The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-11-18
THE STATE.


n Meridian.
The machinery has been ordered for
team laundry at Natchez.
The State Grange will at Durant on the |
'econd Tuesday of December.
Ex-senator Robert Gleed continues TO
sxpound his slecture system.
Christ Church, Vicksburg, has new
bell; weighs $500 pounds, and cost $4,000.
The Holly Springs Register is now issued
daily. That's what we call newspaper
pluck.
Mr.. I. JEFF Wilkinson and Miss Penelope
H. Nunnery, of Amite county were mar
ried on lst., inst.
During DIR. Hoyte's protracted meeting
at Senatobia, seventy-three persons pro-
fessed conversion.
The Holly Springs South is very partial
to the election of Capt. Frank Burkitt as
Speaker of the next House.
4 colored man entered our Office few
days since and asked: rs dis de offs you
reddis in ?-Rosedale Leader.
The Holly Springs Reporter states that
compress and oil-Inil are among the great
needs of that enterprising city.
Capt. NJ. B. Grant, of Enterprise, has
been selected to make the survey of the
Starkville and Grenada road.
Mr.. w W. Williams, greatly esteemed
and useful citizen of Steen's Greek, Rankin
county, died ON the night of 18th inst.
Mr Thomas Kelly and Miss Maggie w.
Atkins, daughter OF DIR. H. p. Atkins,
Brookhaven, were married on 18th inst.
After the grand jury of Pamela Circuit
Court had adjourned, about twenty OF the
Sardis boys returned from visit to the
country.
Woodvilie had twenty-five thousand
dollar fire on the night OF 9th inst. -Four
large two-story buildings on Commercial
Row we're destroyed.
Some of the students at the A. & NJ
College have organized a military company
and have adopted the very appropriate
name, "The Lee Guards"
Vicksburg is to have street railway
A company has been organized. 1t is pro
posed to put down about FIVE miles of track
and to begin work about the first of mex
March.
Capt p F. Jones, of Winona, spent {
few days in our town this week.-Holly
Springs Seporter. It's about time the
Captain was making another visit tc
Oxford.
Gen. III. +. Williamson, of Holly Springs
has departed for Montana Territory tt
fill his appointment as agent for the Grow
Indians, accompanied by his wife and his
son Henry.
The name of the railroad extending
from Memphis to Holly Springs has beer
changed from the Memphis, Selma
Brunswick to the Memphis, Birmingham
and Atlantic.
The Greenville Times says Washington
county is we'll represented in the Girls
College at Columbus, thanks to the loca
Loan Association inaugurated by Mis-
Evy Metcalfe.
One of the most prosperous planters Ii
the State is Miss Virginia McAfee, who's
| plantation in Holmes county, managed b,
herself, yields as fine a crop of corn as an,
in the Yazoo Valley.
! The Kosciusko Star notes that peopl
go from Durant to that city 10 do thei
shopping, and thereupon remarks tina
there is nothing small about Koseiusk
but the prices on goods.
Capt and Mrs. J. p Walker have tn
| sympathy of their many friends in tn
loss of their little son, John Redwood, VIII
died of diptheria yesterday morning
Meridian Tribune, 18th.
The Bryant Literary Society is one G
the commendable institutions of Winona
1t meets at the residences of the members
and its programmes include essays
criticisms, Rotations, music, etc.
/ A six-year-old son of Mr.. Steve Burct
on Strong River, Simpson county, was in
stantly killed last week by negro boy
i'll carelessly handling gun. The sam
shot seriously wounded another child.
Hunting and pressing autumn leaves
the present diversion of many Corintl
girls.-Corinth Sub-Soiler.
Many of the jackson girls are NOR
seriously engaged just at this time.
Skipped by the light of the moon.-
Gurion.
1t don't say what skipped -Oxfor
Eagle.
The late editor of the late Hattiesbur
| Herald.
| Mr.. B. w. Scarborough, the recent
elected Representative from Jasper, an
Miss Eliza Mccormick, also of Jaspe
county, were married at the home of tn
latter on Wednesday, the 18th inst
Enterprise Courier.
Capt. ]. A. Hoskins and Mr. B. 7. Hobbs
editor of the Brookhaven Leader, he'll
their first joint discussion of the Prohibi
ton question at the courthouse in Brook
haven last Friday night. Admission free
and OF course good audience.
The Falcon records the death of Nh
John Cowger, three miles north of Oxford
on 9Th inst, aged one hundred years an
three months. He was born in Kentucky
August Sd, 1885 settled near Oxford il
1887, where he resided until his death.
The editor of the Carrolton Corservativ
| Ct. Ill. Oury) is happy over his election a
county OF Carroll, by an Overwhelming
majority of 22s9. He promises to tax
good care of the "strays" Our congratu
lations.
| Judge Roane was severe on those OF tn
''blind tiger" cases that came to trial an,
were convicted there were four such case
and IL each the penalty was 800 fine an,
cost and three months in the county jai
and a bond OF $500 for good behavior
Pamela Star.
The Southern Boy" comes to us iron
Water Valley. 1t is very small, but dis
plays journalistic talent. One of it
leaders is on Girls Rooms' We shout,
like to have its views on Boys Rooms
Smith 4 Brooks are the publishers; week
| ly-25 cents a year. THE CLARION send
X with pleasure
The Waynesboro correspondent of tn
Mobile Register in speaking of the mar
riage of J. G. Butler and Theodocia Bur
CESS, says: Miss Theodocia is not twely
years old. The groom is not to be per
mitted to claim his bride under two year
"a sort of royal affair"
Mrs. Bate, daughter of Gov. Lowry, wa
appointed to the position of assistant il
| English Language and Literature, and no
to that OF a teacher in the Preparatory de
partment, OF the Female College, as W,
| stated in our last. There is no preparation,
department in connection with the College
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A horrible accident occurred at MIR. Do,
StegalPs cotton gin, ten miles southeast O.
! town, on Tuesday of last week. 1t appear.
from what we can learn that Mr. Stegall,
bright little teh-year-old son, who was play.
ing about the gin, jumped into the revolv
ing box to get ride an was crushed tc
death Observation-Disclosures Observer.
A dimculty occurred at Columbia
Marion county, on the 7th, between Bill
Moss and John and Eliza Cook on Thurs
day night. Moss shot John Cook, killing
him, and also shot Eliza Cook in the
breast, infiicting probably fatal wound
He was pursued by party with blood
hounds and captured. He is now in Jail.
The movement in favor of two U. s.
Court districts in the State seems to meet
with the appreciation of the bar in all Sec
tions, and the committee have received a
large number of the memorials sent out
by them, which have been returned signed