The Brookhaven leader., 1884-07-31
FROM THE STATE
PRESS.

OmaIl-pOx mas hpptaFVu IN OOr-
g inth and Bonneville.
: Hon. Jefferson Davis attended the
Seashore campmeeting. e.s,t
: The post office at Magnolia Is
r now money order Office.
1919 dogs are assessed in Madi-
son county, in this State.
Yazoo City recently shipped 3, 200
pounds OF honey to Kansas City.
The 23rd Mississippi Regiment
will have reunion at Kossath on
August 9th. .st
The Canton, Aberdeen and Nash.
vile Railroad has been completed
TO Aberdeen.
Ed. M. Watson has withdrawn
from the Congressional race in the
second district.
Davis, the Attala county warrant
forger, has been arrested and is now
in Jail at Kosciusko.
The shipment of cotton from Alb
erdeen during the last year amounts
to nearly $4,000 bales. s
Mr.. Muses. Folsom, OF the Bur-
lington Hawkeye, is writing up
Kinds and Yazoo counties.
Rev. H. T. LeaveIl, of Oxford, has
been called to the pastorate of the
Baptist church at Natyhez.
John Williams, a negro ronsta-
bout, was shot in Vicksbrrg on the
22nd, while resisting arrest.
James L. Hudnall. the represen.
tative in the State Legislature from
Kemper county, died last Sunday
morning. t.s, H.. bsf
r. E. Stratton shot and killed :
Vim. Amos an Enginee, in jackson
last Wednesday. The killing was
done in self-defense.
A colored woman in Holmes
county gave birth TO triplets recent
ly, and she pamed them FAITH
Hope" and Charity" ia
Brandon is soon to have another
newspaper. 1t will be called the r
Democrat, and Mr.. Wallace Me- :
Laurin will be its editor.
A negro woman named Ada Clay :
stabbed and killed another woman
of like color named McDavid, in
Lowndes county recently. e.,s
Mr. Walter NJ. Hampton and
bride, and Mr.. lido w. Hampton
and bride, of Columbia, are off ON q
bridal tour to the Northwest and
Niagra. rs ai,
The board of supervlsorsiof Yazoo i
county have appropriated $500 tn i
enable that county to prepare an ex-s
hibit for the New Orleans Cotton
Centennial.
On the 10Th Gov. Lowry 'commu-
ted the death sentenct of Sam Har-
dy to imprisonment for life. He
was to have been hanged at Iuka on
the oath inst.
Frank Montgomery, charged with
murder in Greenville, and who is
held to answer without bail, was
married recently in Jail to Mss
Lena Mccall, of Greenville. 4
Copiah county has an Auxiliary
Bible Society with the following Of !
ficers: President, Rev. W. b.
Bingham: Vice President, Rev. S.
w. Sibley; Treasurer, r. w. Mill
says; Secretary, L. L. Britain.
Mr.. w. Fl. H. Green. in an inter-
view with a reporter. of the Vieks-
burg Commercial Herald says that /
Green's Bank will resume business
within ninety days, and every dime
Of its Indebtedness will be paid.
A tree on the place of Mr. Chiles,
of Bolivar county, measures sixty
feet in circumference. Mr. L. K.
Chiles, of jackson, is making ar
rangements to have portions of is
placed on exhibition at the Expo
sition.
A peach presented Mr.. Moses
Folsom, the Burlington Hawkeye
man, by DIR. NJ. W., Boyd of Jack
son, weighed eleven and half
ounces and measured ten and half
inches in circumference. 1t was Of
the Chinese Cling variety.
I The Aberdeen Examiner doubts
the statement of the Meridian
| Mercury that Missisaippi farmer
shipped bucket of Jersey. butter
TO Meridian, in which was residue
of lard. The Examiner does not
think Mississippi farmer would be
guilty of such an act.
/ The Democracy of Pike held
rousing Cleveland and Hendricks
ratification meeting at Magnolia on
the 21st. 1t was addressed by Hon.
FL. Q. Bridges, +. Frank Causey,
ESQ.,, DIR. Chas. Pelacz, Prof JAS
Sharp, w. p. Cassidy, Esq, Maj.
| w. w. Vanght and Hon. S. l.
Packwood.
/ Mr.. j. j. Fouche, an old aud
l,nfirm man was rnhbed In the