The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-02-09
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.


Summit will have a bank.
Summit has q jockey club.
Oxford has no loafers. Happy
Oxford.
What meaneth all these newspaper
changes
The Sword and Shield now guards
Meridian.
The Signal-COpiahan wants
county fair.
| Aberdeen has Building and Loan
| Association.
X. II. Henry is State printer by
! forty-One majority.
Rev. B. n. Hatch is conducting a
meeting at Osyka.
Crystal Springs has new grocery
firm, w. J. Smith g. Co.
Tippah county has six candidates
for Circuit Clerk in the field.
Beauregard succeeded in capturing
a would-be burglar last week.
The State Farmers Alliance is called
| to meet in jackson on the 18th.
Hazlehurst will have a rope factory
and cotton seed oil mill next season.
Hazlehurst is receiving more peach
trees than any other place i'll the
State.
Capt. S. A. Mathews has been ap-
pointed Superintendent of Education
for Pike county.
State itemizers should be careful to
get at facts. We observe errors have
been made of late.
The YazOo Herald last week con-
tanned handsome article on
Woman's Work"
Millerville," is the name of a
switch station near G. W. Miller's
plantation in Copiah.
The Yazoo Herald says: Mule
time has Gomez" and encourages home
raising of the innocents.
Some of our exchanges think Speaker
Mitchell would makea good Governor.
There is no doubt of it.
DR.. G. w. Pumell, for twenty five
years Il citizen of Hazlehurst, has
located in New Orleans.
DR.. J. NJ. Baggett, formerly of Crys-
tai Springs, and Miss Clara Hope, of
Florida, were married recently.
The marriage of Miss Nellie Meyer
and Mr.. Hosea Norris, of San Antonio,
Texas, will be of interest to many.
The Mississippi Mills have donated
a lot, and two story brick school
building will be erected thereon.
The Reveille says Port Gibson is
preparing to take its place beside
WessOn, as manufacturing town.
Mr.. D. r. Branch, formerly of the
Batesville PanOlian, has purchased a
half interest in the Winona Times.
Capt. D. S. Bunch has been reap
pointed Superintendent of Education
of Copiah county for the third term.
The Messrs. Ware have returned
to Hazlehurst from Texas, and again
gone into business at the old stand.
Senator Walthall has introduced a
bill for the erection of a railroad bridge
over the Mississippi river at Natchez.
The Knights of the Golden Rule, at
Jackson, have added thirty new
names to their membership within the
last week.
Ben Edwards, colored, was taken
from the Jail at Amite City recently
and hung to tree. His crime merit
ed the direst doom.
All the prisoners in Amite county
Jail knocked down the jailOr and made
IL break last Wednesday. All but two
were broken back into harness.
Mr.. LOwrey, of the Batcsville
Panolian, says not one on its staff is
married or engaged, and reminds the
young lady readers that is Leap Year.
A man blowing on lot near the
beach at Pass Christian recently, I'M
earthed a jug containing coins of diff
ferent denominations, to the amount
of $3.50.
The Mechanics and Laboring Mems
Benevolent Association recently gave
"the most successful entertainment,
on large scale, ever given in
Natchez.n
The Grand Commandery of the
State of Mississippi met i'll the city of
Columbus last Tuesday. The Grand
Chapter met yesterday and the Grand
Lodge meets to-day.
Miss Sallie B. Johnston, of Clinton,
first honor graduate of Central
Female Institute, and Col. r. j. Hard
ing of Kinds county, were married in
Vicksburg on Feb. End.
Last week twenty-sevep able bodied
colOred men left Tyler Town for
Bolivar. There has been tremen-
dOus exodus of colOred men from the
lower portion of Pike county,
In Rankin county Anderson Jen-
kins killed John Warren because he
called him lie. If they had been
brother editors no offence would have
been taken ut so common an Oc-
currence.
The Walden journal, on account of
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