The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-17
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Ut. -. ". SullIn, HAS moNtu HUM
WessOn to Ellisville.
The Vicksburg ticket Office was rob-
bed of $500 OH the 10th.
Andrew johnson, car-repairer, was
killed at McCOmb City on the 18th.
yicksburg is soon to have another
National Bank with capital of $780,
600.
DR.. L. Simmons, of Walkers Bridge,
Pike county. has been adjudged in
sane.
"Resolved by the Kinds county AL
lance" to have a tagging factory at
jackson.
J. +. Mills now owns the Clarke
County Times. 1t has been Repub-
lican paper.
The movement to build a 100000
hotel in Vicksburg by subscription is
progressing well.
There will be called meeting of
the Lawrence county Alliance the 9TH
Tuesday of January.
The Confederate pension fund of
$21 900 has been divided among 1000
confirmed applicants.
The McComb City ladies are getting
up an entertainment to purchase new
scenery for their stage.
A young white man named Frank
Brina, aged %, was drowned at
Greenville last Monday.
a negro was thrown fifty feet in the
air by an engine near Greenville and
when he came down he was dead.
The Mississippi White Ribbon
should be in the hands of every moth
er and lover of purity in the State.
Mr.. George Booth, through careless
ness, was mashed to death by a switch
engine at Vicksburg on the 18th.
Leland was about burned out on the
11th. Insurance on property devour-
ed, $4,000. Property worth 5000.
Mississippi offee-drinkers, hear!
Coffee will go up to fifty cents
pound inside of six months, says New
York.
The little 3-year-old daughter of
j. b. Maulie, near Pass Christian, was
terribly burned few days ago by her
clothing catching fire.
Sadie and Julia Hirsch, aged res
pectively 10 and years, were run
over by the cars at Leland few days
ago, and fatally injured.
One hundred colored laborers at
work on the Jackson Water Works
struck last Monday for $50 per day
instead of $1.OO which they were re-
ceiving.
Rev. Robt. G. Hinsdale died at Bill
oxi on the 11th. At his funeral were
present his brOther-in law, Bishop
Hugh Miller Thompson, Mrs. jefferson
Davis and others.
The town elect on at Magnolia last
Monday resulted as follows: Mayor,
A. l.. Lazar; aldermen, S. b. Willows.
w. NJ. Wroten, ID. C. Wright and II.
b. Ford; marshal, B. F. johnson.
The number of patients admitted into
the insane asylum at Jackson since it
was established has been 2,64O. Of
these $50 were discharged recovered,
1875 discharged improved, II eloped !;
724 died.
The Presidential electors met in
Jackson last Monday to elect mess
enger to carry the vote of Mississippi
to Washington. The trust was con-
tided to Mr.. w. A. Henry of the va
zoo Sentinel.
The Republicans of the coast coun-
ties met at Mississippi City the other
day to decide who should be endorsed
for the offices. Judge Henderson was
recommended for collector of the Post
at Bay st. Louis.
I. B. johnson, the popular mayor of
Cleveland, recently lost his house by
fire, and the citizens got up an enter
tainment the proceeds of which were
several hundreds which they turned
over to the happy mayor.
Mrs. Margaret Moon at Osborne tried
to dissuade wilful daughter from at
tending ball. In following after her
as she started out the mother fell
lady did not go to the ball.
Two freight trains collided at Bar
ret, small station Oh the Northeast
ern Railroad IS miles south of Merid-
ian, Sunday, and both engineers and
both tiremen were badly hurt, and
several others considerably shaken
up.
DR.. John G.. Taylor, Vice President
and Gen'l Manager of the Richardson
Taylor Medicine Co., of st. Louis, and
his bride and others We're rendered
royal reception at the Hotel De Mock
in Summit, last week, by Capt. A. B.
Sweeney and others.
r. b. Chatham the murderer of
young John HOskins, the associate
editor of the Lexington Bulletin, has,
after year refuge from the law, re-
turned to Lexington and surrendered
himself to the authorities. A reward
of $500 for his arrest has been stand
ing all the time.
At the city election in Summit last
Monday the following officers were
elected to serve for the. ensuing two
years: j. c. Lamkin, mayor; VIM.
Salisbury, J.H. Mills, C. E. Teunis-
son, j. ID. JacObOwsky ,councilmen;W.
f. Butler, Justice of the Peace; T. b.
ellis, constable.
Mr.. j. NJ. Collier, of Arcola, is the