The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-17


introduced a bill to appropriate $40, OOt
for the erection of a monument in
~Chickamauga Park to commemorate ths
~alor OF Mississippians who participated
in the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. IL
and 20, 1868. The bill meets with much
favor. We have a list of the commands
that constituted the right wing of the
Confederate army, commanded by
Lieut.. Gen. Leonidas Polk. 1t will be
seen by the following that Mississip'
plans were very much in evidence in
that battle, and hence the propriety OF
commemorating their valor by the
erection OF a suitable monument, i.
response to the invitation of the gen
eral government recently communi.
Gated to the legislature through Gen.
A. p. Stewart:
In Gen. Jackson's Brigade-Eighth
Mississippi.
Maney's Brigade-Smith's Battery.
Strahl's Brigade-Stanford's Battery.
Woods Brigade-Thirty-second and
Forty-fifth Mississippi.
Ector's Brigade-Ponnd's Battery.
Walthall's Brigade-Twenty-fourth,
Twenty-seventh, Twenty-ninth, Thir-
tieth and Thirty-fourth Mississippi.
Humphreys Brigade-Thirteenth,
Seventeenth. Eighteenth and Twenty.
first Mississippi.
Anderson's Brigade-Col. j. H. Sharp
Seventh. Ninth, Tenth, Forty-first
and Forty-fourth Regiments and the
Ninth Battalion.
Reserve Artillery-Darden's Battery.
The total casualties on the Confeder-
ate side were: Killed, 2,26s; wounded.
1858; captured and missing, 1000.
Total 16,971. On the Federal side: Kill.
ed, 1,G56; wounded, 0,749; missing, Alta.
Total 10. 100. Total casualties in both
armies, 37,177.
The effective strength of the Army Of
Tennessee, Immediately after the bat
tie, was SO, SAG.
History of Education In Mississippi.
E~x-Chancellor Edward Maves has
done his State and the cause of educa-
ton generally a substantial service by
his volume of 200 pages, recently pub
llshed by the United States Bureau of
Education. Commissioner Harris, in
transmitting the work to the secretary
of the interior, said:
The preparation of this history has been
a work of great, if not peculiar, difficulty.
1t was pioneer work in that State. There
were no books from which to obtain the
needed information. The material had to
be gotten from old newspapers old cata-
logues when obtained, moth-eaten and
time-stained minute books, an occasional
address, etc, eked out with a large cor
respondence. n The thoughtful
reader will observe that the unvarying
character of the ante-bellum school was
classical, scientific, literary and artistic.
Those called ''practical'-the agricultural,
the mechanical, the industrial, the normal
al originate subsequent to that period.
The State institutions for the higher edu-
cation of the colored people, the Tougaloo
University, the State Normal School at
Holly Springs, and the Alcorn Agricultural
and Mechanical College, will be found of
much interest.
The volume is illustrated. by numer-
Gus half-tone views of some of the
principal school buildings in the State.
The biographical sketches of educa-
tors, trustees and others identified with
educational progress in Mississippi
adds much to its value.
Official Standard of Weights and Measures.
Senator Hicks, of Yazoo, has supplied
a long-felt want in this State by his
bill which passed the senate, fixing an
official standard of weights and meas
ures of Mississippi. 1t is the result of
considerable investigation of the stand.
ard prescribed by the general govern
ment and several of the Eastern and
Western States. Here it is:
Pounds.
Wheat, per bushel -6r
Corn, in the ear, per bushel.. .......U
Corn, shelled, per bushel... sc
Rye. per bushel. mi
Buckwheat, per bushel.. AZ
Barley, per bushel.... AZ
Oats, per bushel.. 20
Pears, PEI bushel &c
White beans, per bushel ........ .... sc
castor beans, per bushel... .....46
Irish potatoes, per bushel. ....... &C
~ .DD
Onions. per bushel. 81
Turnips, per bushel. IS
Dried peaches, per bushel. 3
Dried apples, per bushel. .2g
Clover seed, per bushel. 80
FLAX seed, per bushel. 800. II,
Millet seed, per bushel. ND
Hungarian grass seed, per bushel. 80
timothy seed. per bushel. ........, A
Blue grass seed, per bushel. .......,1
Hemp seed, per bushel.
Corn meal, per bushel. as
pear, per bushel. "a
Malt, per bushel. rs
per 5ushel. %
coal, per bushcl. ...... ..... so |
unslacked, per bushel.. 80
The Legislature has declared war
against the promiscuous sale of CO.
game. 1t can only be purchased here
after on a physicians prescription.
Now let cigarettes iave'special atten.
ion.
Governor Longinio made a persona
inspection of the pcnitentiary on the
9TH instant, and proposes doing so