The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-02
MISSISSIPPI
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
BY KATE MARKHAM POWER.

history or this part Oh the otdte
has always possessed, and still does, a
romantic interest for me, because, per-
haps, when a boy l knew many OF
those who had been either among its
earliest settlers or were their descend
ants, then grown, and who loved to
talk of their trials, of the Indians, OF
the Spaniards who owned the country
when it first began to be settled by
American pioneers, and Of highway
robbers who sometimes waylaid the
solitary traveller. The story OF the
Inflated tribe of the Natchez, Of the
French occupation, then Of the Eng
lish, then of the Spanish, and last, of
it's cession to the United States, all
combine to make the history of that
part of Mississippi of absorbing inter
est"
In speaking of his school life, Col.
Montgomery thus refers to old Oak
land College, once the classical school
for the education of the aristocratic
youths of this section-now the Alcorn
A. G NJ. College for the training Of
negro youths: Oakland College, as I
first knew it and before the war be-
tween the States, had an ideal stu
alton for a college (the nearest town
was Rodney, five miles away. The
cottages in which the students roomed
formed a semi-circle on the crest of a
ridge, with the main college near the
center and close to the presidents
home. In front was a campus covered
with oak trees and sloping down 10
the common boarding house, and at
each end of the semi.circle the halls
of the literary societies, the Bellies
Lettres and the Adelphic. The col
David Hunt of Jefferson county, sup
posed to be the wealthiest planter of
his time, and the Rev. jeremiah Cham
berlain, who was it's president. =
After the war between the States Oak
land College was sold to the State
and became Alcorn University, a col
lege for negroes, and is now the AL
corn Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, devoted to the education Of that
race. Who of its founders or those
who supported it or the proud young
men who filled it's halls could ever
have dreamed of a fate so strange, and
to me so sad, for this college, once the
pride of South Mississippi! And yet
the change in Oakland College is a
small thing, compared to that up
heaval and destruction Of Southern
homes and Southern society caused by
that bloody war for the preservation
OIL the Union"
Jones county has a fourishing medi-
cal association, which holds monthly
meetings at which papers On subjects
of special interest are read and mat
ters discussed touching their profess
sion and it's practice. The association
presented at the last meeting a "fee
bill" governing the price for their SER
vices, which embraces everything from
a fitty-cent vaccination to a $3.50 am
putation. A few of the items are:
Day visits in corporation, $3.50 and
So; nigh, visits in corporation, 81 to
SO; visits outside Of corporation, add
so cents per mile or fraction thereof"
If the rules adopted are carefully car
ried out it will be well for the med
ical men. but the poor fellow who gets
behind on his doctors bill" and stays
behind will learn what 1t is to have a
pain, and mayhap keep on having it,
before the doctor comes.
1t seems to be the impression of
those having voice in the matter that
it is time to take decisive measures
to put a stop to the carnival of crime
now raging among the negroes in
some of our counties. In the Eighth
Judicial District there are five muir
derers under sentence of death, await
ing the disposition Of their cases by
the Supreme Court, to which they
have been appealed. Judge Powell
sentenced a negro murderer in Copiah
uuAih6 Nohudy . SeSSlUu VI circuit
court; there are two prisoners in va
zoo county Jail awaiting execution,
and two more in Kinds county who are
under .-.e sentence.
On the 9th Of November a meeting
will be held at Okolona for the pur-
pose Of organizing the East Missis-
sippi Press Association. This will be
confined to papers published On the
M. & o. and its branches. This may
be a good plan, and doubtless will
prove of advantage in a business way.
but 1t seems a pity to begin the work
OF division in the old Press Associa-
ton of Mississippi. 1t has always
stood so loyalty by its members this
loyalty has been a matter of note and
at the National Association)
that it would seem a pity to break up
the pleasant associations and strong
ties, by changing from the old organi-
cation to such as the North, Central.
east and South Mississippi Press AS
sociations.
Gov. Longino has appointed a fine
body of representative Mississippians
no