The Brookhaven leader., 1888-10-11
TIE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHFR: -
AND CONDENSED FitOG
ALL QUARTERS.

P'aH''
The Pearl River News is now a
"patent inside"
The Madison County Fair will I've
held October 22nd.
MatrimOny and mOtherinlaws
are again looming up.
Wesson is buying from $50 to 200
bales of cotton daily.
Scranton had two horse and buggy
runaways last week.
Mr.. William Hacker, aged ~, died
near Faycttc recently.
The Farmers Alliance continues to
boycott the jute bagging.
F. G.. Jones has assumed control of
the Friar's Point Broadaxe.
Gen. Jake Sharpe lost his residence
by fire near Columbus last week.
DIR. Bob Magcc, former representa-
tive of Covington county, is dead.
Prof. y. C.. Quin and Mrs. Gertrude
IIarrcll were married in Osyka on the
4th.
\ man named Shcp Anderson killed
colorcd ''conjurer" at Aberdeen on
the 10th.
Mr.. F.. +. Ward, an old resident of
Columbus, died last week of heart
disease.
Mr.. Jas. Bardwcll and Miss Cor
nelia Tyler were married at Iazoo
City last week.
X. +. Johnson was elected and has
been qualified as Circuit Clerk of
Wilkinson county.
Gen. Samuel W. Ferguson, of
Grcenvillc, has been spoken of for
our next Governor.
Mr.. f. Blocker, an old respected
and popular gentleman of Franklin
county, died last week.
John Griffin, of Walden, aged IS
wears, fell from scaly bark tree last
week and died Il few hours later.
After two weeks quarantine YazOo
City received 81 sacks of mail and
$1,000 pounds of express matter.
Hon. l.. VI. Southworth, Democratic
ElcctOr for the tatc-at-Large. will
speak i'll Indiana during the canvass.
\ good many of the Alliances in
Copiah county have adopted the Lane
Mills hagging. and others will follow
suit.
Alderman /. F. Chilcs, of Jackson,
while rcfugccing near by, broke his
arm in falling from load of hay last
week.
}. X. Almon. of the Durant Demo-
crat, is Il candidate for Mayor of that
city and will run on his fitness and
popularity
Jutp won the victory in a debate at
Sandcrsville on "RcsOlvcd, that cot
ton bagging is more beneficial to the
South than jute.'
DR.. Walter Hillman, of the Central
L emalc Institute at Clinton, was rob
bed last week of 800 which was tax
en- from his residence.
The bondSmen of Is. II. Gordon, cx-
treasurer of Grenada county, have
.IUSl pdlU CIV q PO,NIU.lD 10 GOV Il HIS
defalcation while in Office.
Mrs. John ID. Mcdowell, of Amite
! county, died recently. Also Samuel
Fox and Francis G. Warren, two we'll
known and highly esteemed citizens.
The dead body of Walter Dickey, n
young farmer, of De Soto county, was
found in one of his tenants houses re-
Gently, the house locked and tenant
gone.
d. W. Beal, of Tchula, and Miss
Alice Bowers, of Lexington, were
married last week by Rev. John II.
Boyd, ut the First Presbyterian
church.
Albert Lilly, one of the handsomest
married last week to Miss Pallie
Catchings, one of RockpOrt's reigning
beauties.
Policeman LOrancc's family have
received IA subscription of 81 900 from
the citizens of jackson, whose sym
pathies go out to them in their great
loss by yellow fever.
Col. j. Il. BinfOrd, of Duck Hill, has
been appointed special agent by the
commissioner of agriculture at Wash
ington, to prepare our exhibits of cot
ton and cotton products at the Paris
Exhibition in 1889.
Rev. John G. Jones, the venerable
Methodist preacher, aged Sc, died at
Hazlehurst on the 3rd. Revs. j. L.
Nicholson, W. b. Murrah, a. F. Wat
kinS and A. \. LomaX took part in the
last rites to the honored dead.
Asa Carter, son of Hon. A. r.
Carter, young man Is years old, of
Meridian, jumped from the cannon
ball train as it was leaving Estabuchie
recently and was injured seriously.
His skull was fractured and one leg
cut off.
The Central Baptist Association of
Mississippi which was to meet at the
Palestine church, five miles south of
Raymond, on Friday, Oct. II, has
been postponed until Nov. 2, on ac-
count of the condition of affairs at
jackson.
Four negro prisOners-Perry Banks,
Sam Middleton, Allen Perkins and
George Griffin, escaped from the Port
Gibson Jail last week. They tore up
the sheet iron flooring, burned through
the floor, then lowered themselves by
, blank of rnne tn an unsecured room