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The times., 1899-02-27
GROCERY STORE ROBBED.
Police Invcstigatc and an Arrest Ex-
pected Today.

Special Policeman Pomfrey. while on
duty Saturday night, discovered the groce-
ry store OF W. B. Hoover, 14l7 New York
Avenue northwest, had been entered b.
tween II and u o'clock and robbed of
so in cash and quantity of wines, cigars.
and cigarettes. \ close inspection of all
the doors and windows of the place showed
that the entrance had not been effected
through them. unless by a duplicate y
to one OF the doors.
Mr.. Hoover was notified OF the Iobbe ery
and yesterday morning made a thorough
inv estigation with the assistance of the
police. This investigation revealed b.
yond a doubt that the person or persons
who committed the robbery had not used
force TO gain access TO the store. 1t is
thought that the guilt can be readily fixed
and an arrest will probably follow to-
day.
The times., 1899-02-27
CITY BREVITIES.

The Rachel Lodge, l. o. s. b., will give a
masquerade ball at the National Rifles Hall on
Wednesday evening next. The proceeds to be
given to charity.
At 7:3O o'clock this evening the North Capitol
and lexington Citizens Association will hold
its regular meeting at Lincoln Avenue and II
Street
Under the auspices Of the National Geographic
Society, Prof Albert Bushell Hart, Of Howard
University, will deliver an illustrated lecture on
The Louisiana urcha.e-Oregon and Florida, y
in the Columbia Theatre this afternOn at 30
o'clock.
The times., 1899-02-27
MANY DAUGHTERS REMAIN.
The Boston Delegation 10 60 to Old
Point Comfort.

Although the last session of the Eighth
Continental Congress of the Daughters of
the American Revolution was held Sat
urday night, there still remain in the
city large number Of delegates, who are
taking this opportunity of seeing Wash
ington. The rain yesterday interfered
with many Of their previously arranged
plans, and the time was spent mostly in
doors.
The Boston ladies, headed by Mrs. Fow-
Ter. have planned a trip TO Old Point
Comfort for a few days before returning
to the Hub. They will leave this morning
or tonight. Most of the delegates will
leave for home today or tomorrow.
The times., 1899-02-27
STRICKEN WITH SMALLPOX.
Three More Sufferers Taken TO tie
I>oIating Hospital.

Three more cases of smallpox were
brought TO the notice Of the health off,
cials yesterday and the sufferers were re-
moved to the isolating hospital. Benia-
min Bradley. colored, thirty years of age,
was removed from 1897 Cecil Court and
Della wilkins, colored, twenty-eight
years old. from the same house. This is
the place where Scipio Stanley. the small
pox victim who went TO Alexandria, Was
located while in this city.
Howard Ferguson. colored eight years
Of age was also removed from 307 &
Street southwest This is the residence
from which two patients were previously
taken. and where Arthur Brown, one OF
the workhouse sufferers, contracted the
disease.
Health Officer Woodward said last night
that he found nothing especially alarming
In the three new cases discovered. The
sufferers have been suspects and the fact
that they have contracted the disease
is not surprising. since they come from
houses that were already under quaran-
tine. 1T simply emphasizes the fact, :"
said DIR. Woodward, that a strict quar-
antine of the infected places and patients
discovered must be maintained
The times., 1899-02-27

Beers bre,yed in this country are
ftg1 o 81 ''cuinbacher" and Export" Twen-
fyfour bottles. delivered in unleiicred wagons,
e1.25. Wash. Brewery Co, 18th aud ne.
The times., 1899-02-27

When you down town this morning order 4
case Of iieuricli's Macrzen Beer by phoning GA,
Arlington Bottling Co.
The times., 1899-02-27

lot of goods, or SO many of
one kind, nor yet so mary
different kinds. Every max
er did himself a little prouder
this year than he had former
ly done. Some, of course,
irpassed others. Others, al
ready lead ers, surpassed
themselves. Bat the great
mills and the small mills, the
struggling importers and the
greatest American gents
were all influenced by the
way we bought. If there is
any house OH the American
Continent that secured terms
and better than we did-then
we lift the hat i'll admiration.
We know of none such. And
we are CERTAIN that no
Washington concern possessed
the output 10 command the
prices that we shall make
standard 10 the establishment.
Wash soods are displayed on the first
floor from entrance TO elsva.or.)
The times., 1899-02-27
l2IC BatisteS
and DimitieS, SIC,

Both goods are domestic weayes. but
they'll wear just as good as the
imported sorts. Are colcred just
as well. and We can sell them for
much less than the foreign cottons
cost OF course, they're not quite
as sheer as the French goods, nor
perhaps as delicate in their tint
ings. But they are bright and
catchy and dainty and honestly
coed Their European counter
parts retail at IL and is 90
cents. These sell regu- N%H
lsrly at 12 1-2 cents. - ~
The times., 1899-02-27
At the Busy Corner.
A QueenIy Show
OF Wash Goods.

