The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-15
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
Yazoo City is to have a new hotel.

Yazoo City will have County fair
this fall.
NJ. L. Lott is the new postmaster
at Brandon.
Harrison county is kicking over the
new assessment law.
Col. j. W. FAINT, of Holly Springs,
died last week in his S5th year.
Cotton worms have appeared in
small numbers in Yazoo county.
Mrs. Gibson, wife of Col. A. 0. Glib
son, died suddenly at West Point last
week.
Cleveland has a Building and Loan
Association with a capital stock of
$120.000.
The branch railroad has been COM
pleted from Slaughter, La, to Wood
vile, Miss,
Frank Harper, cOlOred, was muir
dered near KosciuskO Tuesday by I'M
known parties.
b. A. Toscani aud Louis Patagna
III Iul iIllCsS
at Natchez last week.
Mrs. General Ferguson, of Green
vile, has written and published
novel entitled "ChiquOt."
Sam Powell, the negro who muir
dered his child in Meridian, has been
sentenced to hang Sept. Goth.
Mr.. Eggleston, of Raymond, has
sold over $500 worth of potatoes this
season from two acres of land.
The County Alliances of Clarke and
Lauderdale have elected j. F. Moore
as their cotton weigher at Meridian.
Rev. Joe Jones is stirring up the
sinners this week with long pole at
his brother Sans camp ground near
Gloster.
j. II. Wilson, alias Henry Miller,
has been arrested for forging the
checks of the Natchez Water Works
Company.
Col. j. J. Whitney has withdrawn
from the race for County Treasurer in
jefferson. Campaign lies prompted
the action.
Keith Bowen, colored, was lynched
in Monroe county Tuesday for at
tempting criminal assault on Il
young lady.
Judge L. j. Wharton will lecture
in Brandon tomorrow night, his sub
ject being "Mississippi as Territory
and as State"
Hon. Horace Bloomfield. very
popular and talented young lawyer,
will be the next State Senator from |
the Coast counties.
Louis Fox, a young business man,
shot Policeman Brady at Nicksburg /
last Monday. Fox was jailed to await i,
results of the wound.
The Governor, Lieutenant Cover
nor and Secretary of State will meet |
Sept. 3rd, to appoint election com
missiOnels for the November election.
J. d. Harper, of Crystal Springs, is
shipping Kelsey plums, a variety i'm
ported from Japan. This is probably |
the first shipment ever made from the
State.
A camp meeting of cOlorcd people
is to be held at the old camp ground
near the Brandon depot, commencing
on the ed instant and continuing ten
days.
The citizens of Nicksburg have de
cided to have Sam Jones in Novem-
Der. 1t is proposed to go in partner
ship with Meridian and Greenville
and buy big tent.
A number of prominent negroes
from North Carolina have been pros
pecting i'll the Delta with a view of
locating large colony of North Caro-
lima blacks
Mr.. F. NJ. Bradford, of the Aber-
deem Weekly, is candidate for Chan
Gerry Clerk of Monroe county, to fill !
out the unexpired term of Capt. j. j.
Evans, nominee for State Treasurer.
Capt. w. B. Johnson, of Winsto
county, has been sent pair of red !
foxes from Connecticut, which he in
tends to turn loose for the benefit of
those who love the fox chase.
The Greenville Times says for the
first time in it's memory the Board of
Supervisors of Washington county
had before it assessment rolls, land |
and personal, and no objections filed
thereto.
The Yazoo County Democratic Con-
vention instructed its nominees for
the Legislature to have law passed
providing for State veterinary sur
geon to avert the results of Charlton
and other epidemics among stock.
r. H. Henry was presented with q
gold headed cane, and Col. Power
with a gold headed umbrella for get
ting up the Northwestern Press ex-
cursion. The ladies also presented
Col. Power with pair of handsome
cuff buttons for his kindness and at
tention to them.
At the State Prohibition COnven-
ton held at Jackson a resolution in
troduced by Judge Cowan was adopt
ed, providing for sending a commit
tee of eleven to the next session of the
legislature to stay with it till it passes
the law prohibiting the sale of liquor
in Mississippi or until it adjourns.
Aldermen Baum and Walsh got
into "rukas" last week while the
Vicksburg City Council was in session
and quite an exciting scene occurred,
into which Mayor Beck and all the
rest Of tho Roard aapo mann bo;no