The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-17
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Natchez is to have a new Masonic
temple.
Yazoo City has organized a cotton
exchange.
The Kinds County Fair is booming
/ this week.
There has been . Masonic revival
! in Nickshurg.
The Bolivar Loop Line railroad has
been completed.
The cotton crop around Columbus
is reported short.
The matrimonial boom is extending
/ all over the State.
Good crops are reported i'll nearly
/ all sections of the State.
Osvka's cotton receipts are nearly
1000 bales ahead of last year.
John Dcterly, Jackson carpenter,
! fell dead while ut work last week.
A motherless girl baby was found
near the Jackson depot Sunday night
r. C. Kerr, the new Register of
the land office Mt jackson, has taken
charge.
The Farmers Alliance of Marion
county refuse to use jute tagging any
longer.
Oscar Andrews, son of DR.. G.. G..
Andrews, died suddenly at Meridian
| on the 18th.
The Central Fair and Live Stock
Association will be held in Grenada on
the 10Th inst.
L. G.. Jones, aged IS years, and for
over fifty years citizen of jackson,
died OH the 10th.
4 carload of cotton burned on the
Little J. road about six miles from
Natchez on the 18th.
The students of Mississippi College
will shortly revive the publication OF
their monthly magazine.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Alexander, OF
Mississippi City, celebrated their sill
Yer wedding on the 9th.
Edward Eldridge was dangerously
shot by his brother while out hunting
near Purvis last Saturday.
Rails and Sheridan, the Varnado
murderers, broke Jail at Magnolia last
week by picking hole in the wall.
Robert Biggs, cOlored, was lynched
at fernando last week for making a
criminal assault upon Mrs. j. n.
Raines.
The National reunion of ex- COnfed-
crates met in Aberdeen Tuesday
Senator Walthall delivered the
opening address.
Maj. Owen Connerly, an old and
respected citizen of Pike county, died
suddenly at his home near China
Grove, last week.
Mr.. McMullen. of the firm of McMul-
len & Brown, and two negroes were
killed by a boiler explosion near
Greenwood last Saturday.
The citizens of Columbus held an
indignation meeting and passed reso-
buttons condemning Chalmers SLAM
ders on the people of that city.
Hon Theodore Mcknight, of Liber-
ty, has been nominated for Floater
Representative from Amite and Pike,
and he'll make II good one, too.
Bill Figures, who figured promi-
nently for time as one of the defend
ants in the Hamilton- Gambrell case,
died recently in Huntsville, Ala.
B. G.. Humphreys, of LefOre coun-
ty, son of the late Gov. Humphreys
of this State, and Miss Louise Yerger,
of Greenville, were married at Biloxi
OH the 9th.
The Senatorial contest between
BinfOrd and SOuthworth in the 18th
district, has been decided by the
State Executive Committee in favor
of Southworth.
A ginhouse and forty bales of cot
ton was destroyed on the Odeneal
plantation near Columbus last week.
1t was the property of Mr.. w. H.
Perkins, of Aberdeen.
Hon. Henry Ware, of Pass Christi
10 tllc Cldlc CeudIt
against Mr.. Bloomfield, the regular
Democratic nominee. Of course he
stands no chance of election.
: The Jackson Board of Trade con-
dennis the action of the cotton ex-
changes in refusing to agree to the
tare rules proposed by the bagging
convention in New Orleans.
Rev. j. V. Penn, Methodist min
lister of Jackson, La, who mystic
riously disappeared just before the
assembling of the Mississippi confer
ence, of which he was a member, in
November, has turned up in Califor
mia.
Lea Female College had fine
opening, and the attendance is large
ly in excess of the corresponding date