The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-19
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
! ALL QUARTERS.

Gypsies arc In Winona.
Leap years balls are all the rage.
Mississippi condemns pistol cary.
ing. .,-... 80,
There are In the State about 7O,ooo
delinquent polls,
The Clarion-L edger is wise comb..
nation of noble minds.
KosciuskO Is one of the best live.
stock markets in the State.
The law firm of Sykes e. Bristow. &c
Aberdeen, has been dissolved.
Mr.. VIM. Ward, the poet and editor
of Macon, died recently at the advan.
ced age of GA years.
John T. Bucks drugstore in Jack.
son has made an assignment, also T.
b. Ligon's shoe store.
During 1887 there were 295 marriage
licenses issued in Copiah county,
$50 souls made happy!
After 50 years within the walls Of
the Lunatic Asylum at jackson. jas.
Matthews died there recently.
1t is reported that there are thirty.
seven cases of typhoid fever in the
penitentiary at jackson, Miss.
Mr.. l.. Caruth, one of the Oldest
citizens of Tupelo, was run over and
killed by q freight train on the
9th.
Miss Lula B. Green, a daughter of
Rev. j. Jasper Green, was recently
awarded a medal at Blue Mountain
for economy and neatness.
A few nights ago, near Tylertown.
Pike county, q negro was taken from
his house by masked men and shot to
death. No reason is given.
Gates g. Wells, merchants at Crys.
tai Springs, had their store broken
into one night last week, and their
safe burglarized of 1925 in cash.
Austin Collins attempted to enter
the residence of Mr.. Lee Rollins in
Madison county, by forcibly opening
the door, when he was shot and killed
by Rollins.
We have received the first copy of
the West Point Forum, edited and
published by Mr.. John Henderson.
We hope West Point will well sup
port its two good papers.
Capt. Fulkerson, who was elected
sheriff Of Claiborne county at the last
election, failed to qualify and the
board of Supervisors ordered an cleo
ton to be held Jan. 28th to ill the va
cancy.
The Choctaw County Alliance de-
mands of the present Legislature that
they submit to a vote of the people at
next November election whether they
will have constitutional convention
or not.
Rev. J. D. Jamison will edit a pro-
hibition column in the Macon Sun,
and S. d. Long will edit one in the
Macon Beacon. They have a regu-
lar whisky board to fight as well as
the whisky ring.
Miss Eta Allen, of Kosciusko, has
been appointed successor to Miss Wick
Hill, Mistress of physics and chemis-
try at the Columbus Female College.
She is not over 20 years of age, and is
probably the youngest Professor
of Chemistry in the United States.
J. II. Parnell, brother of the noted
Irish statesman, and one of the larg-
est peach growers in the State of
Georgia, last Tuesday bought 100
acres of land adjacent to Crystal
Springs, Miss, and will Immediately
plant the entire acreage in peach
trees.
Mr.. j. F. Duggar, another one of our
A. & M. College graduates, is the As
sistant Professor of Agriculture in the
same college. 1t is certainly crafty
ing to the friends of our A. & NJ. Col
lege to know that institutions in other
States are looking to our College for
assistants in building up their own
State Colleges.
When Gen. Lee, the President of
the Mississippi Agricultural College at
Starkville, was asked the other day
why it is so successful, replied: ave
have never lost sight of the purpose
for which we were founded. On the
contrary, we have always steadily pur
sued it. Organized as an agricultural
college, we have always been one.
Everything we have done has been
done with an eye looking to the i'm
provement of the agricultural commu-
nifty. We have taught practical farm
ing. Our experiments have been of
practical nature, and the farmer, at
first disposed to resent the insinuatiOn
that his children could be taught how
to make land productive better here
than at home, has about come round,
and now comes himself with his
troubles. We get inquiries every day
from farmers in regards to farm mat
tets, all of which are promptly answer
ed.n
Mr.. II. H. Harrington, Assistant
Professor of Chemistry and Physics
at our A. g. NJ. College, has just been
elected Acting Professor of Chemistry.
and Physics at the A. g. NJ. College OF
Texas for the unexpired portion OF the
present session, at a considerable IN
crease of salary. This promotion is
equivalent, almost to an election TO
the chair next June, at salary OF
81, 900 a year. He is graduate OF the
First Glass at our A. e. M. College