The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-09-02
STANDING ADVERTISEMENTS.
SOUTHERN oLEANINGS.

tary of State at five per cent. more than
actual cost, this little item being one of
the secretary's perquisites.
A large watermelon recently arrived at
Baltimore, Md, from Augusta, Ga. IL
measured thirty-two inches in length, ff-
teen inches in depth, fourteen inches IN
width, and weighed eighty four pounds.
The total loss from the recent gulf storm,
as now known to Texas, is: Human lives
lost, thirty eight; loss to crops, Sl,OOO,OOO;
loss to city and town property, S3,4OO,OOo;
loss to shipping and harbor improve
ments, 100000. Total, S5,500OOO.
A resident of Columbia, N. c., has gone
into the cultivation of the sunhower on al
large scale. He has several acres planted
with different arieties of the flower, and
expects within a short time to be able to
supply the Southern markets with the
product. He says they make splendid
feed for stock, and horses and cattle are
quite fond of them.
Alexander Stewart, of Stanton, Va,
aged ninety zone years, recently attended
the funeral of S. G.. Wayland, aged eighty
one years, who had been his best friend
for half a century. The next day while
Mr.. Stewart was recalling to party OF
visitors scenes and incidents in which he
and his friend Wayland had participated,
he fell over on the ground and died in
few minutes.
While Mrs Kairns and her ten-year-old
daughter were attempting to cross the
Tennessee river about ten miles below
Chattanooga few days ago in smalf
skiff, while in a strong current, tue boat
capsized and both were drowned.
An Atlanta (Ga.) paper sums up the re-
suit of thirty eight days of prohibition as
follows: "Less money in the city and
State treasury, less business houses occu-
pied, less people in the city, less morality,
more drunkenness, more crimes and GRIM
inals, more poor people out of employ
ment, more taxes, and more dissatisfac-
tion among all classes than has ever ex-
listed before" Buying whisky by the jug
instead of by the glass appears to have
worked an astonishing change for the
worse in Georgia.
In Athens. Ca, the yellow flag is hung
cut to indicate the presence of diphtheria.
There is veteran Georgian in Ameri-
Gus who has fifteen children, fifty-one
| grandchildren and twenty-four great
| grandchildren.
| John and Leander Nelson, colored, were
| lynched for murder at Magnolia, Miss,
few days ago.
Judge Simrall has been nominated for
| Congress by the Republicans Of tue Third
Mississippi district.
A colored lad shot and killed his little
sister, at Hot Springs, Ark, recently, be-
| cause she refused to give him part of her
| candy.
There is a movement among the business
men of Chattanooga, Tenn, to form
stock company of two thousand members,
each to take 500 stock, for the purpose of
erecting a large cotton factory.
| The University of Mississippi pays
| larger salary to its professors than most
| of the Northern institutions do, yet it has
| four vacant chairs-Latin, Greek, mathe-
matics and literature.
The wife of Gilbert Babb, prosperous
| farmer living near Adairville, KY, COM
mitted suicide by hanging herself in an
| clubhouse a few days ago. The suicide
| taint was hereditary. Her father, VIM.
| Berry, shot and killed himself, and a
| short while afterward her mother hanged
| herself. She has sister in the Nashville
asylum.
John Keicher, of w ashington County,
Tenn, a wealthy farmer and aged sew
| entv- five, committed suicide a few days
ago by taking "Rough ON Rats" He left
no excuse for his rash act
Constant Benoit, young Swiss who re-
| Gently arrived in America, was attacked
hv a vicious boar in the Island Farm
Home, near Knoxville, Tenn, few days
ago, and received injuries from which he
soon died.
The letter. carriers of New Orleans are
irving to get the street car companies to
grant them permission to ride free over
their lines In the performance of their
duties. The force have territory eight
miles up, six miles down, and two miles
across, and two miles east of the river to
cover.
A little tornado whirled through Colds
boro, N. c., the other day, and finding the
| front door of n fine residence open, dashed
into the house, gathered up lot of furni-
ture, burst open a rear door, and flung the
whole lot in a heap in the back yard.
| E James Mclaughlin, trying to ford the
| Alana river during a recent Florida
| freshet, found himself unable to go for
ward or backward, and so climbed a cab
| bage palmetto and there roasted for forty
seven hours He tied his wrists to the
stalks, and thus was able to sleep without
! falling cut of the tree.
When the passenger train from Opelika
| to Macon passed through Columbus, Ca,
few days ago, there were three negroes
in the first-class coach. The conductor
said he had no authority to put them out.
| At Geneva the train was boarded by a
party of young men, who kicked the me-
! groes out
Alex. Williams, strong, vicicuS-look-
ing negro, who was once member of the
South Carolina Legislature, was sent to
the county Jail few days ago, in default
of bond, for assault with intent to murder.
The Prohibitionists of Georgia recently
took the lead in holding a conference at
Atlanta with their opponents, about forty
prominent men icing present. 1t is said
that the provision for wholesale and
quart license will represented to the Leg
islature as a compromise.
The City Council of Galveston, Tex.
has appropriated, $4,000 for the relief Of
the sufferers by the recent storm, and citi-
zens have subscribed 5000. 1t is said that
only three houses in Indianola escaped
destruction, and nearly all the cattle and
sheep on the island were drowned.
Waterspouts are common off Key West.
Captain Quinn Capeheart, who was en-
ployed in the construction of the Nash
Vile & Chattanooga railroad and has beer
running as conductor for thirty years