The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-03-22

leans on DIS Drtuai tour.
Bishop Thompson will preach at
Port Gibson next Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah Sandell died near
johnson Station on the 18th lust. ~
Mr.. X. Nicholson is reported 70
be down with small pox at Dry
Grove.
The Texas State, Treasury con.
tains nearly two and half millions
in cash.
Mr.. BEN. TALBgRT has returned
from Texas to his former home al
Wesson.
The foundation for the new Zap
list Church at Crystal Springs has
been laid.
Mr.. Walter Nj. Walker, formerly
of Pike county, died at Ha,lshurst
on the 10th inst.
Messrs. Cameron l. swan are put
ting the slate on the new Methodist
church in Jackson.
THE Brandon Republican of late
is devotiug itself largely to asrieul-
tural and tarR matters.
MEssRs. J. 3. II. HEntSewAY and
Jos. A. Brown have been reappointed
Reporters to the Supreme Court.
AT Moss point, saw logs have ad-
vanced in price twenty-five cents
per thousand feet. The price now is
1926.
TEE loss of the Southern Indus
trial Works recently al MeConb
City by fire amounted to $1,000. In
surancc 1000
Mr.. w. r. ELLzEY aad Miss Mol
lie Gatliu, Of Magnolia, were. mar
ried at the residence OF the brides
father on the sth inst.
TzE qHestion Of a stock law aud
the Agricultural lion law are issues
that will figure ia the canvass in
Yazeo county this year
ZEE Copiah papers are after their
Board of Supervisors for s1trava
sanee, ignorance aud Incompetence.
4 pretty heavy indictment.
Ar their match held in ST.
Louis, Bogsrlus beat Dr. Carver,
They made double shots, Bogsrdus
killing 81, while Carver only scored
10.
Our frisAd of the Forest Farmer
ought to revise his directory Of the
State departments. There have been
several changes since it was first put
in type.
The cattle at the State Lunatic
Asylum, at Jackson, are reported to
be dying with a disease much re
sembling pneumonia in the human
subject.
Nov. 18th, 1916, is the date Of a
shin plaster" in possession of the
Natchez Democrat, headed, match
ez-Mlssissippi Territory" and its
value, fifty cents.
Way is it some of the State papers
generally print their head-'ules up
side down? Is it because they like a
change, or is it something wrong
with their for, men?
James E. Robinson, of Carroll
county, sentenced to be hung on the
IS inst. for the murder Of VIM. II l..
Adair, was granted respite by the
Governor for thirty days.
w. c. GEORGE, Of Jackson, Miss,
son of Senator J. Il. George, has been
appointed first Assistant in the Sta
tl0nary Department oil the Senate.
His salary is $1,000.
TIE Meridian tax payers are to
vote for or against All appropriation
Of $4,000 to build waterworks in
that city. The artesian well has
been abandoned.
ALEX. STEPHENS and Ben Hill both
worked on farm when they were
boys, and this is the only work dur
ing his life at which Stephens never
made IA full hand"
JAS. SHELTON, Esq, Of Jackson, is
suggested as candidate for the
Legislature from Kinds. He is a good
lawyer, a growing man, and would
make an efficient legislator.
THe Yazoo, Talahatchie and Sun
flower rivers are now on a boom,
caused by water coming iu through
the broken levees Of the Mississippi.
The MississinDi is steadily recedipQ