The Brookhaven leader., 1888-08-02
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
Yazoo county went dry.

Gypsy teas are all the go in Holly !
Springs.
Hazlehurst is trying to get rid of
worthless dogs.
Durant is to have new compress,
warehouse and bank.
The Woodville Republican has re-
sumed its ''patent back"
Rev. Z. p. Roe, an author admired
by Mississippians, is dead.
Natchez has an Electric Light,
Heating and Power Company.
The $4,000 brick court house at
Ellisville is nearing completion.
Five or six negroes murdered two
white men near Yazoo City on the 26th.
Warren county has more criminal
business than any county in the State.
Ed. Peale, of Vicksburg, is in jail,
charged with killing woman of ill
fame.
Mr.. f. j. Bowers has retired from
the editors chair of the Gulf Coast
Progress.
n The State Prohibition Convention
declared itself opposed to the third
party.
Hon. T. J. Millsaps, of Hazlehurst,
lost his house by fire on the 25th, and
no insurance
Hon. J. w. Bailey, formerly of Co
piah, will stump Indiana for Cleveland
and Thurman.
J.J. Williams of the Grenada Sen
tinel was Frustrated by heat in Mem
phis last week.
The Crystal Springs Meteor reports
that most of the gardeners there lost
money this season.
The Sea Shore camp meeting was
great success. Over one hundred con-
versions were made.
The Bolivar County Democrat has
shed it's patent outside and donned
the all home print.
SO far as is known, Mississippians
were the first manufacturers of cotton
seed oil on this continent.
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer, of New Orleans,
delivered Centennial address on
Presbyterianism i'll Hazlehurst lately.
The Board of Trade of Aberdeen is
raising money to purchase steamer
to ply between Aberdeen and Mobile.
The Farmers Alliance of Edinburg,
Leake county, has asked Senator
n 10 h;e -, ho to+
Senate.
Starkville has gotten out neat and
comprehensive pamphlet advertising
the advantages of that town and Oktib
beha county.
Henry Crum, years old, was terri
bly, mangled by the cars at GaIlman
on the oath, while attempting to get
on the train.
After serving ably as the editor of
the Beacon, at Pass Christian, Miss,
Mr.. Howard p. Beeman gracefully
retires from the tripod.
Mr.. Spengler, who died in Vicks-
burg few days since from injuries
received by buggy accident, left an
estate valued at 100000.
In Winston county Eli Bryan was
hanged for criminal assault upon
married lady. He was fully identified,
having confessed his crime.
The gavel used by the President of
the Mississippi Baptist Convention
was made from sill of the first Bap-
fist church built in the State.
The Clarion Ledger last week pub
blished wood cuts of Bishop Galloway
and Judge J. G.. Hall, President of
the Baptist State Convention.
Vicksburg people now want re-
union of the Blue and the Grey in that
historic city, like that recently held in
at Gettysburg. They sh Ould have it
by all means.
Morgan Williams, a negro, was lynch
ed by negroes in Canton last week,
for defending himself against the at
tacks of Morgan Jones whom he killed.
Williams was a stranger in town.
Bro. Huff, of the Magnolia Gazette,
is now at the Atlanta Surgical Insti-
tute undergoing treatment for his
lameness. The LEADER earnestly
hopes he may be greatly benefited.
Crystal Springs was charmed with
its concert last week in which Miss
Bridewell, of New Orleans, took part
and Prof. Eckhardt, formerly of Whit
worth College, acted as accOmpanist.
In Kosciusko as Frank Marff, col,
advanced on Nathan Sudduth, white
man, with an appraised hoe after
threatening his life, the latter shot the
former and killed him, on the 25 of
July.
In Meridian on July 25th, within
two hundred yards of each other there
were two negro meetings addressed
by negrOes-One an anti-meeting the
other prOhi. This we call freedom of
speech among the negroes.
LeflOre county has been the scene