The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-10-09
STANDING ADvERTIsEMENTs.
aLEANIrGs FROM THE STATE
PRESS.

| The Yasoo Delta is finished.
| Meridian has l03 licensed draws.
Jack son now boasts oI her side
walks.
Brandcn is to have a Catholic
lchurci.
Liberty wants a male and feiualc
academy.
Jefferson County Fair will begin
Oct. 29th.
The State Fair will be huge, SO
say the posters.
The Democracy of Amite is thor
oughIy organizing.
The Normal School at Troy open
ed with about fifty boarders.
Kirksey ia the name of new
postoffice in North Mississippi.
The Starkville citizen wants Hon
w. n. Nash for Attorney General.
New brick walls are rising all
over the burnt district in Grenada.
A large saw mill near Pearling-
ton, was destroyed by fire recently.
A vast mine of brick clay has
been discovered in Kemper county.
Martha and Port Gibson viii
soen be connected by telegraph
wires.
The Live Stock Association of
Wilkinson county will hold fair ut
Woodville Oct 2Sth and Goth.
Mr.. Henry Florin and Miss Katie
Muller were married in Jackson re-
Gently by Rev. Father Oberfeldt.
V w. Cunningham was sentenced
to the pentenliary for two years
at the late term of the Amite Court.
Mr.. Henry Ehrman, of Vicks-
burg, and Miss Sarah Gross, OF
Canton, were made one on the lst.
A young man named Showers
was run ever and killed by the cars
near Bay ST. Louis last week while
drunk.
The first excursion on the Illinois
Central Railroad, Aberdeen di,is-
ion, ran from jackson to Aberdeen
on the 3rd,
Isaac johnson, who brutality mur-
dered Bella Booker in Madison
county last April has been senteu.
ced TO be hung on Nov. 10th.
j. Nc. Martin has authorized the
Port Gibson News to say that he
cast his first vote as trustee FOR
jackson and his second Tor Colum-
bus.
The Meridian Fair will offer as an
attraction a competitive drill be-
tween a number OF our State Mill
tary organizations during the Fair
week.
An old negro woman was found
murdered in field near Noodvillc
recently by young negro woman
named Eliza Thompson. The mur-
deress was jailed.
The temporary machine shops of
the Queen and Crescent system of
roads at Meridian, were destroyed
by fire on the I'd. Loss from $25,-
900 to 100000.
DR.. P. W. Peoples has presented
to DIR. Mckay, for exhibition at the
Exposition, a pear weighing twen-
ty-two and one half ounces. II was
grown in Grenada county.
Miss Alice Heath was found
floating dead in the Yazoo river on
the End inst. The verdict of the
coroner's jury was that she came to
her death by drowning during a fit
of dementia.
According to the State Ledger
there are in Mississippi 1915 miles
of railroad valued at $57, ,450, 600 yet
the assessed value of all other
property of the State is by the same
authority $137 .629,095.
Gov. Lowry has appointed as
trustees of the East Mississippi In
sane Asylum the following we'll
known citizens of Meridian: w.
w. George. Nj. H. Whitaker, DR.. A.
H. Smith, G. w. Meyer and L. A.
Ragsdale.
In Canton, on the 1st inst, at
Grace Church, j. b. Harris, Esq, u
prominent member of the bar of
Jackson, Miss. and son of Judga
Whey p. Harris, aud Miss Sallie
Melville, eldest daughter Of Capt.
William Melville. were married.
The bride is the granddaughter OF
ex-Gov. Neville and Tillman
Tucker, of this State. A nnmber
of friends from distance were
present, completely overfowing the
church. Rev. James e. Martin per-
formed the ceremony. fa
A week or two ago as DR. j. NJ. Byrd
was boarding the passenger traia
at vicksburg he was fired upon bv
a concealed assassin, an entire load
of buekshot entering bis shoulder.
completely crushing the Joint. Tho
injured man was taken 10 Heidle-
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