The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-11-13

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on the 9lst.
Clarksdale has new paper called
the Banner.
A Justice Of the Peace 10 Harrison |
county presides with coat End shOee
OF
vickshurg will exhibit home rails.
ed lemons ct the Worlds Esposi-
ton.
Mr.. Jack Hodges and Miss Kate
Myers, of Okolona, were married On
the 9th. inst.
A negro of Utica won sl25 from
the wheel II fortune at the State
fair in jackson.
Clay county can boss, Of real.
ident, an old negro man, who is
ninety-nine years old.
Aberdeen can get a 100000 cot.
ton factory as soon as her citizens
will subscribe $4,000.
Mr.. P. L. Young, a tobacco drum
mer we'll known in this State, died
recently in Taagipshoa.
Mr.. James Ewing Of Jackson, and
Miss Lula Jones. OF Lexington, were
made one on the 3rd inst.
Henry Schuyler, tax collector Of
vicksburg, aad his bondsmen are
having trouble with the city.
A car load of cotton on the vicks-
burg and Meridian Railroad VAS
burned near Newton last week.
Mrs. B. T. Henderson. wife Of the
depot agent. and Miss Bush, daugh
ter Of J. L. Bush. died at Terry.
A dead tramp was found in
hollow log near Biloxi, where it is
supposed he had crept for shelter.
The Carroltnn debating rlnh di :
cusSed recently the exrediency f
ab"ishing the laws against du l.
ling.
Shsrkey county is at last free
from srnall-p,x. There were l07 cases
reported OF which about one Third
proved fatal.
Jackson has a public Library AS
sociaiiOn, with Gen. Geo. c. Mckee
as President, and Capt. Geo. 5
Green, Secretary.
Sardis had colt show recently
which demonstrated the fact that
Panola county was raising some ex
c.llent horses.
Mr.. James II. Hill of Lodi anf
Miss Alice J. Singleton, of Winon:
were married recently after an en-
gagement Of seventeen wears.
A little boy in Water Valley bein.
attacked and bitten by a dog raj
his hand down its mouth and held i
there until his sister killed it with ,
stick.
A negro and his team were struck
by train on the Mississippi Val
ley Railroad so miles below Vicks
burg on the 4th inst, and the driv
er fatally injured.
Capt E. d. Anderson, an office
of the c. r. R.. stationed ut Nc
Comb City, has accepted the position
oi Master Mechanic Of the L.. N. o
4 +. r. r. and has moved TO Vicks
burg.
The Aberdeen Examiner believe
Mississippi will make such an ex
hibit of grasses and hay and gras
seed at the Exposition as will fore
the world to concede her excellenc
in this line of industry.
Miss Jennie Morancy, Of Jackson
the beautiful daughter OF our eff
cient State Librarian. last Thursds
night treated the citizens Of th
Capital to perfoi nance Of th
charming Operetts, "Gyp, Jr."
The Star says that a man Twin
within four miles OF Ko>ciuskn wi
make twenty bales Of cotton an
corn 10 spare upon twenty five acre
of ground. He and his son with Oh
aid Of two horses made the crop.
The colored people Of Ware
county are making preparations t
Iend creditable display to tn
Exposition. They held a meetin
nj vicksburg recently for the pul
rose of collecting material to plac
GU exhibition.
From the Kosciusko Messenge
we learn that c. s. Anderson {
Alfalfa who is an expert on 'po'
sum" limiting says that the ma
who furnishes the dogs j. tn,itle
70 the first 'possum' and an equi'
able undivided interest in the res
caught.
Portevcnt & Farve. the We
knOwn mill men OF Pennington, al
preparing to build narrow gaug
railroad from West Pearl Station
an the line Of the NV Orleans an
Northeastern road. to Pearingtor
Miss, n distance OF about twenty
seven miles.
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