The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-28
Pike will go dry.


Work on the Georgia Pacific Rail
road is progressing east and west from
Winona.
The Democrat says denizen of
Rosedale is always ready to "back
his Judgement
\ reunion of the old soldiers of
Pike county will be held ut Holmes
vile tomorrow.
Charlton is said to prevail to CON
siderable extent in Wilkinson county,
about Fort Adams.
Ex-Gov. Pettus, of this State, sleeps
i'll an unmarked grave i'll an Arkansas
orntield near Little Rock.
Nicksburg has II lunatics in her
county Jail. a census of those on the
outside has not been taken.
The Herald says there is IN cpl
demic of tlux prevailing in certain
portions Of Franklin county.
The nuptiaIs of Mr.. G. Is. Stephen
son and Miss Florence l.. Doty were
celebrated at Duck Hill on the Dist
The Franklin County Herald says
Capt. Put. Dardcn, of jefferson coun-
ty, is Franllin's choice for Governor.
c. Y. Mctts, sheriff of Choctaw
county, is behind in his accounts and
has rendered his resignation and il new
election has been ordered.
The Franklin County Herald learns
that ut the late term of the Circuit
Court, the grand jury indicted II. c.
Hood for the murder of +. Short.
Mr.. y. S. Bozcman took first prize
i'll the senior law class of the Column
bia University, Washington city. He
is graduate Of Mississippi College.
Rev. Sam Jones is going to cvangcl-
ize Grecnville this fall and the Durant
Democrat thinks there will be no fried
chicken left for the Press gang next
May.
The 50th session of Mississippi Bap-
list Convention meets in Jackson,
Thursday. July 10Th, and will contin-
ne its session until the following Mon
day.
c. l.. McLtndon, Il lawyer OF Scna-
tobia, committed suicide recently
by cutting lis throat with Il razor.
Dependency is said to have been the
cause.
\ \ grand Prohibition mass meeting
VAS held at HolmeSville on the 18th,
and addressed by Revs. \. A. Lomax
and j. Il. Nicholson, of Hazlehurst,
with great effect.
Rev. j. G.. Chastain, who is we'll
known to Il good many readers of the
LEADER, has been appointed by the
Foreign Mission Board of the South
ern Baptist Convention as II mission
AIRY to Mexico.
The Durant Democrat thinks the
recent shaking up state Treasurer
Hemingway received by Il railroad
accident was only reminder of what
will happen when he meets the Duke
boom next year.
The Two States notes many sub
stantial Improvements about Osyka
since the saloons were closed, and
says that the town is still kicking at
Il lively rate, notwithstanding the
dark prophesies of the whiskyitcs.
The Review says Notwithstanding
the rapid growth of Greenville there
may be still found in the corporate
limits Lions, Foxes, Bears, VOLTS; a
Goldman and il Silver-man, Snow
berg, ls4 II berg and II Silverberg.
Enu- l;c.,iso;,,;n,, .
wagon factory, where all the work is
done by steam, and where nearly 500
wagons besides a quantity of furni-
ture is turned out annually, exists in
our State. Yet such is the case. 1t is
located at Durant.
W. G. Chisholm, mail-rider on one
of the routes running out from Meri-
dian, has been arrested and placed
under bond for destroying mail en-
trusted to his hands. AS most of it
was Congressional Records, the Meri-
dian Democrat is inclined to think the
act eXcusable.
The Board of Directors of the State
Alliance met in Winona on the 10th.
and after considering bids from Kos
cuisko, Jackson, Meridian, Durant
and Winona, decided to locate the
State Alliance Exchange at the latter
place. Winona is much elated over
her success, and the town will take
new boom.
Natchez has Humane Society, or
ganized to prevent cruelty to animals,
with regularly employed attorney to
prosecute offenders. A few days ago,
at the instance of the Society, Milton
Evans was fined $1,000 for cutting the
back bone of n COW and throwing the
poor creature into a creek to suffer
and die.
After being hing four days the jury
i'll the Walter Collum murder trial in
YazoO county were unable to agree
and were discharged. Collum was re-
leased on So 900 bail. The case of
III. Helm, charged with killing John
King, was given to the jury Saturday
evening. Monday morning they re-
ported having failed to agree on
verdict and were discharged. The
jury stood 9 to in favor of hanging.
The prisoner was remanded to lail
without bail.