The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-24
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
\ >hnTt-iiand Chronicle of Cur
rent happenings.

al OFOi uIlC opAUGs
John f. McWilIiams has been
appointed postmaster at Biloxi.
Aberdeen enjoyed { z dis
tlnction of a double wedding last
week.
The Methodists of Beauregard
had a Christmas tree at their
church.
Pat Darden and Miss Zadie
Johnson, of Fayette, will be mar
ried tomorrow.
The Brookhaven Leader is
among the few State exchanges
issued this week.
Rev. l. l.. PEBBLES will contin-
ue the pastorate of the Methodist
church in Wesson.
DR.. J. VIM. Jones recently lee
tured at Blue Mountain on Rob
ert E. Lee, the Model Man."
The l, 100 convicts of the State
pen will be given a Christmas
dinner and q holiday tomorrow.
An $4,000 pound catch of fish
was brought in off Chandelier Is
lands, near Scranton, on the Goth.
A cotton stalk, admirably fash
Toned by nature, for a walking
stick, was curiosity at Aberdeen
last week.
Willis Mcdonald, a prominent
citizen of Jefferson county, died
at the Natchez hospital of abcess
of the liver Monday.
Rev. w. E. Ellis, of Senatobia,
will succeed Rev. w. A. Nc
Comb as pastor of the Crystal
Springs Baptist church.
Col. j. T. Jones, of Gulfport,
has purchased the machinery and
fixtures of the Bay St. Louis laun-
dry for the sum of 81, 100.
is not far off when means will be
employed by which it can be
quarried and placed upon the mar
ket. -Woodville Republican.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Norwood
recently celebrated at their ele-
giant home in Magnolia, the sixth
anniversary of their marriage.
Immense sales of agricultural
implements are reported in our
State exchanges. Everybody is
going to work in the spring-time.
Powell Franklin was killed by
the accidental discharge of a gun
while hunting near Oxford. He
was a son of a prominent farmer.
The Blue Mountain College
summer trip this coming year
will consist of three months
tour through Europe. The cost,
per individual, will be about
5000.
Pres. J. r. Preston, of Stan
ton College, Natchez, will be mar
ried this week to Miss Vaughan,
of the same city. Prof. Preston
has been lacking in no good
thing but a wife.
Frank Morris, colored, was
fined 500 and given six months
on the farm for selling whisky at
West Point. The new mayor and
chief of police are determined to
put an end to blind tigers.
The board of supervisors of Co
piah county will at its next meet
ing pass on the delinquent assess
ments made by Revenue Collect
or Adams, and will deduct one
fourth of the amount of each de-
linquent.
Prof. NJ. Rose is director of
the State reading course as adopt
ed by the last State Teachers
Association. Aberdeen and Brook
haven have both organized read
ing circles for the improvement
of the teachers.
Bob Bobo, the renowned bear
hunter of the delta, who died re-
Gently in Chicago of cancer, was
treasurer of the county of Coaho
ma, and his death created vacan-
cy in that Office which will have
to be filled temporarily by guber-
Material appointment.
At Sumrall, a new town about
II miles northeast of Columbia,
Irwin Blackburn shot to death
Robert Watts last Saturday.
Watts had insulted and cursed
Blackburn's mother, while drunk,
and on meeting B. later invited
him to shoot "if he ever intend
ed to.
. NIL. oIey, UlIo SCouc-ouuVcI VI
the court house, during his idle
time, cut and dressed two pieces
of stone taken from the hills north
of this town, and an inspection
proves beyond doubt the supe-
rior quality and beauty of the
stone. This stone being of such
fine quality and in such large
quantities, we feel sure the time
Attorney General McClurg is
soon to issue a new and revised
edition of his Bench and Bar of
Mississippi" and to this end he
is sending out circulars to the law
yers of the State, asking that the
number of lawyers in each coun-
ty be sent to him. The book will
contain the address of each law
yer, Judge and district attorney
in Mississippi