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The Leader.
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B. T. HOBBS, Editor and Proprietor. |
AN OLD-FASHIONED WOMAN.
No clever, brilliant thinker she.
With college record and degree.
She ha* not known the path* o( fame.
The world has never heard her name.
She walks in old. long-trodden wayst
The valley* of the yesterdays.
Home Is her kingdom, love her dower—
She »eehs no other « and of power
To make home sweet, tiring heaven near.
To win a smile and wipe a tear.
And do her duty day by day
In her own ipiiet place and way.
Around her childish hearts are twined.
As round some reverend *aint enshrined.
And following hers the childish feet
Are led to ideals true and sweet,
And And all purity and good
In her divinest motherhood.
She kee|is her faith unshadowed still
(lod rules the world In good and III;
Men in her creed are brave and true,
"And women pure as pearls of dew.
And life for her is high and grand.
By work and glad endeavor spanned.
This sad old earth's a brighter place
All for the sunshine of her face;
Her very smile a blessing throws.
And hearts are happier where she goes,
A gentle, clear-eyed messenger,
To whisper love thank Clod for her:
McHenry had an extensive lire on
New Year's day.
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Laurel lost nine buildings by lire
Sunday night.
The Liberty Bell will be placed on
exhibit ion at the Charleston Kxposi
tion.
It is estimated that fully H,OtiO people
were presented to the President on
New Year's day.
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There were three suicidts in New
Orleans last Wednesday, the begin
ning of the new year.
A corporation called the “Carnegie
Institution” has been formed in Wash
ington to take advantage of Mr. Car
negie's donation of $10,000,000 to edu
cation.
Gambling in fashionable clubs at
Rome is said to be assuming alarming
proportions. The same might be said
of the gaming spirit among people gen
erally in cosmopolitan America.
It is estimated that there are about
150 indigent soldiers in the State who
would be eligible for admission into
the Confederate Home. The Legisla
ture will be asked for an appropria
tion.
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Because of a prosperous year, Ar
mour & Co., the great pork packing
firm of Chicago, have raised the wages
of 10,000 of their employes and given
to many of the older ones, as free
gifts, substantial dwelling houses.
Mr. L. F. Chiles has accepted the
position of assistant secretary of the
State Senate during the present legis
lative session, and will be found at the
desk with Hon. John Y. Murray, Jr.,
the etticieut secretary, who has served
in this position for the past several
years. Mr. Chiles acted in this capac
ity at the last session.
There is a remarkable man living at
Bloomington, 111. He is 50 years old;
has married four wives; is divorced
from the third and living happily with
the fourth, and on New Year's day had
his four mothers-iu law to dine with
him. He has always kept on good
terms with all his wives' mothers.
That man may expect soou to be trans
lated.
Eight fire insurance companies have
left the State within three mouths.
The companies complain especially of
heavy losses in the small towns and
this, combined with the rate-cutting
and poor fire-fighting equipment in
the larger towns, has made the busi
ness the most disastrous iu the his
tory of underwriting in Mississippi.
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The Governor has approved a char
ter for a railroad to run diagonally
across the State, and to be known as
the Memphis and Mobile railroad. It
is also stated that a contract has been
let to complete the line from Laurel to
Grenada, a distauce of 200 miles. The
building of the road is said to be a cer
tainty, as the enterprise is backed by
eastern capitalists who assert posi
tively that the road is a sure thing.
Monroe county wants a new jail.
The Aberdeen Examiner says:
Monroe county can offer uo reason
able excuse for lack of good public
buildings. It is one of the richest, most
populous and lowest assessed counties
In the State, and probably t he only one
without a bonded debt, or whose war
rants are par with gold, silver or cur
renoy with bauks, merchants and peo
ple. In this matter further delay will
be astounding, to use a mild expres
sion.
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Mrs. Bernard Shields, a sister of the
ever-to-be lamented “Catherine Cole,”
has just been made press agent for
the new St. Charles Orpheou, said to
be the handsomest theatre in New Or
leans. No other Southern woman oc
cupies this position, and the office is a
most important one in the theatrical
business, so much depending upon the
discriminating exploitation of players
and the treatment of the public
through the press.
