The Brookhaven leader., 1884-11-27

hay''r.
Tho Natchcz city hospital is rap
Idly hlling up.
Eggs bring thirty cents a dozen
in West Point.
Twenty deaths occurred in Meri-
dian last month.
Wilt ducks by the thousands are
arouni Yazpo City.
Water Valley ha~ quite a number
Of " Jug lady clerks.
The State is full of Dramatic
troules and circuses.
Hazlehurst will have seven appli.
eants for the post office.
The TishOmingo cotton mills were
recently destroyed by fire.
A little child was burned to death
in Winston county recently.
Corn and SWEET potatoes sell at
fifty cents a Lusbel in Ashland.
Tramps are making their fall Wis
its to most of the Mississippi towns
j. Stadeker l. Co., Of Canton.
Miss, have failed for over 100000.
The Boonville cannon couldn't
stand election fan, so shattered in
to pieces.
A small robbery was committed
at Lansdowne Park, Natchez, a few
days since.
Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson.
will spend Advent Sunday, Nov. 80,
in Natchez.
Samuel Hunter was badly cut by
Thomas Hutchins at Raymond on
the 18th inst.
Port Gibson's Literary and De
batting Society is pronounced a
grand success.
Isaac Johnson, was hanged il,
Canton on the 18th for the murder
Of Bella Hooker.
Services will he held in the new
Episcopal church in Port Gibson
on Christmas day.
The woods have been burning IL
Winston county, but the flames are
now under control.
Muproe claims to he one of tn,
leading counties in the Southwes,
ior producing hay.
w. A. Battaile, formerly editor Of
the Summit Times, is local editor o
the Vicksburg Post.
Gen. Wade Hampton, Senator
from South Carolina, was in Vicks
burg on the 10Th inst.
Mr.. J. A. Randolph now fills thf
editorial chair in the office OF The
New Albany Democrat.
Major Ed. McAffee died at his
plantation on Honey Island, Holmes
county, few days ago.
Several bsles OF cotton belougins
to Ross & Kelley, were burned OF
the cars at Utica recently.
j. + Wilcombe, depot agent a
Crystal Springs, has succeeded MI
Myers as agent at jackson.
Thirty Mormon converts wcr,
taken to Utah Territory from Jone,
and Perry counties recently.
Lowndes county at its last tern
OF court sent eight persons to thu
State Lodging House, at jackson.
The members of the Mississippi
River Commission passed Vicksbura
on the IL h, en- route to Red River
A Mr.. Garner, of Ellisville. hos
made a violin with his pocket knife
OF course it will be at the Exposi
tion.
The Bridges Twins have gone t.
St. Louis to perfect arrangements
for An extended tour throughout the
country.
Mr. Samuel Mckinney, living
near Liberty, had his arm so badly
cut by gin recently that amputa
tion was necessary.
The Annual Conference of tn,
Methodist Church South, of til,
State Of Mississippi, will meet next
week in Aberdeen.
In Hazlehurst on the 18th inst.
Mr.. W. o. Eldridge, of Beauregard,
and Miss Fannie Nesmith, of Halle
burs {, were married.
Blaine carried eight counties in
Mississippi-Adams, Alfalfa, Boil
var, Coahona. Glenads, Issaquena
Pamela and Sharkey.
Five prisoners escaped from the
Scranton Jail last Wednesday. 1t
is supposed that they received as
sistance from outsiders.
Mr.. c. L. Adams has severed bis
CON nection with the Gulf Coast
Progress, end will hencei"rth take
stock in the Hattiesburg Herald.
Mrs. r. N Eubanks died Sa;ur-
DAY niyht Mt her residence in Rink