The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Real estate is advancing III Nihih
son county.
Ellisville's Mayor and City Council
have resigned.
The Democrats and Republicans of
Bolivar have fused.
Washington county is to have q
100000 Court house.
The State Prohibition ConyentiOn
meets next Tuesday.
The residence of DIR. Carson, of Du-
rant, was burned last week.
The Democratic primary in Frank
lin county will take place July 9th.
Major Barksdale delivered the an
nual address at the Gillsburg Institute.
Rev. Joe Jones, brother of Sam,
is holding reyiyils in central Missis :
sippi
Hon. j. F. Sexton is a candidate for
re election to the Legislature from
Copiah.
Alex. Walker, residing near Sum-
nit, has been sent to Jail for 80 days
for beating his wife.
Robert C. Just, a Vicksburg jewel
er, was horribly burned in the face
by lamp explosion.
Warren county holds her conven-
tion July Sth, to appoint delegates to
the State Convention.
Wheeler Hillhouse disemboweled
Ed. Crawford in house of ill-fame
at Water Valley last week.
A raid was made on colored va
grants at Durant last week and more
than $4,000 collected in fines.
James Lambert, an old and respect
ed citizen of Lawrence county, died
last week in an apoplectic fit.
1t is reported V. & A. Meyer & Co.,
of New Orleans, will start bank at
Port Gibson the coming season.
Bishop Thompson's residence was
burglarized at jackson last week and
several private valuables were stolen.
The Port Gibson Oil Mills closed
for the season on the Goth, and cele-
brated the occasion with a big dinner.
Col. w. T. Withers, the Col. of
Withers' Mississippi battery, died 1e'
Gently at his home in Lexington, KY.
In two days the grand jury of the
second district of Marion county re-
turned AZ indictments against blind
tiger men.
The Baptist State Convention meets
in West Point July 25th. The town
is making arrangements to entertain
them handsomely.
Livingston Peyton, of the Mayors
vile Spectator, has been nominated
for treasurer of Issaquena county.
Peyton will do to tie to.
Manager Hogshead, of the Merid-
ian Telegraph office, has gone to
Washington to have patented an in
strument to convey messages to run
ming trains.
The Seashore Campmeeting will be-
gin July 9Th and continue ten days.
The Crystal Springs Campmeetlng
will commence August 9Th and con-
tinue one week.
Gov. Lowry has pardoned Rev. II.
A. Grantham, who had been indicted
in Hancock county for shooting at w.
II. Abbott, who was charged with
having violently outraged the wife of
Grantham.
On the 18th inst. the two negroes
that murdered Capt. Pat Hamilton at
Aberdeen were hung, without an out
break, but before the occurrence a
drunken man named Webb killed Nc
Coy, a policeman.
The Penitentiary Board of control
last week cancelled the contract of l..
c. Dulaney, of Washington county of
fifty-fve convicts on account of NAL
treating, and released them at once
to w. A. Pollock, of Greenville.
The Alfalfa Alliance recommended
the directors of the proposed bagging
factory to purchase suitable machine
ry for cotton bagging and to act in
concert with resolutions passed by
the National Alliance at Birmingham,
May Is, 1889.
The Jackson Fire Department reOr-
ganized last week by the election of
L. b. MOsely as president, Oliver
Clifton as chief engineer; j. w. Lang
ley, first assistant; C. c. Blood, sec
ond assistant; A. Kossman, secretary;
A. Virden, Jr., treasurer.
Sunfower county instructed for
w. w. Stone for Auditor and endOrs-
ed John r. Cameron for Governor;
NJ. M. Evans for Lieutenant Cover
nor; G.. M. Govan for Secretary of
State;J j. j. Evans for Treasurer; and
J. r. Preston for Superintendent of
Education.
A dispatch says one of the funniest
things that has happened in Green
vile for some time was the shooting
of a negro last week by policeman.
The latter blazed away at the former
and shot him in the elbow, the ball
glancing and striking the negro in
the cheek. AS he spit the ball out he
said, "Look here, white man, you
quit shOOtin at me-"
At Emery Church, near Sardis, Mrs.
Hattie Campbell shot and fatally
wounded John Williams. The shoot
ing occurred Immediately after the
conclusion of the service. The
cause was the circulation by
Williams of the report that he had
been criminally intimate with Mrs.