The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-12
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.


Edwards will have a balloon ascen-
sion on the 18th.
Crystal Springs has genuine public
spirited citizens.
j. b. Jordan. marshal of Port Glib
son, died Dec. 22d.
20 acres is being laid off for town
lots in GrCenville.
DIR. +. C. Hammer is in Vicksburg
curing drunkenness.
Marie Prescott's company is playing
"IngOmar," in the State.
Pickens is the largest cotton ship
ping point in Holmes county.
Okolona is said to have the best or
ganized fire company in the State.
Messrs. Mitchell and Hurt are a
strong team on the gnal-COpiahan.
Hon. J. A. Binford, of Montgomery
county, has been appointed Postmaster
of the House.
! KoSciuskO was never so prosperous
as now. Not u vacant house in town,
business or dwelling.
Edwards enjoyed a grand banquet
and ball on the 9Th, given at the resi-
dence of Mr.. l.. A. Moss.
There are three vacancies in the
Columbus Female College, one in the
dormitory, two i'll the city.
The Crystal Springs Meteor's for
mer and present editor, $. ii. Ably,
seems at home on his tripod.
The Wesson Mills have orders
ahead for entire output of goods till
June. They contemplate an enlarge
ment soon.
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector
Albert Lavague, of Nicksburg, dis
appeared on Dec. 2Sth and has not been
! heard from since.
W. w. Steel and Gus. Sawyer, two
! WinOna business men, set out to show
that "prohibition didn't prohibit" and
were promptly jagged.
The recent municipal election at
jackson has brought down several
representative of Northern journals
to investigate 1.-THE story"
Miss Annie Williamson, daughter OF
Judge X. W. Williamson, of Winona.
and Mr.. Fountain Barksdale, of Yazoo
City, were married Jan. 9th.
Kosciusko has nine white resident
minister's; of these -four are Methodist
two Presbyterian, two Baptist and
one Cumberland Presbyterian.
The State Ledger says, let's bury
all the hatchets and be at peace witt
one another, and unite in furthering
all the interests of the Capital city.
| Col. J. l.. Power has notified the
members of the Legislature that he
has reconsidered the matter, and will
not be IL candidate for State Printer.
Copiah county lost one of her oldest
and staunchest citizens last week
in the death of Mr.. Henry Hyland
who lived just east of Crysta
Springs.
The Methodists of the State will
memorable the Legislature to pass an
act prohibiting the sale of in
toxicating liquors within five miles OF
all their Colleges.
A party of northern capitalists have
come to South Mississippi, proposing
to purchase lands for the purpose OF
locating Western colonists whom they
will send in the spring.
Hon. w. A. Boyd,o of Tippah county
ha Il fA %,
Congress in the second district. The
probability is that Il new man will be
elected from that district.
The Hebrew leaders of Vicksburg
will soon have Fair and among Other
things to be ratified off is a $500 L
S. Bond, at one dollar chance, and
IA cabinet Grand Piano which cost
$500.
The Capital Commercial College
presented Il scholarship to the State
Grange during its recent sitting al
jackson, to be given to some deserv-
ing young man unable to pay for tut
/ ton.
Merchants streets are almost i'm
passable, and the News calls on the
city to macadamize them. UnfOrt-
unately no gravel is accessible, and
the nearest available stone is Is miles
distant by rail.
Hon. A. Is. Hurt, of Winona, the
new Doorkeeper of the House of Rep
resentatives, is conducting his new
Office to the satisfaction of all, even
his most ardent opponents giving him
their warmest commentator.
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, says
Secretary Lamar will make better
Supreme Justice than any other man
who could be obtained from the same
district. He also thinks the great
Mississippian will be confirmed by the
Senate.
The election of E. L. Martin as
Clerk of the Mississippi House of Rep
resentatives, will prove gratifying to
his many friends throughout the State.
He is thoroughly competent for the
duties of the position, and is CLAW
and order" man.
Miss Eta Allen, of Kosciusko, a
young lady of about seventeen years
of age, has been offered the position
of Professor of Chemistry in the In
dustrial Institute at Columbus to take
the place of Miss Sallie Wick Hill, who
is soon to be married.
We have before us a book of over
one hundred closely printed pages, on
"The Negro; AS He Was; AS He Is;
As He Will Be-" 1t was written by
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