The leader., 1899-05-24
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A ShOrt-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Allen and McLaurin are to speak al
Bay st. Louis today.
Jackson is promised her electric
street car line by June 18th.
Horse thieves are troubling the
farmers of Wilkinson county.
North and Central Mississippi have
been blessed with good rains.
Gov. McLaurin and Private John
Allen spoke at Columbus Friday.
Mayor Taylor, of jackson, has re-
signed. He assigns i'll health as the
cause.
A big hotel is to be built on the
Chautauqua grounds at Crystal
Springs.
Stock for a $4,000 cotton seed oil
mill has been subscribed by citizens of
Lexington.
The whisky petition in Kinds to call
local option election failed for lack
of 3 names.
w. r. Williams, white man, giving
Memphis as his home, was arrested in
Columbus for burglary.
The Blue Mountain Female College
will close its twenty sixth annual ses-
sion the 7th and Sth of June.
A new directory of Vicksburg gives
that progressive city population of
20,735, including the suburbs.
The Mary Holmes College for colored
girls will be rebuilt at West Point,
and be completed by Sept. 1st.
The headquarters of the protective
Knights of America have been moved
from Birmingham, Ala, to Jackson.
Philip Appel, of Crystal Springs, fell
on blunt stump of switch cane and
received injuries from which he died.
G. G. Gillespie and albert Aron,
merchants of Greenwood, filed petit
tion in bnkruptcy, but reported no as
sets.
Bob Newman, a young white man,
shot negro named Armstrong at
Holmesville Saturday, but did not
hurt him seriously.
Clark Bros, merchants of Brent,
Leflore county, have filed petition in
in bankruptcy. Assets are put down
at s7OO; liabilities $500.
The Mississippi Bankers Associa-
ton met in Grenada on the 10th with
seventy five of the most prominent
bank officials of the State in attend
ance.
At meeting Saturday, the Demo
cratic executive committee of Mon
roe county unanimously endorsed
Allen for Senator, J. j. Evans for rail
road commissioner and E. j. Smith
for auditor.
Col. Power remarks that the agri-
cultural development of the State is
indicated by the fact that in 1857, the
entire acreage was divided into 42,940
farms; in 1890, 144,31S farms; in 1899,
about 175,000 farms.
On recommendation of the board of
control Governor McLaurin has
granted pardon to Buster Christie
pher, negro sent up to the peniten-
tiary in 1894 from Choctaw county to
serve ten year sentence for man
slaughter.
Ben Parker, a student of Millsaps
College and son of Rev. J. S. Parker,
pastor of the Methodist church at
Caseyville, was married on the IA inst.
to Miss Bertha King, an attractive
young lady of jackson. The groom
was 10 and the bride II.
Supreme court having adjourned for
the summer, the judges announce that
they will visit their old haunts for rest
and recreation. Judge WOds will
summer in Kemper county, Judge
Terral in Meridian, and Clark
county, and Judge Whitfield in Mon
| roe county.
Superintendent of Education Whit
field has appointed the following to
| fill the vacancies at the Peabody
Normal at Nashville, viz: w. H. Lacey,
Crystal Springs; S. d. Stennis, Binns-
Vile; w. F. Hales, Wesson; P. l..
Looney, Dennis; U. II. Wayne, Meridi-
an. These take the places of five who
recently graduated.
Col. Power in his paper read before
the Press Association says: "Missis-
sippi has the smallest debt of any
state in, the Uuion-S1966 per capita;
the average for all the States being
| S114l3. She is among the lowest, how
ever, in per capita wealth; which may
| help to explain the smallness of her
debt. So that poverty, with states as
| with individuals, may be blessing in
disguise. But the disguise is rather
thin
Referring to political meeting last
week at Columbus, Times-Democrat
Special says: "In the afternoon the
first speaker to address the assembly
was Judge A. H. Longino, who is
recognised as one of the leading candi-
dates for Governor. Judge Longino's
reception was in the shape of an ova-
ton, and all during his address he was
interrupted by continued outbursts of
| alnca ha uac ohaara1
to the echo and his visit here has made
him many warm friends and sup
porters."
Major w. L. Walthall died at his
home in Vicksburg on the 10th inst, at
the advanced age of 70. Deceased was
prominent for many years in newspa-
per and literary circles. He ranked as
a major in the Confederate army. He