The leader., 1904-10-08
MISSISSIPPI HAPPENINGS
SHORT AND PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of the State in General Boil
ed Down and Put Into a
Few Lines.

Greenwood's new courthouse
will cost SOS, 900.
The shrimpers have been on a
strike on the coast.
| Lack of labor threatens lumber
progress at Gulfport.
Charter fee collections for the
month Of September amounted to
E$2, 800.
The infant child Of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. w. Bolls, of Utica, died
of diptheria.
A lodge called the Fraternity OF
American Citizens was organized
at Meridian.
"A son of Langdon Smith had
his arm torn off from the shoulder
in gin at Liberty.
Calico is cheap and Leap Year
is yet with us-the old bachelor
should not feel SO uncertain.
1t is estimated that the average
" oman in an average life spends
an average of 242 days before her
mirror.
Centreville was the first town
in the State to send contribution
ia the National Democratic Gam.
paign Fund.
The acknowledges says the en-
forcement of the vagrancy bill
passed by the last legislature oc-
ours at rare intervals.
Sixteen farmers from Iowa
reached jackson Thursday, seek
ing homes. A Mississippi exhib-
it North, turned them Southwark.
Capt. R. II. Smith, aged 70,
suicided at Edwards by swallow
ing carbolic acid. He had been
in bad health several months and
his mind was unbalanced.
During a circus parade, sneak
thief entered the home of Judge
r. e. Campbell at GreenyilIe and
stole $1200to $500 worth of dia-
monds, besides several pieces of
silyerware. He escaped.
The Cotton and Corn Carnival
to be given In jackson ID Decem-
ber is going to be well advertised.
The Board of Trade has closed
"a contract with a job printing firm
to put on the back of each set of
envelopes printed an advertise
ment Of the Carnival.
The State Treasury Thursday
received a large lift when Secre-
tary Neville, of the Board of
Control, paid to Treasurer Miller
the sum of $26, ,S23, this being the
proceeds of. the sale of the SOC
bales of cotton last week. There
is more money to be received
from this sale when all the cotton
lis delivered.
The Edwards Echo and Ray
mond Gazette have consolidated,
under the ownership Of D. B.
Bell, editor and publisher of the
Echo for the past four years. The
Echo merges into the Gazette
which was established 81 years
ago BY. George w. Harper, and
has never before passed out of
the hands of the Harper family.
Fl. w. Harper retires from the
field to engage in the insurance
business.
It is alarming to note the in
crease Of insanity in the State.
There are several hundred appIi-
cations awaiting their turn at the
Insane Hospital, and iails at jack
son and all over the State contain
demented persons who cannot be
permitted theirliberty, on account
Of mental disability. It is a la
mentable state of affairs; and the
next legislature will have to pro-
vide additional quarters for insane
patients. Tie frightful growth is
attributed by physicians to
the cocaine and other drug habits.
F. j. McGraw, a prominent
contractor of jackson and Yicks-
burg, has entered suit against
Brown Brothers, liveryman Of
jackson, for $4,000 for libelss A
letter written by the defendants
attorneys in their interest is filed
with the declaration to establish
the charge. McGraw also sues a
plumbing firm of that city for
I$10, 900, alleging slander. 1t is
alleged in the declaration that one
Eof the members Of the firm had
Igaid that McGraw would not pay
Ehis debts, alleging that said state
Iment injured bis credit.
At the regular monthly meet
| ing of the Board Of Supervisors
|of Yazo0 county, it was decided to
ladVertisethe county farm for sale,
which consists of $40 acres, sib-
Iuated eighteen miles south Of this
Icity on the Yazoo River The
Board expects to get $40, 900 fol
the property. IL q sale can be
made around this figure the Board
intends to buy smaller farm te
work the county prisoners, emo
Iif nu suitable place IS found, Che
| prisoners viii be rented out or
/ 5he old contr ct system. IF prac'
ficable, it = probable that chs
poOrhouse and county farm will
/ he united. The farm was run oE
i profit last ear. but # develops
chat more |; Dor is required thar
/ The county furnishes convicts tC