The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-20
THE STATE
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

\ negro boy fooled with Il pistol ut
Natchez and is no more.
/ Blue Mountain Female College
/ opened with 81 boarders.
Mr.. j. +. Moore, d prominent attor-
ucy of Newton, died there on the 10th.
The Tombigbee Cotton mill of
Columbus is now ready for the ma
chinery.
The Southern Reporter is the name
of new four page weekly published
at Meridian.
Sheriff Lee who was recently burn
! ed out ut Monticello, by an incendi
airy, will rebuild.
Two freight conductors at Sardis
had difficulty in which one was shot
through and through.
/ The voice of the Meridian Call,
whisky paper, has ceased to be heard
III the land. Gone dead.
Mississippans would blush for
shame should Henry kerDagan defeat
! Col. Hooker for Congress.
Mr.. join Ballard, an old and re-
spected citizen of Lawrence county,
died near Monticello last week.
Miss Maud, daughter of DR.. c. II.
Bates, of Amite county, died there
much lamented, and was buried last
Thursday evening.
Two white men of New Orleans
were run over by train and killed
near Natchez last week, both being
horribly mutilated.
The National Alliance will meet in
the city of Meridian, in this State, Oh
the 2nd Wednesday in October, being
the 10 of the month.
A. w. Walker, good citizen of
Nicksburg, suicided there on the / It'll,
leaving Il wife and insurance policies
to the amount of 5000.
Mississippi has q clerks in Wash
lngtOn in government offices, appoint
ed by the Democratic administration
under the civil service law.
Miss Lucy Harvey, a graduate of
Central Female Institute, Clinton, is
now principal of the Preparatory De-
partment of Gillsburg Institute.
The Fair Association of Jackson have
generously decided to give 10 per
cent of the net profits of the October
Fair to the Confederate Monument
Fund.
The Summit Sentinel records the
death of two colored boys, Chas.
Chrisman and John Walton, who were
drowned while bathing i'll pond near
! Summit.
Curtis Shortney, engaged with Bob
Broome in the killing of DR.. L. w.
Holiday at Utica, was taken from a
train near Raymond and it is supposed
lynched.
Hon. G. +. Hooker, .Jr., has tender
ed his resignation to the Governor as
member of the Legislators, thus re-
moving all doubt as to his eligibility
rs Il Presidential clector ElectOr
Alex. Moss, of Washington county,
Miss, recently killed a deer, a buck
weighing gross, 347 pounds. The
deer wore a bell on which was engrav-
ed, J. S. Dunn, Lansing, Mich, June,
! 1881.
Mr.. Eaton J. Bowers, a brilliant
young lawyer of Bay st. Louis, and
presidential elector for the 9th district,
was married to Miss Talluhlah POsey,
daughter of the late Ben Posey, on the
9th inst.
Joseph B. Stratton, .jr, son of Rev.
j. b. Stratton of Natchez, departed
this life on the 10Th. He was ma
tive of the Bluff City and beloved
and worthy gentleman. He was 35
years old.
Commissioner Geo. W. Carlisle in
tends fitting up car to contain con-
trihutions of every character of pro-
duce in the State, and will take it to
Northern fairs to show what Missis-
sippi can do.
James Gordon, the postal clerk
charged with abstracting letters from
the mail on the train, was discharged
by the commissioner, on the 9th,
there being not scintilla of evidence
against him.
Prof, W. j, Davis, President of
Union Female College, at Oxford,
Miss, died of typhoid fever, on the
9th. He was a gentleman of high
character, and one of the most efficient
educators in the State.
After a preliminary examination,
Capt. John s. Lewis was admitted to
bail in the sum of $500, to appear be-
fore the Circuit Court at it's next Jan
uary term, for the killing of l.. c..
johnson, Circuit Clerk of Wilkinson.
A mail route from Summit to Zion
Hill has been established by the Gov
eminent, with post offices at Smith
dale and w. A. Leafs, in Amite county.
VIM. Hewitt is post master at the
former place, and w. A. Lea at the
latter.
The Southern Sentinel says while
Walter Kirby, engineer on the NJ. g.
{. X. r., was sleeping in the hotel at
luka he dreamed his train was about
to collide with another and jumped
from the third story window to his
death.
The ladies of the monument Asso-
citation are going to have bazaar du-
ring the fair week, furnished with
articles contributed by the women of
Mississippi. 1t is hoped every lady
in the State will respond with some
thing for the bazaar. Anything will
be gratefully received by the Associ-