The Brookhaven leader., 1889-05-09
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Liberty and Gloster are to be con
nected by telephone.
The organization of a brass band Is
being agitated in Fayette.
A party of white caps beat wo~
man at Bay st. Louis last week.
Kinds county instructed last Mon
day for Barksdalc for Governor.
The Durant News says Gen. A. NJ.
West is candidate for the State Sen
ate.
The Georgia Pacific Railroad has
beer completed from Columbus. to
West Point.
phe machinery for the Aberdeen
chair and wagon factory has been re-
ceived at that place.
A cooperative tannery is to he
started in Ncshoba county, with the
shares of stock at five dollars each.
Pike county will hold a convention
on May 18th to appoint delegates 10
the State and floatorial convention.
West Point gave grand banquet
in homer of the completion OF the
Georgia Pacific Railroad into that
place.
a Mise Mary V. Duvall, Il school
teacher of this State Is said to have
written an excellent "lIistory of Miss
issippi."
Cant. F.. l.. Sykes, of Aberdeen
and Hon. F. NJ. GOar, of Tupelo,
postoffice inspectors, have resigned
their positions.
A Coahoma negro regularly drives a
team made UP Of y mule and a COW,
and both animals are said to work
splendidly together.
A baggiug factory to work pine
straw is to be built at Meridian by a
stock company. They are going to
develop the O'Ferroll patent.
Professors A. y. Mckay and b.
Irby have resigned their places in the
A. & NJ. College to accept more re-
munerative positions elsewhere.
Miss Mamie Thompson, daughter
of Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson,
eloped last Saturday with young
man from Chicago named W. 1.
Howe.
Mr.. and Mrs. ffilaire krebs, of
Pascagoula, celebrated their golden
wedding on the goth ult. Eleven chill
dren and fifty three grand children
participated.
The several churches i'll Jackson
are arranging for Sam Jones meeting
there in June. They will provide II
big tent, and occupy the Tarpley lot
next to the Government building.
Col. J. C. Prewitt, of Yazoo City,
a prominent candidate for Attorney
General of the State four years ago,
has gone to Washington Territory
where he will reside in the future.
Lawrence county Sunday School
Convention meets at Silver Creek
BAPTIST church six miles east of Mon
ticello, commencing Friday before
the 4th Sunday. A splendid program
is made up for the occasion.
The surviving members of Company
c, 18th Mississippi Regiment are re-
Quested to send their names and
rostoffiee address either to Mr.. +. ID.
Magee, at Durant, or to Lieut.. b. L.
Hoover, Pickens, Miss. Their re-
union is to fake place at Winona on
the End Tuesday in August next.
On Wednesday night last the family
of Mr.. Robert Wigley were aroused
by the crying of child. On making
a search white male baby supposed
to have been about three days old
was found on his front gallery neatly
packed in a box. From where it came
no one seems to know WOOdrille
Republican.
A gentleman in Harrison county
writing to us on business closes his
letter thusfy: "The Gulf and Ship
Island Railroad is in statu quo. Old
Hardy is as full of promises as ever,
through his whiskers. Really, every
thing in and around GulfpOrt has a
blue look, and suits are beginning to
roll in."-Pascagoula Democrat Star
Recently negro was appointed
postmaster of Ocean Springs, Miss.
but the people, headed by Col. New
comb Clark, Michigan Republican
who has recently removed to the
coast, made such vigorous Outcry
against the appointment that the in
cumbent will be replaced by white
man. Col. Clark actually went to
Washington to secure the change.
A white tramp entered the cabin
of a negro named Kirkman in the
Delta, last week, with drawn pistol
demanded his money. The negro
went to his trunk, apparently to get
his money, but got pistol and fired at
the tramp, who shot at the same time.
The tramp fell over on the negro's
bed dead, and the negro walked out
the door and fell dead on the steps.
Greenville was the scene of two
murders last Saturday. Nose Wiston,
cOlored, entered q barrOom and de-
manded a drink, and on being re-
fused, drew pistol and killed Hugh
Cunningham, the man in charge.
Later in the day a bar-keeper named
John Kelly shot and killed a negro
policeman named Leon Collier. An
other colored man, named Gus Ware,
standing near Collier, received a shot