The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-13
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

The Winona compress handled
10000 bales the current season.
Next Wednesday will be commence
ment day at the a. & NJ. College.
Fire destroyed nearly all of the
business portion of Biloxi on the 9Th
inst.
A panther measoring u feet in
length was killed the other day near
Lula.
James II. Carr, Republican, has
been appointed postmaster at Coffee
vile.
Charlton has broken on t among the
horses and mules of Yazoo and Shar-
key counties.
Nearly all portions of the State
have been blessed during the past
week with rain.
Nineteen companies are expected to
60 into encampment at Natchez on
the oath instant.
22 New residences have been lately
completed in Winona and % more are
in course of construction.
Judge Stovall, of the Shubuta Mes
senger, had his arm broken last week
by kick from horse.
A Negro cook named Mack Vaughn
fell from a hotel window at Columbus
and was instantly killed.
Gen. S. d. Lee and Major Banks
dale addressed big crowd at a
Holmes county barbecue last week.
Dave MeCabe, a yonng man lately
ally drowned at Vicksburg Tuesday.
Capt. John S. Lewis, editor of the
Woodville Republican, has been ac-
quilted for the killing of l.. c. john
son last fall.
Henry C.. Niles of Kosciusko, has
been appointed United States district
attorney for the northern district of
Mississippi.
w. A. Compton, Il Holly Springs
druggist and most excellent young
man, was drowned in pond last
week while bathing.
Meridian realized $363,50 during
the month of May on fines imposed by
her Mayor. The total collected for
the 5 months ending June 1st was 49,,
111.5O.
The county Alliances of Lauder
dale, Kemper and Neshoba counties
have secured the Meridian Ware
house in which to store and handle
the cotton crop next season.
The property valuations of Missis-
sippi, real and personal, as shown by
the u. S. Censas, are as follows: 1860,
5000, 472 ,912; 1870, $177,278, $50; 1880,
$40, ,129.
Miss Rosa Gibson,a most estimable
young lady, aged II years, residing
on Pine Ridge, Adams county, was
found dead in her bed few mornings
ago. The doctors said her death was
caused from heart disease.
In Natchez Wednesday evening the
nuptials of DR.. Is. ID. Watkins and
the lovely Miss ElOise Renner, late
monitress of Whitworth College, were
celebrated, Rev. A. +. Watkins, of
BrOokhaven, the gro0m's brother, Off
ciating.
Sam Jones preached exclusively to
men in jackson last Sunday after
noon, and over 5000 turned out to
hear him. Many of the worst gam
blers and drunkards of the town,
wept like children, and pledged to
live better life.
Director Beeman says the action of
the Alliance and Wheel Convention
at Birmingham will not affect in the
least the establishment of the bagging
factory at jackson, and that it will
be established unless subscribers to
the stock withdraw their subscrip-
tons.
The Winona Land Improvement
Company and Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION will have an auction sale of
POO lots on June 26 and 81, and rail
road excursions will be run from the
North, East, South and West. There
will be grand barbecue and public
speaking.
Messrs. r. II. Henry & Co., of the
jackson Clarion-Ledger, are arrang
ing with Mr.. j. F. Merry, General
Western Passenger Agent of the Hi
nois Central R. R., for Press Excur-
sion of Mississippi editors to the great
Northwest, to take place the latter
part of July and extend through fif
teen days.
Monday night at Crystal Springs
burglars entered the house of ID. II.
Butler, near the center of town, and
stole $50 in cash, gold watch and
chain, and. notes and other papers,
representing some $1,000 in value,
after which they stole dark bay
pony, the property of Prof. II. j. Fry,
and made their escape.
The Girls Industrial College turn
ed out it's first graduates Tuesday.
They were Misses Mary B. Bynum Of
AlcOrn county, Fannie A. Camp, Ket-
tie NJ. Crusoe, Mary H. Mayo and
Mazyck Wilson of LOwndes, Eula w.
Deaton and Minnie Paisley of Pamela,
Emma N. Thighen of Issaquena, Cora
Walker of Oktibbeha, and Tillie
Wiener of Montgomery.
Gov. Lowry has instituted suit in
Tallahatchie county against several
persons for the possession of about
four hundred acres of land, sold I'M
dor a 1acraa of tho Chancarv Eourt of