The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-21
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

MISOloolIA Il A
/. snort-Hand Chronicle Of Cur
rent happenings.
..on has had several deaths
.moue children from diphtheria.
c..sie Berlin, colored, Of Greenville'
v,s fatally stabbed BY Lee Chiffon
Are at Ellisville Sunday night
destroyed the store OF G. Q. hcMui'en'
u.tt;esburg is to have a national
~ soou. with capital stock OF
$4,000.
co,JK Kearney, an old and prom
,,snt citizon of Canton, died ON the
10th inst.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Gordon, OF Port
c;hsou celebrated their wooden we'd
ding last week.
special term of the Circuit Court
Montgomery county has been called
by Judge Stevens for Jan. 2.
Mrs. Mary O'Sullivan Lambert, the
,.loved mother of Capt. james w.
Lambert, Of the Natchez Democrat,
died recently in her seth year.
LII Pearson, of Batesville, has pur-
chased the old canning factory there,
and il will be run with power furnish
al bv the new electric light plant.
Mr. Charles Sauter, of Houston,
Texas, and Miss jamie Garner, Of Wes-
.ou. were married in the Methdist
church at the latter place Sunday.
Major Money of the Fifth Immunes
Il reported to have improved in health
sufficiently to be able to return to his
command at Santiago de Cuba about
Jan. ].
As fast as new convicts are sent to
the penitentiary from the several
county courts, they are dispatched
from the penitentiary to the delta
farms.
viii Purvis, the famous Marion
county white capper, has at last been
pardoned, the current Of opinion now
being that he was not the man who
killed Buckley.
In the Girls Industrial College at
Columbus there are 48 students who
are studying and practicing typewrit-
ing and stenography, and z who are
learning telegraphy.
Editor Stratton, of the Liberty Her
aid, has gone to Washington to be pri-
mte secretary to Congressman McLain.
Miss Stratton, his sister, has charge Of
the Herald in his absence.
The case of the State revenue agent
against county treasurers will be tried
at the approaching January term Of
the circuit court of the First district
Of Kinds county at jackson.
Lieut.. Harry Marshall, of the Capt.
tai Light Guards, First Mississippi
Regiment, died at Columbia, Tenn,
last week. The remains were brought
home to Clinton for burial.
The Holly Springs Reporter has
passed its thirty third mile-board.
During all those years the present ed
itor and proprietor, Mr.. w. T. Barry,
has been connected directly with it.
George Butler, one of the assistant
superintendents of the pipe laying
gang Of the water works construction,
shot and seriously wounded James
Deer, one of the laborers, at Summit
last Friday.
The Mississippi University foot ball
team we're defeated by the Tulane
University team in New Orleans, and
the Tulanes have since been defeated
at Baton Rouge by the louisiana Uni
versity team,
jackson will vote an a proposition TO
issue $4,000 in bonds for sewerage
purposes. The surveys have been
carefully made and it is estimated that
1wenty-three miles of sewerage can be.
built for $4,000.
Messrs. Thompson and Magruder win
again sit with Judge Whitfield in the
ceieorated Lipscomb poisoning case,
Judges Woods and Terral being dis
quaiined The case will be argued
early in January.
Monday was a bad day for criminals
IN the Supreme Court. OF the II
ueclslons rendered in State cases II
were affirmed. The date for the exc
oaslon Of Richard Green, Of Adams
"unsy, was fixed on Feb. LIST.
Mrs. Mary Walthall, wife of the late
senator E. c. Walthall, died in Mem
pals on the 10th, aged fifty eight years.
ler death was due to general de-
.,lne IN health which began aftor the
uea'n OF her husband last April.
Inc trustees Of Chamberlain Hunt
academy offer to furnish free tuition
~'wo Cuban boys, Of white parentage,
sno may come with proper credentials.
aua also to minimize the board and in
s"ental expenses, both Of which are
A0w very moderate at this academy.
N MI. JAS. ]. Mann and Miss Sarah T.
:. scelsries, prominent young people Of
-, aloorne county, were married on the
,.'n = INST. The bride Is daughter Of
~ and Mrs. E. s. Jefferies, who were
= "eai'ny slave-owners before the war.
Ils' Jefferies Is a daughter Of the late
Sndge Elicit.
=, partnership to practice law IN
= 'casourg has been formed between
: Ssaerai = I G. Catohines and son. and
9 ? Hudson The Arm name Of the