The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22

tiers recorded by the secretary was S49,-
170,700. Of this 1O8 banks show CAPT
tai of $5,722 900; 100 mercantile con-
Germs, $2,533,500; 60 lumber manufact-
uring plants, Sc, . 1850; II oil mills,
81, roo, 900! SIS miscellaneous factories,
So, 192, 500; 6S schools and educational
establishments, on which there is a
nominal fee. The fees collected on these
charters amount TO perhaps $4,000
more than ever before for a ~two-year
period, and the secretary is confident
that the showing is q good one for the
State.
The narrative report of the Board OF
Control has been sent to the printer. 1t
shows that for the two years ending last
October the gross receipts of the State
on account of the penitentiary were
~$576,402.21, and the expenses for the
same period 1891, S30.45, which leaves a
net balance of $1S4,571.76, to which also
is added the increase in value of the
State farm property, carrying same to
$425,000. .
The report goes into details as to the
care and management of the %convicts.
All of the white c~onvicts are kept on the
Rankin farm, seventy-fve of them, ex-
cept two or three cripples at Oakley,
and thirty-two at the Sunfiower sawmill.
There are twenty-four women at Oak
ley, one of whom is white, and they are
employed in making clothing for the
other convicts. There are also sixty
two in%curables at Oakley, seventy-eight
c~onvicts on the Sandy Bayou place,
ninety-one on Belmont and the balance
at Suniower.
The board declares in this report
hat the c%onvicts all have wholesome
food, such as bacon, vegetables, corn
and flour bread, coffee, sugar, rice, etc.
Artesian wells have been bored on
I'll the State farms and they have the
spring beds, cotton mattresses ant
wooden clothing for winter.
There is a physician on all the places
and the best of care is taken of the
sick.
Superintendent Bobyns, of the State
Deaf and Dumb Institution, will report
to the Legislature that his new building
is full to overlooking and demand that
$4,000 be appropriated for additions.
he states that when the institution
opened on the 9TH of December 112 white
children applied for admission and were
taken. However, he has applications
from fifty more and cannot accommo
date them. He believes there are 100
more deaf children in the State who
would attend if room was provided.
Travelling Sergcaut Dodds, who ha
Just returned fro Il visit to Frankli
county, the mid-r he alleged white
capped element IA ississippi, declares
the people there al the best and most
hospitable he has ever met, and that
they are determined to settle all their
old troubles and get down to business
and real living once more.
The Confederate Veterans of Jackson
are considerably stirred up and inter
ested over the proposition to move the
Confederate monument from the Con-
federate Park in the old capitol yard to
the lawn of the new capitol, and the
chances are that should the Legisla-
ture take the matter up there is going
Veteran camp at Yazoo has passed res
OluIlOIS, ucCEilllS lHdC VIC IIoltllChC
should be moved to the new capitol, and
that is what has caused the interest.
The Legislature is going to have a
new county proposition at the coming
session, just as is Islerally the case at
every session. The advocates of George
county, a county that it is proposed to
make out of portions of Amite, Frank
lin and Wilkinson, are getting busy. 1t
is proposed to take 210 square miles out
os Amite, 1873 from Wilkinson and "a
from Franklin, which will form a county
of 437 square miles and with a popula-
ton of about $4,000 n an assessed
valuation. of $3,000,000.
Hon. Clarence Greaves, member of the
Legislature from Madison county, de
,lares that he is going to run the blind
oigers out of Mississippi after this year
or put saloons in every county, by max
ing the unlawful sale of whisky a peni-
entiary ~offense. Another law he has
, course of preparation is one to force
al foreign corporations doing business in
Mississippi to pay taxes on their bust
ness and on the money they have invest
e1 in their business in this State. MIR.
Greaves states that he is tired of seeing
the little farmer pay all the taxes.
A party of hunters from Jackson, who
spent a few days On Funnagusha creek,
twenty-five miles north of Jackson, re-
port that they killed seventy-fve squir'
rels, caught an abundance of fish and one
of the biggest 'possums that they ever
saw. The Jackson men saw plenty OIL
turkeys and other large game, but
lacked the prowess necessary to bag
any of it.
The Theo. Spight Chapter, U. D.. g.,
of Ripley, held a bazaar, the proceeds to
be applied to the fund for the Confede-
rate monument to be erected in honor
of Tippah's Confederate dead. A great
deal of interest was manifested by the
ladies, and the affair was a most enjoy
able and successful one. More than
500 was realized for the fund.
DR.. F. L. Fulgham, physician at the
Baptist Orphanage in jackson, has mott
fed the Governor of the collection of $40
from officers and employees of the orphan
age to be used in the purchase OF a silver
service Tor the DaCClesHlp MissioSIPP,.
The children of the school, the Highland
school, which is located at the orphan
age, gave literally of their nickels.
G. T. w. Howerton, of Harrison
county, spent the day at the capital.
He is now engaged in planting the larg-
est orchard in the State of Mississippi,
and is convinced that as a fruit and
vegetable growing State, Mississippi has