The leader., 1898-06-22
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur.
rent happenings.

Hattiesburg is now lighted by cleo.
tricity.
Horace w. Rose died at Natcbez Of
consumption.
The Cham berlain Hunt Academy
closes July 4th.
The Port Gibson Cotton Seed Oil
Mill is running again.
The l. l. Il G. closes this week-it
may be for two years.
Col. Sargent's immune regiment at
Columbus is filling up.
Bishop Galloway preached the bac.
calaureate sermon at the l. lac.
Judge Alfred Krebs deputy collec.
tor of customs at Scranton, is dead.
Port Gibson has COW ordinance
that will go into effect March 1, 1899.
The police and courts are giving the
jackson blind tigers another hot deal.
Prof. Leon Tyrone has been elected
Principal of the Monticello Academy.
Mrs. w. o. Hudson, of Lawrence
county, died of cancer on the 18th inst.
VIM. Wilson, a painter, fell under
the cars at Vicksburg and was fatally
injured.
The cotton acreage in Mississippi is
estimated at per cent. below that of
last year.
The Claiborne county grand jury ex.
amined 140 witnesses and returned 81
true bills.
John Calhoun has been appointed
Mayor of Holly Springs, vice Sam
Finley deceased.
DIR. L. c. Jones, of Madison Station,
was seriously injured by being kicked
in the forehead by his buggy horse.
The Delta Flag thinks the l. 1. & C.
ought to close and "stay closed until
it can be run in a creditable manner"
The Barber Brothers, who ran racket
stores at Meridian, Canton and other
points, assigned to their creditors Sat.
urday.
The Second Regiment of Mississippi
Volunteers left Monday, for Jackson.
vile, Fla, where they will 60 into
camp.
The Copiah Signal says r. P. Furr,
who is one of Lincoln's best farmers,
carried the first cotton bloom to
Wesson.
w. G. Jones, Jackson merchant,
sold the I. G. Railroad two large cases
of palm-leaf fans last week to be
shipped to Chicago.
J. r. Preston, Ex-Superintendent of
Education of Mississippi, has been
elected President of Stanton Female
College at Natchez.
Hon. J. r. Showers has been elected
Secretary of the Board of Trustees of
the State University, and Miss Annie
Hargrove was elected University
librarian.
Geo. Teunisson, the only son of DR..
G. A. Teunisson of Monticello, who
lately returned from the A. & M. Col
lege, has gone to Chickamauga to join
the First Mississippi Regiment.
The Washington county Board of
Supervisors has supplemented the
very liberal private subscription to its
local military company, by voting it
$3.50 out of the county treasury.
The State Board of Election Com
missioners meet August 81 to name
county commissioners. Recommends
tions, three from each county, only
two of same party, should be sent to
Hon. E. II. Nall, Secretary, Jackson.
Thos. V. jackson, once famous as
detective in running down Rube
Burrows, Summers, Bunch, Hopgood
and other notorious outlaws, was ar
rested and fined in Jackson last week
for running crap joint in conjunc-
tion with pal named Kennedy.
Mrs. Lavinia Matthews, widow of
the late j. M. Matthews, has received
her commission and taken charge of
the Wesson postoffice. The Mirror
says Mr.. Smylie will continue in the
office for some weeks, or till the new
broom gets little of the new worn off.
G. w. Robie, student, was ac-
quilted in the Claiborne Circuit Court
of the charge of attempting to assas-
sinate President Triplette, of Alcorn
University. In the case of A. o.
Coffin, secretary of the faculty, charged
with the same offense, the jury could
not agree and a mistrial was entered.
Wiley Hudnall, painter, after a
preliminary trial before Justice Buck
ley, has been remanded to the Halle
hurst Jail without the benefit of bail
for criminal assault on ten-year-old
white girl at Wesson. His chances for
a conviction and sentence to hang, .
communication and finally pardon by
the Governor are very flattering.
Miss S. MEG. Isom, who fills the
chair of oratory in the University, and
Mrs. VIM. Calvin Chiffon, instructor
of elocution in Union Female College,
have been invited to contribute and
read papers before the American
Shakesperean Symposium, to be cele-
brated by the Shakesperean Society OF
New York, at Stratford, England, on
July 2Sth next. Both ladies have ac-
cepted the invitation, and will leave
Oxford in few days to attend the
elocutionists' convention to be held In
Cincinnati before sailing from New
York for Liverpool.
Richard Womack was arrested IN