The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-01-08
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

Pneumonia is prevailing in many
communities.
The students of Alcorn Universi-
W number l66.
Jackson is afflicted with disturb
ers of public worship.
Mrs. f. C. Cage, an aged lady of
Jackson, died on the 9th.
The woodville Republican has
run out of whisky petitions.
The Mississippi VALLEY Railroad
is troubled with land slides.
Mr.. Hartwell Cook, of ITazlehurst
died last week of pneumonia.
Col. A. G. Horn, of the Meridian
Mercury, is still in bad health.
Kosciusko boasts of turnip
weighing pounds and > ounces.
DR.. c. c. Marshall, of Halle
hurst, died recently of pneumonia.
Capt. w. W. Stone. of Greenville,
is a candidate for auditor of public
accounts.
Rev. r. A. Cohran has taken
charge of the Baptist church at
Vicksburg.
Ten dollar counterfeit bills have
been found to be in circulation in
Vicksburg.
Mr.. Jacob Marx of Farmerville,
La, and Miss Bertha Levy, of Port
Gibson, were married on the 3lst.
Up to date, this seasons receipts
Of cotton, at Aberdeen. amount to
nearly twenty-five thousand bales.
DR.. Richard c. Winslow, a promi-
nent ply stefan of Issaquena county,
died several weeks ago of pneumo-
MIA.
Russell Hancock, son Of Gen.
Winfield Scott Hancock, died at his
plantation in Coahoma county on
the 30th ult.
1t is reported that the contract
for building the NJ. S. d B. Railroad
from Memphis to Holly Springs has
been given out.
The pick pockets have been
doing" Meridian. Three were
nabbed there last week and bound
over to Circuit Court.
A. f. Fox, Esq, of West Point,
is an applicant for the office of Dis
trict Attorney for the North Missis
sippi Federal Circuit.
Judge Chrisman has sentenced
Edmund Jones, of Issaquena county,
to he hanged on January 30th tor
the murder of John Aikens.
The timber exhibit Of Mississippi
at the Cotton Exposition will, it is
said, eclipse that Of any other State
represented at the great show.
Gen. II. f. Williamson is an APP
plicant for the position Of United
States Marshal from the northern
district, and has a strong backing.
The Woodville Republican is the
oldest paper in the State, having
been established iL 1923. Not
many of its first subscribers are
left.
A mock marriage was one of the
Christmas amusements INDUCED in
by the Vicksburgers. Mock marriage
cs have been known to get people in
to trouble
Miss Mollie Durall, an enter
prisiDg young lady of Sardis, is
preparing an historical textbook re-
lating to Mississippi for use in the
public schools.
Mr.. C. c. Heison, a prominent
merchant of Aberdeen, Miss, and
Miss Ida Waddill, daughter of Maj.
George Waddill. of Vicksburg, were
married on the 30th.
James Hart, a citizen of st. LOUIS.
was instantly killed in Vicksburg
on the st by being run over by a
switch engine on the Louisville,
New Orleans and Texas Railroad.
Mr.. w. A. Henry, one of the va
zoo Commissioners. has placed in
the Mississippi department at the
Exposition beautiful desk made OF
several varieties Of the native woods
of that county.
VIM. Martin, who was sentenced.
by the last term OF the Circuit Court
of Jones county, in December, TO be
hanged at Ellisville, January LIST,
1885, for hanging a negro near San.
dersville, November 3rd, has appeal
ed his case to the Supreme Court.
Mrs. Lamar, wife of Senator La
mar, died at her home in Oxford on
the Both ult She was a most es-
Unable lady, caring little for socie-
ty. She was devoted to her home
and children, and always kind,
thoughtful and generous. Her place
can never be filled in Oxford
John d. Gibson, formerly large
3 merchant of Red Cross Landing, on
J the Tallahatchie River in'thiS State,
was arrested in VicksDurg on the
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