The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-07-19
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
Scranton needs tenement houses.

Scranton needs tenement houses.
Enterprise boasts a 10 10 squash,
with its seed on the outside.
Columbus voted last week to donate
$50 200 to the Kansas City Railroad.
Wmona has a cotton compress COM
panv with $4,000 stock subscribed.
\ leading physician of Raymond,
DIR. X. l.. Boyle, died there on the Is.
j. J. Ford, an old citizen of Copiah,
died near Crystal Springs on the 18th.
Mrs. Govam, mother of George NJ.
Govan, died at McCOmb City last
Thursday.
DIR. Frederick Knapp, a prominent
dentist of New Orleans, died recently
at Magnolia.
Garden City is Il new town one
mile south of Knoxville on the l.. n.
O. n Il. X. X.
The Meridian Democrat is red hot
for Prohibition. Mcridian's election
will be on the 3lst.
Hon. \. j. McLaurin is reported
dangerously i'll at Brandon with ty
phoid malarial fever.
Judge !. p. Povall of Bonneville is
dead. He had recently been ordain-
ed minister of the gospel.
John Kollbrunnor, a gardner, was
shot at Magnolia on the 18th by Bill
Lcnoir. No cause assigned.
The corner stone for new Masonic
building was laid at Greenwood on
the 18th, Col. J. l.. Power officiating.
Meridian and Lauderdale county
are stirred up over the local option
election. which comes off on the 3lst.
Murray Lewis, colored, was legally
hung at Greenville Tuesday for the
murder of his mistress about four
months ago.
The Franklin County Herald
SAYS. that at the late term of the Cir
cult Court, the grand jury indicted II.
/ G.. Hood for the murder of +. Short.
Aberdeen is to decide by a popular
vote on August Z whether or not to
issue 800. 200. of bonds for the pur.
pose OF taking that much stock III II
cotton factory.
The entire stock of gas company at
Meridian. amounting to $4,000, has
! been transferred to IL Chattanooga
syndicate, and by the transfer the old
Stockholders have realized Il hand
some profit.
The first term of the United States
Court for the Southern District of
Mississippi, will convene at Missis-
sippi City on the second Monday in
August as provided for Ivy Il late act
OF Congress.
Meridian has new daily paper
named the Evening Call. James 5.
Evans, j.. late representative of the
Picayune, is Its editor. The Call
will undertake to "call back" the
sale of whisky in THAT city.
Mr.. Eli White has been suhscri-
Der to the Carrollton Conservative for
% years, and always pays for five
years in advance. He is model sub
scriber, and his entrance through the
pearly gates is an assured fact.
Mr.. $. Spengler, of Nicksburg,
proprietor of SpengIer's lumber mills
and sash factory and owner of IL half
interest in the Cooper's Well proper
ty. was thrown from his buggy on
Washington street and killed on the
18th.
Col. Nicholson and Dan'l bennett,
proprietor and agricultural editor of
New Orleans Picayune, own farms in
mississippi the first near Magnolia,
latter near BroOkhaven. 1t will be
seen that the Hicayune's interests are
identical with those of Mississippi.
Miss Sallie Hinson, Crystal Springs
champion basket maker, turns ont
800 tomato baskets daily. On several
days she not only made the baskets but
attached the bales. Her compcnSa-
ton is in excess of any mans employ
ed at the box factory, and always
nearly two dollars day.