The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-04-12
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By ]. L. POWER.
Senatorial and GubernatoriaI.

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Senatorial and Gubernatorial.
The announcement that Hon. w. "
Sullivan would be a candidate for the
long as well as for the short senatorial
term, appears to have been premature.
lie has not authorized any one to sc
announce. He is a candidate for the
completion of the term to which Sena.
tor Walthall was elected, and which he
is now filling by appointment. That
term expires March 3, 1901. lie will
hold on until Tuesday, January 10.
1900, when the legislature will elect for
the remainder of the term. And OF
thesame day the Legislature will choose
senator 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, ION the second Tuesday after the
meeting and organization of the legis.
laturc.' The legislature will assemble
on Tuesday, January ,, 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 Q, the returns
e.
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. $685.
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 a 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. MeLaurin to
have candidates for the United States
senate nominated by primary vote, but
declined to SO order. The misundcr-
standings as to who compose the com
nittee 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
ence, 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
! 4 l., e
the property at oxford for the nominal
sum of $1,000. The property is worth
several times that sum.
Brooks Story, the noted burglar and
express robber, and who twice escaped
from the penitentiary, was captured at
Madison Station last Thursday night,
in the depot waiting room, by d. p.
Montgomery, f. J.. Edward, and A.
Smith, citizens of that place. Brooks
| escaped from Montgomery ia 1898,
while he was conveying him from
Americas, Ga, to Jackson. lie jumped
through a car window while the train
was going at the rate of forty miles an
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 OF
any publication issued by your bureau
of industrial statistics, from which we
could select matter for very expensive
work we are engaged upon, in which
we are to give reliable statistics con-
corning the State of Mississippi. We
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 reason
hundreds of inquiries addressed to
every department of the State govern
! ment cannot be answered.
The peuitentiary board of control
! has to its credit in the State treasury
surplus of nearly $40, 900, with enough
cotton on hand to make the total sur
plus about So, 1000 The mississippi
Plan" in this as in other matters, is
| the best.
| DR.. S. f. Chaillc, dean of the medical
department of Tulane university of
Louisiana, is anxious to procure cor
rect list of the medical graduates who
served in the recent war. He wants
the full names and addresses of all the
medical officers of the volunteer regi-
ments and other commands who en-
listed from Mississippi in 1898. Address
! the Doctor, New Orleans, p. o. Drawer
| 261.
Hon. John Sharp Williams will de-
liver the literary address at the ami
versary of the Lamar Literary Society,
| Millsaps College, on the nth inst.
| 4 new Methodist church is to be