The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-25
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.


Crystal Springs berries opened in
Chicago at 40 cents quart.
Crystal Springs last Monday ship
ped two carloads of Strawberries.
Joseph Graves, negro, has been
appointed postmaster at Pearling-
ton.
Mrs. Mary Poitevant, wife of Capt.
Jno. Poitcvant, of Pennington, died
recently.
III. NJ. Gastrill, Il leading hardware
merchant of Natchcz, died last week
while drunk.
The new Methodist church at Gall
man was recently dedicated by DIR.
w. c. Black.
The Meteor says Crystal Springs
will have an immense strawberry sur
plus this season.
james Craig was killed at Hickory
by Il piece of timber falling on him
from a passing train.
The Meridian Canning Factory
wants 40 acres of tomatoes, for which
it agrees to pay So ton.
Rankin county will hold a delegate
Convention July list to nominate
county Democratic ticket.
Will d. Boddie, prominent citi-
zen of Canton, died last week after a
short attack of pneu monia.
Mrs. Carrie Oliver, the estimable
wife of Mr.. a. b. Oliver, of Wesson,
died at that place recently.
DR.. Payne, of Meridian, shot an
old negro in his back yard n few
nights ago whom he took for Il bur
glar.
The Volunteer Southrons have Civ
en- up their trip to New York owing
to excessive charges of the Pullman
Car Company.
Bishop Galloway will deliver the
commencement sermon at the Wander
bilt University, Nashville, Tenn, on
the 10th of June.
Stanton, of the Philadelphia Demo-
crat, Townsend, of the Choctaw
Plaindealer, Gillespie, of the Tupelo
Ledger, are candidates for the Legis-
laturc.
The faculty and students of the !. |.
and c. at Columbus have been invited
to attend the Centennial celebration
at the Agricultural and Mechanical
College April 30th.
Cry stal Springs has over half mile
of railroad switches from which to
load vegetables. The total length of
the sheds erected for the care and pro-
lection of vegetables is 675 feet.
Mr.. II. Darden, son of the late hon
ored and lamented Put Darden, won
the medal at the declamatory contest
of the Philofechnic Society at the Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical College.
The Sentinel says one of the vir-
tues of local option in Gazoo is that 1T
has rid the community of several men
whose absence is better than their
presence. Same down this way, broth
er Sentinel.
The Okolona Times contains this
unique announcement for office: "Zack
Trice, candidate for justice of the
peace. If elected promises to execute
the law-make white and black git up
and git: earn their bread by the sweat
of their brow"
The attendance at Blue Mountain
Female College during this session has
been as follows: Total number OF
students enrolled, 210; number of
boaders, 152 Music students 107. The
T. ,,,,n,hopS Tho session
closes June 18th.
Robert Thomas, the jailer at Ray
mond, was murdered i'll the jail yard
on the 10Th by negro lunatic named
Grant Trowel. He was knocked over
and his head severed from his body
with an AK. Deceased was nephew
of Sheriff Thomas.
Nearly all the white Republicans of
Vicksburg testified that while they
voted for Harrison for President in
the last election, they voted at the
Same time for Gen. Catchings as
against Hill. They regarded Hill as
an interloper, and did not want to see
ings.
The Greenville Times objects to the
historical blundermade by Hon. Robt.
Powell in advocasey of Hon. John
Cameron for Governor when he said
that no native Mississippian had held
that office, and cites two instances to
the contrary, Girard Brandon and B.
G. Humphreys.
The jury in the circuit court of
Adams county have awarded MOllie
HathcOX damages to the amount of
$4,000 for the death of her husband by
the explosion of the Natchez Cotton
Mills in May, 1887. She sued for $780,
900 damages. There are three other
similar suits pending, each for $780,
600.
T. NJ. Seaman, of Newton, made
last year, with one horse $50 bushels
of corn, $50 bushels of oats, 400 bush !
els of sweet potatoes, 100 bushels of
Irish potatoes, 1000 pounds of fodder,
so bushels of peas, $50 boxes of to-
matOes, a good crop of water melons,
some peanuts, and s bales of cotton.
Henry NJ. Dickson, the 1S-year- old
son of H. NJ. Dixon, the political agita-
tor who was killed in Yazoo City in
1879, has been appointed to a vacant
cadetship at West Point. 1t may be
added that the boy, who has been at