The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-03-05
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

DIR. and Messrs. Ill. IL. and Nj. G..
Ford, of Columbia, have moved to
Texas.
/ An industrial Loan Association"
has been organized in Claiborne
county.
Mr.. MILFORD G. Lusk, very
promising young man, recently died
in Amite county.
The Lexington Advertiser devotes
more space to religious matters than
to editorial and local.
Mr.. w. o. Worrell was elected in
Vicksbure to fill the place of the
late Judge Arthur as Supervisor.
Holmes and Fowler, business
men of Yazoo City, have assigned.
Liabilities $4,000; assets $4,000.
Dr. j. r. Algood, postmaster at
Macon died OF paralysis on the 21st
instant. He was prominent and
useful citizen.
r. III. Winter, dry goods and
grocery merchant at Grenada, failed
on the 2lst. Liabilities SAID to be
about $4,000.
In the Mississippi Department at
the Exposition II. NJ. Taylor d Son,
of Jackson, make a fine display of
their pressed brick.
If this mania for condensing State
news continues, we expect to see it
reach something like this: Jones
mule colicky".-WeSt Point New
Era.
Mr.. Amos W. Burnett, promi-
nently connected with the Copiah
muss awhile back, was in Jackson
last week. He is now a citizen of
Kansas.
An East Mississippi exchange
wants to know why Col. Henry An
drews, of the Newton Free Press,
wouldn't make an excellent Minister
to Spain.
Superintendent Smith, Of this
State, was attendance upon the meet
ing of the Department of Superin-
tendence af the National Education
al Association.
The two pears grown by 7. d.
Harris, Of Rankin county, took the
premium at the Exposition. They
only lacked a fraction of weighing
two pounds each.
Mr.. Benjamin F Sutton. Mr. Asa
A. Shivers. Mr.. Ira L Smith. mcr-
chant; and Mrs. Elizabeth Russell.
wife of Hon. Johu Russel, are ie
ported among the late deaths in
Rankin county.
Jane Goldirg, the negro woman
who beat her child To death ir
Kinds county, some time since, has
been convicted Of manslaughter and
sentenced to the penitent iary for ten
! years.
Port Gibson News A diving
bell is used in the sinking Of the
| foundation Of Bayou Pierre bridge,
being necessary to remove logs i'm
bedded in the channel. The OBJ
structions are removed with dyna-
mite.
The following are the candidates
for the postoffice at jackson G.. H.
Manship, j. A. Kausler, C. p. Buck
lev, Jno. Clingan, M. Smith, s. Wat,
kins and Thos. Wharton, Jr. There
may be others before the matter is
settled.
The Star says the Prohibition law
in Tate county prohibits to some ex-
tent. A passenger for New Orleans
was arrested and taken from the
train for giving drink Of whisky TO
a fellow passenger, contrary to the
statute.
The report of Mayor McGill, of
Jackson shows the receipts Of the
city from all sources ending January
10Th, 1885, to he $2S,S7l so and dis
hursements $50, 4651S, a difference
of $3,592.33, of disbursements over
receipts.
A tramp giving his name as John
Shepard, entered the residence OF
Mr.. Carl Shaifer, living a few miles
north of jackson, recently and COM
mitted several depredations. He
was Afterwards captured and lodged
in the jackson Jail.
The West Point New Era favors
Walker, of Meridian, for Governor;
Sykes, of Aberdeen, for Auditor;
Beall, of West Point, for Attorney
General; Kincannon, of Oktiboeha,
for Superintendent of Education;
Hoskins, of Holmes, for Secretary of
State.
The members of the Issaquena
bar presented Judge J. b. Chrisman,
with an elegant gold headed cane
during his late trip to Greenville, in
appreciation of his service in hold
ing the special term of their court,
and for the high and impartial man
ner in which he conducted the same.
Judge Chrisman, in accepting the
cane, made feeling a response.
A brick is said to have been pat
ented by Mr.. Arthur Sherry, of
Learned Station. Mississippi. The
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