Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-09-07
OUR JACKSON LETTER
GOSSIP FROM THE STATE CAPITAL ON
TOPICS OF INTEREST.
Urging the Building of Cotton Mills wran.
CLING Over the Meeting Place of the Next
State Convention--sewerage will be an
Accomplished Fact.

In the Fifth Census District, Senators
Sullivan and Money having recon-
mended different men for the place.
The appointment was expected to be
madc on the joint recommendation OF
the two senators, as this is Demo
cratic district, but as matters now
stand there seems little likelihood Of
an agreement, and the matter may
simply resolve itself into question
OF which of the Mississippi senators
has the influence with the powers
that be at Washington. 1t is said
hat there about 1875 applicants for su-
pervisorship in the 9Th. Of this
number Senator Money selected and
recommended Mr.. J. T. Langmire of
Pelahatchie for the place. Senator
Sullivan in his turn recommended ex-
Sheriff Robert Bordeaux, of Lauder
dale county. Both of these gentle
AAiSA AeNo icOOifou buUSluutlhl cuuoISo-
ment for the position. 1t is said that
the Director of the Census has In
formed the two Mississippi Senators
that unless they can soon agree on
a man for the place, he will take the
matter in his own hands and make the
appointment without reference to their
wishes in the matter. Should he do
80, it is probable that he will appoint
Democrat away, as three Democratic
supervisors have been conceded to
Mississippi.
The State board of election COM
nissioners Saturday afternoon filed
several vacancies in county election
commissioners, growing out of death,
removal, or nomination for office.
The old penitentiary buildings and
walls, some of them tottering almost
to their foil, is an eye-sore standing
as they do in the residence heart of
the peoples capital The next legis-
lature will doubtless give this matter
early consideration.
Sewerage will be an accomplished
TACT before the next legislature comes
and goes. The State institutions will
be benefciaries of this great sanitary
measure, and nothing will be left to
BET faSp ' e nii, Ct
Jackson will never prosper as it
should until it has fine cotton mill.
A cotton mill that would give employ
ment to 400 or 500 people would
make Jackson and Kinds county revel
in per capita that would be satisfac-
tory even to the advocates of printing
press money, for dollars would circu-
late here then as thick as autumn
leaves that strew the brooks in Val
ambrose" Industrially speaking.
Jackson is tagging supernuous on the
stage, and some of these days she
Will regret it.
Governor McLaurin has been re-
quested by the board OF supervisors
Of Claiborne county to offer q reward
for the arrest OF Charles I. Bunting
Tor attempting to assassinate pris-
oner named Howard Bryant, whom
he was assisting the sheriff to con-
yey to the county Jail at Port Gibson
short time ago, the particulars of
which we're related in these columns
the day following the occurrence. The
governor has the matter under advise
ment.
Already Mississippi has fifty cotton
seed oil mills, and the press contin-
ues to announce the building of new
mills at different points in the State.
These mills must pay handsome divi-
dends on the money invested, proof
of which lies in their constant in
crease in the State Time was when
these mills were in the North and
East, but they had to come to the
cotton fields. just as the cotton mills
must come to the cotton fields. There
ought to be at least as many cotton
mills in Mississippi as there are cot
ton seed oil mills, and the day is not
far distant when there will be. Any
county in the State ca. bave cotton
mill if the people make up their
minds to have one. There is more
than enough idle money in every
county of the State to build SPLEEN
did cotton mill.
The recent dry weather following
after plentiful rains is causing the cot
ton to shed considerably in this coun-
ty. The loss from this cause cannot
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