The Brookhaven leader., 1889-04-11
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Scarlet fever is reported at Coffee
vile.
A mad dog was killed at Summit
last week.
The Mayor of Natchez is having the
city cleaned up.
Duck Hill subscribes $2024 to the
Methodist College.
$50 building lots changed hands in
Meridian last week.
The Rectory at Summit is being re-
paired and painted.
The Mexican Band has been
conceTting in Natchez.
WinOna is to have a two story ma
sonic building 40x125 feet.
Madison Station and Crystal Springs
are shipping strawberries.
Thos. II. Rigby IAN old and wealthy
citizen of Nicksburg, is dead.
Shubuta, Miss, has a spoke factory
with capacity of 1000 per day.
A stock company has raised $1,000
to build a new hotel at Winona.
The w. C. 7. U. of Knoxville gave
an entertainment Tuesday night.
Judge X. j. Allen has been deliver
ing Temperance lectures on the Valley
Railroad.
Most of the business portion of
Clarksdale was destroyed by fire last
Saturday morning.
DR.. Richard Barnett, q young army
surgeon, died in Kansas and was bur
led at Yazoo City on the LIST.
The strawberry season will be at
its height when the w. c. L. U. meets
in Crystal Springs on the 10Th.
The leading issues to-day in this
State are the Constitutional Conven-
ton and the struggle for Office.
Prof. Geo. w. Lawson, ofHernando,
Miss, Grand Reporter of the State for
the X. of H., died last Saturday.
Mr.. J. r. Coon has been appointed
travelling auditor of the L., n. o. & IT..
railroad, vice j. M. Duncan resigned.
Mrs. Alma Eyrich Rembert, beauti-
full young woman and wife for not
quite five months, died in Jackson last
week.
Aberdeen had big fire on the 9th,
resulting in the destruction of eight
stores. Total loss 100000 insurance
$4,000.
The Williamsburg Journal is the
name of new paper soon to be start
ed in Williamsburg by Rev. j. n.
Walker.
The saw. and planning mills and
large quantity of lumber belonging to
II. Leinhardt, were burned at Hads-
boro on the 5th.
Neal S. Brown, of Itawamba cOun-
ty, Miss, recently captured white
buzzard, which he still has alive and
in healthy condition.
Mrs. w. L. Davis, wife of the L.
n. 0. & 7. train dispatcher at Vicks-
burg, died there suddenly last week
and was buried at McComb City later.
The Winona Rifles, with eight sets
of tours, are drilling twice week.
They will be in fine trim for the en-
cam pment on the coast this summer.
The Durant Democrat, Bro. Joe
Almon's paper, has been enlarged
from n six to a seven-cOlumn folio.
May it and its jolly editor continue to
prosper.
John S. Finley, the Democratic
postmaster of Holly Springs, died on
the 18th inst. He was an eX- Confeder-
ate, and belonged to the noted band
of Gen. Morgan.
At the late term of the Chancery
Court in Holmes county, Miss, 16
divorces were grahted-all to ne
one of them got license to marry
other women.
Rev. Samuel Givens, the oldest man
i'll Lowndes county, died at CaledO-
mia on the oath. He was 81 years
old and has been a minister in the
Cumberland Presbyterian church for
about seventy years.
f. c. Lawton, one of Meridian's
bright boys, has been notified by Hon.
c. l.. Anderson, Congressman from
the. 18th district, that he had received
the appointment from the War De-
partment as cadet to West Point.
At Natchez on the 9Th inst. fire
broke out in the stable of Major ST.
mon Mayer, destroying it and setting
fire to the premises of Mr.. j. w. Ho-
gan, the dry goods man. Major May
er's loss is about $4,000 and Mr.. Ho-
gan's about $4,000.
The boys of Rolling Fork got off an
April fool ON the night of the LIST by
making huge pile ofdry goods boxes
on vacant lot, setting them on fire
and spreading the alarm. 1t was fine
fun for the boys, but anything else to
the serious old citizens who jumped
out of their beds and rushed half clad to
the scene of the confagration.
The State Convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association will be
held in Meridian April 25 to % iu-
elusive. The meeting promises to be