The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-02-02

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Prof Booth Lowrey is lecturing in
.,o State on 'Black Sunshine"
Mrs Nancy Sparkman, of Magnolia
hoe celebrated her DIST birthday.
Miss Belle Kearney is said to be
..be Francis Willard of the South"
Miss Pearl Weathersby and Mr.. VIM
Carlisle we're married at Wesson.
Hazlehurst and Crystal Springs are
.rousing interest in their Floral clubs
., cars of slaves we're shipped by
cbas E. Dunstan from Hazlehurst.
vicksburg will hold Grand Carni
val and Trades Parade, March l, and
3rd.
Mississippi College has received
more than $1,000 in answer to its re.
cent appeal.
Miss Emma Alvarez and Louis j.
Diehl we're married by Elder S. w
Sibley, at McComb.
In the past two years the States
school fund has crawled up from
$4,000 to $950,000.
Chairman Prewitt says the Missis.
sippi Populists will hold State Con
yention at an early date.
The iive-year old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. j. d. Ford, of Wesson, was
50 BADLY burned she died.
AL. Allison, of Summit, killed q
shoat a year old which netted 33l
pounds lie made go pounds lard.
Mr. Ernest Lenoir, of McComb, and
Miss Mollie Thompson, of Summit,
we're married by Elder S. w. Sibley.
NIB. Crane, former Yazoo boy,
has an $4,000 gold mine in the klon-
dixie and says hardships are not so bad
as writer's say.
The State press, almost without ex,
ception, condemns the Legislature for
refusing to investigate charges against
State officers. -..--.......
VIC. Barnes of Stems Greek killed
hog years old, which weighed 704
pounds net This is the boss porker
so far.
Rev. II. j. Harris, a well-known
Methodist minister died in Florida and
was buried in the family cemetery at
Centreville. He was so years of age.
The McComb Enterprise says every
paper in the State would sell out at
10 per cent. of original cost" Bro
May is omniscient.
Some of the State papers are viola
ting the postal laws by folding in theiI
issues advertisements that do not con
form to the law permitting supple
ments.
DR.. J. W. Mcclure a dentist, was
arrested in Meridian for the crime ol
murder committed in 1868. He is
charged with killing VIM. Bayliss, neal
Byhala
In the interest of Copiah and Simp
son county the Hazlehurst Courier ad
vocates an iron bridge across Pear
River at Georgetown. The cost is es
tmated at $1,000
At East Fork Jeff Wilson while lay
ing new tramway fell beneath the
wheels of a moving engine and was
crushed to death He leaves wife
and four children.
Mrs. W. w. Bunch, of Summit, wa.
sentenced by the United States Cour
70 serve 60 days in the Pike county
jail at Magnolia, and fined S100-al
ior selling blind tiger whisky.
Charles Beard killed two negroes a
Natchez. Their mother attempted tt
Kill the white man, but assistance ar
.Ning, desisted. She fled and it is no
Anown what has become of her. Mr.
Beard is in a critical condition from
ganshot wounds.
Df' Purnell, of Vicksburg, says vel
'ow fever has never been known tt
remain over from one season t.
another and denies that there is yellow
ieVer near Edwards. None of the 81
or % people who have returned t.
EDWARDS since the scourge have de
'eloped case of fever
capt. Burkitt shows that the averag
0ost 10 the State per capita of the boy
ana girls who attend the State Col
'eges is S:2l.75; while the cost of edu
oa'ion In the common public schools
only Sol per capita difference o
s-i9.22 in favor of the College benefl
cary, paid at State expense.
haziehurst was considerably excite'
over rumor that, in the event tn
"oVernor did not commute the dealt
sentence of Meredith Case, sentences
W The Supreme Court to hang Fet
io'h' his friends would forcibly rescu
nim from Jail The rumor causes
oneriif Thompson to increase the Jul
guard.
mere are at the present time gram
so.ai OF 1853 miles of railroad track il
smississippi Tho completion of tn
mobile, jackson and Kansas City Rail
ioad, and the extension of the Gul
snd Ship Island from Hattiesburg t
oon.otoc, so as to connect with tn
auii and Chicago tho distance bein
=, miles, win accommodate and dt
se'op large section of the State.
oaa from Galfport to Natchez, vi
'0omb City, is among the possibil
ues at an early day.