Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-02-22

The Redlstrictiug Bill
The agony is over and the great
State of Mississippi is now divided
into eight districts, as follows:
First-Alcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo,
Lee, It4wamba, Monroe, Lowndes, Ok
tlbbeha and Noxubee.
Second-Tallahatchie, PanOla Tate,
DeSoto, Marshall, Lafayette, Union,
Benton and Tippah.
Third-Tunica, Quitman, Coahoma,
Bolivar, Sunaower, Leflore, Holmes,
Sharkey and Issaquena.
Fourth-Pontotoc, Chickasaw, Clay.
Choctaw, Webster, Calhoun, Yalo-
busha, Grenada, Carroll, Montgomery
and Attala.
Fifth-Winston, Kemper, Neshoba,
Leake, Scott, Newton, Lauderdale,
Clarke, Jasper and Smith.
Sixth-Simpson, Lawrence, Marion,
Pearl River, Hancock, Harrison,
Jackson, Greene, Wayne, Jones, Perry
and COyington,
Seventh-Claiborne, Copiah, Lin
coin, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams,
Wilkinson, Amite and Pike.
Eighth-Warren, Yazoo, Kinds, Mad
ison and Rankin.
Some of the Senators and Repre-
sentatiyes were not greatly pleased
with the general handing around, but,
realizing that everybody could not be
perfectly suited they took their medi-
cine bravely. In the Senate Warren
alone protested, but protested vigor-
ously.
The Minneapolis Times has this to
say on a subject of interest to our peo-
pie:
ut was only a little while ago that
cotton seed was considered Of no value.
The present cotton seed industry,
therefore, is all the more remarkable
in its growth and extent An old law
of Mississippi of 1857 required all cot
ton seed to be removed or destroyed
under penalty, while the throwing Of
cotton seed into a creek or stream was
punishable by 5000 fine. Thirteen
years after this law was passed the
census of 1870 reported 26 cotton seed
oil mills. In 1880 the number in
creased to As. In 1890 to 119; while in
1900 there were 357. Prior to the 1909
census, however, all establishments en-,
gagged in refining cotton seed oil were
counted The 1900 census only gives
those works that extract the ola
fact which would alter the statistics
as to increase. Years ago we exported
almost all our oil to foreign countries,
but by 1890 the commercial value OF
the oil for domestic purposes was well
settled. and now about One-half of the
product is used for home consumption
The total value of all cotton seed prod
ucts, oil. oil cake and meal, nulls and
linters, was $42,411, ,S95, which was
certainly worth saving instead Of float
ing down stream to the Gulf or ID the
Atlantic"
Died-In Holly Springs, Miss, Jan
uary 27, 1902, Col. F. A. Tyler, aged
SO years. II months.
Col. Tyler was licensed to practice
law in yicksburg as early as 1895, an(
for several years he edited a paper
also in the city, being at the time o.
his death perhaps the oldest editor il
the State. Always a man of strong
convictions, and fearless in the expires
sion of his principles, he made a repu
tation extending beyond the limits o
his State as a forcible writer, a deel
thinker and man of answering in
tegrity in all the relations OF life, pub
lie and private. The leading men o
the State we're his familiar associates
and not one has been more esteemed
than Col. Tyler. In his death one o
the old landmarks has passed away
Few men of the old regime, so chival
rous in spirit, so courteous in manner
so sincere of speech, remain with us
and Mississippi is infinitely poorer be
cause they have left us, just as she
infinitely richer because they wer
Mississippians and because their men
ory and the influence of their lives viii
long survive as "a most sweet sayOr.'
The discussion In the State press a
to the course of Congressman Joh
Sharpe Williams relative to his poll
ical future was brought to sulde
stop last week when the distinguish
Yazooan wired from Washington a
follows:
Editor Clarion-Ledger - Merida
Star reports that | am expected
move to that city to run for Congress
/ shall not leave the friends Of lif
time and the graves of my family
run Tor an ONCE,
John SHARPE WILLIAMS"
All honor to the man, the gentlema
and the Mississippian.
A large part of our State was II
fected with the carnival spirit La
week, and those who had not the fu
of celebrating at home (as ha
Natchez, McComb City and some of ii
Coast cities) hied themselves away
New Orleans, Mobile or some other cit
where the Merry Monarch reigned s.
preme. and spent a few bright, car
free days before the coming of Lente
days. And we are glad they did, A
work and no play makes Jack du
boy; hence we rejoice when our pc
pie manage to squeeze in little pla
time.
Our Mississippi saw mills are doir
fine business with all parts of Il
world, and are shipping great quaint
ties of lumber from the Gulf Goa
ports to such cities as Philadelphl
Bridgeport New York and Bosto
The exports to Cuba, Porto Rico ar
Mexico are increasing every mont
and old Mississippi Is rapidly reachiI
the high place that is rightfully he
in the worlds lumber trade