The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-05-05
The Haslehurst Courier has figured

board of health for the two years end
ing September 80, 1899, at sl01, 438. 9S.
The biennial report Of the board con-
tains an itemizcd statement of receipts
and expenses. The appropriations for
1900 and 1901 are 81, 500 for general ex
penses, and IS, 900 emergency fund for
each year-the emergency to be deter
mined by the board of public contracts,
approved by the governor.
So frequent are the calls on the secre-
tary of State for certain acts of the
legislature, hat he has sent several
printed copies Of the following to each
chancery clerk for distribution: Va
cancies in office, trusts and combines,
sale Of liquor and cocaine, and labor
contracts. Copies have been mailed
also to each circuit judge and district
attorney.
A correspondent who wants to know
the number of slaveowners in Missis-
sippi, as shown by the census of 1850,
has this answer which we have received
from the department of the interior:
Respectfully returned to the writer,
with the information that the census
schedules of 1860 made no provision for
the enumeration of slaveowners."
The back tax case of the Illinois Con-
trail railroad and Writ Adams, State
revenue agent, will not be heard by
the supreme court of the United States
before October. The chief counsel for
the railroad company met with a serious
accident as the case was about to be
heard, which necessitated postpone
ment.
The Capital Insurance Company is
in the hands of a receiver. Chancellor
Conn appointed the secretary, Mr.. A.
C. Crowder, who has given a gilt-edge
bond in the sun of $4,000. The
liabilities are not large. The assets are
uncertain, but sufficient, it is thought,
to pay out.
DR.. Prewitt has given notice that ION
account of the recent foods and wash
outs" and other obstacles, the Populist
State convention will moi be held. The
State executive committee, on recon-
mendation of the counties, will appoint
delegates to the Cincinnati Populist
convention for May 10.
The death of DR.. Lea Williamson, Uf
of trustees of the Industrial Institute
and College. The Doctor was re-
appointed February . for the term Of
six years. He will be much missed in
the councils of the board.
Mississippi Confederate veterans who
expect to attend the reunion at Louis
vile next month are delighted to hear
that the great and good DIR. Palmer, of
New Orleans, is to deliver the annual
Grafton. 1t will be worth going .
thousand miles to hear.
Land Commissioner Nall has been
personally investigating depredations
on State timber lands. He confiscated
about one thousand big logs, valued
at 81 each, which would have soon found
their way to the lumber mills at Scran-
ton.
The best thing that has happened for
Jackson in the past half century is the
removal of the p~enitentiary. The south
wall and Office building are now a pile
of rubbish, and the main prison will
soon follow.
The capitol commission finished, on
the 25th, examination of plans SUBJ
mitted by fourteen competing archi-
tects. 1t will require several sittings,
comparing notes, before selection can
be made.
During Brandon's flood quarantine
this writer received the following mes
sage over the long-distance telephone:
"We are in a bad fix over here-no
trains, no mail, much water, and-no
whisky"
L. M. Lowenberg has been appointed
notary public at Vicksburg; J. A.
Alexandria at Greenville; Col. M. d. L.
Stephens ~re-appointed at Water Valley;
d. M. Redmond at Osyka.
1t will take fully twenty thousand
dollars to replace the bridges washed
away by the floods in Kinds county.
Most of the damage was in the Utica
district.
The correspondent who wanted to
locate a copy of the memoirs of Gen.
James Wilkinson is informed, by Mrs.
Helen d. Bell, that the volume is in tho
State library.
The recent floods in southeast Missis-
sippi have so damaged the roadbed Of
the Gulf & Ship Island railroad that its
completion to Jackson will be delayed
several months.
The grand lodge and grand encamp.
ment of Odd Fellows are holding their
annual session at Columbus this week,
and the Pythians will take charge of
the Queen City next week.
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