The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-09-18
FROM THE STATE
PRESS.

Surveyor Dickey, Of Amite, has
, resigned.
The State Fair Association offers
$4,000 is premiums.
The ting Margaret Leinhardt sunk
In the Pascagoula river on the 9th
inst.
There were los accessions 70 the
church at the China Grove camp
meeting.
Mrs. Franks, widow of the late
Capt VIM. Franks, died at West
Point recently.
Senator George will speak at
Monticello on Oct. 4th and Colum-
bia ON the 9th.
The Natchez and jackson railroad
has raised it's fare from three to
four cents per mile.
The Newton Free Press has been
| enlarged to a seven column and
otherwise improved.
Mr.. Chas. H. Hasmer and Miss
Ida B. Matthews we're married in
Summit on the 10th.
Mr.. James Edward Parish, q
young man of Jackson, died of brain
fever on the 9th inst.
The personal pror rerty of Pike
county assessed amounts to $l,56I,-
$50. The polls number 2,S05.
Rolling Fork, Sharkey county,
has a new paper called the Pilot,
edited BY Mr.. W. L. Langford.
Duck Hill has just had a big
revival of religion, conducted BY
Revs. E. B. Miller and o. L. Hailey.
The junior editor of the Pearl
River news has been attending camp
meeting in Pike and feastins on
chicken pie.
Heidleburg has organized "Thc
Hooker Democratic Club in honor
Of Chas. E. Hooker, Mississippi
greatest orator. 4
Kavanaugh College is the name Of
new institution of learning At
Ho,. asville, to be conducted BY Rev.
Walter featherstun.
Cleveland and Hend-icks ratifca-
ton meeting in VicksDu,s; recently
was addressed by Hon. III. ID. Money
and Col. c. E. Hooker.
The "Big j." railroad has sub
scribed one thousand dollars to-
wards building the bridge over
Pearl river opposite Canton.
Walter M. jackson, son OF Judge
Andrew Jackson, of Georgia, died at
Water Valley on August ~. He
was young lawyer Of much prom
ise.
Col. T. r. Stockdale and Hon.
H. s. Van Eaton addressed the peo-
pie of Amite at Liberty on the 9Th
inst. They will speak at Tylertown
Saturday.
Not long since every whisky
seller IN Jones county was indicted
for violating the State liquor law,
and yet whisky men masquerade ~
very law-obscrving citizens.
Last week the grand jury OF
Adams county returned. 8 indict-
ments against W.O'Ferrell for retail
ing whisky soithout license, and they
don't have Prohibition down there
either.
Col. B. II. Evers, Of English Land
Syndicate notoriety, was harnesssd
in Cincinnati on the 9Th inst. on
charg. of smuggling, preferred by
NJ. S. Baldwin and C. Fuber, OF
Chicago.
On the 9th inst. the Chancery
Court ratified and confirmed the set :
Element agreed on and heretofore
published between Green's Bank aud
their creditors, and . decree was
issued accordingly.
i DR.. Galloway is preaching Meth
odist Centennial sermons tn various
parts of the State and eonsta antiv
aiding to his reputati, az one OF
SuO uioSs cVquCus uNkucD IA tuS
Southern pulpit.
i Abe Carnegia, . disrcputabIe
character Of Marion, was recently
killed by the Sheriff and his posse
} while resisting arrest. He leaves =
, wife and ten little children. No
, means Of support for them.
4 Rev. j. s. Ingram. pastnn Of the
Presbyterian church, at magnolia
has gone to Scotland 10 attend TO
matters connected with his estate.
He will return the latter part al
October or first of NOvelBber.
There is q cry among our State
, exchanges for sober, industrit us.
E and competent. printers-" the
. Pascagoals Democrat-Star vants
: one, the Baptist Record another ol
: the same sort and the Walden Wat1A,
E man ditto, with other Offices 70 bee
a from.
The following parties were sward-
ed Peabody scholarships to the State
Normsl College at Nashville: Emma
|, Edmunds, Tupelo; Walter N. Hurt