The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-26
OLD BATTLE FLAG
 GIVEN SAFE PLACE Torn and Faded Banner Is Re
 ceived at Jackson IN SEVERAL BATTLES
Concerning Famous Mississip- pian-Jackson Will Soon
 Get Pure Water

Jackson, Miss, August 25.-(Special)
 The department of archives and his
 tory has received another badly scared
 old Confederate battle flag, and 1t will
 be given safe place in the hall of fame along with other tattered re-
 minders of the days that tried the
 souls of Mississippians This flag was carried through the war between the states by the Burt Guards" a com
 mand that was named for Capt. c. G. Burt who organized the company
 and carried it into the Confederate ser vice from Tippah county. in August. 1881, as Go. A, Twenty third Missis-
 sippi regiment, and 1t participated in | several of the warmest engagements l that took place during that four years I of unplea asantness.
 | The flag was captured by the fed erals at Fort Donelson, February IS, 1862, and was returned to Judge I. T. Blount, son of the commander of the Burt Guards, last July, by Mrs. A. V. Thurman of Fort Thomas, Ky. It is fairly well preserved, made of finest silk and bound with heavy cords, and was presented to the company by Miss Julia Blount, sister of the captain, who afterward married a MT. Terrell, and died June IS, 1908, at Camden, Ark. Captain Blount died just week later, June 25, at Water Valley, Miss. Vale college wants to know some thing more than the histories relate
 of Justice John Preston Hampton of the supreme court of Mississippi, who graduated at that institution with the class of 1894. During his college days his home was at Columbia, now Ap- bling, Ga. It is known that he sue ceeded John Taylor on the supreme court bench by appointment by the first Legislature of the state. In 1925 he was given leave of absence by the governor, and in 1927. being still sick and unable to attend to the duties of the court, resolution was prepared py a member of the legislature asking Tor his resignatio but before 1t was or fered the governor notified the legis- ture Justice Hampton was dead. While on the bench he seems to have delivered some very important decl- sions-one to the effect that the span isb law was the law of the land dur ing the Spanish occupation of the Nat chez district" He held that where a buver of cotton shipped from Walnut Hills to Natchez during .the British war concealed from the seller the fact that peace had been made, and thereby bought at low price. the contract was a fraud and void.
 | Governor Noel and other members or | the state board of election commissioners continue to receive by mail letters recom- mending men for county commissioners, in spite of the wide notorety that was | given the order of the state commission | turning all matters bearing on the ap- pointment of county commissioners to the | friends and representatives of the three | candidates for the United States Senate. Recommendations for the appointment of | Percy commissioners are to be sent to William Crump at Greenville those Tor | Alexander to George B. Power at Jack son; those for MT. Vardaman to s. J. Taylor at Jackson. Letters sent to the governor or other member of the state commission are thus delayed as they have | to be remailed.
 If is suggested that it would be well for the friends of the senatorial candidates 10 remember that county election com missoners must have certain dualifca tions. The law requires that they shall he owners of real estate in their own name, in other words they must be free
 holders" the term used in the statutes. The state commission will not appoint
 any person county commissioner who does not come up to the requirements who is not qualified. To be qualified means that he is legal voter and land owner, that he is not a candidate for office or related to those who are. 
 For years the citizens and taxpayers of Jackson have been demanding pure water, and at last it begins to look like their cries are to be answered. not immediately. but before the end of another year. Already two artesian wells