The leader., 1897-07-14
LETTER FROM THE CAPITAL.
Things That Were Done, Seen
and Heard Last Week.

JACKSON, Miss, July 12.-There
has been very little of a general
nature for the people of jackson tC
talk about this week, hutan abund.
ance of news of local kind. We are
not through discussing the row be
tween the rector and the vestry OF
! st. Andrews church. AS stated
last week the rector was endorsed
by his congregation, but that should
not be taken as conclusive evidence
that the entire membership is with
hlm. The friends of the vestrymen
who resigned have not been attend.
ing the congregational meetings,
and hence the votes do not show
their real strength. At a meeting
held Friday for the election OF new
vcstrymen, only SO voters out of a
possible 200 or more were present
and voting. just why the members
did not attend is not known. but
the old yestrymen are claiming the
small interest manifested is an Ell.
dorsement of their course. The
majority OF the people of Jackson,
regardless of church favoritlsm, are
of the opinion that both veStrymen
and rector were in the wrong
that the veStrymen should not have
signed Il whisky election petition,
and that the rector should not have
demanded Their designations or
Withdrawals Of their names from
the petition before he had talked
the matter over with them private
| ly. However, the grit Of the rector
is pretty generally admired and his
course since the first break of the
storm is endorsed, He announces
that with new veStry he will get
right down to business again and
continue to labor in the vineyard
IA if nothing had ever happened.
Jackson has built a large num-
Der of important enterprises during
the past g or 10 years on paper,
among them being cotton factories,
electric railways, etc, bnt she has
one secure at last. \ few weeks
ago one G. w. Howard was grant
ed a franchise for building an eIee-
tric car line, and on Tuesday the
city council entered into contract
with him. He has deposited 81, 900
in the bank here as a guarantee OF
good faith, with the agreement, in
writing, that the 81, 200 is forfeited
if the railroad is not begun in .
months and miles completed in 10
months. He was also awarded the
contract for lighting the streets
with i20 are lights, for which he
will receive Sll4 per annum on
each light. The city now pays 500
per year for 62 lights run Oh the
moonlight schedule-that Is, when
the moon is shining or threatening
to shine, we get no electric light.
Under the new contract the lamps
are to burn all night-rain or shine.
Ther2 is no lonSer any doubt about
the electric road, as in the event it
is not completed in 10 months the
franchise is forfeited, light contract
null and void, and the company
loses the 81 900 now on deposit.
Mr.. d. L. Clifton and Mrs. Emma
Enevaidsen, Of Yazoo City, we're
married here Friday night by Rev.
Mr.. Hutton. Just why Iich wid.
ow should marry so very quietly
and away from home is not known
here.
A few days since the Fickshurg
Herald stated it was reported that
Warden McLaurin had been order
ed by the board of control to stop
feeding one of his brothers at the
penitentiary table, and suggested
that it was a matter of such small
Importance the Jackson papers fail
ed to mention it. The Jackson pa
pers would most asSuredly have
printed the item had they known
of the passage of such an order, but
as 10 such order is on the record, a
truthful newspaper could not afford
to print it. Without any desire or
intention of flying to the defense OF
the warden or any of the balance
of the wonderfully successful office
seekers, / am free TO say that the
board would have been engaged in
a small piece of business had ii
adopted such an order-unless one
of the brothers made a habit OF
boarding at the penitentiary day
in and day out, and that | hardly
think he has done. The Herald
should have looked at this matter
from business standpoint-it i;
had, and was convinced this broth
er was being fed at the expense Of
the State, it would have appreciat
ed the fact that it's cheaper just tc
pay a mau's board and lodging than
to pay him salary. However, the
warden denies that one is being
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