A MAN WITH A HISTORY.
Politician, House Builder, and House Breaker, and a Bad Man in General.
Before his Honor the Mayor, this morning, was a man with a history – Sylvester J. H. Gross, charged with assault with a knife, is no less a personage than an ex president of the Board of Supervisors of Issaquena county.
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He was for many years in the neighborhood of Grace station in Issaquena county, and the police hold him on papers from Issaquena county, where he is charged with burglarizing a store of H. P. Scott, a prominent colored citizen of that county, and whose family resides on Locust street in this city.