The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-11-20
MISSISSIPPI HAws.

bome-print.
Nearly every town in the State
has jollined.
Van Eaton's majority over Lynch
10 Pike was 44S.
The big towns are enjoying the
drama and The circus.
Crystal Springs has q Democratic
Rooster sixten feet high.
yaksblrg gets her beef in
retrigiatur CATS from Kansas Civ.
DIR. Jas. G. Brandon, an old
citizen af Natchez, died ON the lltb.
The Clay County Leader looks
prei erous and says it rs not for
sale"
Mrs. Maggie b. McCutchen, q
lovely lady Of vicksburg, died on
the 18th
The Steam Gin of Mr. Richard
8 Addison, of Osyka was recently de-
! stroyed by fire.
A white man was recently found
dead in the road near Leland with
his throat cut.
One OF the wonders lately an
nrsnced is a dead mans name on a
whisky petition.
Luther Benson, the famous TEN
persnce lecturer, spoke in Yves,
Point on the 18th.
Secgers restaurant and the South
crn Express office at Meridian were
harmed on the 18th.
From she way The State Ledger
talks, its office is often mistaken fn,
a public ealing room.
WIN. Harris killed Tom Philips
with q shot gun on the Whitfield
place in Kinds county short time
ago.
Hundreds of negroes voted for
Gen. Catchiugs, the Democratic can
dldase for Congress in the 3rd dis
triet.
Men living in Memphis and
Texas sign petitions for the sale OF
whisky in kosciusko, so says the
Star.
Many Of the State papers continue
to innocently publish the adver
tisement Of "A cure for Drunken
ness.
The "Gyp, Jr." entertainer,
gotten up at jackson by Mis-.
Jennie Morancy was pronounced Il
success.
John Peet, a prominent young
man of Grenada county, was killed
by Ayers HIATT through mis- axe on
the 9Th inst.
Two colored sailors engaged in 9
rough-and- tumble fight at Ptarling
TON on tue 18th, fell overheard aud
were droN ned
Miss Rose Walsh and Miss Katie
Flood are visiting various towns in
behalf Of the Catholic Orphan Asy
lum at Natchez.
Mack Page, a negro boy, about
fifteen years old, shot and killed I
little colored boy near Mayhem, re
Gently, and then fed.
Mr.. Robert NJ Whitfield of til,
drug firm of Whitfield d Son, o
Meridian, died on the 9Th afte
several weeks illness.
Grace & Grace, OF Skipwith, hav'
made an assignment in favor o
their creditors, Messrs. Richardso
q May. OF New Orleans.
The people of Brandon are in
dignant at the location of the roaC
bed Of the Gulf & Ship Island Rail
road beyond the corporation.
The West Point Leader says
1--WE hope the time will never agair
come when our town will b.. il
such a strait for good, wholesal,
sA.er"
A map of Lowry Island at tn,
mouth OF Pascagoula river has beer
drawn and placed 10 the Lane
oiiee At jackson by Mr.. J. Nj. T
Hamilton.
Mr. George L Birlsong, coasta
bile st Bolton, was fatally shot while
trying to arrest two negroes named
john Thomas and Andrew Trntter
near Brownsville on the 18th inst.
At the recent meeting Of til.
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union at Winoua, one hundred ano
sixty grown persons joined tn,
Union, and as many children form.
FL the Band of Hope"
The kosciusko Star says Gun
fortunately for certain aspirants
Prohibition proposes to make met
speak to the dear pc 'pIr.' when
the time comes tor knowing the
secrets of political hearts"
A Democratic publication meet.
ing in Columbus, in every respect
one IL the finest towns in the State,
oaened with prayer and the singin ny
~ the Long N atre Doxology. praise
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