The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-24
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Typhoid fever has been rayishing
Franklin County.
Knoxville had an elopement last
week, Mrs. Laugham and Mr.. Henry
Gillis-
The seat of every Mississippi Con-
gresham, except Mr.. Allen will be
contested.
Mr.. Jack p. Bradford, clerk of the
Edwards House, at Jackson, died last
week of congestion.
Mrs. Lynch, the mother of Exon
gresham John r. Lynch, died in
Natchez on the 10th.
Montgomery county leads off the
local option elections by going dry
by an increased majority.
Mr. Edward Fondren and
and Miss Dolly Rutherford were mar
ried in Jackson on the 18th.
There were forty-two counties rep
resented at the recent colOred Farm
er's State Alliance in WinOna.
CT. Thompson, is the editor of the
Knoxville, Franklin County, Progress.
May joy and cash abide with him.
The Greenville press state emphati-
cally that the negroes who burned Col.
Paxton's residence were not lynched.
Some of the papers are consOling
their readers with the prophesy that
sthere1l be plenty of cold weather
YETI
The masquerade ball was q success at
Vicksburg ON the 18TH, given by the
Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Associa-
ton.
Minnie Lewis, the 10-year old
daughter Of Captain Joe Lewis of Pass
Christian, was fatally burned on the
5th. inst.
The Yazoo City Herald says that
"Rev. John H. Boyd is the best preach
er of his age in Mississippi" He is q
Presbyterian.
VIM. Lindsey, COL, is held at Vicks-
burg for the murder of j. Long, of
New Orleans who was recently found
under trestle.
Harry Jones was beating his wife at
Leland, and upon his brother enter
ing to interfere, he shot him dead.
Jones is now in Jail.
Rev. J. B. Gambrell and his esti-
mable wife celebrated their silver
wedding at their home in Meridian on
Monday the 18th inst.
A stone was thrown into a train
near GlOster last week, breaking a
glass and causing much CONSERVATION
among the passengers.
Lee county has killed more meat
this winter than for many years past
and has raised more than enough corn
for home consumption.
Gov. Lowry has granted a respite
till the Goth of February to George
, Clark, the wife murderer, to be hang
ed at Greenville, Miss.
Lemuel ROseman, who killed Frank
Hughes, a colored barber at jackson,
on Christmas day, has been found
guilty of mansiaughter.
DR.. S. L. Roquemore, who robbed
some college students at Clinton in
the fall has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for five years.
A farmer in Yazoo county has five
bales of cotton for which he has re-
fused 25 cents pound. 1t is of the
Sea leland long staple variety.
The Vicksburg True Blues, colored
military company, are try
ing to raise money sufficient to carry
them to Washington in March.
Barksdale, Cameron, Ford, Feath-
erstone, Lee, Muldrow, Peoples, Stone,
Taylor and Van Eaton are only few
of the names mentioned for Governor
of Mississippi.
Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson con-
firmed Miss IONA Craig and Mrs. Kate
Latimer at Mississippi City last week,
and was the guest of Mr.. Jefferson
Davis at BeauvOir.
A white infant was found on the
trestle of the L. N. o. g. T. R. R., in
Vicksburg, Sunday. 1t was so placed
that it was sure to be found, yet could
not be injured by the train.
Recently while Mr.. Eric Norquist
was repairing the cupola of the Lex
ington court house he went upon the
roof and slipped to the ground, dying
in few minutes, from the fall.
Andrew Taylor, a cook on one of
the L. N. O. & T. trains was run over
by an engine and killed on the 10th.
He was scuffling with another negro
and didn't leave the track in time.
The Journal says that the country
around TupelO is richer in historical
data with reference to the Chickasaw
Indians and the DeSotO expedition
than any other portion of the State.
The State Horticultural Society held
pleasant and profitable meet
ing at Crystal Springs last week.
DR.. H. E. Mckay was reelected
President and Jas. A. Terry, of Terry,
Secretary.
Richard D. Hunt, a well-known
planter died at Greenville last fall.
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