The leader., 1900-06-06
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
\ ShOrt-Iand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Canton's new oil mill has a capital
stock of $4,000
McComb City is preparing to build
a new opera house.
The State Military Encampment will
be held at Greenville August ) to II.
w. y. McClelland, express agent at
Yazoo City, has mysteriously disap-
peared.
The population of Meridian, as it
will appear in the census of 1900, will
be near 10000.
Next Tuesday, the Both annual ses
sion of the State Press Association
meets at jackson.
Il. d. Garrett, of McComb, has been
appointed first sergeant of the Mis-
sissippi penitentiary.
Eicksburg has passed an ordinance,
making the term of her city officials
four years instead of one.
The General Assembly of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church will meet
at West Point, next year.
y young man was knocked down and
robbed of SO and gold watch at
Clinton last Thursday night.
The railroad bed has been graded
the entire distance to Columbia, and
the road is expected to be completed
by Aug. lst
White oats are being extensively
cultivated between McComb and Mag
nolia not only for feeding stock, but
as a money proposition.
The Yazoo Sentinel advocates pa
per mill for Yazoo City. 1t is said that
rice straw makes an exceedingly
tough and valuable paper.
DR., B. f. Ward has been appointed
Surgeon General of the Mississippi
Division United Confederate Eeter
ans with the rank of Lieutenant Col
onel
Robert Hudson. son of Mr., and Mrs.
K. G.. Hudson, of NaZoo, has received
the honor of being selected us orator
of the graduating class of Tacoma
Washington High School.
Hazlehurst claims that the Old sor-
rel ridden by Stonewall Jackson, on
the eve of the battle of Chancellors-
vile, was destroyed in IA recent fire
in that city.
The Manufacturers Record of last
week notes the incorporation of Il
new enterprises for the State of Mis-
sissippi, the smallest having capital of
$1,000, the largest S23O,00O.
The State Sunday School convention
meets in Jackson, June 10th. w. l..
Hemingway is local secretary and re
quests advisement as to the coming of
delegates, so that entertainment may
be provided
At the election in Simpson county
for the removal of the county site,
Phil Didlake's town, Edna, named for
his little daughter, captured the prize,
the vote standing 633 for Edna, and
2GO against removal.
Oxford has thorCughfare with the
inspiring name of Cemetery street.
Brandon has one with the taking title
of Jail street, and the News office
fronts that street. This is the reason
the editor is so good, he says.
Chancellor Fulton and son and Prof.
J. w. Johnson of the State University
and Prof. Alfred Hume, of this State,
were interested spectators of the sum
eclipse in New Orleans, having gone to
the Crescent City for that purpose.
The board of managers and trustees
of the Chamberlain Hunt Academy at
Port Gibson, this State, has invited
Gov. Roosevelt of New York to be
present at the laying of the corner
stone on the 2Sth of June. This will
be an annex to the main building and
will cost S66,OOO.
The Times Democrat is urging the
Louisiana Legislature to adopt the
Mississippi plan of disposing of the
convict problem. SO pleased is this
State with the plan adopted that the
last Legislature appropriated $4,000
to buy additional lands, upon which to
work the convicts.
Allen Valentine, citizen of Jones
county, celebrated his 92nd birthday
on the 9th. On this occasion he had
gathered about him 454 relatives and
80 friends and neighbors. The ven
cradle and hale old gentleman has
lived in Mississippi GO years, and is a
native of South Carolina
At Jackson Judge Wharton imposed
a fine of so upon some roisterers for
cutting awning ropes during the recent
firemen's banquet. The cases were APP
pealed. The above comes under the
head of malicious mischief and any
defacem ent of public or private prop
erty should always be as sternly dealt
with as this was.
Miss Mary Sharp Williams, daughter
of Hon. John Sharp Williams, has re
ceived the scholarship medal, the high
est honor conferred by the school, at
Miss Baldwin's School, Stanton, Va.
During the So years of the Institutions
existence only four of these medals