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The Baptist Orphanage Oem an
nounces that the central 110,000 brick
building, the picture of which recently
was contained in the Picayune, “is ttn
iabed, but not yet heated and lighted
and furnished. There has been a
most provoking delay about these
things, and we have done all we could
to push things up, but we simply
could not push them, for they would
Mt be pushed. But we hope quite
aooo to have everything in readiucse
lor the great number of homeless
children who are anxiously waiting
for oe to tell them to come.”
NKW PRIMARY ELECT I OS LAW.
It would be a strange thing if Gov
ernor Longiuo did not recommend to
the Legislature the repeal of the pres
eut primary election law, and the pas
sage in its stead of a plain, honest and
simple statute, on this very important
subject. The old law is so ambiguous,
so incongruous, contains so many
loop-holes for fraud and unfairness,
it is a reproach to the legislatures of
the State which have met since its
adoption in 1892, that it has been suf
fered to remain so long unrepealed
and unamended.
in Mississippi, wnere a iiemocrauc
nomination is tantamount to an elec
tion at the general election, a primary
election law should be enacted which
will insure honesty and fairness to all
candidates for public office at the
hands of their party, and it should
have all of the binding effect of the
regular election law, and unequivo
cally prescribe suitable penalties for
its infraction, with the right of prompt
appeal in case of fraud, etc. For one
thing, it should eliminate from par
ticipation in nominations all persons
who do not possess the constitutional
qualifications of voters, and thus place
the privilege of nominating the men
who are to serve as public officials in
the hands alone of those who can vote
at the regular election.
Such a provision would inevitably
have one of two good effects either it
would stimulate more citizens of the
State to pay their taxes and take a be
coming and patriotic interest in the
administration of public affairs, or it
would effectually cut oil from voting
and participation in the selection of
public officials all those who would
not thus qualify themselves—and in
either case the State would be im
mensely the gainer.
The Leader thinks Governor Lou
giuo and the Legislature will signally
fall short of their duty to their party
and the State, if they should fail to
give their earnest efforts to the repeal
of the present primary election law
and the adoption in its place of such a
one as past experience, honesty and
fairness so imperatively dictate.
Later. Since the above was put in
type the Governor’s message has been
received, and in it he renews his rec
ommendation of two years ago and
strongly urges the Legislature to pass
a suitable primary election law. Thus
the Governor has conscientiously and
patriotically discharged his reponsi
bility in the premises. Now let the
Legislature discharge, in like manner,
the obligation resting upon it.
TO RAISE MOSEY.
“The Orphans’ Aid Club gave a
euchre party for the benefit of their
fund,” and the “Benevolent Associa
tion will give a soiree dansante at the
City Hall to raise money to pay
church expenses,” are notices we have
observed in prominent papers of late.
In the name of High Heaven, how
much of charity or religion or the
milk of human kindness, even, is there
iu such movements as these? The
money comes, undoubtedly, as the
price of “a good time,” with no thought
or care of orphans or churches; and
the great, moving, invisible forces
that influence this world onward and
upward and that make it better, are
entirely iguored. Money accomplishes
those things that are seen: but the ele
ments of sacrifice; of devotion: of self
abnegation:of individual responsibility
and generous sympathy that make
great and good men and women are all
to the rear. We are becoming a race
of pigmies, spiritually, because of the
lack of cultivation of these virtues:
and, by and by, our pocket books will
be all that is left to distinguish us
as human beings.
Meantime, let us make all the money
we honestly cau and give with full
hearts to benevolent objects, without
putting them and the cause they rep
represent to shame, by inuendo and
the shifting of responsibility.
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Lawrence County Mutter* Had
Hoad* Complained of.
The late grand jury of Lawrence
county was in session four days, exam
ined lot) witnesses and returned nine
teen indictments. The two following
paragraphs are copied from their final
report:
The public roads of the c muty are
not in good condition, but from our in
vestigation the fault lies largely with
the Board of Supervisors, who, as
shown by our investigations, do not
require or demand, nor see to it. that
the roads are kept iu condition, as it is
their duty under the law to do, and we
earnestly recommend that they take
hold of this matter and see to it that
the reads are improved, and if it is not
done, then we ask your honor and the
district attorney to bring the matter of
their neglect to the attention of the
next grand jury and insist on indict
ments not only against the road over
seers, but also against the officers of
the county tv hose duty it is to look af
ter the public roads and who do not
do so.
viemsu reoummeuu mat me linns
of the Circuit Court in tliis county be
changed to a more convenient time
say February an l August and to Ibis
eud we respectfully suggest that the
bar of this county and the court and
district attorney co-operate and con
fer with our representatives in the
Legislature with a view of fixing on a
more suitable time to hold our courts
and to making the required and neces
sary change.
