Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-05-05

The biennial report OF the board con
tains an itemized statement OF receipts
and expenses. The appropriations for
1900 and 1901 are 81, 500 for general ex
penses, and s., 900 emergency fund foi
each year-the emergency to be deter
mined by the board of public contracts.
by the governor.
So frequent are the calls on the secre,
taiy Of State for certain acts Of the
legislature, that he has sent several
printed copies of the following to each
chancery clerk for distributions: 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 tac census of 1869
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 Cen
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 serious
accident as the case was about to be
heard, which necessitated postpone.
ment.
Land Commissioner Nall has been
personally investigating depredations
on State timber lands. He confscated
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 penitentiary, 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 sub
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:
1--WE are in bad ix over here--no
trains, no mail, much water, and-ro
whisky"
l.. NJ. Lowenberg has been appointof
notary public at Vicksburg; J. A
Alexandria at Greenville; Col. NJ. D. l.
stephens re-appointed at Water Valley;
d. NJ. 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 the
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 theil
annual session at Columbus this week,
and the Pythians will take charge OF
the Queen City next week.
The congressional executive commit
tee for the Seventh district will meet ia
jackson May Sd.
Joe Bailey has sidetrac1ed all opposi
ton in Texas for the United States sen.
ate He is a product of Copiah county
this State.
The Third district will hold major
ity primary on June II and IL to noni
nate a successor to Gen. Catchings.