The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-11
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.


The Knights of Honor of Magnolia,
celebrated the Fourth in grand style.
A twelve-year- old negro boy died
of hydrophobia at Friars Point last
week.
The people won't patronize the ne
gro who keeps the post Office at
Como.
Biloxi is to have a new winter no.
tel with all the modern improve
ments.
Some of SUBMITS leading citizens
are taking steps to start q steam
laundry.
The new school building at Wesson,
when completed, will accommodate
1000 pupils.
Regular trains now run on the
Georgia Pacific from Greenville to
Washington.
George Muh, Jr., well known
butcher of jackson, died of paraly-
sis on the 9Th.
Last Saturday was sort of Stone
day. He carried seven counties to
Cameron's one.
Wash Tiney, a young negro man,
killed his stepfather on the YazoO
River last Sunday.
Rev. DR.. Il. w. Stringer, a noted
colOred politician, is spoken of as
postmaster at Vicksburg.
Joe Jones, Sans brother, will take
part in the preaching on the Sam
Jones camp ground the coming sea-
son.
Peter Cabaniss, farmer of Alfalfa
county, was visited by white caps and
given a good beating one night last
week.
John II. Maginnis, a prominent cit
izen of New Orleans, was struck and
killed by lighting at Ocean Springs
last week.
Some of the seed of the Allen long
staple cotton, raised in Claiborne
county, have been ordered by the
British Consul in Peru.
llHCC L ltifluS anu hlCldTu JOE-
dan, cOlored, were legally executed at
Quitman on the 3rd for the murder of
John Taylor, colored.
Kinds county has been very good
this year. During the present term
of court its Grand jury was in session
only two days and a half.
Hon. w. F. Love informs us that he
has cut and saved this season, over
5000 bundles of oats from eight acres
of land.-Southern Herald.
Henry L. Muller, jackson bar
keeper, suicided on last Friday. He
had been drinking heavily, and the
rash act is attributed to that cause.
The Copiah Signal says F. NJ. Bar
low, of Copiah county, expects to
harvest twelve hundred bushels of
corn from six acres. That is farm
ing.
An attempt was made to wreck a
passenger train on the Valley Rail
road in Franklin county last week, by
some scoundrel placing Instructions
on the track.
Quite number of dead bodies have
fioated past Vicksburg lately, three
having gone by in one day. 1t is
generally believed that they came
from the Conemaugh valley.
Paul d. Jones one of the many col
ored postal clerks recently appointed
and whose run was on the YazoO
Branch Road, has been arrested,
charged with rifing the mails in his
charge.
Mr.. j. L. McCaskill, of Brandon,
who under Mr.. Cleveland's admins
tratiOn was appointed U. S. Consul
for Dublin, Ireland, has been super
coded by Mr.. Alexander j. Reed,
of Wisconsin.
The next annual camp meeting of
bennington Camp Ground, near
Crystal Springs, will begin Aug. 18th
and continue one week. The public
and ministers friendly to camp meet
ings are especially invited.
The Mississippi State Grange has
charged committee, of which r. B.
Marion, of Okolona, is Treasurer,
to raise funds for the purpose Of
erecting monument to their late
Worthy Master, Captain Put Darden.
John L. Lessel shot and killed a
negro man named Ben Minis at Pela-
hatchie Saturday. Ben had Lessel
arrested for an attempted criminal
assault on his twelve year-Old daugh-
ter. Lessel was arrested and carried
to Brandon.
The number of new members add
ed to the churches in jackson, as
the result of the Sam Jones meeting
are as follows: Methodist, As; West
Jackson Methodist, %; Baptist, 35;
Presbyterian, %; Episcopal, Is;
Christian, 1. Total, 1874,
Bill Sexton was ridden ON q rail by
the citizens of Laurel one day last
week for writing an insulting note to
a lady. That night Sexton shot and
killed Henry Prewitt, man who had
taken leading part in his punish
ment, and made his escape.
CASTOR Jones, q Kemper county
negro, last week told his friends he
was going to eat dinner that day in
hell. He then went off with an old
musket on his shoulder to neighbours
and murdered his wife, and shortly
afterward shot out his own brains.
Ex-Grand Master j. M. Stone offici-
ated at the laying of the corner stone
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