The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-13
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son.
Meridian i. to have $4,000 Catholic
church,.
Rolling Fork thinks she wiz soon have
rect lamps.
The new Methodist church at carr0llton
Is Completed.
Wilkinson county warrants are 81 cents
on the dollar.
The tannery at Columbus is making
very good leather.
Wesson is to have three marriages in
one house this week.
DR.. D. c. Case died at Ocean Springs. on
/ The 9Th inst, OF he art disease.
J. II. Peacher has bought the Duck
Hill Dispatch, of Will Cowan.
An unprecedented snow storm pre-
vailed at Duck Hill, Sunday.
CRYSTAL Springs claims to be remarkably
/ healthy for this time Of the year.
The little favorite, Katie Putnam, has
+ Just closed an engagement IN Nicksburg.
/ Mr. Sam Parke and Miss Inez McLe-
more were married in Meridian Thursday
Mr. Billy Morrison. Of Taylor's Depot,
/ had $25aJ.00 stolen from him few days
age.
Canton has shipped $4,000 hales of
cotton this season, and will probably
ship 5000 more.
Many Of our readers viii regret to
learn OF the failure of Col W. L. Archi
bald, of Oxford.
In spite of its recent universities the
Ciarksdaie Banner comes out this week
as bright as ever.
g The beautiful snow flied the sky and
earth below" in the region OF Holly
Springs this week
Mr.. Herman SPECIAL and Miss Naomi
Wsehenheim, were married in Nicksburg
"Wednesday evening.
The funeral Of the late Capt. f. L. Whit
ney took place in Natchez Friday, anu
was largely attenuei
The Meridian fertilizer Factory is offer
ing premiums 10 farmers for the best acres
of cotton, corn and oats
Rev. {. B. Galloway will dedicate the
new Methodist church in Wesson on the
fourth Sunday in January.
? The residence Of Rev. r. D. Noteworthy,
: Presiding Elder Of the Meridian District,
was destroyed by 6re Friday.
Walter S Davis has charge OF the Tate
County Record, during the absence Of Mr..
! RoSeborough in the Legislature.
The Times seems TO think that Yves
: son has been in a state of collapse,
socially, ever since the holidays.
! The people Of Tupelo are voting funds
to have the Memphis, Birmingham u Ala
oama Railroad pass through their Town.
The New Years receptions in HAIL hurst
. At the elegant homes oil Mrs. Geo. Dodd~.
/. ANA Mrs + w. Brown, were brilliant auu
. delightful affairs.
Mr.. Edward P. Cortright, of Rollin.
= Fork, d.ed very Suddenly Sunday morning
c de had jusI passed his majority and was a
young nau OF tiue p ospeets and promise
e Mr. Robt. Preston, brother OF Prof J
9 r. Preston state Sup, riutendent Public
{, Education elect has been elected Prineip,
u OF tue Water Valley pdblIc schools .-EX
y The McComb City Messenger, new
d and exceedingly interesting monthly
< publication, graces our exchange table
|, t.us week, aud receives a hearty vel
Z come.
d The Sentinel says that Yazoo made
Dad record Tor tue first lev days Of the new
5 year suiclde, Two accidental shooIiugs
t~o attempts at robbery and an attempt d
murder.
The Kosciusko Star has this to say o
l. their delegation: Attaja can boast III,
e haudsomest TRIO Ia the Legislature Wei
,, Oack Haden Tor beauty against any tw,
= men there,
II The Board OF Aldermen OF Vicksbur.
e have rendered their city hospital To th,
a. State, and have memorialized the Legisla
q ture 10 convert the institution into
1t charity hospital.
% G. W. Staples, aged twenty-four marie,
u Mrs. L. Bennett, aged nearly sixty-hve II
10 Meridian on the 3lst OF Dec. 1885. Neril
Ie the old year nUurishing the new.-Kos
d cIusko Messenger.
Mr. w. d. Witherspoon, OF Aberdeen
e has accepted a partnership in the pfactic
ie of law, with Col. T. W. White, Of Her
Re uando, q place made vacant by Mr. Nor
"a gans election to Congress.
~ Mississippi's song bird, Miss Corrin
- Moore, OF Nicksburg, is pronounced b.
= the most Competent Judges OF vocal ar
4 of CINCINNATI To be the best soprau
- Of that city.-Brandon Democrat.
y Capt G. T. Webb, Tor thirty two wear
"a resident OF NicksOurg, died on Wednes
!, day III that city, aged fifty one years. IL
" was bookkeeper Tor Lee Richardson, iron
T. whose residence the funeral took place.
~ Rev B. n Hatch, OF Columbus, Miss
20 is doing great religious work in ackson
= Tenn. The crowds to hear him are s.
great that the church buildings will no
mold them, and the rink has been secures
Tor the services.
. Considerable damage has been done thi
~ week by terrific rain storms III the North
> ern and Eastern parts OF the State. Tn
!, railroad track WAS washed up in seyera
places near Heidelberg, and streams ar
!. over their banks every where.
rf~l
n county, Jno. q. Hastings was robbed o
,v the TIN. The public money was in a sal
: at the post-othce his wife being po,tmis
=. tress, and just before dawn the robbrr
entered and relieved the safe of S3i4o.Oe
,e The jury in the case Of The State W.. |
S IL. Wright, Sr., and his son, B. S. II
-k Wright Jr., for the murder OF Eugen
tx Walton in Grenada on Thanksgiving da,
reformed verdict OF not guilty a. to bot
ii defendants. The case excited intense il
: terest.
a young man at Hardy, Miss, raise
ID ten bales OF cotton last wear with his ow
ID hands, aud hog aud hominv in proportion
,e Daring the year lie paid ont but $40 fe
extra help. Now say that there isn
IS money in the ground in tbs country
a. East Miss. Times.
LfAlFHCS Lyon vi bfttot1C, WAS severe 1
I'd wounded while squirrel hunting last week
He and his father were shooting al the sam
squirrel, aud by some false step Mr. I.yo
Tell and discharged the conient. Of his "a
in the brea.t ane shoulder Of his SON rh
d wounds, though serious, are not neeessarii
n fatal.
a A double wedding took place at tn
r residence of Mr.. WIN Thompson i
n Wesson last Thursday night The con
X tracing parties were DR.. Philo and Mr,
3f Mamie McDuf, and Mr.. b. p Mile.
! aud Miss Lizzie Thompson, Rev. Nh
= Purser officiating, The brides are bot
!, daughters of Mr. Thompson.
% A colored girl at the McLaurin house /
:. Yazoo City was shot on January LIST acei
Is dentally by the porter of the hotel. VIII
te was fooIing with a Winchester rife in
se room upstairs. The rife was DISCHARGED
o going through the flor, striking the eir
Pr in the shoulder and passing through he
d body The doctors say she will die
d Natchez Democrat.
u According to a Washington dispatc
= dated January 9Th, the President on Ia
. day sent To the Senate the nomination a
VIM. II. McCardle, Of Mississippi. ia i
ie Consul OF the Uni.ed States at San Jnei
: del Norte. No doubt this is Major Me-
: Cardle, OF Vickshurg, and the Presiden
seems determined to send him out of til
- country whether or no.-Post.
ID We learn by private letters that III