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The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Congressman Meekison Of OHIO.

Hon. David Meekison is well known
not only in his own State, but through.
out America. He was elected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress by a very large ma
jority, and is the acknowledged leader
of his party in his section of the State.
Only one flaw marred the otherwise
complete success of this rising states.
man. Catarrh with it's insidious ap-
proach and tenacious grasp, was his
only unconquered foe. For thirty year
he waged unsuccessful warfare against
this personal enemy. At last Peruna
came to the rescue. He writes:
"Ihave used several bottles of Pc.
rnna and I feel greatly benefited there.
by from my catarrh of the head. /
feel encouraged to believe fhaff I use
1t a short time I0ngerI WILDE fully able
to eradicate the disc ase of fhfrfyyears'
standing. david MeekisoH, Member
of Congress.
If you do not derive prompt and salts.
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your Ease and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad.
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Q Rural Route.

Four hundred and three people
residing in the southern section of
Lowndes county are now rejoicing
that on and after December l the
government will deliver them mail
for six days in every week, where
formerly they have only received
mail twice weekly. Total length
of route is 25A miles; total area
covered, 1917 square miles; number
of houses en- route, 96; population
served, 403.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Mississippi State News
Yaxoo-MIssissippi hoard.

The official proceedings of the Oc-
tober meeting Of the Yazoo-M issis-
sippi Levee Board have just been
made public. At this meeting the
board rescinded the order imposing
a privilege tax of 2 per cent on life
insurance companies, leaving them
Simply liable to the payment of the
regular annual privilege tax. The
language of the boards order which
was repealed was as follows: "All
life companies shall pay a tax Of
2 PEI cent upon the gross amount
Of their initial or first year premi-
UNI receipts from business done in
this district and one-tenth of l per
cent upon renewal premiums; all
other than life companies shall pay
a tax Of 2 per cent gross, less re-
turn premiums from business done
in this district"
The committee appointed to aud
it the semi-annual report of the
it the semi-annual report Of the
treasurer stated that they had care
fully examined the receipts and
disbursements from March l to Oc-
tober /, 1902, and found the same
correct. The balance on hand the
latter date was $55,150.T0.
The board ordered that the treas
urer, Oscar Carr, be directed to sign
and place the seal of the company
on the $224,000 worth Of refunding
bonds of July !, 1902, and ship to
the First National Bank of Chicago.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

The Rock Island Railroad
has closed a deal for an Office in New
York city at a price that astonishes
the natives. The location is a four
story building on the northeast cor
ner of Fifth venue and Thirty-ffth
street. The lease has only three
years to run and the rental is $3.50
per annum. For the privilege of oc-
cupying the premises for the next
three years at this rate the railroad
pays a bonus of $4,000, or $4,000 a
year. In other words, it's annual
rental for the next three years will
be $37 600 per annum.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
No Right to Criticise.

The Supreme Court has decided
that a guard or contractor cannot
legally chastise a convict under his
charge, even though he did it mod
erately and for the purpose of dis
ciplining him. The case was de-
cided in the case of Davis VS.. the
State, appealed from the Circuit
Court of Copiah county. The APP
pellant in the lower court interposed
the defense that he had a right to
chastise the prisoners moderately
when it should be found necessary.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

An edict was issued by the princi-
pal of the Omaha high school forbid
ding the use of mirrors of any kind
in school hours. All the students
lockers were opened and mirrors
contiscated. The principal holds that
too much time is given to the max
ing of toilets by girls in school hours.
He has forbidden the boys to wear
sweaters to school and last year he
barred shirtwaists and forbade the
girls wearing short sleeves or rolling
up their sleeves.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

Rev. David I. Cheney, of Gloucester,
n. j., is known as the 'hard-working
minister" He works during the week
as a carpenter, and on Sunday
breaches the gospel. He went to
Gloucester several years ago while
president of the Methodist congrega-
tional conference. and established a
church. Later he left the conference
and started an Independent church.
A year ago he transferred his church
to Camden, where he now conducts
services
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
A U GREAT IDEA.
brilliant suggestion for the Improve
ment of the Tagging Game
of Football.

