The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-02
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Meridian will hold q air next IaIl'
Meridian has FIVE building and loan
associations.
Aberdeen is going to build a $40, 900
school house.
Col. J. r. Binford declines to run
for State Treasurer.
Hon. A. p. Hill is Mayor of Canton
for the fourth time.
An extensive Touring mill is to be
erected at West Point.
Yazoo City is soon to have a new
brick Methodist church.
Sharkey county has instructed for
Cameron for Governor.
Hon. j. Il. Harris has been elected
city attorney of Jackson.
Three out of four Holmes county
papers are for Barksdale.
The Kinds county Democrats hold a
county convention May It'll.
The Grenada Gazette is offered for
sale. Address II. I. Payne, Grenada.
Rev. Z. c. Cowan, the Episcopal
rector at Yazoo City, died last week.
The Durant Democrat contains a
page advertisement of Loves wagon
factory.
Sheriff BOYD and Treasurer Brum-
field, of Pike, are candidates for re-
election.
Rev. Father Herman Oberfeld, of
the Catholic clergy, died in Natchez
on the 18th.
The Illinois Central Railroad has
leased the Mississippi and Tennessee
for 1913 years.
Rev. DR.. j. B. Hawthorne, the elo-
quent Atlanta divine, preached in
Meridian on the oath.
John Handley, a young man of Me-
ridian, was run over and killed by a
freight train last week.
A heavy hail storm played havoc
with the truck and straw berry patches
of Crystal Springs last week.
Rev. R. P. Mitchell, late presiding
elder of the Winona district, died re-
Gently at his home in Durant.
Forty-six residents of YazoO City
have died in the last year, out of an
estimated population of $500.
Holmes county will hold a white
Democratic primary Aug. 18th to
nominate candidates for county Of
| fees.
A residence in Summit belonging to
DR.. Moore and occupied by Mr.. Cain,
was burned last week. Loss, about
$1,000.
The last issue of the YazoO Sentinel
chronicled the death of Capts. X. w.
Shipp and Robert NJ. Butler, of that
county.
Gen. w. S. Feathston delivered the
memorial address at the decoration of
the Confederate graves in Port Glib
son last Friday.
The Seashore Campmeeting begins
this year on Friday night, July 5th,
and will continue ten days, embrace
ing two Sundays.
The Confederate soldiers of Co.
piah county will hold reunion on a
date to be named by the committee
of arrangements.
United States District Attorney
Longino will remove to Greenwood
and form partnership in the practice
of law with Hon. l.. Z. Yerger.
Rev. Sam Jones will preach in
| Taal fnr xraalr I'M Tho Erst
part of June. He will also shake up
the Wesson sinners near the same
time.
The State Medical Association pass
ed resolution cOndemning the action
of the last session of the Legislature
imposing privilege of $40 on doc
tors.
The man who would like to be
healthy in the Delta should drink
plenty of water-gOOd water-cistern
water-nOt we'll water.-BOliuar Co.
Democrat.
Hon. f. Barksdale will deliver the
commencement address at Gillsburg
Collegiate Institute in June, and Rev.
J. T. Christian preach the commence
ment sermon.
The Pike county grand jury was in
session days, examined 257 witness
es, found 80 true bills and referred "a
cases to the several justices of the
peace of the county.
w. X. Nettles, Esq, formerly Pres
ident of the Gillsburg Collegiate In
stitute, but now rising lawyer of
Greenville, was married recently to
Miss Minnie Lenoir, of Pike county.
The South Mississippian, which was
established in Summit last November,
by Mr.. w. T. Sparkman, of Magno-
liza, has been superseded by the Mis-
sissippi Enterprise, with Mr.. R. B.
May as publisher.
A brilliant wedding occurred in
Natchez ON the oath, the groom being
DR.. J. C. Brooks, of Bolivar county,
and the bride Miss Annie D. Wal
worth, daughter of Douglass Wal
worth, Esq, editor of the Natchez
Democrat.
The w. C. T. U. petitioned the