The leader., 1897-10-27
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
s,,te Happenings Since The
Leaders, Last Issue.

Leaders, Last issue.
Miss Belle Kearncy is in Alaska.
c.,trrvillc demands more houses.
u,r St, Louis has fallen into the
yellow line
CRYSTAL Springs wants the round
bale next year.
u.,,d.yillc. is new post Office in
Yazoo county
Fa,cltc has shipped 2l45 bales with
80 more ready.
yatchcz will hold its Fair the week
after Christmas.
Edwards fever can go no further
material exhausted.
". W. January. native of Jcifer-
son county, died in Memphis.
Rry. J. +. Bynum is serving as
,u,rautinc officer on the coast.
Oscar Jones WAS painfully. cut by
Wharton ellis near Crystal Springs.
N,trhcz is said 10 he vriN SnlicitouS
about Nicksburg's healtl,-and trade.
Yazoo City will soon have telephone
connection with all parts of the
county.
Port Gbson's public schools have
heru oprned for the second time this
season.
The Coiinth papers have agreed to-
rcthcr not to publish whisky advcr-
tiScmcntS.
ON his arrival home at Carrollton
from Washington; Senator II. d..
Money was rendered big reception.
recent census of Greenwood
shows its population to consist of S92
whites. 1912 negroes and 3 Cinnamon.
The colored people of Crystal
Springs will erect il school building,
with boarding apartments i'll conncc-
ton.
Crystal Springs public school has
teachers who are exempt from further
examination, having taught the five
years required by law.
Congressman VIM. F. Love, OF
Amitr. has been invited 10y the Ohio
Democracy to deliver campaign
spppchrS in that State
=. II. Clay, II prominent farmer of
kempcr county, is in Jail at Dekalb,
charged with hiring an incendiary to
burn neighbor's barn.
Instead of old-fashioned yellow
fever. some one has suggested "call it
feverctte or feverine.' $" a rose by
any other name would smell as sweet
Julius Haver, II young man of Nicks-
burg, was thrown from his horse and
crushed in the fall of both rider
and horse. lie died in few minutes.
The Presbyteri church of Yazon
contributed 81 for the relief of Rev
C.P. Colmery and family, of Edwards.
Mr. Comery is the Presbyterian pastor
of that town.
Yellow fever aud quarantine have
neceSSitated postponement of the
nuptials of two IIazlehurst benedicts.
Love still laughs at locksmiths but
stops at QllarantineS.
John p. Horn, L. s. Deputy Mar
shal, and Mrs. NJ. +. Higgins, were
married in st. Patrick's church, Me-
ridian. The bride is 20, and worth
100000; the groom is 10.
The Yazoo Herald says "such
places as gambling rooms, never add
anything to the wealth, morals or
good name of Il community but have
been known to be the ruin of many Il
young man"
Mississippi is coming to the front as
acattlcraiser. West Point has shipped
70 carloads to Kansas. Brandon re-
Gently to one purchaser in one trans
action sold 800 head. Cotton seed
utilized has brought about the revolu
on and placed this State next to Texas
IN the cattle industry.
l.. Lopez, jr.. and Joe HenzeIina, of
Biloxi, went out hunting and the
former in swinging his gun around,
after firing at a rabbit, exploded the
other barrel and shot his friend in
The shoulder. The young man was
taken to The city and medical atten-
ton given.
The sad death OF Rev. ID. |. Purser,
oi New Orleans, is deeply regretted
by his hosts of friends and comrades
IN Mississippi. His death leaves va
can't the presidency of the Baptist
Convention of Louisiana, one of tn,
wee -presidencies of the Southern
convention, the pastOrate of Valenc,
street Baptist church, and the Chap.
'a'hShlp of the Louisiana Division OF
'"e Army of Tennessee. He had
served as pastor at Port Gibson, Crys.
y" springs, BrOokhaven, Birmins-
nam and New Orleans, and
''l three years as State Evan
sel'St of Mississippi He was q
great advocate of " church extension
"n" through his influence and labors
sN baptist churches were built in ant
around Birmingham. He had JUS
','" called to the pastorate of Opelika
Ala'' and was in that State undeter
"''hed as to which charge ho woull