The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-10-16
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

rent Happenings.
There were -four VT, dings ia Vicks-
burg last Wednesday.
Terry has voted sl2,OOO for water
works and electric lights.
Bohemian laborers from Baltimore
have arrived at Pass Christian.
Sam Jones will lecture next SAtur-
day at Livingston Park, jackson.
Capt. II. +. Erickson died in Moss
Point on the 7th at the age of 81.
There was only Que bidder for the
Copiah county court house contract.
The beautiful resiIeuc. Of j. f..
Schilling, Of Osyka, was burned last
week.
Patrick " hnleu aud Mrs W. Is.
GodbolI were married at McComb on
the 9th
Il. 4. Maxwell, of Rolling Fork, was
instantly killed 10y boiler explosion
last week.
The Lumberton public school chill
dren contributed ZIG 40 to the Power
monument.
Sarah Gibson, "a colored woman, died
at Summit on the Sth. She was l0l
years of age.
The personal property assessment of
the State shows an increase of five
million of dollars.
Miss Lille Moore, of SanIersville,
died on the 9th of typhoid fever. She
was 10 years of age.
j. \. Walker has been elected in
Pike to succeed Hon. j. NJ Tate, de-
ceased, in the Legislature.
Jim Dunnigan was tried at Sardis
for criminal assault. He plead guilty
and was sentenced to ten years.
DR.. j. l.. M. Curry, trustee of the
Peabody fund, is visitor to this
State in the interest of education.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bracey, one of Ter
rvs courtly danes of the old schoo',
died last Wednesday at the age of S4
w. Park Ware, once prominent
resident and merchant of Hazlehurst,
died at Covington, La, last Thursday.
Judgments amounting to more than
$4,000 were given in Lauderdale's cir
cult court against the Mississippi Door
Factory.
Rev j. l.. Low, "the father of the
new baptist church at Utica, has re-
entered Mississippi College to tako an
\. NJ. course.
Kinds cOunty's new court house will
be situated at the capital at the cor
ner OF West aud Pearl streets. The
lot cost $4,000
W. W. Foreman, of Bismarck. cap
tured, last week, large sized cata
mount which had deprecated upon his
flocks and herds.
There will b. about 5000 pensioners
i'll the State this year. The appropria
ton is $4,000. Pensioners have in
creased 20 per cent.
Prof. W. L. Weber, formerly of Mill
saps but now of Emory College, Ga,
has just published a handsome volume
entitl' d southern Poets"
The Business League of Durant have
adopted Wednesday as "a permanent
trade day All days, cxcel Sundays,
are PEI mantnt trade days down this
way,
The l'resbJ terians of McComb pre-
scented their pastor, Rev. H. J.
Cumpsten, with handsome purse and
other PRES. ut, at storm party last
week.
Miss Kate Markham Power, daughter
Of the lamented Col Power, will here
after edit mississippi Matters" thus
assuming the work her father laid
down.
Otis Brown, u son of Capt. E. w.
Brown, of the Supreme Court, has
been employed by Secretary of State
Power to assist him with the work of
the office.
Hiram jackson Sarrett, age d 50, has
been a resident of this State since
1874. He has never used tobacco and
has never been sick longer than three
days at a time in all his long span of
years. He still reads the papers and
takes great interest in public affairs.
He now resides at Utica where he was
postmaster from 1866 to 1894.
All the tug oystermeu report d
scarcity of oysttrs on the reefs where
dredging has been done for the past
two years There exists, it is stated, a
strong sentiment against the ma
chimes, partly because they have trans
crossed the law which limits them to
fourteen feet of water. An effort will
be made to have the law amended if
they do not keep in bounds.
A new railroad to be known as the
Laurel Il Tullahoma Western Rail
way Company, has been incorporated.
The line will begin at Lanrel, and run
westerly toward Oakahay, in Coving-
ton county, thence in northwesterly
direction to Raleigh in Smith county,
with branch running from near Oaka
hay in a southwesterly direction to
Williamsburg. The incorporates are
Geo. S. Gardiner, Silas w. Gardiner,
Philip S. Gardiner, of Laurel, and l..
G. Eastman, of Clinton, La.