The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-05-27
STATE GLEANINGS.

Crystal Springs is to have a mill
tary company.
The ladies Of Meaiyille have o.
gained a w. {. +. /.
The Prohibilionis,s of Warren
meet in convention next Saturday.
HazIehurst shipped box Of
peaches to New Orleans last Mon
day.
Four children were poisoned in
Iazoo county gu the ISM by taking
worm syrup.
Sam Small and Senator Colquitt
will speak for Prohibition in McriJ-
ian next week.
The young ladies and gentlemen
Of Liberty have organized an anna
tcur dramatic club.
Chickasaw and kempcr counties
held Local Option elections last
week and voted wet.
Some Of The most prominent men
OF Natchcz have organized a Cotton
and Merchants Exchange.
a mad dog bit five cows of Col.
a Y. Harper, in Okolona, all Of
which died # hydrophobia.
The editor of the Wesson Times
suspended his paper a week to az
tend the Press Convention.
Judge Simrall and ex Senator AL
corn are spoken OF for Congress in
Congressman Catchings' district.
The Jones Circuit Court was con
vened by Judge Mayors last Monday
and at once adjourned till Novem-
Der.
The first peaches of the season
were shipped from Crystal Springs
TO New Orleans last Monday by r.
b. Kendall.
Henry Roam, of Kosciusko, was
accidentally shot and killed by his
cousin, Il Young man named Plymcr,
last Saturday.
= The Prolibitionists of Pike and
Franklin are engaged getting up a
petition calling Tor an election on
the whisky question.
The giant OK, measuring Is hands
high, belonging 10 John Robinson :
circus, died In Port Gibson on the
9Th inst, being overLeatcd.
The Executive Committee decided
t. hold the Convention Tor nominal
my IL candidate in THIS Congscs
siunal District at jackson Sept. lst
. The total debt OF Kinds county
foOts UP the sum at $4,000. C"un-
ties owing smaller amounts can eX-
tract all The comfort possible from
his fact.
, During a thunder storm at Jack
son last week Two horse, and mule,
the property of Deputy Chancery
Clerk A. G.. Moore, were killed by
lighting.
The commencement at the \. a
/ VI. College begins June 18Th. The
commencement sermon will be
/ preached 10y Bishop Hugh Miller
Thompson.
! There were five divorces granted
at the recent term of the ChanCcry
/ Court Of Amile county-one be-
! tween white and four between color
/ cd parties.
/ A movement is on foot among the
/ ladies of Jackson to raise money ioE
erecting a monument ut the capital
to the memory of Mississippi's Con-
! tolerate dead.
| Congressman Barksdale, who is
chairman of the Joint Committee on
/ Printing, has secured good positions
! in the Government offices for -four
jackson printers.
Pike county Democrats hold a
convention next Monday to appoint
delegates To the Congressional con
yentlnn to be held at Mississippi
City, August 18th.
Grenada, Col. J. j. Williams town,
recently elected a Prohibition mum
cipal ticket, and now the Prohibi
liOnists arc preparing To carry the
county for the dry ticket.
After suspension OF some -four
months, the Crystal Springs Meteor
has made its appearance again un
der the management OF MeSsrs.
Hurt Il Branch. We eek" with
pleasure.
A party of several gentlemen of
Fayette have made up purse and
sent off and bought splendid seine,
with all necessary accoutrements,
and propose to capture the fnny
tribe by wholesale.
Geo. ID. Stewart, a colored man
who had been school teacher in
Jefferson county for several years,
and who served term as assessor
under Republican rule, was assas
sInated at his home near Cannons-
burg recently.
After serving two terms Of tour
years each, Hon. Oliver Clifton, edi-
tor of the. Clarion, has just been re-
elected Clerk OF the Supreme Court
of Mississippi for another term of
four years. lie has been a compe-
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