The Brookhaven leader., 1888-07-12
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Coldwatcr is to have Masonic
Lodge.
Columbus is troubled with counter
felt money.
Tishumngo county will instruct
for John Alien.
The Liberty young people are en-
joying sociablcs.
The new depot mt lIazlehurst has
been completed,
On the 2ud inst. GOV. Lowry par
doncd Is convicts.
Sunday School Conventions are
becoming numerous.
sheriff Boyd of Pike County, is
visiting Hot Springs.
Port Gibson is shipping its Cotton
Mil goods to Texas.
DR.. Robertson, of McComh City, has
maidstone 30 years old.
Vicksburg is to have stock and
agricultural fair this fall.
TupcIo's artesian we'll raises 7 gal
Ions of water per minute.
The Grenada Gazette Is lccturing
young people for using slang.
A plot of land has been purchased
at Winona for brick factory,
The baptist of Grenada have laid
the corner stone of Il $4,000 church.
a Building and Loan Association
has been organized at Aberdeen, Miss.
The Macon Sun and Tupclo Jour
nal have well edited Temperance col
umna.
\ half interest in the Oxford Fal
con is offered tor sale to Il practical
printer.
The Alliances of l,akc county have
decided to locate Il cotton yard at
Forest,
The editor of the Franklin County
Herald has received nine-pound
cabbage head.
Mr.. john Is. Rose, one of III, old
est and best citizcus of Duck Hill. died
there last week.
jackson now has two papers run by
colorcd men the Republican and The
Baptist Messenger.
The material for the new Presbyte.
fian church at Monticello is on the
ground and paid for.
The 1870 newly imported Italian
iahcrerS near West Point arc delight
eel with their field of labor.
Mississippi presents more signs of a
growing prosperity ia day than it has
for the last twenty -tive years,
The Topisaw Methodist Church at
FEEDERS camp ground was dedicated
by DR., {. G.. Andrews on last Sabbath.
In Tate county recently young
man while returning from the field
was killed by lightning, as was the
mule he was riding
The colored people of Pike county,
through their county Alliance, have
recommend being neutral Ill the COM
ing wet or dry election.
The baptist and Presbyterian pas
tors of Columbus have arranged for
union services on Sunday evenings
during the heated term.
The tactlonal differences between
the Democrats of Holmes and COahO-
ma have been reconciled by the action
OF the State Executive Committee.
The ladies of lazop county have
been requested by Prohibition Mass
Meeting to furnish u basket diner at
each voting precinct Oh election day.
THE State Prohibition Convention,
duly 18th, promises to be very largely
attended. Many counties are already
holding meetings and appointing del
cgatc&.
On Monday, July, 23rd, 1888, the
Rev. Mr.. Dudley, of Crystal Springs,
and Rev. j. c. Graham, of Summit,
will begin a series of meeting at Tan
gipahoa, La,
Two Indians attacked II colored man
near Kosciusko last week, and robbed
him of his weeks rations and left him
with an ugly stab. The Indians We're
traced and captured.
one grower III LauuCrualG county
harvested 600 barrels of potatoes this
searOn off of 10 acres of land, and
sold the entire crop at 8. 80 per barrel
delivered OH the cars at Meridian.
The Osyka Two States says human
iiend by the name of Geo. Klotzback,
is living in Osyka slowly killing up
his children by his brutal treatment
of them, and yet remains unpublished.
At a 4th of July celebration at Wa
ter Valley the grand stand fell wound
ing several. Since that time two of the
victims have died and some of the
wounded are IN n precariOus condition.
Hon. r. s. Maxey IAN old student of
the University, n Mississippian and Il
good Democrat, has been appointed by
the President Judge of the United
States Court for the Western District
of Texas.
The little town OF Enterprise, in
Clarke county, has had an agent upon
salary, travelling in the interest of the
town and county in the West and
Northwest for several months, and |
we understand that the result has been
entirely satisfactory. Many Western
families have purchased homo in that
locality,