The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-18
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.


sian well.
Alex Kuhn, n prominent merchant
of Nicksburg, is dead.
Moonshiners have been run out of
their haunts in Calhoun county.
Hugh Norman, n prominent Pike
county farmer, died on the 18th.
Cotton has been considerably dam
aged in the Delta by the wet weather.
A negro brakeman was run over
and killed by the cars at Lake Wash
ington on the 18th.
Grand Treasurer +. NJ. Lassiter, a
very prominent Odd Fellow, died at
Vicksburg Sunday.
The Lawrence County Press has
entered upon its second year. 1t is a
good county paper.
The papers arc giving it to Marion
county's sheriff for his failure to ar
rest the prize fighters.
Gen. w. S. Patton, prominent
citizen of this State in time past, died
recently in Meridian at an advanced
age.
A respectable young man in Vicks-
burg named Emmett Moore, died
Saturday from an overdose of carbolic
acid.
Wash Whites colored boy, 19 years
old, while attempting to board a
freight train at Vicksburg, fell and
was run over.
Mai. Pat Henry and w. A. Loflin
were nominated for the Legislature
by the Democracy of Rankin county.
They are both good men.
Capt. Edmund Denis shot and kill
ed u negro named Tom Manuel at
Pass Christian last week. The shoot
er was held on $1,000 bond.
A negro sleeping car porter named
Stewart, who insulted q young lady
on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
north of Meridian, is badly wounded.
Rev. Paul jackson and Paul Bond,
colored, few days ago received let
tiers through the mail at Iuka order
ing them to leave within twenty-four
hours. They left.
A negro named Swan Burris was
taken from the Jail at Iuka Saturday
night by mob and lynched for the
murder of a young white man named
Whtehurst last May.
Dan Gilmer, manager of the Fisk
plantation in IazoO county, aud ne
gro tenant named Deet Gray, became
engaged in a shooting scrape last
Friday which resulted in the mortal
wounding of both.
Mississippi has 43S saw mills, 10
single mills, 1873 planning mills, II log
ging railroads, 80 dry kiln plants, 30
mills using band saving machines
and 80 wholesale lumber Dealers
Pascagoula Democrat Star.
i Burrell Brown, Elias Brown, Allen
Brown and their brother-inlaw, Sam
Gillespie, the four negroes implica
ted in the Marion riot in 1881, were
recently captured in st. Louis and
brought back to Meridian for trial.
Mr.. j. T. Mellard has purchased
the Wesson Mirror and assumed edi-
torial controle, with Wallace Bowen
rs publisher. Mr.. VIII Mitchell, late
editor and proprietor, goes to Mem
phis. All parties have the LEADERS
best wishes.
The Auditors and Treasurer's
books show receipts III the State Treas
ury for the first six months of the
present fiscal year, up to July !, to be
500, 1874 81: disbursements for same
! n. in
of disbursements, $1O5, 349'91.
Two negroes have announced as
candidates for justice of the peace in
the Meridian district, "subject to the
action of the Republican party" A
negro paper is also being published
in Meridian, and from its tone it is
found there is trouble ahead.
The citizens of Purvis held mass
meeting Saturday and adopted reso-
lutions endorsing Gov. LOwry's efforts
to prevent the prize fight and bring
the sluggers to justice. They also
exonerated the Sheriff of Marion
county for not preventing the fight.
A damage suit for Sic, 900 has been
brought against the city of Vicksburg
by S. H. Mackey, in behalf of his son,
who fell from cliff about two years
since and fractured his thigh. The
city was grading the cliff at the time,
and it is claimed the accident was
caused by it's neglect.
Delegates 70 the Baptist State Con-
ventiOn, which meets at West Point
July 25th, are requested to send their
names to Capt. Fred Beall or Rey. M.
V. Noffsinger at once so they can be
assigned homes. The railroads will
grant reduced rate of one and one
third fare for the round trip on the
certificate plan.
The COpiah primary and cOnven-
ton resulted in the nomination of the
following county ticket: Senator,
Geo. S. Dodds; Representatives, T. j.
Millsaps and j. +. Sexton; Sheriff, E.
w. Brown; Treasurer, Bud Higdon;
Assessor, n. S. Matheny; Superin
tendent of Education, A. A. LOmax;
Surveyor, K. A. Smith.
Col. J. r. Bell, writing of the Re-
union of the 18th Mississippi Regi-
ment to be held at jackson August
Goth, thus addresses the survivors :
"All-every one-must come. Means
will be provided for any who have