The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-04-21
He X MoIasses,

Members of the legislature will doubt
less remember an elderly gentlewoman
who sat in the lobby of both houses for
a week or so during the session, listen
ing attentively to the proceedings, and
enrolling many names for her home
folks" newspaper. This was Mrs. G.
d. Biles, of Chicago. The following ex-
tracts are from her editorial CORES
pondence:
jackson was busy entertaining her States
representatives this winter. l had some
opportunity to note character from all
parts of Mississippi. Hundreds of her best
men could not fail to average a high type
Of splendid manhood. And it was an I'M
common type, too--tall, well developed and
athletic, worthy descendants of the grand
old planter stock" from which the most of
them claimed ancestry. Few had city polish
in their manner, and still there was no lack
of genuine courtesy which was ever pres
emit, blending an otherwise rugged per-
sonality.
Some Of the representatives we're my fell
low boarders. One interested me especially.
He would sit at the table in unbroken
silence, no matter how briskly conversation
flowed, and in the drawing room he would
find an ISOLATED seat. / heard him speak but
once, and then he asked our landlady where
she bought such fine molasses. There was
no question about his being unsocial or I'M
handsome either. / could not understand
why l mentally dubbed him, Logan, the
lone indian.
n,a foran@@r n LII $685. A--l-- it,
aroused a warm debate. 1 was in sympathy
with the fercely contested question, be-
cause it concerned my sex vitality, though
l had lost all hope that the bill would be-
come a law.
Suddenly half a dozen excited members
sprang to their feet simultaneously. The
speakers gavel danced a tattoo on his desk,
and truly / though he had commanded the
very essense of order when l realized that
it was my 'lone Indian that had the floor.
For a space, that no one attempted to
time, not a sound broke the stiffness of that
crowded hall save the grave, earnest tones
of the most magnificent vote have ever
heard. l have listened to orators before,
but it was not like that mans spontaneous
eloquence; and his subject was worthy of
his purely unselish effort. Something per-
haps was due to musical, peculiar tones,
the poise of the towering figure, and the
GESTURES that were as natural as expressive,
but his stolid face seemed illumin ated, and
his dull eyes were ablazo with enthusiasm.
/ forgot hat l had considered him the
ugliest member of the assembly, forgot that
l had supposed his ideas were set upon the
plane of molasses-but, l shall hever forget
his thrilling speech. 1t taught ME a lesson,
and the bill that he was supporting passed.
Col. Power: Please decide a dispute by
stating whether Mississippi ever had a
county named Colfax, and if SO, what
county is its
Whom did Alcorn succeed in the senate2
Also Ames2
Colfax county was established May
10, 1871, and was changed to Clay after
the reign of Radical reconstruction.
Alcorn succeeded Hiram R. Revels,
colored.
Albert G.. Brown was the last senator
before the war. He resigned January
~, 1861. The State was not represent
ed during the reconstruction period un-
til April 70, 1870, when Adelbert Ames