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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-15
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at jackson, Miss.
November IL. 1898.

Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing-named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim, and that said proof will be
made before the Circuit clerk of Greene
county, at Leakesyille, Miss, on Deem
Der 81, 1898, viz; Alex Burch, Jr., H. E.
No. 24,950, for the W. = NV. u, Sec. &c,
T. 8, N, K. W.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: W. ID.
Mills, l.. w. James, z, f. james, Lum
Byrd, all of Grafton. Miss.
JAMES Hull, Register.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-15
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at Jackson, Miss.

s' W q "ON0UII3 NIoosj I
November ID, 1898.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
lng-named settler has filed notice of his
Intention to make final proof in support
OF his claim, and that said proof will be
made before the Circuit clerk of Greene
county, at Leakesville, Miss, on Deem
Der 81, 1898, viz: James S. Woodland, II d.
r. No. 25,4l0. for the nw14 sw14, Sec. SO,
I. l, N. X. 7 W., A. F. to sw14 swA
Sec. SO, L. l, N. X. W.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: w. N. Nc
lnnis, w. h. Mcleod, John Hawkins
Avian Naples, all of Vernal, Miss.
JAMES HILL, Register.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-15
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at Jackson, Miss.
November IL, 1898.

November IL, 1898.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim, and that said proof will be
made before the Chancery clerk of
Greene county, at Leakesville, Miss, on
December 81, 1898, viz: Richard H. Golf,
H. E. No. 25,606, for the Sc. d ne. "A :,
and e. p Sc. "a, Sec. 81, and sw. sw. I,
Sec. 80, T. l, N. r. s w.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: w. w
Cooley, Joe Cowart, h. o. Cowart, F. NJ
Mcleod, all of Leaf, Miss.
JAMES HILL, Register.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-15
Notice for PublicaClo.


LaHu UI1ce at Jackson, N -,
November IL, 1898.
Notice is hereby given that The follow
ing-named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim, and that said proof will he
made before the Circuit clerk of Greene
county, at Leakesville, Miss, on Decem-
Der 81, 1898, viz: Laford K. James, III. f.
No. 6,76O, for the e1a ne14 aud e . sell
Sec. sc, t. 4, N. R. Z w.
He names the following witnesses 10
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of, said land. viz: ed. Davis
Alex Mcdonald, Z. E. Byrd, Dan Mills
all of Avera, Miss.
JAMES HILL, Register.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-15
Headquarters for Mississippians
MOBILE & OHIO R. R

Shortest and Quickest Line to all Points
North and South.
Connecting with Mobile Steamship Lines
for South Florida, Havana and other
West India Ports, Central and
South American Ports.
Pullman Palace Sleepers with Buffet and
easy riding Day coaches on all trains.
Fastest Freight Service in the South.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-15

For rates, time, tickets and further in
formation write or call on
5. A. CRAWFORD,
Local Agent, State Line. Miss.
f. f. POSEY,
GEM Pass. Agt, Mobile, Ala
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-15
ONE OF THE Boys

The law seems to be a very appalling
thing to "Diminutive Little Chap
hailing from over in the woods, from the
efforts he made to avoid its clutches
while in this town. While in the streets
near the courthouse this Young Liliipu-
tian respectfully accosted a prominent
citizen and inquired if he could take a
smoke without being molested by some
officials of the law, upon being told that
he could he told the gentleman Ia ques-
ton that he was anxious to get out of
this town as he was afraid he would get
in trouble. He seemed to think that
because sthis is the county site that
a man must not draw Il long breath
Judging from the amount of
congratulations and hand-shakes Prof.
w. NJ. Dorsett has only added to his
popularity by becoming Benedict The
editor after holding solemn conceive with
his conscience, doth hereby, and for ever
more endorse matrimony, and recommend
, TO ST. tsl Of our young townsmen to fol-
/ C4. aele the professor ha
& al heusw
These -oo
u4 from ats
before - re all
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-15
Church Services.
LEAKESVILLE.

M E. Church South, I'd Sunday in
each month, II a. M, and 7.30 p. IN.
Presbyterian Church, Sd Sunday in
each month, II o'clock services.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-15
Merrill, Miss.

