The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-28
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS or
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.

Jackson mills are paying SIC
per con for wagon seed.
The new capitol struck circus
visitors to Jackson on Wednesday
with awe.
The city Of Winona voted $780,
900 for waterworks and a sewer
age system.
Magnolia has grown big enough
to employ a nightwatchman at
$40 per month.
The deterioration of the cotton
crop has caused lively competi-
tion among oil mills for the seed
supply.
$4,000 people attended the after
noon performance of Barnum &
Bailey's circus at Jackson, on
Wednesday.
The total number of pensioners
for 1903 is 1888 as against $3.50
last year. The annual appropria-
tion is 100000.
The corner stone of Senatobia's
new school house was laid on the
Goth. Grand Master Thomas con
| 1,,atoI fbo oarapooniac
The Braxton Eagle is the name
of a new paper at Braxton, Simp-
son county, with Mr.. D. j. Chase
as editor and proprietor.
St. AIoysius Academy, the
new Catholic school recently COM
pleted at Meridian, was dedicated
by Bishop Heslin on the Goth.
A negro blacksmith named
Hightower has been member of
the board of mayor and aldermen
of the town of Sardis for the past
81 years, and according to the
newspapers has made good one.
As the result of fall from a
railroad tlestle, James Wolf died
at Laurel. He had recovered so
far as to be able to go to work;
but dropped dead four days after
the accident. The fall was twelve
feet.
Magnolia's new cotton mill
started humming Thursday.
Adine, the three year-old daugh-
ter of State Treasurer hampton,
who is largely interested in the
mill, pulled the rope that awoke
the first whistle and set the ma
chinery going.
The financial statement of the
city of Hattiesburg for the past
year has been published and shows
that the receipts of the city from
all sources were eighty eight
thousand dollars. Hattiesburg
has bonds outstanding to the
amount OF. one hundred and FIVE
thousand dollars.
The birthday of the late Senator
! j. 4. George was commemorated at
Carrolton by the hestowal of
crosses of honor upon 115 veterans
of the Confederate States. The
courthouse had been handsomely
decorated for the occasion and the
ceremony was conducted by Sen
ator H. D. Money.
A technicality caused delay in
the Whit Owens case. 1t will
come up next week at Water Val
ley. The record books from La
fayette county were irregular. 1t
will be the sixth time that Owens
shall have faced a jury on the
charge of killing the negro. Hamp
Williams, the Supreme Court hav-
ing reversed former sentences.
The Magnolia Chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy bestowed crosses of honor
upon the following veterans:
George I. Gracey, S. r. Quinn,
M. Mcdaniel, /. A. Quinn, w.
A. McDavitt, w. H. Kinnebrew,
I. j. Stevenson, J. F. Tull, G. III.
Sharp and DR.. r. 7. Hart. The
exercises, which were beautiful
and impressive, were closed with
prayer by Rev. b. q. Lewis, Re-
freshments were served.
The planters in Amite county
are again up in arms against the
labor agents, some of whom, it
seems have renewed on a small
scale their old efforts to induce
! the negroes to leave for other
sections. A communication from
a prominent citizen of Berwick,
received by an official at Jackson,
says: "We consider the labor
trouble caused by white Gaping
as settled in Amite county, and
the only thing we feel any fear OF
lis the Vaccinations of labor
agents. To all such we give fair
notice to keep out of our county,
or we will resort to extreme meas
ures.
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