The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-23
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


tv ,nty-five cents per pound.
4 Beaufort tGa.) bride is the groom
thlrd vito, and tfe groow is her third hus-
band Each has one son, and the sOus are
of about the same age.
The negroes of Grant Parish, La, are
holding meetings and organizing for the
purpose Of forcing landowners 10 rent
their lands at less than four dollars per
acre
III f5dprene Court Of Texas, In decid-
iur that Fl. DAVIS IS rAe legal county seat
Of Presidio County, rendered void 100000
in bonds given to the contractors for tho
courthouse, some Of which were recently
sold at par.
On the lst of January the sum Of S2G5,o0O
interest on the bonded debt of Tennessee
VIII be due. At present the State Treas
try is empty and ogcr,lrawn, hut Comp
troler Pickard announces that the interest
VIII be paii.
The Gate Citv Guard Of Atlanta, Ga, the
most famous volunteer company in the
Southern States, has closed contract
18th a steamship company for transporta-
ton 70 Antwerp. Thence the command
r,cnds n make n tour of the continent.
including march across the alps from
Switzerland into Italy. Eighty members
Mrs Gordon have been invited to accom-
pany the organization.
An outgoing train on the
Eicl4sburg 4 Mcridian railroad dropped
spark OF fire III the dry grass near the
wish ieu'etpfr- cne mile east Of TiCks-
burg fey" nights ago. The fire soon
| spread TO the cemetery, consuming about
! half of the fencing and killing about i've
| hundred dollars worth OF ornamental
! shade trees
/ Ex-Governor Preston II. Leslie Of Ken
| tuCkv has been nominated Governor Of
Montana
In the Savannah (Ga.) markets shad are
| selling ri iEht cents each
! 5 gchrl III harrnr county, Ky. holds
/ twelve gallons
\ cow in Owen County, Ky, four and
! half years old, las given birth to four
| calves IN three Years.
! a citizen Of \ hens, Ga, rcccntly paid his
subscription - the local paper fifty years
! in advance There are but few like him.
Texas towns. are experiencing &reat
scarcity Of coal through lack Of u'ansporta-
| tion furlitcs
! II h&e hcar discovered that the weight
of cot ton has been increased by dishonest
| Southern dealers by sailing it,
fcrncssaa's peanut crop this year =
| worth S,W,t5Ei. The average Weld per
acre is fortv-two bushels.
F j.. Castor. prominent farmer OF
| Coweta County. Ga, shot and killed his
! son-in-lav. w W. Estes, in fight few
| niehts ago. Both iaen had been drinking.
Aunt ANY G5rs'c" .vhn was born in
Amherst County, Pa. in 177G dIed recently
near Lynchburg, Va, where she had
| lived during the past seventy years.
There are seven Swiss colonies in Ken
lucky, and all the people are doing well
! aud living comfortably A large number
| Of Swiss are now on then wy FROM Eu-
rope TO found another colony near LIN
coin
At Grcenville, Ala, few days since,
| Mayor Perry and some friends made
| brutal attack upon two temperance speak
| efs who had gwen ofense. One of the
! lecturers was knocked down on the rail
! road track WITH brpss knICkles; the other
! was in the act Of shooting tizc mayor -7tI2n
| his arm was seized.
/ Representative Oates. of Alabama, Is
! brave enough :" ADVOCATE the allowance OF
! a clerk for each member, a. salary Of
( 500 per month, the aggregate cost to the
| people being $1,000 per day.
/ The planters of the Teche region Of
! Louisiana at Il convention recently held
| at Frank in, seemed 10 agree that sugar
/ can he prOftabiB manufactured, tarif or
/ no tariff, by means Of central factories
! using improved machinery.
A sheriff deputy aud. tour policemen
made raid OH negro gam bling-den uodr
! Birmingham, Ala, few nights ago. when
| a fusila1c occurred between the occupants
! Of The house and the officers. Tho result
| was that five of the gamblers were capt
1 Iii 1,g9 # I th.lp nj
| fiCCTs were hurt.
The handsome residence of r., K. Car.
| ter, If Tuscola, La, burned to the ground
! n few nichte ago. It was unoccupiod at
! the time Loss, S}5J); insured in the
| Roval, of Liverpool for $.259. The fire
was undoubtedly the work Il an lucen-
! diary.
The residence and clearinghouse Of
| ura. Porterfcld was burned i'll Delta,
| Miss, q few evenings SIM. " was clean
sweep. She has kept boarding house -
| that place for many years, and her busI-
ness was her only support.
| Turfnen from every section Of the
| Unitel States gathered at Lexington, re-
| Gently to attend an auction sale ol thor
| oughbrels, ht which eighty tre were sold
| Tor an average Of $1,000 each. Blue wing
| brought 81 900, the Duke of Bourbon 5000,
| Brown, the coal king of Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Henderson (Ky.) Buggy Company,
! which was closed down several weeks ago,
| throwing fifty men out Of employment, has
resumed operat ions with n full force OF
hands but work only eight hours per day.
! The wages of the men per hour are the
| same as paid before the suspension OF
| work.
| As Lindsey Han, white farmer, was
proceeding home from Pine Bluff, Ark, Il
| few nights ago, with his cotton money,
| 500. he was waylaid when three miles
! from town, and robbed and dangerously
| shot, by three negroes. The scoundrels
have been arrested and lodged in jail
| General W. G. Harding, proprietor of
the Belle Meade stock farm, located six
| miles from Nashville, who died few days
| ago, aged seventy-eight years, was one Of
| the. best known breeders in the United
| States. He had been in ill-health for
several years, but, nevertheless, mani
tested great interest in turf matters
! generally, and in the success of his great
| breeding establishment, where many OF the
| best horses in tho land were reared. Gener-
| al Harding turned over the management
of Belle Meade some years ago to General
| W. II. jackson, his son-in-l law, who has
| since added much to the value of that fine
| farm.
Louisville. XIV. has haunted house.
Suit has been instituted in the Federal
| Court at Jackson, Miss, by the United
States Government against the bondsmen
| of ]. N Kimbsll, to recover $500 The
| Government claims that he is short tina,
| amount as Receiver of Public Money OF
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