Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-08-03

Herald ADD other us
of the Stale expressions fiv0r1
BILE 20 the estabh shmept cf n
Confederate Soldiers Home IN
Mississippi. IL Is hardly neces
safy 10 say ia II the proposition
our hearty approval Il
- really a us.ter Of surprise
tEst the sub eet Ats not been
seriously -atsd before uJv-
asG tnlta a9me for the eF.p
pied srd tbe iat gent sgEvtT5r>
~ ste u 81 Eause BAD lst be
90 1l-eI il8g since la
State Grand Camp Of G0afe4er-
ate veterans a. i-s meeting ia
last year, approved the
suggestions and recommend
ti3as oE Gen Zee, as 10 the ne
ceSsiy Of caring for cur sick
iHdgca;aHd sscupjt SOuraGcs,
and recommended tbs, Th-
u ZIP take ac.;cn 20 devise and
iaauguraie a G,hli,e ;lzR f1F
the care and maintenance Of
sTeh comrades Bat as yet
nothing has been devised AID
when tie Grand Camp meets
again H. September, there ws.I
be another committee, more
resolutions. some Hics speeches.
and a good line generally bal
let i be 50ped that some action.
earnest and substantial. Wi!I be
taken booking to the early es-
adjustment Of a Soldiers Home
Ia bay last the gentlemen
composing the Mississippi es
cOrt On the occasion Of the re
inteFmeut Of 1T Davis visited
she Confederate Soldiers Home
near Richmond. aad saw there
just such an Institution as should
be il every Southern State. IT
vas established by Z f Lee
Camp, and has been caring for
nearly two hundred MANNED and
INDECENT veterans Of the Old
DiminIon- The State makes an
annual appropriation of thirty
Thousand dollars, and az the ex-
pIratIOu OF d certain period
twenty seven years-tAs prep
eFty will revert to tae State
and vii then be worth half q
million dollars In the mean
tiae the State viii De dI.eharg
ing . debt # gratirud to these
wAo pledged and gave taeir al
In her deEelse-
Tie State Of Mississippi has,
of hate years, bean doing some
thing toward caring fer this
most worthy class ct her eiti
zeas- The handsome sum Of
sixty Thousand dollars Is ANIMAL
y appropriated, aud no doubt
he greater portion Of this goes
tC persons who are deserving or
Eeedy; bat K l. mere thar Vreba.
bic that i large per cent. Of The
appropriation IS dishErzed t.
persons Via L4ve Ysry Sight
claims On the faaI. II oreE
half the aauuaI appropriation
could be used IL the erection OF
1 home, ana II iss support. he
really deserving AID eesssfous
eould be reached. and no Grip
Pied or INDECENT Confederate
soldier wogId haze to beg his
bfead- ar be Dependent on IE1l
vidGaI charity
The iIdies Of vzeAb1rg have
IN view an enterprises Ct this
KIND and the SsaIheTu Gross
IS making this on of It's IcsdIrg
effects, and We are 4uiss sIrs
that Gen Lee vii p AXE 1t a spe
eial topic IN his address az the
next Grand Camp. K che nseau.
time lei the several lamps dis
cuss the question, ard let one
OF n0re Of GFmE ate plans
70 be considered by the Graad
Camp and then . memorial
Erom tAat body % the LegssIz.
tars, and a COOL word fr0EI
Gov Stone IN his message and
the Hone is assured VIeks
burg, Satehez. Jackson, Meridi
an. Columbus, Aberdeen, Holly
SEringss and perhaps other plac
- IA the State. whouId Cffer
suitable sites, and it may be, q
cash boEus-the property to ge
To the State when all the old
soldiers shall have passed over
the river and found rest ~uEder
the shade Of the trees" never
more to be troabiet By the wars
and wants Of tine-CIariOa,
LEDGER.