The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-08-10
MISSISSIPPI PENINGS
SHORT AND PBNCENT PARAGRAPHS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
The News Of The State in General Boil
"a Down and Put Into
Few Lines.

Excessive rains all over the
State.
There is no Republican paper
in the State.
Some suggest that the consum-
ed city rebuilt, be called New
Yazoo.
1t WASH a Brookhayen dentRt
that advertised himself as d 9th
puller. =
The 17-months old son of Mr..
and Mrs. w B. ellis died at
Summit.
The persistent sealch for a cot
ton pest will bring results in due
course Of time.
Jeannette Loyelace, aged 5, fell
from swing and broke her arm
at her home in jackson.
Hattiesburg believes it has more
municipal politics to the square
inch Of corporated area than any
other city in Mississippi.
Miss Addie PurneII, teacher
of note and an intellectual and
strong Christian woman, died at
jackson on the 9th. She was So
years of age.
Trees have their time to fall''
the time came for withered
cid red oak on West Cherokee
Monday morning. Sam Magee
had done bis duty.
Hon. Thos e. Watson, of Geor-
gia, the populist candidate for
president, will deliver an address
in the house of representatives at
Jackson on the 25th.
Ace Willis, a well known citi-
zen of Picayune, was cut and se-
riously hurt by Warren Evans.
Evans shouldered shot gun and
escaped. Willis was stabbed eight
times with a dirk.
The oratorical contest and bar
tbecue at Brandon attracted 500
people on the 5th. Medals were
won by Miss Agnes Barksdale, Of
Goshen, and L. G. Robinson, Of
Brandon, out Of a large number of
contestants.
Mrs. D. 2. Porter, Jr., a prom
inent young matTon of jackson.
was married in New Orleans,
Aug. 4, to Mr.. Wyatt, a promi-
nent and wealthy copper mine
owner of Arizona.
Ex-Gov. Robt. Lowry has been
reelected Maior-Genelal Of the
Mississippi Division Of the Con-
federate veterans, and Col. w. Al.
Montgomery, brigadier- general.
Kinds county is doubly honored.
The executive committee of the
University Of Mississippi met at
Oxford a day or two since-and de-
termined to build an addition to
Franklin Hall that will accommo-
date eighty young men at meal
time.
Hon. i. B. Mosely, Federal
clerk and national committeeman
to the Republican convention
from Mississippi, has given out
the statement that he intends to
start a newspaper enterprise at
the capital to forward the interests
Of his party.
At Gerald, near Friar's Point, q
negro woman named Amelia Lew
is, has been appointed postmis-
tress, and has given the necessary
bond, with two negroes as sure
ties. Only one or two whites get
theil mail at Gerald and the only
regret is that the appointment es-
tablishes a bad precedent. II is
held that the office is unnecessary
and the inspector will be so in
formed.
The Bank Of Edwards, which
was chartered BY the Governor
some time ago, will begin busi-
ness on Sept. {. Mr.. A. G. Jones,
Of Jackson, is the President, and
Mr.. ". il. Montgomery, Jr., Of
Edwards, is the Cashier. A lot
has been purchased, and bank
building is to be erected. Some
of the best known business men of
the town are interested in the EN-
terprise.
The threat Of The Railroad COM
mission last month to fine The rail;
road companies for failure TO send
I'D their quarterly reports On time
is bearing fruit, and the com
panies are coming forward prompts
Ii with their reports for the quar-
/ ter ending June 80. The reports
thus far received show a falling
|of ID business from the same
quarter last year, the decrease be-
ing very marked.
cholera Infantum
This disease has lost its terrors