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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24
called Together by the Governor.

Jackson, March 1S-Gov McLaurin
today sent the subioined letter to each
member of the ways and means com
mittee of the house:
Dear Sir-Before calling the legisla-
ture together | would DO pleased to
have meeting OF the members of the
ways and means committee, that | may
lay before them the present and pros
pective condition of tho finances of the
State and ask that they allow me to
suggest some measures Of relief which
occur to me. If the members of the
committee agree upon a bill in advance
OF the assembling of the legislature it
will expedite the business of the ses-
sion, as otherwise the members of the
legislature who are not of the commit
tee would have nothing to do while the
bill is being considered by the commit
tee. To the end that the business of
the session may be expedited | request
that all members of the committee on
ways and means meet me here in Jack
son next Tuesday, the 23d day of
March, Faithfully yours,
A. j. MCLAURlN.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24
An 1ntercstInE ftem.

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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

The Mississippi Dental Association
will meet in Jackson April Z and O.,
and larger attendance is expected this
year than ever before. Great prepare
ton has been made for one of the most
successful meetings of the associations
ever held. More good papers on clinics
and other papers from eminent dentists
all over the country will be read and
dtecnCaad
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
That Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy, the sense OF
smell and completely derange the. whole sys-
teni when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be
used except on prescriptions from reputable
physicians, as the damage they will do is
often ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by f. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo,
o., contains no mercury, and is taken inter,
nally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen
uine. 1t is taken internally, and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by F. j. Cheney q Co. Iesti'
monials free.
Sold by Druggists, price Toe per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

He-I am going to kiss you the next
time / call.
She-Nol must be neighborly and
come often. -Iowu Topics,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

please to give me something, sir"
says au old woman. 81 have blind
child-he was my only means of sub
sistence-and the poor boy has recov-
cred his pht."-Tit- Bits.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24
CIrcumventing the Widows.

I'm not in mourning" said young
lady frankly to querist, but as the
widows are getting all the offers now
adays, We poor girls have to resort to
artifice." Tit
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Tho present generation OF people of
this section, especially the farmers,
must change their tactics or go down in
abiect poverty and give place to another
class of people who do not dread work
as they do, and who are more imbued
with correct business principles The
average man and woman in this coun-
try had almost as soon die as work reg
ularly. 1t is a relic of slavery and tho
customs OF the recipients of those
halcyon days perpetuated in their
memory. 1t is strange people cannot
see whittier they are tending Canton
Times.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Johnnie Chaflie-Mother, dog bit
me in the leg, and believe he was mad.
Mrs. Chafie-Good gracious, John
ME! I hope you didn't have your new
Sunday pants onl-Tammany Times.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

very dream was she,
The senses to rejoice,
Jntil she spoke, alas!
With that alarm clock voice.
Detroit Journal
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24
1907 BUS, POTATOES PER ACRE.

Don't believe it, nor did the editor
until he saw Salzer's great farm seed
catalogue. It's wonderful what an ar
ray OF facts and figures and new things
and big yields and great testimonials
IL contains,
SEND THIS NOTICE AND1o CENTS SrAAps
to John A. Saller Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, for catalogue and IL rare farm
seed samples, worth $40, to get n
start. K
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Over 4O0,0O0cured Why not let No To Bac
regulate or remove your desire tor tobacco
Saves money, makes health and manhood
Cure guaranteed, SOC and 81 90, all druggists.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24
Improvements at Greenwood.

