The leader., 1898-10-05
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.
r,o coast has had severe blows and
rains.
courts are being generally prefer
mitted. :,
Tho starkviile Times has entered
upon its 32nd year.
The cookie bur says there will not be
frost before Nov. lst.
The present yellow fever scare Is
costing the State $500 day.
Grandson, the Yazoo murderer, is
rsnorted in hiding at Dumas, Ark.
Arthur Marks, son of Isaac Marks, of
Meridian, was drowned in New York.
The Valley Bank Of Rosadale was
Incorporated with capital Of s25O,OOO.
The Cotton Oil Co., of Meridian, has
given $50 for yellow fever sufferers at
Jackson.
R. II. Henry, Jr., has been made
ouartermaster of the Third Mississip-
pi Regiment.
Judge H. c. Conn has returned to
his home at Hazlehurst, much i'm
proved in health.
Bishop Galloway wisely proposes
that some other name be given the
prevailing fever"
number of Summit citizens have
invested in lots at Gulfport, through
agent S. E. Roberts.
Stanton College opened at Natchez
with 40 regular students-the largest
number in its history.
The Sea Coast Echo calls for socie-
ty for the prevention of cruelty to ami
mails at Bay st. Louis.
Grenada wants the Masonic Orphans
home. The Masons have a fund OF
$4,000 for the project.
Prof. ]. NJ. Sharp, of Mississippi Col
lege, has been appointed by Gov. Nc
Laurin, mayor of Clinton.
Fayette is being depopulated and
the Chronicle suspends on account of
yellow fever at Harriston.
1t is suggested that hereafter quar-
antine be made against New Orleans
from April lst to November 1st.
A bunch of bananas which attained
full size and maturity was grown in
vicksburg by Mrs. Mack Lawrence.
Cotton is no longer king. 1t is like
leaning upon broken reed for the
farmer to rely upon the profit of DC
cotton.
Quarantine has interfered so serious
ly with Wesson's import of feed stuffs
that cattle have had to be turned out
on the range.
Jim Miles, who was sent up from
Rankin last summer for the attempted
assassination of Geo. Catchings, has
escaped from the pen. Even Rankin's
cOnvicts "have chance"
About 1000 negroes are in quaran-
tine at jackson. They are enjoying
rations with slight fevers which they
call "Purline" fever in honor of DR..
purnaD tho foyor avnort
Edgar S. Wilson says the rotunda of
the capitol looked more like duck
pond in recent rain "than the place
where Sharkey, George and other of
Mississippi's honored dead have lain
in state"
Joseph l.. Meade, formerly of Halle
hurst, died at Birmingham last Satur-
day. He was a prominent criminal
lawyer of birmingham. He leaves a
wife and two children. His body
was shipped to his old home at Halle
hurst.
An ex-Conf ederate reunion of SOL
diers will take place at Society Hill, II
miles north of Columbia, on Saturday,
before the 3rd Sunday in October. All
the veterans of Lawrence, Covington,
Pearl River and Pike counties are in
vited to attend.
John Ar mstrong, formerly editor of
the Vicksburg Herald, and for the last
lew years holding a position in the
government printing Office at Washing
.on' committed suicide by drowning in
'he Potomac. He had been despond
ent since the death of his wife in April
last.
Ihe Housman building at Yazoo
City was burned. One of it's apart
menus was occupied by the Yazoo City
nook and Stationery Co., on which was
an insurance of $4,000. The proprietor
Vi This company, Joe Fox, was arrested
upon an affidavit made out by DR..
orysier and was subsequently released
on $500 bond.
capt. j. j. Cowan, of Vicksburg,
uied at Knoxville, Tenn, just one
month from the day he was injured in
stepping from train. He was Con-
'euerate veteran and commanded
Uowah's Battery, First Mississippi Ar
u''ery' during the civil war. He was
ohe OF the Hill City's wealthiest citi-
~ehs and in the best of health when
0u' down by the unfortunate accident.