The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-04-14

Nav Is. The program for a trip to tho
| great northwest will then be an
| nounced. Those who expect to par.
ticipate should notify Secretary Nc
| CURE. The trip will commence at jack
son, Monday afternoon, June IL, and
will include Chicago, Denver, Colorado
| Springs, Pixies Peake n other points
| of interest. The trip will occupy ten
DAYS, and the cost need not exceed from
S35 to $40 each. None but members OF
the association, who pay their dues for
1900, can be registered.
Hon. w. M. Cox has for
congress from the First district. AS
the representative from Prentiss county
in the legislatures Of 1896, 1897, 1898
and 1900 he established q reputation for
oratory and craftsmanship and untir-
ing devotion to duty that inspired h
very general wish that some wider
sphere would open for the exercise Of
his splendid talents. Should he be h
successor of Mr.. Allen the First district
will continue to be brilliantly repre-
sented.
Col. j. B. Deason, a greatly esteemed
citizen of Hattiesburg, died in Meridian
on the 2Sth ult., and was inferred at
Brookhaven on the following day. He
was a veteran of the Mexican war, and
represented Copiah county in the Seces-
sion convention of 1851. He was chan
cellor and district attorney during the
reconstruction period; had been mayor,
postmaster of Brookhaven and repre-.
sented Lincoln county in the 1egisla-
ture. His death leaves only six sur
vivors of the Secession convention.
Prof. j. c. Hardy, superintendent Of
the Jackson public schools, has been
elected president Of the A. and M. col
lege; and his host of friends feel as
sured that the trustees made nc mis-
take-that he will be the right IA In
the right place. 1t has been said that
opportunities make men," but Jack
D was already made for anything in
school work that came in his way.
{ Foreign corporations have COM
b menced filing their charters with the
a secretary of State. The Illinois Gen.
S trial Railroad Company is among the
. latest filed. The fees for recording
domestic charters and filing foreign
charters amounted to 1886 last month.
For corresponding month in 1899 the
fees were less than $50.
. When news of the death of Governor
u Stone reached the Industrial Institute
and College at Columbus all exercises
were suspended, and the faculty wired
y the following to the A. and NJ. faculty
"We mourn with you in the loss of our
@ common friend"
Gen. James Argyle Smith has been
y appointed marshal of the supreme cour,
of Mississippi. He was a major-generaI
in the Confederate army, n State
"a superintendent of education for eight
s. years. The appointment is creditabl'
to the court.
70 Hon. r. II. Thompson has been ap
pointed by Governor Longino a mem
Der of the capitol commission, taking
l. the place of Prof. J. c. Hardy, who re
l. signed on being elected to the presi
dency of the A. and NJ. college. Mr.
r, Louis Fitzhugh was appointed secretar.
ID of the commission.
Hon. s. s. Calhoon qualified on Mon
q day, April 2, as judge of the supreme
IS, court, succeeding Judge Thomas H
at Woods. He will fill out the term o
at Judge Woods, ending May 10, and will
Oh then be re-appointed. Judge Whitfield
a. al is now chief justice.
n The faith cure' has killed a goo
n many of the jackson negroes; at leas
st that is the private opinion, publicly eA
pressed, of Alex. Wilson, one of the CO.
n ored sections, who says that Rev. C. T
Jones persuaded them not to take an
-. medicine for smallpox.
te. The law providing for the publicatio
al of names of poll tax delinquents, thong
taking effect from it's passage, cannc
operate this year for the reason that
was approved March 10, and severe
:, things are provided that shall be don
,;s prior to that date.
ty The board of Mississippi levee con
missioners and the Yazoo & Mississippi
ry Valley Railroad commissions compr,
Is. missed their differences last week-tt
'ol railroad paying the levee board s125
oil, 900.
le-
a. Grand Master o. L. K~imbrough hf
~ issued his proclamation for %appropriat
commemoration of the eighty-irst al
~ niversary of the Independent Order
a. Odd Fellows on the Goth inst.
he The grand lodge of Odd Fellows W
ire meet in Columbus on the first Tuesds
wv in May; and the grand lodge Knigh
of Pythias will meet N the SAINT ci
-. on the second Tuesday in May.
mississippi has lost her create
ilo citizen" is the tribute that Gen. S.
me Lee paid to Ex-Gov. j. NJ. Stone, as
OF came away from the burial.
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