The Brookhaven leader., 1888-03-08
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

crystal springs Is eating lettuce
Greenville is to have large hotel.
jackson has a typographical un-
ion.
An iron foundry is being built at
Meridian wants government
Kinds county has village called
Greasyville.
Lee county recently shipped 1,4O0
rabbits to Memphis.
The Water Valley cotton mills are
now lighted with gas.
The Post thinks Vicksburg will yet
have cotton factory.
1t costs this State $4,000 a day to
run the free public schools.
The Ripley Sentinel favors one ses-
sion of the Legislature every 4
years.
A YazOO county planter last year
made sixty bales of cotton on fifty two
acres of land.
Meridian is devising plans for in
ducing Northern and Western excur-
sionists to visit Meridian.
Over seventy indictments are miss
ing from the circuit clerks Office in
Vicksburg. This is peculiar.
Kosciusko has barrel factory in
active operation and the Star says the
demand is greater than the sup
ply.
Miss May Ely very modest and
lovely young lady, is now bOOk-keep-
er in the Capitol State Bank at Jack
son.
The East Mississippi Poultry and
Pet Stock Association will hold a
show in Meridian beginning March
2Sth.
The Independent Hook and Ladder
Fire Co., No. l, of Summit, are max
ing efforts to secure steam en-
gine.
Mr.. f. w. Crozier, of Warren coun-
ty, has brought suit against Hon.
Jefferson Davis for hire as over
seer.
Mr.. X. j. Scott and Miss Lizzie
Parker were united in marriage re-
Gently near Hazlehurst, by Rev. A. A.
LOmaX.
Will d. Cowan, of the Greenwood
Enterprise, has purchased the Walden
Journal and will consolidate the two
papers.
The first shipment of vegetables this
spring, was by colored man of
Crystal Springs, and consisted of nine
boxes of onions.
The Crystal Springs Meteor, says
the vegetable business of that place
will give employment to about 5000
hands this season.
Ex-President and Mrs. Davis have
been visiting at Davis Bend, near
Natchez, where they were warmly
greeted by friends.
Andrew Govan, young democrat
of McComh City, has been appointed
to IA 81 200 clcrkship under the Nation
al Railroad Commission.
A disastrous shooting occurred re-
Gently at Aberdeen, resulting from IA
school fend, in which two men were
killed by Mr.. James Baily.
One of Gov. LOwry's sons tried to
shoot an |. c. Railroad conductor the
other night because he would let him
ride on the Governors pass.
The Cedar Grove Alliance of Union
County has passed resolutions censur-
ing Gov. Lowry for his discourtesy to
the committee of the State Alliance.
1t is said that Senator George re-
marked when elected that he would
never wear dress suit or ride in
carriage, and that he has kept his
word.
1t is rumored that Gen. s. d. Lee
will resign his position as President
of the A. & NJ. College on account of
the decreased appropriation for that
institution.
The Harmony Alliance of Copiah
county is boycOtting the Crystal
Springs Meteor because of its attacks
on Hon. }. l., Ramsey, representative
from that county.
The Crystal Springs vegetable acre
age the coming season will approx
mate 700 acres in tomatoes, $50 in
peas, 400 i'll beans, 100 in radishes,
800 in berries and 600 in peaches.
A big real estate deal took place in
Meridian last week between Mrs.
Ragsdale, whose large hotel was re-
Gently burned, and Marks, Rothen-
berg and Co., the price paid being
$3.50, 600.
A correspondent of the COrinth
Herald says there are fifty children
within IA radius of three miles of the
Court House who are growing up
paupers and will soon become va
grants and tramps.
The late Mrs. Ed. Richardson be.
queathed the sum of $4,000 to the
church of Jackson and
a similar sum to DR.. Palmer's church
in New Orleans, besides large sums to
other charitable objects.
Mr.. J. F. Hutchinson, of Memphis,
and Miss Minnie Burns, a very young
lady of Columbus, were married on
Feb. Goth at Starkville. The bride
was "run away" her father bitterly
the match on account of her
youth.