The Brookhaven leader., 1888-03-01
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Aberdeen has organized building
and loan association.
The Valley Record is the name of
a new paper at GlOster.
The Legislature hopes to get
through by March 10th.
A steamboat, Lake City, was sunk
near Yazoo ON the 18th.
Senator j. L. Turnage has lost two
children since January.
Every cent of tax on Yazoo City
real estate has been paid.
West Point says it is full of North
western men seeking homes.
The bill to prevent scalage in cot
ton has passed both Houses.
jackson county has the largest de-
linquent tax list.in Mississippi.
A negro woman at Winona killed
herself because she was mad"
The negroes of Leake county are
being organized into Farmers
Alliances.
A nine year old boy at Grcenville
was playing with pistol and shot his
little sister.
Rev. J. II. Gambrell's lectures at
Corinth, were highly complmented by
the Herald,
\ colored tough at Jackson knocked
Il woman down and robbed her of a
side of bacon.
The Senate has passed bill to ex-
empt the Baptist parsonage at Oxford
from taxation.
VIM. Burnett, the slayer of young
Cook at Utica, has senven years i'll
the penitentiary.
Gen. s. ID. Lee has been suggested
as candidate for the chancellOrship
of the Georgia University.
Planting operations have been
greatly retarded by the inclement
weather throughout the State.
Wesson is about to issue bonds to
support her public schools. WessOn
appreciates and fosters education.
Rev. {. Il. Dudley recently held Il
successful protracted meeting with
the Summit Presbyterian church.
Magnolia Hall, "a residence that in
1860 cost so, 900 i'll building, was
burned near Nicksburg on the 18th.
DR.. NJ. 5. Craft, the most noted
surgeon of the State, is lying critically
i'll at his home in jackson of paralys sis.
Rev. John II. Eager, Il native
MissiSsippian, now OF Rome, Italy,
will soon make a tour through the
State.
Capt. John Powell. of Grenada,
recently subscribed $1,000 toward
building new Baptist church at that
place.
Brother Bonney, of the Summit
Sentinel, has received his new power
press and will soon have it in running
order.
Mr.. Thomas Mayfeld is elected
Representative from Smith county, to
! ill the vacancy caused by the death OF
DIR. Patton.
Among other things the dashy
editor of the Meteor offers 80 widows
under 40 years of age to the market
matrimonial.
Prof. A. b. Mckay, of the A. & NJ.
cOllhge, recently lectured at West
Point, after which a horticultural
society was formed.
The Crystal Spring trucks growers
are combining to ship in Gear lots,'
thus getting the benefit of car load
rates, II saving of about $40 per car.
One hundred Edison incandescent
electric lights were recently placed in
the insane asylum at jackson, and
other improvements are being added.
The guilt of the murder of Ed.
Short, near Knoxville, has not yet
been fixed on any one. The Ham
burg Herald speaks ont plainly on the
subject
Mr.. Will McLaurin died suddenly
from an overdose of morphine at
YazoO City last week, lamented by
many friends. He was an influential
merchant.
A truant wife was begged by her
fOrsaken lord to return to his bosom !;
but she refused and he killed her. A
dark tragedy-all parties colOred at
Greenville.
Mr.. Willie G. Mitchell, of the
Copiah Signal force, has been appoint
ed mail weigher on the Illinois Cen
trail railroad, between Carlo, ILL.,, and
New Orleans.
A train was wrecked near Vicks-
burg, on the l.. n. 0. g. 7. railroad,
on the 10Th. Seven cars were reduced
to splnters, much sugar, rice and
molasses lost, but nobody hurt.
An old man at Utica objected to a
severe cross examination he had to en-
dure from an attorney in the Cook
Burnett case and attacked the latter
on the street. Parties interfered and
the cOmbatants were saved.
A writer in the Chickasaw Messen-
ger stys he hopes the next committee
that waits on his Excellency, will
throw Il little carbOlic acid on his
Democracy and take a good deal of
the stencil of radicalism out of it.
Andrew FOggo, of Natchez, who
killed man named Shaw for undue in
timacy with his wife, was tried and