The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-22
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

All OF the IlollhCS NV"'d
are farmers.
Many towns are now receiving 'he
"frst bale"
The Sam Jones camp meeting was
largely attended.
Prof. Quinches died Sunday OF his
sclf-inhicted injuries.
The total valuation of property Ill
Adams county is $3,O56,17S.
is. Evans, Jr., is to revive the
Call newspaper at Meridian.
Paris green is in great demand for
the worm ridden cotton fields.
Little Walter McRea, of Natchez,
fell from tree and broke his right
hip.
The Rev. Joe Jones is running
camp meeting this week at CHINA
Grove.
Major j. II. Allen and L. S. Terry
have been nominated for the Legisla-
ture in Alfalfa.
The colored Farmers State ALI
ance, representing fifty counties, met
in Jackson on the 14th.
The Evening Post says it is doubt
full if Il single saloon keeper OF Nicks-
burg has a legal license.
L. I. Carlisle, editor of the Leader,
is the President of the Clay County
Sunday School Association.
Chancellor Mayes is making a
thorough canvass of the State in be-
half of the State University.
Army worms are getting in their
work all over the State and the cot
ton crop will be greatly cut off.
The Rankin Circuit Court cleared
belmont and Hardin Meyers, charged
with the murder of Frank Easter
ling.
The valuation of property in Laud-
erdale county has increased from $2,-
O39, POI in 1880, to $5,S6S,0S4 in
1889.
Hon. l.. NJ. Southworth has been
nominated for State Senator in the
Winona district over Col. j. r. Bin
ford.
Esmond and John Dean and Moses
Dodd, colored, have been arrested in
Alfalfa, charged with the murder of
Frank Harper last week.
The net earnings of the P6niten-
tiary convicts for July was $500,
which amount was paid into the State
Treasury by the Board of Control.
The Port Gibson cotton mills were
sold last week under mortgage and
bought in by II. c. Mounger for $4,000.
A new company will be organized and
the mills continue to run.
The Lawrence County High School
will elect principal on Wednesday,
September 4th. For further Informal
ton address or call on DR.. j. A. Row
an, President Board Trustees, Silver
Creek.
Jno. l.. Sullivan has been nominal
ted by the good Democrats of Letlore
county for sheriff. He is not the
noted pugilst, but knocked out his
opponents very handsomely in the
race for sheriff.
Misses Mary, Rose X. and Alice
Teunisson, daughters of DR.. G. A.
Teunisson. and Miss Laura A. Fugler,
received the appointment Lawrence
county to the Industrial College.
They are bright girls.
The i-ProhibitiOnists of Amite
county were entirely too previous.
They presented a petition for another
election before the two years were out
and the Board of Supervisors declin-
ed to consider it.
The Liberty Herald says Mrs.
Thomas Warning OF that town has a
LeConte pear tree which bore it's first
crop this year, and that come of the
pears weighed a pOund"each. The
LIE Conte is fine pear.
The Kinds county Democracy has
made the following nominations: For
Representatives, Harry Peyto T. NJ.
Griffin, Joseph Fitzgerald, j. A. p.
Campbell, Jr.; for Sheriff, Z. j. Hard
ing; for Treasurer, j. NJ. Broome; for
Assessor, II. Casper.
George w. Malone, who formerly
lived at Okolona, Miss, committed
suicide in Memphis, by drowning
himself in the Mississippi river. He
was a professional gambler, and was
driven to despair by a succession of
losses which reduced him to prov
erty.
The Rankin county alliance has
resolved that any member of the
Farmers Alliance buying and using
jute bagging, manufactured by the
jute bagging trust, for the purpose of
wrapping cotton shall be deemed an
enemy to the Alliance, and expelled
from the order.
Mr.. Brumfeld, of Pike county, re-
Gently arrested two negro women at
LumbertOn for whom a 800 reward
was offered and started with them for
Magnolia. While on the way he re-
Taxed his vigilance and rode on
ahead, when his prisoners lodged into
the woods and escaped before he miss
ed them.
The new collector of internal rev.
enue, A L. Wimberly, has made the
following appointments of deputies in
Mississippi: To succeed r. E. Wilson.
F. b. Hill tcolored); to succeed A. II.
Coleman, w. H. Allen (colored): to
succeed w. G. Sykes, George NJ.
buchanan; to succeed l.. B Brown,
Charles Buck.