The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-23

for the best essay on the science Of
government.
Mr.. Starks Young and Mr.. N. R.
Drummond won the first and second
prizes offered by the Early English
Text Society of London, for excellence
in that department.
Mr.. j. v. Bornen won the prize Of
fered by Prof. L~ipscomb for excellence
in the school of English.
The trustees elected w. d. Porter to
the Office of treasurer, and Mrs. M. L.
Hunt, of Ripley, librarian. Mrs. Hunt
is the widowed daughter of DR.. John
Y. Murry.)
Gen. GORDON Appreciates Mississippi's Re.
msmbrance of Her Old Veterans.
HEADQUARTERS u. c. ",
NEW ORLEANS, La, June Q, 1900.
To all Comrades:
l. With pride and the greatest pleas.
ure the general commanding publishes
the following gratifying intelligence
for the information of the ~lieutenants,
majors, brigadier-generals, and for the
officers OF camps, and of all Of our com
rades, and expresses the belief that
similar efforts for an increase for the
aged and infirm old veterans, made in
their respective States, would produce
like results, to-wit:
OFFICE OF SECRETARY STATE,
JACKSON, Miss, May II, 1900.
Gen. George Mormon, Adjutant-General o,
G. VS., New Orleans, La:
MY Dear General-Yours to hand. The
annual appropriation for INDECENT Confed
crate soldiers and sailors and their widows
was increased from SIS. 900 to $3.50, 900 q
year.
The sum of So, 900 was appropriated 70,
Confederate annex to the Vicksburg hos
pital.
Confederates over 60 years old, who ped
die for a living, are exempt from tax ex-
cept in sale of certain articles.
A bill passed the house appropriating $50.
900 for a monument on Chickamauga park
to Mississippians who participated in the
battle Of Chickamauga.
Thu sum Of $1,000 was appropriated tc
pay expenses Of one survivor of each Missis
sippi command in the defense Of Vicksburg
Il POAut Al NtChobui III y
park whore Mississippians were stationed
during the seigs. Cordially and sincerely
yours. j. L. POWER.
III. As most of the old veterans are
nearing the summit, which many OF
them have already reached, and as old
age and the inirmities Of life are rapidly
bearing them onward to the grave, this
increased assistance in the eventide Ell
their lives, from the generous people Of
a great State, comes as a precious boon,
the extent Of which cannot be expressed
by words.
c. V. whom it is his high honor to com
mand, the general commanding, ex
presses heartfelt gratitude and thanks
to the members of the senate and house
Of the great commonwealth of Missis
sippi for these very generous and lib
eral appropriations for the sick apc
helpless old Confederates, and the
widows and orphans of those who are
already encamped upon the other shore
and for the splendid appropriation fol
the erection of markers and monuments
for ''Our Heroic Dead"
Nv. This su bstantial remembrance is
convincing proof of the love and affec'
ton and esteem in which the old Con,
federate soldier, whose deeds added re
nown and lustre to the history of his
State, is held by his admiring country
men, and by a grateful posterity; and
of the n in which Mississippi re.
wards her living and pays a tribute tc
the memory of her dead heroes.
By order of
J. B. GORDON, Gen. Com.
GEORGE MooRMAN,
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