The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-06
THE STATE.


Mr.. j. t Parker was accidentally killed
at Lsurai, jones county, Miss, last week.
Harrison county has a new posioffice,
named He No, alter popular brand Of
tea.
The dangue fever in Vicksburg has left
the Democrat Office with bot i've. opera
! tiyes.
The Kemper Mills, st Laurel, Miss, are
doing All Immense lumber business this
| iail.
Maj R. Walpoole, formerly Mississippi
j ,urnalisi, now edits paper in SumpGer-
vile, Fla.
The Wesson Lodge OF Old Fellows is
the largest in the state, numbering nearly
d hundred.
A vacant residence belonging to Mr.
Ragsdsle, IN Meridian, was destroyed 10y
IRE last week.
Mr.. John George, prominent citizen
Of Grenada, died Hurricane Springs, on
the .0th ult,
4 leading merchant Of Crystal Springs
| Is contemplation the establishment OF II
Dank in that city.
Aberdeen had an artificial earthquake
last Wednesday, caused by combination
| oil boys ana dS nat2lte.
! The Directors OF the Noxubee County
Fair have arranged Tor a eraud tourna-
ment on the third day OF the lalr.
Capt 5. B. Rich, lost al Slndersyille, by
IRE, on the 18th, a turpentine st,il and 200
barrels ol rosin, worth about 81 GOO.
The Aberdeen Weekly says scarlet fever
and dlphtheTia are reported as being preva
lent among the children of Aberdeen
Mr.. George NJ. Graham, Of Macon, lost
his elegant residence on The Ballard place,
10y IRE, last week. The loss is estimed at
5000.
The recent food in Yazoo River has
made navigation into Yazoo River out of
tue Mississippi not only hazardous bur
difficult.
The French Camp Reyeille wants tele-
phone company organ zsd 10 operate a line
between thar place and McCool, on the 1.
G. Railroad.
The stock exhibition at fernando, of
DeS0to county colts, was a most creditable
exhibit, showing that cotton is no longer
king i'll DeSoto.-Ex.
Capt. Columbus Love, an old and esteem
ed resident Of Aberdeen, was severely
stricken with paralysis and died. He was
| buried last week with Masonic honors.
An srtesian we'll, bored at the expense
OF Mr.. Frank Howard, of New o leans,
will seen delight the people of Biloxi. Ii
viii be Immediately In front of the market
house.
Thursday Mr.. Robert Cowan shot and
killed, in the river near Moss Point an al
| lgator meas uring nearly nine feet in
length, and weis hing, We 81, pose, about
400 pounds.
An epidemic of dengue fever is raging
| in NIcEsburg. 1t is estimated that there
are fifteen hundred cases in the city. The
| lever l. OF very painful type, but not at
all malignant.
james c. Ross. age 81 years, oldest son
| of Capt. Emmett l.. Ross, editor Of the Cam
/ ton Miss Daily Picket, after an illness
of thirty Gays, died in jackson, Tenn, Sep
tember y, at $40 p. M
James II. Kennedy, for twenty four
years the Wor. Master of Baldwin Ma
-onio Lodge, No. l0S, died at his home in
| b tidwyu on 18th 81 ptenber. A Lodge OF
Sorrow will be held on some day not
yet named.
The will of the late G. II. Crump, leav-
ing all his property 10 the public school OF
| y zoo CITY, was contested 10y his heirs, but
The jury, under the instructions Of the
courl, found a verdict in favor Of the viii,
and the beqGest was sustained.
Miss Juliet Showers, member of the
Presbyterian church in Port Gibson, gave
a sewing bee last week Tor the benefit OF
her ministers wife. Ali OF the ladies in
the congreg alton met toge. her at her home,
Idlewild, and did up the winter sewing Tor
the minister's family.
4 gentleman from Columbus. Miss,
purchased a vacant lot of ground last
month for which he paid Sc 900 four
weeks afterwards he sold it f5r SIC, 500
cash, and it is probable that it could
not now be bought for $l5,000.-New
South.
Rev. Foster, colored, while on his way
to attend services at church near Darant.
October 81. was waylaid by an unknown
person and seriously hurt about the head
by blows il iiicted with pistol lie was
lett for dead, but managed to get to town
to tell the story.
4 farmer in Grenada county seeing adj
verJised, lightning potato bug killer, sent
dollar for one and received Two blocks OF
wood with the following directions printed
on them: Take this block, which is 20.
/, in the right hand, place the bug on No.
,, and press them together. Remove the
bug and proceed as before"
In the case of p. G. Thompson, eli Knox
vile, Miss, VS.. the Mississippi Valley
Railroad, which was closed at tieadvilie,
Miss, on the 81, and in which Thompson
sued said road for $4,000 for damages
sustained by being jammed between carr
on crossing OF the TO al IN the town Of
Knoxville, some time since, The Iary CAV,
plaintiff verdict for $4,000. The rail
road appealed the cIse.
Chief Justice Cooper, OF the State Su
prene Court, was IN the city on Friday
last Judge Cooper, with our Columbus
lawyers, Is regarded a. one OF the best men
who ever occupied the exalted position
which he now fills. He brought with him
cluster of bseutiful girls to take their
places in the /. |. x Q. 1t is regretted thai
he did not stay long enough in orr city to
meet more Of his friends.-Coluuibus Dis
PAIGE, 2i.
The Memphis Ledger OF October LIST,
saws: "a little over three years ago the
Rev. II. ii. Wilbourn was travelling about
as lecturer. and be carried a letter claim
ed 10 have been written by Gey. Robert
Lowry, which said among other thngssd
Rev. II. II. Wil5aurn, | understand, il |
man OF energy and talent, and stands well |
with his race, and L sincerely trust tina, |
his etfsrts 10 reform his people may be |
crowned with success. To aid in this | en- |
close my check FIR 81 Now the Rev. |
Wiibourn is member OF the county chain /
gang and is a sad case Of natural deprav- |
ity."
In Col. H. l. Muldrow's splendid Jerzev I
heard, at his camp oaks stock farm. in Ok |
tibbeha county. is a young COW, ''Gilded /
Leaf" only three years and tso months /
old, that was tested for the first time for
butter capacity on the week commencing
August 23j, and yielded seventeen pounds |
aud tour aud a half ounces OF splendid |
butter. Ia addition to pasturate during
The week she was led Limited quantity Of t
wheat bran and chopps. The test was not
made under favorable circumstances, as no
high feeding was INDUCED 10.
Otherwise the yield might have been
brought up 10 twenty pounds. As il il.
the record IS grand for a three ezr-old-
Elk
A special from Washington to The New
Orleans Times Democrat, under date OF
September -, contains the following
: The reports recently telegraphed the
Times Democrat that Secretary Lamar i
to be married in a short time il sonlewhaI
sustained 10y he fact that he has just leased
a house in Washington. Ever since his
wife's death he has been living in apart
ments, and il il thought that this new de
partare is evidence of his contemplated
step. The honse ia large.
four story double building, No. 1915 \.
street, n W.. a square from the Portland
asfs, where the Secretary is now residing.
He has taken it for three years at rentsl
of $500 per year. I,
sally Spunkys correspondent Of the