The Brookhaven leader., 1890-01-02
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Monday.
Hon. f. w. Joor. Mayor of Wood
vile, is dead.
jill. McAfee, editor of the ITALIA
hatchie News, is dead.
MANY farmers lost their pork this
winter by the warm weather.
A Lee county farmer has shipped
carload of mules to 1azoo City.
j. NJ. a. Brennan, the Sheriff of
Warren county, has to give $lOO,oOo
bond.
The State Horticultural Society will
meet at Crystal Springs ON the Sth OF
January.
Prof. j. n. Rainwater, former presi-
| dent of the State Teachers Assocla-
ton is dead.
The president of the Monroe County
Board of Supervisors publishes an
annual report.
Most of the Masonic Lodges of the
State celebrated St. Johns Day with
becoming ceremony.
The Brotherhood of Railway Brake
men gave grand ball at McC0mb on
the night of the 2Gth.
DIR. j. Y. Murray, of Tippah county,
is announced for Railroad Commits
soner from North Mississippi.
The Hazlehurst Mercury, by w. G..
! Mitchell, has made its appearance. 1t
contained Il splendid salutatOry.
Centreville is excited over a mad
dog, which bit several other dogs and
little girl before he was killed.
The Methodist conference at Crystal
Springs passed Il resolution strongly
condemning the Louisiana State Lot
terry.
Capt. WIG. Ycrger has just sold nine
acres of his Plum Ridge place, three
miles from Greenville, for 1900 per
acre.
Rev. J. r. Parish, the well-known
Baptist divine, has changed his resi-
dence from Coifcevile to Blue Noun
tain.
The store of w. II. Patton. of Shu-
buta, was destroyed by fire on the
18th. The loss on stock and building
was $4,000.
A nurse fell backward from a spring
wagon seat at Columbus with Mr..
Claude Blewett's baby and crushed
the child to death.
Mr.. John T. Hull has returned to
Sheffield, Ala, and will be succeeded
as editor of the Bolivar County Dem
Ocrat by his brother w. S. Hull.
Hon. II. O. Muldrow, Representa-
tive elect of Oktibbcha county, claims
the distinction of being the youngest
member of the coming Legislature.
Mr.. Lewis McLaurin, a popular
freight conductor on the Illinois Cen
trial, and Miss Florida McGehee, OF
Kinds county, were married recently.
A. j. WhitwOrth and L. f. Ford, of
McCOmb City, have patented an auto
matte car coupler, which is said to
surpass anything in that line yet in
vented.
The whole assessed valuation of the
late Jefferson Davis property in Har-
rison county is 1910 The personal
assessment is 1851. Beauvoiris assess
cd at $4,000.
Capt. Frank NJ. Palmer, of Senate
bia, committed suicide on the 9th ult.
Cause, excessive drinking and gen
eral dependency. He leaves a wife
and five children.
The State Teachers Association
met in jackson on the 9th, and was
well attended by the leading teachers
of the State. Gov. Lowry delivered
the welcome address.
Mr.. j. @. Martin has assumed con-
troll of the farmers department in the
Copiah Signal. He is Il talented young
gentleman, and as loyal to the sons of
toll as LeOnidas was to Sparta.
Mr.. l.. II. Matthews, of Hazlehurst,
was married to Mrs. NJ. G. Matthews,
at her home in WinOna last month.
Mrs. Matthews was the wife of the
late Print Matthews, a brother of the
room.
On account of failing health, Miss
Maggie NJ. Langley has resigned the
superintendency of the blind asylum,
and the board of Trustees have
elected DR.. Peter Fairly, of Jackson,
in her st9ad.
Miss Aurie Grace, the member of
an amateur club at Ripley, danger
Ously shot Mr.. Alb Mcintyre, another
member of the club, at one of their
rehearsals with pistol she thought
to be unlOaded.
In the Methodist conference, at
Crystal Springs, the committee to try
j. V. Penn, the preacher who disap-
peared and turned up in San Fran
cisco, found him guilty and sus-
pended him from the ministry for one
year.
The Lexington Bulletin says that
when Judge Campbell went to SEN
tence Eugene Story, the murderer of
Kleinfelder, that Story sat smoking a
cigarette and did not change a muscle
of his cOuntenance or turn pale or red
in the least, but received the sentence,
as he had everying else during the
trial, in utter indifference.
Thd following Mississippi postoffice
appointments were confirmed by the
Senate on the 2lst: j. E. Everett,
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