The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28

academy.
Natchez wants a creamery, and will have +
me, OF course II
The Raymond Gazette is prospecting in
ts forty fourth year.
Mrs. J. F. III. Claiborne is among the
guests at Cooper's Wells. 1,
Meridian has Board of Trade 1t also
does some trade in boards /;
1t is rumored that Meridian is about to
try another tri-weekly pepper
A Lodge OF knights of Honor was or
ganized at Pennington recently.
The Columbus Democrat has suspended
publieation-want OF patronage.
Captain Put. Darden delighted all who
heard his address at Water Valley.
The Sunday closing of all business places
in VIcksburg is to be strictly enforced.
Mrs. Eliza Avent died at her home near
Emmaville, Lefore county, on 9Th inst.
Mrs. C. C. Butt, most estimable lady, I
died at Duck Hill on Sunday morning, 18th
inst.
Flux is prevailing to an alarming ex
tent in the western portion of Amite
county.
Hon. Z. S. Drake and family, OF Port |
Gibson, left ON Monday last for Sulphur |
Springs, Ala.
Vicksburg continues on building boom, |
and money in the three banks is easy on |
good paper.
Worms have appeared in the cotton of
Mr.. W. S. Hamilton, on Bakers Creek,
Kinds county
Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson and
family will summer in the mountains OF
North Carolina.
Mr.. C. D. Newman died at his residence
near Auburn on Friday morning last, after
protracted illness.
The hog law of Greenwood has been de-
clared unconstitutional, to the disgust of
the good people of that town.
The city of Meridian has contracted for
water-works with the American Water
Works and Guaranty Company.
We are rejoiced to note that Rev. Dr.
II. F. johnson, President of Whitworth
College, Brookhaven, is convalescing.
All of the present city officers of West
Point were nominated for reelection by a
Democratic mass meeting of citizens.
The Grenada Sentinel will soon remove
to new Office, and will otherwise enlarge
its facilities for increasing patronage.
| Mr.. Trueman Gray has been appointed
! Superintendent of Education of WAYNE
county, vice J. II. Mallard, deceased.
Crystal Springs, on three days of last
week, shipped ,225 cases OF peaches, 1856
cases OF melons and cases Of grapes.
The Knights OF Pythias Lodges in East
Mississippi are arranging for grand union
| picnic at West Point about the 10th of Au-
gust.
| Mrs. E. III. Shirk, wife of Rev. M. Shirk,
of Osyka, died on 10th. She was an exam
plary lady and was beloved and respected
by all.
A large force has been put TO work on
| the building of the machine shops of the
Mississippi Valley Railroad, at Vicks-
burg
The contractor for the stone concrete
foundation for the Aberdeen Government
building, is pushing the work rapidly and
thoroughly.
A horse on Bear Greek, Yazoo county,
last week, developed symptoms of hydro
phobia. He bit several head of cattle, all
of which died
Prof VIM. Mercer Green, Jr., of Green
vile, Miss. and Miss Drusiila Maria
Billingsley, were married last week in
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| Ten or twenty car loads of machiner y
for the Port Gibson cotton mills have
already reached the mills, and the balance
will arrive shortly.
| Mrs. Elizabeth B. Stanley, wife of DR.
| K. S. Stanley, died at the residence of her
father, DIR. j. NJ. Bynum, in Rienzi, on
18th inst, in her oath year.
Judge J. e. Hall, of Sardis, was elected
President of the Baptist State Convention
and, as might be expected, he presid ed
with great dignity and ability.
| Will Martin, a son OF Gen. Will T
Martin, was thrown from a buggy in Nat
chez by runaway horse, on 23d, and
suffered a broken leg and other injuries.
At Mississippi City, on Monday last,
| there were over $50 Spanish mackerel and
red fish caught from the wharves of the
Gulf Coast Canning Company and the Gulf
| View Hotel
The Libery Herald chronicles the recent
death of Mrs. Julia Dixon, Mrs. Emma F..
Scott, Frank A. J. Roberts and Mrs Emma
Shirk-all greatly esteemed III Amite and
| Pike counties.
The Vicksburg Commercial Herald Pub
| fishing Company will soon remove to more
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up expressly Tor its use and will be lighted
with electric lights.
The prohibition question is occupying so
much of the attention of the people of
Yazoo just now, it has been decided to post
pone indefinitely the proposed Confederate
Re- Union at Satartia on August 6.
The Vicksburg Street Railway Company
has completed it's second mile of track.
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as arrangements can be made, which, in
view of the steep grades will be a great
relief to the mules of that city.
| Dick Hudson was hung at Yazoo City
on Wednesday last, for the killing of John
w. Clark, jaiier of Y azoo county, in March
last. Hudson was native OF Ottawa, ILL.,,
colored, only 81 years of age, and styled
himself the burglar of Buffalo, n. Y"
Mr.. F. NJ. Beall, prominent young at
! torney OF West Point, Miss, and Miss
Mollie Cunningham, of Birmingham, Ala,
were married in the latter city on Sth inst
The Birmingham Chronicle contains an
elaborate account of the interesting event.
The report on temperance, adopted by
| the Baptist Convention in Meridian last
week, declares that it is ''the duty of every
Christian to vote as he practices against
1 tnC safe VI duu StTOISiy CpUQtlui1S
the action of those who are neutral or in
active in local option elections"
| DIR. Hampden Osborne. leading drug
gist of Columbus, and Miss Ida Rust, OF
Nashville, were married at Jacksonville,
Fla, few days since. Miss Rust is the
young lady who taught stenography, teleg-
raphy and type-writing at the /. l. & c.,
and who was one OF the most accomplished
and popular members of the faculty.
State Masonic Grand Lecturer, r B.
Brannin, of Aberdeen, spent several days
in Pontotoc during the week, lnstructing
the brethren of the Mystic Tie All Ma
sons speak of him as man eminently
qualified to discharge the duties of this i'm
portant Office Pontotoc Democrat.
G. w. Robinson, of Pensacola, bought
the DeSmet Mills, Moss Point, on 10th.
The price was $65,000. This ends the
largest lawsuit ever engaged in in South
Mississippi. This sale will benefit all OF
the southeastern part OF our State Both
mills will be started at an early day.
The survivors of Capt. james A. Hos
kins' Battery held pleasant reunion at
Brookhaven on Saturday last, that day be-
ing the 9th anniversary OF their departure
for the war. They left 16O strong, and OF
this number only about 80 survived They
did effective service, and could always be
relied upon. Capt. Hoskins made feel
ing address to his old comrades.
The center roof OF the three-story brick
store of Jos. Baum & Co., Meridian, fell in
with crash last Saturday afternoon, car
rying with it the third and second floors,
precipitating mass of timber, boxes,
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