The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-08-11
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By J. L. POWER.
BY J, L. POWER.

tions. (The United Confederate Vete
rams, of which General Gordon is com
mander, was organized in the capitol
on that day.
8. The monument is so feet 4 inches
from base line to top of cap on soldiers
head. 1t is built of Alabama granite,
the foundation blocks being from Bowl
ing Green, KY, and the statue of Mr..
Davis from Carrara, Italy. Capt. j. T.
Whitehead, Jackson, Tenn, was the
contractor and builder.
4. 1t is for the legislature to say
whether the monument shall remain
where it is or be removed to the new
capitol grounds. That is matter to
be carefully considered, and it is well
to be thinking about it before any leg
islative action.
S. The Confederate soldier was in
tended to be, and is considered a good
resemblance to Colonel George M. Co.
van, then secretary of State. The
statue of Mr.. Davis, in the octagonal
chamber was accepted by very close
vote in committee of fifteen, who
knew him personally.
"The Natchez, jackson g. Columbus"
Mr.. Wilson, in his Picayune Current
Comment, has done good service in di-
recting special attention to the neces
sity for, and advantage OF, extending
the Little j." as originally intended,
from jackson through Rankin, Leake
Winston, Noxubee and Lowndes to the
coal and iron mines of Alabama. This
writer was one of the delegation from
jackson that attended the first public
meeting in Natchez, to consider the
building of road from that point to
the Illinois Central. Col. Garland, OF
Summit, made great speech in favor
of that point, and offered immense in
ducements in the way of donations OF
lands; but when Hon. Geo. L. Porter
made the argument for the route indi-
Gated above, making an air line by
placing cotton string on Natchez and
Columbus, he captured the meeting,
and the Jackson and Columbus route
was voted. The arguments SO ably
made are fully as strong now, and 1T is
hoped that the prophecies then ex-
pressed will soon materialize.
"a Shareholders Daughter"
Mississippians are steadily coming to
the front as writers of fact and fiction.
The last volume from the pen of Mis-
sippi woman is entitled above, for an
early copy of which we are indebted to
the gifted author, Miss Belle Kearney'
The volume is gotten out in very hand
some style, by 1.-THE Abbey Press ia
Fifth avenue, New York, 27O pages,
literally illustrated, including an ex-
cellent portrait of Miss Kearney. We
examined much of the manuscript OF
this volume before it was given to the
publishers, and since seeing it in It's
present beautiful dress are thoroughly
convinced that the book will lave
wide sale. Miss Kearney has not only
a national but an international reputa-
ton as an original thinker and speaker
on new lines of social and moral
progress, and those in our own country
AND on the continent, who have been
by her fluent speech and grace
Of person and manner, will want to
hear what she has written Of 1.-The Old
South" Changed Conditions" Read
iustment," 1.-THE Southern Problem,
Evolution of Southern Women, THE
Old Plantation Home" etc. The pub
fishers will mail "a Shareholders
to any address for s1.oO.
DIR. r. K. Prewitt, chairman, has
issued an address ito the Populists OF
Mississippi" requesting them to meet
1t their county sites on Saturday,
August II, for appointment OF delegates
10 a State convention to be held In
Jackson on Wednesday, 18th, for the
selection of an electoral ticket to rep
resent the party in the next presiden-
Eial election.