The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-12-22
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
state Happenings Since The
Leaders, Last Issue.

Leaders Last ISSUE.
1ackson's depot needs more light.
The State legislature will meet Jan. 4
Gulfport will have a canning factory
clinton had IA cases Of yellow fever.
poplarville High School has 23O stu
dents.
uapcock's quarantine expenses were
s96S.
lanes Moore, aged s5, died at Me-
ridian.
Hon. Van Eaton, of Woodville, is
seriously i'll.
Harrison paid 5000 for the luxuries
Of quarantine.
The fever has gone and now circuses
aaiict the State.
Ed J. M. Ritchie was stricken with
paralysis at Columbia.
FIR. Birdsall is now sole proprietor
oftbe Yazoo Sentinel.
lanes Slack, of Corinth,was stricken
With paralysis on Sunday.
The Biloxi Herald's editor celebrated
his 5Oth birthday last week.
The Wesson Mirror will not publish
paper during the holidays.
Congressman Love promises free dis
Infection wherever it is desired.
The Raymond people got up rouza-
ton against blind tigers and hop joints.
Mrs. May Fearn, aged IA, and for 81
wears a resident of Vicksburg, has died.
Miss Mae Wright has been made
postmistress at Osyka, vice Mrs. Anna
vaught.
Copiah county's Poultry Association
will give it's third annual show, Dec.
23rd and oath.
H.F. Won Kohn and Mrs. Mollie
Becker. of Wesson, have been united
in holy bonds.
Two blind tigers had their claws
clipped in Yazoo. They were fined $50
and 30 days in Jail.
J.P. Clayton, of Heidelberg, killed
three six months-old pigs, which netted
him go pounds Of meat.
Mrs Battle Bell, of Mathew, Miss,
offers fine bronze turkeys for sale at
$500 per trio before Jan. LIST.
A new dairy has been started at
Jackson by John w. Patton and j. l..
Lyon, the latter northerner.
J.R. Taylor succeeds T. M. Henry as
manager of the Commercial Appeals
Mississippi Bureau, at jackson.
The State has contracted to work
1900 acres of land in the Delta next
year with penitentiary convicts.
The Presbyterian ladies of Port Glib
son held a supper and lunches on two
nights and netted $1O6 for their church.
Messrs. Jno. B. Ligon & J. F. Wings,
of Jackson, have been granted a patent
on "the nickle- -in-the-slot bicycle tire
infater."
Jackson's Kings Daughters gave an
entertainment at the residence Of Maj.
R. w. Millsaps for the benefit of the
poor of the city.
W. j. Andrews, Pixies county con-
tractor, has purchased two man-hunt-
ing blood hounds to insure against the
escape of convicts.
H. r. Sack, assistant superintendent
of the Mississippi Mills, and Miss Mar
ghareta Patz, lately arrived from Ger
many, were married.
On seven acres of land in Rankin
county, E. Kelly, aged 62, made six
bales of cotton and plenty of corn and
other stuff, by his own labor.
Senator Walthall's resolution with
reference to the removal of Ship Island
quarantine station meets with the ap-
probation of the State press.
Mr.. U. c. Logue, of Jackson, has in
vented contrivance for holding meat,
ham or bacon, while it is being cut.
he will doubtless secure the patent
applied for.
Eight children Of w. w. King, OF
Ellisville, have typhoid fever. A son
aged 70, has died; also his wife, and
he himself seems at the point Of disso-
luton.
The Synod of Mississippi has elected
DIR. b. NJ. Palmer q director of the
Southwestern Presbyterian for two
years and Rev. s. c. Caldwell, Of Ha
zlehurst, for one year.
DIR. Robert Frazer, who has beer
president of the 1. I. & C. at Columbus
since 1891, has resigned to accept thu
presidency of Farmville Female Insti
tute, at Farmville, Va.
In Rankin county d. M. Robbins
made 248 gallons of molasses and savet
looo stalks for seed, from one half acr
OF cane. Four farmers aggregated
i'o2S gallons of long sweetening.
Maj. Geo. E. Donald, of Meridian
commander of the First Battalion o
the State National Guards, is said Il
oe on the eve of departing for Cuba t.
JOIN the ranks of the insurgents.
Two workmen at Crystal Springs un
earthed veritable pot of gold con
tanning $500. G. w. Copley, Of tn
nrm of Lotterhos & Co., is having
residence erected and in the cOnstruc
aon OF chimney-foundation the mon
ey was found.
Rev. E. s. Robinson, aged 50, died a
enterprise. He founded Garlandsvill
Institute and Pleasant Hill Academy
n 4.