Two weeks of
blizzard act as a
fearful buffer to
TIE sale of spi-
der like loom
ings. Vet that
fearful spell of
we ath e r i'll a
measure w as a
good thing. 1t
gave us time 10
make o ur de-
partment j u 5 t
what we wanted
- 80 1,a Won
never saw such
a we'll arranged
The times., 1899-02-27
. "a ST o7IA
Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature sf &N2Zzzu

Walters Headache Powders.
Instant relief. Price, l0c. All druggists. Ask
The times., 1899-02-27
l5c Fancy
Gaiatea Cloth, lOC.

It'll wear like leather, a fact that
renders ii ideal for use in children's
dresses. The surface of the stuff
is that of a twill frightened with
a sateen sheen. There are q num-
Der Of pretty patterns, most of
them running 10 stripes. Abso-
lutely fast in color. and m
never sod al Jess than Is hC
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14

is characteristic Of the man. "If you
will let me teach you in the week you
may teach mo on Sunday, and it will
not cost you cent" he said.
We told him il he wanted To swap us
n little schooling for preaching we
were right in for the trade. and we
traded. As soou as we "laid by" our crop
we invested in a blue back spelling
book, Smiths grammar and other
books in like proportion and we're soon
sitting at Judge Longino's feet, while
he taught us that "John is a proper
noun because it is particular name. "
Now that Lawrence county has en-
dorsed her "favorite son" for the next
Governor of Mississippi, 1t would be
the graceful and appropriate thing
for her to elect his old friend and pu-
pill to the State Senate, where the two
will be still further closely associated,
this time in matters that concern all
the people. This. we believe the good
people of Lawrence will do.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14
SHORT STORY WITH A MORAL.

It will be remembered by most of our
readers that before Governor McLauriu
was elected in 1895, that he publicly
pledged the people of Mississippi, II
elected. he would not pardon, nor even
consider petition for the pardon OF
the Dinkius' murderers, whom he de.
Tended in court; but that notwithstand.
ing this pledge, he last year granted
one of these murderers his liberty.
Naturally enough this betrayal of the
public confidence has gotten the Gov.
ernor into more trouble. Seeing that
the Governor himself had no respect
for his ante election pledge and that If
he would set one of the Dinkins muir
derers free, there was no good reason
why he should not pardon another or
all three of them, the friends of Cole
man, one of the trio, are fairly besieg-
ing him for his release, and
that speedily. The question has act.
ually assumed the phase of political
issue in Vicksburg and Warren county.
The Democratic executive committee
of Warren lately passed a resolution
calling on the Governor to grant the
pardon, and the matter has since been
taken up by the citizens of Vicksburg
in public meetings, who have appoint.
ed delegates to wait on the Governor
and press the matter. 1t is openly
threatened in these meetings that il
the petition is not granted, and that
right away, McLaurin's name is Dennis
in Warren county, as scores of Cole.
mans friends are his friends and will
turn against him.
1t is likely that the Governor will
respond to the threat, as he did in
the Two Miller case, to save his own
political hash in Warren, but If he
does, he will lose quite as much else.
where, because it will be all too ap.
parent that his motive was to advance
his own political interests, regardless
of the merits of the case.
The moral of it all is, the Governor
should have stood pat and kept faith
with the people in the first instance. II
he had, no such issue would have been
raised, because all would have had
respect for the man and his word.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14
A DEAD IlOh.