The supporters of football are asSem-
bled in convention, says the Baltimore
American.
Gentlemen" says the spokesman,
something must be lone to add inter
est to the game. ! regret to acknowledge
that in recent years, despite our efforts
to wound main and kill, the sport has
dwindled in public favor. No doubt this
L. because of the increase in the number
OF wars, and the familiarity of the public
with injuries from that cause; also be-
cause of the growth of the automobile
fad. Hence, as | say, We must do some
thing to put more ginger in the game.
The point is, what snail We do"
Here a shaggy haired man arose in the
rear OF the hall and begged for a hear
ing.
Gentlemen" he said, 81 represent the
Russo-American society of anarchy, and
am also an enthusiastic football player.
1t occurs to me that if the bail were
filled with dynamite instead of air it
would"
But the rest of h5s remarks were sim
ply drowned in a furious explosion Of
mad applause.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

Lord Kitchener has given many
reasons for his conviction that a sol
der should never marry. His latest
is that the terrible anguish of Off
GERS wives was a proof that, like
priests, soldiers ought to be cell
bates. Lord Kitchener said this re.
Gently to an officers wife, who an
swered: Then you think that my
husband ought not to have married
me?" To which Lord Kitchener re-
piled g~raciously: "Thanks to you, ]
change my opinion for one case"
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

New York city pays annually $337,-
S07 for the rental of Offices used by
departments and bureaus. The big
gest part Of this sum goes to the
Stewart building, $142,3S In this
former dry goods store are housed
numerous executive heads. The de-
partment of finance alone pays over
$4,000 for quarters on six floors.
The Park row building gets $79,732.
The splendid apartments of the Dor,
ough president cost no less than
$31,6S2, while those of the commits
sioner of water supply, gas and cleo
tricity cost $23,645.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

Mr.. Morgan is understood to mar
vel greatly at the public distrust of
the steel trust shares. 1t is strange
strange that people should be re-
luctant to put their money into a
corporation which employs a lunatic
at a salary of 81, 100000 per year to
furnish sensational reading matter
for the civilized world.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Chancellor Byrd Resigns.

Chancellor Adam Byrd Of the
Sixth Chancery district, has pre-
sented his resignation to Gov. Lon
gino, to take effect February l.
Judge Byrd was recently elected
Congressman from the Fifth district
and his resignation thus far in adj
vance is doubtless for the purpose
of giving the governor an opportuni-
ty to cast about and decide upon
his successor at his leisure.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Murdered md Robbed.

Mrs. P. j. Henderson, wife of q we'll
TODD farmer near Carlock, Tenn, was
found murdered on the mountain side
near her home. She had been shot in
two places, one bullet penetrating
the heart. A sum Of money which she
was known to have had was missing.
but a pension check was not taken.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

Rev. Gustavus Unonius, one of Chi
cago's oldest ministers, is dead. In
1866, while visiting Sweden, he Sc
cured from Jenny Lind a large en-
dowment for his church, ST. Ansga-
RUS, which has been referred to
since then as Jenny Lind's church,"
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Normal Institute Closes.

Prof. FL. A. Dean closed the Iuka
Normal Institute a few days ago,
refunding in cash all the amounts
paid for board and tuition to pu-
pills. The institution will not be
opened again before September Is,
1908, if then. It made during the
past twenty years a brilliant rec
ord
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Gen. Evander McNair Dead.

Gen. Eyander McNair died at
Hattiesburg in his eighty-third year.
He served with distinction under
Jefferson Davis in the Mexican war,
and at Washington, Ark, in 1860
organized the Fourth Arkansas reg
iment and served the four years on
the Confederate side. He was made
brigadier-general at the battle Of
Richmond, Ky. His remains were
buried at Magnolia.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

The archbishop of Canterbury,
now in his eighty-first year, has been
making his annual tour through his
province, delivering three or four
speeches 4 day, and otherwise show
ing remarkable mental and physical
agility for one of his years.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

Scientists have often told us that
the human stomach will eventually
shrivel until it will hold less than
half as much as it does now. We
should thank the beef trust for it's
efforts in behalf of science.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

Rev. Charles +. Stowe, a son OF
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author
of 'Uncle Toms Cabin" was installed
rs pastor of the Central Square Con.
gregational church at Bridgewater,
Mass, recently.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Lynching in Tennessee,

John Davis, a negro, accused of kill
ing a white man, was hanged by a
mob in the courthouse yard at Lewis
burg, Tenn.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Negroes VIII Go to Liberia.

