The Brookhaven leader., 1889-12-12
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
c1orLsdnle has street lamps.

Meridian wants HeN PVS'ONO
building.
The Greenville Democrat appears
in q new dress.
The municipal contest in Green
vile was red-hot.
A Monroe county farmer makes
money raising goats.
Hazlehurst has growing building
and loan association.
l.. w. Kannen, of Durant, failed
in business last week.
The Lawrence county alliance meets
at Monticello January 10th.
Senator George lately Joined the
Baptist church at Carrollton.
Ex-Chief Justice Arnold and family
have moved to Birmingham.
A white infant was found dead on a
vacant lot in Biloxi last week.
Baird, new town in SuntiOwer
county, wants a newspaper.
The North Mississippi Conference
meets next year at Greenville.
The Circuit Clerks office at Mag
nolia was burglarized Saturday night.
Governor Lowry says he is not a
candidate for Railroad Commits
| sioner.
DR.. w. L. Lee, of the Ellisville Ca
gle, is a candidate for Railroad Com
missioner.
The Signal says the condition OF
the Hazlehurst cemetery Is a dis
grace to the town.
The estate of Col. w. c. Falkner is
valued at $500, 900 and was left to his
wife and children.
DR.. P. w. Peoples, of Jackson, has
sold the Chamberlain House at
Grenada to the Thomas Brothers.
Col. j. r. Mcintosh, who moved a
few years ago from Meridian to Birm-
ingham, Ala, has returned to his first
love.
The North Mississippi towns are be-
hind last year in cotton receipts, con-
sequent upon the shortage in the
crop.
Wesson has put up q larger money
bid for the the location of the Meth
odist College than any town in the
State by $4,000.
The Wesson Mirror has again
changed hands, Mr.. Adams, of the
Hammond Leader, being the last to
assume control.
There are 1165 pOstoffices in Missis-
pi, of which 800 We're established dur
ing the last years, and 81 abolished
during that period.
The Salvation Army has invaded
Mississippi again. A detachment OF
it made their appearance i'll Column
bus, on the Sd inst.
A law and order league has been
organized at Shelby and lewd women
and all classes of idle suspicious char
acters have to move on.
While Henry Dees and Oscar
Moody, two COpiah county boys, were
out hunting, the latter was instantly
killed by the accidental discharge of a
gun.
The Port Gibson Cotton Mills now
belong to V. & A. Meyer & Co. OF
New Orleans, who will shortly reor-
ganize the mills ON q hundred thou
sand dollar basis, and increase the
capacity.
A spectacle peddler giving his name
as Henry Meyer, abscOnded from
Port Gibson last week with hired
horse and buggy, and was afterward
captured by the Marshal of Wesson,
travelling under another name.
Fayette has four school-The
Academy "a high school for girls, a
high school for boys, a free school
for white children, and free school
for colOred children-and the ChrOn-
icle says every one is we'll attended
and efficiently taught.
Capt. w. L. Dinkins of Madison
county makes a speciality of breeding
Shetland ponies. His drove consists
of IL brood mares and 1 stallion The
only other Shetland pony farm that
we know of in the State is that of Il.
W. White & Son, at fernando, in
DeSoto county.
DR.. j. J. White, w. T. Sullivan,
w. b. Murrah, j. w. Price, Il. w,
Dye, Maj. j. L. FAINT, Edward Mayer,
w. r. Trigg, j. Il. Bingham and
Lieut.. Governor G.. d. Shand were
elected by the North Mississippi Con-
ference as delegates to the annual
conference, which meets in st. Louis
in May next.
We have just finished reading Hon
Reuben Davis Recollections of Missis-
sippi and Mississippians," and have
concluded that Uncle Rube made a
mistake in selecting the title for his
book. 1t should be "Reuben Davis
recollectiOns and EulOgies of Reuben
Davis" with a short biographical
sketch of many other men of less
capacity and prominence. The book
is well written and the biographical
sketches of many great men who have
passed away is interesting, but it is big
| and little U from beginning to end.
I-Brandon Republican.
The V. b. Commercial Herald tells
how a cOlOred man made a handsome
little fortune in three years. w. A.
Crockett bought 400 acres of land on
the L. n. o. g. Il. Railroad three years
ago, for which he paid $500, or two
dollars per acre There was no clear