The wounded lion is now dead. A.
j. McLaurin wrote a certain letter to
the Jackson News, the authorship of
which he has positively and persistent
ly denied. This letter was photograph
ed and last Sunday appeared in the
Picayune fac smile as it was written,
proving without any doubt that Mr..
McLaurin was its author. There is
really nothing in the letter except an
attempt to defend his own position in
regard to the capitol bill, but when a
man does anything deliberately and as
deliberately denies it when he knows
it is false it strikes us that no con-
fidence should be placed in him as a
private citizen. There can be no
doubt that he wrote the letter and of
course knew it and there is no doubt
that while denying its authorship he
knew he was betraying the confidence
the people had placed in him. There
fore Mr.. McLaurin is or should be a
dead lion in Mississippi Hatties-
burg Progress.
After week of silence and dazed
cogitation over the spectator" fac
smile, it is given out "the Governor
simply said he had no recollec-
ton of having written any such article,
and referred to the handwriting as
shown in the fac simile as not being his
own. The Governor did not appear to
attach any Importance to the matter"
AS to the importance of the matter"
that is something for the people to
determine, as in the Ivo Miller case,
which has already proved all impor-
tant in at least one McLaurin strong
hold, to-wit, Leflore county. This
belated statement will be recognized
as another instance of paltering with
the truth Evasive and elusive as
denial as it is, IL IL not published over
the Governors own signature: the
weak and unmanly concoctiol is
disseminated through selected news
paper correspondents. There has
been reference, too, to experts" as de-
nying the verify of the fac smile. But
they are careful to fire from cover
names are withheld. Nor has the pub
lie a word of disremembrance even,
from Private Secretary Conan; who is
alleged to have carried the "Specta-
tor" communication to the News with
the message that the Governor wished
it published. Iicksb"ig Herald
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14
The LEAprR is requested BY the

hhS 11abhh - aCftcotc1 w tat
committee of arrangements which had
in hand the management of the basket
dinner and public speaking last We'd
nesday to express the grateful thanks
of the committee to the ladies of
Brookhavcn for the great assistance
they so cheerfully rendered in making
the occasion success. Also to re-
turn the cordial thanks of the commit
tee to President Chambers, of Whit
worth College, for the use of the col
lege campus and Calisthenics Hall, and
other courtesies. To the large crowd of
visitors present, special thanks are
due for the splendid order preserved.
Old citizens of Brookhaven say they
have never seen better behaved
crowd of people in town at any time
than those here on that day. THE
LEADER will add of its own accord, in
this connection, that too much praise
and credit cannot be awarded to
Messrs. Chas. Schnorrenberg, Chas.
Heuck and Harry Tibbs, of the com
mittee on arrangements, foriwhat they
did in making the occasion the grand
success it is acknowledged ON all
hands to have been.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14
Program Of the Fifth Sunday Meeting o

Program Of the Fifth Sunday Meeting OF
the Fair River Association to be Held
With Arlington Church Six Miles Yves,
of Bogue Chitto, on the 9th Sunday in
July and Saturday before, 1899.
introductory Sermon-by Rev. j.
j. Green, II a. m; j. A. Scarborough,
Alternate.
U.-How May Every Christian Obey
the Command, preach the Gospel
to Every Creature?" Revs. l.. D.
Posey and r. J. Boone to discuss.
III.-Why is it there are so many
Church Members who cannot Pray
in Public? b. r.. Hobbs and J. Q.
Bird to discuss.
IV.-What is Sanctification? George
Cain and z. Lotion to discuss.
V.-Will Educating the unregenerate,
Contribute to their Salvation? If
SO, How? Dave Scarborough and A.
F. Davis to discuss.
Wis there any more obligation to
obey the Ordinance of Baptism than
the Lords Supper? A. j. Martin
and j. A. Scarborough to discuss.
VII.-Did Christ and his Apostles Es-
tablish any Sunday Schools? If not
why should we? Sam Reeves and
j. E. Lowe to discuss.
VIII.-What is the most systematic
and Successful Way of raising the
Pastors Salary? B. F. Porter and
j. j. Green to discuss.
IX.-Would it be more criminal for a
Christian to cultivate his truck
patch than for minister to preach
for stipulated salary on the Sab
bath Day? Eddy Wills and j. A.
Scarborough to discuss.
r. E. WoODALL,
w. A. Brown, Com.
A. i. DAVIS.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14
REV. J. A. SCARBOROUGH.
An Interesting Sketch Of the Preacher
Candidate for State Senator.