Mr. A. '1'. Longiuo, au elder brother
of the Governor aud one of Lawrence
couuty’s best citizens, was foreman of
the grand jury.
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Mrs H. B. Kells, president of the
Mississippi W. C. T. U., writes that she
hopes to get a favorable recommenda
tion for State Prohibition from the
Governor to the Legislature, and that
if so, a carefully drawn State Prohi
bition bill will be promptly introduced.
Such a bill has been drawn by Judge
R. H. Thompson, a most excellent au
thority on the subject, with Judge
Robt. Mayes and Hon. Calvin Wells as
advisory committee. Thh Leader
would greatly rejoice to see the Pro
hibitionists inside and outside of the
Legislature unite and push such a
bill to a successful passage before the
Legislature adjourns.
The Vicksburg Herald states that
one saloon of its city, “took in,” iu one
day 92,200duriDg the holidays, from the
jug trade. How great then must be the
“take in” in dry counties from this
source!
REBELLING AGAINST THE RAIL
ROAD MERGER.
It is very likely that the State of
Mississippi will yet make an effort to
break up the consolidation effected
several months ago between the South
ern Railway and the Mobile and Ohio
road.
Provoked by the heavy advance of
freight rates in that section of the
State the wholesalers and jobbers of
North Mississippi are now urging At
torney General MeClurg to take the
legal steps necessary to break up the
combination whereby they say these
freight rate advances have been made
possible.
General McClurg last week received
a copy of a resolution adopted at the
freight rate conference held at Colum
bus on December 30. and in which he
is requested to exhaust all legal meas
ures to have the combination, so far as
the commonwealth of Mississippi is
concerned,severed.
It will be remembered that when
this combination was affected last year
there was considerable talk of making
an attempt to break it on the ground
that it was violative of the laws of
Mississippi, and the Southern road
hurried eminent legal counsel to Jack
son to argue the question with the
State officials. After a lengthy con
ference, covering a period of several
days, it was tinally decided not to in
stitute legal proceedings.
The people of the towns of North
Mississippi at that time sent petitions
to the State officials urging them to let
the combination alone, and it is stated
that the people who signed these peti
tions were led to believe that the sale
of the M. & O. to the Southern would
result in a betterment of their interests
and a decided reduction in freight
ratts. It seems, however, from com
plaints now being made, that the con
trary has proven to be the case, and
the resolution passed at the Columbus
meeting cites as an instance that the
freight on flour and meal has increased
11 cents per barrel, on corn and oats 7
cents per 100 pounds, on bagging 12
cents per 100 pounds, on ties 11 cents
per UK) pounds and many other arti
cles in proportion.
Accompanying the resolution is a
statement that Ihe ablest counsel in
that part of the State traversed by the
consolidated roads will volunteer to
assist iu any procedure that Attorney
General McClurg may adopt.
General McClurg has referred the
matter to the railroad commission,
as it is properly within their jurisdic
tion, atnl he will await advices from
the meeting of that body this week,
before he decides upon what future
course he will take.
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The Persuader.
Mothers are often with inquiring
minds ask'n,r the question, How shall
eve keep our boys off the streets where
they learn all kinds of dark, degrading
and louthsome language'.' Mothers, let
me decently and candidly, say to you
with all good will and refined atten
tion, just get you a persuader off of
some brush a peach tree was our
mother's preference and throw thirty
nine under his shirt, and if it don’t
perfect a cure then repeat the pro .
cess. Don’t tell him you are going to
do it. Our mother did not say: “Al
bert, I am going to whip you for that.”
No; she just went out iuto the back
yard to an old peach tree that stood
there as a monument against all diso
bedience, and it seemed to me that its
limbs hung uearer to the ground than
any in the orchard: she would just
reach up and take down a volume of
reformatory law and read thirty-nine
extracts from that volume, which fully
convinced us that she was no novice
at law. In those little justice courts
in which she was the presiding judge
and we the defendant, she always ex
acted the cash on the spot and as we
had the capital both in cash and on
deposit either would satisfy her or
anything that was on legal tender. Nor
would she take our note for costs, nor
permit an indictment to be quashed,
judgment arrested or any demurrer
to the action, but decided the case
right then and there according to the
best evidence of which the case in its
nature was susceptible and that's the
way for you to do, mother. If this per
suader, after repeated application
don't have the desired effect then you
certainly have a hard knot to contend
with. Kxvhomje.
