The Brookhaven leader., 1884-03-27
sDrroRIAI. NOTEs.

HrtsSrn ana snlPpCu 9lo,OVo odles oI
cc'trun the past season.
OtR exchanges bring distressing
byw> Of heavy rains and over flows
10 Ill parts Of the State.
TRE Meridian Mercury says that
"the Meridian & Natchez Railroad Is
p certainty" So mote it be.
iloS. E.. BARKspALE, has our
thanks for an official volume on the
Commerce and Navigation of the
United States for the year 1888.
THn manuscript Of the second
Volume of Col. Claiburne's History
of Mississippi was consumed among
the other valuable contents Of Dun.
bafIon.
Mr. Foreman Campbell may not
have noticed it, but the Ficksburg
Commercial Herald wears its new
healing like some men do their hats
"a little To one side.
PETER CROSBY died in Nicksburg
few days ago. He was The insti-
gator of the race riots which caused
SO much trouble in that city in 1874
At that time he was Sheriff OF Warren
county.
Now that the railroad commission
of Tennessee has been declared un
constitutional the omission has a
number of suits against it for
damages sustained by the railroads
during the operation of its illegal
existence.
A late report from Washington
states that there is a growing opinion
among the politicians that Blaine
and Lincoln will he the nominees Of
the Chicago Republican Convention.
Blaine is developing greater strength
every day.
A number of the leading citizens
OF Hazlehurst have published a card
announcing that al reports of the
existence of smallpox in that town
are without foundation in fact, and
that there has never been q case
nearer than three miles in he coun-
Try on the north.
Summit Lodge, No 90, l. 0. o. F.,
has inaugurated plan by which the
members and their families and
friends can enjoy u day of rare pleas
IRE. The Grand Lodge meets at
Natchez on the second Tuesday in
May, and there will be an excursion
to that place on the last day of the
meeting Of the Grand Lodge.
TIE Trustees of the State Female
College as nominated to the Senate,
are Rev. r. A. S. Adams, of Koscius-
ko; Marshall Miller. Of Warren;
James T. Harrison, Of Columbus; j.
j. Gage, Grenada; j. j. Thornton,
Harrison county, Lee Williamson,
Pamela county; j. McC. Martin,
Port Gibson; W. A. Percy, Green
vile.
Howard, WHITE g. Co s CONNER
Cial bulletin. recently issued, shows
that the numbers of hogs killed in
Chicago during the last twelve
months is $4,000. against 4,559,0 900
last year. This means higher prices
for bacon, and should be an incen-
tive to the farmers of the South to
plant corn enough to do them and
also to feed few hogs.
TIE Crystal Springs Meteor says
w. j. Stackhouse is the champion
grower this year. He has completed
arrangements to plant 10000 hills of
melons 10 acres), and 10000 hills
OF cucumbers, to say nothing about
5000 tomatoes and 10 acres in straw
berries. His cold frame for forcing
melons and cucumbers is 900 feet
long, and is the largest in this sec
ton.
UNDER the new law chancery court
In the county of Pike will hereafter
he held on first Mondays of June and
December in each year and continue
IL days, if business requires. The
time for holding circuit court has
also been changed so as to commence
on the second Mondays of January
and July in each year and continue
IL judicial days respectively If bust
ness should require.
BIsHoP II. Fl. KAvANAuGH, of
Kentucky, a member Of the College
of Bishops of The Methodist Episco-
pal Church South, died at the Metho-
dist parsonage in Columbus on
March 18th, after several weeks of
suffering from Ureniia. or bladder
affection. He had been an active
Minister of the gospel for upwards
of sixty years and was ordained a
Bishop in 1854. He was in his eighty.
third year.
We return thanks to Mrs. Adelia
NJ. Hillman. ef Clinton. Miss, for
printed copy of the very able and
finished essay written by her on
the subject of ~System as it effects
school work" and read before the
state Teachers Association at Jack
son ia December last. Being a
successful and thoroughly ex-
Ierienced educator herself, Mrs. II.
bas handied the subject with mas
tr hand. We regret that our limited