The Brookhaven leader., 1889-01-31
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

HandsborO's saw mills nave nau
strike.
jackson is threatened with whis-
ky paper.
Vicksburg is to have a brick and
iron ware house.
The Natchez rattle brought $S5 for
the Given's fund.
Macon has canning factory with
paid up capital of $500.
Chas. Myer, one of the oldest mer-
chants of Oxford, failed last week.
The Kinds County Fair Association
elected it's officers at Bolton on the
oath.
Col. and Mrs. p. G.. Nelson, of
Woodville, celebrated their tin we'd
ding on the 21st.
Dan Wilson, an old man of Vicks-
burg, had his head crushed in by a
negro robber last week.
The Sardis Reporter has hoisted the
name of Hon. Robt. IL. Taylor, of
that place, for Governor.
The clerk of Simpson county issued
during the year 1888, 40 marriage Ii
censes to whites, and 80 to colored.
Dock Quisenberry, marble cutter,
was run over and killed by the cars at
West Point on the 26th, while drunk.
Congressman Barry, of our State,
and Craine, fOf Texas, have come to
blows over a discussion about the
war.
jackson had a $35, 5000 fire on the
18th, Stedman g. Co., E. & s. Vir-
den, B. Lemly and w. A. Whiting
being among the losers.
The demand for houses in Clinton
does not meet with a supply. Missis-
sippi College has matriculated 233
students this session.
The rifles of the Vicksburg True
Blues, have been seized, it having
failed to receipt for them. Only 20 of
the 80 rifles issued were found.
Col. James NJ. Liddel, the United
States Mashal of the Northern district
of Mississippi, died at his home in
home in Carroll county on the 18th.
John Patty, a colored man, of
Greenville, ran against another pc
destrian, sticking a pin in his head
above the eye, from the effect of
which he died.
This is a disastrous season for
steamboats,. The Pargoud; near Nat
chez, broke her shaft on the 26th and
is tied up at Good Hope, II miles
above Natchez.
A mare mule in Vicksburg gave birth
few days ago to a mare colt. This
is the second case on record, one other
having occurred at jackson, Miss,
about twenty three years ago.
Aaron Spear, gay and festive
youth of "a years, and Aggie Vann, a
blushing maid of 92, were united in
the holy bonds of matrimony near
COffeeville, one day last week.
Rev. j. A. Bowen, of Greenville.
had the misfortune to lose his father
last week. He fell suddenly dead at
iuka while in conversation with Revs.
w. l.. Skinner and st. Clair Law
renee.
Did Blackburn and Sylvester
Clark, two negro section hands. have
been indicted and convicted for the
assassination of Maj. Pat Hamilton of
Aberdeen, at a special term of the
Circuit Court.
Judge j. H. Wynn, of the Fourth
District, has rendered his resignation.
Salary too small. Col. Winston,
of Coahoma, and Col. F. A. Mont
gOmery, of Bolivar, are candidates for
both Office and salary.
The Queen & Crescent Railroad has
addressed circular letter to the fruit
and vegetable growers of Mississippi
and Louisiana, in which it expresses
a desire to join in an effort to make
the business a profitable one.
E. L. Vance, claiming to represent
Harper Bros, of New York, as cor
respondent, passed bogus check for
$50, on E. A. Sternberger, of Amite
City, last week. He has been is Jack
son and Vicksburg but not caught up
with.
On account of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroads high charges, the cotton
men of Columbus, induced the steam
er c. w. Anderson to make trip up
the river, where she received over
1000 bales. While she was loading,
John Perkins, COL, fell into the river
and was drowned.
A juror, summoned to try the
Vicksburg murder case which was
brought to Jackson ON a change of
venue, asked to be excused on the
ground that he could not give Vicks-
burg man an impartial trial, as he
would be inclined to favor hanging
any man for living there.
There are fewer deaths from con-
sumption in Mississippi, says the
Ripley Sentinel, in proportion to pop
ulatiOn, than any other State in the
Union. Mississippi is healthy and
rich in natural resources and should
become i'll no distant future one of
the wealthiest States in the South.
Col. Hooker has introduced bill in
Congress providing for the appoint
ment ola Federal judge for the South
ern district of Mississippi, and declar-
ing the present judge the judge of the
Northern district. Cases of appeal
will go to Oxford in the Northern
district and 70 IocLcon in +ba Co,,+b