PRISONERS ON COUNTY FARM.
What They Were Sentenced for and
Who Sentenced Them.
Supt. John Miller, of the Coun
ty Convict harm, has furnished
The Leader with the following
statement in regard to convicts
sentenced to the farm since he
took charge last December, and
the offenses they were sentenced
for. It will he noted that Justice
Hoffman, of Brookhaven, has led
all others in keeping the superin
tendent supplied with farm hands:
WHO PRISONERS WERE SENTENCED BY.
P. H. Hoffman, J. P.. 44
R.D. Danier, Mayor of Brookhaven.. 22
J. B. Daughtry, J. P._ 12
Circuit Court__ 9
J. C. Osborn, Mayor of Norfield. 6
W. P. Pepper, J. P._____ 6
G. T. Douglass, J. P___ 4
G. H. Vernon, Mayor of Bogue
Chitto.__ 4
N. Greener, Mayor of Pearl Haven.. 2
T. J. Gill, J. P..._.... 1
R. R. Albritton, J. P._ 1
W. C. Summers, J. P___ 1
Total_ —Ill
CRIMES FOR WHICH PRISONERS WERE
SENTENCED.
Vagrancy_29
Retailing_ 14
A. & B.___ 13
C.C. W__ 11
Petty Larceny_,_ 8
Disturbing the Peace_ 7
Moving Mortgaged Property.- 6
Breach of Contract.. 6
Trespassing.. 5
Grand Larceny_ 2
Unlawful Cohabitation.j.. 2
Gaming _ 2
Jumping on Moving Trains_ 2
Cruel Treatment to Animal_ 1
STOLEN!
From my residence Saturday even
ing, Aug. 5, one “Eldon King” Bicycle:
Roco double tube tire. Used about
one year. A suitable reward for its
recovery or information leading there
to. Mils. Jennie CHRisMan.
Y. M.*C. A.
The reception Friday evening
was attended with the usual bril
liancy and success of former ones,
except that the spirit that pervad
ed the crowd was even freer and
happier than usual.
Our friends did indeed rejoice
with us in the lifting of our in
debtedness, aDd well may they.
The Association has been so long
in debt that it is hard to realize
that it is at last free and on the
road to higher success.
The cancelling of our indebted
ness is the signal of Divine Provi
dence that this organization has
come to stay and will continue to
do its good work. And as sure as
it is His will that it continue its
work, it is also His good will that
His people support and encourage
it in every way possible.
“And behold, I come quickly;
and my reward is with me, to
give every man according as his
work stall be.” (Rev. 22:12).
Our library is overflowing with
good fiction.
it is beaven upon earth to
have a man’s mind move id chari
ty, rest in Providence, and .turn
upon the poles of truth.”
Our next reception will be
about September 8th. Arrange
to be present.
Will the members of the Ladies
Auxiliary kindly send their an
nual dues to Mr$. Hartman or the
general secretary at their earliest
convenience? It means something
to be a member of the auxiliary
and enlisted in this great work for
the betterment of our city’s young
■ men. ■
Join the Associaiton and enjoy
its many privileges.
C. H. P.
The People’s Steam Laundry.
Work began Wednesday on the
People’s Steam Laundry, which
will be locate in rear of the
Court House near the Armory.
G. E. Gardner, late of McComb
City, is at the head of the enter
prise, and the other incorporators
are the following well-known bus
iness men, viz: F. F. Becker, J.
W. White, E. A. McCue, L. H.
Bowen, G. W. Ard, Chas. Heuck,
Luther Harvey, F. B. Woodieand
H. Zwirn. The charter of incor
poration is now being published
in The Leader. The building
will be 50x100 feet and will be
equipped with the best machinery.
The management hope to be ready
to open the laundry by the middle
or latter part of September.
Letter From Dr. Luther Sexton.
Dr. Luther Sexton, of New Or
leans, writes the Clarion-Ledger
as follows under date of July 31:
Regarding the situation of New
Orleans, I would state that condi
tions are really not as bad as re
ported. True, we have had quite
a number of yellow fever cases,
mostly confined to- the Italian
quarter, where from a lack of
proper treatment and protetetion
from mosquitoes, the mortality
has been rather larger than in
1989, but the tpye of fever is
nothing like that of 1878, and the
cases which are properly treated
and properly starved,, which is
one of the best methods of con
ducting a case cure, show a vrey
mild rate,, of mortality. Among
our people, who are properly
cared for, the mortality has net
been greater than in 1897 and
1898.
v-fue wu.ru auuut tue seuseiess
quarantine, and the . prevailing
scare which still seems to be per
vading the average mind, when
ever the subject, yellow fever is
mentioned: It is only prnpogat
ed and spread by the bite of the
Stegomyia mosquito.
