The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-06-10
STATE GLEAyIHGS.

Col B. Taylor, Of Jackson, is
dead.
College oonmeacenea;s are 81 lie
rage.
Judge Hills Cour; adjourned las;
Saturday.
Vicksburg is 70 hsse ter add
tiooa! electric lights.
The small steamer Harry sank ST
Vicksburg last Sunday.
Simpson Coua;y will vote OF pro
hibiiion'on tie 25.h inst
H.F. IVES. Of Faye.,e, has sold
his drug store 70 l. r Harrison.
Dr.. J. T. ZeaIy has been elected
President Of The Via ora Female Col.
lege.
Amite sod Pike counties have
instructed for Stoc kda.e for Con
gress.
The Copiah Prohibisionists hold a
big mass meeting a. Haziehurst to
night
The Supreme Court stands sd
journed unit! the first Monday 10
October.
The Prohihi:ioai.ts Of Copiah are
actively Organizing FOX the election
OF the 29:h .nsS
The Clarion OF tie 26,h nit. says
Green's Bank certificates are 10 de-
msnd at 50 cents
Wyatt Major seriously stabbed
Charley Collier. another negro, a.
HazIehurst, last Friday.
The Enterprise Courier, one Of
the oldest papers 10 East Mlssis.
sippi. has given up the ghost
Natchez expects to have SIS, 900
compress 10 operation by the open.
ing Of the next cotton season.
Wiley VI. Toomer, employee Of
Poitevant Il Farye, a. Pearlington,
was killed BY lightning On the Bis,
III.
Meridian las had a new census
takea. Tie total. foots ~ 800. as
against 400 il 1870, AID 4,O06 4
$50.
Camp & Hinton, lurnbermen Of
Piotoaa, los: Their driving house by
IRE asst week, with 800 worth OF
lumber.
Mr. E Short, formerly Of Brook
haven, now Of Knoxville, and Mrs.
Brideweil, Of Fayeite, were married
last Thursday.
Twcaty or twenty bales Of
cotton belonging - J. sutton. Of
Corinth, was recently burned and
damaged to the tune Of 500.
Mr. Geo. ). Irving. President of
the Geo. ). Irving Grocery Co., was
married last Wednesday to Miss
Sherrard, at Trinity Church, 10
Nicksbnrg.
DR.. Z. w. PEBBLES has let out the
contract for the erection Of two
handsome TWO story buildings on
CapitO. street IL the rear Of the Ed
wards House.
Frank McFerrin, a farmer Of
Marshall county, last week shot and
killed Capt. Winzel, u contractor, in
dispute over $3.50. The murderer
is still at large.
A farmers institute Of great inter.
est was held at Corinth last week, in
which Gen. 5. d. Lee, Prof Gully,
and others Of the A. d n. College
took prominent part.
At Vicksburg last Saturday
Robert Lee, a four year old son of
ex-Justice Mackey, fell off Sky Par
Tor Hill a distance of sixty feet,
breaking his leg in two places.
Hon. Thomas A. Dickson, State
Senator from Simpson county, will
deliver the address before the gradu-
ating class at the Brandon Female
College. We guarantee it will be a
good one.
Last Sunday morning the town
was shocked by the report OF the
death Of Harry Truly, the Is year
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. K. H..
Truly, which had occurred the
previous night at little after u
o'clock.-Fdyette Chronicle.
Beat 3 furnishes another curiosity.
We learn from what we deem a relia-
BILE source that a mustang mare, the
property of Wood Davis son, gave
birth to two colts one day recently.
That was something unusual, but
the strange part was that one was a
mule and the other q horse colt
Signal Copiahan.
A special to the Picavune says
Hon. I. V. holland, of Wilkinson
county, is announced as a candidate
for Congress from that district. In
him Congressman Van Eaton has a
home rival. From the present out
look the chances are favorable to
the nomination of Hon. T. K. Stock
dale, of Pike county. Several dark
horses are in the Congressional
pasture, however.
The Copiah county Prohibition
Eyreutiye Committee is comnosed