The Brookhaven leader., 1885-10-01
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MISSISSIPPI NEWS.


county have put out a ticket.
The Democrats of Warren will
make an aggressive campaign.
The Kinds county Democratic
Convention meets next Monday.
The white public schools OF Halle
hurst opened with Zoe scholars.
The press is booming with "The
State Fair of the Colored People"
Capt Darden is again stumping
the State in the interest of the
Grange.
Worms have damaged Gotten con
siderable in portions of the Missis-
ippi bottom.
The Circuses are beginning to in
fest the State The spirit OF Jumbo
hovers near.
The Meridian Fair commences
October Goth. $4,000 in premiums
are offered.
AT the coming Exposition, Missis-
sippi will have NJ separate depart
ment Of Ladies work.
Col. f. G. Morehcad has been APP
pointed Commissioner General ot
the New Exposition.
Col. Shannon has withdrawn from
the Meridian Mercury. Mr.. John
5. Mooring succeeds him.
The new Methodist Church al
Poplarville was dedicated by Dir. Z
b. Galloway on the goth ult
A new post office called Palestine
has been established in Kinds coun-
ty. five miles south of Raymond.
The warehouse of w W. Scales d
Co Starkville, was recently destroy
ell by fire. Loss, $1,000, no in
surance.
Camp hunts are said to be IA
yorite amusement of the Liberty
people, just before the grand jury as
sembles.
We learn from the KosciuskO Mes
senger that n negro man In Attala
on August 29Jh picked BOG pounds
of cotton.
Miss Sallie Magce Isom, daughter
! of Dr.. lsom. of Oxford, has been
elected teacher of eIucutior in the
=, University.
The Aberdeen Examiner SAYS the
liens upon the present crop are i'm.
mcnsely less than upon any former
crop since the war.
A terrier in Tupelo leaves home
d with COW in the morning, stays
: with it all day, returning III It's
company in the eve" :.
The North Mississippi News. al
independent Grceuback paper sup
ported by Chalmers, flies the name
Of Capt. Put Dardcn for Governor,
The people Of Vickshurg are di
ided on the subject of voting sub
sidv 70" the loca ion Of the shops q
the L., n. 0. Il T. Railroad il tina
city.
The Clarion has just hound the
last hundred copies of Claihorne'
History, after the disposal of whicl
the work may be cons "e.od out o
print
Nominations for the Legislator,
! in Pamela county resulted as fol
lows: Senator, !. B. Boothe. House
= John Fowler J. L. McGehee, and 5
l c. Cook.
!, Rev. J B. Gambrell, editor Of tn
Baptist Record has accepted tn
Z position Of Secretary of the Stat
Board Of the Mississippi Baplls
Convention.
. Was the abolition Of slavery
benefit to the South?' Was warml,
debated in Natchcz last week. Tn
- weight of the argument was in favo
4 of the negative.
At Shubuta the Temperance Cen
tennial was finely celebrated by tn
w. G. L. L. of that place. j II
Gambrell. State Lecturer, won hlgI
econiums on that occasion.
A late number OF the Clarksdal
Banner contained the death motto
of a pointer dog, headed, "D;ed,
and wordcd just as would be tn
neurological notice of human
\ being.
A negro boy Of 10 assaulted
little negro Girl Of five with q knit
near HazlchursJ last week, dea lin;
her two severe cuts There was n
provocation except malicious mis-
chief He was Jailed.
Last week horse ran away witt
= Miss Jeanie Floweree, a very pop
e ular young lady, of Vicksburg
: throwing her on the hard grave
street and infiicting painful though
not fatal injuries.
a The Liberty Herald says Sheriff
Wilmington of Amite county ha
compromised the shortage found il
e.