The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-11-25

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Mississippi Member of the jefferson
Davis Monument Association.

Davis Monument Association.
The want of bureau or department
of industrial statistics in Mississippi is
now being keenly felt by officials and
private citizens who are being flooded
with circulars and personal letters from
Census Director Merriam and his work.
ing staff Here is a specimen:
''Win you kindly forward for use of the
Census Office the latest publication of your
State giving the total number Of acres OF
cultivated lands by counties or other sub
divisions, and the assessed valuation thereof,
together with the acreage of each of the
several crops"
The best response we can make Is to
suggest to the farmers of Mississippi
that these and many other questions
will be asked by the census enumera'
tors next year, and to commence keep
ing figures so that correct information
can be promptly furnished.
One of the members Of the Jackson
city council is colored man, Smith
Robertson. He is highly respected on
the board, and as a citizen, He eX-
presses himself in modest but often
forceful way, in all matters coming be-
fore the council. About a year ago,
when the Ladies' Cemetery Association
petitioned to have the colored people
removed from the old cemetery, which
is very much crowded, to the new GEM
etery specially provided for the colored
people, the subject, after being gener-
allv discussed, elected this observation
from Councilman Robertson; Il don't
see any sense in all this racket The
colored and whites in the cemetery get
along much better than those outside
of it, Just let them rest in peace"
Information Wanted of Lost Boy.
Jerry Cronin left his home in Mem
phis on the LIST of August, and his
/ parents have not been able to hear any
thing of him since He is II years old,
! large for his age, has dark brown eyes,
dark complexion, scar on left leg below
knee, and wore light pants, black
stockings and shoes. He will weigh
perhaps IS pounds. His father, w. w.
Cronin, So Dean avenue, Memphis,
Tenn, will appreciate any information
concerning his absent boy.
Has the elective judiciary amend
ment been carried, or has it not2 is now
the question, and the Legislature, OF
the courts, will have to settle it. Mr.
Noel and many others contend that the
amendment, having received majority
of the votes cast on that question, it il
carried: others, that it requires ma
iority of all the votes east at the cleo
ton. In other words, that if there arr
40 900 votes cast for governor, MOI
itk-ity Of this number should have votec
for the amendment.
Even the best-regulated familie
sometimes have their misunderstood
ings: and so there has been some dis
cord in Harmony public school, Copial
county, as to who were the legal trus
: tees. County superintendent Wilson
decided in favor of G. w. Bridges, j. j
Bell and E. T. Bailey, and the Stat
. board of education sustained the de
+ cision.
Col. William G.. Yerger was truste
of the Industrial Institute and College
When the news of his death reache
the college, on the morning of the 18th
g the exercises were Immediately sus
pended for the remainder of the day.
g The Commercial Appeal compliment
volume 2 of Mississippi Historical Sc
cietv with a column of very kind editC
, rial criticism, concluding thus: "Pel
: haps the chief pleasure from this pull
: LEGATION is that it arouses the pleasan
, feeling that justice is being done to til
! memory of those to whom injustice wa
, done while in the flesh, the feeling {
! quiet ecstasy or even rapture that on
+ fancies must come to those who get re
ligion,' who feel that atonement in tn
/, present has been fully made for the il
linuuencies of the nast-'