The leader., 1899-02-08
OFFICE: n West Cherokee St.
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happeninps.

A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.
The Masonic bodies are in session
this week at Vicksburg.
District Attorney Ratcliff Is a candi-
date for reelection in the Sixth dis
trict.
Mrs. Sarah Andrews died at her
sons home in Summit Wednesday,
aged rs.
Richard Green, colored, was legally
hung at Natchez Friday for wife
murder.
Twelve hundred dozen eggs were
shipped in one day from Kosciusko
recently.
Kinds county has two round bale
presses, one at Raymond and one at
Pocahontas.
Rev. w. II. Williams, late pastor of
the Baptist church at Columbia, has
moved to Leland.
The Crystal Springs Meteor wants a
good Industrious boy to learn the
printing business.
The 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. HI. Davis, of Rosedale, was burned
to death Thursday.
A Washington telegram says the
Third Mississippi Volunteers are to be
mustered out at an early day.
A. w. Fridge, Millsaps College
student from Ellisville, has been ap-
pointed cadet to West Point.
J. c. Hudson was shot at Flora on
Saturday by his nephew Ben Long
His wounds are not dangerous.
Chas. Lehman, ex-circuit clerk of
Warren county and once a prominent
business man of Vicksburg, died on the
4th.
The Rivers and Harbors bill which
has passed the House carries an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for the Homo
chitto river.
Q. c. Cole, of Yalobusha; T. r. Max
well, of DeSoto, and E. J. Smith, of
Monroe, are in the field as candidates
for State auditor.
Port Gibson is to have a new opera
house 115x50 feet. 1t will have an in
clined floor, gallery and be seated
with opera chairs.
The Pearl River News says over 400
voters were disfranchised in the first
district of Marion county by not pay
ing their taxes in time.
The Jackson Evening News has put
in Mergenthaler Type Setting Ma
chimes, which greatly improve the ty-
geographic appearance of that excellent
daily.
The Brandon News says the circuit
clerk of Rankin county issued 226 mar
riage licenses in 1898, which at 50 each
made the fees s678 from that source
alone.
Col H. Sidney King, for many
years editor of the Meridian News and
widely known as newspaper man,
died at his home near that city on the
3rd inst.
The Terry Headlight says the vegeta-
BILE industry is gradually but steadily
on the decline about Terry. Each year
sees less acreage devoted to market
gardening.
The cylinder of the compress at
Canton exploded few days ago, COM
pletely wrecking the plant, but for
tunately the employees had not gone
to work and no lives were lost.
Hon. c. S. North, county superinten-
dent of education, announces that
Kinds county will have six months
free schools this year at the same ex-
pense as for five months last year.
Governor McLaurin will speak at
McComb City on Feb. IA, and Hon.
Murray F. Smith will tell what he
knows about the State Administration
and State issues at Columbus Feb. oath.
The Revielle says the new colored
Baptist church, soon to be completed
in Port Gibson, will be an ornament to
that town. The total cost will be over
s4, 900, and it will be lighted by cleo
tricity.
The Jackson Bulletin says Rev. L. S.
Foster last week gathered Is bright
and neatly dressed little children from
various points along the /. c. for the
purpose of giving them home in the
Baptist Orphanage in that city.
According to DIR. John F. Hunter
Secretary of the State Board of Health
smallpox is now prevailing at Hatties-
burg, Ellisville, Enterprise, Russell
vile, Orange, Wautubbee, Lumberton
Machulaville and perhaps at other
points.
The average grade of the /. G. rail
road between Terry and Crystal
Springs is 26 feet per mile. This is
soon to be reduced feet and will re
suit in raising the track at the Terry
depot feet above it's present level
so says the Headlight.
Judge E. Stafford, an old citizen Of
Liberty and latterly of Magnolia, dice
ON Friday at the home of his daughter
Mrs. Nevin, in Newark, New Jersey, al
the ripe old age of 81 years. The Mag
nolia Gazette pays the deceased higf
and deserving tribute.
The Brandon News observes tha
several newspaper men are seeking
office this year. w. D. Caulfield, of tn,
Gloster Record; H. NJ. Quinn, of tn,
Centerville Jeffersonian, and II. X
Rouse, of the Poplarville Enterprise
want to go to the legislator" Will
George Robinson, of the Mayersvill
Spectator, seeks to serve his county a!
supervisor.
The Mississippi Farmer has mailed
over 400 statements to delinquent sub
scribers since Jan. 1st, principally t.
J persons who owed it from $500 to s6.0(
and complains that it has so far no
received enough cash in return to pa,
for the stamps on the statements
This is apt to be the experience of an
publisher who sends his paper out o.
long credit. Don't do it. 1t won
pay.