The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-07-24
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) children.
Sharon, in Madison county, has
mattress factory.
Mississippi contains 100000
acres of wooded land. p
A military company has been o.
ganized in Enterprise.
A white alligator was seen In
Yazoo county few days ago.
Copiah County Prohibition Con-
vention meets In Hazlehurst to-
day. J
The oat crop in the piney woods
counties has yielded splendid har-i
vest.
John r. Lynch will be a candi-
date for Congress in the 9th dis
trict.
Tom Gordon, an industrious
young man of Fayette, has become
insane.
The Board Of Mississippi Levee
Commissioners met in GreenYille On
the 18th.
The Clay County Leader says the
greatest need in West Point just now
is money.
Mrs. P. r. Marshall, of Yazoo
City, is cousin of Thomas a.
Hendricks. -
The Republicans of the second
district nominated d. e. Robinson
for Congress.
Washington county has appro-
priated $1,000, 90 to make an exhibit
at the Exposition.
Gen. West has declined the nomi-
nation of the Vice Presidency on tia
Greenback ticket.
A Negro named Albert Wilson was
hung in Natchez on the 10th for the
murder of his wife.
A negro man was run over by an
engine near Big Black bridge, last
week, and was killed.
Mr.. Hemblescamp, n halfdement-
ed carpenter, was found dead In tue
Amite river last week. ie
Judge Wharton has revoked the
order for special term Of court IN
Copiah county in August
j. NJ. Allen was nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the
first district by acclRmation.
The Grand Lodge of Knights of
Honor met in Natchez on the 10th
Over 100 delegates were present.
Providence camp meeting will
begin on Wednesday the 30th CT
this month, and continue six days
The cotton mills of Natchez have
shut down for few days in order
to make some necessary improve
ments.
The sheep industry is a leading
interest in Jones county, and is
daily increasing in extent and i'm
portance. sa
A negro named Carpenter was
lynched at Starkville on the 10Th
inst, for poisoning two little sons Of
B. j. Parish.
An oyster shell found in Wayne
county and now on exhibition az
Meridian, is said by scientists to be
ten million years old.
Mr.. Frank Paxton, young lawyer
of Arcola, Miss, accidently shot
and killed himself with q shotgun
while hunting on the 18th.
The Board of Supervisors of At
tala county have appropriated $500
to help prepare an exhibit of the
county for the Exposition.
The Religious Herald has been
started at Meridian. as the success
sor to the Mississippi Methodist, By
the Herald Publishing Company.
Col. P. X. Myers has purchased
M. B. Richmond's half interest ia
the Pascagoula Democrat Star. Mr..
Richmond win continue IS editor.
Heidleburg is so we'll governed,
and its people so law-abiding that >
lawyer would starve who depended
on his profession to make q living.
The railroad between New Or
leans and vicksburg has been com
pleted, and trains will commence
Iunning regularly by the 6rst Of
August.
Mr.. Hunter, publisher Of the Wa
ter Valley Progress, had the index
| finger on both Of his hands cut OF
while cutting cards with . paper
cutter, last week.
The State Fair Association is pre-
pairing. its premium list for the fair
beginning the 10th Of October next.
Ten thousand pamphlet catalogues
will be circulated.
] The Texas Evangelist Maj. w. 3.
Penn, closed a meeting Of eighteen
days in Grenada last week, the It-
suit Of which was 12s conversions !
one 50 years Of age