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The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
United States Has Sold Twice as
MucH 70 Great Britain RS Ameri-
cans Bought.

Washington.-MO than a billion
dollars worth OF merchandise passed
between the United States and British
territory In the ten months ending
with October, for which statistics have
been compiled The bureau Of stats.
tics of the department Of commerce
and labor reports that exports from
the United States to British territory
In the period named, aggregated
$759, 100000 and imports therefrom
1888 900, 900, thus indicating that for
every dollars worth Of merchandise
imported from the territory in quss-
tion two dollars worth OF American
products are exported thereto,
To the United Kingdom, the largest
British market for American products
our ten months export increased to
$419 900 900 In 1911; those to Canada,
from 1901 100000 In 1910 to SEAS, 900,
900 In 1O1l Australia and New Zea-
land rank third. with ten.months' to-
tai Of $40.000,000. To British Africa
the ten months exports Increased
from $12,OOO,OOO in 1910 to $4,000, 900
In 1911; those to the British West In
dies from 100000 In 1910 TO SlO,.
100000 in 1911, and those to India, 81
100000 in 1905 to $6,500.00O in 1910
and 100000 In 1911,
The remaining British communities,
which show In each case a total In ex.
cess of $l,0O00O0 in the ten months,
include Hongkong. in which our ex.
ports In ten months were valued at
| 81, 100000; Newfoundland and Labra.
dor, 100000; the Straits Settle
ments. $1.750,O0O; British Guiana. Sl.-
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Nearly 100000 Tons Are Burned to
Keep the Eastern City Warm Dur
Ina Blizzard Season.

New York.-Basing their estimates
mn the unusually cold weather which
v,sIted this city during the month OF
January. experts now predict that Fa'
Their Knickerbocksr' coal bill for
The wear 1912 will exceed the enor-
nous figure Of $l0O.0OO,0O0, figured on
Tho prices paid by consumers, thus eH'
coesIng even the record.breaking fig
nre for 1911, which have Just been
compiled.
New York has an unenyiabIe right
N the claim that ii is the greatest
coal.consuming municipality In the
world. No other city at home or abroad
has so high a consumption OF fuel to
the unit OF population.
II this city's supply Of coal for
12.month were loaded in 50-ton
cars, they would stretch from here TO
salt Lake City, 2.452 miles.
The amount OF coal consumed and
distributed within the city bounds last
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
The Old Capitol Again.

The old capitol building is a p"rplex
ing problem to the law makers of the
state. The Burkitt bill to repair it and
use it as a state historical hall was
killed earlier in the session by one vote.
The proposition bobbed up again and it
is proposed to move several OF the state
departments to the old capitol building,
agriculture, war and insurance, as well
as the historical department. Senator
Burkitt brought the bill up on motion
to reconsider and it was passed with
votes to spare.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Mississippi
Legislature
HOUSE CUTS APPROPRIATIONS
4 L. NJ. COLLEGE APPROPRIATION
HAS OPPOSITION.
Voters Of Municipalities Given Right to
Repeal Objectionable Ordinances
Passed By Council

.I,rl .0n.-Thc house was thrown into
turmoil over the appropriation bill for
the maintenance aud support Of the Agrl-
rrIrnraI and Mechanical College at
>tuhylIle. Early IN the session bill
vaa introduced carrying an appropria-
iion Of about $3S00OO for the support
ot the institution. The appropriations
committee took hold OF the bill, made an
investigation Of the workings and cN.
p,nditmes of the college, held hearings
and then whitfield it down to about $780,
400 or reduction OF 100000 from the
estimates. After the measure had thus
brcn cut and pruned it was brought into
the h5jl4e and Chairman Morrison called
it up for passage, A battle royal then
began. Those who favor small apprO-
piiations, went after it with amend
ments, with the view OF further rcdue.
ing the appropriations.
Chairman Morrison, in his statement
10 the house, said that the committee
had cut out or reduced all OF the items
that the college could stand, but the OPP
POSITION forces thought the institution
could stand more, and they sIashed
away at the bill, with the result that
most Of the proposed expenditures were
1nrther scaled down.
This aroused considerable feeling among
the members OF the house, which mani
tested itself when the roll WAS called on
final passage.
Siyty.nine affirmative votes, or Tua-
jority OF all OF the members elected, are
required to pass an appropriation bill.
On the lineup the supporters OF the
amended bill could not muster but 60
votes. Six short OF the necessary SO,
while 81 votes were cast against the
bIll.
A storm of applause swept over the
haIl when it was announced that the bill
had failed to pass. What the attitude
Of the senate will be toward the bill
when it reaches that body is a sub
jcct of considerable speculation.
The house passed three other appro-
rriaton bills, namely, $4,000 for de-
fraying the expenses Of the farmers
institute workers Of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, an appropria-
1ion for the support of the branch eX-
pertinent station at Holly Springs and
an appropriation for the support OF the
State Institute for the Blind at Jack
son.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08

