The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-11-04
STATE GLEANIEGS.

Ami,e county is heiug heavily
stocked with Texas ponies.
/ L. Marks & Weiustein, dry good.
merchants of Vicksburg, failed la.
week.
John Kennedy, an oyster fisher
man, was drowned at Cat lsIanr
last week.
G. A. Nelson, nf Amite county
caught % pound catfish in a tral
set in a creek.
+. Mrs. Wilson, mother.in-law o
Hon. j. ). Sexton, died at Halle
hurst last week.
The Signal-Coliahan reports the
/ illness OF Rev W. b. Bingham with
typho malarial fever.
The store of W. f. Dickson, In old
merchant of WcStville, has been
closed by attachment.
, Rev. J. +. Markham, the Meth.
odist pastor at Grenada, Miss, died
at that place last week.
Prof Ernest Rather. late Princi
pal of the Wesson Public Schools
died in Holly Springs last week.
/ Capt. c. J. Searlcs, of the Vicks-
burg Southrons, has resigned his
! Csptaincy and moved to ST. Louis
Mrs. c. NJ. Walden, of Walden.
Miss. died few days ago. She
was the widow OF DR.. &. NJ. Walden.
The Indies OF summit raised
$500 in cash and two cases OF
clothing Tor the Sabine Pass suffer
ers.
The river commission will rxpend
hundlcd thousand dollars on the
lcvccs of tie Y"zoo Mississippi Delta
district.
A pratractcd meeting recent,
conducted hv the Rev. b n. Hatch
in Clinton resulted iu over 100 con
versions.
There is fine military company,
tire mississippi College Rifles in
Clinton Of over 80 cadets, and
another is forming.
a negro named James Haynes
was lynched bv his own race in
Coahoma county last week for muir
4 -
The two Societies in Clinton, the
Philomathean and Hermeniau, have
The prettiest and best libraries OF
any societies in the State.
Sunfnwer had only two teachers
in its public school service able Il
pass the examination required by
law. Both Of them are coIored.
There were baptized at Sardis re
Gently nincty-four coIored convert.
This vast number were baptized in
the short time OF thirty minutes.
A correspondent Of the Yazpt
Sentinel comes out iu strong con
Gemnation OF mi>rcgeaalipn anC
lawlessness in The Mississippi Val
icy.
The sixteenth annual session o
the State Grange Of Miss 5sslppi vii
be held in tie hail of representa-
tl,es a. Jackson on Tuesday, Dec
l4lh.
The State Ledger complains thai
the several railroads cnnverging a
jackson seem To make it point
t" run their trains from that city in.
stead Of TO it.
The Robert Smith Rifles and the
Capital Light Guards have consoli
dated, and are drilling preparatory
to entering the National drill at
Washington next spring,
The gross earnings of the Illinois
Central Railroad illinois and
Southern divisions) for the first
week in October. 1886, were $24O, 286
against S295,O36 for corresponding
Week iast year.
The Northern capitalists seem
only to have been coquettlng with
Jackson about building the 5000, 900
cotton factory. but Jackson's enter
prising citizens intend to have a
cotton factory all the same.
Two very interesting social events
occurred in Natchez last week, one
being the marriage of Mr.. james
Fleming and Miss Annie Metcalfe,
and the other the marriage of Mr.
Ed Klaus, Of Vicksburg, and Miss
Lena Shlenker, of Natchez
w. C. Lilly & Co, of Columbus,
Ohio, donated a beautiful silk hag
t" the sponsor of the Capital Light
Guards OF Jackson-Miss Kate
Power of the Clarion. WI" rave the
company IA reception ihr misnt"i be
25lh. and turned the flag over To
their keeping.
1t will be seen that the hoard of
election commissions have acted up
on our suggestions and made some
changes in the election precincts
Centennial has hppn chanoed TO