The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-07-02
E-1SIsS-r-- NEWS.

base ball club.
There ~ a colored salvation army
Ina GrcCnvil,e, Miss.
a iirten year old white boy is in
jail at Sardlo Tor forgery.
/ Iuka Normal College turned out
/ tihecn graduates this year.
The papers are bugdcned with re-.
ports ii thc closing exercises Uf the
State schools.
a man named Mutt. of Natchez,
has :uade valuable improvement
ou the telephone.
/ A. {. Kerr has been appointed
Janiior OF the Postotfice and Public
Bu.ding at jackson.
I The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union at Yazoo City, have Il
department In the Sentinel.
From the Dorqocrat we learn that
! the citizens of Natchez are discuss
. inE the watcr-wOrks question.
Tue Tupelo Journal says there are
a couple of widows IN that burg Il
hundred years old, who want to
! marry.
Mr.. f. O. Miller has purchased
! the entire interest OF tue Columh u>
Dispatch, Mr.. b. Ferris having
Withdrawn.
Clay county held it's convention
on June 20lh. aud sends uninstruct-
et Lowry delegates to the STAT
convention.
Nineteen Of the lawyers in Viuks
burg have been indicted by the
Grand Jury for failure to obtain a
Safe license
The Burial OF Cock Robin" that
attracted 20 much attention ut the
! Worlds Exposition, is to be eXhjbi-
ted throughout the State
A Bay ST. Louis lawyer. Ben Lane
Pooey, is building a law office 30C
fee, out III the Bay, over the rolling
waters. where he can be cool and
quiet.
Tive Rolling Fork Prirt says that
I ". y. AIcoru, OF Coaloina SAW Il
snake on his plantation fifty feet
ong with a head fifteen inches in d..
ameter Next.
There is cal: near CRYSTAL
Springs, it is said, that rrishe. any
kind OF cloth, and will eat any thing
from an oil tsbie-clntA down to d
pair Of wooIen, home made socks.
During n thundcr storm on The
evening OF 23fd ul1, the front conner
Of the parspct wall of the Jackson
Clarion building wa, struck by
lightning. Ii is a three story brick
huiling, and The second and third
stories NeIc both occupied at The
time, but tunatei V no one wa, in
iurrd, and he damage to the band
ln2 is slight.
= ..r' =. rs.f SIT, -. t-.,r.,.
.,a pai.-n, the newly aprplurr.t In
iornal Revenue Collector tor the
District Of Louisiana, is a native o.
Adams county. Miss. and j. 81
wears old. He IS Il son of the lat,
Major Gabr1ci i. Shields and :
2IAndson Of Judge VIM B Shields
vino was the first Chief Justice 81
The Supreme Court of Mjs,i- snip
when the State was admitted int,
The Union.
\ VIc'lsburg special to the Times
Democrat says only one conviction
was Obtained after three weeks ees
>sun of cOurt--lhat of negro
sent euCcd two Years for larceny -
aud he was allowed to escape by {
careless peputy sheriff. Upon be
ing asked 10y Il rep"rter why thi'
was, District Attorney Winchester
said II am powtrItss to d. any
Ching under our present admlni~tra
lion; | mean the >hcr'f, Clerks an'
Board Of Supervisors are the ma
chincrY which runs your Court A
diS@racefui stale OF affairs. surely
and one that other counties woulo
do well to guard against.
There is now on exhibition at tn,
drug store of Mr. WA. r. Banning
seN crai pieces of pottery that wcr'
dag out Of an Indians grave hy Mr.
John kicruan, on the bank ol s..
'aiherine creek, opposite "Montc.
hello" about three miles from
Nalchoz. One Of the pieces repre-
~ents evidently a water JUG, will
lhe drinking cup over the mouth
and another piece is bowl. The-e
were found upon either side of the
head OF the Indian, and the Other
pieces of the pottery were taken
from another part Of tho grave, The
pottery was very nicely made, and
in shape and burning would not be
di>creditahle to any workman of the
present day. The grave in which
these relics were found is supposed
to have been that OF Natchez IN
dian, aud the specimens must con
sequentIy he quite uld.-Ndtche:
Democrat
AT meeting in jackson on the
22nd uit., The trustees of the Stat,
Female College completed the organ
ization Of the faculty by the election
of the following named : Mathemat.
les, Miss ii. } s. Galloway, Of Ma