Heretofore we have been fight
ing in the dark. Now we know
our enemy. Heretofore we imag
ined some formites, or death-like
emanation from either the cloth
ing • or bedding which has been
exposed to yellow fever, carried
this terrible miasm. Now we
know our enemy and how to ex
terminate him. It has been dem
onstrated beyond any question of
doubt that the Stegomyia mosqui
to is the only possible transmitter
of this poison. Nine-tenths of
the medical profession who are
well informed, unqualifiedly ac
cept and support this theory.
Five governments, all working
under separate qommissions, have
come to the same conclusion. So
why should the useless and ex
pensive quarantine be kept up,
except against persons who have
lain themselves liable to infection
in a yellow fever district. Cer
tainly mosquitoes cannot be ship
ped in packages of goods, or mer
chandise. Mosquitoes cannot live
in the average box of freight,’
from one point to another, and it
is for this reason that I have tak
en the trouble of going thus
minutely into the details of this
scare, that our Mississippi fiiends
should ,not go into hysterics over
merchandise which cannot possi
bly carry the poison, but adopt a
practical suggestion which we are
putting through in New Orleans-,
viz: “Death to the mosquito,”
and it is my judgment that within
the next 6 weeks we will be as
free of mosquitoes as Havana was
made by the commission which
eradicated the pest there after it
had existed for 150 years.
A Good Word for the Doctors.
Surgeon , General Wyman has
issued a call for forty doctors to
volunteer for service in the yel
low fever districts of New Or
leans, and he will get them and
many more should it be necessary.
Doctors who have bandied yellow
fever and are immune will be most
gladly welcomed by the marine
hospital service. The doctor
probably is not appreciated as he
should be. His calling is equally
as dangerous as that of a soldier,
and to voluntarily give up a pleas
ant and lucrative practice, at the
call of duty, to devote one’s ener
gies to the alleviation of suffering
in a pestilential district, probably
calls for even a higher degree of
courage. The soldier faces a vis
ible enemy; the doctor an invisi
ble but equally dangerous foe.
Mankind is prone to grumble at
the immensity of doctor’s bills;
especially if it is one he himself
owes, but how many of us just
now would swap places with these
forty doctors who are to risk their
lives in the service of humanity
and science? And should they be
so unfortunate as to lose their
lives while so employed, no mili
tary salute will be fired over their
fraves, no page in their country’s
istory set aside to record their
brilliant achievements, and no
pension paid to wife and little
ones as a partial compensation for
a life sacrificed upon the altar of
duty. The doctor hopes for no
special reward; be simply hears
the call of duty, answers, and
when the fight is over, should be
be alive, quietly goes back to his
piactice, happy in the conscious
ness of a duty well performed.—
Jackson Evening News.
-THE CALL OF MOLOCH.
■’’■ ' V -■ { . ■
By Bobs Cuktis Hopr.sv.
he time of sacrifice had come in ancient
Tyre;
Before the reeking shrines, the deepened
glare of sacred fire
Proclaimed the wrath of • gods or dearth of
priestly tithos.
The hordes came forth to saortfloe,
the rich to pay their tithes.
A Goldsmith from the crowded mart came
forth to glYe his fee %
For Belus’ smiles to linger o’er his
shlpupon the sea;
“My ship! my ship!” he cried; “from
Afrlc’s golden store
Is due in Tyre, and woe Is me if thou
forget my ore.”
With scorn the priest looked on the goldsmith's
tendered fee;
“Art Jew,” he asked, or valulst so thy
treasure on the sea?
Or thinkest ’tis tonic to attend the
shrine?
If so, perchance thou would’st with pleasure
change thy place for mine.”
A great and sudden change came o’er the
priestly face;
One priestly hand was raised on high,
as though to plead for grace,
“O man or Tyre,” he sa’d, “would’st hear
how thy ship fares?
I’ll tell thee then; to Moloch thou must
take thy tithes and prayers.
“Thy crew, at Carthage, stewed away
within the hold
Three chests, all filled with Ophir’s
choicest gems and purest gold;
Thy galley slaves had manned the oars;
the sails had filled,
And out to sea, with mirth and song,
thy treasure ship had sailed,
- rur uays auuj aays me sea was calm;
no storms contend,
And all was well; till passing Crete,
a pirate crew descend
Upon thy ship. Would’st thou desire
thy crew had won?
0 Man of Tyre! offended, Moloch
claims thy ffrst-born son.
With bended head and anguished heart,
the goldsmith turned, *
And in his purse replaced the gold the
scornful priest had spurned.
