The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-01-08
THE STATE.
G Coas, has too many lawyers.

rect lamps.
The tinnery a. Columbus is making
very good leather.
wrsson is to have three marriages in
one house this week.
The prohibition campaign was opened Al
Vick-burg Monday evening.
Aberdeen haa shipped nearly $4,000
bale. II o,.stan lhis past seasonf
Pickeus IL to have new brick dspos
and is anxious for more residences
Eggs brought "A cents per doren 10
Mater Valley during the holidays.
The West Point her claim the hand.
romcrt uniforms in the whole South.
Mrs. X +, Holloway entertained the Wi
nonN Rifles at her elegant home on Xmas
day.
Watch Night WIS observed In many
churches in the State with religious ser.
vices.
Little Lambert Berdon, eon Of Mr.. A.
Berlon, Of NotcheE, died OF typhoid fever
last week.
THE beautiful snow allied the sky and
earth beluw." in the region OF Holly
Springs this week
Mrs. Fred Beal Of West Point, who has
been ~ seriously III, is We are glad to learn,
quite out OF danger.
A Meridian man ate $50 raw oysters at
one sitting she other day and it was poor
iay for eating oysters too.
Mr.. and Mr-. Geo. +. Coleman. OF West
Point, entertained the Rifles very hand
somvly on New Years day.
Mr.. Paul Pegucs and Miss Mamie Hill,
Of Winona, wee married December 23d
We tender congratulations.
The new uniforms Tor the Ya1oo Cit,
Rifles have arrived, and IRE said to be az
handsome as any in the State.
The |. G. X. Il. shops at Aberdeen
turned out their first locomotive last week
aud it ia said to be success in al
respects.
The total valuation Of the new building
erected in Vick-hurg during 1885, Is 1925
600. Btsidea this, large number are no'
under contract.
The decrease in drunkenness on Xma
day in YsEoo City was so great as 10 b
generally remarked upon. This is ste
in the right direction.
An engine blew up her boiler at Dursn
one day last we,k. The engineer and fire
man were considerably bruised but ar
able to be on duty again.
Capt. G. w. Floyd. Of the steamer VII
Is. Have, wgs forced to kill one Of his deck
hands on hia boat on December 2Stb, Will
coSliUg up near Natchcz
COl. Alfr d +. Lewis, Of Moss Point, nc
cidentally shot himself, while sitting oI
hi4 gallery on the morning Of the LIST
Death was inrtantaneous.
The young men Of Canton gave most de
lighiul German to that popular belle
MirS Blancha FOuche, who leaves in fe'
days To reside In Arkansas
MIR. Tho-. Reid, Of Houston, a promis
ing young man Of 20, was killed Christ
mas eve by pistol shot received in an al
teFcatiOn ut u party near Sarepia.
The telegraph facilities Of hatcher hav
been ircrea,,d recently by the bringing O
the Wilson road telegraph line Into tn
Western Union Office IN that city.
The steamer Sallie Carney, togethe
with two hundred aud pix.y bales of cotton
VIA burned 10 the waters edge ak mile
above Greenwood, on December 23.
Columbus, usually so gay, Is said to b
sadly lacking in nocial enjoyment this win
ter. New Year WAS scarcely observed b
the customary receptions in that city.
Mr.. Edward =. Cortrighi, OF Rollin
Fork, died very auddeuly Sunday mornin
He had just passed hia majority and Was
young man OF foe prospects and promir'
Mr.. Brnf Carin, citizen OF Wilkinso
county, went out hunling on Xmas da.
and has not been heard Of since. II SUI
posed that some serious accident has b.
fallen him.
The Board Of Aldermen OF Vicksbnr
have tehd,red their c ty hospital ~ ii
State, and have memorialized the Jegi-li
lure 10 convert the institution into
charity hoepi'al.
The GreenyilIe Oil Mill, together vii
about 2 500 bales Of cuttun aud 3 or
residences we're burned on the morning
the 20ih. The loss il about 100000 vii
about 1885, 900 worth Of insurance.
A young white hoy was killed near Uti
a few days ago, by negro The reap'
for the deed being that the boy possess
Two dollars, which the negro desired. II
murderer il now 10 Jail at Raymond.
Capt. G. E. Webb, for thirty two yea
a resident Of Vicksburg, died on Wedn'
day in that city, aged fifty one years.
WAS bookkesper for Lee Richardson, fr'
whose residence the funeral took place.
Meridian observed New Years day v,
pleasantly and generally but the boys :
that "there IL limit 10 ones capacity
putting away water and dry cake. FIR,
this We presume that the Meridian lad
are PrOh,LItionists.
Considerable damage has been done {
week by terrific rain storms 10 the Nor
, ern ana Eastern parts Of the State. I
railroad track was washed up in seve
places near Heidelberg, and streams
over their banks every where.
A terrible accident occurred at the co
press in West Point on the End. All hal
Z. were quietly at work when the machin'
fell with sudden crash which Was hei
n. for miles around Frank Brame was Kill
and several Others wounded.
n. IN The residence Of Col. C. E. Hooker,
81 Bovina, was totally destroyed by fire on
=. night Of the 3Ist. Messrs. Matt asd Oh
ley Hooker, who were in the house At