The Grenada sentinel., 1899-11-18
The knights Of Honor.

Assessment No. 30, supreme lodge,
includes the names of 146 members OF
the order who have recently died; the
following from Mississippi:
John A. Stacy, West Point; Oliver
Eastland, Forest; David l. Hardin,
Ripley; John H. Stillman, Starkville;
Leopold Matzner, Scooba; George H.
Robertson, Yazoo City; Robert R. Bun
tin, Charleston; R. I. North, Vicks-
burg; Quincy c. strond, New Albany.
The total amount paid by these
brethren into the benefit, fund is 49,
1855; in return for which the families
of seven will get $4,000 each; the fa,ni-
lies of two, $1,000 each: total, $4,000.
The highest paid to benefit fund was
s7o7.6o; the lowest, s29.25. Average
age at entry s51a years; average age at
death 492s years.
The total benefits paid to October IA,
1899, is the great sum of s67,756, 595.7s.
Total membership Oct. l, 1899, 71,0OS.
Public Schools.
Superintendent Parks makes good
exhibit in his report for 1899: Total ed
ucable, Ii, 373-3,5O0 white, 11,774 col
ored. Enrolled-2,o1S white; $500 col
ored. Average daily attendance-white,
Lac; colored, 1858; total, 4,3o5. White
schools, 65; colored, s.. Months taught,
81. Total paid teachers for the term,
s23, 1870 Average salary paid
Whites, $1,000; colored, $19.67.
It will be noticed that the enrolment
is only one-half the total educa BILE, and
the average attendance only about one
fourth the total enrolment; and this
Is about the way it runs in all the coun-
ties where the population, by race, is
similarly proportioned. There the
school fund, distributed on the basis Of
actual enrolment and attendance, the
teachers in many counties would get
better salaries and the terms could be
increased. The present scheme of dis.
tribution may be constitutional, but is
msaifestly inequitable and unjust.
Realty and Personality Valuations, 1899.
Realty in Mississippi is assessed every
fourth year. The last assessment was
in 1896, so that the valuations of that
year hold good to 1899, inclusive, sub
ject to increase or decrease in special
cases of improvements or impairments.
Personally is assessed annually. The
State tax for 1s9s-1s99 is 81 mills. The
county levies for 1899 vary from 81 to
IA mills. As soon as we get the levies
in dozen counties, will publish de.
tailed statement by counties. The fol.
lowing is a summary:
Realty valuation for State. .$l13 2l0 93l. 90
fersonaity va!usto ',H L. .:..o,:;;x 4sS ssS%
Total polls reported by ASSESSOR. 275,793.00
Total poll tax At S2.oO............. ISL, $500
The increase in personally valuation
over 1893 is $2,79o,'3s. Increase in
total State tax, realty and personally,
ss,Ossl7. Increase in polls over 1898 is
1,67S.
1t has been decided to have q negro
educational exhibit as feature of the
American exhibit at the Paris Exposi.
tion, and Prof. Thomas J. Galloway,
now in the employ OF the war depart.
ment, is to have charge of it. Galloway
was president of Alcorn A. and M. Col.
lege for two years, and was succeeded
by Peoplett.
Mr.. James T. Balance, now working
on the Centreville Jeffersonian, says he
"is tie with Secretary of State Power
as the oldest printer in the State" Mr..
Balance has balance of nine years to
his credit. His first take" was on the
Natchez Courier in 1S46. Ours was on
the True Witness in Jackson in 1855.
And now comes Capt. McNeily, editor
of the Vicksburg Herald, who says 'if
John w. Ward of the Greenville Spirit
and John w. Bryant of the Woodville
Republican can be induced to take the
stand there will be records shown up
running back to the days of Tippecanoe
and Tyler too"