The leader., 1902-01-22
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Shorthand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings.

Mississippi has 81 presidential post
offices.
Port Gibson ladies Lave organized a
book club.
NJ. j. Mulvihill has been appointed
postmaster at Vicksburg.
Forest fires are endangering resi-
dences at Ocean Springs.
Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott
appear in Vicksburg March 3rd.
Artesian water has been discovered
at West Point at depth of $50 feet.
The Delta Bank at Greenwood has
declared an annual dividend of 30 per
cent.
Crystal Springs Chatting Dish Club
was broken up by matrimony that in
vaded its ranks.
Mamie Taylor, aged IA, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Taylor, of Pickens,
died on the 10th.
Senator Money is very outspoken
in his advocacy of the building of the
Nicaragua Canal.
The City Council of Yazoo City, has
voted $50 month to the Library AS
ISOLATION of that city.
The Meteor says that Crystal Springs
dresses better and lives higher than
any place in the State"
Hon. Luther Manship has returned
to the State, after an extended tour of
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature to exempt from taxation
money loaned at per cent.
At a rattle by Mrs. Sol Brill, of
Greenville, for the benefit of the Jew
ish Orphans Home, s475 was realized,
Miss Nell Sheldon Carey and Lu-
cius Dancy, society favorites, we're
married at Holly Springs last Wednes-
day.
Politicians of whatever creed, color,
or calling, hardly know "where
they're at" now that Teddy holds the
lines.
Walter A. Brothers, of Artesia, has
been appointed to fine position in
the Geological Survey Bureau at Wash
ington.
Ella Clark, negro, while warming
by fire in cotton field near Port
Gibson, caught fire and burned to
death last week.
The prohibitionists of Aberdeen
have Endorsed the city officials who
were all ants during the recent local
option campaign.
"The Bank of Commerce" is Lex
ington's latest addition to the finan-
cial world. 1t is incorporated with a
capital stock of $4,000.
H. J. Wilson, former principal of the
Brookhaven public school and later a
lawyer, has been admitted to practice
before the Supreme Court.
A trolley car jumped the track at
Jackson last Thursday and crushed
the leg of the motorman, A. T. Erie,
and otherwise injured him.
In contest of fourteen students at
Millsaps College, j. r. Countiss was
selected to represent that institution
at the State oratorical contest,
c. j. Miller issued very beautiful
calendars from Vicksburg this year
and sent one to Mrs. Mckinley, re-
ceiving a note of thanks therefor.
The penitentiary populations reflect
on wardens as far back as Stones ad-
ministration, it is stated, and put the
Board of Gontrol in very bad plight.
| John W. Breach, fsItilizer drum
mer from Meridian, was found dead
in his bed at Gloster on the morning
of the 10th. He died of heart failure
Rev. W. S. Lagrone, presiding elder
of the Durant District of the M. E
Church, has established a paper for the
dissemination Of church news within
the district.
To-day, at McComb, occurs the
double wedding Of Miss Ollie Aylene
Haley and Rev. w. A. Hewitt, and
Miss Minnie Beneta Haley and Edwin
L. McLaurin.
Unprecedented large sales of build
ing materials testify to the fact that
there is more enterprise in that direc
ton about Crystal Springs than has
been in ten years previous.
The Legislature has given sl,25o,CO(
to the public schools OF the State
per annum. The sum was only $3.50,
600 less than was asked for. The Sen
ate will, doubtless, pass the bill.
Captain Thomas Faucett, late o;
Conehatta, Newton county, died al
Lausel, where he lately moved. He
was formerly connestsd With the Gone
hatta Index, which his son now edits
| Mrs. Thomas Stigler, of Yazoo City
barely escaped death 10y burning last
week. Her clothing caught while she
was standing before the fireplace and
only their heavy WOODEN texture saved
her from fatal results.
| Miss Nellie Phelps, of Nitta Yuma,
who is sister of the Countess Cessel-
la, of Rome, was married last week to
DR.. Crump. They will reside near
Vicksburg, at the Phelps home, one Of
the handsomest residence places in the
State.
| Willie Burns, ten-year old negro
boy, broke into the purant Manufac-
turing Company's store last week and
stole some candy and chewing gum.