This is one of the most thriving little
towns in the Southern country. Merrill
is situated on the Pascagoula river, 30
miles northwest of Mobile, on the NJ. J.
& X. C. Railroad, and from the mum
Der of building going up bright future
can be painted.
Uncle Billy Rye has returned to Leskes
vile, after erecting three hne brick chem
neys here.
Wild turkeys and deer abound in this
section. Daily they are brought in and
sell for good prices
The river has recently reached the
highest water mark know, yet Merrill sat
majestically seven feet above the danger
line, thus refutng the report that we
were liable to overflow.
Yours Truly,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1898-12-15
MOBILE, JACKSON & KANSAS CITY RAILROAD.
TABLE.

Nos. and Sundays Only.
H. II. LANE, General Supt.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06


dozen shirt bu5tons IS enough. small
piece Of cardboard can have, say. aquarter
or an eighth Of 8 spool Of thread rolled on
1t. and SIX needles and one row Of pins are
plenty. A piece Of count plaster might be
useful, and 400 two grain Quinine pills;
also a small bottle or box Of podophyilin
bills, a piece Of gum canphor and one roll
Of bandage, six yards long and two inches
wide. rolled very hard and tight. If there
was room for anything more, 8 fine tooth
somb would not be thrown away. Bibles
and hymnbooks we do not need, as we
have religion along with us. We have our
chaplain, and the Y. NJ. G. A., and be-
sides If there is anything that will make a
man remember the teachings of his moth
er it is being face to face with death every
minute
/ may say, dear sister women, that !
took out the pretty ~hymnbooks and 9TH
Brs of a religious nature from the com
fort bag I was then making for my sol
der boy and put a bottle of thick black
berry cordial and a pocket full of q%uinlne
and camphor gum, besides aconite and
podophyllin. / put in a fine tooth comb
too. That is good to keep the hair from
getting dusty. But this is not fashion.
Yet it may interest worpen quite as much,
and tout of the abundance of the heart
the mouth ~speaketh."
There are quite a number of 1nnova-
tions proposed for full wear in the way OF
capes. The most of them are narrower
tha they were, and many are pointed
both front and back. All have quantlules
of lace. Raised silk embroidery done by
hand is seen on a few Of the superb pat
tern gowns of black corded silk and Irish
poplin. The preferred plan seems to be
to have a tablier front rounded deeply,
and this with an elaborate design wrought
on the front with trailing vines extend
ing up the sides where it joins with the
sprung tunic skirt.
Another rich gown of ribbed black
silk had first a quilting around the
bottom one inch wide of the silk, gathered
in the center and edged with the narrow
est possible white lace. From there to
me very shoulders there was a SUCCESSION
of lace frills set in small f~estG0aIs. Each
alternate frill was of the three inch lace
and the other one inch. Above the three
inch frilI was a line of lace applique rep
~resenting violets and grass. How delicate
it was I cannot toll. The effect of the
fine white lace over the black was ex-
~onisite. The bodice was in form OF q
blouse, but was open in front over q vest
of silk null with lace at the top and bot
tom. The neck had a white silk null
stock with lace laid over the lower part.
One of the new ways of making fall
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06
HORSE THIEF



