The Brookhaven leader., 1886-12-23
STATE cLEANINGs.

The schools of Water Valley have
400 students.
The Meteor says Crystal Springs
is prospecting.
There are 5 lunatics in the War
rem county jail.
VIM. II Mallory has been elected
mayor OF Nstchez,
The Pickens Post is to be remov.
ed 10 Greenwood.
A vein of sulphur has been found
at Cooper's wells, 81 feet below the
surface.
The stables on the Vicksburg
Fair Grounds were destroy ed BY
fire last week.
Yazoo county pays its Superin
teudent Of Education eight hundred
dollars per annum.
Mr. Geo. c. Briley and Miss Ella
G. Gibson, of Magnolia, were mar.
ried ON the 9th inst.
The Baptist church at Wesson, is
to have q c0rDet added 10 its choir,
Dir. 5. p. Bloom being the cornetist.
Gen. s. d. Lee delivered an sd
dress before the State Grange; also
President Jones, of the Girls Col.
lege.
Jos. Todd has been arrested for
trying TO forge an order ON B.
hampton Il Son, Of Tylertoun, for
1910.
Rev. Ingram Purser, Of Birming.
ham, Ala, has been visiting his
brother, Rev. Robi. Purser, OF Yves
son.
1t is highly proba bic that kcrid
ian will furnish brick for the paw.
ing of large psrt of New Or.
leans.
The Magnolia Gazette chroni
cles the death of Mr.. Hartman ID, kes
and Mrs. Rachel Lewis, Of Pix,
county.
A company Of excursionists have
been visiting the Yazoo Delta ON a
prospecting tour, and are much
pleased.
Or. Watts room was entered by q
sneak thief III Jackson last week
and $2O.O 20 in money and his peck
ct knife stolen.
Aberdeen reports a phemomena
light, like unto q huge comet, winch
appeared at one o'clock Oh the
morning OF the 18th
The Mississippi Mills have en-.
ployed Miss Walthall, of New Or.
leans, as type writer Tor their extern
siNe correspondence.
The steam saw-m;ll owned BY
Michael Hart, and situated two
miles northwest of Osyka, was de
s'r"yedby fire u few nights ago.
The store of L. Hrch Il Co, on
The SImrall plantation in Warren
county, MAS robbed lew nights
ago and the color.d clerk murder
ed.
The stock of goods, accounts, etc.
OF Harris, Doids Il ca. who recent
~ Jailed in HaHIehurst, were sold
last week to Dobyns IL Daisy, OF
New Orleans. Tor $4,000.
Two freight trains collided on
the Mississippi Valley Railroad
near Goes Creek last week, and com
ple,rly demolished the engines and
several cars, but hurt no one.
Charles Robinson, a colored man
residing at Cluster, was called To
his door and shot to dearh-ten
bucksot entering bis head and face
Adam johnson, cOEorei, and John
l.. Brown, white, have been arrested,
charged with the act.
The House Of Representatives
has passed the bill introduced nv
Mr.. Barksdale to refund $4,000 in.
tcrnal revenue tax Illegally collected
from the Vicksburg and Meridian
Railroad Company in 1865, under
the act of June 80, 1864
The vacancy in the rectorspip of
he Trinity Episcopal Church, OF
Natchez, caused by the death oil
Rev Alexander Marks. has been
filed BY the acceptance nf the call
of the congregation bv Rev. F A.
De Rossei, Of Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Railroad Commission have
adopted the following order: "That
the Board of Control and the Super
intenlent a. the pcni rAiiari, I"
gether with DIR. Writ Johnson, on
the first day Of January, 1887. make
an inspection Of the penii entiar,
aud convicts and that the Gulf d
Ship Island Rairoad Company be
permitted TO put on it's works such
Of said convicts as shall upon such
inspection prove to be able bodied
and of sufficient phi, steal strength
to do such work az is usually re-
quired Of laborcrs on railroads.
The people Of Edwards, Kinds
county, have held an Indignation
meeting and given formal warning
To the men who are enticino tn,