Local capitalists are making arrange.
ments to organize a stock company and
build fine hotel, operahouse and lodge
hall. 1t is proposed to construct $50,
600 building.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Philip Ferguson, a negro farmer liv
ing near Whynot, Lauderdale county
beat his wife to death last week,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Fits stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle &
treatise. DIR. Kline, 933 Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Some people are so mean that they make
their pohteness dIsagrceab.e.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Aberdeen, March 17.--This is the sec
ond week of the Circuit Court at this
place. A great many civil and State
cases were disposed of last week. The
grand jury adjourned last Saturday
afternoon for the term, finding only
fourteen true bills. This is certainly
an evidence that crime has very much
decreased in Monroe county, as this is
the shortest term and the fewest num-
Der of bills that has been found in quite
n long time. Joe Watkins, colored, who
burglarized EclIford's drug store some
time since by efTecting an entrance
through tho cellar, was sentenced to
two years. Elijah Cotton, colored, who
killed negro on tho Gathings place,
near Prairie Station, was yesterday
arraigned under an indictment for muir
der He at first pleaded not guilty to
the charge, and soon atterward, after
the case was ready to begin for trial, he
withdrew his plea Of not guilty and
pleaded guilty. lie received a sentence
Of twenty-five years in the peniten tiary.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Those who are kind, sympathetic, consid-
crate and thoughtful of the pleasure and in
terest of others never lack friends.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

How My Throat Hurts!-Why don't you
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

As you chew tobacco for pleasure, use
Star. 1t is not only the best but the most
lasting, and therefore the cheapest.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

A. A. McKinzie was arrested at
McComb City recently on the charge of
passing counterfeit money, and in de-
fault Of $500 bond was remanded to
Jail. Mckenzie says he never know
ingly passed counterfeit money. 1t
was proved, however, to the satisfaction
OF the commissioner that he had circu-
lated at least three counterfeit silver
dollars.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

I believe Pisos Cure for Consumption
saved my boys lie last summer.-Mls.
Allie Douglass lie Roy, Mich, Oct. 20, "a.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

When bilious or costive eat a Cascaret,
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. Toe, Csc.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Disappointment are wings that bear the
soul skyward.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

When a little old man wants to make
an impression, he puts on plug hat.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

If the gossip would think more, her
tongue would get more rest.-Rams Horn.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Ii IS more important to bear good fruit
than much fruit.-Ram's Horn.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24
Two Valuable Books Returned.

Last week two valuable books of the
Chancery Court were returned to the
Chancery clerk which have been miss
ing since the invasion of Mississippi by
the Union army. r. N. Hill, who was
chancery clerk at the time when Grants
army was approaching, fearing the de-
struction Of the records removed them
to Georgia, After the war they were
returned, with the exception Of two,
which had disappeared. The missing
books were recently found in the court
house at Macon, Ga, and after some
correspondence were returned to Chan
Gerry Clerk Downing by L. +. Garrsrd
Of that city. Tho books are in a per-
feet state OF preservation and show
nothing but ordinary wear except that
tho blank pages Of one have been cut
out They were, no doubt, used during
the war for writing paper.-Raymond
Gazette
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Let the good book you read have an up,
pendiX IN Your lilo
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

The more grateful we are for our bless
iDgs, the smaller our trials will look
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

The people who once claimed to have
'ound their affinity, don't, as a rule, look as
if they had found much.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

People think you are as silly as you think
they are.--AtClIsOu Globe.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or grippe, loo.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

Just try a l0c box Of Cascarets candy ca
5hartic, finest liyerand Observation-Disclosures
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

GLORY" is grace" perfected-and grace
is ours on earth.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24
Potash.
A trial Of this plan costs but
little and is sure to lead to
profitable culture.

All about Potashthe results Of Its use by actual sx.
pertinent on the best farms in the United StateS-h
told in little book which we publish and will gladly
mail free any farmer in America who will write for 1t
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
ca Nassau ST., New York.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

People think you are as silly as you think
they are.-Atchison Globe.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-24

WHEN WRITING To ADvERTIsEH
please state that you saw the ndvertia
meut In this paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
THE OLD TOMB.


