The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-31
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

"Shipping Beans" at present.
Winona has need of q laundry.
Woodville boasts "Bubble Party"
Rankin has four l. o. G. r. lodges.
Steen's Creek now has an I. o. G. I.
Bee raising prospers In Clarke
county.
The death of Col j. NJ. Pruitt is
mourned in West Point.
Hon. w. b. Raiford, of Amite coun-
ty, died on the 23rd inst.
An alligator, IL feet long, was kill
ed last week near Fayette.
Kinds county endorses Cleveland
and Hooker for reelection.
jefferson county expects to ship
1000 barrels of Irish potatoes.
PHI. Holland, of Franklin county,
died recently, aged SO years.
Calhoun county Alliance is trying
to get up an Alliance tannery.
Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson Will
leave for Europe next month.
The WessOn public school had an
attendance of 800 pupils this term.
The Yazoo City Item is new
journalistic candidate for public favor.
Bolivar county wants to be put
down for So 900 bales cotton this year.
A Chicago syndicate has bought
1O, 900 acres Ofland in Franklin county.
A Crystal Springs farmer has an
acre of transplanted cotton now knee
high.
w. b. DeatOn, former mayor of
Hazlehurst, died at that place on the
Goth.
The West Point Building and Loan
Association has nearly eight hundred
subscribers.
English sparrOws have made their
appearance in Copiah, to the dismay
of truckers.
The L. n. O. g. L. railroad is i'm
proving it's condition through the
Delta country.
Meridian has organized the first
savings bank in the State, with n
capital of $4,000.
Judge Hill was presented by the
jury at Jackson on the Goth a hand
some silk umbrella.
Mr.. S. II. Berg, of Aberdeen, has
the contract for building q new court
house at LOuisville.'
The Grand Chaplain of the Grand
Lodge of Masons of Mississippi, Rev.
w. f. Porter, is dead.
A Grand May party was given at
McComb, ON May 30th, for the benefit
of the Presbyterian church.
The blackberry crop in all portions
of the State promises to be one OF the
most bountiful ever known.
Mr.. Joe Gillian, of Rodney, has
shipped 100 barrels of new Irish po-
tatOes to Northern markets.
Enterprise has man travelling
North in the interest of immigration,
and Meridian will start one soon.
Capn. w. b. Johnston, of the Steam
er Lizzie S. James, was killed near
Scranton by lightning on the 25th.
DR.. S. S. Carter, of Jackson, has
been elected President of the Mobile,
Hattiesburg and Jackson Railroad.
The Nc Comb City Baptist Church
enjoyed a revival under the ministra-
tiOns of Rev. r. H. Purser, of WessOn.
fla Mississippian violates the law
about carrying concealed weapons,
he does it in full knowledge of the
penalty.
The shipment of lumber, by sea,
from the port of Pascagoula for the
week ending May 18th amounted to
1884 ,009 feet.
Purvis is getting ready to test the
right of LumbertOn to the new court
house in Marion, as decided by the
late election.
Warren county's prison lessee, Mr..
WOmack, was shot and killed on the
Goth at Bovina, by Archie Bullock, a
young lawyer.
tlClLCuS VI NldiDOlhC SOuAtS dLS
calling upon Chancellor Launch Nc
Laurin to become candidate for
Congress from this district.
The pine lands of Mississippi will
be likely to advance rapidly in price
now that the Government has suspen-
ded sales at private entry.
Mr.. Lloyd Lusk was attacked by a
negro field hand in Issaquena, and
after a struggle with pistols the latter
was killed. Lusk was shot through
the lungs.
j. S. Boren, of Bonneville, in Prem
tiss county, has established a manu-
factory in that town for sOrgum evap-
orators of his own patent, and is doing
an extensive business.
w. C. Cooper, a saloon keeper at
Marks, Miss, near Jamestown, had
his throat cut from ear to ear by
man named Bill Spears recently, and
died from his injuries.
Maj. McGinnis, of the Valley Road,
has recently paid into the State
treasury, $4,000, it being the back
taxes of the road under the relief bill
adopted by the last legislature.
Miss Varina Davis, during her
recent visit to the Capital City, was
presented with a diamond ring by the
ladies of Jackson. She was also ten