Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-09-21
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS
BYLL. POWER.
e OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
BY ]. L. POWER,


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The Grenada Sentinel wisely keeps
,ver before its readers the advantage
md importance OF diversifying their
oroducts-particulnrly is this urged IN
trucking" The State of Texas, from
ts truck farms"-melons, vegetables
and fruits-shipped to Northern and
Eastern markets the past season enor-
nous quantities, which brought a net
profit Csince April Is, 19O1) Of more
than half a million dollars. Misslss-
ippi has already done much along
This line and because Of 1t, there are
of families comfortably wen
off who. but for this opportunity
would have been shut out from the
nleasant things Of life that money and
opportunity give. The Sentinel says
that a one-sided development OF IN
dustrv Is sure to result in a one-slded
ropulation-and that it is a bad policy
10 put all ones eggs in the same
basket.
Mississippi, in common WIN hel
sister States, has spent the week Just
passed in grieving because OF the
death of our honored president In
almost every city in the State mass
meetings we're held to express the
peoDles respect for William Mckih-
lev. their sympathy for his loved ones
and their horror at the crime that mas
shocked the world. From our chlet
executive and other high officials
I Confederate Veterans, Daughters Oh
the Confederacy, business, municipal
religious and social organizations
with hundreds of private individuals
messages of sympathy and coincidence
hurried by wire and by mall
to add their weight to the
sweet burden Of loving sympathy
which the nation has laid upon the
troubled. but brave and loyal heart
of his wife.
The Holly Springs papers say that
Judge Lowrey instructed the grand
iurv there to find true bills against all
druggists who sell Peruna. A proml-
nent Mississippi physician, when asked
, as to the ingredients Of Peruna, re-
plied that it was nothing more nor less
, than a bad quality of whisky. Another
' so say the papers in North Misslss-
{ ippi-cited several instances in Whlch
I Kee1ev graduates had become drunk
ards again from taking Peruna as
medicine. This being the case, Judge
:. Lowrey evidently understood his busl-
J ness when he charged that jury. in
e Houston it is against the law to sell
v more than two bottles of lemon ex-
It tract to one person, as that, and GER
n tain patent medicines, have caused
n numerous "sprees" among the boys.
)? These lawmakers are in earnest.
/, The State institutions at Jackson
20 the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind IN
~ stitutes-will open Oct. 2, by which
is date all pupils should be present. All
- information concerning these splendid
-. educational institutions, the terms OF
in admission, regulations etc. will be
:, furnished upon application-for the
u bind to Dr.. Sims, care of Blind Insti'
-. tute. and for the deaf mutes to Prof.
49, Dobvns. care Deaf and Dumb lnsti
~ tute. If our readers know Of untor
=, unate blind or deaf children whose
- parents may not be familiar with the
- State schools for them, they would dc
~ real kindness to the child and tc
~ the State, by writing to the superin
~, tendent, giving name and address OF
10 the child and its parents, or guar
Of dian.
of At a recent meeting of the Peniten
ue iarv Board Of Control, the boarding
he 1nrartmept for convicts and employee
ch that has been maintained in Jackson
for at the old prison, was abolished an'
raj sll the convicts we're taken to Oakley
nd Nothing will be left in Jackson bu
the the office. while the records are Kept
nd in charge Of clerk and an assistant
ear and the capital city will still be head
see ouarters Tor the travelling sergeants
Ills. One of the important matters befor
las, the board at this meeting was tn
the question OF improving the States her
is 11OO head) of cattle by the purcha'
lies ing and introduction of a fine herd
and Herefords. Purchases Of this sol
lys, prove good investments for indiyidl
Gus ais as we'll as States.
,rg Speaking of diversified crops r
- minds us Of the great time some farm
-!.o ,rs will have this Thanksgiving, Tho'
hrt who planted only cotton may have
49, big time. but for those who plantt
n,.o Irish potatoes and such crops thei
.o~ is no uncertainty about 1t. The
rho thanksgiving will be a feast, indee
.,at, because, with the profit from the
,ong Irish potato crop they can buy all u
Injuries Cdear to the heart Of Epic
rus himself) and then have a pret
'ippi respectable nest egg with which to Q
)rks, gin the winter.
~ ~ Recently we published an item fro
.r aueI the Examiner, relative to father al
''nel son. still living in old Monroe, W
WV had fought side by side during I
war and who now go together to t
,i-s. I'S happy meetings oil the veterans
'.a.,, ,lrS' the "old camp ground" The Yaz
80 80 Sentinel adds to the Examiners t
names of Col. L. Lake. of Oxford, W
,rha Is 81, and as spry as a cricket, a
50, his son, Mr.. c. A. Lake, both of wht
.hniII are veterans, and both well known
oooss Mississippi
and Mrs. ]. Nee. Kimbrough of Gre
ng of wood, one of the most devoted OF
stem, vast army of loyal Daughters OF
his Confederacy that grace our Southt
rd to land, has naugurated movement
fills. the presentation of loving cup
now the veterans by their Daughters.
lway, concluding her plea she begs the
it in men Of Mississippi to
boy,
;, too, make 1t so large that iilled with II
great Up to the swelling brim,
ollege Vast toasts ON the delicious lake
--and Like ships at sea hay swim.