The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-08
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
state Fair next Monday.

Day - L'uiS = - lHuulSC III blooll
drills
The Oxford Eagle was half sheet
this week.
The Lexington Bulletin is offered
fer sale or lease.
Work is progressing on the Green
willie Water works.
Mrs. Doty, of KOsciusko, mt the age
of 80 died last week.
Vivian Byrd is now editor of the
Cleveland Commercial.
Rev. b. y. Hatch has been cvangel-
ling at Winona recently.
The Kinds County Fair at Bolton
was pronounced a success.
The Wesson public school has 800
pupils in actual attendance.
The "Tall Pine of Pike county"
spoke in Natchez last Friday.
Nollie McCarty was killed by Sallic
Crisler on the 3rd at Shubuta
Most every town in the State com
plains of cotton coming i'll slowly.
\ rattlesnake with seventeen rattlcs
was killed in Alfalfa county last week
All Saints Day was appropriately
celebrated by the Catholicism NatchcZ.
The Madison county fair has provca
Il success both in display and attend
ance.
The Yazoo Sentinel was so full of
ads last week it had to issue Il supple
ment.
Private John Allen assisted Cen
erai Catchings in his canvass against
jim HILL
The Hon. Frank Burkitt is being
spoken of i'll connection with the Gov
cnorship.
Revs. j. Il. Parish and b. y. Hatch
nre carrying on protlacted meeting
at Cotleeville.
Hon. \. G. Nurell, L. S. Commits
sioner in Utah, is visiting his old home
at 1azoo City.
Mississippians will regret to hear of
the continued illness of Rev. l.. 5. Pi-
ker of St. Louis.
Telegraph wires are being put up
along the line of the Georgia Pacific
in Webster county.
The brotherhood Of Locomotive
tiremen give grand ball at McCOmb
City tomorrow night.
MIR. Ed. Fleming. bookkeepcr for
Wells & Co.. at NickS5urg, died of
hydrophobia last week.
\ negro man was stabbed and in
stantly killed at Winona on the 9th by
lewd negro woman.
Since the rise in flour, the farmers
throughout the State are manifeSting
an interest in wheat growing,
y freight train was wrecked near
Nicksburg last Sabbath and three
men killed and two wounded.
DR.. Hart. Mr.. and Mrs. Lea, and
Others will have their Summit cxhib-
its at the State Fair next week.
Lee Hinson, who killed Dr.. W. F.
Simmons, III Pike county. has been
sentenced to the pcnitentiary for life.
MIR. Chas. Renncr, of Natchn, died
there of consumption last week, also
Mir. Chas. Coleman, prominent mcr-
chant.
The dormtory of Spring Hill Col
lege in Lauderdalc county was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9TH inst. Loss,
$1,000.
Mr.. j. A. Smith, planter near
Eicksburg, was shot through the body
by negro last Saturday. He may
recover.
The Natchez Rifles Orchestra will
give an entertainment on the 18th,
for the hcnetit of the Confederate
Monument.
Gen. A. VI. West, of Holly Springs,
an erstwhile Greenbacker, is now
strong Democrat and making speeches
for that cause.
Portland has turtle that weighs
1900 pounds. 1t isl feet 6 inches long,
, feet inches thick, and from tip to
zip of its forward fins measures feet.
Mr.. W. +. Jennings, of Magnolia,
on his return from the Summit fair i'll
attempting to jump from the train fell
and broke his skull, dying instantly.
Two farmers near IazlehurSt sold
their cotton there last week for $50
and on returning home were met by a
robber who demanded their money
and got it.
The laying of the corner stone of the
new school building at Hazlehurst
took place on the 18th, Jas. S. Perrin,
f. G. Peyton, A. a. LomaX, F. NJ.
Sexton being the committee of arrange
ments.
Allen Moss, postmaster at Modoc,
on the Sunfower river, killed himself
on the 3rd, because life was unbear-
able, he being a constant sufferer from
catarrh and he wanted to start il grave
ward at ModOc.
4 serious cutting affray took place
at Mississippi City between an ex-
guard of the Ship Island Railroad
named Keene and a guard of the
railroad company, Sam Lomax. Keene
WAS dangerously stabbed.
In the arrangements made for cOun-
ty days at the Mississippi State Fair,
Tuesday, Nov. Is, has been set apart
for Pike county, and Thursday, Nov.
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