A strange negro has been travelling
in the vicinity OF Decatur, Ala, advis-
ing negroes to leave this country and
go to Liberia. Thus far he has sue
ceeded in getting about IA hundred
families to promise to go with him.
He is charging them a fee of two dol
lars, and some say he is a fraud.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

A commission of about 20 persons,
all identified with Sunday school
work, and representing the inter
national lesson committee, will make
a tour of the world in the interest of
Bible schools
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
BRIDEGROOM a Suicide.

Charles March, who resided near
Chattanooga, Tenn. a bridegroom of
two days, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Th-.e Negroes Cremated.

William Evans, aged Q; Joseph
Brown, aged -, and Lizzie Brown.
aged 10, all colored, were burned TO
death at Port Gibson, Miss. The
house caught fire while they were
asleep.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
James G. McEIwee.

James G. McElwee. aged Ga, a
wealthy lumber dealer of Lexington.
Tenn, died at the home of his son at
I'aducah, KY, Of a complication of dis
eases.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Negro Lad killed Negro Girl.
Confession By Youtsey.

Henry f. Youtsey, convict in the
~penitentiary, serving a life sentence
for the Goebel murder, has signed a
confession giving the details of the
plot, and the confession is in the
hands of Kentucky attorneys. This
is information hat leaked out
through a guard at the prison and an
attorney. The confession will not be
made public until other trials of those
indicted or yet to be indicted. though
it was made nearly two months ago.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Wreck In Tennessee.

In a head-on collision between a
Louisville g. Nashville passenger train
and a freight, near Hendersonville.
Tenn. Engineer John Lighe was killed
and Fireman Bawl bruised.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

Gen. Booth has acquired 10000
acres of land in West Australia,
where he will plant a large Salvation
army colony recruited from the
slums of London.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Met ut Florence, Ala.

The sizth annual convention of the
Tel nessee River Improvement asso-
citation held its session at Florence.
Ala. Addresses were delivered BY
Gen. Joe Wheeler and Congressman
richards.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Pig With Eight Legs.

Coalroma county, Miss, boasts of q
remarkable animal freak in the shape
of an eight-legged pig. The pig died
on tie day of its birth, but has been
preserved in alcohol.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Mississippians in Mexico.

liz oiHcidl lSpolb l. tHC pulI tdh-
en- by the Mississippi troops in the
battle of Buena Vista and Monterey
during the Mexican war, in the
handwriting of Col. Jefferson Da-
Wis, who commanded the First Mis-
sissippi regiment on both those
memorable occasions, as well as the
reports Of Col. Davis officers, were
found a few days ago by the d.
rector among the States archives.
Few more interesting historical doc
uments have been unearthed.
Col. Davis thus describes the v
shaped formation which contribut-
ed SO largely to the fate of that
day:
"The Mississippi regiment was
filed to the right and fronted in
line across the plain. The Indiana
regiment was formed on the bank
of the ravine, in advance of our
right flank, by which a re-entering
angle was presented to the enemy.
Whilst this preparation was being
made, Sergeant-Majo Miller of our
regiment was sent to Captain Sher-
man for one or more pieces of artil-
lery from his battery.
"The enemy, who was now seen
to be a body of caparisoned lancers,
came forward rapidly and in beau
tiful order, the files and ranks so
closed as to look like a solid mass
Of men and horses. Perfect silence
and the greatest steadiness prevailed
in both lines of u troops as they
stood at shouldered arms waiting
the attack. Confident Of success
and anxious to obtain the full ad-
vantages of a cross fire at short dis
lance, | repeatedly called to the
men not to shoot.
"As the enemy approached his
speed regularly diminished until,
when within 80 or 100 yards he had
drawn up to a walk and seemed
about to halt. A few rifles fired
without orders and both lines then
poured in a vollev so destructive
that the mass yielded to the blow
and the survivors fed. Capt.
Sherman having come up with a
few field pieces from his battery,
followed their retreat with a very
effective fire until they had fled be-
yond the range Of his guns"
At the battle of Monterey the
Mississippians acquitted themselves
with equal distinction. In giving
an account of the operations Col.
Davis thus refers to the heroism of
the late Col. A. X. McClung, who
was the first of the attacking party
to scale the walls Of Monterey:
II cannot omit to mention the
gallant bearing of Lieut.-Col Nc
Chung. At the storming of the
fort he first mounted the parapet
and turning to the regiment waved
his sword over his head in token
of the triumph of our arms. Leav-
ing him in that position to cheer
the men on to further danger it was
my misfortune soon after to lose
his services. AT the fortified stone
building he was dangerously
wounded"
He refers thus to another Missis-
sippian:
81 must also mention Lieut.. Pat
@terson, who sprang into the open
embrasure as Col. McClung mount
ed the parapet and fired the first
American piece within the works
of the enemy"
Of Capt. Downing, of Kinds
county, he said:
capt. Downing, in whom is hap
PLY combined the qualities of a
leader and commander, was severe
ly wounded whilst among the fore
most cheering his company to the
charge"
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Bank EmbezzIer Sentenced.

