The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-09-16
STATE GLEANINGS.

The boil worm is getting IN his
work in Copiah.
Natchcz gave over $500 to the
Charleston sufferers.
Port Gibson sent 800 TO the
Charleston sufferers.
Yazoo City shipped over $4,000
bales of cotton last season.
The Methodist church at Colum.
bia is to have a $4,000 organ.
Yazoo City has been made an In
teruational money order office.
The Aberdeen creamery cheese is
equal TO that manufactured elswhere.
Carroll county has a negro patri-
arch who claims to be l2S years OF
age.
A Meridian cook tried to kill a
family last week by poisoning their
corn bread.
The residence of Mrs. Grantham,
near Crystal Springs, was burned
recently.
WIN. Baker, Sr., an old gunsmith
of Port Gibson, fell dead Of heart
disease while at work last week.
A color ed man ID Jefferson county,
name Henry Sanders, was recently
gored to death by vicious bull.
Steamer Earl is being put in
thorough repair for the trade of
the lower Pearl this fall and winter.
Messrs Cal Brown, Jno. Day and
Mr.. Sommers, of Crystal Springs
neIghborhood have removed to Flori-
ia.
Harvey r. Price, postmaster at
Houston, Miss, has been jailed,
charged with forging his official
bond.
VIM. Steele, the negro who assas-
sinated Nelson Potter in jackson,
has been captured and confessed his
crime.
An old unknown tramp was found
in a dying condition on the railroad
few miles east Of jackson a few
days ago.
Not single white teacher ap-
peared for examination in Amite
county on the day set apart for
that purpose.
The Illinois Central officials are
considering the feasibility of build
ing a branch road from Yazoo City
to Helena, Ark.
The name o tthe Aberdeen Division
of the Illinois Central r. R. has
been changed to the Canton, Aber
deem 81 Nashville Il. r.
John A. Tison was elected cir.
cult clerk Of Noxubee last week, to
fill vacancy in the office caused by
the removal OF w. r. Bracey.
Mrs. Harriet Garner, an estima-
bic lady of Pike county, and mother
of Capt. +. A. Garner of Wesson,
died recently in her 18th year.
A Yazoo comfy colorcd woman
80 years of age, will make by her
own labor this year Il bales Of cot
ton and plenty OF corn and potatoes.
Col. Ii. o. Dixon, q prominent
planter, residing near Jackson, and
ior quite while Treasurer of the
State Grange, died Saturday night.
The executive committee of the
University OF Mississippi, has APP
pointed Mr.. j. w. johnson to the
protessorshlp vacated by Prof. L. Il.
Filzhugh.
Mr.. j. t. Rhyme, of Durant, has
patented a new process for tanning
leather, in which no bark is used,
the process onl y requiring from 20
to 80 days.
We stated last week that the num-
Der of accessiOns to the Baptist
church in Wcsson was twenty five.
We should have said eighty-tour.-
Signal Copiahan.
The Meteor chronicles the death
of Mrs. Nancy Lockwood. wife of
DR.. Z. T. Lockwood, which sad event
occurred on the evening of the 7th
at Crystal Springs.
john Oliver and Henry Flowers,
two cunvicts who had escaped from
the Gaul Matthews convict farm in
Copiah c"unty,were captured III and
near Summit last week.
Fifteen rattlesnakes were killed
at one place in Amite county last
week, The oldest OF which was II
years old, one ten years, and the
others eighteen inches long.
The public schools of Yazoo will
open on the fourth Monday in No,
vember, and continue five months.
There are sixty white and eighty
colored teachers in the county.
Copiah's tax levy for county pur-
poses is mills, reduction of 81.
The State levy was raised one mill,
thus leaving reduction of p mills,
$3.50 on the $1,000, from the tax OF
last year.
The public school of Wesson
opened September 18th, 1886, with
Mr.. Rather as principal, Mr.. R. P.
Moore, LIST assistant Miss Matte