Strange Double Life Of > Successful
EvangelNt.
Amos T. Whitman, preacher, horse thief,
biganist and forger, has just been trans
ferred from the penitentiary at Michigan
City to the one at Columbus, o., and
when he has served three years there lii
nois will reach out aIsi claim him. So
will Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa
n kentucky. He has lived q double life
md for years was undetected. By day he
was a preacher, engaged in the work OF
spreading the light of the gospel By
night he was the leader of a desperate
gang OF criminals, who robbed his converts
of their purses and stole tHeir horses.
Thus he spent many years of his lite un-
til the stern hand of the law reached out
and seized him and compelled him to halt.
Whitmsn was born in Darke county, O.
He was n of those precocious youths
who caught on readily, and in his home
training and Sunday school days he gath
cred a smattering of Biblical knowledge
which served him in the life which he aft
erward led. He was bright, and, though
he never received anything more thar a
country school education, he gained q
great fund of Information.
Ie Wis pcSSeSSeu VI lueck eyes anu q
dignity of carriage which made it easy for
him in after years to assume the part and
the name of a preacher. His home train
ing was excellent, but at an early age he
showed a marked tendency to get at vari-
ance with the law. He married at his old
home, but his crosses with the law made
hat union anything but a happy one. At
last, two years ago, his broken hearted
1.-o1 xrsfo - .-+. = Eo.-z. 1f $500
Whitman's career as a criminal on a
large scale commenced in 1885. At that
time he forged a note, stole a few horses
and skipped the country by night. For
this crime he is now serving a term In the
Ohio ~penitentiary.
After that he branched out as an evan
gelist under an assumed name. 1t was
while thus engaged that he succeeded in
organizing and putting in operation his
band of horse thieves and their subter-
ranean railroad.
During his engagements he would live
around among the members of the flock.
He played the part of a man in modest
circumstances and without luggage, SO
that he was invited to sleep and dine here
for ono day and there the next. Thus he
got among all of the brothers and sisters
He would pray with them in their parlors,
ask grace over their food and admonish
them to keep in the straight and narrow
path. After dinner he would stroll out on
the farms and size up the situation. If
the brother or sister had a good horse, he
admired him and found out all he could of
his nature. He would then observe how
and where he was kept and how the own
er cared for him.
. T r. Il -
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06

FASHIONS Of new YORK
Midsummer Bargains in
Thin Goods for Next
Year.
A HINT FOR THE PRUDENT
Advice to the Women Who
Are Making Three Pound
Red Chinz "Comfort"
Bags.
A HINT FOR THE PRUDENT


copyright, 1898. by American Press Assoc
ciation.1
There are certain standard cotton fabrics
as well as those of wool which remain
near enough to the slight changes made
yearly to make them useful bargains to
buy now. Every midsummer the retail
stores put all the lawns, ginghams, organ
dies, percaIes and, in short, everything
they have in the line of summer goods on
sale at prices really at il not a little below
tho original cost.
| used to be very skeptical about the
prices being even as low as cost, but I
hayo learned that the progressive mer-
chant in these days does not carry any
stock beyond it's season if he can help it.
He reckons that the profits made on the
earlier sales balance the loss on the last
oncs and still leave a margin for him. So,
promising that good stuffs are sold at such
q low figure, it Is well for the prudent
woman who looks ahead to buy a few
pieces for next season. Calicoes n per-
Gales are always in demand, and the de-
signs and colors are now SO very good that
they are especially good things for mothers
to buy. They are always useful.
Linen lawns, dotted swisses, plain
mulls and muslins all are excellent for
women to purchase at these sales. No
very pronounced figuring or coloring
should be chosen. Ginghams of all quail
ties, including the soft zephyrs and ma
dras, are among these s'loft overs" and
the wise mother will do well to buy all
lie can of these and put them away until
next Lent, when they will pass among the
newest and with such trimming as may
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06
A FREAKlSH CAREER.
Mss schley, Cousin OF the Commodore, Is
a Restless Young Woman.

Mss Schley, Cousin OF the Commodore, Is
a Restless Young Woman.
Miss Jessie Schley, the Milwaukee,
Young woman who has gained notoriety
BY attempting to personally negotiate
peace with the queen regent of Spain, is a
sentimental enthusiast who has attracted
attention to herself before, but who has
never succeeded previously on so large a
icale. Miss Schley is the daughter of Mr..
Charles Schley, a successful and well bal
anccd business man. Mr.. Schley is a
,ousin of the famous commodore. So Miss
Jessie is a second cousin to tho man who
smashed Cervera' s feet.
Miss Schley was born in Richmond, and
,here she went for her education after her
parents removed to Milwaukee. When she
left school, highly accomplished and en-
lowed with wealth, society welcomed her
with warmth. She soon gave evidence Of
attribute of an order superior to those Of
ner associates, and her aspirations finding
nothing congenial in the glitter and froth
Of society, she abandoned 1t and went to
i've in Milwaukee with Ter parents, whers
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06

