The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-21
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
Canton has a board of trade.


An unusually large number of
Northern people have been wintering
at Biloxi.
The COnchatta Index il the name
of new paper in Newton county by
J. w. Brooks.
a steamer called the New Jennie is
now plying in the Pearl as high up
as Monticello.
AlonzO Shelton was killed by VIM.
Conner in Vicksburg whisky dive
last Saturday.
The Wesson public schools have the
finest class of teachers and run ten
months in the year.
Harry Tracey, the great Alliance
orator of Texas, will lecture at Mon
ticello on April 3rd.
w. H. Prewett, a farmer living
near Magnolia, committed suicide by
taking Rough on Rats.
Some of Yazoo county's citizens are
leaving the Sunny South and moving
to Washington Territory.
Summit will have bank and sever
al large merchandise establishments
to succeed her saloons. So it goes.
Capt. Oliver, of Wesson, agrees to
donate lot for town hall. What
BrOokhavenite with some extra dirt
will do likewise2
pol;vo, oounty ,,otoI 1150 900 to
the Loop Line Railroad to Rosedale
and now complains that she is not
given daily train.
The Westville News threatens to
cut off all deliuquents who do not pay
up by April LIST. The Lord will dc
the same thing later.
Major Thos. f. Grafton, for many
years editor of the NatcheZ Demo
crat, has become associate editor OF
the Natchez Banner.
There is q twenty acre piece of
land in Grenada county known as the
"RObin ROOst, where millions of rob-
ms are said to rOOst.
Leland is rapidly improving. There
are now eleven brick stores in course
of construction, also building in
which will be established bank with
a capital of $4,000.
A new town has been located in
SuntiOwer county at point about one
and half miles above Johnsonville,
where the Georgia Pacific railroad
crosses the Sunfower river.
The chancery court has ordered the
assets of Green's Bank returned to
Colonel J. l.. Power, the receiver, who
will proceed to wind the matter up
and realize on whatever is of
value.
w. f. Price, former member of
the Board of Supervisors of Copiah
county and man who stood very high
among his fellow citizens at one time,
was convicted last week of horse
stealing.
1t has been decided by the Attor-
ney General that Justices of the
Peace can only collect 1925 from de-
linquent poll tax payers, instead
of 1925 as was at first thought should
be charged.
Will Harris, the Water Valley
murderer who killed James Jenkins,
has been found guilty and the penalty
fixed by the jury at imprisonment for
life. 1t was with difficulty that Har-
ris escaped lynching, and there is
much dissatisfaction with the YER
dict.
G.. n. Frazier was fined 5000 by the
Mayor of Durant for running a
blind tiger, and the Durant Democrat
SAYS as there are also three indict-
ments against him in the Circuit
Court for the same offence, his future
Whereabouts isn't likely to prove a
very tranquil one.
At Hazlehurst last week the Circuit
Court decided that county is
liable for the medical bill of paupers
outside of the poor house, whereupon
the board of supervisors of that
county resolved to make no further
allowances for any paupers except
those quartered at the regular poor
house.
Capt. p. NJ. b. Waite, sheriff of
Tate county, generally takes the
blue ribbon as IL close collector
of taxes, being charged by the Audi
tor for 1888 with $961919, and col
lecting all except $50.64, consisting of
personal insolvencies, erroneous as
sessments of reality and State
lands.
Mr.. John II. Watts, teacher in
Newton county, shot and killed Il
trustee of the school on the 11th inst.
A dispute grew out of some tales told
''Out of school" and the trustee, S. w.
Vance, went to the school house to
confer with Watts about them when
the difficulty occurred with the above
result.
Vicksburg's cotton receipts are 1886
bales shorter than at the same time
last year. The receipts at Natchez are
1000 bales less to date than for last
year, and at Greenville 5000 bales less
than at the same time last year. If
these were dry towns some loud
mounthed lying anti would say that
Prohibition did it.
Rod Lowry has been heard from
again. He was arrested in Vicksburg
last week and placed in the city pris-
on, charged with stealing two over
coats from a saloon near the Pacific
Hotel. He threw the coats out of
n booLn xyinHnw intn on allay He