The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-08-30
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
Carrollton enjoys good health.

rust
Rienzi's canning factory has given
satisfaction.
Boonville has a four pound new
wcet-potato.
The Wilkinson County fair opens
September %.
Kosciusko's new company is called
"Minutc Men,"
Cotton picking will soon be the
order of the day.
Tunica is to have a court house and
Jail worth $1,000
The recent wind and rain was de-
structive to farmers.
Brother Almon thinks other peoples
Jokes are mOth-eaten.
Five cent domestic may in future
''bag' the cotton bale.
The Pearl River News was a half
sheet last week; paper late.
More than 50 were converted ut the
Crystal Springs camp meeting.
w c. Wilkinson, of Crystal Springs,
has been spoken of for Governor.
The Mississippi Coast never witness
ed severer stormthan the recent one.
Jackson is disarming itself and
counting big influx to the State Fair.
There is some talk about putting Il
double daily mail service on the /. C..
X. Il.
In COahoma two negroes quarrcled
over game of cards and one was
killed.
26 Durant made wagons were ship
ped from that place to Texas last
week.
In YazOo City the Y. NJ. c. A. en-
tertainment tickets are so and IS
cents.
At Natchez the Humane Society is
prosecuting Il. man for overlooking
his horse.
In Neshoba county child recently
hung itself accidently on the railing
OF gate.
Bishop Galloway is writing inter
esing letters to the n. q. Christian
Advocate.
Clarksdale pays twenty five cents
II piece for chickens, even if they are
not well feathered.
VIM. Schwartz, of Mobile, aged 26,
was drowned while bathing on the
23rd, near Pascagoula.
Liberty suffered many trivial losses
from the recent blow, among which
was Il pecan tree 10 years old.
The Valley Record says that Hon.
r. a. McLaln is confined to his bed
with lntiammatory rheumatism.
In Chickasaw county il man set a
box trap 10 catch coons and caught
large rattle snake with ten ratt,es
There is scarcely a week but what
one or more negroes are killed in
the delta, by members of their own
race.
At Cleveland the night telegraph
W HON he caught breaking into a load
ed box car.
The Ripley Yeoman, IA splendid
agricultural magazine, copies some of
Col. Danl Dennett's good articles from
the Picayunc.
Joe MckennOn, a white man, kill
ed Il negro in Jackson last week. He
mistoOk his victim for another who
had given him otfense.
The Ladies' Relief Association of
Port Gibson are doing a good work in
collecting secondhand GARMENTS, bed
ding, etc, for the poor.
Franklin county holds Prohibi-
ton mass meeting tomorrow to elect
Il new Executive Committee and
transact other business.
Billy Butcher, bravado mate of
the Steamer Phil. Armour, who some
time ago dubbed II man nearly to
death, has been captured.
"The merchants of BroOkhaven"
and what they said of the effects of
prohibition have been going the
rounds of the State Press.
Some evil person at Columbia went
into the jailor's house on last Sunday
night week, took his keys and liberat-
ed two desperate negroes.
Mr.. L. J. Rhymes was gorcd by
Jersey bull in Crystal Springs last
week. 1t was the first time the ami
nal ever showed viciOusness.
JacksOn's business men have sub
scribed 81, 100 to the funds of the Y.
NJ. c. A. public library fund. The
library will be thrown open to the
public soon.
Iu Calhoun county a man killed
himself, after his daughter, suspecting
his purpose, had plead with tears
for his life. He told her to leave him,
then pulled the trigger.
The Cooperative Cotton Yard AS
ISOLATION of Amite and Wilkinson
counties propose building in Centre
vile a warehouse fifty feet square,
with walls fifteen feet high.
The best talent of Vicksburg, Jack
son, Crystal Springs and Yazoo City
contributed towards the success of
recent concert given at the latter
place for the benefit of the COnfeder-
ate Monument.
There is rejoicing at the quarantine
statiOns-the doctors receive 5000
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