The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

" NuHllib 10 W HaNt uttuHti u W
/ picnic on the 29th.
The Ellis,ile Prohibition Club
now numbers so members.
The Weekly Meridian Mercury is
he largest paper ia the State.
/ The Young men Of Winons have
orgaIzed a Military Company.
! Chas. Mu<gravc, an old citizen Of
. Wick sburg, died on the 1th inst.
/ Milton Mckay, Of Green county,
was way LAID aud killed recently.
IIon. Chas. VI. ITowry, OF Layray-
elite, Will run for the State Senate.
Tie First National Bank opened
for business in Jackson on the 4th
INST.
Mrs. Cecilia Woods, mother OF
Hon. Thos. Wood, Of Meridian, Is
dead.
c. A. Campbell, Of Winora, has
opened bank in that 1ouriehiug
town.
( Pink Eve is prevailing to all
alarming extent among the horses III
Sar
The Annual Para lie of the Jack
son iirct"en Vas unusually brilliant
this year.
Capt. f. l.. Sykes is announced
by The SurdInit Sentinel as its choice
fpr Auditor.
Col. Hooker is to address the u
pills I'll the Moss Point Academy n
lie June Commencement.
The lafayette county Circuit
Court has six murder cases on the
docket at its late session.
Su ldav excursion trains were run
rom New Orleans to McCorub City
-$l.CO f,r the rouEl trip.
TIE Grand Lodge knights oil
, Pythlas of the Stale of Mississippi
met in Nalchcz on the 18th.
D.. Il 6. Penn was transferred
from the Copiah jail to the Safe
/ penitentiary on the l0th inst.
Col. George {. Porter of Ray
mond, died GA the 2Srh ut, after q
lingering illness, in his o4th year.
lion ;. J M"rchcad has been ap
/ puiIted postmaster at Brown :
Wetis, and A. ). Taylor at Marcel
is.
IT. Il Richmond, editor Of the Bi-
ioxl Herald, has sold his interest IL
hat paper to his partner, u. L.
WiIke-.
Capt Frank BurkitI, editor of the
/ Chicka>aw Messed GER, is II candid
ate fit the Legislature from Chicka.
saw county.
Hon Charles Francis Adams
made Il friendly visit Ia President
I jefferson Davis. while attending the
Exposition Il short time ago.
The lrlrs Of the different demon
/ nations, all over the State, seem tn
/ have tnrncd much nl their attention
of late to rawbCrry festivals.
( Will Pryor, u white man, was shot
dead 10y a negro named Hunter
Butts on the 10Th inst al a negro
frulic OF Deer Creek. Whisky was
at the bottom Of it.
r. w. Phillips, an old citizen and
p eminent merchant of Macon. Miss.
d ed on the 10Th inst from the eff
f'ct of carbolic acid which was adj
ministered 10y himself
CT. J. w. Younghlood, so long
and ftvorably known in connection
with the Mississippi press, has re
reived an important appointment in
the Government Printing Office.
In Noxnbee county the board of
supervisors had the moral courage
To put the tax on retail saloons at
The maximum, $1,000. In conse-
quencc of which the saloons ali
ceased except one or two in Macon.
Mr. Tiunev, the Republican Post
master of Vicksburg, about whom
there has been so much said Of late,
was Grants confidential telegraph
operator before the fall of Rich
mond, and is highly endorsed by
Grant for rcappointment.
Mrs. r. j. Moselev, the widow Of
former sheriff of Lauderdale coun
", and lady OF standing and
means, has recently lost her mind to
such an extent thst her friends have
been compelled TO commit her to the
East Mississippi Insane Asylum.
She has one child. which was taken
in charge by friends.
The kOSciuskO Star says "rhcrc
are eight young men 10 the Missis-
Sippi G. ,llege who do their own cook
ing, etc in order to obtain an edu
cation. Or such men are heroes
made, and one of these will he worth
more TO the State than a dozen pam
icred scipns of wealth who are sup
p ,scd to be educated at institutions
supported at States expense.
jackson holds her election for
lo~tmas er OH the Both. All quali-
fed voters who voted for Cleveland