The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1900-02-16
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS. ,
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS. )
By J. l.. POWER. ,
AAoASMA


Battle of Ch~icAtmausa,
\ On Friday at MIR. Cox. Of prcuti,s
introduced a bill to appropriate $4,000
for the erection of a monument /,
Chickanauga Park to commemorate tn,
valor OF MisSiS>ippians who participated
i'll the battle of Chickauauga. Sept. /.
and %, 1853. The bill meet, with mucE
favor. We have IA list OF the command,
that constituted the right wing of Ia,
Confederate army, commanded hV
Lieut.-Gen. Leonidas Polk. 1t will be
seen by the following that Mi>Sis>ip,
plans We're very much in evidence in
that battle, and hence the proprirty Of
commemoratiug their valur by the
erection of a suitable monument, in
response to the invitation of the rem
eraI government recently commune
Gated to the legislature through ten.
A. 7. stewart:
In Gen. Jackson's Brigade-Eighth
Mississippi.
Maney's Brigade-Smith', Battery.
Strahl's Brigade-Stanford's Battery.
Woods Brigade-Thirty-sccond and
fo'ty-ffth Mississippi.
Ector's lirigade-ronud's Battery.
Nalthalls brigade Twcnty-fourth,
REIMBURSEMENT, Twcnty-ninth, Thir-
tieth and Thirty-fourth Mississippi.
Humphreys Observation-Disclosures,
Seventeenth. Eighteenth and Twenty
first Mississippi.
Anderson'S Rrigade-Col. J. II. Sharp
Seventh. Ninth, Tenth, Forty-irst
and Forty-fourth Regiments and the
Ninth battalion.
Reserve NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Battery.
The total casualties on the Cunfcdrr-
ate side were: Killed, 2,46S; wounded.
1868; captured and missing, loo.
Total 1921. On the Federal side: Kill
ed, 1866; wounded, {, 749; missing, 4,7Tl.
Total IL, 72o. Total casualties in both
armies, 3T,l11.
The effective strength of the Army Of
Tennessee, Immediately after the bat.
tie, was IS, $40.
History OF Education in Mississippi.
E~N-Chanccllor Edward Mavcs has
done his State and the cause of educa-
ton generally 4 substantial service by
his volume of 200 pages, recently pub
lIshcd by the J.nitcd States Bureau Of
Education. Commissioner Harris, in
transmitting the work to the secretary
Of the interior. said:
The preparation Of this history has been
a work of great, if not peculiar, difficulty. |
1t was pioneer work in that State. There
were no books from which to obtain the
needed information. The material had to
he gotten from old newspapers, old cata-
when obtained, mott-eatcn and
minute books, an occasional
address, etc, eked out with a large cor
rcspondence. \ The thoughtful
reader will observe that the uuvaryiug
character of the ante-beIlum school was
classical, scientific, literary and artistic.
Those called "practical'-the agricultural,
the mechanical, the industrial, the normal
NIL originate subsequent to that period.
The State institutions for the higher edu-
cation u inc cbiOFth people, tht OhgalOO
University, the State Normal School at
Holly Springs, and the Alcorn Agricultural
Mechanical College, will be found Of
much interest.
The volume is illustrated by numer-
Gus half-tOnc views Of some Of the
principal school buildings in the State.
The biographical sketches Of educa-
.ors, trustees and others identified with
educational progress in Mississippi {
odds much to its value.
IficiaI standard OF Weights and Measures.
Senator Hicks, Of la2OO, has supplied {
long-felt want in This State by his g
'ill which passed the senate, fixing an
standard of weights and meas. b
res of Mississippi. II is the result Of n
considerable investigation Of the stand. .
ri prescribed by the general govern. ,
lent and several Of the Eastern and !,
States. Here it IS: !
Pounds. II
Wheat, per bu,hcl.. 80 z
orn, in the ear, per bushri. .........7G
Orn, shcllcd. per bu>hcl.. 80 ,
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