The leader., 1897-12-01
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
state Happenings Since The
Leaders, Last Issue.


Leaders Last Issue.
,.ckson's big bargain day Is Thurs
day.
y,,t;ssburg has organized business
League.
Magnolia gave $50 to the Natchez
orphan Asylum.
u.,rimony should be declared cpl
demic in the State.
Intber Manship's illness Is deplored
no numberless friends.
The State University will have no
loot ball during this session.
bishop Galloway is presiding over
,ha North Georgia Conference.
The Brandon News wants to know
,ow to abbreviate the year 1900. 90?
49,?
Mr. and Mrs. c. G. Campbell, of
Jackson, celebrated their China Wed
ding.
Mississippi, with a population OF a
million and a quarter. has only .nine
daily papers.
t. Gayden, aged 76 years, died
in brandon. He represented Rankin
county in the legislature in 1916.
Mrs. J. B. Enochs, of Hazlehurst, is
no more. For 80 years she had been a
resident of the Bethesda neighborhood.
Tn Scott county Mrs. Harriet Harrell
died, aged SO years. For 60 years she
had been a member of the Baptist
church.
Mrs. Emma c. Oliver, of Centreville,
is placing before the public work of
action, entitled Hilda ", of which she
is the author.
James Evans, an extensive planter
OF West Point, lost by fire splendid
barn, containing all his provisions and
a lot of fattening hogs.
The rent of postoffice lock boxes at
Hazlehurst has been reduced from 81
to so cents per quarter, and call boxes
from so cents to 25 cents.
Richard Griffith, a negro mail rider
between Hazlehurst and Westville, has
been lodged in Jail in default of 81, 800
bond, on the charge of robbing the
mails.
RN. Miller, Esq, has offered prize
Of $40 for the finest collection of roses
Ut the next Hazlehurst Chrysanthe-
mum Show, and r. p. Willing, s5 for
the finest collection of pinks.
The Mississippi Sunday School
Worker, published at Wesson, in the
interest of the interdenominational
Sunday School work of the State, is a
very creditable and helpful journal.
A Farmers Institute will be held at
Madison Station. Dec. 9. Such ssthet-
10 subjects as Cabbage Culture, Cotton
Culture, Fertilizers, Feeding of Stock,
ETC., will be discussed by prominent
farmers.
The first issue of the University
Record v, which Is to be weekly, has
come from Oxford. 1t is s1.50 per ses-
sion, and has for it's chief editor the
gifted son of the Chancellor, Maurice
q. Fulton.
Henry Johnson, son of s. ]. johnson
Of Hazlehurst, was re-interred at that
place. He died last September, while
visiting his sister at Columbus, and
owing to the quarantine could not be-
brought home at that time.
The Jackson News is sglad to learn
that the differences which have for
some months existed between the own
ers of the Mississippi Mills, at Wesson.
have been amicably adjusted. This
mill should be the pride of the State y.
Pres L, NJ. Stone, of Stone College.
Meridian, offered, a three years schol
arship with board to the young girl
first made an orphan by the yellow
fever. Miss Sudie Henry, of Edwards,
Is entitled to this most liberal offer.
She is niece of District Attorney j.
b. Greaves, aud is talented and love-
iy young lady of 16.
Commissioners j. ]. Evans and J. d.
Mclnnis, after tour of inspection,
state that the State convict farms will
saise 1900 bales of cotton this year and
that there never was before anything
like the yield Of cotton in the delta,
-Four thousand bales will bring the
state at the present price 100000, with
sgood margin. Of profit.
w. 0. Norrell, Of Brandon, second
son of Hon. T. N. Norrell, when last
heard from was within 500 miles of the
Yukon. river, Alaska, with the most
dangerous part Of the journey over.
IN a recent letter he stated that AZ
miles of the most difficult trail we're
male in, Is days. He expects to return
shs latter part Of next summer.
Maj r. w. Millsaps lost fine watch
dog in peculiar manner. During the
night he tried to jump the fence. was
caught by short chain which was
ABOUT his neck and thus " hanged him
seif.' Passers-hy the next morning
viewed the lifeless zemains and the
marks Of. the severe struggle for life
Tougaloo University, which opened
with an attendance ofNlaQ pupils, lost
eoooo in a flre which, destroyed q
.nree-story dormitoSy building. Miss
Dimes, new teacher from Massachu
setts' was frishtfully btarned and the
students lost all they had The col
.sge work will 60 on. and the burned
building will be rebuilt.
Lee Mansfield, New Orleans drum
mac haxd