.Iackson.-The amended form of the
hiIl prohibiting corporations from en-
gugng in agricultural pursuits i'll Mis-
>issppi, which Gov. Brewer has himself
designed, was passed in the lower house
after brief debate. An explanation of
hoy. Brewers attitude on the bill, which
he had been expected to veto, was Of
rrrcd In its amended form the bill
does not become effective until Novem-
her OF the present year and allows cor.
porations twenty years in which to dis
pose of the lands they have acquired by
he foreclosure proceedings.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Deaf and Dumb Investigation.

The committee appointed to investi-
gate the Deaf and Dumb Institute re-
ported as follows: That said institution
has been wisely, economically and eff
GENTLY administered and that the eyi-
dence proves conclusively that the SIT
perintendrnt and board of trustees have
been remarkably efficient and panstok-
ing in the discharge Of their respective
duties We, therefore, commend him
and thcnr, and characterize as utterly
frivolous and mfoundrd the charges Of
extravaganza and mismunagcment which
this committee was called upon to in'
vcs!igatc.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Compelled to Sleep on Dynamite.

Waynesbor0.--Sey&.al county conyicts
who have been on the Wayne county
farm are making serious charges against
some of the guards. Sonrc Of the con-
victs it is charged who were working
on the roads were chaincd g. night and
slept in 4 tent. Two boxes of dyna.
mite and a box of cap, were kep in
the tent and also sack Of dynamite
and the convicts We're required to use
this sack of dynamite as pillow. The
tent caught fire one night and the
chained men were in Il frenzy, us they
were chained and could not get away
Assistance arrived and they were re.
leased and the dynamite removed.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Newton County Enters Fight.

Newton.--Some time since the an.
nouncement was made that the county
in Mississippi accomplishing the most in
the way OF tick eradication for the year
OF 1912. would be given prize Of a
fine bull. One OF the provisions in max.
ing this offer is that the county must
have live, active association. Newton
county has Just begun this work, forty
watts having been ordered made by the
board of supervisors. DR.. II. B. Leonard,
of Aberdeen, has been in the county rep.
resenting the national government.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
HOBBS INSURANCE BILL KILLED.
Proposed Law Required Investment il
State Securities.

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The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Youngest Minister In Country.

Barberton. O.. has the distinction
Of having the youngest minister in
the state, II not in tho United
States. in Arenzo Scales, aged 10.
He is a member of the senior class
Of the high school and never studied
for the ministry, but he often took
part in religious meetings. SO when
the Methodist church at Johnstown
Corners was without minister, he
was assigned to the pulpit. He ex.
poets to enter theological seminary
after he graduates from high school
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
VIAL Statistics Bill.

The house passed the Quin vital sta
tstics bill, measure long advocated
by the medical profession Of the state
and which is also said to be in the future
ore of the greatest assets the state will
have in the way of attracting immigra-
ton Of the desirable sort, which would
hike to come to Mississippi, but which
u kept away by false reports as to
tn" state being "a siekIy, swampy, ma
IarIous one, the reports being circulated
mainly by other communities desiring
the immigrants.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Our Trade With England

100000; British Honduras, $1,750. 900,
and Alden and Bermuda, each about ST.
100000.
To Gibraltar the total was about
$4OO, 900; to Malta, Goza. etc, about
5000, 900. and to British China. the
Falkland islands and miscellaneous
other British possessions as a whole.
about 100000.
Raw cotton, meats and breadstuirs
form the bulk OF the exports from the
United States TO the United Kingdom
though certain manufactures. such a.
agricultural Implements. leather and
machinery. are important articles TO
the yearly sales to that country.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Majority Verdicts.