j.. M. Mcknight, former president
of the defunct German national bank
of Louisville, KY, was sentenced to
six years in the penitentiary, having
been convicted of embezzling the
banks funds. This is the fourth sem
tence on the same charge, his previous
sentences having been set aside by the
higher court.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
COMMENT.

Stephen M. Griswold, bank presi-
dent, eX-state senator and church
man, will soon complete so years as
an usher in Plymouth church, Brook
lvu.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Very Rev. IL. c. Mignot.

Very Rev. Father Hyacinthe Claude
Mignot, eanon of the st. Louis ca
thedral for 80 years, died at his resi-
dence in New Orleans.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Confederate Veterans.

Confederate veterans of Alabama
met in third annual reunion at Mont
gomery. Birmingham was selected as
the next place of meeting.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Pleaded Guilty to on Frauds.

J. ]. Cage, a negro. from Wilkinson
county, Miss, pleaded guilty to four
charges of pension frauds in the fed
eral court at Jackson.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

Bishop Thompson has called the
standing committee of the diocese
of Mississippi to meet in jackson
on January 20, to elect a bishop CO.
adjutor. He has transferred all
missionary work to the missionary
committee.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

Tom-"Our engagement is off" Dick
you don't say, how's that" Tom-"She
got mad because ! couldn't explain to her
other girls."-Pmladelphia Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

John Sullivan, a blacksmith, fired a
shot from a Valley train at %Stoneville,
Miss, killing a negro and w%ounding
another.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
wreck in west Virginia.

In a wreck on the Norfolk & West
ern, at Williamson, w. Va, n train
man was killed and two others were
injured.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Gen. Greene's Remains R%einterred.

The remains of Gen. Nathaniel
Greene, one of the foremost military
leaders of the war of independence
were reinforced at Savannah, Ga, be-
ing placed under the Green monu-
ment in Johnston square. Col. Asa
Bird Gardiner, of New York, delivered
the grafton of the day on behalf of
the National society of Cincinnati.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

eff ev'y man. said Uncle Eben. "was
willin' to work as hahd as he expects his
mule to work, dar wouldn't be nigh so
much complainin' in dis worl'.''-WasI-
ingten Star.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Railroads Show Increases.

The reports of the railroads for
the quarter just ended, which are
coming into the railroad commits
sion, with an exception of two, all
show gratifying increases in the net
revenue as compared to the CORE
spending quarter of last year.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

Ten thousand demons g%nawing away at
ones vitals couldn't be much worse than
the tortures Of itching piles. Yet there's
a cure. Doan's Ointment never fails.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Ii. II. II. IL.