Rev. j. \. Scarborough, who is now
a candidate for State Senator from the
counties of Lincoln and Lawrence, is q
native of Lawrence county, is 80 years
old and in the very prime of life. He
was reared ON the farm until the age
of is, when he enlisted in the Confcd-
crate army in Co. 4, 22nd Mississippi
regiment. DR.. G.. \. Teunisson, of
Monticello, who was orderly sergeant
of this historic old company, says that
a drawer soldier never shouldered a
musket than Allen Scarborough. In
the memorable battle of Peachtree
creek, near Atlanta, Ga, where 30 of
his old company fell on the field of
carnage, killed and wounded, Mr.. Scar
borough received severe wound which
laid him off of duty for three months.
With reference to his foraging abili-
ties, one of his company remarked the
other day that it had to be a mighty
rainy day if Scarborough went to bed
hungry.
The following is an extract from a
brief sketch of his life published a
year ago:
AT the close of the war Mr.. Scarbor-
ough married Miss Melissa Bennett,
a fair young maiden who was born and
reared in Lawrence county, six miles
below Monticello on Pearl river
I'm 1874 Mr.. Scarborough was Ii
censed to preach by the old historic
Baptist church at Hebron, in Law
renee county, then under the pastoral
care of Rev. Norvel Robinson of sacred
memory to all who knew him.
During all these years, without a
break, Mr.. Scarborough has given the
cream of his life in the interest of the
people whoihave known him from his
birth. \ kinder-hearted or more gen.
erous man to his family and friends
and foes never breathed the air than
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14

A press dispatch from Lexington,
Miss, on the day of the election in
Holmes, says: "McLaurin workers, zone
from Jackson and one from Vicksburg
were here distributing liquor in his in
terest. One became so drunk that he
could not get up from his chair in the
court house for over an hour. Allen
may get the county, yet as three of the
precincts to be heard from are large.
He carried this box two to one, very few
McLaurin votes being cast after the
spectacle of the drunken worker from
another county was shown as an object
lesson"
Two of the Governors brothers were
in this county on the day of the first
primary to instruct the poor benighted
voters of Lincoln how to vote, and tell
them how awfnlly their Governor
brother is being prosecuted and
abused by every body who isn't for him
and by Private John Allen in particu-
lar. The one who worked the Brook
haven box and helped carry it for AL
len was SO we'll tanked up with John
Barleycorn we heard several voters
say they could smell the liquor when
he had his back turned.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14
THE VOTE IN LINCOLN FOR SENATOl

THE VOTE IN LINCOLN FOR SENATOR.
The vote in Lincoln for United States
Senator for the long term, stood: Nc
Laurin, 757; Allen, G17 Williams, II;
Robbins, TO- McLaurin's majority over
all, 80 A few weeks ago, McLaurin
would have carried this county by at
least five or six hundred majority, but
80 rapidly had the sentiment of the
people tarned against him as they
came to understand the man and the
ISSUE on which he is running, that he
barely squeezed through by the above
narrow margin. If the election had
been three days later or if Allen had
mot lost two appointments to speak i'll
the county on account of the illness
and death of his aged mother, nothing
McLaurin'S strikers could have done
would have saved his hash. The only
speech "Private" Allen made i'll the
county during the campaign was to a
Brookhaven audience the night before
the election. Brookhaven is the home
of the McLaurin leaders of the county
aud has been McLaurin stronghold,
but the next day after Allen spoke he
carried this box over the Governor by
Is majority. Allen carried five out of
the l. boxes in the county.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14

All communities that desire to have
meetings, where college and experiment
station men can discuss with the peo-
pie such subjects as fertilizers, restora-
tive crops, stock raising hay growing
and the various topics that interest
farmers, are asked to write Director
Hutchinson of the A. Il NJ. College
at once. as it is desired to hold
as many of these as possible this
summer. There is absolutely no ex-
pense attached to these institutes to
be met by the people attending.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14

Rev. J. \. Scarborough's formal AN
nouncement as Il candidate for the
Senate, is characteristic of the man
Here it is:
Know all men lay these presents that !, j. \
Scarborough. OF Bogue Chitto Lincoln county
Mississippi, do here and now announce myself
as a candidate for the Office of State Senator
from the counties of Lincoln and Lawrence and
am subject to the action of the Democratic pri-
mary. ! make this astounding announcement
at the earnest solicitation of my feelings which
haunt me by day and night. TO my opponents
| will say, come right along. gentlemen and let :
have some fun. even if fully half of lis get beat
in the race. My friends having failed to brin.
me ont, will just make the race dry So
Yours to count on, j. As.
The strongest supporters of Mr.. S. S
opponents freely admit since the Lin
coin primary last Friday, that if he
had announced earlier and made a
thorough canvass he would have
swept the county like cyclone As
it was, his vote astonished them. 1t is
now believed his old native county of
Lawrence will land him in the Senate
two to one.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14

