The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-02-28
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

J. NJ. Hester, a merchant of Duck
Hill, failed last week.
The White Caps are thought to be
organized near Handsboro.
VIM. Z. Montfort, Treasurer of
Clay county died on the 23rd.
The Treasurer's safe of Green
county was robbed of $4,000 last
week.
A fifty thousand dollar bank for
Leland will be ready to begin business
in the spring.
Capt. Francis A. Wolfe, of Tippah,
will be candidate for the legislature;
so it is said. The Captain is team.
Patrick O'Neal, foreman of tele-
graph construction and repairs, was
killed by the cars ut jackson on the
10th.
j. b. Sanguinetti, an old resident of
Vicksburg, aged near seventy years,
dropped dead of heart disease last
Sunday.
One thousand pounds of old brass
was stolen from the supply store of
the V. NJ. Railroad at Vicksburg Fri
day night.
Montgomery county has the small
est delinquent tax list of any county
in the State We've had prohibition
here four years.-NeU Farmer.
Adjt. Gen. Henry has notified the
National Guards of Mississippi that
the annual encampment will take
place at Fort Henry next June.
The Sunfower Tocsm says Issa-
quena county, no doubt has the small
est tax list of any county in the
State--about twenty dollars worth.
The Buena Vista Normal College
will change it's location to Lexington
after June the LIST, where it will be
better equipped than ever for efficient
work.
The U. S. Court at Mississippi City
adjourned last Saturday evening after
n session of one week. The next
term of the court will be held in Au-
gust.
The Board of Supervisors of Le-
fore county have attached the prop
erty of the ex-County Treasurer, J.
NJ. Hall, for $500 shortage in his
accounts.
Wilkinson county has more home
raised horses and mules than ever be-
fore, and has killed more meat than
any year since tn war. Good for
Wilkinson.
At McCOmb City last week w. w.
WammOe was shot while resisting
arrest by Night Waterman S. B. Rob-
erts. The wound was painful but not
dangerous.
The two Clinton Colleges are mn
usually full. Mississippi College has
matriculated 247 students, being three
more than was ever enrolled during
one year before.
The farmers of Yalobusha county
are discussing the question of fence
or no fence. This is a big question
and should be discussed in our AL
liances all over the State.-New Farm
er.
Maj. r. w. MiIlsaps, president of the
Capital State National Bank at Jack
son, offers to subscibe $50 900 towards
a Methodist College to be located at
Jackson, provided the church will
raise the same amount.
An unknown man with one leg and
two fingers gone and broken neck,
was found buried in the mud at the
Natchez wharf last Sunday. He had
q steamboat ticket in his pocket, but
no papers by which he could be
identified.
A company has been organized at
Vicksburg with % capital paid up of
100000, with Mr.. Jas. Z. Roach as
president, John p. Richardson vice.
president, and w. G. Paxton secre-
tary and treasurer, to manufacture
machines for distributing Paris Green
and other cotton worm destroyers.
Allen Perkins, colored, who burned
another colored mans house and three
of his children some time ago in Clai-
borne county, was mobbed by negroes
at Port Gibson Friday night. Perkins
before and after arrest admitted that
he committed the crime, and this he
did voluntarily and freely withOutany
fear of threats or compulsion. In
process of time he was duly indicted
by the grand jury, and at this term of
the court the case came on for trial,
but on account of the ruling of the
court Perkins was about to escape
punishment, and the negroes, finding
that the law was about to cheat JUS