The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
Gloster wants a tailor.

On the 18th Osyka shipped $50 bush
els of green peas to Chicago.
Senator Walthall has purchased Il
fine residence in Washington.
y paper has just been started at
Osyka called The Two States.
The Columbus Index deals out SUI
pcrtluOus advice to the w. c. L. t.
Real estate in Meridian, under Pro-
hibition, has increased 100 per cent.
The Courier is a new paper at
Woodville by w. c. & II. II. Bonncy.
5. Pcppcrman, a Grcenville icwclcr,
has repaired $500 watches in years.
The Clay County Leader, one of
our best exchanges, has been improv-
ed.
Hon. Ethel Barksdale will deliver
the annual address at the a. and NJ.
College.
Bishop Thompson dedicated the
new Episcopal church at Clinton on
the 18th.
Lafayette county has voted $4,000
to the Memphis, Oxford 4 Columbus
railroad.
Rev. DIR. Palmer, of New Orleans,
recently lectured to the Y. NJ. {. a. of
Port Gibson.
The Meteor says the Crystal Springs
girls lose none of their social caste by
earning living.
Rev. 4. b. Graves, formerly pastor
of the Meridian PrcsbN terrain church,
has been adjudged insane.
Maj. l.. X. Barber died at Wood
vile on the LIST. He was II lawyer, II
Mason and an Odd Fellow.
BY act of the late Legislature mem
bers of military companies are cX-
empt from road and street duty.
\ horse, three COWS and two calves
were recently crcmated with NJ. SAN
differs barn near Crystal Springs.
Mr. Gilmore, of the Crystal Springs
Volunteers, won the Terrell gold
medal for the best drilled private.
Some of Mcridian's cnterpriSing cit
liens pay $4,000 per month to advcr-
tisc the advantages of their town.
w. y. Hurt has severed his conncc-
ton with the Copiah Signal and NOV
ed to WinOna. Success attend him.
There will be a reunion of the 35th
Mississippi Regiment ut Starkville
during the a. & VI. commencement.
J. j. McElroy lately gave himself
up and is to be tried for killing IL man
at Lauderdalc Station Is years ago.
Mrs. Langley, wife of DR.. w. S.
Langley, superintendent of the State
Institute for the Blind, died Monday
night.
SO many people have been killed in
Nicksburg and the fighting material so
reduced, crime is said to be on the de-
crease.
Mr.. J. II. Tyrone, one of the best
citizens of Aberdeen, was bitten by a
mad dog last week. He is trying the
mad stone in Pontotoc county.
A land and immigration society has
been organized at Beauregard with X.
b. Hewitt president; S. p. Bloom vice
president, and W. p. Patterson cor
responding secretary.
A negro beat and gashed two young
men horribly near Aberdeen last
week. When they were taken home
to their mother she tainted away and
died on the following day.
The cOnstitutionality of the Judi
cial District bill lately passed by the
Legislature, is now being tested be-
fore the Supreme Court. A decision
is looked for at an early day.
The Coahoma county Jail was burn
ed last week and it's five inmates per
ished. They had just been sentenced
to the Penitentiary, and one of the
number fired the Jail, hoping to es-
cape, but the cages held them.
The Confederate Monumental AS
ISOLATION have signed a contract with
Messrs. j. T. Whitehead g. Co. of
jackson, Tenn, for a monument to
the Confederate dead of Mississippi,
and the site selected is Smiths Park
i'll the centre of the city of jackson.
DR.. NJ. S. Craft, the most noted ply
stefan in the State, died at his home
in jackson Sunday night, after long
illness. His death is a grievous
loss to his profession and the State
In addition to his great eminence as a
physician and surgeon, he was an ac-
cOmplished scholar, a genial and com
paniOnable gentleman and a public
spirited and useful citizen.
Col. StOckdale has got a bill
through Congress providing for
terms of the United States court to be
held at Mississippi City. 1t provides
that the counties of Hancock, Harri-
son, Jackson, Marion, Perry and
Green shall be known as the Southern
division of the Southern Judicial Dis
trict, and Circuit and District Courts
shall be held at Mississippi City on the
3rd days of January and August of
each year.