The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
The Summit Fair is booming.


Miss Minnie Madden, the actress,
is again OH Mississippi's stage.
Leland's hotel has had % rooms
added to it in the past few weeks.
Policeman James Collins was shot,
it is thought fatally, by IA craps play
er at Meridian.
Mr.. John Marshall Curry, associate
editor of the Conservative at Carroll
ton. died there on the 9th.
Mr.. Bernheimer, of Port Gibson,
who was recently stricken with par
alysis, died last week at the age
of 76.
Robert Eichelberger, recently from
New Orleans, was killed at Meridian
on the 9th, by being run over by
fiat car.
Mr.. james A. Eaton, an old and
respected citizen of Perry county,
died at Hattiesburg on the 18th inst,
after long illness.
Mr.. w. L. Sparkman cOntemplates
establishing a weekly newspaper IN
SUMMIT SHOItlN, W NC CdllSu nv
South Mississippian."
At the Madison county Fair Hon.
Ethel Barksdale distinguished him
self by mastery effort compliment
ary to the sons of toll.
A negro burglar, while in the act of
entering IL store, last Saturday night,
near Meridian, was shot by the pro-
prietor and instantly killed.
The Delta says that in difficulty
between white man and negro
near Greenville, the negro " advanced
back right lastly" and no blood was
shed.
The annual conference of the Meth
Odist Episcopal Church South will
meet in Vicksburg December the 5th.
Rev. Bishop Hargrove, ID. ID. will
preside.
The Board of Supervisors of Chick
asaw county were indicted, at the
recent term of the Circuit Court in
that county, for the neglect of duty
i'm the matter of bridge building.
A proposition to build a $4,000
school was defeated i'll Starkvllle,
Miss, on Monday, by one vote. No
| town can hope to prosper whose peo-
pie are not alive to its school interests.
Tie grand jury of Warren county
has been discharged after eXamin ing
1874 witnesses and returning 80 true
bills. \ large number of the indict-
ments were against the saloons men
! for selling whisky to minors.
At Roxie, a terrible shooting affray
ACQUIRED in which DR.. S. V. and W.
II. Parker were killed by three mem
beers of the Roland family. DR.. Par
ker had married Miss Rowland
while still having a wife at Morton,
| Miss.
Rev. Father Victor Bally, pastor of
the Scranton Catholic church, left
last week for st. Mary's College, Ken
lucky, to accept professorship i'll
that College. Father c. A. Oliver, Il
native MissisSippian, is now pastor of
/ the Scranton Catholic church.
After failing to procure pistol,
Will Fry, of Greenville, got razor
and while keeping wOuld-be prevent
ers at bay, slashed his own thoat,
| laying bare the arteries and wind
/ pipe. The wound was sewed up and
/ he remarked that he made job of it.
The Pontotoc Democrat, has been
suspended, and Mr.. c. F. Newman has
moved his printing material to New
| Albany and commenced the publica-
! ton of the Union CountyDemOcrat. AS
it's name indicates, it will he Demo-
| cratic in politics. We wish 1t success.
Assistant General Manager Lott of
! the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad in Il
letter to the Picayune denies that
work on the road has been suspended.
| He says that the road is now employ
| ing its hands in getting out crOss-ties,
surfacing track and completing the
big Biloxi bridge and the laying
will soon be resumed.
A negro child was born within two
and one-half miles of Nettleton on
the 14th inst, with four feet, four
legs, one body, four arms and hands,
two heads, four eyes, four ears, two
noses, two months, and a full set of
teeth in each mouth. 1t is grand
curiosity, and is now in drug store
in Nettleton, and will soon be on ex-
hibition in a glass case.--FWlton Re
porter.
There are 1888 pensioners in Missis-
sippi whose aggregate receipts for the
last quarter amount to $2S,554.5O or
SHAPES per annum. The largest
amount paid in any one county dur
ing the quarter was 81 800 to Adams
county pensioners. The next largest
went to Warren county $2,55S. There
are no pensioners in the counties of
Smith, Wayne, Sunfower and Win
stOn.
The Union Investment Company,
which is a Mississippi corporation
chartered by the late legislature, have
given deed of trust on all of their
land on the gulf coast in Harrison
county. The lands conveyed consti-
tute what is known as GulfpOrt, the
terminus of the Gulf g. Ship Island
Railroad. The deeds provides: at
being particularly understood that
blocks heretofore sold, although en-
braced in and included in the des-
criptiOn of the lands aforesaid, and
conveyed, are to be excepted from and
not included in the deed" The deed is