The Brookhaven leader., 1885-05-07
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
Crop prospects are good.

Westville wants a barber and
shoemaker.
Alcorn county has calf which ID
half deer and half COW.
Mr.. Armand Perault IN old citi
Zen Of Natchcz, is dead.
r. L. Bennett has been appointed
depot agent at Yazoo City.
Blind Tom is exhibiting in tho
principal towns of the State.
John r. McRen, for many years 8
merchant Of Vicksburg, died last
week.
A strong effort is being made TO
oust the Republican postmaster OF
Vicksbure.
The work Of rebuilding the burnt
district of Vicksburg has already
commenced.
The Clerks office at Williamsburg
was recently burglarized and rob-
bed of 81 so.
The last saloon has been closed in
Jasper county, thanks to the Prohi
bition workers.
The Oxford Eagle considers the
report that Bruce and Hill will be
retained "horrible, if true"
Rev. T. B. Holloman, Of Yazoo
City, and Miss NJ. j. Jones, of Ha.
zlehurst, were married on the 2Sth
ult.
B. f. Dale, of Okolona, took five
premiums on his blooded horses at
the Exposition. Good for Missis
sippl.
The skeleton found in the woods
near Duck Hill has been identified
as that of an Irish peddler named
Burke.
There will be a special term of
Circuit Court held in Marion coun-
~, commencing on the first Monday
IN June.
Thos. Harper, of Edwards, while
in swimming in Big Black river,
near that place, on Sunday, was
drowned.
There is no better road in the
United States than the Illinois Cen
trail. Tourists to the Exposition
are loud in their praise of it.
Col. Horne, editor of the Meridi
an Mercury, has made formal ap.
plication to President Cleveland for
a pardon for Jefferson Davis.
The Prohibitionists of Amite
county will hold a convention on
May 18th to appoint delegates to the
State Convention on July LIST.
A calf with two faces-perfectly
formed-two ears, two mouths, four
eyes and four nostrils, has made its
appearance in Kemper county.
II. II. Howard has been postmas-
ter at Carthage for thirty years. In
January lie forwarded his resigna-
tion which haslfnally been accepted.
The Crystal Springs Meteor de-
mics that Bridges, who shot Ander-
son. of Cincinnati, in brothel in
New Orleans, is a cit zen Of that
town.
Col. Power writes that he will
have the minutes Of the Press As
ISOLATION rinted and ready for dis
tribution at the convention in Wa
ter Valley, May 18th.
At a recent term of the Circuit
Court in Tate county the grand jury
found seventeen indictments against
one man for violating the Prohibi-
ton law of that county.
The following candidates have
formally announced themselves in
Copiah T. j. Iargrave and f. b.
Conn for the Office of sheriff, and
Mr.. r. w. Millsaps for treasurer.
Hon. Z. Barksdale, Representa-,
tive in Congress from this district,
has gone to Washington. His mis-
sion is thought to be TO try and hur-
~ the decapitation of some ohjec
tionable Postmasters.
The following persons have enter
ed as competitors for the jackson
postoffice at the primary election
soon TO be held : Selden Watkins,
John Clingan, e. 2. Buckley, C. II.
Manship, Marion Smith, j. W.
johnson, r. r. Holmes, T. j. Whar-
Ton, Jr., and G. l.. CASTOR.
The Vicksburg hospital treated
5000 patients last year, and turned
off 800 for want of room. AT the
meeting Of the State Medical AS
ISOLATION held at Greenville a com
mittee was appointed to memoria.
lize the Legislature to have this es-
tablished as a State hospital.
A big stir has been created among
large number of Vicksburg prop
erty holders by the claims of a
young man named VIM. H Downs,
now resident OF Washington coun-
ty, Miss, the only legal heir at law
of the late E. ID. Downs, deceased,
who was resident of Vicksburg 10
1861 or 1862.
Mr.. c. M. Hyde has assumed edi-