The Brookhaven leader., 1889-04-18
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Prof. Leon is showing and selling
bitters in Holmes county.
jackson now has three open saloons
with license fee of $1,000 each.
At Natchez last Sunday Bishop
Thompson confirmed class of Sc.
Crystal Springs is to have a wagon
factory added to her other industries.
A bogus Bunch, the express robbcr,
was arrested in Nicksburg last week.
of Warren cOunty's 49, 900 acres
of land 100000 are under cultiva-
ton.
The Pike Circuit Court opened with
"a civil and 80 criminal cases on the
docket.
The Baptist revival at Hazlehurst
resulted in Is acccssions to- the
church.
Hattiesburg has voted $40. 900 to the
Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City
! Railroad.
The proposed baggng factory at
jackson will be adapted to either jute
or pine straw.
A colored Baptist church five miles
from Magnolia was burned by an in
cendiary last week.
There were six convictions for hon.
Ocides in the Warren Circuit Court,
all but one being negroes.
The Scott county Circuit Court SEN
fenced negro boy to the penitentiary
for attempting to wreck train.
Madison county Democracy have
held county convention and declar
ed for Hon. John X. Cameron for Gov
ernOr.
An attempt was made by negroes at
! Natchez to assassinate a young white
man on the 18th inst. named Henry
Hopkins.
Rev. George Alexander, d. D., pas
tor of University Place Presbyterian
Church, New York, has been visit
ing Natchez.
Natchez is to have a SC, 900 Confed-
crate monument. The corner stone
will be laid on the Goth with appro-
pirate ceremonies.
Capt. II. w. Banks, Ex- United
States Internal Revenue Collector,
has purchased the Columbus Index
and will try his hand at journalism.
DR.. w. c. Rodgers, a Jackson drug
gist, let a pistol fall which he was
carrying along the street in a paper
last Monday and shot himself in the
knee.
Section Foreman VIM. MoSley, of
the Valley Road, was killed last week
by Il locomotive which ran INTO
track velocipede on which he was
riding.
The annual encampment of the
State Militia will he held at some
other point than Camp Henry this
year, Camp II. having been condemn
ed as too inaccessible.
c. n. Gibbs, who killed man
named Hood about II years ago and
ran away, was lately brought back
and indicted by the Scott county
circuit courty for manslaughter.
A society for the the promotion of
social purity has been organized at
the State University under favorable
auspices, and promises to be a per-
manent power for good in the student
life.
Mrs. Elizabeth Newman, of Amite
county, Miss, is 76 years of age. She
has ten children, 60 grand Children, SO
great grand children, and also "a
dead, which makes total progeny of
III.
The White immigration Conven-
ton of Warren county met on the
18th and organized by electing F. NJ.
Andrews President, and DR.. j. S. Aus
tin and r. II. Watts as Vice Presi-
dents.
A twelve year old son of Mr.. Jno
II. Taylor, six miles fwest of Crystal
Springs while attempting to shoot a
hawk discharged the whole load into
his arm, which shattered it so badly
that amputatiOn was necessary.
Count S. j. Rauner, of st. Peters
burg, an accredited agent of the
Russian Government, has been visit
ing Nicksburg, Port Gibson and por-
tons of the State for the purpose of
studying the American system of
cotton culture and handling.
A company operating under char
ter under the laws of this State and
known as the Davis Land Company
has been organized at jackson for the
purpose of buying and improving or
otherwise disposing of 5000 acres of
wild but rich lands in Arkansas, the
land being the property of Jefferson
Davis.
The Warren county white Immigra-
ton Convention which met on the
18th, Resolved, That it is the sense
of this meeting that the State
should provide for the organization of
a State immigration Bureau, and
should make adequate appropriations
to the end of taking all proper and |
necessary measures to secure desir- |
able immigrants to SETTLE
The Varnado murderers will proba-
bly, be tried at the present term of tie
Pike county Circuit Court. Judge
Chrisman instructed the grand jury
that the written testimony of the wit
nesses who were examined in the
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