The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-05


sippi Press Association, which was to
have taken place in Jackson on the 18th
instant, has been postponed until Tues
day. June 10. After strictly business
session those who shall have registered
for the trip to the great Northwest
but bona fide publishers can register,
even though they may secure proxies
from those entitled to go. 1t will be
an event in the experience of the asso-
citation. About forty are already regis
tered. 1t is not desirable to have more
than sufficient for two sleepers, but ar
engagements will be made for all who
give notice in time and comply with
conditions. Address Secretary ]. G.
Mcclure, Yazoo City.
The Hazlehurst Courier has figured
out the total expenditures of the State
board of health for the two years end
ing September 80, 1899, at $1O1, 4S6.9S.
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 $1,000 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, that 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 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
Mississippi Confederate veterans who
expect to attend the reunion at Louis
Vile next month are delighted to hear
that the great and good Dr. Palmer, of
New Orleans, is to deliver the annual
Grafton. 1t will be worth going
thousand miles to hear.
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 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 food 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"
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.
Private Secretary ]. ]. Conan is still
seriously ill at Iuka. The erysipelas
feature in his case has been controlled,
but the fever continues.
The congressional executive commit
tee for the Seventh district will meet In
jackson May Sd.
The State medical association, which
was to have met in Meridian last week,
viii meet on May 10.