The only recommendation submitted
to the legislature by the Mississippi
Bar association relative to practice and
procedure on which favorable action has
been taken is the proposed change in the
constitution allowing three-fourths of a
jury panel to return yerdcts in civil
actions. The house passed the resolution
providing for majority verdicts in civil
Eases, and it will be sent over to the
senate. Some doubts are expressed as
to whether it will get through that body.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08

The senate dispatched business at a
rapid rate Thursday and passed large
number of bills, among them the fol-
lowing. The penitentiary appropriation
bill, placing privilege tax OF $500 on
labor agents, making it msdeneanor
for wife desertion, empowering munich
palitips to provide sinking funds for re-
firing outstanding indebtedness, and con-
ferring upon chanccry courts jurisdiction
in winding up affairs of corporations in
liQuidation
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08

IIattic.burg. g.--Thr closing scene III the
tragedy enacted here when Eugene
Youngblood and i, ", Rourke We're
killed, was played when the trial Of
Officer Willis Moore, Tom Moore and
H. NJ. Noteworthy was had before jus
tice OF the Peace Fairly, who acquitted
them of a charge Of murder 1t will be
recalled that the officers shot and killed
Rourkc after he had killed YoungbloOd
and was attempting to shoot some mem
ber Of the police force
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
WALK 80 MILES TO MARRY
Kentucky MountRIneer Runs Away
in Binding snowstorm With
12-Year-Oid CouaIn.

Whitesburg. Ky. --- Thirty miles
through binding snowstorm. with
mountains to cross and angry parents
behind them, came James Coombs, Jr..
and Miss Virgie Coombs, his cousin.
to be married They routed the clerk
o. courts from his bed early to give
them license and then persuaded
the Rev. James Il. Bradford to unite
them.
Later In the day they left Whites.
burg on the trip back to the Perry
county line. where they have both
spent all their lives,
The bridegroom Is 20 and his wife
his Just passed her twelfth birthday.
The bride wore dresses which came
Just below her knees
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Gotham Has Big Coal Bill

year was almost 10 900, 900 tons. Dwell.
ing houses. stores, theaters. halls,
public and private institutions, con-
sumo 10,O0O,0O0 tons a year. Factories
and gas and electric companies con.
sumo 100000 tons year, and
steamships buy at this rDrt almost
100000 tons year.
That the ashes resulting from this
enormous consumption would make a
very fair sized mountain is evidenced
by the fact that In the last ten years
they have been sufficient to all In %
square miles Of marsh and low-iying
lands in this vicinity.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Wnnld Sell State Earns.

The most notable action OF the legis'
lature Thursday was the adoption by the
lower house OF the Hcmphili resolution
providing that after the state convict
farms have been fully developed they
shall be sold in small tracts, AS a
measure Of encouraging immigration.
and wild lands purchased on which the
states convicts will be placed at work.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08

CoIumbus.--ior the purpose Of sccur
ing a reduction in freight rates that
will save local lumber men thousands
k"t fOr this community, J. G. Wealth
of dollars annually and greatly increase
the advantages OF Columbus as Il mar
crly, secretary of the Business league,
has gone to Chicago to appear before the
Interstate Commerce commission and
show why these rates should be reduced
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
FOR GOOD ROADS.


The senate took long step toward
creating system Of good roads in this
state by passing the Walker bill creating
a state highway department and estab'
fishing a state highway commission. The
bill also creates the office OF state high.
way engineer, and authorizes state aid
for the establishment. construction,
maintenance and repair OF public high
ways and bridges. It creates a fund and
makes an appropriation for, carrying the
act into effect. state aid for counties
wishing to Join in the good roads move
ment is also provided. 1t is understood
that the measure has the active support
and sympathy Of Gov. Brewer
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
invents a Frost Alarm"

San Warning Of ap-
preaching frost Is to be given by an
ingenious device invented by Prof. A..
G. Meade, chief Of the local weather
bureau. Prof. McArdie Is In receipt Of
news from Washington that patent
for the contrivance has been granted.
The inventor has been at work on the
frost alarm" for fifteen years. and
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08

The house passed, among the otHN
bills, bill called the county printing
bill. 1t is measure intended to keep
the county printing inside the state, and
is companion measure to the state
printing bill passed som" time ago. The
bill passed was substitute bill, the
original bill providing protection for the
state printers against the outside print
crs, but did not protect the county Priu-
tcrs from the state printers.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
SEE BLACK FOX IN INDIANA
People Of tho knobs" Get GIImpses
OF a Valuable Fur Bearer--May
Be Freak Of Ordinary Species.

