The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-25
THE STATE.
VIEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Most of the State papers are ehth"-
siastic over the ticket.
The Baptist State Convention meets
Mt West Point to-day.
The Y. NJ. c. A. of Meridian will
build them handsome hall!
The Jamestown Leader is n new
sprightly x-column weekly.
Vicksburg has organized a society |
for the prevention of cruelty to ami
mails.
A negro dropped dead in the union
depot at Meridian last week OF heart
disease.
Two negroes were killed in Boil +
county Saturday night over a ga
of craps.
Kinds will hold delegate conven-
ton August Goth to nominate coun-
ty ticket.
A national reunion of the Blue and
the Gray ut Vicksburg next year is
being discussed.
The Greenville Democrat hOists
the name of John K. Cameron for
Governor in 1898.
Hon. f. Bloomfield has been nomi-
mated to represent the Coast counties
in the State Senate.
Mr.. J. 7. Merrill and Miss Bette
Hart, of Kemper county, eloped and
were married in Meridian.
Blocks artesian we'll has been COM
pleted 1t is 425 feet deep and has q
flow of IS gallons per minute.
George Roth, promising youth
of Natchez, was killed last week by
the accidental discharge of gun.
The Commercial Herald is gulping
down it's crow in great agony and
will have enough to last it all sum-
mer.
Gen. Adelbert Ames, the ex carpet
bag G overnot of this State, is now a
commission merchant in Brooklyn,
n. Y.
Mrs. Hugh McGinty, of Natchez,
| last week shot q negro woman with
whom her husband was unduly init
mate.
Mrs. A. l.. S. Davidson, one of the
Oldest residents of Kinds county, died
at jackson on the Goth inst. in her
S0th year.
The Jamestown Leader has been
presented with peach of the Chinese
Cling variety measuring 10 inches in
circumference.
Miss Belle Kearney, the charming
young lady who represents the Young
Womens's C. 7. u, has been lecturing
and organizing on the coast.
Mr.. Jas. X. Vardaman, of Green
wood, one of the brightest and most
talented young lawyers of our State,
has been nominated for Representa-
tive from LefiOre county.
The fine new residence of Rev. L. j.
Walne, near Clinton, was destroyed
by fire Friday night, supposed to be
the work of an incendiary. The total
loss is estimated at $4,000, with in
surance for $4,000.
The Mississippi editorial excursion
to the Northwest, gotten up by
Messrs. r. II. Henry & Co., left Jack
son Monday night. About As State
papers are represented by about so
gentlemen and 25 ladies.
Mr.. A. j. Hyde, president of the
Southern Standard Press Company,
has been endorsed for the Meridian
postotfice by the Republicans in lieu
of DR.. Edwards. He is said to be &C
ceptable to the business men.
A. j. Bogel, of Natchez, knocked
Thos. j. Junkin in the head with a
hammer Tuesday and then attempted
suicide upon himself by driving a
chisel into his breast. He is expected
to die, but Junkin will recover.
Jim Tillman, a negro of Grenada
county, is reported to have been bru
tally murdered for testifying against
certain gamblers at the last term of
the Circuit Court. Several parties
have be arrested on suspicion.
Judge Terrell, at the request of the
Governor, will hold special term of
the Circuit Court in Marion county
beginning August 18th, to try the par
ties engaged as aiders and abettors to
the late prize fight. The principals
will also be given round at the same
time if they can be captured and
brought back.
c. w. Rich, for whom the town o.
Richburg, where Sullivan and Kill.
rain fought, was named, and Capt. j
7. Jameson, of Lauderdale county
have been arrested and placed under
bon to await the action of the grand
jury in Marion county, charged with
aiding and abetting the Sullivan
, Xii rain fight.
DR.. A. B. Pitts, an Albanian, was
murdered and Mr.. Rodgers serious
ly injured by negroes on the Panther
Burn plantation in Sharkey county
last week. Several negroes of the
? name of Perkins were implicated in
the affair, and great excitement pre-
walls over the murder, which was a
most brutal one.
Circuit Court, in the Prohibition
district of Kinds county, lasted only
three days this term. There
was neither a civil nor criminal
case tried by jury, nor was case
of any kind argued before the Judge.
The grand jury, after session of two
days, was dismissed, having found
only eight indictments. Never be-
fore, in the history of Kinds county