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Mrs. Chauncey Depew. with some
fifty relatives, has fallen heir to a for
tune of $80,000,000. It seems that a
century ago the eldest of three broth
ers, named Cronkhite, became enraged
at the other two because they were
not English sympathizers and Tories
and swore he would return to Ho'
land, their native country, and make a
fortune, cutting them off from all in
terest in it. He made his fortune in
the distillery business, executed his
will to be opened in a hundred yeare
wi ll interest and to be distributed
am ng descendants of his brothers.
Now Holland has advertised for the
ht-irs and Mrs. Depew is among the
number.
“Are We Too Wise?” is the subject
o’ an editorial in the Clarion Ledger
of the 26th. No, indeed; most anybody
can be a little smarter than he is.
“Much learning” makes people mad,
soundimes; but we don't think that
caused the editor's query. He just
doesn’t want to "get too smart.”
I However, he is not ready to adopt the
Herman professor’s suggestion that
higher education is getting extreme
and ruining our boys for the common,
practical walks of life.
The total number of bales of wagon
cotton received by Hazlehurst from
September 1, UXX), to September 1,
1901, was 10,860 bales. From Septein
her 1, 1901, to January 1, 1902, the re
ceipts were something over 12,400
bales, with eight mouths to pass be
fore the crop of 1901-’02 can be accu
rately uccouuted for. Comparing
dates and receipts of the preceding
year.it is confidently predicted .that
about 16,000 bales of wagon cotton will
be handled by Hazlehurst merchants
on account of the crop now being
marketed.— Hazlehurst Courier.
The Clarion-Ledger favors an
amendment to the Constitution that
restricts the Legislature from attend
ing to general legislation except every
four years. It wants that restriction
knocked out. Formerly the people
did not kuow what a law was bsfore it
was changed. This has not been the
case under the Constitution of 1890,
and the Herald is of the opinion that
no amendment is needed. For twelve
years the State has been getting aloDg
first rate under the Constitution as it
is, and thousands of dollars have been
saved by shorter terms in the Legists- j
ture. -Yazoo City Herald. '
CITY COUNCIL.
Adjourned Meeting Held IleeeinHer 19,
1901.
Pursuant to adjournment the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the city of
Brookhaven, Miss., met at the Mayor’s
office in said city on December 18,
1001, at 7:30 o’clock p. m. There were
present His Honor J. B. Daughtry,
Mayor, and Aldermen Willoughby,
Scherck and Seavey: absent, Schnor
renberg and More ton.
The following accounts were examin
ed and allowed, and warrants ordered
issued for same on city treasurer:
ACCOUNTS ALLOWED.
K. K. Brennan, attorney's fee Circuit
I M M
A. C. McNair, attorney's fee,Circuit Court 37 50
c. B. Perkin*, articles for power house . 13 73
Electrical Appliance Co., invoice of 2000
carbons Mi Ml
Electrical Appliance Co., electrical sup
piles IM M
c. E. Orafton. glolies and maps for pub
lic school building 35 50
T. P. Scott, cash paid for work at puldlc
school 3 00
Western Publishing House, articles for
public school i I Mi
Revere Rubber Co.. 300 fe«*t of hose 1.14 81
C. II. Penn, work at power house 2 50
\N. II. Penn, repairing tool* for streets 8 75
C. E.lirafton Drug Co., articles for pub
lic school building 2 Of)
S. Kohlman. articles for colored school 2 2T»
.1. II. Willoughby, binder for streets 28 30
Milton-Brad icy Co., articles for public
school building 9W
Alfred L. Robbins Martin Co., articles
for public school 41 Ml
East Union Lumber A; Manufacturing
Co., lumber for power house 2 53
R. W. McNair, recording Hughes’deed 100
A. C. Seavey. brick and articles for
power home II W
fieneral Electric Co., electrical supplies so 57
Cumberland Telegraph and Telephone
Co., rent of phones for November, luoi 6 50
Mia//a Bros., insurance on public
school building and furniture so 84
J. B. Daughtry, insurance on piddle
school building and furniture . 93 35
W. D. Davis, insurance on puldic school
luiilding and furniture 93 35
Mia/za Bros., tornado insurance on pub
ic school luiilding and furniture 91 35
Standard oil Co., oil and waste for jiower
house. $35.02; less $1.95 freight 33 07
A. C. Seavey. one car of coal, 82 40-100
tons, at $l.2i», for power house ... 38 88
On motion the Board adjourned.
