnestly for him.
There lives in this county tire
brothers, between 80 and 20 years OF age
neither of whom has ever taken a drinl
of liquor, chew of tobacco nor a smok
from a pipe or cigar. They are The
Beales on Pearl Riyer.-Canton Picket
: 1t Is stated that the tomb stone mad
A by Adam Kellogg, of Nicksburg, ?
i years ago, for the grave of the Col. Geo
j McNutt, is yet lying on the bank OF tn
/ Tallahatchie River, at Iila Iobia
n and the grave yet unmarked and neg
y lected.
There are eight young men in th
! Mississippi College who do their Owl
cooking, etc, in order to obtain an edu
+ cation. Inthe language of an exchange
= ''of such men are heroes made, and on
v Of those will be worth more to the Stat
!. than dozen pampered sciCns of wealtl
e who are supposed to be educated n
f institutions supported at the States eN
l pense. FIX.
Last Sunday evening General ALDER
Sidney Johnson's parents passed thr0ugI
q Holly Springs Ell route, from their hOm
# in Virginia, to the New Orleans ENposi
e ton. While the train was taking sup
r per at Grand Junction they were observ
5 cd straining their eyes in the direction
d of Corinth, while the tears trickled dow
:, their cheeks, a. they thought of thej
n noble son who gave his life in defense 0
his country. President Clark EXTENDED
II the courtesies Of the road to them-giv
it ing return trip ticket from their hons
= in Virginia TO New Orleaus.-Alarshai
e Register.
C The Mississippi editors viii meet a
It Water Valley Wednesday. The south
2 ern local paper, ia many respects is vel
n W rthy Of the study and attention OF
:, Northern editors. Local news and
e thought are rapidly losing their just
e places in this age of manifold copy auC
e labor-saying appliances. Journals with
: a small circulation filed with matter,
D pertinent to the scene of publication
e are becoming rarer and rarer each year
! which Is a development IN the Hronl
: way. Besides, the easy methods of th'
= present day bring forth too man,
: papers. The Southern country pres
. has fallen less into this fashion than Tia
q Northern, and it is a pleasant thing t
/ say.-Current.
e State Pharmaceutical Association
0 The second annual meeting of tn,
Mississippi State Pharmaceutical Asso
! citation, will be held at Natchez. on Tues
! handsome display of drugs and chemi
H. A.