The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-02-15
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
n Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.


rent Happenings.
Gulfport aspires to be the Chicago
of the South.
The Hattiesburg Progress has donned
a new dress of type.
The aged mother of Mayor Buckley.
of Wesson, died last week.
Chas. f. Weems. well known travel
ing man, died at Quitman last week.
Thieves steal the cloth covering from
the vegetable frames at Centerville.
VIM. Harrison, Jackson merchant.
was fined 5000 for running a blind
tiger.
Hattiesburg's delinquent tax list is
very large for the prosperous town she
claims to be.
Jackson and Perry counties have big
delinquent tax-lists. In most counties
they are small.
Senator Sullivan voted for the ratifi
cation of the peace treaty: Senator
Money voted against it,
The time for the completion of Jack
sons electric railroad has been extend
ed from March to May /.
Mrs. Helen May Jones, daughter of
Capt. John S. Lamkin, of Magnolia,
died in st. Louis last week.
Judge P. P. Bailey, editor of the old
jackson Pilot of carpet-bag days, died
recently at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Mr. E. II. Nall has declared his can
didacy for the Democratic nomination
to the office of land commissioner.
Lieut.-Gov. Jones has announced for
Governor, making the Sth guber-
material candidate in the race to date
Copiahs delinquent tax-list pub
lished in the Courier is very small.
Only 30 persons failed to pay the taxes
on their lands.
The water and sewerage bonds of
Columbus were bought by the First
State Bank of that City. Seventy
thousand dollars worth were sold.
1t has been discovered that convicts
confined in the penitentiary at jackson
have been making counterfeit money.
The officers captured the tools used, a
few days ago.
On request of Senator Sullivan the
postoffice at Pickens, Miss, has been
reestablished. The office was closed by
the department because of the opposi-
to negro postmaster.
Prof. A. S. Jones, a Terry weather
would be unusually warm somuch so,
fhof fhn rNnarh Ln oil. ooJ
and get destroyed. Bah!
The city of Columbus has bid $3.50
for the location of summer normal
at that point. Batesville, Copiah
county, and other places have also put
in bids more or less generous in order
to secure the location.
Hon. J. F. McCool. one of the lea d.
ing candidates for Governor, says he is
in favor of primary election for NOM
in Mr.. McCoof's favor. Give the peo-
didates this time
State Superintendent of Education
Whitfield has appointed Bishop Chas.
b. Galloway, Judge A. III. Whitfield.
Prof. j. c. Hardy and Prof. w. l..
Weber as a committee to solicit con-
tributions for the purpose of erecting
a monument to the memory of Irwin
Russell, the Mississippi poet who died
about twenty years ago.
The test case brought by State
Revenue Agent Writ Adams against
county treasurers to recover the 21s
per cent. commissions retained by
them on the school funds in their
respective counties, was decided
against him by Chancellor Martin at
Vicksburg last week. The case will
now go to the Supreme Court.
Last Wednesday Chancellor Conn
rendered decree subjecting the pro
perty of the old Louisville, New Or.
leans and Texas Railroad to the pay
ment of back Taxes accruing from 1885,
to 1891, inclusive. The amount involved
is about 100000 An appeal was i'm
mediately taken by Messrs. Mayes &
Harris, representing the Illinois Central
Railroad Company,to the State Supreme
Court where the several constitutional
questions raised by them in the pleas
will be settled.
There was strange, sad ceremony
at Indianola last Wednesday, triple
funeral in the Methodist church, which
was attended by an immense crowd
DR.. S. G. Wellborn and his wife,
Henrietta, both died, after long i'll
ness, the same night. They were
about the same age-nearly sixty-and
were very prominent and unusually
popular people. Mrs. Myrtis Wilson, .
friend, also died the same night, and
the trio were buried from the Method
ist church at one service.
Judge Niles of the Federal court has
decided in favor of the revenue agent
in the injunction case, whereby it wa.
sought to restrain the Railroad Com
mission from assessing and the revenue
agent from collecting back take.
against the Canton, Aberdeen ant
Nashville from 1886 to 1897, inclusive
and against the Natchez, jackson anG
Columbus for taxes from 1886 to 1891
inclusive; and also against the Louis
vile, New Orleans and Texas for 1898
An appeal has been taken by the rail
roads to the u. s. Circuit Court a
New Orleans. The back taxes claimed
amount to nearly a million and hal
dollars.
The following, by Dakota editor
has been a popular sentiment in Brook
haven the last few days:
Backward, turn backward, o tim
in your fight, give me July again, jus
for tonight; soften the ground wher