The Brookhaven leader., 1884-10-02
aLEANINas FROM THE STATE
PRESS.

Duraut prohibits kite flying.
jackson county has . gun club.
v,cksbarg has four military com.
pauies.
Adrian Kriebs died at Pascagoula
on the 22d.
~Jno. Oliver, the Mayor Of Duck
Hill, is dead.
-Jsckson now gets her coal for
$3.50 per ton.
The State Ledger last week print-
ed 5,735 papers. -.
The matrimonial market In Kinds
is remarkably dull.
Central Female Institute opened
on the 25th With go pupils: r
jackson has a white Blaine and
Logan club Of 80 members.
Capt. Put Darden IL making
speeches in East Mississippi.
Mr.. James Orr, an old citizen Of
Natchez, died on the 23d ult.
Henry Pagan and Capt. J., L.
Duck died at Meridian last week.
The Me- idian Asylum has been
completed and turned over to the
trustees. - g -
Litigation is still pending over
the assignment made by the Bran
don bank. ..e
Col. B. II. Evers has been hon0ra-
by acquitted Of the charge Of
smuggling.
Natchez complains Of dull times.
The new railroad is drawing on her
eastern trade. ~ cI>s
The educational spirit is alive
and schools are we'll attended all
over the State. ,r-rR
The railroads at Vicksburg will
hereafter receive none but com
pressed cotton.
jackson has q Republican who
has bolted the regular ticket for
Mrs. Lockwood. .@.' 't'tfe
Bailey has been released on q
$3.50 bond for the killing Of Ryan
lately at Meridian. 5a.en
There is a report that Hon. W.
S. Featherston will resign the posi-
tion of Circuit Judge.
Many drouth- -parched sections
have been treated to refreshing rains
during the past week.
The residence Of james g. Terry,
of Meridian, was burned on the
54th ult. Loss, $4,000. sos
Mr.. Austin Morgan, an old citi.
zen of Jackson. died Of heart disease
last week, in his S0th year. :
Jack Malone was laid out with .
base ball bat by Richard Shields in
a Brandon saloon last week.
Mr.. James Smith and family, of
Glasgow, Scotland, have been ON .
visit 70 old friends in jackson.
A new Catholic church in Nesho-
ba county was recently dedicated
by Bishop Janses for the Indians.
An old crazy negro was shot by
mistake for burglar at Bay st.
Louis on the night Of the ed ult.
Gen. Harper, recently elected
Mayor Of Clinton, died very sudden
iy at his residence, in that place,
last week. eats
Capt. VIM. Gillespie, of jackson,
and Col. p. NJ. Doherty, of Yaxo0
City, have established an insurance
agency at Vicksburg.
Mr.. Louis Bernheimer, a native cf
Port Gibson, died in St. Louis on
Sept. 18th, where he was engaged in
a prosperous business. y 53se
Mr.. S. C. Ragan, . prominent
Wholesale merchant Of Vicksburg,
and Miss Helen d. Burch, we're
married on the Esd ult.
Judge Simrall and Gen. Reuben
Davis, Republican electors for the
State-at-Large, are Grating in North
and Central Mississippi. sol e@.s
At Vicksburg a small sheet OF
water in front of the city marks tho
place where $60, 900 was spent in
dredging canal and basin.
BY direction of Manager j. NJ.
Edwards, no more trains will be fur
D nished for excursions to run on
) Sunday on the L. N. o. 4 T. Rail-
r road. .sa - Is.
? A negro named George Keifer
J was lynched at Hermansville on the
2lst ult. for attempting to outrage
a Miss Fife, into whose room he had
E slipped.
= Thomas Moreton and George
. Randolph, charged respectively with
|. mail robbing and grand larceny,
J. escaped from the Vicksburg jail
b last week. ,,s -ts
7 The Illinois Central has ordered
9 q survey from Yazno City 70 Mem.
u phis with view Of building . road
through the Sunfower and Taila,