The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-03-17
LETTER FROM THE CAPITAL.
Things That Were Done, Seen
and Heard Last Week.

special correspondence OF The Leader.l
JACKSON, MISS, March 10
The capital has been dull in so.
cial way. but otherwise just as
much has been going OIL as ever.
The Lenten season is upon us and
great many people are making
out they are good, whether they
are or not, by denying themselves
some favorite pastime, amusement,
dish or drink, and hence we who
are never good are forced to fall
in line more or less.
On Wednesday night we enjoy
ed treat at the Opera House, Au.
gustus Thomas "Alabama" being
presented for the first time in this
city. 1t is one of the most delight.
full plays ever put on any stage,
dealing with reconstruction days
in the South and portraying those
stirring times in a most interest.
ing manner. If it ever comes your
way, 60 see it regardless of cost.
Miss Yaw, the woman who is
said to be able to reach higher
note than the average fiddle or any
other woman, sang here Tuesday
night to a very slim audience.
jackson generally shows a very
keen appreciation of good music,
but we don't like it in $1.5O lots.
That was the price of admission.
Somehow or other l never appre-
ciated this highfalutin' operate
screeching and do not 60 to hear it
when l can get out of it. My mus
ical education was secured in Ran.
kin, that glorious old "Free State'
where the boys and girls all just
dote on the fiddle and the banjo,
and would wonder what you were
talking about should you mention
violin or mandolin.
Another attraction for the week
was Quo Krause and Jennie Hol-
man, his wife. They never fail to
draw big house. BY the way,
Krause has a new play entitled
"Wild OATS" which is great. His
leading man, J. g. Taylor, takes
the title role, and as be is an ar
tist at sowing wild oaes off the
stage, he does some realistic act
ing. Fact Is, Taylor was so nat.
ural in the play that his most in
innate friends in the audience
thought they could smell corn juice
on his breath.
Talking about corn juice reminds
me that two or three State ex.
changes have jumped on the Jack
son papers and correspondents for
failure to mention the arrest, con-
viction and sentence to $50 and 80
days, of Mr.. Wallace McLaurin on
charge of carrying concealed wea-
pons. Mr.. McLaurin did not men
tion the matter to me, but other
newspaper correspondents did and
it was mutually agreed and under
stood that the item was not to be
used here or elsewhere, Mr.. Nc.
Laurin being only a private citi-
zen. MIR. McLaurin ias an affida-
Wit from Mr.. M. L. Reddock, of
Yazoo county, stating that he,
Reddock, slipped the pair of
knucks in his overcoat pocket in
q spirit of fun, and ON this he
makes his defense. The case was
appealed to the Circuit Court
where it will doubtless be declared
much ado about nothing.
The Supreme Court decided OH
Monday that the Supreme Lodge
X. of P. must pay Mrs. Rosalie
Stein, of Greenwood, widow of
man who is supposed to have sui
cided in a Jackson MOTEL, $4,000
insurance, on the ground that no
anti-suicide clause was in the orig
inal policy, and that the contract
was binding on the Supreme
Lodge even thosgh a committee
put such a clause is y revised con.
tract.
A very interesting case was ar
gled before the Supreme Court
Wednesday-that of the State VS..
the Mississippi Levee Board. The
point involved is the right to make
the State pay taxes. Under the
law every bale of cotton l,aised in
the District pays 81 tax. Last
year the Board of Control made o
or Z thousand bales of cotton on
leased delta land, but declined to
pay the tax. Legally, the State
may not be liable for this tax, but
it is nothing but right she should
pay it and assist in the mainte-
nance of the levees, without which
she could never have made this
cotton.
The virtue of s'nigger dogs" was
forcibly illustrated here Saturday.
Constable Hendricks let q negro
get away from him while en- route