The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-03
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.


at Greenville.
r. II. Washington & Co., of Green
vile, have failed.
The Alliance Cotton Shed has
been closed at Gloster.
Natchez cotton receipts are over
1000 short of last years.
The Brakeman's Ball at McComb
City was grand success.
Mr.. Dan Mays, of Centre, died from
a wen on his neck. last week.
Mrs. Jos. r. Davis has been APP
pointed postmistress at Biloxi.
An entire passenger train was de-
rallied near Starkville by an OK.
The great Steamer Natchez sunk at
Lake Providence last Tuesday.
The Westville High School is on a
boom. 1t now enrolls 92 pupils.
|. In Smith county, on the 9th,
Joseph Jones killed Paul Hopkins.
The Lamar race riot iproved to
have been mountain out of a mole
hill.
Mr.. John Wallace, n man of family,
was killed at a ball at Centre, on the
Goth.
A. Hitler, retail dealer in liquors at
Canton, was closed by attachment on
the oath.
Mrs. John Rodge was robbed in
broad day light, at Vicksburg by
negro on the 23rd.
Mr.. j. b. Browne, has been appoint
ed superintendent of the Water
Works at Nicksburg.
A real estate agent from northern
climes has purchased large lot of
land at McComb City.
r. C.. Terry and NJ. A. E. Catchings,
of Terry, have been closed by attach
ment during the past week.
A man was found dead on the 2Sth
in Bolivar county, supposed to have
fallen from passing train.
John Sawyer and Frank Williams
have been arrested at Nicksburg for
passing counterfeit money.
Mrs. Sarah f. p. Ball. the founder
of the Episcopal church at Meridian,
died there on the 25th.
Six of the Kemper county negro
rioters were captured by the whites
and "lost in the woods.
Cashier b. w. Griffith, of the Cap
ital State Bank at Jackson, lost his
residence 10y fire, on the 9th.
Mr.. l.. f. Lumbley, of Yazoo
county and Miss Anna Cook, of Wes-
son, We're married on the oath.
The Masons of McComb City,
spread an elegant banquet, after the
installation Of officers on the 2Sth.
Uncle Jack Brown, aged so years,
was killed near Brandon last week,
hunter installing him for turkey.
The cash receipts of the LIN. O. &
7. r. r., show up larger for this year
than at any time since the road was
built.
The citizens of Osyka have passed
resolutions and appointed an execu-
tive committee to maintain law and
order.
Frank Niece, formerly of the En-
terprise Courier, has gone to Europe,
on business connected with the Gov
eminent.
A negro barber named Hughes was
murdered at jackson on the 25th,
by Lemuel Roseman. cOlored, who
owed linn twenty five cents.
The Woodville Republican tells us
of man who is trying to cross his
bees with lightning bugs, in order to
enable them to work at night.
The man found dead near Durant has
been identified as an attachc of Halls
circus, and is supposed to have been
murdered by some of his associates.
Miss Lettie Smith, daughter of j.
C. Smith, of Crystal Springs, has
been appointed to 5000 clerkship in
the Interior Department at Washing
ton.
Port Gibson married two runaway
couples last week: Misses Rosa and
Theodosia Oglesby to Messrs. James
Temple and Josiah Campbell, respect
lively.
City Marshal Mcmahon, OF Newton,
shot A. @. Clay and Newton DOlittle
for attempting to break open the Gala
bOOse of the town to release pris-
Oner.
The little seven-year- daugher
of United States District Attorney
Charles b. Howry, of Oxford, was so
badly burned recently that she died
few days after.
A black fiend, Turner Halum,
terribly beat a merchant OfKosciuskO,
Capt. c. ii. James, on the 25th., which
caused much excitement and may
cost Mr.. James his life.
Louis Dunn, aged 10, shot and
killed his step-father, Jesse Keath, in
Carroll county, last week. The boy
was defending his mother from
Keath's brutal beating.
The Grenada Sentinel says that the
Judges of debate at the Female
College, all of whom were women,
decided in the negative, 'That wo-
man is equal to man mentally"
w. p. Daniels, of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, grand secretary of the order of