The leader., 1899-08-09

OF west, local push anu 20 leThHich1
aid would make it navigable There
should be a line Of packets on The Pearl
during six months of every year.
Hamilton College, Water Valley.
Mrs. Eva b. Wilkinson and her sister,
Miss Kitty Bowen, have been obliged
to retire from the management of this
prosperous school on account of the
continued and serious sickness of their
mother. They will, however, remain
in the faculty. The directors have been
fortunate in securing for the presidency
Prof. K. NJ. Parks, of Bedford, Indiana
He is of Virginia parentage, educated
at Georgetown, Ky, and has taken
special courses at Munich, Harvard and
other great schools. His wife is
Nashville lady. Next session will open
September Il.
A member of the Massachusetts leg
islature wants to know IF the MiSsis-
sippi legislature has chaplain for each
branch, and, if SO. what salary is paid.
The custom has been to invite the local
ministers to open the sessions of each
day with prayer. Their salary con
sists in vote of thanks, and this is
sometimes forgotten. The gentleman
who asks the question believes Tin the
complete separation of church and
state, from which we infer that he is
opposed to paying for praying. lie
must be one of the class who can strain
at gnat and swallow a camel.
SO great is the demand for even
partial list of the senators and repre-
sentatives elected in the primaries that
the same, as compiled 10y the secretary
of State. is given in this issue. When
reports are all in, the complete roll will
appear. a brief biographical sketch of
each senator and representative may
be expected later. The people are Sc
lecting some of their very ablest and
best men to legislate for them for the
next four years. There is much serious
work before them.
The Masonic craft of Mississippi are
notified that all the functions of tht
Office of grand master will devolve, I'M
til further notice, on the deputy grand
master, II. ii. Folk, Lumbcrton. Miss.
The duties of Major Starting as en-
gineer OF the Mississippi river commits
sion, are such as will demand most of
his time for several months to come. so
that he is unable to give due attention
n ho la a of lan
addressed to him as grand master.
Experience is developing some de-
fects in the primary election law. The
Aberdeen Examiner suggests an amend
ment that will require the primaries or
nominating conventions to be held in
all of the counties on the same dav.
This. it says, will put an end to the
/ touring of the commonwealth by
armies of strikers and campaign man
ayers who go from polling place to poll
ing place, from the beginning to the
end of the voting season."
! The Democratic state convention will
be held in the chapel of the Deaf and
| Dumb Institute. The entire building
and grounds will be at the service of
the convention. The chapel is well
| lighted and ventilated. and electric
fans will add to the comfort of dele
/ gates. The electric cars will pass the
building every few minutes.
The city of Jackson should no longer
defer the erection of an auditorium. or
public hall, for the accommodation of
| great assemblies. 1t is said that
blessings brighten as they take their
flight, and this may be the experience
/ when the Democratic State convention
of 1902 shall be called to meet else
where.
| The proceedings of the last meeting
of the Mississippi Press association are
being distributed. The pamphlet is
crcditable to the ability of Secretary
McGuire as a recorder, and to the skill
of MIR. Blakeslee as a printer and pub
Usher. The New Albany Gazette inn
print means good work.
A correspondent wishes to kno,: how
many newspapers there are in tn, State
of Mississippi. According to list care
tullg compiled on the 1st of Nav last,
by Mr. y. j. McCallum, manager A. y.
Kellogg Newspaper Company, there
were POP newspapers then in the State,
including 81 of the colored persuasion.
Hon James f. McCool mas retired
from the race for governor. He is
spiendidly equipped for the high office.
but he did not develop the strength
which justified the probability of his
nomination. In high station or in pri.
vate life he is the same safe. sound and
sensible Jim McCool.
The electric street car system went
into full operation in jackson on the
LIST instant, when nearly the entire
population were. INDUCING in their first
ride. The next public improvement
will be sewerage. The cash is ON hand
to pay for it.
Col. w. A. Montgomery, candidate
Tor governor, expresses the belief that
the constitutional amendment for an
elective Judiciary will be adopted at
the election in November He fayors IL.
The first bale of cotton marketed in
MISSISSIPPI this year was from the
SANDY Bayou" plantation in Washing.
ton county. 1t was sent to Greeuville
to be sold at auction. s4
Mr.. +. FL. Triplett, of Leake county.
| candidate for ,.a;l.aoI go