The Brookhaven leader., 1885-02-19
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been recently repaired ~ !.
Mai. @. NJ. Goyan, of Pike, is candi.
date for Secretary Of State.
Charles Mcdowell was killed in Amite
county recently by Ed. Davis. e
Senator-elect Jones, Of Arkansas, is q
native of Marshall county, Miss.
Tho negroes who left Monroe county
and went to Kansas are returning.
At the recent town election in McCool,
10 of her Is voters were candidates.
Mrs. Elizebeth Rolston died in vicks-
burg on the 9th inst. in her 20 year.
The editor of the oko,oua Messenger
withdraws from the race for Governor.
Akotel is to be built at Martin, also a
handsome residence by Mr.. Vaudeville.
Ruhman & Co., clothiers of vicksburg,
have failed. Liabilities, s4s,422; assets,
sS9,76S. -
Mississippi took opposition IN the front
rank at the Expositionand Is holding hcr
ground. u.
A gray eagle was lately killed in Clarke
county measuring 7 feet from tip to tip Of
its wings.
Mr.. A. Meek, of Knsciusko, fclfapder
box car at that place recently and was
crushed to death.
Mr.. Moses Lusk, of Beauregard. and
Miss Johnnie Hogg, of Hazlehurst, were
married on the 9Th lust.
1t is estimated that the Illinois Cent
road is carrying about $500 passengdrs
into New Orleans daily.
Jake Allen has been convicted Of
murder in Adams county, and sentenced
to the Penitentiary for life.
Rev. J. F. Mcdonald, OF Kentucky, and
Miss Lizzie E. Culley.. OF Madison county,
were married on the 9TH inst.
A Queen and Crescent Sleeping Car was
burned at Meridian on the 18th, the FIRE
originating from the stove pipe. I;
Ellisville, on the Northeastern road, ID
a PROM bition town and yet seems to be
doing fine business and is building up
rapidly.
A good deal of suffering is reported
among the INDECENT people of yicksburg,
and last week the city authorities had to
take steps for their relief.
Mrs. katherine McArn, relict of the.
late Dougald McArn, prominent citizen
of jefferson county, died on the 9Th Inst.
at her home near Union Church.
The bridge expense of Copiah comfy
for 1884 was $40, 754, 4S-$8, $4,000 of the
amount being for the iron bridge and its
approaches across Bayou Pierre.
Miss Lillian E. Burke, only daughter Of
the late Capt. j. d. Burke, of the Magno-
liza Gazette, was married in Franklin
county on the 5th inst. to Mr.. ID. NJ. Her
ring.
Mr., J. S. Lamkin has purchased the
Magnolia Gazette. He says he is thor
oughly "new" in the business, and This
salutatory indie ates it, but his platform
of principles is o. X.
Elk Governor St. John, late Prohibition
candidate for President, will speak in
Corinth on the 23rd. He viii! also speak
in Jackson, Vicksburg, and probably 9th
er towns while in the State.
Mrs. A. NJ. Johnston, of Jackson, has in
her possession a snuff box, which was
made of the the Spanish guns of the float
ing battery, burned at the siege of .GibraL
ter, in 1872, making the relic 1O3 years old.
The racket reporter of the Times. Demo-
crat has information which justifes him
in SAYING that after Mardi Gras, or about
March 1st, the railroads ceiisefihgs .a New
Orleans viii reduce fare to one cent per
mile.
Mr.. George Sutherland, an old aud
highly respected citizen of Jackson, died
last week, in his. Nth year. He had
been citizen of Jackson for so years,
and more honest and upright man new
or lived in the place.
Hon. Wiley Nash, of Oktibbeha, is a
candidate for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Like
our own choice, he is good lawyer and a
pure and upright man, and if the State
confines its choice to him or r. II. Thomp-
son, it can make no mistake. Z
In tho United States District Court al
Jackson at its late session, which was Of
only nine days duration, there was but
one Indictment returned by the grand ju-
ry. That is good showing tor peace and
order in the Southern District.
Miss Kate Power, tho accomplished and
vivacions State itemizer of the Clarion,
h as gone to New Orleans to spend a few
weeks, duing which time her place will
be filled by Miss Annabelle, her 13 year
old sister. During her stay in the Ores.
cent City Miss Kate will write up the Elk.
position.
Mr.. II. Morris, proprietor of the
jackson ice factory, which was burned a
few weeks ago, has just completed a con
tract with Mr.. Jack w. Parish to erect .
new brick factory on an improved plan
Mr.. Morris is an enterprising citizen ana
will soon be ready to fill all demands fol
the refrigerating compound.
The State Ledger says that Jackson
needs more banks, more business, NOR,
enterprise, more public spirit, more man