The old tomb of General Grant-a
squat little brick built affair which was
intended as a temporary resting place
for the body and held it for almost
twelve years-stands as a woeful con-
traSt to the new tomb in which the re-
mains are to rest for all time.
The tWO-the old and the newsstand
close together, almost side by side The
one impresses even the most careful OBJ
server with the idea of temporal power,
wealth and grandeur; the other, the old
tomb, in its simplicity is an emblem of
sorrow which seemed to center the nat
ural sadness that hovers about the
memory of a hero, and to concentrate
these memories to one little poetic
spot
With the old tomb. the thousands
who stood before the grated door each
year thought only of the dead man of
war; with the new tomb that feeling
must in part give way before the mag
ni1cence of the artistic structure which
has been reared to preserve the mem
DRY.
On a little knoll, which was always
the first spot in the vicinity to tell of
the approach of spring and the last to
take on the garb of winter, the tenn
porary tomb stands. The first touch
of work done upon it was on Tuesday,
July %, 1885, five days after the death
of General Grant. During those few
days the consent of the Grant family
had been obtained to the interment in
New York and the Riverside park site
decided upon. The plans of J. Wrey
Mould, architect of the park depart
ment, had in the meantime been pre-
pared, and day and night the work
went on, closely watched by President
Crimmins of the park board and his
colleagues, Commissioners Borden and
Beekman. AS many men as could pos
sibly work together were set to work,
and the little tomb grew day by day.
There is a granite base with walls
three feet thick of black and red brick
rising above it until they finish in
top of blue stone. Then a granite key
stone and a barrel roof Very simple,
yet substantial, as has been shown in
the passing years.
In length the structure is seventeen
feet, in width twelve feet four inches,
in height twenty-one feet. Its one
door opens toward the Hudson river.
The floor of the tomb is something
more than two feet below the surface
of the knoll, and is reached by stone
steps from the door. For the proper
placing of the coffin and it's steel cas-
ing, brick piers were built up from
the floor to above the door level.
The tomb was declared finished
shortly after noon on Friday, August Z,
and the steel casing having been set
on the piers, everything was in readi-
ness for the placing of the coffin in it
on the following day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27