Then back unto his Jewels, his gold, his
lnfnat son—
His haggard face of conflict told—
“My treasure or my son?”
We gaze across the chasm that separates
today / -
From Old Phoenicia's gods, and Tyre
and Sidon's wicked-way,
Condemning those who sacrificed before the
shrines of old,
And then go forth and license Tice and sell
our sons for gold.
Jim Hunter Held Under a $2,000 Bond.
* At the preliminary trial of Jim
Hunter Wednesday for the mur
der of Mattie Wimberly, Justice
Hoffman held the defendant in the
sum of $2,000 to answer at the
next term of the .Circuit Court.
Hunter had no trouble making the
bond, with Messrs. S. W. Hos
kins and Luther Harvey as sure
ties.
The plea of the defendant was
that the killing was accidental.
There were no eye witnesses, but
the fact that just before the shoot
in the woman and Hunter were
heard contending over six dollars
she claimed was due her, and that
he ran away for sevehal days after
the killing, together with other
circumstances, caused Justice
Hoffman to believe it was a case
of murder and demand a large
bond. The woman, who did not
believe she was going to die up to
the time she became unconscious,
stated to Sheriff Applewhite and
others that the shooting was ac
cidental. The bullet passed
through both lungs and she lived
about 24 hours after being shot.
May be Oil in Lincoln.
A Wesson man, wbo has a rep
utation as an oil expert, says that
there are traces of crude petro
leum in many counties in the
State. He says:
“Indications point strongly to
an oil field in Mississippi, begin
ning near Trotter’s Point, on a
line through Coahoma and Talla
hatchie counties near Tutwiler,
thence through Leflore county
near Mossy Lake, through a cor
ner of Holmes county, the line
extending through Yazoo county
near Valley to the middle of
Hinds county, near Clinton, east,
and Raymond; thence through
Copiah county to about ten miles
west of Wesson; thence to Wes
son, Lincoln and Franklin coun
ties, near Meadville, and diagon
ally through Wilkinson, crossing
into Louisiana near Pinkeyville.’’
Edgar Harris, the versatile edi
tor of the Greenwood Enterprise,
was married to Miss Minnie Mar
garet Warner, of Dayton, Iowa.
The young people met five years
ago on a National Editorial excur
sion West, and Memphis was the
scene of the happy climax on Au
gust 2. Mr. Harris has been
identified with newspaper work in
the State for twelve years past.
STATE HAPPENINGS.
Columbia’s court house corner
stone will not be laid August 17.
The Civic League, of Gulfport*
is trying to enforce the Sunday
Law.
Mayor Hursey, of Abbeville,
was acquitted of the murder of B.
A. Gallagher.
Marshall county has at last
adopted the contract system for
working roads.
Mayor Vardaman and family,
of Greenwood, are spending the
summer in Kentucky.
Geo. W. Vaught’s*sawmill was
burned at Magnolia. Total loss,
$3,000. No insurant^.
The Whitworth Chautauqua at
Gloster was compelled to close on
account of quarantine.
A handsome row of brick stores
will take the place of those re
cently burned at Liberty.
The Circuit Court term for
Madison county has been preter
mitted until further notice.
A mass meeting is to be held at
Gloster today in the interest of
the new county of “Love.”
Miss Maggie Hartness suicided
at Starkville. She threw herself
in a well in a fit of despondency.
Circuit Court to be held at El
lisville has been postponed on
account of the threatened epi
demic.
A franchise was granted by the
City Council, of Hattiesburg, for
a $125,000 underground telephone
system.
Magruder Maxwell, assistant
cashier of the Columbia Bank, and
Miss Leila Ross were married at
Columbia.
A waterspout at Fannin, Ran
kin county, last Saturday, drown
ed 100 head of cattle. No person
was Killed.
The Faimers’ Institute that was
to have taken place at Port Gib
son was postponed on account of
quarantine.
Real estate at Jackson isn’t
suffering from quarantine. None
will be sacrificed on account of
quarantine.
At Jackson, J. E. Brazell, a
loan agent, and A. J. Liles, a loan
collector, were fined $25 for car
rying concealed weapons.
Cotton damaged in the recent
compress fire at Meridian sold for
$52,630. The loss was not as
great as at first supposed.
Dr. W. T. Lowrey announces
that he will not be able to get out
regularly in the interests of the
building movement before Octo
ber 1.
Durant has a farmer who clears
$700 per aqre off of vegetables.
The secret seems .to be deep plow
ing and attending strictly to bus
iness.
Dr. L. M. Quin, while .working
the roads of Pike county, lost a
yoke of oxen by lightning. Oth
er oxen drawing the machine were
not hurt.