J. B. DAUGHTRY, Mayor.
W. H Seavey, Clerk.
Corn and Oats High
PURINA
FEED
| for
Hard
Working
Stock.
SAM LIGHTFOOT
The Old Reliable Barber
OF BROOKHAVEN,
'llrILL BE FOUND hereafter in his new
y\ Shop on Front St., opposite the depot.
Shaving, Hair-Cutting, Shampooing
etc., in up-to-date Style.
Slcctrlo Lislits,
AND SHOP KEPT OPEN 1)AV AND NIUH1
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. TOM McNAIR,
KfcSIUfciM 1
DENTIST,
Office in New Larsen Bltldino,
(Next door to Leader Office)
HKOOK HAVEN, - - MISS.
Teeth extracted, filled, or new sets made ac
cording to latest Improved methods and a|>
pllances of the profession. (Town and bridge
work and handsome artificial sets a specialty
All work guaranteed to give satisfaction as to
quality and prices.
Dr. C. .RIPLEY,
DENTIST,
^ BROOK HAVEN, MISS.
Rooms over the Postoffice. Dr. J. II.
Brown, Assistant and Manager.
DR. T. Y. NELSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
BROOKHAVEN, MISS.
(Mlicc: Martin H.ug Co.. Telephone No. 101.
Residence Telephone No. hi.
C. A. BAKliKli. W. II. PKIZELE.
BARBER & ERIZELL,
Physicians and Surgeons.
Office : Martin Drug Co.,
Brookhaven, Miss.
IIKN P. SMITH, .1. C. PEVKItKCX,
lirookhaven. Wesson.
SMITH & DEVEREUX,
Attorneys-at-Law,
Practice in all courts.
Prompt personal attentioo to collections.
E. F. BRENNAN,
Attorney-al-Law,
Real RsRilc and Incest. j\£l
BROOKHAVEN, MISS.
Will practice in all th»* courts of l.incolu and
adjoining counties, and in the Supreme and
Federal Courts at .Jackson. Miss. Keal Instate
bought and sold and titles carefully abstracted.
Office umstairs in st..rin Hulldlmr, next dooi
| to Mayor s office.
EVERETT & PRICE,
Attorneys-At-Law,
BROOKHAVEN, MISS.
OFFICE—Cassedy Law Building.
C. C. LYELL,
Attorney - At - Law,
BROOKHAVEN, - - MISS.
OFFICE: Ui>'»talrH lu ('AMMly Building.
J. N. YAWN,
Attorney - at - Law,
BOOL'L CMITTO. - MISS.
Will practice In all the Courts of Lincoln aud
adjoining couuties.
CHAS. CHRISM AN,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW,
B KOOK HA VEX, MISS.
Will practice In all the courts of Lincoln aml
adjoining counties, and In the Supreme gud
Federal Courts at Jackson, Miss.
Office—I >owu-8talrs In Cassedy Building, next
to Court House.
R. D. LANIER,
Attorney - At - Law,
BROOKHAVEN*, MISS.
Will practice In the courts of Lincoln and ad
joint.lg counties. Office In MllUaps Building
A. M. McMillan John Q. Hydk
mcmillan & hyde,
Attorneys at Law,
BROOKHAVEN, MIES.
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dyspepsia
biliousness
and the hundred and one simi
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or inactive liver, quickly yield
to the purifying and cleansing
properties contained in
Jofynstfh's
Sarsaparilla
QUART BOTTLE
It cures permanently by acting
naturally on all organs of the
body. Asa blood-cleanser, flesh
builder, and health-restorer, it
ms no equal. Put us in Quart
(kittles, and sold at $i each.
"THE MICHIOAN DRL’O COMPANY."
Detroit, Mich.
g Taka Llvercttes for Liver Ills »y. 9
For sale by Price & Watson, Brookhaven, Miss.
Sydney’s Repair Slop,
—1>KALKB IN —
Bicycles $ Cycle Supplies,
BROOKHAVEN, MISS.
