The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Tupelo Is TO nave an ice factory.
yicksburg's beer bill is $4,000 a
year.
Hon. Frank Burkett, is Lecturer of
the Chickasaw County Alliance.
Planting operations are reported
2 weeks ahead in the Delta.
DIR. Burton, the new u. s. Marshal
Of the Northern District, has taken
charge.
The Vicksburg Herald warmly adj
vocates separate insane asylum for
negroes.
A car loaded with coal oil was de-
stroyed by fire at Magnolia one day
last week.
Natchcz and Port Gibson will OBJ
serve Confederate Memorial day,
April goth.
Colonel Rhodes killed James Elem
ing in a NatcheZ bar room last week.
Both colored.
Work will soon commence on
vicksburg's new hotel and Govern
ment building.
1t is said that six hundred acres of
Strawberries are planted at Crystal
Springs this year.
The Warren grand jury failed to
indict any one for selling votes at the
late Vicksburg election.
The Warren County Jail contains Z
lunatics which cannot be accommo-
dated in the State Asylums.
Biloxi is TO have new industry in
the way of lime kiln, for the manu-
facture of lime from oyster shells.
DR.. j. II. Watson shot and killed
ID. n. Cress at Eulogy on the 23rd.
The difficulty grew out of an old
feud.
We notice in the Meridian papers
the charter of the Meridian Cotton
and Wooden Mills and Manufacturing
Company.
The Warren county grand jury,
which adjourned last week, examined
154 witnesses found lis trHe bills and
ignored II.
The third annual convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association of
Mississippi will be held in Meridian
April 25th to 28th.
s. p. Bloom has fine 800 soda
fount on the way to Wesson. He and
Maj. Wilmoth expect to keep the
town cool this summer.
Two negroes at Moss Point quarrel
ed over an Oat sack, when one felled
the other to the ground with bar of
iron producing almost instant death.
Eighty negroes on their way from
North Carolina to the Richardson
plantations in the Delta, were decoy-
ed of by labor agents at Vicksburg.
Sheriff Z. w. Brown and wife, of
Hazlehurst, celebrated their Silver
wedding on the 25th ult. The pres
ents were numerous and many quite
costly.
Miss Addie Gordon, of Port Gibson,
was married to VIM. Burke, of Ma
rion, Ga, recently, in Shanghi, China.
Both are missionaries to that country,
sent out by the NJ. E. Church
South.
The New Mississippian says that
Joe AlmOn, President of the Missis-
sippi Press Association, is going to
treat the boys and girls to nice ride
down from Greenville to New Or
leans.
The Pascagoula DemOcrat-Star
thinks full republican ticket will
be put in the field in this State early
in the Summer. If so Gen. Chalmers
or Judge Simrall will probably head
the ticket.
The Greenville Democrat endorses
John r. Cameron, of Madison county,
as candidate for Governor who has
important interests in the Delta and
is therefore closely identified with
that part of Mississippi.
Ben Garrett, a negro saloon keeper,
is an applicant for the Canton post
Office. THE Canton Picket says of
him: owe do not object to Ben Gar
ret, simply on account of the color of
his skin, hut more on the color of his
character"
w. H. Afford, who had charge of
the late Colonel Richardson's store at
Marcelia in Holmes county was muir
dered last week by negro. The
body of the negro was found hanging
from telegraph pole, riddled with
buckshot few hours after.
Garden City, on the Valley road,
near Knoxville, settled by MinnesO-
ia colony, is growing rapidly. The
colony which bought about 10000
acres of land in body now numbers
about 200 persons who are engaged in
manufacturing timbers, farming, gar
dening for market, etc.
Adj. Gen. VIM. Henry, of the
Mississippi National Guard, is send
ing out circulars to remind the mill
tary companies of the State of the
proposed annual encampment at
"FOrt Henry" on our seacOast, to be
held sometime between the 18th of
June and the LIST of July.
The Meridian News calls the North's
attention to the fact that there are at
the present time in the public schools
of Meridian 1853 pupils, of which
number there are 948 white and sos