CHAIN.
endless. 1t has connected Babylon, hith-
erto a very obscure little seaside village,
with every part of this great country.
Miss Schenck wants to break the chain
now-has wanted to for more than a fort
night, in fact-but in spite Of the fact that
her desire has been widely advertised ID
still seems to be intact.
Endless chains are not new. They are
prohibited by law In England, where they
have been used by swindlers. They have
been started in this country before, but
never dc one grow to such proportions az
the one started by Miss Schenck. You prob
ably know the method of starting,one. You
write to four friends-we will say four
asking them to contribute a dime to a GER
tain object and send a duplicate of your
letter I'd -FOUR OF their friends
The object for which Miss Schenck
asked dimes was to enable the National
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06

be in vogue at that time will prove a real
treasure.
Every January the now cotton goods are
put forward, a few at a time, and these
arc then bought up in quick order and
made up during the Lenten period and
then carefully hidden away in tissue paper
for summer wear. Just why this is lone
is past my comprehension. The DO days,
however, are made into a real penitential
season, full of such pcnanee as pricked fin
gers and tired eyes can infict. It is a sort
of unwritten law that all or nearly all of
these lovely summer dresses should be
made at home by the young wearers, of
course under the guidance of IN expert
enced person.
What / am trying to get at is this: The
prudent person who buys and chooses well
her cotton frocks now will be able to save
money enough on them to pay for an I'M
limited amount of ice cream soda and to
send lots of comforts to the dear boys at
the front.
Speaking of the comforts sent to those
boys reminds me to say that women spend
a great deal of time and strength and mis-
directed zeal in sending the SO called
comfort bags to soldiers. Recently
eOlnG pdSoSA bAlOuBA lily lditOS Ol Iu6 way
to the front. / will describe them and beg
any other good ladies to notice what / say,
and then If their patriotic zeal and per-
haps aching nsother hearts prompt them
to do something let it take some other
form. These bags were, like hundreds of
others, of brilliantly hued cretonne and
IS inches long by 12 or 10 wide, and they
gathered at the top by a long tape, intend
od co that tho co1dfor cnr5l1 hopr a. orO11n6
his neck. In each was a hairbrush and
coarse comb, a paper Of pins, a paper Of
No. ! needles, two spools Of coarse linen
thread, a big bunch of darning cotton and
six darning needles, three Moody and
Sankey hymnbooks and a Testament; also
a box Of all sorts of ordinary buttons,
nearly a pound in weight. Besides these
were two bundles Of cloth for patches, and
W. rolls Of bandages. One was about a
foot wide, and the other three inches, and
both were loosely rolled. The whole bust
ness weighed perhaps three pounds.
These were supposed to give the boys
comfort on the march. When one remem-
hers that the soldier in marching order
carries over so pounds besides his gun and
anything he can find in the way of food
for his haversack one can imagine that he
does not want any useless weight. And
on a march everything should be compact
and snug. How could he be comfortable
with all that weight extra hung around
his neck by a string and Topping about as
he marched? And imagine the picture a
regiment would look with these highly
colored cretonne bags flying about, no two
OF them alike. From being victims of
women's misdirected charitable efforts we
may pray with the soldiers. "GOod Lord.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06
NEW AUTUMN COSTUMES.

OStume for those who like to ils,G some
thing entirely stunning and remarkable
is a combination suit. The plan is to have
a blouse waist or q princess of striped
goods. silk In black and white being SO
far the best liked by tho designer. Over
this is a skirt Of entirely different texture
and color-poplin, cloth and cashmere be-
ing represented. / think the cloth looked
too heavy and the gloss of the poHlin de-
tracted from the luster of the silk. The
cashmere seemed softer and altogether
more appropriate. This was cut away in
front and down the hips, SO that the gen
eral appearance is as if the lady was about
to lose her overskirt. A very. neat trim
ming of magpie cord and a flat soutache
braid of the color of the outer skirt passed
around the upper part and down the
front. The cuffs are large and flaring,
and the points of the collar also sharply
pointed. There is a little shoulder cape
like the skirt and trimmed in the same
hammer.
These three are leading ideas and being
duplicated with trifiing differences in
many different materials and colors. 1t
seems that black and white stripes will be
much worn. With them soft silver gray
cashmere is decidedly elegant.
There is such a diversity now IN the
shape of hats that it would hardly be safe
to predict what they will be in the fall,
but / saw a few pattern hats" One is a
regular old fashioned poke Of beaver felt
in the soft cslor of the real beaver. This
was trimmed with turquoise blue velvet,
some orgetmenots Of velvet, and punched
very close, and a whole lot of fine cut steel
buckles upon the velvet. There were no
plumes upon it. There is also the English
turban and an English walking hat.
These have closely punched trimmings.
The shovel shape and that made famous
by the Duchess Dues are also among
them in smooth felt.
I also saw several woolly felt Gainsbor-
oughs in black and seal brown,~afso in
other lark colors. There was a time when
a felt hat could be only black, white, gray
or brown, but now they take their hues
from the rainbow, and there are all of
those colors intensified and boiled down,
SO to speak.
There are many rich velvet flowers and
curious quill feathers and much drapery
of starred, beaded and spangled velvet on
the millinery, but not nearly SO many os-
trich plumes as / had expected to see,
and, take them all in all, they are very
rr,~I elrro..
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06
LIVING CORPSE LOVE


