The leader., 1898-04-13
r HOBBS, Editor and Proprietor
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

Jackson will have a oaerseries'' lii
May. an
chubuta's watermelons were killed
by frost.
The Ttta Bena Optic is new press
candidate.
Tho Central Mississippi Presbytery
met at Jackson
The Port Gibson Compress has han
dled 10000 bales to date.
" s Ritnour and Miss Sallie Hatch
rare married at Summit.
p;sbop Galloway will deliver the ad-
,,oss Of the |. l. & c., June 10Th.
en- Cook lost his barn with 100
,rsbels of corn at Crystal Springs.
Mr. Love has the field to himself in
ii. race for Congress in the Sixth
district.
Con Norman will visit Crystal
snrings in the interest of the U. G. ",
on April =.
Hon James X. Vardaman will de-
liver the address for the Poplarville
High School.
The I. |. & C. dormitory caught fire
Init was extinguished. TROUBLES never
come singly."
The 3lst annual session of the State
Medical Association, will meet in Jack
son, April 10Th.
c. W. Creel killed Hillary Simmons
at Tylertown with buckshot. No
cause as yet assigned.
Meadville has the "Daily Advocate"
by r. S. Butler. Surely the "Nancy
Hanks" gait is winner.
The Odd Fellows of Port Gibson are
Advertising for bids to build an opera
house and lodge rooms above.
Mr.. J. Nelson Polhamus is lecturing
on Scuba" At Mississippi City he was
given an enthusiastic hearing.
Crystal Springs citizens refuse to
patronize soda water fount where
negroes are allowed the same privilege.
Mike Kelly, colored, lost his barn
near Brandon, with 90 bushels of corn,
a lot of fodder, all his gear and one
horse
Judge j. A. p. Campbell, ex-Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, is So
journing in Magnolia, under treatment
of the osteopath, DR.. ENEMY.
Bonner Richardson, of Yazoo coun-
ty, is dead. He was at one time edi-
tor of The Delta Flag and was sub
stantal and enterprising citizen.
Miss Annabel Power, daughter Of
Col. ], L. Power, is winning an envia-
bic reputation as an elocutionist. She
assisted in an evening at Fayette.
Superintendent Kincannon holds
the $1,000 contributed by the public
school children of the State for the
Cuban sufferers, having no means of
communication with Cuba.
Burke Barton, ten-year old boy of
Natchez, has written Gov. McLaurin
volunteering his service as drummer
boy, in case of war; The Governor as
sured him he should have the place
Rev. Robert E. Lee Craig, recent
Rector of Jackson's Episcopal Church,
afterwards made assistant in a Church
Of st. Louis, is now sojourning for his
health at Robinson Springs, this State.
In an open boat two loving youn g
couples crossed over the waters be-
tween Dauphin, Ala, and Scranton and
were married by Judge Chidsey, re-
turning to their homes Immediately as
they came
Hazlehurst and Copiah county ex-
perlenced mild sensation when Judge
foWell sprung the lynching of John
Moses before their failing visions. 1t
Is likely many of the participants will
oe arrested and bound over until the
next term of court.
Little Wesley Rice was singing a
butchers knife back and forth in a
meat stall in Brandon, when John
townsend tried to catch it by the han
uie' Wesley gave it sudden pull and
nearly severed Townsend's hand be-
tween thumb and forefinger.
Mrs. Annie E. Avery, for twenty
years resident of Bay st. Louis, is
uead' She was telegraphic correspond
cut OF the Picayune and society cor
respondent of the Times Democrat.
QUE was once postmistress of Bay St.
n0uis and also published a paper in
'nae city years ago, being a lover of
newspaper work. She was very popu-
'af and her death is greatly mourned.
Inc congregation of st. Andrews
episcopal Church, jackson, at a meet
'ns 10 elect wardens and vestrymen,
,escihded the famous resolutions of
ous' 1897, when r. e. Lee Craig was
.e0'or' and thus indorse "the course of
,no old vestry and Bishop Thompson"
n n opposing resolution by Judge
:. 'a'lie to rescind only such part of
10 resolution as might be construed
:" reflect on any member of the vestry,
o,s %a' voted down by 60 to II, and the
Oiu Vestrymen were reelected.