The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-02-07
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
Racing is going on in Natchez.

Racing is going on in Natchez-1 :
The Pearl River News is seven
years old.
The jug factory at Holly Springs
employs 66 persons.
| Col. J. j. Shannon is now editing
the Meridian Democrat. ,.t
There are AS children in the white
public school of Jackson.
Bolivar county has lost another
steam gin and machinery.
Miss Aggie Hebron and Mr.. 4. II.
Fries were married on the 30th.
The Southern Yeoman wants Low
nv renominated. Ge-whillikins!
Hattiesburg now has a Manufactur-
ing and Improvement company.
The Houston Free South has
again discarded its patent outside.
The question of water works and a
sewerage system still worries Nat
chez.
Miss Della Melton and Mr.. L. J.
Mabry were married at IIazlehurst oil
the 9th.
Mr.. X. L. Taylor and Miss Bette
Tate of Amite county were married
on the 23rd.
Mr.. John Stacey and Miss Laura
Cromwell were married at West Point
on the 31st.
The next cotton crop is figured at
S,00O, 900 bales. This means cents a
pound to the farmer.
The Board of Supervisors of
Holmes county raised the retail whis-
ky license from $350.00 to $4,000.
The saw mill of Capt. A. Poitevent,
near Pennington, was burned on
January 30th. Insurance $500, loss
$12, 900.
Maj. Pat Hamilton's murderers, Wes-
ley Blackman and Sylvester Clark
will be hanged at Aberdeen, March
the 22nd.
Negroes are focking by the hun
dreds into the Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley, from South Carolina and
other States.
The marriage of Miss Ida Terrell
and Judge l.. Brame at Crystal
Springs on January the 30th, was a
brilliant event.
Geo. Mckee, John McGill and VIM.
II. Gibbs are applicants for the posi-
ton of postmaster at jackson, Miss,
under Harrison.
The mayor of Newton is very Sc
we're on "blind tigers" He fines them
$50 and cost and sends them to the
chain gang for go.
Gen. Catchings had the support of
the leading white Republicans in the
congressional race, and is himself a
staunch Democrat.
Mr.. John r. Eaton, residing in
HandsbOro, has received "white
cap" notice, telling him to leave the
county inside of 80 days.
C. w. Grafton. son of Maj Thos.
Grafton, formerly editor of the Nat
chez Democrat, died at his home in
Kinds county on January 29th.
Andrew J. Sturges has been APP
pointed postmaster of Crystal
Springs by President Cleveland. That
Office is now presidential Office.
McNair is on rising ground, with
its prospective bank, hotel, live
business houses and drug store.
There is a prospect also of three sa-
looms.
Warren Stewart, son of the Land
Register, j. ID. Stewart, at Jackson,
was killed at Arcola, on February LIST.
He was shot in the back and died in
stantly.
Miss Mary Whitehurst, an old and
greatly beloved citizen of Washing
ton, Adams county, died last Sunday
night, in the sixty seventh year of
her age.
The Sheriff of Noxubee county has
arrested and placed in Jail three
white men charged with completely in
the outrages in that and Kemper
counties.
The Vicksburg and Meridian rail
road is to be sold sometime next
month. The Meridian News thinks
the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia will be bidder.
The ladies of st. Andrews Parish
at jackson rendered their retiring
rector, Rev. VIM. Short, Il reception
on January 31st, at which he was pre-
scented with gifts of esteem.
The Meridian Breeze has been alb
sorbed by the Meridian Democrat.
Percy Gambrell, the former editor of
the Breeze, will be connected with
the Democrat as travelling agent.
On Tuesday last Mr.. J. B. McGehee
brought into Woodville about twenty
home raised mules, some of which
were as fine looking as are brought
from Kentucky. This goes to show
that as good mules can be raised here
as in any other place. 1t would be
good thing if we had a few more J. B.
McGehees in this section of the coun-
try WOoddiile Republican. s..
AT u large meeting of the color
ed citizens at jackson they repudiated
the charge made against them by the
Grand Jury that they had terrOrized
their own race and had formed Sc
cret organization having for an ohiect