The leader., 1897-01-13
LETTER FROM THE CAPITAL.
What was Going on About Jack
son Last Week.

Il son Last week.
Special Correspondence Of The Leader.l
| JACKSON, MISS, Jan. H.
We've all been busy this week
with our pocket handkerchicfs.
The fellow having 10 case of the
grippe is simply not in the fashion
and the physicians have grown
tired of the picnic. This is the
ord time this new.fangled bad cold
has visited jackson within the past
six years, but this time the cpl
demic has been .of more malig-
nant character than ever before,
and much larger per centage of
those attacked are forced to bed.
State Revenue Agent Writ Adams
was down week, and now Supt.
of Education KiDcarnon, Treasurer
May, and Deputy Auditor T. NJ /.
Henry are wrestling with it.
Other State officials are expecting
to have to surrender at any time.
So far there have been 10 deaths
from the grippe, but the victim is
confined to his bed for week or
more and when he gets up feels
like he bad been dragged through
a key.hole for another week.
State Treasurer May has issued
his semi-anhual statement showing
the condition of our finances on the
1st of January, D7. To say that it
is bad expresses it but family, the
amount of cash OH hand being Only
S11, 1894. Virtually the treasury
has been empty for the past six
or eight montl S, and The above
balance is the smallest reported in
a great many'years. 1t is this empty
cash-box and the certainty that
under the present rate of taxation
1T will grow no fuller, that creates
the necessity for an extra session
OF the legislature.
Rev. irwin Miller, senator from
Leake and Neshoba, has written
Secretary of State Power that he
and his constituents favor the
building of million dollar capitol,
and that an extra session should
be called right away to provide the
funds. That is a most liberal sen.
timent from representative of two
OF the poorest counties Financially
and in point of population,l but
then Bro. Miller is thinker off
advanced thoughts, he has travel,
ed all around oyer the country and
has seen the handsOmest capitals
of States. D
Tuesday at noon Mr.. Hsoatjoy, Of
will Lead to Hyman's
altar Miss Louise, second dausb' or
Of Col. W. L. Hemingway. sb. is
one Of the most charmta~ ond non.
nlar young laG;os o. ~. oanital
and has a host Of lands at Green.
wood and eisew' ,ere ovor tho state
Whn will unlt WV
60 WIZ ~, " q in congratulations.
,r VIZ ~ ;Laurin has appointed
NJ, .a% "a" les Stone, of Oxford, spe-
0'a' supreme Court Judge in the
~ .se of Revenue Agent Adams VS..
Mississippi State Bank of Canton,
Judge Whitfield being disqualified
on account of relationship to the
Griffith Bros, prommenG bankers
of Vicksburg and jackson.
Mr.. Ed. Fitzgerald, OF this city,
for (3> several years, "a popular
clerk i'll the r. r. mail service has
been appointed postoffice inspector,
and assigned to the Denver, Col,
district. He is q hroeher TO in /
spector Chas. Fitzgerald, one Of
the most competent men in ourl
Uncle Sans service. They are sons
Of poor but honest Irish parents
and carved their own fortunes sim
gle handed and alone. Close ap.II
plicatiOn and careful attention. ito
the interests OF their employers is
what did it.
Ex-GOv. Lowry is enjoying "a
visit from three of his daughters
and their children, VIZ: Mrs. H. |
Il. Bate, of New Orleans, Mrs. |
). NJ. Jayne, of Greenville, and Mrs. |,
}. L. Harris, of Dallas. Texas.
Gov. Lowry is several timer, a
rand-father, and has one or more
great-grand children, tut b Q does
no. look it, being the young est mar
for his age in the State, and, real.
y, the Governor is NOT yet an old
man.
On Saturday last struck mp
with a Mr.. Burrows from Nebraska, |
who had just retr.rned to Mlssis.
sippi after travelling 1000 miles by
rail and water before he decided
this the best State in the Union. |
de had travelled all over the West !
but found nothing to compare with
Mississippi, and is going to locate
here. He says the NebraslSa rarm-