Established 1817.
A.B.QRISWOLD & Co.
fl
Diamonds,
Watches,
Jewelry,
Silverware,
Clocks,
Spectacles,
Etc., Etc.
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New Orleans, La.
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FOR CHRISTMAS AND NKW YEAR HOLI
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to any point on the southern lines to all points
on the .st. Louis Division between Paducah and
st. Louis. Cairo and Ashley inclusive, and to all
points on Y. & M. V. Railroad, at rate of one and
one-third fare. Tickets on sale Dec. 23, 24, 25,
no. and 31, toot. Jan. 1st. 1002. Limited to Jail. 3,
1002, inclusive for return.
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A. H. Hanson. g. I*, a.
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vODn leave Chicago, st. Louis, Cincinnati
and Louisville January 30, pjog, reaching same
points on the return February 11. A delightful
voyage across the Gulf of Mexico, a six days'
stay on the Island of Cuba, including a visit to
Havana. Matanzas, the Valley of Yumurl, the
Caves of Della Mar and other interesting |H)iuts
under the escort of the American Tourist Asso
ciation. Rate from the points mentioned will he
$155 for the round trip, which amount will in
clude all expenses everywhere. Itineraries, giv
ing full particulars,of your local Illinois Central
ticket agent.
MADTYT /m A 0 This occurs at New Orleans
illnfil/1 UiiniJ on February 10 and 11. 1002.
For it. excursion rates will he m effect to New
Orleans on specific dates which your local ticket
agent will he aide to advise you.
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AMERICAN TOFRIST ASSOCIATION, will
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all expenses, railway, sleeping and dining car
fares, hotels, carriages, etc.
PAT TUADMTA Personally conducted weekly
Imllir Viillln excursion ears through to
Los Angeles and San Fntnciscoas follows: Via
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MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happening*.
Natchez had 53 fires last year.
D. R. Allen has been made mayor of
Tunica.
The building of the new Capitol is
progressing nicely.
Col. Stephen D. Pool died at Osyka
on the 21st at the age of 83.
R. C. Gibson, West Point's promi
nent druggist, died last week.
The Longino Guards, of Jackson,
bave rented an armory on Capitol
street.
Vicksburg's Ice Company has
decided to increase its output to eighty
tons per day.
Chancery Court convenes at Mead
ville on January 22, by order of Chan
cellor Martin.
Greenheaded mallards have been
gleefully captured or killed by hunters
in Franklin county.
Meadville's Christmas school con
cert resulted, financially, in receipts
amounting to $37.70.
On the 2nd, J. A. Broadus lost by
fire at Ocean Springs, his store and
oontents. Loss $3,000.
Mississippians will be inter<sted to
know that Mardi Gras this year is
from February 4 to 11.
T. L. Henderson, a railroad man,
was married to Miss Laura Kennedy,
of McComb last week.
Two carloads of dressed turkeys
were shipped to Vicksburg from Kan
sas City during the holidays.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
a" Aberdeen entertained on the even
ing of R. E. Lee's birthday.
Mrs. Sarah Knapp Till, of Fayette,
died last week, leaving a husband and
babe. She was 27 years of age.
Dr. E. B. Miller, of West Point, pre
sented to the New Century Club of
that city, an elaborately carved gavel.
The Vicksburg power plaut will sub
stitute fuel oil for coal, and is now
erecting a ten thousand gallon tank.
A kindergarten has been opened at
McComb ty Miss Elbert Holt. The
school will instruct through five
grades.
Revenue Agent Wirt Adams has
been stirring up Pike county records,
and discovered 1800,000 of unassessed
solvent credits.
On January 1, Orlando Lester, the
negro connected with the murder of
the two Montgomerys, near Oxford,
was convicted of murder.
Land Commissioner Nail stated in
his monthly report a few days ago that
for the first month he sold State lands
to the amount of $G,759.3i.
There are scattering reports of
smallpox and scarlet fever throughout
the State, but tbe diseases have not
bfcume prevalent anywhere.
Mrs. Wilson, of Tupelo, dropped
dead on a freight train at Kosciusko
last Thursday. She had a young babe
in her a-ms when she expired.
Major Frank Price, of the Price
House at Jackson, is one of a trio of
children all born at the same time.
They are now near 70 years of age.
Oystermen have organized at Biloxi
to influence legislation. Several hun
dred dollars was subscribed for defray
ing the expenses of making a fight be
fore the Legislature.
