The Brookhaven leader., 1885-02-26

Nstchez and Biloxi;had o small-sized
Msrdi:Gras oftheir own.
Attorney General Ford has. entered up
on the duties Of his office.
The Central claims that q negro in
Yaiobusha Is l22 years old.
James II. Thompson was recently
drowned in Pascagoula river.
vicksburg complains fslow mail facili-
ties over the V. & VI. Railroad.
Gen. w s. Featherston is being spoken
of as a gubernatorial. candidate.
There are our,hundred and thirty nine
lunstics in tho Asylum at Jackson.
Perry county has the smallest delin.
quent tax list that has yet been publish
ed.
Not n merchant in Carrollton has
made au assignment during tho past ten
years.
The bar of West Point has declared for
Hon. Fred Beal, of that place, for Attor-
ney -Gcneral.
The horticulturists around Crystal
Springs are getting ready for another big
vegetable crop.
The Herald states that Hattesburg is
eighteen months old and has twelve hun
bred inha bitants.
Rev. Dr. Hoyt will hold protracted
meetings at Lexington, Walden aud
Wiaona in April.
Mr.. Josh Smith of Meridian has been
appointed by the President minister to
AscunciOn, Paraguay.
Mr. Clande B. Winslow has been APP
pointed Postal Route Agent between
Jackson and Yazoo City.
Rev. T. S. A. Adams, Of Kosciusko, has
been elected President Of Centenary Col
eye Jackson, Louisiana.
The Lexington Advertiser has establish
eel Religious Department. to be con-
Quoted by the local ministers.
Mrs. Pauline X. McKie, wife of James
ID. McKie, and eldest daughter of Capt
E. A. Ford, died in Canton OH the 18th.
The Ripley Sentinel report. the death
of Capt. V. B. Dickson, y useful and
highly respected citizen of New Albany.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, bequeathed
$40 900 TO the Rev. J. w. Harmon, paster
of the Methodist Church, ut Summit,
Miss.
The Sexton of Vicksburg says business
is dull. 1t must be- because Jack Nc
Kenna and his class are temporal lily off of
duty.
Capt. Z. ID. Anderson, Master Mechan-
ic of the Mississippi! Valley" road remov-
I'd his family from McComb City to yicks-
burg.
The Clarion is troubled with an anony-
nous correspondent who is trying to buy
his way into print of personal nature
without disclosing his name.
Mr.. w. Z. Shackelfnrd and Miss Lizzie
Ellis, and Mr.. J. b. Wilson and Miss
Mary Nance are among the recent mar
riages reported by the Yazoo papers.
Judge Wharton, stated from the bench
in Raymond on dismissing jury failing
to agree, that the Circuit Court whilo in
session cost Kinds county $3.50 day!
Mrs. Galbreath, mother of John A. Gal
breath, and mother-in-law of N. b. Rich
mOnd, editor of the Biloxi Herald, died at
the residence of the latter in Scranton
OH 18th inst
DR.. c. X. Marshall of Mississippi, made
the opening prT yer at the Great Cotton
Planters Convention in New Orleans and
Col. c. +. Hooker delivered the welcom-
ing address.
The Meridian Asylum is rapidly filling
mp. Adams county recently sent 10 luna
ties TO that institution-one white and
nine colorcd, seven of the latter being
negro women.
Two deer, as We learn from the Kempcr
Herald, got their horns locked together
in Seooba swamp and fell over bluff into
creek and were drowned. A negro
found them in this condition day or so
afterwards.
Clinton was recently honored by visit
from Prof. jerks, of Brown University,
the oldest and the finest Baptist Univer-
sity in America. The Professor was the
guest Of DIR. Walter Hillman of Central
Female Institute.
Mr.. Vim. Hoover. 6 miles. from Summit,
rec emily lost his residence by fire. The
roof of the building caught by sparks fall
ing upon the shingles, and before any
thing could be- done to check the flames
the building was heap of smouldering
| ashes.
Brother j. K. Almon, editor of the West
Point New Era, published picture of his
bald head, taken from the rear, in his is.
sue of the 18th inst, which he tried to
| palm Oft OH his readers as an illustration
of Cupid, the god of love, but they easily
recognized the likeness.
A negro 20 years old has been sentenced
to the penitentiary from Newton county
for marrying u white woman. The NO.
man was very old, and asked the negro
to marry her, so that she would have
some means of support, and he says he
married her out of sympathy for her mis-
cradle condition.
The Vicksburg Post of the 18th inst,