The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-07
SOUTHERN eLEhNiNoS.

The next day he died
The President has appointed Mrs. Anna
B. Cheatham, widow Of the late Gener al
B. F. Cheathem, postmaster at Nashville,
Tenn.
The only act in reference to Confederate
soldiers in Mississippi is one exempting
crippled or disabled veterans from the
payment of a privilege tax to carry on
business.
At a prayer meeting in Washington,
Ca, a few nights ago, two young men
quarreled about their right to escort home
female worshiper, the result being
murder.
Fire broke out in Deland, Holusa Coun-
| ty, Fla, few days ago and destroyed
thirty buildings in the business part of the
town. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Charles Hinkle and Joe Clark quarreled
at Louisville, KY, a few nights ago, and
Hinkle knocked Clark down with a chair,
and stabbed him eight times in the back,
while his victim was insensible. CLARK
will die.
Reports from several counties in the
Texas cotton belt tell of the disastrous re-
suits to open cotton of the late heavy con-
| tinuous rains, also of considerable dam
age resulting from the cotton worm, which
| is ravaging Washington and neighboring
counties. 1t is believed large quantities
of cotton have been whipped out and dam
! aged by rain.
| A bread war in st. Augustine, Fla, re;
suits in eight loaves for a quarter.
| John Kemp, ex-chef of police, was
killed at Fort Smith, Ark, few days age
by Officer Wiley Cox.
One of the finest iron bridges in the
South is being put up at London, Tenn.
There are $40 inmates of the Georgia
State insane asylum.
Immense beds of oysters are said tc
have been found off the coast Of North
Carolina.
One third of the Atlanta (Ga.) polict
has been dropped since prohibition went
into effect in that city.
A Florida newspaper brought out its
| biggest rooster to celebrate the victory of
the Yacht MaYfower.
One dealer at Winchester, KY, ha.
handled 2,200, 900 pounds of tobacco since
before the war.
The yield of rice in Louisiana is said tt
be considerably below the average this
season.
A live Charleston Is. c. merchant head:
his advertisements in the daily papers as
follows: Earthquake prices! Shake ZEN
downp'
The prominent young men of Vicksburg,
Miss, are taking steps toward organizing
literary and library association, some
thing the city hasn't had since before th'
| war.
The wealthiest colored man in the United
| States is Tenie Luton, Fren ch quad.
room of New Orleans,
The North Carolina State fair, to be
held at Raleigh on October 26, bids fair to
be one of the grandest exhibits ever made
of the products of the Old North State.
Lamar Fontaine, Yazoo City, Miss, has
postal card containing 1900 words
written by him upon one side of the card
with pen.
A Kentuckian failed rece ntly failed fol
$4,000, having but twenty five dollars OF
assets. AS business man in that line ht
is an eminent success.
| During the excitement over the debate
between the Taylor brothers the public
has overlooked the fact that Tennessee
has an Attorney General named George
Washington Pickle.
| Two young Japanese employed in tht
Japanese village show in the Louisville
| (Ky.) Exposition, were recently made
one by matrimony-the first instance Of
the kind in this country.
The East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
tunnel under Missionary Ridge, which
caved in last winter, has been entirely re-
built and trains are now running through
| on schedule time.
| An epidemic of hog cholera, it is re-
| ported, prevails throughout North and
| Northeas stern Virginia. In several 10.
calities farmers report the loss of the en-
tire stock of hogs. One man in Spottsyl-
vania County lost forty, the smallest OF
which weighed over $50 pounds.
| Willie, the sixteen-year- son of John
| Campbell, a farmer near Harrod sburg
KY, accidentally discharged Flobert
rifle few days since, the ball entering his
right breast, killing him Instantly.
| When the war broke out there were but
forty -four colored insane in Georgia. The
colored people before the war were clean
and sober by enforcement; ;'the colored peo-
| pie of to- day, says the Atlanta Constitu-
| ton, are filthy and drunken. The result
| is an increase from forty four to $50.
In the rotunda of the Richmond (Va.)
| capitol there is an old stove made of iron
which is said to be one of the oldest stoves
in existence. 1t was made a present to
the colony of Virginia in 1770, and was
spoken of at that time as a warming ma
chine. 1t is seven feet high, and has as
much ornamentation as a Queen Anne
| house.
The steam laundry of John Landis,
| Shelbyville, Tenn, was completely de.
stroyed by fire a few days ago. Pix
Bros.' grocery and Samuel Akin's hote
were also consumed. The fire was the
work of an incendiary. The total loss is
| $500; insurance, $50.
A shell of large moll usk was found in
the bottom of well near Albany, Ga, 6
few days ago. "This fossil SHE'LL" say,
the NetcS, "discovered at such a depth be.
| low the surface, is another link in the
chain of indisputable evidence that thi!
section of the American continent was a
one time the bed of the ocean,"
John MalloY, a car repairer on the Louis
Vile & Nashville railroad, was killed a
Mas hville, Tenn, few evenings since
The top of his head was taken off, anC
both legs were broken. An engine backed
ing.
Charleston still has the shakes.
Some time ago DIR Bertling married Mrs
Kemp, rich widow, at Athens, Ga. Th'
lady died recently, and the reading of th'
will created a sensation by cutting off he
husband withoat a cent and distributing