Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-02-09

weir town.
MesSon Town n,....,................ 3.219 3l63
west fOlnt town ...,.....,....... 3,l93 2762
west station town. n............... 1906 .....
mminoha town. .,...........,... 2,555 6i8
Woou'lle town. --..,........... ,43 $50
IaZoO city ty.............u......... 4,9H 32s6
Of the above named 23S incorporated
places there are 80 that had popula-
tion in 1900 of more than 1000, but OF
these only have a population in ex-
cess of 5000, namely, Vicksburg, with
1854; Meridian, with 14,O5O; Natchez,
with l2,2lO; Jackson, with 1876; Green
vile, with 7,642; Columbus, with 6,4S4,
and Biloxi, with 5,467 inhabitants.
A very large number of Mississip-
plans who read these weekly notes are
members Of the Ancient Craft, and
hence they will read what follows with
interest. President Mckinley being
Mason and Knight Templar, has been
invited to attend the triennial conclave
in Louisville in August next. While
passing through a regimental hospital
in Winchester, Va, one day, Major
Mckinley noticed a Federal surgeon
carefully attending to some of the Con-
federate wounded, and also that there
was an exchange of favors between
certain of Federal soldiers and their
Southern foes. When it was later ex.
planned to him that the men were
brother Masons, he was deeply i'm
pressed and expressed a desire to join
the order The records of Hiram Lodge
No. 81. Winchester, show that he took
his first degree on May /, 1865, and be.
came Master Mason on May 3. Only
three men are now living who were
present at the time. The president is a
member of Canton Commandery No. 3S,
of Canton, Ohio, which he joined Dec.
23, 1854
The cigarette trouble at the A. and NJ.
College has been sensationally ex-
aggerated. President Hardy and his
faculty are in perfect accord in the pur-
pose to stamp out the pernicious habit,
so ruinous to mind and body, and we
believe that the good sense of the
splendid student body will assert itself
in general and cordial acn~ieorence'
They have the opportunity of better
ing themselves and distinguishing their
college by putting cigarette smoking
under the ban. Ii men or boys must
smoke, the old corn-cob pipe might not
he 90 much in style, but would be in
tinitely less harmful than the poisonous
cigarette. There are not five hundred
more manly boys in the country than
those at the A, and N. College, and they
will do the right thing about this
cigarette business.
The Clarion-Ledger has figured it out
that it cost j. T. Gibson, the Indiana
contractor, S4,524.25 to plead guilty
fine, lawyers fees, court costs, requisi-
tion, expense, etc. That ought to sat
isfy those who think the dignity of the
State has been compromised in the
matter. Gibson might have Jared worse
by serving term in the penitentiary,
but faulty indictment might have re-
suited in his acquittal. Gibson has
been pretty well punished for what
some have been pleased to style his
"indiscretion, and if he considers
bribery essential to his profession, he
will not try it on Mississippi governor
very soon.
At 10 o'clock on the night of the cath
ultimo Prof. Douglas Anderson, of the
chair of electrical engineering IN the
University of Mississippi, pressed the
button in the powerhouse on the uni.
versity campus and gave the university
and the people of Oxford, and the Ma
sons who are to assemble there the last
week in this month, more light.
This is one of the many great achieve
ments to the credit of the practical
common sense administration of Chan
cellor Fulton.
The A. and NJ. College realized from
the sale of its lands-22, ,311.02 acres
the sum of Sl4O,14492, which sum has
been placed in the State treasury as a
perpetual fund to the credit Of the col.
lege. The college will receive six per
cent interest, or about S. 40S annually
toward its support This, with the in.
terest on agricultural scrip fund, and
the Morrill, fund, makes about S26, 900 q
year that the college receives from
United States land grants to the State
The Southern Railway Company has
absorbed the Mobile & Ohio. The deal
was effected in New York on the 30th
ult. on terms that Mr.. Butler Duncan
of the NJ. & 0. says will be entirely sat
isfactory to its stockholders. The pa.
irons of the road in Mississippi will be
pleased should its present management
be continued.
Two Mississippi boys won the first
and second honors in the fourth (Which
is the highesD class in West Point Mill.
I tary Academy-Charles Il. Pettis, OF
Elhsville, and Henry Robert, of Stark
vile. Pettis went from our State Uni
versity and Robert from A. and NJ. Col.
lege. Among the twelve composing
the class were bright students from
] Yale, Cornell and Harvard.
The tax collections for the last half
of the year 1900, paid to the State treas.
ury to Jan. IS, 1901, amounted to $780,.
6O05S On that date there was S1,100,.
900 in the treasury vaults.
The Mississippi State Historical So.
ciety will hold its fourth annual public
meeting at Meridian about the middle
of April Secretary Riley is now pre-.
pairing program, and several who
have been invited to prepare and read
papers have given him their subjects.
Rev. DR.. W. c. Black has inaugurated
a night school in jackson, in which
tuition and books will be free to all
who are unable to attend the day
schools. 1t promises to be a great sue
cess.
Chancellor Adam Byrd will serve the
Sixth district for another term of four
years. The district is composed of the
counties of Attala, Carroll, Choctaw,
u.,losc Eamnar I,aale T.owndeS Na