The leader., 1898-12-07
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.
Centerville has glee club.
Ex-Sheriff John Clay Mize, of Smith
County, is dead.
The Hoo -Hoos will hold a concatena-
ton in Biloxi Friday night.
North Mississippi was visited with a
six-inch snow Saturday night.
The Pearl River News flies the name
of A. H. Longino for governor.
Judge Critz, of West Port, announces
himself candidate for governor.
DR.. Milton Marcy and Miss Hattie
Garner, of Wesson, we're recently mar
ried.
w. G. Henderson, assistant post
master at Biloxi, was accidentally shot
through the hand while out hunting
Sunday.
President Triplett is having more
trouble at the Alcorn A. g. M. College
There is talk of giving the school a
white president.
The blizzard and snow of Saturday
night will cause heavy loss of cotton
in the Delta, from third to half the
crop being yet in the field.
A negro woman was burned to death
at Columbia, Miss, the other night.
She went to bed with lighted pipe
and sparks from it ignited the bed
clothing.
Two white prisoners and four col
ored, escaped from the Scranton Jail.
Sherman Danley, charged with MUIR
der, and James Garfield, under SEN
tence for an assault with intent to kill,
both white, were recaptured.
Mrs. M. P. Lowry, widow of the late
General M. P. Lowry, died at her home
in Blue Mountain, Miss, on &riday
morning. She leaves several sons and
daughters, one of whom is DIR. w. T.
Lowry, president of Mississippi Col
lege.
Jake Hawk was arrested in Yazoo
City for counterfeiting. Hawk has al
ready served two years in the Albany
prison for similar crime, being sent
up from Little Rock, Ark. He is a
white man. He was making nickels,
and very poor imitation.
A Laurel special to the Times-Dem-
ocrat says: The Laurel & Northwest
ern railroad will be completed 80 miles
west from Laurel by Jan. l, 1899. This
road will connect with the Gulf and
Ship Island railroad about Taylors-
vile, when that road is extended out
from Hattiesburg.
The Port Gibson Reveille says that
the honor for originating the idea of
an industrial institute and college for
girls does not belong to the late Mrs.
Annie C. Peyton, but to Mrs. o. A.
Hastings, of Claiborne county, and in
support of this proposes to produce
the documentary proof.
Already it is reported that cattlemen
are figuring on buying fields OF un-
picked cotton for pastures. This is
an anomalous thing in Mississippi, but
there is nothing else to be done. The
weather has been so unfavorable that
thousands of acres of cotton, in all
parts of the State, some of it not even
picked over once, is standing in the
fields.
The secretary of state has ISIS ued a
commission to Hon. f. A. McLain, on
Tuesday last elected to congress in the
Sixth congressional district, to fill the
unexpired term of the late Congress
man Love. His commission was
mailed to him at Washington. The
vote was very light, since McLain had
no opposition. Only about $500 votes
were cast
Ringing Brothers big show was dis
banded at Grenada last week. Owing
to the bad weather, the circus was
compelled to cancel five dates in Mis-
sissippi. At Aberdeen the rain pre-
vented a performance, after which the
show went to Grenada, where the em-
ployes we're paid off and released and
the menagerie sent to it's winter quar-
ters.
The Clarion Ledger says the lunatic
asylum at Jackson now contains about
875 patients. On the first OF Septem-
ber the reports showed exactly 800 in
mates, but after the quarantine about
fifty we're discharged as cured. Since
that time about twenty-fiv new pa
tients have been admitted. The rec
ords show that about 60 per cent. of the
inmates are women.
The late municipal primary in jack
son was full of surprises. Col. ID. M.
TAYLOR was nominated for mayor over
Mayor Wharton, and but one OF the
old Aldermen got in again. 1t took a
second primary to decide the nomina-
tion for chief of police. In the second
primary, Chief of Police Ewing was
renominated by 100 majority over L.
F. Chiles, his leading opponent.
The State Board Of examiners
Messrs. Deupre, Hardy and Kincannon