The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-02-02
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
.xington has Scarlet fever.

mills.
Mississippi witnessed the moons
eclipse.
J. II. Gambell has been lecturing in
North Mississippi.
Eight families have moved to Clos
ter within Il month.
Honduras sends two students to the
University of Miss.
Stacktown, is the name of IL suburb
of Crystal Springs.
The Sword and Shield is to be re-
moved to Meridian.
Wood in Jackson has been hard to
get af $500 per cord.
{. Il. Lacey now occupies the chair
of the Bonneville Pleader.
Woodvillc has had wood famine.
1t should change its name.
The Walthall High School has one
hundred and forty five. students.
4 handsome residence in Natchez,
worth $40 900, was recently burned.
The jeff Davis Volunteers recently
gave Il supper and dance at Fayette.
The State Fair Association offers
800 for the best yield of corn from
one acre.
Sam Lee, aged IS, charged with
horse stealing, died i'll the Corinth
jail last week.
Negroes are still going from Kinds,
Copiah, Madison and other counties to
the Delta.
The State Republican Executive
Committee will meet i'll jackson on
February 9th.
jackson has Tennex club, COM
posed of the most intellectual young
ladies of the Capital.
Mrs. +. j. McQuiston. of Aberdeen,
formerly Miss Sallie Halliday, died in
that place last week.
jackson doesn't seem to agree with
several representatives., who are on
the sick list at present.
Mr.. William Cotton, who was killed
in the railroad accident at Jackson,
held in accident policy of 5000.
The Forest Register has been reviv-
ed with Miss Lizzie Blackwell, editor,
and Miss NJ. b. Mckenzie, publisher.
Columbus whiskey men threaten to
burn down the |. |. & c. if the five
mile law for that institution is passed.
Prof. \. c. Cooper, for IA long time
connected with the Cooper Normal In
stitute, at Spring Hill, died on Jan.
Dist.
John Henderson, of the West Point
Forum, says in his salutator that he
Twill defend all Democratic men and
measures"
K. c. Shepherd, of Yazoo City,
recently gave 81 600 toward the cree
ton OF IL new Presbyterian church at
that place.
$1,000 was subscribed in an hours
time, in Nicksburg, for cotton
factory, $67, 900 worth of stock has
been taken.
An Aberdeen negro, having joined
the church, handed merchant 10
cents, the value of an article stolen
ten years previous.
Mr.. Lee Cotton, of Summit, and
Miss Tommie Moore, Of Amite county,
were recently married. Many
friends wish them joy.
The primary election in NoXubee
county resulted in Hon. Clarke Lewis
being declared the choice of the
Democracy in that county for
Congress.
Rev. W. D. Northrup, ii Baptist
preacher and superintendent of
Education, of Clarke county, died at
Quitman last week, where he had re-
sided for ~ years.
Gen. Fcatherston is already in the
the field as candidate for Governor,
and we understand that it is his pur-
pose to make close personal canvass
of the whole State.
Ten cars were totally wrecked in a
smash up thirty-siX miles north Of
Nicksburg, on the l.. n. & Il. road
a car load of horses was total wreck,
damages placed at 5000.
At recent competitive drill by the
Mississippi College Rifles at Clinton,
Louis Z. Menger, first sergeant, won
the medal offered by their charming
sponsor, Miss Corinne Deupree.
The members of the Mississippi
Legislature are already talking about
adjournment. 1t is well enough, per
haps, to talk about it, but it would be
better if there was less talk and more
action in that direction.
The saw and grist mill and gin of
Mr.. Wander NJ. Daniel, near ellis
burg, was burned, the flames cOnsum-
ing several thousand feet of lumber,
nine bales of cotton and a large
quantity of cotton seed.
One day last week a cOlOred prisO-
ner confined in the Franklin county
Jail at Meadvllle, set fire to the build
ing which was entirely consumed. 1t
was new building, costing 5000,
and the county had just finished pay
ing for it.
Mrs. MOllie MCGEE Smell has been
elected by the National Executive
Committee of the w. c. Il. u, as
Associate Superintendent of White
Ribbon work. Her especial duty is to
petition the Legislatures of the United
States for Industrial Institutes and
colleges for girls.
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