The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-10
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Adams county VIII holu DeHlo-
cratic primary Oct. %.
Winona is pulling for the location
of the Methodist College.
The price of cotton seed has fallen
81 90 per ton at Vicksburg.
The Ripley Sentinel issued a
splendid Is page trade edition.
10000 acres of the Lowry Island
State lands are offered for sale.
The Evening Post is now the only
reliable Democratic paper i'll Nicks-
burg.
Gov. Stone addressed vast assem-
blage of people the last day of the
Macon Fair.
Mrs. Newton Varnado, of Pike
county, dropped dead at her home
last Thursday.
Armstrong; Confederate Brigade
will hold its fourth annual reunion IN
the city of Greenville.
Willie Lott, mail rider, was
robbed near State Line on the 18th by
highwaymen and the mail bags rified
The Madison County Fair, which is
always good, takes place at Canton
this year on Oct. 2lst to 10th lnclu-
sive.
The Pattona district of Claiborne
county has driven the saloons out by
majority petition. Let the good work
20 on.
Albert Poe, white, was shot and
seriously wounded in Perry county by
negro into whose house he was
| trying to force an entrance.
General L. c. Walthall will deliver
the opening address at the National
Association of Ex-Confederate which
meets in Aberdeen Oct. 10th.
The State University opened with
| 23S students, the largest attendance
for years. Pro. Mayes' canvass of the
| State Las borne good results.
The Pike county circuit court meets
on the third Monday of October, at
which the trial of w. L. Rails, the
| last of the indicted NarnadO murder
ers, will come off.
The total number of bales of cotton
raised in the counties of Bolivar,
! Washington, ISSaquena and Sharkey,
in 1897 was IA 200 bales. In 1888 the
crop was short, being only 107 900
bales. The estimate for this year Is
155, 600 bales.
Edward J.. Fontaine, who brokc into
the pOStOilice at Brookhaven last
wear, and was sentenced to imprlSon-
ment in the Sing Sing (N. y peniten
tiary, was pardoned recently by Pres
! idtnt Harrison. His sentence would
have expired November II, 1889.
Judge A. NJ. Clayton, the oldest and
one of the most honored lawyers i'll
the State, died last week i'll his SSH
year. He was leader at the bar OF
two States and at the time of his death
had practiSed law longer than any
other man in the country, not even
excepting David Dudley Field.
Republican State ticket-For Gov
enor, J. II. Chalmers, of Tennessee
Lieutenant Governors james ID. Lynch
of Clay; Secretary Of State, w. E.
Mollison, cololed, of Issaquena;
Treasurer, John S. Jones, of Tate;
Auditor, Edward Young, of Washing
ton; Attorney General, w. d. Frazee,
of Chickasaw; Superintendent of Ed
cation, VIM. Parsons, OF Adams.
The exhibit of the business of the
United States land Office at jackson
shows an unusual demand for land fOl
homestead purposes. The entries are
mostly in the counties of Marion
PerrN Hancock and Harrison. There
are nearly 100000 acres still subject
to homestead entry, mostly i'll the
southern counties. Actual settlement
and the payment of $14 secures a
homestead of 100 acres.
j. A. Thomas, merchant of Cumber-
land, Miss; j. J.. Lawley, of the firm
of Lawley & Bro; Lon w. Crouch, OF
the firm of Crouch & Lagan, both
firms Of Hohenlinden, Miss, and Paul
Sun Greek, Oktibbeha county, were
burned to death in II. E. Lofts restau-
rant at Winona Sunday morning. 1t
was horrible affair, and the origin
of the fire is wrapped in mystery
Several others narrowly escaped
with their lives.
The Valley Record, whose editor
was regulur attendant at the Sam
Jones Camp Meeting, says when Rev.
Mr.. Hopper called on all who had
read the book HeZekiah, to stand up,
a good many arose. When the minis
ter announced there was no such book
in the Bible, an invitation to sit
! down was not necessary. They all
went down with suddenness and
thud that shook the Tabernacle, and
looked around to see if they had been
! seen.
| Blewett Lee, the only child of Gen.
S. ID. Lee of the Mississippi A. & NJ.
College, after graduating with first
honor at the Mississippi A. & NJ. Col
lege when mere boy, carrying off
hOnors at the University of Virginia
and Harvard, and spending a year in
Germany to perfect his legal studies,
has returned home and has accepted
the place of Secretary under Chief JUS
tice Gray of the Supreme Court of the
United States at salary of 81 900
per annum. He was recommended
by professors at Harvard. Mr.. Lee is
only % years old.
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