The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-28
SOUTHERN oLEANIN0S.

eTal prominent steamboat men 10 eStaD-
Hsh an independent cotton-seed oil mill
in New Orleans is assuming definite
shape, and there Is every reason to be.
lieve that strong company will be or
ganized.
John Davis, aged seventy-two years, an
inmate of the Anderson County Is. Co.
poor-house, eloped recently with Mrs.
Margaret Compton, another inmate (both
white), and were married in q neighbor.
ing village. The officiating minister de-
clined to act until he had obtained the
consent by telegraph o. the Anderson
County Commissioners.
The negro exodus from North Carolina
is about to take the form of colonization
of negroes in Arkansas. Negroes are
holding mass meetings almost nightly,
and negro orators and preachers are urg-
ing them to co1onize. A circular was Is.
sued recently calling meeting to organ.
ize the "North Carolina Emigrant Asso-
ciation," for the purpose of securing orr
genized action toward colonizing all the
negroes in the State in Arkansas, where
they are offered lands for q trihe. The
.circulars say that white people do not
want them here and they have determined
to go.
Governor Lowrey Of Mississippi is try
ing to secure for his State the new navy
yard, the establishment OF which was pro-
vided for by the last Congress.
In the City Cotirt at Birmingham, Ala,
Samuel Stephens has filed 8 suit for
divorce against his wife, Mary Ann
Stephens, on the ground of desertion.
The plaintiff is over seventy eight years
old and his wife is over seventy.
B. Lacy Terry, who formerly lived at
Florence, Ala. committed suicide at Rad.
ford, Va, few days ago. Young Terry
was a son Of ex-Congressman Terry, Of
Virginia.
Isham Cannon, who shot and killed his
wife in Tuscaloosa, Ala, last spring, has
just been captured and lodged in Jail at
Tallahassee, Fla.
DIR. James Rodman, who has been SUI
perintendent of the Western Kentucky
Lunatic Asylum at Hopkinsville, KY, for
twenty-six years, will retire from Office at
the expiration of his term next month.
Owing to an appeal to the Supreme
Court, the hanging Of Harrison Blackburn
and Sylvester Clarke, convicted Of the
murder of Captain Hamilton, did not take
place at Aberdeen, Miss, March %, ac-
cording to programme.
The City Of New Orleans has sued the
members Of the former Board of Assessors
and their sureties for $50 900, the amount
alleged to have been paid to persons who
were carried on the city rolls as clerks,
but who performed no service for the city
The large estate of the late w. A.
Thomas, at Richmond, Va, has been
placed in the hands of receiver. This
is the latest legal move in the case in
which tho immense property is claimed
by colored natural daughter Of Mr..
Thomas.
A contract has been closed at Florence,
Ala, between the Florence Railroad &
Improvement Company, the Florence
Cotton g. Iron Company and a Philadel-
phia cotton manufacturing company for
the erection of 100000 cotton manu-
featuring plant at that place.
The Governor Of Alabama has appoint
ed Hon. VIM. L. Martin, Of Scottsb boro,
Jackson County, Attorney General to fill
the vacancy caused by the appointment
of Hon. Thos. N. Mcclellan to the Su-
preme Court bench.
Carrie Rose, the ten-year- old daughter
of Rev. w. L. Rose, rector of st. Mary's
Episcopal Church, at Birmingham, Ala.
was burned to death few days ago. She
was playing near the CRATE and her cloth
ing caught fire. She was fatally burned
before assistance reached her.
The total coal production in West Vir-
ginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Alabama,
Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas
and Texas in 1888 was 1S,001, ,567 tons,
valued at the mines at $19,S16, TT, against
total production of 1921, ,743 tons in
1887, valued at SIG, 59s.697.
Mr.. Wethers, member Of the corps OF
engineers engaged in surveying a new
railroad line from Montgomery to Annis-
ton, Ala. was drowned in the Tallapoosa
river, few evenings since. The party
were sounding the river for foundations
for bridge, and Wethers' boat sank with
him. The body had not been recovered.
Pitts Jones, a prominent young man Of
about twenty five, fell dead while walk
ing along a road near Pikeville, Tenn, a
few evenings since. The cause is sup
posed to have been heart disease, as he
was in reasonably good health, to all ap-
pearances, an hour before. He leaves a
wife and child.
Colonel Gabriel Monhegut, superin-
tendent of the mint at New Orleans, has
his resignation TO Washington.
When asked his reason for resigning,
Colonel Monhegut stated that four years
ago he believed that ''to the victors be-
long the spoils," and that he was still Of
the same opinion.
Wing Lee, who has been running an
opium joint with laundry front at Louis
vile, KY. for some time past, was arrest
ed, few nights ago, and his place raided.
He was caught in the act Of preparing the
pipe. Two women were in the house at
the time. They were fined and Wing Lee
was held to answer.
General Jas. 7. Holtzclaw, of Mont
gomery, Ala, recently received a letter
from General Marcus j. Wright asking
him to be one of one hundred incorpora-
tors of society to preserve the battle
field of Chiekamauga. All the States
which had troops in the famous battle are
to be represented-fifty from each Of the
two contending armies. 1t is proposed to
obtain a charter from the State of Geor-
gia and model a society somewhat upon
the plan of the Gettysburg Association.
James Evans, a white boy in the en-
ploy of G. w. Harrison, living on the
Wade Lyon farm. three miles west of
Jackson, Tenn, plowed up an old fruit
jar, few days since, containing 81, 400 in
gold and silver, supposed to have been
buried by a negro during the late war.
The dates on the coins ranged from 1888
to 1856. Most Of the silver pieces were
dimes, half dimes and quarters.
Captain Jack Hardy, the well-known
sporting man, died at New Orleans, re-
Gently, after short illness, of paralysis
of the brain. Captain Hardy was born in
Hillsboro, Scott County, Miss, ffty-four
years ago.
Colonel Enoch Ensley, of Memphis.
Tenn, has commenced the erection of an