The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-04
TIE STAT.

solo coHnt1.
New Albany i c,sy not blessed with |
sabbath Schools.
Hon. A. w. Brien, Of Warren. died /
sunday morning.
Yazoo City wants It's colored school
enlarged
Aberdeen will soon lie The proud posses
scr OF an ice factory.
The smiling face OF the candidate is the
latest thing a, present.
There is a negro in Yalobnsha county
said to be l22 years old.
Some Of our exchanges are elamoring
Tor spring poetry already.
Ciinton's new Methodist Church will
cost fifteen lundrsd dollars.
Mr.. james Martin, an old citizen OF
Houston, died February Goth.
The blind man With his dog has been
the latest excitement in Oxford.
II costs twenty dollars to swear and use
profane language in New Albany.
Miss Laura Warren, OF Yazoo City, be-
came Mrs. I. A. Holiomaa last week.
The East Mississippi Insane Asylum
now has more than one hundred patients
Miss Helen Yates and Mr.. S. D. Stubs
OF Utica, we're quietly married last week
Two hack drivers in Nicksburg we've
last week arrested and fined for cruelty 10
animals.
Holmes county has a candidate for Gov
ernor, one for Auditor, and one Tor Secre-
tary Of State.
Mrs. Eunice Wagster, OF shubuta, died
few days ago, AT the advanced age OF
ninety-two years.
The Watchman, juvenile paper, Is now
published at Lee, by Mr.. Charlie Foster
We wish ii success.
The Crawford street Methodist Church
in Nicksburg caught on fire last week and
sustained serious injury.
The man about town" at Blue Noun
tain says that "Frigonometry vas nearly
down 10 Cairo last week"
Mr. Albert Green, young man just in
the bloom of life, died at his home near
Webster en- the 10Th inst
The charming Miss Annie Pope, OF
Columbus, was united IN marriage last
week to Mr.. I. 5. Tutwiler.
Miss Josie Howard of the L. f. College
at . zford, and DIR. A. ii. Weston OF that
city, were married last week.
Mrs. Livingston Minis, of Atlanta, Ga,
so we'll known throughout our State. Is
visiting relatives in Brandon.
The work OF re-;aying the track OF the
V. q NJ, between Morton and Brandon,
with new steel rails, is progressing rapidly.
A number Of pupils from Blue Mountain
Female College will attend the Exposition
this week, chaperoned, OF course, by teach
ers.
At Artesia, Miss, February -, 1888, by
Mavor Wood, Mr.. Robert J. Farrar and
Miss Ruby A. Hardin, both OF Scooba,
were married.
Mrs. Joel A. Hearne, OF Ripley, was
robbed Of her pocket book in New Orleans
during carnival week, thus losing about
i,hty dollars.
Mr.. Ellis Patrick and his sons, Of south
east Rankin, brought in sixty bales OF
cotton last week and sold it all in Brandon
at ten cents per pound.
The devils of the New Albany Optic
get up the news column in that paper, and
sustain their reputation for seeking out
the doings of all men.
The Social Euchre Club Of Ripley, after
PLAYING 36S games in three evenings last,
suspended with tie, and were to contest
the match last Friday night.
A number of the leading merchants Of
| Vicksburg have decided to build a first
class hotel in that city. A site spec
tally adapted for the purpose has been Sc
lected
The Radiator claims that Brookhayen
has the kindest-hearted people in the
world. They are always so perfectly oblig-
ing in attending to the business of Other
people.
Some of the Meridian boys have taken
apprenticeship in the crushing" and
for daily practice haunt the incoming
trains to look "intense" at the pretty girl
on board.
A civil service examination will be held
at jackson, on March 10th. Persons wish
ing to apply for departmental positions at
Washington should govern themselves
accordingly.
Lee Richardson. President of the Firs
National Bank of Nicksburg, has resigned
for want OF time to attend to the duties Of
the office, and ;. /. Barnett has been ap-
pointed in his stead.
The Odd Fellows of Yazoo City are
making appropriate preparations for the
reception OF the Grand Lodge /. o. Q. F..
of Mississippi, to assemble there on the
first Tuesday in May.
Married, in Sucarnochee, on the 18th
inst, at the residence of Miss Rose Ed
ridge, by Rev D. c. Langford, Mr.. J. B.
McDade, of Starkville, Miss, to Miss Mary
A. Eldridge, Of Sucarnochee.
There are now fifty three children in the
Protestant Orphan Asylum at Natchez
| its full capacity-so that others cannot be
received until homes are found for some OF
the children now in the Asylum.
Mrs. DR.. F. NJ. Halbert, of Duncansby.
died a few days ago, Immediately upon
her return from an Exposition visit. She
had been married but few months, and
leaves a devoted young husband to mourn
her untimely death.
The Biloxi Herald urges the establish
ment Of an eating house at Scranton for
| the convenience OF travellers over the l.
| & n, and who now are compelled to go
from New Orleans to Mobile without re-
| freshment of the inner man.
| Henry Hole, piano repairer, who was
at Loves repairing the church organ, was
found dead in his bed, on the 18th inst
| The coroner was summoned and an inquest
held. letter was found in one OF the
pockets of the deceased mans coat from
his daughter.-Ex.
The municipal election in Winona. on
| I'd, resulted in the reelection of DR.. G. NJ
Erwin as Mayor, w. w. Steele, marshal.
and Messrs. J. G. PuInell, L. n. Moore. I.
Nolen, j. J. Campbell and d. L. Sweat
man-not "Seventman," as the Times
Democrat special has it.
The last issue of the Biloxi Herald is
authority for the statement that the post
master at that place, Mr.. A. b. Morgan
was found upon examination OF his books,
| to be short in his accounts three humid red
| dollars. He was then absent from the town,
and has not since been seen.
In the last issue OF the Free Press, by
one of those peculiar freaks of the intel
ligent compositor, we were made to mention
the ''gl omy cheeks of the ladies of New
TOM The word as written should have
read blooming. We DEFY any one to find
any gloomy cheeks amongst the winsome
lassies of our town.-Newton Free Press.
Col. Jno. F. Smith, of Jasper county,
has been appointed Trustee OF the Aissis-
ippi Female Industrial College, in place OF
Rev. T. A. S. Adams, who has been called
to the Presidents chair of Centenary Col
lege. Col. Smith was commander OF the
18th Mississippi Regiment during the late
war and is now in the State Senate from
Jasper. The selection seems eminently
Satisfactory.
Our citizens who visited the Exposition
were all much struck by the quaint and
natural appearance OF ''The Mississippi
Corn Crib" and they agreed that it needed
but one thing to make it perfect and that
was deed of trust on it. Accordingly,
some of our boys drew up trust deed in
the usual style and sent it down to Mai.
Jonas, with the request that he put it on