The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-28
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
ROsedale wants a good barber.

bered 727.
Kosciusko has bid $4,000 for the
Methodist College.
The Durant News has come out for
Walthall for Governor
Sam Jones is booked for meeting
in jackson early i'll June.
Cleveland has two papers, one too
many for a place of its size.
The WinOna Times wants Hon.
James Il. Binford for State Treas
urer.
Hattiesburg has voted $4,000 to
the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City
Railroad.
The Scooba Herald comes out for
Hon. Thos. S. Ford, of Marion cOun-
ty, for Governor.
The State Medical Association
meets at jackson, commencing We'd
nesday, April 9TH.
John S. Burton has been appointed
as United State Marshall for the
Northern district.
w. S. Williams, of Simpson county,
died of brain fever at Mississippi
College last Friday.
The Crystal Springs Meteor has
been enlarged to keep up with the
progress of its town.
The Crystal Springs truck men find
the Chicago market for radishes and
onions badly glutted.
Raymond is the only point on the
Little j which will monkey with the
horticultural buzz saw.
The Copiah grand jury was in ses-
sion days, examined 377 witnesses
and found 40 true bills.
A Swede named John Christainson
was fatally stabbed at Vicksburg on
the Dist by John Welch.
The YazoO county Alliance sub
scribed 81 shares to the proposed bag
ging factory at $500 per share.
The Gazette says that international
pest the English sparrow, have made
their appearance near Raymond.
The little son of R. F. Taylor at
Crystal Springs, shot himself in the
arm last week, necessitating amputa-
ton.
Wesson donated So, 100 to endow the
new college of the Methodist church,
and offers a bonus if it is located
there.
The Presbyterian church at Enter
prise was burned on the 22nd. Also
the two-story residence of w. II.
Walker.
The railroad commission has order
ed new passenger depot, with suit
able accommodations, erected at
Vicksburg.
The Kemper County Circuit Court,
adjourned after four days session.
The grand jury failed to indict any of
the bulldozers.
The New Albany Waterman, the
Republican organ of Mississippi, has
hoisted the name of Judge Simrall as
its choice for Governor.
The Mormons are making converts
in Chickasaw and Calhoun counties.
Quite number of respectable people
are said to have already left for Salt
Lake.
c. w. Anderson, at one time asso-
ciated with w. A. Battaile in the pub
LEGATION of the Times Intelligencer at
Summit, died at Alpine, Texas, on
the 18th inst.
Mr.. j. J. Haynie, formerly editor
of the Macon Sun, but more recently
successful drummer, is now travel
ing agent and correspondent of the
Memphis Avalanche.
The trial of DR.. WEIGH for abduc-
ton, which was case of some nOtO-
riety, took place at the Copiah court
just closed, and he was convicted and
sentenced to the peniteutiary for 2
years. An appeal was taken.
Capt. j. J. Evans, who is serving
his second term as Chancery Clerk of
Monroe county, has decided to go be-
fore the people of the State, in the
approaching canvass, as an aspirant
for the affice of State Treasurer.
President Love has called meet
ing of the delegates representing
stockholders in the Bagging Factory
to meet at Jackson, tomorrow, then
and there to consider matters of vital
importance to the members of the
Alliance.
The Greenville Democrat says that
the ice company there while boring
well struck two distinct, seperate
flowing streams of mineral water.
Upon examination these have proved
to be respectively, Vitchy and Carls-
bad Water.
The purchasers of the Vicksburg &
Meridian Railroad, under the recent
sale have changed the name to the
Alabama & Vicksburg railway COM
pany. The following officers were
elected: Chas. Schiff, of Cincinnati,
president; C. C. Harvey, vice presi-
dent; f. H. Tatem, secretary and
treasurer.
Apropos of the new yet thoroughly
discussed scheme of sending the ne
groes back to Africa, it may be said
that quite a number of them in this
city hold the belief that they will ul-
timately return to that country, and
that this opinion is believed to pre-
vail among them to great extent
Vicksbarg Post.
Gov. Lowry has appointed Mr.. S.