The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
Miscellaneous.

In the Circuit Court at Jackson last
week, in the remaining case OF ex-
Treasurer Hemingway, the defendant
filed the plea of former conviction,
setting up that the defendant had been
convicted of the same offense, to which
plea District Attorney Miller demurred,
but Judge Chrisman overrled the de-
murrer, sustained the plea and dismissed
the Indictment, holding that the indict-
ment under which Hemingway was con-
victed covered theI charge contained in
the pending Indictment. In other words,
the effect of the decision is that the en-
bezzlement of the whole sum of $685.
612.9O, for which he is now doing service
in the penitentiary, covers all the en-
bezzlement of which he can be guilty,
and thus ends the criminal part of this
celebrated case.
Gov. STONE has appointed w. X. Gill
dart Circuit Clerk of Washington County,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of j. L. Marshall; E. P. Carruth, mem
Der of the Board of Supervisors of
Amite County, vice NJ. E. Hundson, re-
signed; J. w. Ford, Treasurer of Marion
County, vice Harris Pope, deceased; M.
L. McRae, Sheriff of Wayne County,
vice T. j. Martin, deceased.
1.-TWO WHITE men and three negroes
were excused from service on the grand
jury at Grenada last week by Judge
Campbell because they could not read
and write. The white men are both of
them good citizens and very well-to-do
farmers. One of them owns and runs a
saw mill and the other is a merchant as
we'll as farmer.
The adjusters for the various insur-
ance companies interested in the late
fire at Grenada are adjusting tine losses.
AS soon as this business is compile ted
the work of rebuilding will begin again
all along the line. In nearly every in
stance the lost houses will be replaced
by much better buildings.
JUDGE B. T. TRIMBLE, one of the
ablest jurists of Mississippi, died sud
denly at Carrollton last week. He was
a son of Judge William Trimble, who
named the town of Lexington, of this
State, and was born in Florence, Ala,
in 1880, being at the time of his death
in his sixty-frst year.
BEN MATTHEWS, aged 13, son Of Mrs.
M. s. Matthews, of Senatobia, while
carelessly handling a pistol last week,
shot his sister Ruth, aged Is. Ruth was
sitting opposite her brother studying
her school lessons when the pistol was
discharged. The ball entered in her
left cheek, ranging toward the ear.
The wound is not thought to be dan
gerous.
THE State Sunday-School Executive
Committee has arranged program for
holding State Sunday-school Institutes,
to be held during the last week of
February and the first week of March,
at Holly Springs, jackson, Brookhaven
and Meridian. They will be attended
by the Hon. William Reynolds, of
Illinois; Mrs Crofts, of New York; j. G.
Harris, of Alabama, as we'll as other
well-known Sunday-school workers. A
program for the State Convention, to be
held at Greenville on April goth, has
also been arranged.
ANDERSON HARRIS, colored, was last
week sentenced to be hanged on Satur-
day, March 14th, for the murder of Capt
Gillie Lewis at Clinton last fall.
WHILE putting canvas on a wall at
Magnolia last week Miss Mamie Coney
swallowed a tack. She consulted
physician, who located the tack, lodged
in her throat. The physician did not
have the proper instrument to get it out.
90 the unfortunate lady departed for
New Orleans to consult surgeon.
A FEARFUL wreck occurred last week
on the Tchula branch of the Illinois
Central Railroad. Somc dastardly scoun-
drel pulled the spikes from the rails.
leaving them loose and out of position.
The mail and passenger train came
along at the rate of twenty-five miles
per hour. Ali of the train was thrown
off and the baggage and express car
turhed over and fell down an embank-
ment It was miracle that no one was
injured, as the track was torn up for
sixty feet. - 8.
. La GRIPPE has attacked the citizens
OF Canton in all quarters. 1t has only
been fatal in one or two cases, however.