The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-06
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

yicksburg will have its water works
on Jan. 18th.
vicksburg has a Seed Cleaning and
Oil Company.
West Point has just completed an
IS, 900 Baptist Church.
The Delta cotton crop is 10000
bales less than last year.
The Clarksdale Independent is now
the Tunica Independent.
J.w. Todd g. Co., of Bolton, made
an assignment on the 2Sth.
Bunch, the train robber, was once
an honored citizens of Biloxi.
The Head block is the name of
new paper at Lumberton, Marion
county.
Lee Harris is the first person ever
sentenced to be hanged In Harrison
county.
Austin Gordon was beaten to dsath
nv four men of his color in Nicksburg
last week.
Mr.. J. l.. Sullivan and Miss Ella
Lucas, of Leflore, were married ON
the 29th.
Geo. W. Carlisle, Commission of
Immigration, has been seriously Ill
with typhoid fever.
A Young Coffteville couple, aged
respectively, Is aud Is, recently elop-
ed and got married.
Dennis Brennan, aged Is, of Merid-
ian, was adjudged insane and confined
to the asylum on the 9th.
Covington county refused to sub
scribe to the capital stock of the Mo-
bile, Jackson & Hattiesburg Railroad.
Judge W. NJ. Hancock, who ia no
novice in Republican administration,
says he will be postmaster at Meridi-
an.
Judge Coleman, of the Valley Flag,
Greenwood, has sold that paper To
Messrs. Bonner Richardson and L. {.
Cooper.
RObt. Williams, of Harrison county,
vas sentenced for four years to the
penitentiary for knocking out the eye
of Il child.
Mr.. Barnes, an aged citizen of Me-
CONT City, died there last week and
was Inferred in the family bury ing
ground at Crystal Springs.
4 big fire in Du,ant on the Goth
swept the town of $4,000 worth of
hrildings, with only 50, $50 insurance.
IN incendiary was probably the cause.
A company of tramps was fired upon
near McComb City by crowd of
drunken men fresh from the Summit
saloons and one of them badly wound
ed.
Work on the waterworks for Jack
son has commenced and will he com
pIetcd within ninety days. Ten car
loads of pipe have already been re-
reivtd.
2. NJ. Mayors, aged 25, accidentally
discharged his gun while getting INFO
II boat at Mississippi City, and was
killed. He leaves wife and three
children.
The Fulton Reporter wants the
t)cnlOCTdtS w boHIIHdlt WV way W.
Indiana, ard J. Z. George, of Missis-
~ippi, fol President and Nice-Prtsi-
dent in 1892.
H. r. .Johnscy of Baldwin killed II
hog on the 2Gth which weighed 675
pounds net, measured feet 8 inches
FROM .'tip to tip" aud 4 feet inches
around the girth.
The North Mississippi Methodist
Conference will hold it's next annual
merting at StarkSvillc, commencing
Wednesday, Dee. 18th, Bishop kee-
nan presiding.
For the hundredth time it is an
nouuced that the Natclrz, Jackson Il
Columbus railroad is soon to he chang
ed to broad gauge and made first
class in every respect.
The Farmers Alliance at Magnolia,
at recent meeting adopted a charter
to organize Planning mill, Oil mill
and general wood working shop. The
capital stock is limited to SOC, 900.
The Southern Reville is becoming
alarmed because the chestnut trees
are all dying ont in Claiborne county.
| There are chestnuts that don't grow
on trees, dear brother, You know.
A run of % miles in % minutes was
recently made on the L. g. n. Railroad.
portion of the distance being made
mt the rate of Is 1-2 milesan hour, the
fastest ever recorded i'm the South.
Mr.. Tom Coin, of Amite county,
fell from the platform of a moving
train and was killed near Summit last
Friday. He had been drinking Sum-
nit whisky.
Next wear the people Of Mississippi
will elect an entire State ticket, one
hundred and twenty representatives,
| twenty Senator's and all other officers
except district attorneys. circuit and
chancery clerks.
At Lumherton TT. A. Camps resi-
dence was burned to the ground nv an
incendiarv. A ne ro had said he
would hmrn down anv mans house
who hired his wife who had been
cooking for Camp few days.
The Carr0llton Conservative says
that cards have fallen to ten cents a
pack in that district since the election
of r. F. Noel ~ District Attorney.