The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-14
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

DlOOn.
Boxing with gloves is pastime i'll
McComb City.
Grenada wants and expects to have
a canning factory.
The rabbits are destroying melons
in Crystal Springs.
Marion county recently organized a
strong temperance society.
The Greenville Review has again
ventured upon n daily issue.
Nearly every town in the State
wants factory of some kind.
Mississippi has subscribed to- rail
roads this year nearly $3,O00,0OO.
In the last six months 10 miles of
railroad have been laid in our State.
The President has approved the
bill giving Vicksburg public build
ing.
July 4th, the McCOmb City fire de-
partment will have a grand celebra-
ton.
Pope Barns, promising young
man of Copiah, died suddenly last
week.
The w. C. T. Y. had delightful
public meeting at COrinth last Sab
bath.
For the first time i'll its history
Clinton has made shipments of fruit
this season.
Enterprise wants bank and 100
thrifty Northern farmers to fill the
land adjacent to the city.
II. J. Hartley, of Crystal Springs,
had his buggy torn up and himself
seriously injured last week.
There are two strong Democratic
parties in Holmes cOunty-in other
words the old party is divided.
The sum of $4,000 was bequeathed
to the schools of Yazoo City by the
late James Crump, of that place.
Rev. b. Carradine, of New Orleans,
well known to Mississippians, has
been created Doctor of Divinity.
Mrs. Margaret Fite, of Jackson, died
on the 3rd. She was ~ years old and
had lived in Jackson for 60 years.
President w. B. Murrah, of
WhitwOrth College, has been made
a d. ID. by the Centenary College.
The Vicksburg Herald says that
certain parts of Warren county are
infested with licensed desperadOes.
In the Hopewell neighborhood in
the northeast of COpiah n. w. Fran
els, an old citizen, died a week ago.
In the interstate competitive drill
at Columbus last week, the Columbus
Rihemen took first place and the $500
prize.
DR.. Hunter, of jackson, and Rev.
Geo. A. Russell, of Wesson, will ex-
change pulpits on the 3rd Sunday in
this month.
A gentleman living in Union coun-
ty, this State, was killed by lightning
while standing near the fireplace in
his own house.
The Meteor says the cash receipts of
the merchants of Crystal Springs i'll
one day recently amounted in the ag-
gregate to $4,000.
The citizens of Noxubee are in
said to have been worked by the In
dams in the past.
Hon. Jefferson Davis celebrated his
so birthday on the 3rd at his elegant,
but quiet home at Beauvoir, on the
Mississippi coast.
The Mississippi Conference of the
WOman's Missionary Society will
meet at the Methodist churchin Yves
son Saturday, June 23rd.
Hon. J. p. Eagle, the nominee for
Governor of Arkansas, is graduate
of Mississippi College, Clinton, and
Baptist preacher and farmer.
The Rev. DR.. LOmax, of Hazlehurst,
is to deliver the annual address at the
Gillsburg Institute, and not Judge
Cassidy, as previously announced.
Hon. II. S. Van Eaton has been ap-
pointed a member of the commission
to examine and report on a completed
portion of the Northern Pacific Rail
road.
On the 23rd of June the MasOns of
Ellisville, will celebrate the birth of
st. John the Baptist. 1t promises to
be a grand day for the town of Ellis
vile.
An incendiary fire occurred on the
Sth near YazoO City, whereby 1000
bushels of corn and two mules were
destroyed, the property of ID. N.
Roach.
The Patrons Union will hold its 9th
annual encampment at Lake Camp
Ground, Newton county, Miss, begin
ming on Tuesday, the "a of July, 1888,
and continue four days.
At the exhibition of the Franklin
and Union Societies of jackson, La,
L. Dabney Marshall, of the Meridian
Democrat, won triumph through his
speech, "Dudes and Dudism,"
Murray Louis (colOred) was tried
at Greenville for the murder of his
mistress, by a cOlored jury, was de-
Tended by cOlOred lawyer and
promptly sentenced to be hanged.
Near Mechanicsburg a child of Mr..
and Mrs. McAlpine was scalded to
death last week by sister, who was
ascending the stairs with apot of boil
ing water, and stumbled, thus scalding
the child who was following her.
The Mississinni Collapa R;flas will