The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-03-22
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

VickSburg is delighted with st.
Paul's chimes.
The Supreme Court has taken Il re
cess until March 81.
Andrew Smith, an old citizen of
Yazoo City, is dead.
Meridian has organized Public
Welfare Committee"
II. J. McDcrmot, aged So, died in
Vicksburg last week.
Crystal Springs has begun improv-
ing her railroad park.
A $40, 900 tenement house was burnt
at Scranton few days ago.
The Governor vetoed the bill abol-
ishing the swamp land office.
J.B. Carpenter, who for Is years
was mayor of Faycttc, died there last
week.
The jefferson Davis volunteers re-
Gently gave grand exhibition drill at
Faycttc.
The State Convention of the Y. NJ.
c. \. will meet in Grecnvillc, April -
next.
DR.. and Mrs. Sparkman, of Magno-
lia. recently celebrated their silver
wedding.
\ charge of Liberty has been per
formed against one of Grccnville'S al
dCrmcn.
Mr.. +. W. Wilson, one of the
most prominent merchants OfNatchez,
died on the 18th.
Andrew jackson, who last fall kill
ed Logan Tingstonc at Eagle Bend,
will be hanged.
"The Mayors Matinee" is an inter
csting and laughahle novelette, i'll the
Meridian Democrat.
The survey of the Georgia Pacific
railroad from Columbus to Johnson
Vile is still i'll progress.
A shell road is in progress from
Scranton to PaScagoula. $3.50 has
been raised to that end.
The Caliopcan society of Crystal
! Springs has given $50 as Il nucleus for
IA public library at that place.
Mr.. II. l.. Fulkcrson, of Nicksburg.
has published another book called
mississippi from 1850 to 1860"
j. G. White, tired of life, commit
! ted suicide at Grccnville Saturday by
! taking an overdose of morsphinc.
The Ellisvillc Eagle has changed
its name to the alliance Eagle and
screams for the Alliance n.Jones coun-
ty.
Gov. Lowry has signed the bill pro
viding for separate Accommodations for
whites and blacks on railroad
/ trains.
The people of Lafayette county are
J to be called upon to subscribe $4,000
to the Memphis, Oxford & Columbus
Railroad.
MessrS. S. +. Mcdonald and II. W.
Scott, two old and respected citizens
of Wilkinson county departed this life
last week.
All of the lady employees of the
East Mississippi asylum have resigned
and gone home, and the public awaits
| 10 learn inc cause.
The ladies failed to convince the
! legislature that it ought to appropri-
ate $4,000 for IL monument to MisSiSs-
| ippi's dead heroes.
NoXubcc county maintains 100 pub
lie schools, employs $50 teachers, and
eXpcnds about $4,000 annually for
educational purposes.
Natchez has declared that if her
| watcrwOlks are not completed accord
ing to contract by May -, said CON
tract shall be forfeited.
Sam Jones is going to Holly Springs
this summer. A large tent, capable
of seating 5000 people, will be erect
ed for him to hold his services in.
The Governor has approved a bill
providing that no retail licenses should
/ be issued i'll jackson at less than $500,
i'll case the county should go wet.
Alcoln county has more warrants
out standing than she has cash in the
treasury to redeem. The Supervisors
did not impose a sufficient tax levy.
Scranton is shipping hogs to Mexico.
This is u new and novel industry for
our Gulf coast, whose exports hitherto
have been lumber, oysters, and
! fish.
A vein of acid earth has been found
near Brandon. 1t is said to be useful
for cleaning silvcrware, and far supe-
rior to the costly material i'll use for
! that purpose.
Mr.. II. II. Bonney is to start a new
paper ut Woodville. 1t is expected
that this little place will take a big
boom when the proposed branch road
from it to Centcrville is construct
ed.
The other day Mack Jones, of Black
Hawk, shot at a bird from window
where he was sitting and asked his
wife to see if he killed it. On her re-
turn she found him dead, he having
! expired in less than a minute from ap-
opleXy.
Mississippi timber lands are being
quietly bought up by Northwestern
lumbermen. The United States reg
listers Office shows they have bought
about Il quarter of a million acres in
the past six months. The purchasers
are principally from Michigan.
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