The Brookhaven leader., 1889-02-14
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.


J. ID. Harrell has been appointed
postmaster Mt Osyka.
Calvin Taylor died at Handsboro
last week in his S5th year.
jackson is reaching out after bag
ging factory and Methodist col.
lege.
A store at GlOster was burglarized
last week and 300 stolen from the
safe.
The Pascagoula Democrat-Star
wants Lowry Island sold to saw-mill
men.
The Magnolia Gazette has been pre-
scented with white rat with pink
eyes.
The Lexington Advertiser has en-
tered upon its Sind year, and is pros
pering.
Jno. l.. Sullivan is announced as
Il candidate for Sheriff in LetlOre
county
The Winona Advance will be moved
to jackson and there published as a
weekly paper.
Thos. Mcdonald, of Amite county,
killed a hog % months old that weigh
ed $50 pounds.
The grand jury of jefferson county
was in session two days and found
two indictments.
Vicksburg's new bank will open
soon, with Mr.. Lee Richardson as
President of the company.
The acreage of cotton in the va
zoo delta promises to be very mate
rally increased this year.
Ira l.. Fielder has been elected to
Supervisors from District No. 8, Pike
county to succeed j. n. Walker.
Miss Binnie Vinson, editress of the
Scooba Herald, says she wants the
next Governor of Mississippi to be a
young man.
Atlas Randall, while brutally beat
ing one of his children near Artesia,
turned and killed his niece, Julia
Shular, for interfering.
The Clarion-Ledger publishes an
alphabetical list containing the names
of thirty-fOur gentlemen who have
been prominently mentioned for
Governor.
The ladies of Greenwood will give
Confederate ball this evening for
the benefit of the Confederate Mon
ument. The hall will be decked out
in Confederate colors, relics, etc.
The new hotel at Vicksburg is now
an assured fact, the necessary amount,
$50, 900, having been subscribed. The
subscriptions range in amount from
one share at 500 to twenty shares.
A fire broke out at the Jackson
compress on the 9th, but was quickly
extinguished. About forty bales of
cotton, belonging to L. J. Martin, was
damaged to the extent of Sc or 81 per
bale.
James S. Richardson's Dahomey
plantatation, in Bolivar county, con-
tanning $4,000 acres in one tract, the
largest cotton plantation in the world,
will this year put 10000 acres in cot
ton alone.
Prof. Dobyns, of the Deaf and
Dumb Institute, says according to the
last census, there are in Mississippi
six deaf and dumb persons, who are
also blind, and would like to be in
formed of their whereabouts.
Rev. John H. Boyd, Presbyterian
pastor at Durant for the past two
years, has accepted a call to the
Lauderdale street Presbyterian
church, of Memphis. Heis one of the
rising young ministers of the South.
Tie officers of the Second Regi-
ment of the State militia, elected at
jackson last week, are as follows
Colonel, Geo. S. Green; Lieut.. Col
onel, c. j. Searles; Major, Geo. NJ.
Govan; Surgeon, j. c. French; Chap
lain, II. F. Sproles-
A Starkville gentleman tells the
Journal that he milks two graded Jer-
sey COWS and sold 81 pounds of batter
from them in March, besides supply
ing his family with milk and butter-
family composed of himself, wife
and several children.
Gov. Lowry has appointed Hon.
Geo. Winston, of COahOma county, to
he judge of the fourth district, vice
j. w. Wynn, resigned. Judge Win
stOn is said to be an able lawyer, and
is expected to wear the ermine with
great dignity.
S. A. Jacobowsky, n merchant of
Summit, has failed. Preferred credit
Ors: Hilborn agency, New York. $500;
Mrs. Hannah Cohen, jackson, Miss,
$500; c. Mendleson, $3.50; Hyman
& Bros, $257; 1 Moyse & Son, $3.50;
Lamkin g. Lamkin, 800. Liabilities
and assestS not ascertained.
Capt. Archie McGehee, clerk of the
United States court for the Southern
district of Mississippi, died at his
home in Jackson last Friday night,
after only few hours illness. He
was between 65 and 20 years of age,
and belonged to one of the oldest
and most respected families of the
State.
Gen. S. d. Lee says that the govern
ment experiment station at the A. &
NJ. College is destined to prove one of
the greatest bOons which has ever
fallen to the lot of the farming inter-
est of Mississippi. His printed re-
port of the experiments at the station
will, as soon as completed, be distrib-
uted among the farmers of the State.