Lady Thompson, colored, shot
and killed her husband near Can
ton. At the fatal hour he was en
gaged in advancing on his wife
with a razor.
C. S. Morris, a Pennsylvania
capitalist, is planning to make ex
tensive timber purchases in Mis
sissippi. He is tied up at Jackson
by the quarantine.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Holder are
suing the I: C. for $5,000 because
of the loss of a grove of pecan
trees, thought to have been set on.
fire by a spark from one of the
engines.
Jim Monahan, a popular young
man of the younger society set of
Jackson, died in that city of con
sumption. He had made several
trips out West; hot came home to
die a few weeks ago._
Two coaches filled with almond
eyed Orientals passed through
Jackson. They Were merchants
of Havana, most of them had been
in Cuba ten years or., more, and
were on their way home to enjoy
their fortunes or to visit.
The following report was filed
by the Liberty-White Railroad
with Secretary Maxwell, of the
Railroad Commission, at Jackson,
Tuesday: Receipts, $8,099.64;
operating expenses, $9,715.28;
leaving a deficit for the quarter of
$1,019.64.
Mrs. Davis Contributes $50.00 to the
Beauvoir infirmary.
Mrs. A. McC. Kimbrough has
received a contribution of $50.00
from Mrs. Varina Jefferson Davis
to assist in building the proposed
“convalescents’ iufirraary” at
Beauvoir, which was accompanied
by the following letter, which »
we take the liberty to publish: ■<*
Hotel Gerard,
June 13th, 1905.
My dear Mary Hunter;—The
enclosures which you kindly sent
me from The Commonwealth, fill
ed my heart with thankfulness
that your family at least under
stand how _ intense my love for
Mississippi and her honor is, and
it does me more good than all the
tonics I have been taking to stim
ulate my waning life-sources. 1
realize all your heart-aches and
absences from your family in the
service of our dead veterans, hon
or you more than I can readily
express for all that you have done.
As I look back over the 1 Jong
years which have passed over you,
uncomplainingly and ardently
pursuing your noble quest of help
and comfort for these silent he
roes of our just cause, who when
it failed, were uncomplaining,
though they lost all, when time
had bereft them of the power to
retrieve their personal losses. I
think you have proved the match
less constancy of woman when she
entertains a noble ambition. I
thank you for Mr. Davis, whose
sjiirit, I know, has followed you
with loving approbation.
Your plan to erect a building at
Beauvoir for our invalid and suf
fering veterans, is one which has
been in my own mind for a long
time. A hospital of this kind, I
think, is the thing most needed
for their comfort, and it grieves
me to my heart’s core to feel I
have no power just now to give a
more considerable sum towards
the building. However, as the
widow was commended for not
withholding her “mite,” I send
you a check for $50, and pray
God’s blessing may crown your
efforts with success.
Please keep me advised of your
plans. Comfort me by news of
your progress, and believe me, al
ways affectionately,
Your old friend,
Vafina Jefferson Davis.
What Vardaman Told a Western News
paper.
In response to a request from a
Western newspaper the governor
has sent out the following.
_ “Everything serene in Missis
sippi. Only two cases of yellow
fever in the State, one at Lumber
ton and the other at Sumrall.
The Lumberton case is convales
cing and no new cases from either
of these infected points.
“The quarantine regulations
promulgated by the State Board
of Health are beingjvigorously
enforced. No embargo has been
placed on merchandise from any
where, ana upon proper evidence
that the holder of a health certifi
cate has not been in an infected
uistnet ior ten aays can enter tne
State. The much-talked-of armed
conflict between Mississippi and
Louisiana might properly be de
scribed as sound and fury signify
ing nothing. The people of Mis
sissippi are not excited, nor are
there any evidences of a panic,
but we are pursuing resolutely
the policy inaugurated by the
State Board of Health, based up
on modern scientific developments,
to keep the yellow fever out of
this State.
“I regret the inconvenience
suffered by the public generally,
resulting from this quarantine.
But the exigencies of the occasion
demand it, and I believe that
when the Board of Health promul
gates a rule or makes a law, that
that rule or that law. should be
enforced* That is all I have done
and that is all that 1 shall continue
to do until all danger shall have
passed.
“The report that the Governor
has called out the State Militia is
absolutely untrue. There are
members of the State Militia per
forming the duty of guards, but
they are not acting in a military
capacity. I have refused from
the beginning to call out the Na
tional Guards for quarantine pur
poses.”
T. B. Murray, marshal of Dio,
shot and killed a negro named
Jessie Jones while resisting ar
rest.