| Proof Against Knives. but susceptible 70
the Dart o. Cupid.
Beno, the strange Egyptian who is in
sensible to the stabs of pins and knives
and proof against poison, quickly capitu-
lated 10 Cupid and married Miss Grace
Wavmer Of Muncie, Ind. Beno can sus-
pend animation for a period of two weeks.
Upon this last qualification hangs the
romance of his life.
To fulfill the conditions ct. a wager for
$3.50 he was to be lowered into a grave at
Muncie, Ind, there to remain eight days.
Thousands Of people had assembled to see
the interment Of the rash mortal who was
to taste the terrors of the grave before
death had claimed him..
Beno saw the anxious look on the faces
of several of the young girls, and just as
hi was being lowered into the grave he
made a last request that they keep his
grave green. At first many decked out
his living sepulchre with flowers, but only
one was constant in her visits to the little
mound. This was Miss Wagner. Beno's
only food was air, and this was admitted
through a tube. On one Of her visits Grace
was looking down this tube and musing
upon the strange manner of man confined
beneath the sod, when q cough, half sup
pressed, escaped her. TO her great aston
ishment a subterranean voice spoke up out
of the lube and inquired who was at his
grave. In accents trembling with joy and
horror Grace gave her name and said she
had com with fresh flowers for his grave.
The lonely man within must have been
glad for the sound of some human voice.
He engaged the girl in a casual converse
+soo x-bio1 ruoo rocftf4fad hr tho JirtitQ-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06

shes said she would make her life one OF
usefulness. Not long afterward she took
the n~oyice's veil in a Roman Catholic con-
vent. Her health was not good enough,
and the two years Of her noyitiate con-
ginced her that a nuns career was not
her vocation, and she ~re-entefed the world.
Her next move was to open two schools
for poor ohildren and she maintained
them at her own expense. Later, under
authority from Archbishop Ireland, she
opened a home for friendless girls in St.
Paul and founded a sisterhood, of which
she became the mother superior.
About this time Miss Schley began to
feel the promptings Of art, and feeling
sure that she had talent she went to E,-,
rope, studying at Paris and Rome.
Miss Schley's father and her sisters, OF
whom there are three, are very much dis
Eressed ut her courso in becoming the
triend and counselor Of deeayed royalty.
Like the distinguished hero Of Santiago,
hey are ardent patriots, and they feel that
her recent outbreak cannot but be ex-
bremely ~distasteful 10 The c~o1pmcdora
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06
CHAINED TO A BEAR.
How q Gypsy Husband Treats His Pretty
Wife.

Toda Uwanawitch is a gypsy queen,
but she is learning the ways of c~iviliza-
ton. She wants a divorce. She alleges
that her husband, I~tanco, made her dance
with a bear, and when the performance
failed to bring in money he chained them
together and let them go hungry. A ira
dition of the gypsies makes the men COM
pei the women to earn money or go hun
CRY. So Itanco shut up the royal larder
and Toda passed many a day without food.
OF course her beauty decreased and those
dark eyes of hers sank back into their
sockets. Stories came to her, too, that
other bright eyes in the camp were casting
chances at Itanco and that he was return
ing them. Toda reproached him, and
then, as she alleges in her bill for divorce,
he began to punch, choke, kick, bite and
strike her"
She ran away from the camp, but they
found her again down on the shores of the