The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-12
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Cotton seed are selllng III NlcksouTS
for $l2 per ton.
The Confederate Reunion at Cof-
feeville was success.
Capt. Bob. Williams is candidate
for Sheriff in Franklin.
The vicksburg bar wants ThOs. II.
Woods for Supreme Judge.
Thos. r. Henry, formerly of Ed
wards, Miss, died at Birmingham last
week.
Cotton worms are doing much dam
age to the cotton in the pararie region
of the State.
Ed. Wilson's new paper, the Com
monwealth, will make its appearance
in few days.
The National Association of Ex-
COnfederates will meet in Aberdeen
October 18th.
Port Gibson has town ordinance
prohibiting cattle from running at
large at night.
A tree recently cut down near
Friar's Point measured fourteen feet
across the trunk.
Judge VIM. Hancock has been ap-
pointed post master of Meridian, vice
j. j. Shannon removed.
Hon. John r. Cameron is taking the
lead in organizing the Democrats of
Madison for the campaign.
The Independent Labor party has
put out ticket in Yalobusha county
in opposition to the Democracy.
The Mississippi Presbytery, after a
three days session in Natchez, adj
journed to meet in Fayette again Oct.
10Th.
Alonzo Hogg, an old citizen of
Crystal Springs, recently dropped
dead on the streets from heart dis
ease.
Deputy Secretary of State D. p.
Porter lost Minnie, his youngest
child, OH last Saturday. She was
bright little girl of 8 years.
Mrs. Beaumont, lady of Wood
vile, succeeded in growing three
punches of bananas this year from
native plants cultivated in the open
air.
The Leflore county race troubles
have subsidized. All the negroes were
dispersed by the militia and volunteer
troops and most of the leaders captur-
ed or killed.
The reunion of the 18th Mississip-
pi Regiment at Jackson was attended
by about sixty-five of its old mem
bers. They organized and re-
solved to meet next year at Natchez.
Several of the farmers and saw
mill men of Marion are anxious to get
a chance at Sullivan and Kilrain when
the county prison contract is let out,
and it is said the bidding will be live
ly.
Four white men, Andrew Edwards,
Sam Strouther, Aft NewsOm and Jack
Mcmillan were committed to Jail with
out benefit of bail in Meridian last
week, charged with burning a Negroes
house.
A negro convict from Adams cOun-
ty, named Sam Robinson, has just
received 81 1866 pension money. He
had better get some friend to hire
him, since he has 3 1-2 years to
serve.
The county and city Democrats of
Warren county are stillat lOggerheads
and the country members of the Coun-
ty Convention have called another
Convention to meet next Saturday to
decide what they will do.
The proposed National reunion of
"the Blue and the Grey" on the 2Sth, 26
and 30th of May next, having been en-
dorsed by the Grand Army of the Re-
public, it's success is now assured and
operations to carry it out will now go
actively forward.
c. d. Kelley, mayor of Winona,
says previous to prohibition the in
dictments by the grand jury ranged
from 60 to los. The first year they
had prohibition they had 40 indict-
ments; the next 80, and at the last
term of court there were only 5.
The General, Staff, Field and Line
officers of the Mississippi National
Guard are earnestly requested to
meet at jackson on the 10Th of Sep
TENDER at IL o'clock a. m, for the
purpose of discussing matters of
great Importance to the Organiza-
ton.
DR.. j. F. Hawkins has sold the New
Albany Waterman, "the only Repub-
liean paper in the State" and it will
hereafter be run as Democratic pa
per by Mr.. w. G.. Bias. The Doctors
prospects for establishing State Re-
publican organ at Jackson look
gloomy.
Mrs. Zerelda Wallace, one of the
National superintendent of the w.
C. T. u, will visit Mississippi about
October LIST and spend the month in
w. C. T. U. work. She is the mother
of Gen. Lew Wallace, author of "Ben
Hur," and one of the most distin-
guished women of the country.
The Alliance Committee have clos
ed the trade for the old cotton factory
building at Canton and have adver-
tised for bids for repairs and additions