Superintendent Whitfield will make
an interesting report to the Legisla
ture. He will ask for a large appro
priation for public schools of the
State—probably if1,000,000.
Dr. E. J. Burnett's stables and barn
were consumed by flames at UtDa on
the second day of the new year. Four
tons of hay and 150 bushels of corn
were lost, with very small insurance.
The Biloxi public schools re-opened
after the holidays with 078 pupils.
Like lirookhaven (whose need has
been amply supplied) they need addi
tional rooms for their increased pat
ronage.
The fertilizer plant belonging to the
Mississippi Oil Company, was destroy
ed by lire at Meridian on the 2nd. The
loss is estimated at more than 825,000,
while the insurance will not cover
more than a third of that amount.
Seven negroes were arrested on Sun
day for gaming at Meadville. Four
plead guilty and were lined $5 each
and costs. Sid Porter, who was older
than the rest of the crowd, was fined
810 and costs, which amounted to 822.
Good.
Tho little daughter of HSn. A. M.
Dahlgren, of Biloxi, was smothered to
death while playing ou the beach. A
bank caved in upon her and she died
before she could be extricated. Her
mother was. at the time, visiting in St.
Louis, Mo.
Dr. Lemly, of Jackson, is suing the
Jackson Street Railroad company for
not stopping a c«r that he had repeat
edly hailed, and J. T. Thompson sues
the telephone company for not giving
him connection with a di ctor when his
wife was very ill.
Mrs. N. P. Sbotts, of Cato, while
standing near her husband at his gin
was caught iu some shafting, which
she attempted to step over, aud was
whirled round four times and killed
instantly. She had come over to the
gin to talk about a dinner they were
to have that day for their son, who
had married a few days previous. This
happened during the holidays.
Homer Bird has agaiu been sen
tenced to death by the Alaska court.
Bird, who is a Mississippian, left his
wife in New Orleans two or three years
ago and went to the Klondike with
another woman and a couple of men.
On the way he became jealous of his
male companions aud murdered them.
He was tried and convicted, got a new
trial and another conviction, and will
doubtless swing this time.
On December 31 the Governor ap
proved the following charters: Hallo
way, McKearuer Company, capital
$50,000; Greenville Cotton Company,
capital $10,000; Leal Land Company, of
Leaf, captal $20,000; Dublin Mercan
tile Company, of Dublin, Coahoma
county, capital $10,000. He also issued
that day his proclamation incorporut
ing the West Point and Houston rail
road. Thia road will run from West
Point, Miss., to Houston, Miss.
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Come and see our line of
Steel Ranges which we
purchased at 10% less
than cost, freight paid.
Best Steel Range with Cast
and Tinware only $17.50
The biggest bargain ever offered you in the line of steel ranges. Now jg
your chance while they last. Perkins is always prepared to offer you bar
gains, as he buys in solid car load lots, gets cheap freight rates, big dis
counts on car lots. He guarantees to save you 10 per cent, on all goods
purchased from him in his line. We have in stock in our ware house on
Monticello Street
One Solid Car Each
Longview Lime,
Portland Cement,
English Fire Brick
And Sewer Tile.
Also in the ware house in the rear of our hardware store, one solid car •
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Drawers, Glass Doors and Side Lights. These goods *
are cheaper now thau they were in the fall, and now is the time to buy,
while the prices are low. We have received a large line of bronze locks
and bolts, chain and foot bolts, transom centers and lifts, gate fixtures,
sausage mills and staffers, butcher knives, razors, clippers, pocket and
table cutlery, steel beam two horse plows, felt roofing aud all seasonable
goods.
C. B. Perkins
FOR BARGAINS in the HARDWARE LINE
Think it Over
You can’t afford to buy
HARDWARE
That is not up-to-date, in style and quali
ity. It's the cheapest in the end -you
know that. Everyone concedes that our
stock is new, and for quality—that is
guaranteed. Isn't that a fair business
proposition? We think so, and it is
proved by the host of customers we have.
This fall you may want to go a’hunting,
and need a gun. We keep
GUNS FOR EVERYBODY
All kinds and styles, but the prices are all
the lowest. Our Guns are brand new—
no rust or stains on them. Come see ’em.
Yours truly,
D. T. Bryant,
FRONT ST., BROOKHAVEN.
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