The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-08-09
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.


Bishop Hargrove is in Columbus.
Pike county is waxing hot and dry.
Lauuerdrle went wet by Sl3 major
ity.
Duraut's compress will be forth
coming.
DIR. p. w. Peoples is being spoken
of for Governor.
Mrs. II. B. Kells will be the editor
of the W. c. L. U. organ.
DR.. J. w. Jones, of the l. I.& c.,
sticks to his resignation.
Camp meeting begins at Felder's
camp ground tomorrow.
Hon. Clark Lewis will get the
Congressional nomination in the 4th.
Judge c. B. Ames, one of the Oldest
settlers of Macon, died there on the
3rd.
The Patrons of Husbandry have
started the "Darden Monument
Fund"
The late DR.. KelIs of Jackson left
$50, 900 to the Mississippi College AT
Clinton.
Sunflower county is said to have
the best crop prospect it has had since
the war.
Vivian l. Powell, highly respected
young man of 20 years, died at Jack
| son OH the 3rd.
In the LIST District John NJ. Allen
was enthusiastically nominated for a
third term in Congress.
There is considerable complaint OF
sections of the YazoO Delta.
The Osyka Two States knows how
to raise children, if we should judge
from its article of last week.
A little mulatto baby, aged about
two months, was found in an old well
with its skull broken, at Kosciusko
last week.
Robt. J. King was convicted of muir
der and will be hung at Vicksburg
King killed Gus. Cox openly in court
some time ago.
At COffeeville VIM. Burton, aged
60, whose wife had been dead three
months, married Alice Spears, aged
Is, ON the 3rd.
The Case of Ed. Peale, the Vicks-
burg young man charged with the
murder of an abandoned woman, re-
| shifted in a mistrial
DR.. w. C. Black, of Meridian, has
been appointed chairman of the Pro-
hibitiOn Executive Committee, vice
DR.. Galloway, resigned.
An old man named Lynum, living
near Cola, Carroll county, was found
sitting in his chair with his legs cross
ed dead, one day last week.
1t was Prof. Eckhardt, of New
Orleans, and not Prof. Eckhardt, late
of WhitwOrth, who recently assisted
in concert at Crystal Springs.
Rev. DR.. Bardwell, Presbyterian
pastor at Yazoo City, has resigned to
accept professorship in the South
western Presbyterian University at
GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
jeff. D. Bell, who has served IL
years of life sentence, has been par
dOned by the Governor, on cOndi-
ton he is to drink no liquor and
carry no concealed weapons.
John Attention, who is wanted for
murder in De Soto county, Miss, was
shot and killed on Mississippi Val
ley train fifteen miles south of Mem
phis on August 5th while resisting
arrest.
The peace and dignity of Vicks-
burg have been offended by q mid
night session of court into which
Frank Lanier was Struggled, to make
his plea of "not guilty" to the charge
of rape.
Cooper Shelton was convicted of
manslaughter in Warren Circuit Court
last week and sentenced to years in
the Penitentiary. This was his fifth
trial, three being convictions and two
mistrials.
WinOna seems to be on q genuine
boom. There is to be erected there,
at an early date, the Alliance
Exchange, Compress, brick factO-
~, with an ice and implement factO-
ry in prospect.
Postmaster Holmes, of Natchez'
was found behind in his accounts last
week $1,000. He made the amount
good, but has been bound over in a
$1,000 bond to appear before the next
U. S. Court at jackson.
A Mr.. Sinclair, living near WinOna,
while on his way to town with load
of sawdust recently, his team became
frightened, ran away, throwing him
head foremost against an embank-
ment, breaking his neck and causing
instant death.
Mr.. c. w. Beam, of Franklin county,
set trap gun for thief and forgot
about it. One morning he was wheel
ing wheel-barrOw on his place and
the wheel passing over the string
that led to the trigger of the gun, ex-
plOded it with the effect that some
six or eight buck shot were landed in
his leg, producing ugly and severe
wounds.
In Calhoun county, Charley Goth
am, James EnOchs, E. w. EnOchs and
John Reagan became involved in a
quarrel, in which the three former
attacked the latter who retreated into