The Baptist Young Peoples I'm
ion of Mississippi held a very in
teresting meeting at Oxford last
week. Meridian was selected as
the next place of meeting.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

81 suffered for months from sore throat.
Eclectrlc Oil cured me in twenty-four
hours" M. S. Gist, Hawesville, KY.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
win Erect an once BuiIdi ns.

The Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Co., it is said, will construct a ten
story Office building in Louisville,
Ky.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo
Quinine Tablets. Price 25 cents.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
G%LEANINGs.
MilIionaire's WIN Missing.

Says a dispatch from Asheville, N.
e.: Inc will of the late John M. Glib
son, millionaire, made a few days be-
fore his death in favor of his newly
made wife, a young woman of Provi-
dence, r. l., whom he married on his
d~eathbed, to carry out a wish made
by his first wife, who was burned to
death in the Windsor hotel fire in
New York, is missing and car not be
found. A carbon copy is in possession
OF the local attorney for the estate,
and this will be sent to Cincinnati in
the hope that it may be accepted
without litigation"
negro Lad Killed Negro Girl.
A brutal murder is reported from
Pike county, Miss, in which a 49,
year-ofd negro girl was the victim of a
negro boy of about the same age.
Sam Gill was en- route home from a
days hunting when he met a little
negress named Busby in the road, and
In a spirit of atrocious deviltry he
halted her with the EXPLANATIONS: liam
going to shoot you in the eye." A mo-
ment later the gun was discharged
and the girl dropped dead. The boy
was captured and lodged in the Mag
nolia Jail.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
4 Healthy increase.

Assessed values in Mississippi show
an increase OF over SIS, 100000 as com
partN with 1900.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

Engineers regard the grand canon
of the Colorado as affording one of
the greatest fields in existence for
the development of electricity from
water-power. In addition to the i'm
mense power of the Colorado itself,
large stores of energy are available
in the smaller streams that leap into
the vast chasm. The plan by which
the power of the main stream will
eventually be UTILIZED is that of pick
ing up" the fall Of the river by means
of tunnels. About 70 miles north
of Williams a fall of 5000 feet can be
found in ~aa1ittle over a mile.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21

The uses of photography are con
stantly extending. A western rail-
road now uses it as q substitute for
written reports on construction
work. For example, the progress of
the work of changing a grade cross
ing OF building a bridge is photo
graphed at stated periods. and the
photographs are preserved both as
a record and as illustrations of
method. Pictures are also taken of
all the of the road in the
way of material and of every mile of
track, showing curve grades,
switches and crossings.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-07-04

of maintaining the lead the United
States now holds over all other la
tions in naval gunnery.
At these drills many other problerL>
besides accuracy of fire are worko.
out. As important rs either rapidiJ
or accuracy is the question of ammuni-
ton supply. for however fast a gun
may ire or however straight it may
shoot these advantages may be lost
if the shells and powder cannot be
transferred from the magazine 10 the
gun fast enough to maintain ii con
tinuously in action.
One reason for our proficiency in
gunnery is the method of training TIE
men. by which individual excellence
is produced. as opposed to the system
in vogue in some foreign countries
which makes the man behind the Guu
but an insignificant part Of a mach.9e
largely replacing his own thinking ap
paratus.
As practice makes perfect, our pres
ent high standard in target practice
is largely due to the frequent drills
and liberal expenditure of ammunition
The yearly allowance for each gun HIS
lately been increased. that for the va
rious calibers now being 10. u and IL
inch guns. 8 ROUNDS: : and inch guns
IS rounds: 4, Al. and 6 inch guns, +
rounds: 3 inch Q4 pounder) guns. 50
rounds: FOUNDER guns. - rounds,
This represents the number of rounds
with full size projeetiles allotted to
each gun in the service, but it is no
measure of the practice obtained.
A comprehensive scheme of what is
known as subcaliber practice has been
arranged by which target shooting.
closely Stimulating service conditions,
may be carried on with big guns, but
instead of firing away the large and
expensive projectiles much smaller
ones are used.
Secretary Of the Navy Moody is de
termined that the sailor boys shall not
become rusty through lack of training
In the service, and his policy has the
full approval of the president. 1t is
said that he has been working on the
plans ever since he succeeded Secreta-
ry Long.