The leader., 1901-09-18


Bishop Galloway preached the open
ing sermon of the great Ecumenica
Council at London.
Osyka wants cotton pickers at y
cents per 100 pounds. New cotton L
coming in very fast.
Yalobusha will have a special cleo
ton Friday to fill the office of chan
Gerry clerk, the old clerk having died.
Hon. 4. \. Dean, of Lafayette, ha'
accepted the office of Capitol Commits
sioner vice Mr.. Phil A. Rush, resigned
Mrs. A. H. Fly, of Columbus, dice
last week of tuberculosis. She was
young woman and had not been mar
ried year.
Melvin Purvis, of Laurel. is suin!
Eastman, Gardner Il Co., for 5000 TO
the loss of a leg in the sawmill ownet
by the defendants.
The special election for State Treasu
rer will take place November 9th
The crop of candidates will thus hav'
ample time to grow.
Hon. George \. Wilson, of Lexing
ton, has been elected President of thu
Mississippi Fire Insurance Company
vice Phil A. Rush, resigned.
Mrs. NJ. j. Bradley died at Oakhurst
one mile east of Flora, on the 18th
She had been complaining of feeling
unwell for only few hours.
The personal roll of Madison count.
shows a decrease of sl6,a0S as com
pared with the total of last year. TIL,
personally for 1901 is s1,24l,5S0
Man. eating sharks abound on tn,
bay at Biloxi. They are difficult t.
kill or catch. One has measured fee
} inches: another more than feet.
175 pupils were enrolled at the open
ing of Columblas High School. Thu
school was established in 1882 and thu
opening noted is the largest in its his
tory.
John Bell got ten years for crimina
assault at kosciusko. The people
thought justice had miscarried anC
Bell was taken to Jackson for safe
keeping.
Miss Elizabeth Hughes, who has
been a missionary TO China for fifteen
years. is now lecturing in the jackson
District on China; its People and
Their Customs.
The Board of Supervisors of Marion
county have advertised for the build
ing of $4,000 Jail, and accepted the
plans of the Pauley Jail Company fol-
handsome two-story structure.
The livery stable of Gilmore & Earn
est were burned at Durant on the 18th
The building was worth $500 and was
uninsured. The contents were worth
about the same and were insured.
\ movement for pure water has
taken definite shape at Jackson. 1t il
believed the shaft will have to go NOR.
than 1000 feet toward China before
satisfactory results can be obtained.
There is every reason to believe that
strong effort will be made to induce
the next Legislature to pass 6
stringent child labor law, such as ex
lists in number of other States in tn,
| Union.
! Miss Minnie Mitchell and William
Stewart and Miss Louisa Mitchell ano
Ed. Seals, all of Nicholson. were mar
ried last Thursday at the residence O.
the father of the two brides, Mr.. J. B
Mitchell.
Prof. \. y. Eshman, of West Point.
Southern Female College, left on tn,
18th with about loo students for thei
annual outing. They left via the Mo
bile and Ohio and will be absent abou
two weeks.
700 applications have been made fol-
entrance at the |. |. & c. at Columbus
The school will open one week from
today, and the opening address viii
be made by DR.. W. t. Lowrey, of Mis-
sissippi College.
/ At the municipal election held il
Holly Springs last Thursday as t.
whether an additional tax of l mil
should be added to municipal take,
for general purposes, tie of Is to 4
resulted. Another election will bt
| ordered.
Sheriff }. A. Moody, of Pearl River
county, in his settlement with tt,
auditor overpaid Lis taxes by $1,000
The mistake was due TO clerical error
| by which the State and county fund.
became mixed, and the auditor say.
may occur at any time to any sheriff
The Treasurer was authorized to re
fund the money.
Attorney General McClurg has rem
dered an opinion holding that county
boards have no right to pay the ex
penses of such of their members a:
may attend the Supervisors Conven
ton to be held at Jackson, October
10, such attendance being clearly moi
in the line of their official duties, anG
therefore not entitled to compensa
! ton.
Mrs. Mary Althea Hillman, aged 81
years, died in Yazoo this month
She came to Mississippi from Nortt
Carolina in 1876. A touehins
incident of her funeral obseuuie.
was the fact that one of her old slaves
who helped to lay at rest his "olc
marster" forty years ago, assisted il
| the same office for his "missus,n who
had always been his best friend.