The leader., 1898-12-28
socuk cHrrro Dors.



Xmas is gone and where win we
spend the next oney
DR.. Charles Thompson Is at home
from Atlanta, where he has been study
ing dentistry.
We notice that there Is quite lot of
hard wood being shipped from this
point northward.
It took Uncle Sam longer to make
peace with Spain than Il did to give
her good spanking.
The Hoo oos had big time here
Friday night, and the black Thomas
cats were numerous.
Prominent among those who are
seeking homes in our little city Is our
old time friend lack Jordan. VIII
welcome you, lack.
DR.. F. H. Thompson says he is will
ing to pay us four-bits for putting his
name in the dots last week. We have
agreed to take part of it in "haulin'."
Mr.. J. C. s. Mccoy, one of the rapid
ly growing merchants of this city,
showed his business sense the other
day by subscribing and paying one year
in advance for THE LEADER.
And so our municipal election is to
be contested. Ny good Lord from
heaven, are we never to get to the end?
Well, the boy said when he blowed his
nose it wouldn't stay blowed.
Mr.. Nesbit and wife, of Mammoth
Springs, Ark, are spending holidays
with their son-in-law, Dunk Easterling.
We would vote for Dunk for anything
from governor down to road overseer.
Fount Kyzar killed some fat hogs
the other day and sent us ever so much
Cuttings, sausage, etc. 1t is one of
heavens blessings to live in eating dis
lance of such clever people as Fount
and his good better half.
Mr.. James Mccormick, of Brookha-
ven, and Miss Anna Easterling, of this
city, were united in holy wedlock last
Wednesday, Rev. Mr.. Moore officiating.
We sincerely trust that there may never
fall shadow across their pathway
along life's journey.
1t is Xmas now and our boys and
young men are galloping in every di-
rection, and there is bit more elas-
ITCHY in the movements of our older
people. We even caught oursef driv-
ing at a rapid pace on our return home
from Mart Tyler's with young gobbler
in our buggy.
Mr.. Welsh, hustling farmer a few
miles out of town, has recently sold to
the Keystone Lumber Company IA
tons of nicely cured hay at so per ton.
Mr.. Welsh informs us that he can raise
6 tons of hay at about the same cost of
raising one bale of cotton. Pull the
cotton and give the grass chance.
Rev. E. Hanlan, the Irish preacher
from Lawrence county, passed through
our city last Friday en- route to Con-
cord Baptist church, where he will
likely do pastoral work the ensuing
year. Bro. H. is not an expert in trav-
cling through saw mill country where
there are so many roads. He says
sometimes he gets tangled up and puts
up with "sprawls."
Our young friend Willie Gill, who
was recently mustered out of service at
Columbia, Tenn, is at home enjoying
good health. Will says the newspaper
report of the First Mississippi resolv-
ing themselves into cyclone as they
came home through Alabama, was
greatly exaggerated. True, he says,
there was some drunkenness and shoot
ing, but didn't know there was so much
of it till he got home and saw it in the
papers.
Last year Boston expended Sis, 800
for the support of drunkards in houses
of correction. The saloon keepers
ought to have that amount added to
their taxes. 1t is not fair that other
people should be called ON to pay fol
their work. Western Recorder. Yes
and if Canton, Vicksburg and Other
points who station their paid agents
here and in other peaceable communi
ing stuff and pour out the fire of he'll
damages caused thereby, they would
dump their filth hereafter.
| One of the great furniture makers OF
Grand Rapids, Mich, has been to Mis-
sissippi to secure hard wood for his
business. He said that the freight OF
the raw material and the injury to the
furniture in sending it South was such
a loss the furniture establishments
would be forced to move South before
many years. If some of the great fac
tories come, the others must needs fol
low as the greater cheapness of the
material would make those who re
manned unable to compete. Western
Recorder. There is room at Bogut
Chitto for several such plants. Come
right along, gentlemen, plenty of hare
wood in Bogue Chitto swamp to keel
you busy for many years.