The Brookhaven leader., 1883-03-29
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| the mercury st OF. LOUIS ieIA i0
II above, to II degrees below zero.
TIE Presbytery Of Louisiana will
hold its next meeting at the Presby-
terrain church il Liberty on the third
Thursday, the 10th of April next
Trains on the New Orleans and
Northwestern railroad run from Me-
ridian to Heidleburg, a distance OF
thirty-five Mills. Erata will soon
be reached.
Walter 5. Birdsong the junior
editor of ou- sprightly contemporary,
the Crystal Springs Meteor, will
henceforth have his headquarters at
IIazlehurst.
The Meteor says the net profits
realized by Mr.. S. H. Stackhouse on
his shipment Of asparagus which we
noticed last week was SO %, or about
32t cts per pound.
The Tupelo Journal learns that q
colored youth stood second in the
competitive examination at Verona
recently for the West Point cadet
ship from that district.
BISHOP ELDER, Mississippi, re-
ceived an orsation from his hos. of
friends at Vicksburg and Natchez,
irrespective of religious sect. He
has returned to Cincinnati.
Senator Wade Hampton is at
present visiting his plantation in
Washington county, Miss. He says
h grandfather raised the first cot
ton crop eyer gathered in the South.
The departure of the two conviets,
Brown and jackson, sentenced to
the panitentiary by Judge Chris
man at the las. term of court, leaves
the Amite county Jail without an
inmate.
DRs. SP1NKs and Dillehay, of Me-
ridian, have published "Directory
of the Practicing Dentists of the
State of Mississippi" 1t should be
in the hands of every member of the
profession.
The Board of Supervisors of Pike
have given delinquent taxpayers
until April 18th to settle their taxes
without damage. Profit by this
item, Pike county readers, If you are
in arrears.
Ir is expected that the Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley Railroad will be
completed from Jackson to Yazoo
City by next September, work is
being rapidly pushed by the con
tractors at both ends OF the line.
There are some peculiar post office
names in Mississippi. The Ashland
Register says the Office at Black Jack
has been discontinued. and some OF
it's subscribers want their papers
sent to Canaan and Yaller Rabbit.
DIR. CARVER and Capt. Bogardus
shot the first of series of clay pi-
gcon matches at Omaha, on the 10Th
inst. Carver broke "a and Bogardus
90 out of the 100, which was the
best score ever made by either man.
THE Clarion says that the latest
on dit is that the Georgia Pacific
railroad is to be diverted from the
original roate and will be built from
Columbus to jackson, making
Natchez the Mississippi river ter
minus.
THREE bales Of cotton belonging to
DR.. George Lenoir, living on Pearl
river some fit cen miles above Co
lumbia, were accidently fred near
Summit on last Wednesday, and
, damaged to the amo unit of about
$50.
THE people of Crystal Springs and
= vicinity are going into the vegetable
and fruit growing business this yeal
more largely than ever. Ii no bad
luck overtakes them, their net pro
fits this season will be the largest
ever realized,
Hon. A. B. HURT, who was recent
ly appointed by the Government to
get up the statistics ofagricultare OF
the State of Mississippi, will proba-
ly have his headquarters at jackson,
so we learn from his old paper, the
Winona Advance.
CAPT. j. d. BURKE, of Magnolia,
, will represent Reliance Lodge No.
!, lO7, l. o. o. F., a. the Grand Lodge
Of the State of Mississippi, which
} will convene in Columbus, May LIST;