HOLLY SPRINGS  , a city and the county-seat of Marshall county, Mississippi, U.S.A., in the N. part of the state, 45 M . S.E. of Memphis . Pop . (189o) 2246; (1900) 2815 (155g negroes); (1910) 2192 . Holly Springs is served by the Illinois Central and the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham (Frisco System) railways . The city has broad and well-shaded streets, and a fine court-house and court-house square . It is the seat of Rust University (opened in 1867), a Methodist Episcopal institution for negroes; of the Mississippi Synodical College (19o5; Presbyterian), for white girls; and of the North Missis- sippi Agricultural Experiment Station . The principal industries are the ginning, compressing and shipping of cotton, and the manufacture of cotton-seed oil, but the city also manufactures pottery and brick from clay obtained in the vicinity, and has an ice factory, bottling works and marble works . The munici- pality owns and operates its water-works and electric-lighting plant . Holly Springs was founded in 1837 and was chartered as a city in 1896 . Early in December 1862 General Grantestablished here a large depot of supplies designed for the use of the Federal army while on its march toward Vicksburg, but General Earl Van Dorn, with a brigade of cavalry, surprised the post at daylight on the loth of this month, burned the supplies and took 1500 prisoners . Holly Springs was the home and is the burial-place of Edward Cary Walthall (1831–1898), a Democratic member of the United States Senate in 1885–1894 and in 1895–1898 .