The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-30

The following will be read with in
%terest, and those who read will want to
know more Of the brave Mississippian
whose valor inspired so beautiful a
tribute from the gallant and intrepid
Mosby:
MAeowAH, Miss, May so, 1900.
Dear Col. Power: / have Just finished
reading a history Of Mosby's Rangers, by
James A.. Williamson of Troop A, and am
SO forcibly impressed with the gallant
career of one r. P. Montjoy, a Mississip-
plan, who entered the Virginia army as a
private in an infantry regiment, and was
subsequently transferred to Mosby's COM
mand, that / am induced to ask you to look
up his antecedents. Knowing your great
love Of Mississippi and the pride you have
in the achievements Of her sons in war as
peace, I hope you may have leisure to graf
ify what l trust is more than . commenda-
BILE curiosty-a desire to know more, that 1
may better honor the memory of q true
patriot, who gave his life for his country,
when she needed it most. From this his
tory Of the Rangers l learn that at the or
ganization of Troop d, in March, 1854, that
Montjoy was chosen captain, and from that
date to that Of his death, the following No
vember, he was a conspicuous figure in
most of those terrible hand-to-hand con-
ficts that meant death. He was killed near
Leesburg while in close pursuit of the enc
my, and was buried in the cemetery at
Warrenton, Va. As an evidence of the high
esteem of Col. Mosby the following extract
from a general order will show:
ttIIA Aid - ---I- g.. yL--A- - L.
country's cause, but not too early for his
W fame. To his comrades in arms he has
bequeathed an immortal example Of daring
and valor, and to his country a name that
will brighten the pages Of her history"
Truly yours, W. A. LOVE.
Jefferson County High School.
There has been ST much opposition in
Jefferson county to the two-mill tax for
the support of jefferson High School,
that the supervisors at a recent meeting
decided to give that school one mill and
give the other mill to the public schools
of that county. While this was salts
factory to the friends Of the high school,
there was still some objections ex.
pressed, and hence they petition the
supervisors to rescind the two mill levy
for the county, and levy a three mill
tax on all the property in the Jefferson
high school district, pledging such per-
sonal contributions as would maintain
the school as heretofore conducted.
They further extend a cordial invita-
ton Ito every ambitious and deserving
boy and girl resident in jefferson coun-
ty to attend the high school and share
in its advantages without charge for
tuition"
Congressman F. A. McLain ought to
be happy. He has 40 opposition among
Democrats in the Sixth district, and the
Republicans decline to place a man in
the field against him. And he is richly
entitled to such appreciative considera-
ton by his constituents.
Magnolia Commandery No. 2, Knights
Templar, Vicksburg, will muster fifty
or more, in full uniform, at the next
triennial, in Louisville, August 1901.
The indications are that there will be
fully three hundred knights in line from
Mississippi.
The Fifth congressional district will
have its first primary on August 15-on
same day in all the counties. County
executive committees will meet July
2s to name managers for the primary.
The district convention will be held at
Hickory September 10. Hon. John
Sharp Williams is the only candidate as
yet announced.
Comrade Simmons, of the Sardis Re-
porter, takes occasion to note that
Liquids were the only thing that were
bountiful and furnished at moderate
prices" at the recent Confederate re-
union at Louisville. He says, very truly,
that ''the veterans carry the crowds
and ought not to be skinned" But
they are f1eeced, all the same; but there
was less Of this at Louisville than at
other places that made great professions
in advance.
The Pythians Of Meridian are about
to erect q handsome temple. 1t will be
four stories, the front being of gray
granite and pressed brick, with stone
trimmings. The first floor will be for
stores, the second for offices, the third
for lodge purposes, and there will be a
roof garden for summer entertainments.
h basket of fifteen homing pigeons
were received at Vicksburg from Louis
vile, by express, IN the II. They were
liberated from Castle Hill, a high point
in center of city. They arose to about
200 feet and started in a western course,
then changed and few directly north.
east
A Chicago correspondent wants to get
all the laws of Mississippi bearing upon
labor unions and organizations. Mis-
sissippi has been troubled so little in
that way we find the word 'Iaborer'
only once in the index to the annotated
code, and hat where it refers to me-
chanics' liens. These luxuries of civili-
cation and may come down
this way after awhile, but for the pres
emit we are quite willing that Chicago,
Cincinnati, P~ittsburg, st. Louis and