Louisville, Ky. -- Residents OF the
Indiana knobs" opposite this city.
have caught glimpses Of a rare black
fox. whose fur is the most valuable Of
any of the North American foxes.
and an old fashioned hunt Is being or.
gani2ed by sportsmen in the hope OF
catching It. The black fox is a native
of Alaska. and It is thought this one
may be a freak OF the ordinary species.
A year ago a Canadian silver fox was
captured among the knobs and It's fur
was sold in this city for 5000
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Delay on HighawY Bill.

House bill 754 was called up for pas
sage but some objection was made and
1t wasiaid over for future action. This
measure was introduced by Mr.. Barbee
OF DeSoto, and is a meritorious meas
ure aimed to aid in building highways.
IL provides that where county roads, be-
ing improved under the present law,
reach the corporate limits OF towns the
roads shal be continued OH through such
towns, the same amount per mile being
expended within US without the town.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Bishop Murrah Returns.

Jacksom.-Aftcr an absence in the
Orient and in other foreign lands since
last summer, Bishop William Belton
Murrah. OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South has returned. Bishop
Nlurrah followed practically the same
route and visited the same fields OF mis-
sionary activity as were visited by
Bishop Galloway on his twelve months
cruise decade ago.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
New County Killed.

An mfavorabIe report was returned
by the committee on local and private
legislation on the bill creating the pro.
posed new county OF Delta, to be com
posed of portions of Yazoo, Washington
Sunfower. Holmes and sharkey conn'
ties.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08

has brought It to 4 state OF practical
perfection.
The inventor asBerts II will mean
the saving Of many millions of dollars
annually to fruit growers.
The instrument records varying hu.
midity in connection with the temper
ature.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Pass University Appropriation.

The senate passed the University OF
Mississippi appropriation bill, carrying
total of $214, 4,0j5.07, which is $4,000
less than the same bill carried in 1910.
ih" bill was passed without a speech
bang made or u negative vote recorded.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Bank Regulation Bill.

The bin, providing for the regulation
and inspection Of state banks, passed
the senate after lengthy debate. Tie
bill provides for the supervision of all
banks and banking institutions char
tered by the state.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08

Vicksburg. ]. A. Woodruff has
returned from Panama, where he went
to observe the work on Panama canal
with view to adopting such methods
used there as arc applicable to the work
in the Vicksburg engineer district,
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Increase Number Senators.

The resolution by Senator Minor, OF
Noxubee county, increasing the number
of state senators to As and giving the
three new senators to south Mississippi,
was accepted by the house and pronounced
satisfactory to south Mississippi.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Votes $4,000 Bonds.

Meridan.--Mcrdian voted bonds in
the sum of $4,000 to the Meridian and
afemphis railroad, payable when the road
is completed from this city to Union,
on the New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago
railroad
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08

East Orange. N. 1.-TWO flremen
who were found intoxicated after aid
ing in putting out Are In liquor
store. said they we're made drunk by
fumes from burning whisky.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Expect to Grow Pecans.

Wesson.--One OF the new ventures to
be tried here is the extensive growing Of
pecans. w. L. IIammons IL looking for
a thousand acre tract Of land, all Of
which he intends 70 plant in pecans.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Boys Disappeared.

Meridian. parents Of Thad
Adams and Peter Oliver, two young
white boys who disappeared from Bella
hatchic, are anxious to learn Of their
whereabouts The boys are said to have
ran away from home.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
To Make Stump Pullers.

Hattiesburg.--F. NJ Hill, of this city,
and Fred Scocrs, OF Standish, Mich,
have organized "A company to engage in
the manufacture Of t-c Little Giant
Stump PulIcr," and VIII erect a plant in
This city.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Immigrants for Delta.

Clarksdale.-Th Delta Publicity and
Improvement Association is in touch
with $50 Portugcse tomiIies, who desire
to settle in the delta. They are all agri.
cultmists, and wish 10 buy their Iands.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
pleads Guilty.

