The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-04-29
STATE GLEANINGS.
HarrIston has a croquct club.

last Monday.
Mrs. Lena Nichols, Of Wesson,
died last Wednesday.
The editor of the Pontotoc OBJ
server has been elected mayor.
Sam Jones preached to 1000 col
ored people at Columbus Saturday.
Capt. W. n. Sargent, an old citi.
zen Of Vieksburg, died on the 24lh
DR.. Watts, -epot Agent at New
ton, has lady assistants in his Of
fee.
Since the massacre Carrollton has
had a revival resulting in % CONVEX
Sions.
Epps Pettus, a colored farmer Of
Warren county, died of bydrophobia
last week.
The business of the Yazoo Post
office has increased One-third in the
last year.
The Dispatch, The whisky organ of
Columbus, is offered for sale, good
will and all.
Mr.. Edward Coker, of Edwards,
Miss, committed suicide in New Or
leans, last week.
The Newton Dispatch is the name
Of Il new paper by Messrs. w. L.
johnson and = II Ross
The next session Of the Missis
>ippi PrcsbJ terry will be held at
Hopewell. Co,ington county, Octo-
Der 18th.
BIO. Buchanan, of the Grenada
Sentinel, Is recovering from dan
gerous attack of ccrebro-spinal
meningitis
The Temperance Reform Club of
Vicksburg have employed two law
yers and appointed Il committee to
examine all applications lcr license.
Col. A 6. Horn, formerly editor
and proprietor # the Meridian Mer-
curry, and an old and respected citi.
Zen ct Meridian, died last week,
aged 6S.
The Clarion says there was no
wine at the marriage supper Of the
Governors daughter, and that this
has been the custom of the Mansion
during Governor Lowry's occupancy.
A little son Of Capt Il. n. Hall,
OF Grenada, was bitten last week by
rabld dog. He was carried to
Waterford and the maidstone appli-
ed, but the result cannot vet be &c
tcrmihed.
Slalk>ille has had an Euocb Ar
den sensation, the absent husband
returning on the very day IF The
marriage OF his wife TO her new Aus-
band. He was satisfied with the
new state Of affairs, but insisted
upon taking his only child with
| him.
The Neshoba Democrat rejoices
because The new public school law
requires the schools to be opened
at specified timcs-June and Novem-
her-and requires The Board OF SUI
| perVlsors to levy Il tax sufficient to
run tn" schools the prescribed 4
months.
The following Doctors were ap-
pointed by the State Association TO
attend the next National Medical
Convention DrS. Hill, Sale, Sex
ton, Stockard, Taylor, Rowland,
Paine, Hycr, Brisbane, Pate, WALES,
Rowan, Buck, Blanks, Hall, Hutch
ms and SANFORD.
The business men Of Jackson held
mass meeting on Thursday, and
| passed a series Of resolutions re-
questing the Mississippi Congress.
men to support The bill allowing the
Chicago, ST. Louis Il New Orleans
Railroad to bridge The OHIO at or
near Cairo.
The transcript in the DeSmet
case, which goes to the supreme
court from Harrison county, covers
1886 pages, making sixteen volumes,
and weighing seventy nine pounds.
The supreme judges will have some
thing OF a task on hand when they
come TO review the case.
"lt.is safe to predict that within
two years from this date, the Little
j. Road will be extended eastward,
via Columbus or Macon, to the coal
and iron regions Of Alabama. The
counties northeast of Kinds will
soon have an opportunity of helping
in this good work.-CldriOn.
A correspondent OF the Halle
hurst Signal says that Davenport,
the Monticello burglar, "was a mem
Der of The minstrel show that start |
ed out during the fall season, and
after striking lew towns like Yves
son, was forced 10 60 to stealing"
The reader can draw the moral tor
himself.
Henry Denkins, young negro in
the custody of the U. s. Court,
jumped from the third story of the
government building last week and
feel on the brick pavement so feet
below, but, strange 10 say, though |
badly hurt. was. not killed. The
New Missis. ippian ACCOUNTS for it
by the fact that he fen on bis head !