The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-26
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
Aberdeen has diphtheria.

Aberdeen mas dlphtherla.
Scranton has Sunday gunners.
Coal is being dug for use at Duck
Hill.
Amitc County has only public
schools.
Greenvillc's water works will cost
SS0.00O.
The Lamar Guards have organized
at Biloxi.
Bonneville and Slate Springs have
measles.
fernando will have a new Episco-
pal church.
Greenwood is to have wooden
ware factory.
Moss Point had n $40, 200 blaze on
December 2Sth.
The Wizard Oil Company is again
touring the State.
Miss Winnie Davis has entered the
field of literature.
Senator Roderick Seal lies danger
ously i'll at jackson.
Burglars at Crystal Springs robbed
a store of 5000 last week.
\ famous dog, valued at $500, re-
Gently died at Magnolia.
The Shcriif"s bonds in Adams
county aggregate $l05. 900.
The Democrat Star says drummers
are proving round there"
Hon, c. B. Mitchell, Speaker of the
House. is Missionary Baptist.
The turpentine still at Moss Point
was recently consumed by fire.
Frank Lewis, of jackson county, is
the youngest sheriff in the State.
Mr.. Jere Horn. of Meridian, now
edits the Hot Blast at Admission, Ala.
Capt. NJ. ID. Kidd, for forty years Il
resident of jackson, died there on the
10Th.
Capt. p. X. doesn't like tinted
paper for newspapers, and we agree
with him.
Miss Wick Hill, of Macon, and X. w.
Jones, .ir., of Memphis, were married
last week.
Pneumonia is prevailing throughout
the State as the result of the cold,
wet weather.
In tussle with loaded pistol
Jake COlson, aged II years, was shot
at Port Gibson.
SUBMITS citizens recently presented
DR.. W. w. Moore with an elegant
gold headed cane.
Thos. McCrey. of Holmes county
took dose of strychnine by mistake
for calOmel, and died.
Okolona shipped 10000 pounds OF
cotton seed this season at an average
of II! cents per bushel.
Thirty-tw liquor dealers, of War
rem county, were recently arrested for
selling without IL license.
Mrs. Harriet Barfeld, the oldest
lady of Natchez, celebrated her 92nd
birthday "A few days ago.
Mr.. A. W. Maxwell, of Monticello.
was married last week to Mrs. +. {
Roberts, of Copiah County.
In Clay county an eagle was re-
Gently killed, which measured seven
feet four inches from tip to tip.
Vicksburg has shipped $1,000 bales
of cotton IazOo City, $4,000; Can
ton, $1,000 and kosciuskO, IA 900.
Mr.. {. NJ. Hull, formerly of Jack.
son, has started paper at ROsedalt
called the Bolivar County Democrat.
Mr.. Lowell Abbey, of Edwards
who was attending the Capital Com
mercial College at jackson, recently
died.
A box of cakes, candies and nuts
and more valuable articles, were
recently received at Summit from
Europe.
Hon. Thos. NJ. Kemp has severed his
connection with the Holly Springs
South. Messrs. NJ. Hall and Ed Wat
son are his successors.
Mrs. II. b. Theobold, the "Mothel
of Greenville," upon whose plantation
the thriving city now stands, died
Monday in her 92nd year.
Archie Hart, fine young news.
paper man, has purchased half in,
terest in the Bay St. Louis Progress,
witch bodies much good for that
paper.
Albert g., Tyler, one of the longest
residents of Natchz, died IL few days
ago. He was native of Worcester
Mass, but came as boy to Matchez
in 1880.
Hon. +. Watkins, of Meridian, has
removed to Chattanooga, Tenn, and
Hon. }. X. Mcintosh to Birmingham.
We regret to see such men leave
Mississippi.
The office of the Circuit Clerk, OF
AlcOrn county, was entered recently
and all the records of the court and
several indictments were stolen and
carried away.
During 1887 there were started in
Mississippi cotton mills, mines and
quarries, ! blast furnace, 3 railroad
companies, Is wOOdenware factories,
nd q miscellaneous industries.
At Johnston Station, near Summit,
a twelve year old boy went to the
woods with Il negro to cut wood. The
latter cut down a large tree which fell