The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-13
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

s,,te Happenings Since The
Leaders, Last Issue.
The price of shOt-guns has gone up.
800 Mississippi refugees are in st.
Louis.
The bridge across Yazoo River cost
$4,000.
Poplar Springs has a new Methodist
church.
The North Mississippi Presbytery
net at Charleston.
v;cksburg's quarantine calls for
$4,000 per month.
y.,oo's volume of business in a
year is 81, 100000.
The yellow fever has stopped every
thing but expenses.
aBro. P. X" of Scranton, calls it
Dthe prevailing fever"
Deer are plentiful near Yazoo City
in the Sunfower region.
The rectory of the Episcopal church
a, Winona has burned down.
Chas. Brill, for thirty years a resi-
dent of Canton, died of apoplexy.
Water is becoming scarce. Stock
is dying in some parts of the State.
Editor Ably, of the Crystal Springs
Meteor, has been i'll for more than two
weeks.
Rev. W. B. Lewis now publishes
the Methodist Reporter at Crystal
Springs.
Holly Springs real estate has ad-
vanced 20 per cent. since it has water
works.
MANY of the LEADERS, mississippi
happenings" are copied by our ex-
changes.
Yazoo has raised its quarantine on
all goods and passengers coming from
the North.
The Steen's Creek Times has been
forced to suspend until the quaran-
tine is raised.
State Senator Z. L. Brewer was
married at Water Valley to Miss
Minnie Block.
Mrs. Lucy B. Watt, one of the in
structorsin Edward McGehce College,
died of heart failure.
SUBMITS public school opened with
$50 pupils. BroOkhaven seems ahead
ofall schools adjoining this place.
Tie State of Mississippi has re-
ceived for her yellow fever sufferers
$500 from the merchants of st.
Louis.
W. B. Sorsby, of Kinds county, has
been appointed Consul General and
Secretary of the Legation at Gaute-
mala City.
The fanco Sentinel says that dur
ing its daily publication since the
quarantine its telegraph service alone
cost $125.00.
Mlssissippians and others should
pronounce the prominent yellow fever
experts name Weeterah"-ifitd it does
spell Guitereas.
Gen. 7. c. Catclings, of Missis-
slppl, was elected chairman Of the
Waterways Convention, which met
at Davenport, Iowa.
The Terry Headlight wants a prin-
ter who will "wOrk for some less
salary than a railroad president" and
do little more work.
Mrs. Hale, of Pamela county, has
sued the Illinois Central for $25, 900
damages for the killing of her hus.
oand while he was brakeing at Water
Valley.
Mr. Burke, travelling photo.
grapher, died at WoOdville, without
iuhds or friends; but was given a
aeeent burial by the good people of
that town.
ncksburg complains that her young
"en shlrk duty as night guards,
while her veterans make no excuses
anu ask no favors, being ready for any
service at any time, night or day.
hoot. Carruth, jr., was drawn by
'he betting of a gin into the machin-
cry and horribly mutilated. He died
s"oftiy afterwards at his home near
oammit. He was an upright,
Snflstian young gentleman" says the
Sentinel
Inc Board of Supervisors of Ellis
'"e nave fixed the Jones county tax
AZ II mills. This is 4 mills higher
"an last year and with the city tax Of
~ mills, makes "a the citizens Of
A','sville will have to pay.
Judge Calhoun writes the health
authorities at jackson: "For good.
ness sake take me in. They are
"k'ns me in every day here in Chica-
s0' and l want to get home and cs-
rape y, @ the attacks and intrigues of the
Philistines.n
nasantown is a fourth class post
snee In Claiborne county. A negro
postmaster was recently appointed
anu so indignant were the citizens
mat they held meeting and request
" 'he resignation of the incumbent
""' told them "allee same" white
man. that he wished to lie in har-
"0hy with the leading citizens aud
"outd return his con,u,;ss;oo