New York.-James Splaine, one OF the
cab robbery, pleaded guilty to three
counts. robbery in the first degree,
Grand larceny and assault.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Freight Tied Up.

Natchcz.~-Frcghl service on the Mis-
sissippi Central Railroad somewhat Grip
Piled was owing to strike Of fifteen
engineers on thaS road.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
Earth Is 10000, 600 Year, Old.

Paris.-Prof. John BOsler, after ex.
amining various kinds Of rock, has
decided that the earth is 710,00O,0OO
years old.
The commonwealth., 1912-03-08
0kolona Mill Burns.

OkoIona.-The oil mill OF the Oko.
Iona Mill Company was burned. Loss
about 100000.
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resimentaI colors. Mistaking the word
of command. they faced about and
started for the rear. When the mis-
take was pointed out. Gordons men
faced about again and charged pell-
NELL through the tangled abatis and
over the Entertainments
Mystitied by the tactics of the south
erners. the Federals again retreated.
nnd in the eagerness of pursuit the
Aiabamians plunged blindly into mo-
rass two or three feet deep. Gordon's
men We're soon caught in snare.
From fresh Federal brigade the Third
and Fifth Michigan were sent into a
piece of woods on Gordons flank.
These two regiments led by General
Phil Kearny in person were the van
guard OF KearnyS division. At the
first sound eff battle Kearny bad set
out from the Federal reserve camps at
the head of the first troops within call.
These CHANGED to be the Michigan men.
Phil Kearny at the Point Of Danger
BY their fierce and steady bush fight
ing they checked the fury of the en-
envy and gained time for Kearny's
main column to get UP. Kearny gal
Hoped back and forth. impatient over
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regiment by regiment as his command
reg, he'd the point Of danger helped
70 save the army from disaster. Still
fighting mad and looking Tor supports
70 come and help clear the woods
Of Fedetsais the Alahamians held on In
Tire swamp Tor an hnur Gordon bore
charmed fife, although his clothes
were ri.dfpd with bullets. and finally
his horse was Shat under him. The
lieutenant c,,iaue major and addntaui
were Ont down. and the rauks suffered
appalling slaughter. Finding that no
help caEie M To drive the Michigan
men from the wosRis, Gordon ordered
Captain Bell 90 favtthis aauG company
IN, a line Perpendicular TO the woods
and keep the deadly ire dewn Bell
was mnrtaify wounded the moment be
hanged from, So close were the
Michigan men that he emptita his re-
voIver among them rs he lay dying
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Il, hns,T;s. i st;rrap Eoi wlarrtlt,- tl!sfb,.r
htd i's&ii L" give rslls@, for tire
suit> ui a Federal HalN.ry. Thr.- AiH-
banlial.S 'penpa i brisk ire upon lAe
New Workers and when it was briskIy
returned they threw themselves down
behind The Stumps aud took. picked
shots In "A short tine the New York
ers retired to the shelter OF a line of
trenches in front OF the guns.
About the time that the New Workers
fell back tile Confederate brigade led
by General 4odeS charged on the bat
terry near iorfon's line. and Gordon or.
dered Tie Alabamians To rally on the
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By Captain GEORGE L. KILr1ER. Late
u. s. " ........ . '.s

TIEJTENANT J. B. i WASHING
TON. c. S. A. was in the sad
A die and abroad early on the
morning OF May 81. lSti2 Con
trary 10 his intentions. in the. course.
of the forenoon he rode into the. Fed
eral picket posts at Seven Pines. in
front OF Richmond. The mishap of
the lieutenant. who belonged 10 the
Mount Vernon WashingtonS and~ serY-
ed as an aid -de-camp on the staff of
General Joseph f. Johnston. the Con
federate commander. ended in d trip
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The War Fifty Years Ago

Battle OF Hanover Court House Near Richmond Gen
eral Mcclellan Clears the Way For junction of His
Army With the Army of General Mcdowell North Of
the Confederate CaptolEvacuaton of Corinth Mss
by the Confederates-Frst Cavalry Raid OF the War.
Desperate Fighting at Fair Oaks, Close TO Richmond
The Confederates Attack McClellans Left Wing Driy-
ing 1t Two Miles---The Ground Is Recovered