The Brookhaven leader., 1885-06-25
MISSISSIPPI NEW s.

1HEnn farmer u now WORKING =
mule he bought thirty years ago.
Hon Rndrric Seal IS Il candidate
for State Senator from the Coast.
Five brick stores were DESTROYED
by fire in Macon on the 18th inst.
Edwards has Colnrcd Pruhibi.
ton Club Of over hundred mem
hers. +
The Democratic Executive Com ,
nirtee of Copiah county meets next !
Saturday.
The Lexington Advertiser has
hoistcd the name OF Put Dardcn tor
Governor.
lIarpcrville organized Prohibit
iion Club with 40 members at the
first meeting.
Mr.. G. w Smith. Of Winona, is
candidate for State Superintendent
of Education
Several deaths have lately occur
: red from hux ri Law euce Station on
( the V. & VI. Railroad
The County Grange of Chickasaw,
/ has passed resolution iaVogi,g the
rcPeal of the Lien Law.
MIS- f. II. Schulz, while in fit
/ OF temporary insanity, drowned hcl-
/ self, nj Enterprise. Miss.
The IIazlrhurst Signal SAYS, Our
! calahuOse is never used now" Pro
, hihition town, you know
/ a negro was recently Killed in
Newton county 10y being struck in
the stomach ny another with a
BRICK bat.
Il is said Postmaster Kernaghan,
OF Brandon, Il Republican,, is 'iktly
10 hold on till his commission eX
plrcs two years hence.
a negro was iynched in 1azro
county last week for attempting It"
outrage the daughter OF Mr. y. l..
Holt, Il farmer living near Iazoo
City.
Harris, Dodd> &, Co, have a page
advertisement in the Hazlchur-!
Signal, well written and aItistical!N
di,pjayed Such entefprising mer-
chants ought t" succeed n business
aud they no doubt will.
Fully 1000 souls flied the Assem-
bly, house Of the Agricultural ami
Mechanical College to hear the adj
dress of cx-Gov. a. II. Coiquitt, OF
Georgia, TO the graduating class.
Major j. l.. Woford has been re
lieyed a. superintendent Of the new
Goyerumcnt building at jackson,
which i, Row under the supervision
of The Intcrna! Rpicur" Collector.
The Democratic Executive tom
niltoe Of Perry county met and Al
thoriztG thcir Chairman I" appoint
delegates To the STATE and S"Uatori-
al onvtntiOns-rathcr IL dangerous
res lonsihiIity to throw on one man.
They ask us almost every day it
here j. no chance t. beat Lowry,
and We arr forced to Tell them III az
onv of Spirit, bat with strict regard
for he truth that here i none vi~i-
bic to TIE naked eye.-TUPelo JoNr
nal.
a company Of Jackson gentlemen
have purchased the large Morse. 30
inch Compress which WAS on cxhi-
hi'ion at Dhc New Orleans EXpoei
tion and have made arrangements It"
move It to jack son and have all the
proper sheds erected in time to com
press this seasons cotton.
Brandon has been steadily losing
ground "a commercial town ton
several lears, having declined 'rum
the shipment ct y 900 bales Of cot
ton in 1868 t. 1873, to the shipment
Of 5000 bales in the season oj
1881 ), and yet duting all this tim
it has never been without a liquor
saloon.
On the 10Th Judge K A. Hall
decided the case of the Memphis
Selma and Brunswick Railway Com
panv VS.. Glcer, Hamilton & Co, in
tnvnr uf he halter. The road owes
he firm 1871 900, which constitutes
tive greater part of the assets a.!
Green's bank at Jackson, which
failed last year.
The State Ledger is informed tina
there i little prospect for the state
Fair this fell, the managers having
con ctuled that it wnuld hr profllr>s
Ia undertake. to run the Fair against
the Exposition. Unless it could b.
= decided improvement on The gam
bling concern of last fall, mIscaIled II
State Fair, il is well for it to be SUI
n"lcrded by some creditable enter
p'isc.
Luther Benson was taken serious
" i'll at Ray mord, and was n ali e
." fill his appointment there and was
cnmpcllel Ia cancel all his engage
ments, and to return home. HIS
shattered constitution gave way I'M
der the strain of constant occurring
and the loss OF sleep incident TO tray
FL, and palpitation of the heart and
complete nervous prustration was
the result.
p X. Mayers, of the Pascagoula
Democrat Star, who has lust TAX en-