OF the counties that have expressed
their choice as to the Governorship
the following have declared for Longi-
no: Harrison, Issaquena, Lawrence,
Marion, Quitman, Sharkey, Washing
ton, Warren and Wayne. In the latter
county the vote is divided with Hon. j.
F. McCool, who also has Alfalfa. Va
ZOO and Madison are already in the
Powell column, and Wilkinson and
Greene have gone for Judge Critz.
Lefiore county has instructed for Var.
daman.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14

Miss Belle Kearney will soon place
with an eastern publishing company
the manuscript for a book on which
she has been engaged some time. The
book deals with conditions in the
south before and since the war-the
reconstruction period and the negro
problem being handed in an interest
ing manner. Those chapters of an
historical nature we're submitted to
Col. j. l.. Power for veritication of
dates and facts, and he endorses it
very strongly, predicting very large
sale in the North and West.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14

Rev. J. A. Scarborough. Kindness to
his enemies has ever been character
istic of the man. He is of Irish WEIGH
descent and possesses much of the
Irish wit, and says the fact that some
men are wearing the tops of their
heads today may be attributed to the
spirit of Jesus Christ, which dwells
richly in his heart
The % years he has so faithfully
spent in the ministry and in being in
such close touch with the masses Of
the people, has given Mr.. Scarborough
ample opportunity for acquainting
himself with the common needs of the
people, and Judging from several elo-
quent speeches he has made on this
line he has not failed to avail himself
of the opportunity to know something
with reference to many issues that are
of common concern to our people.
Mr.. S. claims that the State should
adopt and publish uniform series of
text books for our public schools and
rid herself of the outrageous book
monopoly that now has its fangs fasten-
ed upon us and forcing us to pay such
eXtortionate prices for books, SO that
many of our people are too poor to even
! buy books to send their children to the
public schools. Mr. S. says it was pure
ly for the privilege of discussing this
and many other questions of vital in
terest to the common people that he
entered the race for Senator: that with
him it is not simply a scramble for of
flee: that he has all the preaching he
can do and expects to continue to
preach, as long as God gives him breath
and the use of his tongue. He says
that for theprivilege of discussing these
questions as an American citizen he is
perfectly willing to endure all of the
odlum that some people are inclined to
heap upon him because of his being "a
preacher in politics." In a speech the
other day he said, while in the pulpit
feed the flock, but i'll politics, get in
the pen and bUtt with them"
Ever since Judge Longino was first
mentioned for Governor. Mr.. Scarbor-
ough has been his ardent and enthusi-
astic supporter In fact, he has work
ed much harder for Longino for Gov
ernor than he has for his own success
and has proclaimed every where that
he is for Longino first, last and all the
time.
The following bit of history related
by himself in The LEADER few
months ago, will account, i'll part, for
the strong tie of friendship subsisting
between the two men:
Twenty-Five years ago, fresh grad
uate from Mississippi College, Judge
Longlno taught an old field school on
Silver Creek, Lawrence county, in the
community in which we lived, near
where he was born. Living on little
piney woods place with a wife and
three children, we had just common
ced to preach. The interest he then
manifested in our literary we'll being
will never be forgotten. In our STAN
mering way we preached in the old log
school house on Sunday and Judge
Longino (''Little Uncle" as he was
then called by his nephews and nieces
who were older than he,) was frequent
attendant at our service Cant you
come to my SCHOOL," He said to us
one day in that unassuming way that
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14

In the race for the short term in the
Senate eX-Gov. Lowry is ahead. The
following counties have instructed for
him: Carroll Claiborne, Covington
Franklin, Greene, Hancock, Harrison
Kinds, jackson, jefferson, Pearl River
Simpson, and Wayne. Senator Sulli,
van has carried Lincoln, Amite,
Wilkinson, Montgomery. Warren
and Wayne. Sharkey, tssaauena
aud Quitman, which acted some
time ago on the long term,
expressed no preference for the short
term whatever.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-14

They have the right kind of Missis-
sippians down in Wilkinson county,
Out of 800 votes cast In that county,
only III were given to McLaurin as an
endorsement of his administration as
Governor. Allen received 400 and Will
liams 249. Wilkinson is the home coun-
ty of that chivalrous gentleman and
incorruptible patriot, Lieut.. Gov.
Jones, who was among the first to repu-
date McLaurin and McLaurinism.