The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-20
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

The Fayette Chronicleha has come out
for Cameron.
Sam Jones will visit Vicksburg and
NatchcZ next fall.
Baugh's well at Brandon has open
cd for the season.
The Bulletin SAYS the Republicans
will put out Il ticket in Holmes.
st. Johns day, June 22nd, will be
celebrated in many Mississippi towns.
There will he "a sale of city lots at
Garden City, Franklin county, on
July LIST.
A female tramp, with dying infant
in her arms, visited Port Glib
son last week.
Judge Peytom, of Hazlohurst the
upright Judge and noble christian
gentleman, is dying.
Mr.. Joseph Wallace, respected
citizen of Lawrence county, died last
week in his S3rd year.
The Grand Lodge of the Indepen-
dent Order of Good Templars, meets
in Greenwood June Goth.
The Rankin County Convention
will be held June 10Th. The county
is put down for Cameron.
DR.. j. 7. Mangham, well known
ply stefan of Yazoo City, died on the
10th, after brief illness.
Hons. Pat Henry and VIM. Buchan
an are the leading candidates for
Representatives in Rankin.
An AlumnB Association has been
organized by the graduates of Blue
Mountain Female College.
! Greenwood is soon to have a $780,
! 900 bank, $4,000 oil mill, and a
100000 compress and warehouse.
The last spike on the Georgia Pacif-
/ ic between Columbus and Greenville,
was driven at Winona last Monday.
/ The board of trustees of the jackson
graded public schools have reelected
! Prof. j. c. Brooks for another year.
/ The Board of Supervisors of Kinds
are discussing proposition to build
an $4,000 bridge across the Pearl at
jackson.
The Lawrence County Press has
received the first cotton bloom. 1t
was from the field of Ransom Baggett,
cOlored man.
The L. n. O. x T. Railroad has
purchased the Little j. and will
broaden the gauge at once from Har-
riStOn to NatchcZ.
Jones county instructed for Stone for
Governor, Evans for Lieutenant
Governor, Love for Treasurer, and
W. w. Stone for Auditor.
John Burns, of Durant, while
cleaning ont u well, was overcome by
foul air and died in IL few minutes
after being drawn to the surface.
The State Prohibition Convention
at Jackson July 2nd, promises to be
we'll attended. The railroads will
give reduced rates to delegates.
Two Mormon Elders recently re-
ceived q vigorous thrashing by citi-
Zens i'll Chickasaw county and tender
ly admOnished to leave the county.
The Lexington Advertiser says the
race in Holmes will he friendly con-
/ test between the Cameron and Lee
men, and that it will not take sides.
Hon. I. l.. Darden, Treasurer of
! the State Alliance, is candidate for
Representative in jefferson, subject
! to the action of the Democratic mi =
mary.
The buildings, plant and machinery
of the Nicksburg Canning Co., have
been sold to Smith Bros, of that city,
together with all its outstanding CON
| tracts.
The Natchez Democrat invites all
! the candidates for State Offices to the
military encampment on the oath, and
says they will have fine opportuni-
ty then to canvass.
W. +. Hughes, the noted Baptist
singer who participated in the pro-
tracted meeting at Hazlehurst and
other places not long since, died in
Meridian on the 18th.
! Captain Leggett, well-known
farmer, and Hon. }. C. Lamkin, May
or of Summit, are the opposing candi-
dates for Representative in the Demo-
cratic primary of Pike.
Jackson paid Sam Jones $500 for
his meeting there, and $3.50 for his
orphan asylum. Between six and
seven hundred members were added
to the various churches.
Kinds, which was in debt when
Prohibition was adopted there in 1886,
had all of her debts paid and nearly
$4,000 cash in her treasury when
the saloons We're voted back in Jack
son short time ago.
The Democrats of Jasper county
in mass meeting on the 18th, instruct
ed for Barksdale as first choice for
Governor, and Stone for second
choice, A. f. McGee for secretary
of State and A. Q. May for State
Treasurer.
1t is settled that Brandon will be
temporarily one of the terminal
points of the Mobile, Hattiesburg and
Kansas City road. The town sub
scribed nearly $4,000, conditional on
the roads building their depot within
One-fOurth of a mile of the court
house.
A conference of colored men was
held at jackson on the 18th, looking
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