The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19
THE STATE.
NEWS = ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Advance, is u candidate for Sergeant
alarms of the Senate.
Mrs. NJ. C. Matthews, widow of the
late Print Matthews, has been ap-
pointed postmistress at Winona.
An attempt was made to assassin
ated Deputy Sheriff Frank Conerly of
Pike county near Magnolia last
week.
Two negroes near Meridian took
morphine through mistake fOrquinine
and the act was followed by double
funeral.
The New South is the name of n
monthly publication just started at
the new town of Garden City, Frank
! lin county.
Prof. r. p. Moore former editor of
the WessOn paper, was married III
Meridian on the 29th ult. to Miss
jamie Hyer.
Gen. Geo. c. Mckee, the leading
white-line Republican of the State,
has been appointed Receiver of Pub
lie Moneys at jackson.
II. S. scarborough, bondsmen of
Sullivan, killain and Bud Renaud,
was stricken with apoplexy at Pur-
Wis on the 10th, and his life is despair
ed of.
The Pascagoula Lumber Company
has lately closed IL contract Tor eight
millions and half feet of lumber for
the Northwest to be delivered this
winter.
Pike county will be represented in
the Industrial Institute & College,
at Columbus, Miss, by Misses Rosa
McEwen, Emma Gatlin and Anna
Teunisson.
DIR. w. c. Lear, of West Station,
while rolling his baby home in baby
carriage, placed his gun in the buggy,
with the muzzle toward him, and III
some way the gun was discharged,
the whole load entering his breast.
Col. b. f. (Saw Mill Jones has de-
cided to change his work from one
end of the Capital to the other. Hav-
ing graduated as Sergeant Arms
of the Senate, he will be candidate
this year for Sergeant-at-Arm of the
House.
Forty persons, 80 of whom were
cOl0red, went through the civil ser
vice examination 1T jackson last
week. Twenty seven want to be
railway mail clerks (all colOred but
three), thirteen departmental clerks,
six copyists, one post Office inspector
and one meteorological clerk.
Paul Jones, the negro postal clerk
on the jackson and Greenwood route,
who has during the past two months
claimed to have received several
anonymous letters threatening his
life if he didn't resign, has been fired
by the department for incompe'
tency.
F. NJ. Ard, former citizen of Lin
coin county, died suddenly at his
home s miles east of Beauregard, on
the 4th instant. He had just returned
from town, apparently well, took ii
drink of water, complained suddenly
of having a cOngestivc chill, and in
Il few minutes was dead.
The Noxubee Democrat, by j. +.
Madison, is il new born journalistic
| product begotten by the factiona
Democratic contest i'll NOxubee cOun-
| ty These party discussions are to be
deplorcd, and all good Democrats
should. labor to heal them, and dis
countenanced all efforts to widen
them.
Mr.. Allen Smith, the Democratic
nominee for Sheriff of issaquena
county, died last week from wound
received under very peculiar circum-
stances. lie was attempting to bride
IL mule, when the animal kicked him,
striking pistol in his pocket which
was exploded, inflicting the wound
from which he died.
The white citizens on Tallahatchie
river held meeting and passed reso
lutions strongly condemning the uses
to which the cOlOred Alliances had
been perverted in that section by ras-
cally leaders, and warned the editor
of the colored alliance paper at Val
den to send no more of his papers to
the TallahatclIie country.
Besides figuring as self-confessed
perjurer in the Hamilton case, the ne
gro Oliver Cromwell, who stirred up
all the race trouble in LeflOre county,
served several years in the peniten-
tiary for burglary and larceny, and
was in reconstruction times a prOmi-
nent figure in race troubles, having
participated in the Clinton riot, and
was afterward the captain of a mil.
ltary company.
John p. Richardson and brothers
own seventeen large plantations and |
and ten stores, located as follows 4:
Ten plantations in the very richest
portions of Mississippi, five planta-
tons in the richest portions of Louis
lana, and one plantation as large and /
valuable as any of the others, in Ar
kansas, six large general merchandise
stores in Mississippi, one in Louis
lana, and one in Arkansas. They also
have large business at Chattanooga,
Tennessee.
The following are the newly elect
ed officers of the State Alliance
President, Robt. c. Patty, of Noxu-
bee; Vice-President, j. II. MCGEE, of
Franklin; Secretary, J. II. Smthson,
of Leake; Treasurer, Il. L. Darden, of
Jefferson; Champlain. S. c. Vinson, of
Tallahatchie; Lecturer, II. w. Cole
man, of Monroe; Assistant Lecturer,
Frank Burkitt, of Chickasaw; Ser
uaontat rms IT N rTnuohstono 81