The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-08-19
STATE oLRANINGs.

A. A. Newell is the new County
Superintendent Of Pontotoo.
The Liberty Herald has received
the first boil Of open cotton.
John Oliver, a prominent planter
of Warren county, died last week.
Louis Giyens died suddenly Of
heart disease at Natchez, last week.
Frank Rainwater, farmer OF
Wayne county, was assassinsted last
week.
The Prohibiuonists have carried
Choctow county. Mississippi, by 22O
majority.
Miss Maggie Smith, an estimable
young lady of Cry stal Springs, died
last week.
The New York Herald says the
Mississippi A. Il NJ College is a
mirscle worker.
Albert j. Ferguson, prominent
citizen and merchant VI Beauregard,
died last Monday.
Mr.. II. NJ. sullivan. who was kill
ed at Oxford last week, leaves q wife
aud five children.
Silas Collins, q peacPable colored
man, was waylaid aud killed near
Osyka last week.
Robert Cook q we'll known mer-
chant Of Morton, was assassinated
by a negro last Friday night.
The Board of Supervisors Of
Holmes comfy have raised the
price of liquor licenses to $1,000.
Columbus White, colored, was
lynched at Auguilla on the 18th inst.
for burning the store OF :. Dover.
Mrs. Chas. Walker, of Meridian,
was burned TO death last week as the
result of trying 10 kindle fire with
coal oil.
A new costly pipe organ has been
ordered for the Baptist Church OF
Natchez, Of which Rev. L. T. Leayell
is pastor.
The Prohibitionists Of Copiah
gave Lincoln and Kinds warm
shake" when the result Of their cleo
lions wos known.
A reunion of Elk Confederate
soldiers was held in Senatobia on
the 18th. Several thousand people
were in attendance.
The Sword and Shield saws it
would require q miracle of God to
raise the lying whisky men of Kinds
county to the level of total depravity.
II. b. Baker, superintendent Of
the Telephone Exchange at Jack,
son, WAS arrested on the 9th inst. tor
embezzling 81, 900 OF the Company s,
funds.
Ia conyicts are at work on the
Gull Il Ship Island X. r. AT Ripley
and Puntotoc. About 800 are on
farms, mostly in the swamps. 81
are in the walls.
Hon. }. w. Jewell is exhuming
the war record OF his opponent, Hon.
w. d. Gibbs, in the 5th Congress
sional district. Rather irrelevant
matter, it seems 10 us.
Amite, having driven all the ga
looms from her bounds by counter
petition, will not hold any election
this year. The citizens Of Liberty
have organized strong Prohibition
Club.
The Republicans of The Bird dis
,rict have Nominated Jud re Simrall
Tor Congress, and rnr latter will
make . vigorous canvass against
Congressman Catchiuss, the Demo
cratic nominee.
The Liberty Herald chronicles the
death of the following residents Of
Amite county VIM. J. White.
Nathaniel Wells, Mrs. David Nun
merry, Mrs. W. f. Toler, and a child
of Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. McLain.
The whisky men of Lee county
circulated such q horrible lie on
Bishop Galloway and the Prohibl
,iopists Of Kinds county, that the
whisky negroes took to the woods
and couldn't be persuaded out To
vote.
On Tuesday, Messrs. Calhoun 4
Green and f. +. Baldwin retitioned
the Supreme Court TO enjoin the de-
claration 81 che result Of the election
on the grounds of bulldozing and
intimidation. The Court promptly
refused to Interfere, and this ends
their game.-SUOrd and Shield,
14th. ~
The attendance at the Crystal
Springs Camp Meeting this year Was
unusually large. Sunday was big
day. Rev. Z. Fl. Mounger, of Port
Gibson, conducted the early morning
services. Bishop Galloway deliver
ed the IL o'clock sermon. DR.. L. A.
S. Adams, OF Centenary College,
officiated at the afternoon services,
and Rev. j. j. Wheat, of Mississippi
University at Oxford, discoursed at
night.
Kosciusko had another destructive
fire on the 18th inst. The following
is list OF houses. NJ. T. Boswell,
druggist; Boswell & Sanders, general
merchandise; j. d. Terry, grocery;