The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-27
THE STATE.

n the 18th, aged elghty-nve years
"Iudex.s in an article to the Post, IS
.arnest in his desire that the officers OF the
aw shall make some effort to suppress the
houses in that city.
Mr.. Jas. s Evans, travelling solicitor Tor
he Meridian News, and j. X. Almon, oil
he West Point New Era, had a trough and
umble fight" in West Point Tuesday
morning, in which pistols and knives hSur-
ID largely. Both were arrested and sllght
ines imposed. The difficulty grew out OF
A newspaper controversy some months ago
Messrs. Gregory and Tanner have re
ceived 20 horse power engine, and BRICK /
moulding machine, with a capacity OF 90
600 brick day from the factory OF Penn
field & Son, OF Willoughby Ohio, aud VIII 10 |
the course ofthe next few weeks begin tue
of brick and OF terra Gotta
piping on their extensive lots on Bowman
Avenue.-Post.
Some of the people of Crystal Springs,
Miss, this season housed all the Ice they
expect to use during the coming summer
They sawed out squares of ten or twelve
feet and four inches thick, piled one square
on another and threw water between them,
making solid block. For the people 81
Mississippi 10 house their own ice Is some
The last Issue of the Holly Springs
South contains the following marriage
notices
xANDEI-SMART-At the resi-
dence of Mr. Levi Smart, by Rev. Z. u.
Miller, at 10 o'clock, a. M, on January
10. 1876, Mr.. Ebert L. McAlexander and
Miss Lille f A. Smart.
HY-ScRUGGs-At the residence
of Mr.. Marcus Scruggs, on January l|th,
1886, by Rev. JAS. Bowen, Dr. }. II.
McClatchy to Miss Fontaine Scruggs, all
of this county.
EY-WALLAcE-Att the residence
of the brides father, Mr.. w. W. Wallace,
| in Benton county, Miss, on January 18th,
1886, by the Rev. E. d. Miller, Mr.. Lang
don Mckinney TO Miss Belle Wallace.
Burglars inlest Winona.
| fernando ha. a musical club.
Vicksburg now ha. dancing academy
| F. ArtmaD, of Lexington, has patented
a cooking stove.
The Clarksdale Banner comes to us .
half sheet this week.
The Telephone" an Oxford paper, will
be started next week.
Every body in Beauregard was searching
for a cyclone pit this week.
The last whisky license in Columbus
expired last Saturday night.
Starkville has enjoyed the best genera
trade to date of any former year.
Mr. j. E. Martin, a Bcandon merchant
sold out TO his creditors last week.
Madame Camilla Urso, the great violin
i.t, will visit Yazoo CITY early in February
Millions of wild geese and ducks focke,
to the Coast during the recent cold snaps
The residence of John w. Knox, {
Amite county, was struck by lightning re
Gently. causing damage to the amount {
about 500.
Columbus will enjoy Goldsmith's come
dy, "She Stops to Conquer" the frs
, pleasant weather, presented by her ON
- amateuTs.-Ex.
The suit Of the heirs Of Mr.. Sim Coat
who was killed by the accident at tn
r Bayou Pierre bridge two years ago, hs
E been compromised. The l.. n. o. &
Railroad company pay $500.
The members of the Magnolia Club i
T., Nicksburg intend giving a grand banqu'
: to Gen n. II. Harris prior to his departur
? for Aberdeen, Dakota, where he has bee
' appointed to office, as a testimonial of the
esteem Tor him.
f An aged and worthy farmer, Mr.. Lew
' r. Braden, living ID miles northwest
r Starkville, hung himself last week, wit
r a trace chain attached to joist of hi
\ residence, during his wife's absence tn
| chain leaving the marks of every lin
: around his neck, which caused stranguli
!, ton.
: A telegram from New Orleans to the {
4 H., has the following to say regarding tn
. Exposition. In contradictions of repor
= To the contrary circulating here and els
: where President McConnico today stat,
. that IN no event will the American Expos
ton be closed until the expiration OF tt
time originally set by the managemeu
J. Exhibits continue to arrive and are beir
5 placed in position. The attendance
d daily increasing and arrangements hs'
4 been made which insure the Continuance
The Exposition until date of limitation
A. evidence of the rapid work bein
t done on the railroad extension, we wi
{ mention that 100000 we're paid to the COZ
e tractors for work done in Novembe
e Some OF the contractors are nearly throug
o with their work. and we think there is L
q doubt about the road being in runnir
Il order by June or July. We learn also thi
l. IN March the iron rails between Andir
3 and Short Creek will be taken up, and ste'
n rails be put in their place. The iron raj
is now there will be used for side tracl
n along the line of the roGd.-Yazoo Sent
i mel.
e The State has 5000 school teachers.
r, Kosciusko taxes shooting galleri
n $4,000 a week.
- Mrs. Smith, wife of DR. Robert Smit
y of Kosciusko, died last week.
~ Large blocks of ice are floating dow
B. the Mississippi River past Natchez.
Y, Thos. Fulton, aged SO, the Oldest eli
y zen of the town, died recently at Tupel
p The Canton Picket and Pickens Pc
IS arc about to come to blows about tt
re new county.
- The Batesville high school is in
- fiourishing condition and the number
" pupils are increasing daily.
a Capt. w. T. Dye, of Pamela, took a
% vantage of the cold spell to harve
,s enough ice to last all next summer.
N Mrs. Harrison, formerly OF Edward
k now of Louisville, KY, was married Ia
week to Mr.. Middleton, of the latt
d city.
As many as three hundred color,
le families have emigrateG from PIANO
-r county to Arkansas in the last tv
N months.
= There are two young lady Telegram
- operators at BTooEhayen, one for ii
= day Office and one for the night. and
! ! is said they are very efficient.
# Mr.. Wilbur F. Divine, of Fort Myer
d FLORIDA, and Miss Mamie Johnso
d daughter of Capt Jim johnson.
N Canton, were married last week.
D. MARRIED-In Koscinsko at the re-,
dence of the brides mother, Mrs. 7
# Davis, on Jan. 18th, 1886, Rev. J. /
3. Alexander officiating, Mr.. NJ. NJ. Hu
, and Miss Henrietta Davis
g At the residence of the brides fathe
d Col. j. ID. LAHORE, Ivors, Grena,
n county, Wednesday morning. Jsnnar
e 70, 1886, by Rev. j, G. Carothers, Mr.. Cha
l. Trimble and Miss Fannie \. LAHORE.
IS A bucket of beans was placed in
{ drug store at Walden recently, the OF
, coming nearest guessing the number
Z receive music box. The nearest gue
> missed the exact nuElb Der by 40 beans.
!, Elk.
e In the town of Beauregard a festi,
o citizen owns socalled Cyclone Dir
which conceals blind tiger, which ca
# be interviewed for so cents admissio,
r the visitor is then presented with a fit
r cent flask of whisky.-Ex,
e The Presbytery of North Misissip,
K held called meeting in Oxford Ia
: week, to dissolve the pastoral relation
3 existing between Dr. D. K. McFarlan
4. and the Oxford church, DIR. McFarIan
= has been called to the First Presbyteria
p Church of Stanton, Va.