The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-11-10

yellow FEVER, smallpox, etc.-Dut Lht
city is all right this fall, and had Col
Cody taken in jackson he would also
have taken in several thousand dollars
1t is the best and the biggest show that
travels. When the Mississippi Press
Association visited the Worlds Fair
Col. Cody, reserved his best seats for
our party Of nearly two hundred. Dur.
ing the performance one of the horses
was so specially unmanageable and
vicious, the colonel announced to his
great audience that he had named him
1.-THE Mississippi Press"
Under the new charter fee bill, the
secretary of State has paid upward OF
six thousond dollars into the treasury
since March eth. the date of approval.
The receipts will easily reach ten thou
sand dollars for the first year.
Bargain Day in jackson was quite a
success. A train of nine coaches car
ried about three hundred persons from
stations on the Gulf & Ship Island rail-
road. But the visitors had only q few
hours to do their shopping.
We heartily concur in the general
regret expressed at the departure of
Mr.. E. B. Tabor, publisher Of the Bran
don News, from Mississippi. He has
disposed of all his interests in Brandon,
and returns to Iowa to resume the
printing business. The News is one of
the best weekly papers in the South
west, and that Office has turned out
some artistic printing that would be
creditable to any establishment in the
country. The new proprietor of the
News, Mr.. Wayne May, has had con-
siderable experience in journalism, and
having been reared in Brandon, will be
lat home" in the business.
"Unknown' Confederate Gravus.
The following, from Mrs. T. S. Gaines,
addressed to the postmaster at Jackson,
was referred to us:
Il had brother killed in jackson in
1868, during the Confederate war. He
was member Of the Cherokee Artillery,
Rome, Ga. He was buried in a garden
back of the State House, with rock for
q headstone, with his name on it, A. c.
McCurry. My father intended having his
remains brought home, but he died soon
after the war, so that the r,atter could
not be attended to. | would be glad to
hear from some one who had seen his
grave, SO far away among strangers.
There are so many unknown graves here.
I have always felt deep sympathy for
the mother or sister who does not know
where their loved ones lie. | would be so
grateful for any information as to the
burial place Of my brother"
All who were killed on.thc firing lines
1868, or who died in the. hospitals, were
buried in the City Cemetery. There
were lifty-nine Georgians, whose names
and commands we have; but a. {. Nc
Curry does not appear in the list, nor
can any trace of his grave be found.
There were 800 Confederates and 10 Fed
erals buried in the jackson cemetery.
When we copied the names from the
headboards, in September, 1864, l20 of
the graves were unmarked and 70 of the
States or commands were not lettered on
the boards. Twelve Southern States were
in this "bivouac of the dead"
S. S. Prentiss as a school Teacher.
Here is an advertisement copied by Bish-
op Galloway from The Ariel published
in Natchez in 1928:
EDUCATION.
The subscriber has taken the Academy
at Second Creek (near the old court
house,, where he will teach branches of a
good English or classical education. The
situation makes it extremely convenient
for those who might wish to send their
children from town during the sickly sea-
son.
Terms of tuition per quarter:
For common English branches, $500.
For Latin, Greek. mathematics etc,
$1,000.
References: Mr.. Alvary Fisk, DIR. An
drew McCreary, DR.. Samuel Cartwright.
n. B.-Board in private families for a
limited number of pupils can be obtained
in the vicinity of the academy.
S. S. PRENTISS.
Natchez, July 20, 1928.
Bishop Galloway, in handing us the
on July 80, 1891, added these
words: Thus began the public career
of Americas most brilliant orator. The
young man soon needed no references but
his own peerless genius to command not
only the patronage, but the homage of his
eountrymeR."
War Diaries.
Our esteemed friend, VIM. H. Hill, Esq,
Of Abbott, Clay county, in recent letter, |
says:
Il have diary that kept daily from |
April, 1861, to October, 1854, of the move |
ments and battles of the Griffith Banks.
dale HUMPHREYS brigade. / was quarter
master sergeant of the Thirteenth Missis-
'ippi-Barksdale's old regiment. viii
AXE pleasure in loaning it to your His
orical Society at any time they may
rish to use its
If our friend will send us this valuable
we will make early and good
Sc Of it. We want all such records. and
i'll take special care of them. They are
dispensable to a complete account Of
ississippi in the civil war, which il Is
- ambition to complete and leave to the