The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-01-18

last week with the legislators OF l9Uz
and the friends and interested parties
who had gathered to see the opening
Of the session. Promptly at high noon
ION the Tuesday after the first Mon
day in January" the gavel fell and
the two houses were called to order,
the Senate by Lieut.-Gov. Harrison
and the House by Speaker Russell.
Gov. Longino's excellent and COM
prehensive message has been SO widely
read ere this that comment here would
be superfluous. 1t speaks for itself
and carries to every reader the convic
ton that Mississippi's Governor has
at heart the interests of Mississippi's
people, and that he will do his ut
most to see that these interests are
protected. The first bomb thrown into
the camp of the solons was the report
from the penitentiary investigating
committee, which met and performed
arduous labor last summer. This re-
port will be published at ONCE, and
the people may read for themselves
the findings of their committee. The
next matter Of great interest was the
acceptance of an invitation from Mr..
Senter of the Vicksburg American and
the Columbus Commercial, and also
a member of the House, to both
houses, to visit the l. 1. G G. at Co.
lumbus and the A. G. M. at Starkville
at the end of the week. This courtesy
is indeed an unusual one, and proves
that Brother Senter is possessed Of
magic powers of persuasion, as we'll
as of wide influence, else the great
railroad would not have placed itself
at his disposal in so generous a fash
ion. Whatever the argument he used,
we rejoice that it prevailed, and con-
graduate him and the State of Missis-
sippi upon the result. We believe
that the one and only thing needful
is that each and every member of the
Legislature go and see for himself the
grand work of our great industrial
college. Then there will be no mans
voice raised against all needed sup
port of the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College and the Industrial Insti-
tute and College.
A most unusual appeal has been
made by some ladies of Utica, Miss,
for aid in refitting and repairing their
church building. Their statement,
which follows, has the merit of being
so far out of the common u of such
| communications hat it ought certainly
to command the attention of and draw
the dollars from every Yankee sol
der" who left his autograph on those
fair walls. Autographs come high
these times, and these scribes of
Grants army should pay well for their
James
ut was in February, 1864, that Gen.
Grant with his hosts of soldiers
marched through our land from Grand
| Gulf to V%icksburg and matted for a few
days in our little Town. taking for
headquarters our magnificent church
| house, which still stands on an emf
nence, giving it a commanding view
Of the country for some distance in
every direction. The Federal soldiers
camped everywhere; the churchyard
was full and the benches of the church
were taken out and made into horse
troughs and other things. The win
dows were shot to pieces by the Fed
erals shooting at skirmishers. In this
way the church was torn to pieces in
side. But this is not all. The soldiers
wrote their names all over the walls
which were so pure and white. w
hope that they will now aid us IL
painting and in other ways ~refittini
our house Of worship and get others o
their comrades to do the same. Tit
church house is perhaps the oldes
Christian church in Mississippi"
Prof. G.. F. Boyd has been gathering
statistics upon the school library move
ment in the State, and from answer
received from se%venty-three county su
perintendents, school principals, pres
dents, ETC., he publishes the following
results:
Number of libraries in rural schools
~; number of libraries in separat
school districts, IA; total volumes 1
rural schools, 1000; number of vo
umes in separate school districts
1887; total volumes read in rurs
schools last year, no report; total vo
umes read in separate school districts
3,275 reported; annual allowance fo
libraries in counties, nothing; ALLOW
ance for libraries in separate schot
districts, nothing.
The smallest library reportin
claims IL volumes, while the larges
Greenville public school, claims 2,2C
: volumes. The University of Missisil
pi has $4,000 volumes on its shelvt
and has a $500 annual appropriation
The A. & NJ. College has SITS volume
in its library.
Another Of "our boys" has bee
a complimented recently, this time
!. the Philadelphia College of Pharmac
n Mr.. James s.. Billups of Columbus h;