The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-21
STATE qLEANINGS.

next Monday.
The wife of DR.. T. F. Tynes lately
died at Osyka.
Burglars have been lately doing
Crystal Springs.
The public schools Of Iazlehurst
had a good opening.
DIR. r. W. Mclean, of Claiborne
county, died last week.
An effort is on foot to establish
& creamery at Port Gibson.
Hazleburst has 4 prosperous
young mems prayer meeting.
MIR. John Mangum and family,
late of WessoD, have removed to
Burnett, Texas.
The Railroad water tank a mile
south of Crystal Springs was lately
destroyed by fire.
The falling of gin-house in the
north eastern part of Montgomery
county, wounded I3 men.
The valuation of property in Jetfer
son county is perhaps lower than in
any other county in the State.
Mrs. Edna Coleman, widow of the
late VIM Coleman, of Jefferson roun.
", died on the llth inst, age IL.
Mrs. Erwin and Mrs. Smell, of the
State w. c. +. L are attending the
National w. G.. T. l.. at Chicago.
Mrs Robert Temple, of Kemper
county, gave her two children NOR
phlne for quinine and killed them
both.
Mr. Holloway Holman, an old
citizen of Corinth, committed suicide
last week. 1t was the end Of a life Of
sprecs.
! OsSka has a horticultural Society.
Every place should have something
and introduce better system Of
+ farming
! AT the CoriHth municipal election
/ G.. w. Sanford was elected Mayor
and the old Board Of Aldermrn
| were Re elected.
The Sentinel says Summit has
without doubt the worst depot on
the whole line of the l. &. Railroad.
We won't dispute it.
The Summit Lodge, A f. & A. NJ,
recent y sent thirty six dollars To the
| Charleston sufferers, charitable
deed worthy Of emulation.
I Lexington now has seven sa-
Moons, bat tie town council has de
cided to grant no more license and
and it will soon be u dry town.
The Wesson Band OF Hope, under
the direction of Mr.. ). p. Bloom, gave
concert for the benefit Of the Char
! lesion sufferers and realized $45 90.
The Ripley Sentinel says a Jer-
scy COW on Y three years old owned
by gentleman near Corinth. is the
mother Of three calves and The grand
mother of one.
J. J. Spellman, an intelligent col
ored man OF jackson, has been
appointed travelling temperance
lecturer by the National Temper
ance Association.
Nicksburg is determined to keep
up her reputation. The latest ira
gedy was the killing of Bill Blank
enshlp, brakeman, by Joe Wiley,
bartender, iii q house of i'll lame
Col. H. L. Muldrow, of Oktibbeha
county tested his three-year-od Jer-
sey heifer "Gilded Lear for butter
| the other week, with the result that
showed II pounds four and halt
ounces.
Mr.. Block has traded for Randall
Furr's place 3 miles East Of here.
We are glad to see such thorough
going men as Morris Block turn
their attention towards farming
WeSSon Times.
One night last week the stable of
j. H. Odeneal, near jackson, was
burned together with eleven horses
and mules, 100 tons of hay, a fine
dairy and a large number Of imple-
ments. Total loss, $4,000
Jno. Earns, Jno. Johnson, MI.
Bethay, Hugh McLaurin, Lee
Weathersby, James White and
several Others will represent this
section ct the different medical col
leges in Louisiana and Kentucky this
fall.
A movement is now on foot to
get battalion Of Mississippi troops
to enter the national drill at Wash
ington City in Nav, 1887. The
idea originated, we believe, with the
Natchez Rifles, and seems to be
meeting with favor.
The Superintendent of the Peni-
Tertiary reports maltreatment of The
convicts in charge of the Gulf and
Shipisland Railroad Co, at Pom totoc,
and the State Board OF Control have
appointed one Of their members to
investigate the subject and make
further report.
The public spirited business men
of jackson held meeting, and pro-
posed to build cotton factory re-
CARELESS OF the Northern capitalists
This is the proper spirit, and if ad