Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-04-09

Local Correspondence.
BOGUE cHITTo DOTS.
BY JEEMs.

Mr.. Buck Hart, one of our prosper
Gus farmers, had the serious misfor-
tune TO get his dwelling house and
nearly all of his household goods burn
ed recently.
eOur farmers are all quite busy plant
ing their crops. If there is ANYTHING
in getting on "hump," there will be
good crops made this year.
Old men of observation say there
will be heavy beech mast this year.
but some of us will sink thousands of
dollars by not having hogs to get fat
on it.
Rev j. A. Scarborough and wife have
returned from their trip to Lawrence
county. They report good time, as
they walked on their "native heath,
The 'parson" says he saw greater
marks of thrift among the farmers east
of Pearl river than ever before, though
the forest fires have done great dam
age to some people in that section.
A nobler set of men than our saw
mill men are hard to find Their lum-
Der donations to Mr. Buck Hart for
the rebuilding of his house we're very
liberal and the people are helping him
to build. We live in a good country.
Rev. Mr.. Bean, from Franklinton.
La, will preach to the Baptist church
in this city Sunday. Everybody invit-
ed.
Attention, Prohibitionists! See to
it that you vote for no man who does
not smell like Prohibitionist when he
comes out from the back yard of liv-
cry stable, as it were.
1t is a hard matter just now to get a
fishing pole. The negroes seem to have
a monopoly ON the whole business.
You needn't say anything about it.
but when l get to be ''legislatureman"
I'll increase the poll tax to five dollars
and let the proceeds constitute the
public school fund. | do not think
that one race of poor people ought to
be taxed to educate another, so to
speak.
There are some people not very far
from here who claim to be infidels and
that their grand father was monkey.
If this be true, and the old ape could
have lived to see some of his grand
sons, he would swear that evolution
was failure, as it were.
They are having no night at NorfeId
now. The darkness is all dlspelled by
electric lights.
Mr.. James Sasser has returned home
from New Orleans, where he had been
for medical treatment. Mr.. S. has the
c,xyr, \ Of f,;a L. L
loss of his health.
Mr.. Avery, from Shubuta, is here
with his family, and it Is thought that
he will soon enter the mercantile cir
Gle.
Charley Butterfield, the hustling SUI
perintendent of the mammoth Norfield
lumber plant, deserves great credit for
the interest he is taking in erecting a
cosy church house at Norfield. This is
an example worthy the imitation of all
owners of large saw mill plants.
The telephone men are here negotia-
ting with DR.. Trotter for the erection
of telephone lines from here to Nor
field and Moreton & Helms, but our
electric cars are not yet in operation:
"Uncle Brit" Hall had the misfortune
to get quite lot of his fence burned
by a forest fire recently, but his neigh
bors rallied with wagons, axes, malls,
wedges and such like, and all damages
were soon repaired. Thanks to God
for being permitted to live in such
country.
Nature has something wonderful to
show you at Frank Turnbough's in the
way of deformed goat and a young
calf with a horn in the center of its
forehead. Frank says he is going to
start him up show instead of running
for governor.