The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-01-15
MISSISSIPPI NEW s.


The new insane asylum at Meri-
dian was opened to patients Mon
day.
Judge r. j. Alcorn has resigned
the position Of postmaster At Yas 70
City.
More than a million and half OF
oysters were shipped from Biloxi in
one week.
Judge North was taken suddenly
i'll while holding Court in Vicksburg
last week.
Mr.. G. L. Miller, living near
Brandon, recently lost his gin by an
incendiary.
The mercantile establishment of
Glazier d Winters, at McCool, fail
ed the Goth.
Miss Josie Van Hook, an estima-
BILE young lady of jackson, died on
the End inst.
The Republican says Woodville
has a regular organized band of
chicken thieves.
Ed. Jones. the colored member Of
the Kinds county Board of Supervi-
sors has resigned.
The business houses of Oxford
closed during funeral services oil
Mrs. Senator Lamar.
A negro burglar was killed last
, week by the Marshal of Cation
while resisting arrest.
Port Gibson has received an en-
CINE and large amount Of machin-
cry for her cotton factory.
From Dec. 4th to Jan. 4th, the
Circuit Clerk Of Copiah county is
sued - marriage licenses.
Rev J. w. Fitzgerald, of Lebanon,
Tenn, and Miss Matte Dennis, Of
Oxford, were married on the End
inst.
David Allen, a colored man in
jured himself So severely by lifting q
heavy weight at Liberty that he
died from the effect of the injury.
The dairymcn of Vicksburg have
formed an association, Therefore all
Vicksburgers may now look for the
same quantity of water in their milk 8.
The last license for the sale of
whisky in Beanregard expires Feb.
9Th. The entire county of Copiah
will have Prohibition after May LIST.
f. b. Divine, an old and highly
respected citizen, Of Madison conn
ty: died at his residence near
Sharon, on the 3rd inst. aged eighty
FIVE.
Mr.. Lum Dillon. farmer Of
Franklin county living near the
Cassidy ferry, was recently :, :.e''
by accident whiIelnsh",',.eer hunt
ing with a neighle!tt "
A fifteen year old son of Capt A.
A. Parrisot, of Yazoo county recent
y shot and killed a negro while the
latter was cursing and throwing beer
glasses ut his brother.
At the municipal election in Ell
wards last week J. b. Graves was
re elected Mayor and L. A. Moss
r. H. Noblin, F. s. Gray, and c. P.
Hewes, were chosen aldermen.
| The ice factory Of Mr.. }. Fl Nor
rie, at Jtckson, was recently de-
stroyed by fire. 1t was valued at
$4,000 and insured for $4,000. II
will be rebuilt in time for the ice
season, which al! interested in cheap
ice will he glad to hear.
Gov. Lowry has pardoned John
C. PAYNE, who was convicted of
manslaughter in DeSoto county in
1888, in the killing of Joe Hawkins
in said county. Payne's family rank
among the best people of the State
The killing was done in a drunken
spree.
The little town of Flora on the
Yazoo branch of the Illinois Central
Railroad has about ten or twelve
houses and four whisky-shOps. II
it were true. as some falsely argue,
that saloons help a town, and this
proportion holds out long enough,
Flora will be as big in a few years
as London.
DR.. NJ. s. Craft, Capt. Frank
Johnston, Judge Wiley P. Harris,
Mr.. Sam Livingston, Judge +. p.
Cooper, Judge Il. j. Wharton. Col.
W. l.. Nugent and Judge J. A. p.
Campbell, were the pail bearers who
bore Judge Chalmers to his last
resting place He was buried in the
cemetery at jackson.
The Liberty Herald is informed
that thrifty colored man by the
name Of Sailor Allen, living some
where in the Tickfaw district, while
absent from home on Friday night
before Christmas, was robbed of
several hundred dollars. the ac-
emulation of years of honest
labor. There was no one at home
but his wife and another colored
woman, and the robbers frightened