The leader., 1901-04-03
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

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now called Florence.
Jackson brick manufacturers are
still rushed with orders.
DR.. D. w. Jones, of Copiah, died at
the age of 20 ON the 9th.
Rev. r. A. Venable is engaged i'll
meeting of days at Gloster.
The Biloxi Herald advocates furni-
ture factories for Mississippi.
The most remarkable fossil deposit
in the State is in Rankin county.
H.B. Penn and Miss Clara Belle
Lowe, of Hazlehurst, were married
on the 18th.
5000 cases of canned oysters were sent
from Pass Christian last Thursday to
New Orleans.
April was the date fixed for the ex-
animation of applicants for license to
practice pharmacy.
DR.. Dudley W. Jones, a Copiah ma
tive, has been appointed health officer
of Claiborne county.
Walden has organized a Lumber *
Furniture Manufacturing Company.
capitalized at $4,000.
Natchez' new public school building
will have a pressed brick front, which
increases the cost to $4,000.
The Houston Lumber Company has
purchased the property of the Nicks-
burg Fair Association for $4,000
"The Jacksonian" will be issued
from the Capital, April 10Th, by the
Merchants Association of that city.
The Elks, of Columbus, have built
themselves a handsome home, which is
said to surpass anything of its kind in
the State.
Rev. J. c. Graham, the esteemed
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Summit, died on the 9th at the age
of IS years.
The ladies of Brandon's Methodist
church will issue woman's edition of
the News at an early date, for their
church's benefit.
DR.. w. B. Murrah, president of Mill
saps College, will deliver the annual
literary address for the Terry Graded
School, May 18th.
Mrs. Mister has been appointed
postmaster at Grenada. There may
have been something in her name it
smacks of the masculine.
Mrs. Clendenen, who has lived in
Jackson since 1874, died of pneumonia
last week. She served as a yellow fe
yer nurse in 1853 and 1878.
James G.. Horton and Miss Ray Har-
vey, native of Terry, Miss, will be
married on the 10th at Macon, where
the brides family have resided for the
past few months.
The department of the interior has
opened an office at Meridian for the
purpose of hearing applicants for
identification as Mississippi Choctaws.
Every applicant must apply in per
son.
A hundred workmen are needed on
the new Capitol at jackson. If the
jails and convict farms were not
so full of negroes, there would be
more material for employment, at any
rate.
According to one of the best posted
mill managers i'll the State, fully sew
enty-f five per cent. of the cotton oil
mills of the State, operated on los
ing basis during the season of 1900
1901.
The gang of thieves that has been
depredating in Yazoo City for some
months past has been arrested. One
of the gang has confessed that recent
burglaries were the work of the men
arrested.
Members of the New York Mer-
chants Association are arranging to
make tour of the South, W tn view
to investing Eastern capital. The lat
ter part of April is the anticipated
time of arrival.
Henry Watson, negro, carried into
Port Gibson 80 pounds of old car
tridges and bullets which he had plow-
ed up in his field. The old negro had
no trouble in disposing of his wares, a
large shell selling for so cents.
Attorney General McClurg refused
to approve the chaters of the Elite
Club, of Greenville, and the Crescent
City Club, Meridian. on the ground
that they did not contain "a clear and
definite statement of the powers to be
exercised" This may put an end to
the indiscriminate applications for
the chartering of clubs.
Jefferson county will soon let the
contract for new court house to re-
place the one which was burned two
weeks ago. 1t will be located on the
old site, but in slightly different posi-
ton. 1t is expected to cost $4,000
and it will not be necessary for the
county to issue a single bond to pay
for it. The amount received from the
back tax cases won by Revenue Agent
Adams was SIC, 200, and there was 5000
insurance on the old building. There
is thus enough to pay for the erection
of the new one and leave surplus of
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