client. religious and temperance orders.
All along the line-in regimental col
ors guidons, banners-gleamed Old
Glory while from thousands of threats
of brass rang out the strains of music,
martial and reminiscent, inspiring and
harmonious.
The Sons Of Confederate Veterans,
who were to arrive a the tomb at $3.50
O'Clock and place a floral wreath with
crossed swords on the sarcOphagUs,
We're an hour late in reaching the
scene They were headed by James
r. Branch, communicative chief of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The tokens We're reverently laid on
the sarcophagus by General James b
Gordon. while his comrades stood by
with uncovered heads.
It was precisely 1879 o'clock when
the carriages bearing the president and
vice president and the members of
Grant family and the foreign repre-
sentatives arrived at the grand stand.
The president and vice president were
under the escort of squadron A" N.
G. S. N Y. while the family of the
general were escorted by mounted COM
panies of the Society of the Army of
the Tennessee, New York cOmmandery
of the military order of the Loyal Lee
gion, with four comrades of George G.
Meade post No. /, G. A. r., department
of Pennsylvania, in carriages.
The escorts were under the direction
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tees for the receiving Of subscriptions.
Two hundred and ten committees, num-
bering24S7 people. We're formed ;subscrip-
ton boxes were placed on elevated rail-
road stations in stores and banks; and
subscription books opened in business
Offices AS a result of this stirring up
of public feeling, when half the allot-
ted 90 days had expired. on April 27, the
day the corner stone of the monument
was laid, the Grant Monument associa-
ton announced that 1902 $1,000 had been
raised during the month. When the
campaign closed on May 80, 1892, the
amount had reached the necessary
$3.50. coo. Before that year was out
S4O4 600 had been subscribed, which ad-
ded to the earlier subscriptions of
S155 900 made a total of $559, 900. The
balances left in the trust companies
have brought the fund up to $500, GOO
INTER ENT IN OLD TOMB.
Sixteen days after the death. the body
of General Grant was laid, on August
8, 1885. in the temporary vault in River
side Park. The event was a solemn and
imposing ceremony. From all points
people hocked into the city by tens Of
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UContinued On Sixth page.l
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the work in progress. a Gordon of po-
lice, however kept them back. When
it was all over the people scrambled for
each tiny bit of metal and other mater
ial left by the wOrknen. One man got
and treasured the end of a candle that
a workman had held in his hands.
THE NEW TOMB
One hundred feet above mean high
water of the Hudson river the Grant
monument stands, a solid pile of white
granite $50 feet in height. The first Y
feet of this height is cube of the Gre
clan DOric order which measures 80 feet
on all sides
The entrance on the southern side is
enclosed by a portico mad up of a row
Of recessed columns. Above and be-
hind the pOrtico rises an almost blank
wall. which will one day be relieved by
the four equestrian statues shown usu-
ally in plans of the monument and fin
ishes in a parapet which shows upon its
ace the Sculptured figures of Peace and
War
Above the parapet there starts alb
ruptly a cupola 20 feet in diameter sur
rounded as a relief with Ionic columns
Around the crown OF the cupOla a
line a. fasces surmounted with eagles,
connects the columned drum with the
pyramidical top.
The fiaWleSs granite of which the
tomb consists is of dotted whitish gray
taken from a quarry of uniform grain,
and is SO light in tone that in the
strong sunlight it is hardly distinguish
able from marble.
Passing up the great steps which ex-
tend three-qUarters Of the way across
the front of the structure, one comes
first to the doors of the tomb, filing
space 16 feet Az inches in height and
feet in width. Of bone dried ash
covered thickly with a composition of
copper and tin, these doors weigh three
and half tons. In each door are three
panels, ornamented with 148 bronze
rosettes, the "a on the larger central
panel being each twice the size Of
mans fist and all riveted to the doors
with heavy bolts
Beyond the doors after a clear space
of SO feet is a % foot opening over the
crypt beneath. The interior of the mon
urnent is cross shaped and the four
corner arches are so feet above the floor
On these arches rests an open gallery
with an inner diameter of 40 feet. which
stairway, each with SO steps. Above the
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I cream in color with a pillow on which
is embroidered in white the initials, III
| 8. G."
The second coffin is solid cedar and
| serves as a strong protector for the
| first Inside it is lined heavily with
lead, outside it is highly polished and
heavily mounted with silver.
The steel case which formed the third
covering, which was large enough to
permit the coffin to fit snugly, was the
most remarkable of the three. 1t was
of five-eighth inch metal of the finest
quality, Hanged at every angle and so
heavily riveted and carefully made that
neither air nor water could find a pin
point of entrance. It was made at Troy,
N. Y.
The greatest care was taken in its
construction. 1t was a perfectly plain
steel box, broken only by the double
line of rivets which were driven home
and welded with the understanding that
they were never to be drawn. They
We're almost part of the steel casing
itself.
When the big steel case had been fin
ished and brought to this city, it was
placed in the temporary tomb, bOlted to
the piers, all ready for the reception of
the coffin on August 8. The end which
faced the door was left open, and it was
through this end that the coffin was slid
into place.
After the first coffin had been made
in Rochester 1t was brought to this
city. For two days it remained in an
undertaking esta blishment on Eighth
avenue, and during that time it was
looked upon by nearly 10000 persons.
All sorts and conditions of people went
and were so anxious to get sight that
they made wild rushes and damaged
considerable property in the neighbor-
hood.
Policemen had to be called to keep
the crowd within bounds. The closing
of the end of the steel cose in the tenn
pOrary tomb on the night the coffin was
put there Aug. 8, 1885, was an interest
ing detail. Some few people then were
able TO understand the care with which
the case had been constructed. Early
in the evening of that day Patrick Gre
gan who had charge of the work, with
seven men who had come especially
from Troy, entered the tomb. Every
thing was in rediness for the placing of
steel bolts which were to fasten the
front steel wall. For two and a half
hours the men worked by the light of
candles.
a portable furnace roared. and the
clash of hammers on metal gave the
little tomb every appearance and sound
of a boiler works. When the task had
been completed Cregan said the armor
steel case was not only Theoretically
sealed, but was chisel proof That will
last 10000 years" he remarked as the
tomb door was locked.
More than a thousand people had
gathered about the tomb anxious to see