The leader., 1902-12-03
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

rent Happenings.
Newton's cotton receipts are
1900 behind last year.
Lobsters have made their APP
pearance on the coast.
Apple and pear trees ne; i Bran
don, are in full bloom.
There are SO different kinds of
trees growing in Mississippi.
The revenues derived from the
new oyster law amount to 81, 700.
The prospects to get oil in
Clarke county are said to be
bright.
Free delivery of rural mails will
commence in Lowndes county De-
cember 1.
Congressman McLain left his
home at Gloster for Washington
on the 29th.
Pitts Bros, of Hazlehurst, will
erecta 15-ton ice plant in that city
by April 1st.
John Ratliff, aged 85, died at
Hambone, Copiah county, of can
GER of the face.
1t is expected that the Beauvoir
balance will be raised in the course
of two months.
A hunting party from Green
wood killed nine deer last week,
one being a 250-pound buck.
w. II. Sears, the "Taffy Man., !"
appears at Hazlehurst tonight in
one of his humorous lectures.
The ninth annual convention of
the Christian Endeavor Union
met at Greenwood on the 25th.
Barlow's Minstrels played to a
$500 house in Brookhaven and a
5000 one in Hazlehurst recently.
The postofice at Knoxville was
robbed of a small amount recent
ly. Three suspects were arrested.
The Natchez Democrat is get
ting up a Santa Claus fund for
the poor children of the Bluff
City.
Justice l.. NJ. Lowenburg, an
old and respected citizen of Vicks-
burg, died. on the Goth inst, aged
so years.
Mrs. Catherine Lieb, aged IS,
died at Fernwood last Tuesday.
She was the mother of Mrs. ?.
E. Enochs.
The amount of long staple cot
ton produced in Mississippi this
year is far in excess of that of any
prior season.
The successor of Bishop Hugh
Miller Thompson will not be Sc
Iected until the council meets the
Goth of next January.
Yazoo City's Catholic church
has Just had completed a pipe or
gan. 1t is the largest and hand
soonest in Mississippi.
Vicksburg is to have a new up
to-date Office building, which will
cover nearly a whole block and
will cost over 100000.
Hon. D. NJ. Miller, of Halle
hurst, had his chin split to the
bone and suffered other injuries
in a runaway last week.
The Beer Garden Plantation in
Washington county has been sold
to w. l.. Hay, of Leland, the
price being $4,000 cash.
1t is very probable that "Missis
sippi Day" will be generally OBJ
served throughout the State by the
public schools December 10th.
The Presbyterian Synod of Mis-
sissippi has decided to locate the
girls college at Holly Springs,
where there is already prosper
Gus female school.
Miss Mary Sharpe Williams,
daughter of Congressman John
Sharp Williams, was married last
week in Yazoo City to Edwin r.
Holmes, of that city.
The question of validity having
been settled, Vicksburg sold her
$50, 900 city hall bonds last week
to Chicago firm at AZ per cent.
interest. This was the lowest in
terest bid.
While playing in the yard with
other children at Biloxi last
Thursday, the six-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Andrews
dropped dead. Heart failure was
ascribed as the cause of his death.
While at work in a local saw
mill at EllisvilIe, Joe Brown was
arrested for the murder of Young
Rogers, at Collins, several weeks
ago. At the time it was thought
Rogers had committed suicide by
drowning.
Mrs. Fannie Croker, wife of
the proprietor of Lauderdale
Springs hotel, committed suicide
last week. She shot herself in
the breast three times. She was