The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-02-16
a. r. HOBBS. Editor and Proprietor
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

MlOOAODlI NENCs
state Happenings Since The
Leaders, Last Issue.
Clinton is being fumigated this week.
Terry has banished hogs from the
street.
Work is about to begin on Jsckson's
new electric street railroad.
county stock law Is being sgi-
,ated in Rankin and Copiah.
Every hop joint in Jackson by ad-
vice of counsel has been closed.
Msredith Case was baptized by DR..
TX Pace at Hazlehurst last week.
Col Preston Hay, the oldest citizen
of Jackson, has passed away, aged 92.
Dick and Claude Ratcliff, Of Rankin,
will leave for the Klondike In March.
Sam Jones lectured in Magnolia
last night and tomorrow night will
lecture in Wesson.
w. C. Brann, OF Ironclast fame, has
turned loose on Mississippi soil and Is
lecturing the State.
The Legislature imposed q privilege
tax of $500 on hop joints and second
hand clothing stores.
Bishop Galloway opposes Cuban an
nexation, but thinks the time for In
tervention has arrived.
Mr.. VIM. T. Butler and Miss Leontine
Sparkman, of Magnolia, were married
by Rev. H. H. Messenger.
The Hazlehurst Courier thinks that
the like of the present legislature will
never be sent to Jackson again.
T.. z. Ross, of Simpson county,
sold $500 worth of home-raised rice
to the Lunatic Asylum at Jackson.
Ossie Williams, the youth sentenced
several years ago from Marshall
county for burglary, has been par
doned.
The Legislature adjourned Friday,
unwept, unhonored and unsung. The
expenses of the session were fraction
over $4,000.
The Greenville Democrat says that
Hon. J. X. Vardaman has about con-
cluded to establish Southern Maya.
zine at Greenwood.
Brown Smith, whose family was
murdered in Lawrence county, Is en-
gagged in peddling the photographs OF
his surviving little girl.
Congressman Henry is trying to
establish federal penitientiary ct
Jackson, to accommodate GOO crimi-
nails and to cost $4,000.
A. H. George has sold his interest in
the Silver Democrat at CarrOllton, to
his partner, E. G. Harris. Mr.. George
will be retained as editor.
Charles Nettles, depot, express agent
and telegraph operator at Gallman,
was killed in q train wreck between
Hazlehurst and Gallman last Sunday.
Gov. McLaurin was stricken Satur.
day with neuralgia of the heart and
lungs, but no fatal results are antici
pated. This Is partly chargeable to
the legislature.
The Supreme Court has reversed and
remanded for new trial tho case OF
Wallace Smith convicted at Meridian
sometime ago for the murder of Col.
Jemison.
The 4th annual meeting Of the Mis-
sissippi Stock Breeders Association
meets at Aberdeen today. During the
session it is proposed to arrange a
State Horticultural Society.
Prof. L. T. Dickie, principal Of the
Lexington Normal School for the past
nine years, will resign in June and
become connected with the Southern
Normal University, at Huntington,
Tenn.
The Port Gibson Reveille criticises
Gov. McLaurin for refusing to re-
appoint Hon. j. McC. Martin trustee
Of the l. l. & G. Mr.. Martin was the
author of the bill creating the institu-
tion and has been q member OF the
Board of Trustees ever since.
The Senate refused to confirm the
re-appointment of DIR. Peter Fairly, as
Superintendent of the Asylum for the
blind. The Governor then nominated
In his stead DR.. w. 8. Sims, of Merid-
ian, who is specialist, with diploma
from two institutions.
II there is not something done to
lessen the insurance rate In this State,
business men will soon have to abandon
fire protection and arrange to take
care Of themselves. At the present
rate on the greater part of the busi-
ness houses here, the full amount OF
the policy is paid up every fifteen
years.-Terry Headlight.
The Governor has appointed w. E.
Jones, Of Meridian, trustee Of the East
Mississippi Insane Asylum. J. L:
Gillespie, trustee of the Alcorn A. and
N. College, and sent the name OF
Bishop Chas. B. Galloway, as trustee
OF the Industrial Institute and College
to take the place of Mr.. G. H. Alex
ander, Of jackson, nominated by the
Governor several days ago, who de-
clined.
The Governor has sre-appointed Judge
Longino Chancellor OF the 7th district,
and has appointed Hon. J. r. Enochs,
OF Brandon, Circuit Judge of the Sth
Judicial district, vice Judge A. q.
Mayors, whose term expires next May.
These are the last judicial appoint
ments, which fail within the nine
months Of the meeting of the Legisla-
ture. Unless there shall be deaths or
designations, Governor McLaurin, dur
ing his administration, can name sue.
cessors to Chancellors Pintard, OF
Natchez, and Mcfarland, Of Aberdeen,
and Judge Cassedy, Of Magnolia.
With health wrecked and under the
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