Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-04-15

MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By L. POWER.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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senatorial and Gubernntorial.
The announcement that Hon. w. v.
Sullivan would be candidate for the
long as well as for the short senatorial
term, agbears to have been premature.
He has snot authorized any one to sc
announce. He is a candidate for the
of the term to which Sena.
tor Walthall was elected, and which he
is now filling by appointment. That
term expires March 3, 1901. He will
hold on until Tuesday, January l6,
1900, when the legislature will elect for
the remainder of the term. And on
the salne day the legislature will choose
q sen sadr for the six years beginning
March 4, 1901, and it may select one
and the same person for the uneXpired
term and for the long term.
Senator Moneys term will not expire
until March 3, 1905.
The time for the election of senator
is fixed by act of congress of July %,
1856, 'on the second Tuesday after the
and organization Of the legis.
lature.' The legislature will assemble
on Tuesday, January 2, 1900, so that
the second Tuesday after the meeting
and organization will make it the 10th.
Should the speaker be elected on the
first day of the session, then on the
next Tuesday, January o, the returns
for governor and other State officers
Shall be opened, counted and declared
in the presence of the two houses, and
the term of all State officers, except the
governor, shall commence on the Mon
day following, 18th Code, sec. 3050.)
The governor will be installed on the
day following, Tuesday, the 10th, ''un-
less different time be fixed by concur
rent vote of the two houses" Code,
sec. 2154.)
The general election for all State and
county officers, for the term of four
years, will occur on Tuesday, Novem-
Der I.
The foregoing answers numerous in
quiries addressed to the writer hereof.
and should be preserved for reference.
The Democratic State executive com
mittee met in jackson on Thursday,
the 9th, and after session of six hours
decided that the State and county
officers to be chosen in November next
should be by county and State conven-
ton nominations-the State convention
to be held in jackson on the 23d of
August. The committee considered a
written request from Gov. McLaurin to
have candidates for the United States
senate nominated by primary vote, but
declined to 50 order. The misunder-
standings as to who compose the com.
mittcc were all pleasantly settled. The
committee also decided that candidates
for railroad commissioner shall be nom
mated and elected as other State
officers, and not by districts.
A telegram from Oxford announces
that the citizens have purchased Union
Female college property and turned it
over to the North Mississippi confer.
encc, and that the Grenada Collegiate
Institute and the Methodist Female
college at Holly Springs are to be re-
moved to oxford, and all three consol.
idated into one large and thoroughly
equipped college. Union college has
heretofore been under the auspices OF
the Cumberland synod, but the South
ern Female college, at West Point. is
getting most of the patronage of that
denomination, and hence the sale of
the property at oxford for the nominal
sum of $4,000. The property is worth
several times that sum.
Brooks Story, the noted burglar and
express robber, and who twice escaped
from the pcnitentiary, was captured at
Madison Station last Thursday night,
in the depot waiting room, by d. p,
Montgomery, +. i. Edwards and A.
Smith, citizens of that place, Brooks
escaped from Montgomery in 1895
while he was conveying him from
Amercus, Ga, to jackson. lie jumped
through a car window while the train
was going at the rate of forty miles al
hour. An ordinary prison will not hold
him more than few months.
The secretary of State has received
this request from an extensive publish
ing house: please send us copy o
any publication issued by your bureau
of industrial statistics, from which W,
could select matter for a very expensive
work we are engaged upon, in which
we are to give reliable statistics con
cerning the State of Mississippi. W.
desire especially to secure information
on fisheries, horticulture and forests.
The data desired cannot be furnished
the State having no bureau or depart
ment of statistics. For this reasol
hundreds of inquiries addressed t,
every department of the State govern
ment cannot be answered.
The penitentiary board of contro
has to its credit in the State treasury
surplus of nearly 10000, with enougl
cotton on hand to make the total sur
plus about $4,000. The "Nlississipr
Pan" iE this as in other matters, /
the best.
DR.. S. L. Chaille, dean of the medica
department of Tulane university O
Louisiana, is anxious to procure a col
rect list of the medical graduates VIII
served in the recent war; He want
the full names aud addresses of all tn
medical officers of the volunteer reg
ments and other commands who er
listed from Mississippi in 1898. Addres
the Doctor, New Orleans, +, o. Drawe
26l.
Hon. John Sharp Williams will dt
liver the literary address at the ann
vcrsary of the Lamar Literary Society
Millsaps COLLEGE, on the 14th inst.
A new Methodist church is to b
erected in vicksburg to cost $40, 297. 81
and to be completed in six months. Til
old building, erected in ls4s, was use
for the last time on Sunday night, Apr
2. when Bishop Galloway and other