The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-13
TIE STATF.

The orange trees on the Coast have been
injured By this weather
I In vicksbnrg, tramps are arrested, nned,
. and made to work out the tine.
q 1t j. stated that The Barataria Canning
't Factory, at Boloxi, will be rebuilt.
There was meeting OF the Madison
\ county Horticultural Society in Canton.
y~oSterday.
Mrs. f.snra c. .Bark-daie died on 9th inst,
at Oak VsiIey, the old family home in
Yszoo coufSty-
PoitevanA 4 Favre's planning mill. at
/ Pearlingion- Miss, and two million ieet OF
/ lumber. was burned last week.
/ President Cleveland has sent to the
Senate the 4lomination ef John Higgins
for Collector cf Customs. Natch.z, Miss
| The vegetable Mrs DR.. Gustave Calhoun,
OF Natchs,z, paralyz zvd one week ago, il 80
Tar rtcovt red as to regain her spe eh and be
able to sit up.
The residence of Mr. Peter Smith, near
i Holly SpKfngs, was burned 10 the ground,
I ssIs<contents on Friday and his wife and
hssle chlldren, who were barrfooted and
thiniy clad. suffered intensely from the
cold.
Threeof the finest stores in Coinmbns.
were burned 10 the ground Friday. These
belonged 10 r. NJ. Teasdale. ]. Bluhm 4
| Harris, Hudson>sS Co., and formed part
OF Merchants bloes know as the hapdsou-
est row Of buiidingsSn Mississippi.
| Mr.. d. \. E les has h1iired from the Car.
roilton Conservative sndhis late partner.
MIR. I. II. Onry has form, = ca partner
hip with his son, Mr.. J. NJ. Oars. Jr.
| The Conservative has our best wishes far
continued success under its new manage
ment.
The Clarksdale Banner Is in trooble>>
| again. Last week the editor, Mr.. David.
son, was accidentally shot, and on Friday
| last The Banner office caught fire, aud for
while il WAS thought would be conplete-
| ly destroyed, but thanks 10 the efficient
service of the employees, no great damage
was done.
We regret to find the follswing in yester-
days issue of the Natchez Democrat. We
regret to hear that Young son Of Mr.. Wm.
H. Lynch, representative fron Ad tms
county IN the State Legislature, while
PLAYING in grate Yesterday bad the mis-
| fortune to have his clothes catch fire, and
was seriously burned. His mother tried TO
smother the flames in the child's clothing,
asd she too was also burned.
Capt. LOUIS Mattingly. of Vicksburg
has purchased Of Louis NJ Erb, agent of the
Brush Electric Light Company, contractor
with the city of Vicksburg for putting in
sixty are lights OF ST per month per light,
all his rights contracts, franchises etc.
and Immediately maGe a contract with
Matt. Cohen, agent of the Thomson -Houst n
Electric jight Company. for full GU ht
ol 4 seyenty-ive light machine of said com
pauy' 5 make.
A special of the 9th inst from Moss
Point Ia the Times Democrat says:-This
morning the only child of Mr.. o. G. Fair
ley, little fellow eighteen months old,
XII led himself with pistol he WAS playing
with Ii was the habit of its parents 10
give the pistol TO the hid and he preferred
II 10 anything else. He cried for it this
morning, and his mother, thinking il was
unloaded, gave it TO him. In few mo-
ments he struck the hammer on a block
and the weapon exploded, sending the ball
through his head and scattering blood and
brains around the room.
The following Meridian news, frcs. the
Picayune, will be of interest 10 many
lion. K. Leachman, OF this city, has re-
ceived letter from a young man in Cali
iornis, whose parents were once residents
oi Meridian, to institute suit for the re-
recovery al about three hundred acres of
land lying in the heart of the city, includ-
ing the Baum. Sheehan and J2neA block.
the Opera House, oil mills, FAIR Grounds
and several smaller buildings and private
residences. The property was decided by
The Mobile ard Ohio Ralroad several years
ago, and in the end they are of cour-e re-
sponsible on their warransee deed. The
suit involves in round numbers property to
the amount OF 40 0,O00. and should the
young mau succeed he will become posses
sor of one of the most valuable tracts in
the South
The following is special to the Ava
lanche Of the sth from Vicksburg; Capt.
Robert Bowman has presented To Capt.
Jackson Of the steamer lIenry Marx the
old anchor of the farF med steamer slg--<-
of the West, which he recOved so..a lime
since from the wreck il lag lie TaIla-
hatchie river, several huodred miles above
this city. The anchor j. very much de-
cayed on account oil its long stay in the
water. Its weight is abous 600 pounds.
II will be remembere that this vessel
figured very prominently in the laie war,
she oeIng the vessel that yssa hired en- by -
guns Oi Fort MOulfrie wpile attempting 10
reach Fort Sumter. in Charleston harhor.
with supplies. She was aft~rward captured
by the confederate fprces off Galveston and
brought to New Orleans When that
place fell she, together with n number Of
other fine steamers was brought to this
place, and thence up the Yazoo and Talla-
hatchie rivers where they were all either
destroyed by ire or sunk to obstruet chan
nels OF these rivers.