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Pension Distribution. Following list gives the number of pensioners In each county, and the Faetory Exampttoue. The broad-gauge legislature of 1900 nnssixl an act that rmcrht 1 mTO fll generally known and acted upon. It exempts from all State, county and levee taxation for a perod of five years, "a11 or Plants now in course of establishment or which shall after be established in this State fore the first day of January, 1910, for wnrltintr. cotton, inte.

ramie, tvnnl hUIt i 1V1ATTERS. CURRENT EVENTS. POWER. Where and How Geo. Polk Was Klllj Amort, Miss.

Oct. 8, Col. Power In a late nitnnrToaa if. by you that in a volume in the "on- containing the na the generals tuied durii tnst 'tenant-General Lev' nie- was killed at Pine Mountain. wHiieaeraw lorces wer advanced to within a short distance of T-uojr, at the loot of Mis sionary Ridge.

On a beautiful spot, on the top of Missionary Ridge, directly in the rear, but some distance from the position occupied by Grade's Alabama brigade, and other portions of Bushrod Johnson's division, Gen. Polk established his corps head quarters. 11 was there, while at his own tent, that a shell thrown from a Federal battery, some ten miles or more away, on the left of the Federal position, exploded, killing Gen. Polk instantly. There was no general engagement going on at the time, and the shot that killed the general was directed at his headquarters.

L. Hall, Formerly flagbearer 43d Alabama regiment. Having referred the foregoing to Mr. Allen Hooker, who has been for some time engaged in making an index to all Mississippians mentioned in the "Rebellion Records," he makes the following interesting statement: Confederate and Union reports agree that Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk was killed on Pine Mountain, Georgia, June 14, 1864. 80 say Sherman, Hardee and Johnston.

See volume 38, part 4. Among the series of broken ridges and hills which form the water shed between the Elowah and Chattahoochee, stand three prominent peaks, Kennesaw, Pine Hill and Lost Mountain, in the State of Georgia. Pine Hill (or Pine Mountain), is about four miles southeast of Kennesaw, and was the apex of the triangle, the salient of the Confederate position. (See page 481, part 4, volume 38.) Gen. Sherman had issued an order for the batteries in position to maintain a pretty brisk fire during the early part of the day, on groups of men and horses, especially at the north base of Kennesaw, Pine Hill, the object being to make a lodgment on the ridge commanding those hills from which the water flows toward the Chattahootchie.

Major-General D. S. Stanley (U.S.A.) at page 223, volume 38, part 1, writes: On the 14th the position of the enemy was sharply canonaded by all of oar batteries, and, as we subsequently learned, the second shot fired from a rifled section of the 5th Indiana battery, exploded in a group of rebel generals killing Lieutenant-General Polk. The first intimation the Federals had of Bishop Polk's death they got from the Confederates: Gbs. Thomas' Headquarters, I Bio Shantt, June 14th.

Our signal officers read the enemy's flag, and in this way we learned that the rebel general. Polk, was killed today and his remains sent to Marietta. The messages were from Hood. The fact is carefully concealed, lest becoming known the rebel signal officers would change their code. J.

C. Vandbver, (U. S. Captain and Assistant Quartermaster. (Volume 38, part 4, page 479.) Headquarters Armt or Tennessess.

I In the Field, June 14, 1864. General Field Orders, No. 2: Comrades You are called upon to mourn your first captain, your oldest companion in arms. Lietenant-General Polk fell today at the outpost of the army the army he raised and commanded, in all of whose trials he shared, to all of whose victories he contributed. In this distinguished leader we have lost the most courteous of gentlemen, the most gallant of soldiers.

The Christian, patient soldier, has neither lived nor died in vain. His example is before you. His mantle rests with you. J. E.

Johnston, General. (Page 476, volume 38, part 4.) Southern Officers In the Union Army. The Atlanta Constitution has published a complete list of the 245 officers of all grades who resigned from the United States army in 1861, most of whom took up arms for the Southern Confederacy. In this long roll we recognize the names of three Mississippians: Brevet Captain John Withers, assistant adjutant-general and fourth lieutenant Fourth Artillery; resigned March 1, 1861. First lieutenant, James A.

Smith, Sixth Infantry, resigned May 9, 1861. First lieutenant, Charles W. Phifer, Second Cavalry; resigned April 1, 1861. Of these General Smith surviver, and is living in Jackson. Our General Stephen D.

Lee represented South Carolina; first lieutenant in Fourth Artillery; resigned February 20, 1861. Was a lieutenant-general at the close of the war. A Captured Sword. Biloam, Nov. 9, 1900.

Col. Power I have a sword captured in the battle of Murfreesboro, on the 31st of December, 1862. The name on scabbard is I. Abernathy, lieutenant 37th Indiana volunteers. I was wounded severely a few minutes after.

I was a lieutenant in company 24th Mississippi volunteers. The sword will be returned on application of parties interested. K. A. Miller.

I MISSISSIPPI 5 NOTES OF PAST AND I By J. L. MAJOR WILLIAM STARLING. ntHal Tribute to His Life and Character. Grand Council Masters in Mississippi Dearly Beloved Companloni tl fourth time since the flowers Lhe lourm vituc i in hlnom and last we met in council an unbidden guest has ,...1 in nnrmvatie.

c.irele and come au our ucu jugs forever. In the early spring he came and summoned him who was the first citizen of the State, the honest and incorruptible statesman, the patriotic and brave soldier, the friend and educator of the people. Past Grand Master of Masons, John Marshall Stone. A little later he beckoned and took from us a brothor whom we all loved and greatly admired, Past Grand. High Priest John K.

McLeod, and nest one whom the people honored and who had served them well, the wise and accomplished Freemason, estimable qualities had earned him a multitude of friends, Vast Grand Master John F. McCormick fell before his implacable dart. And now our cup of sorrow is filled to the brim and running over and tears will be in all our eyes, as the Grand Master asks you to mourn with him yet another irreparable calamity, for on yesterday he took from us another friend, whose warm clasp of the hand always carried with it a brother's full measure of love, Wm. Stabling, Past Crand Master of Masons, Past Grand High Priest, Past Deputy Grand Mas- ter 01 this urana council, rasi. rresi-dent of the Order of High Priesthood and Past Grand Commander of Templars.

Corning as it does so closely upon the appalling calamities which have befallen us in the deaths of Brothers Stone, McLeod and McCormick, we are bewildered by the blow and cannot find words in which to adequately express the measure of love all of us felt for him, but when we can with composure dwell upon his merits we hope to be able to speak of him as he deserves. In the meantime I need not suggest to you that our sanctuaries should be draped 1 i in mourning garo; your own nearis will best suggest what outward manifestation of sorrow you should make, for there is not a Mason in Mississippi who will not mingle tears of warmest love with him who prays that our Heavenly Father may assuage this (rreat sorrow and throw around all of you the arms of His love. Frederic Speed, Grand Master. BIOGRAPHICAL. The third of a family of nine children born to Lyne and Maria (Hensley) Starling, natives of Kentucky, at Columbus, Ohio, January 15, 1839, died at Greenville, December 10, 1900.

A graduate of the University of New York, which he entered when in his fourteenth year, in 1856; after his graduation and until the removal of his parents to Illinois in 1858, he read law in New York. In 1861 he entered the Union army as a lieutenantof the Third Kentucky Cavalry and afterward promoted captain of the Ninth Kentucky Infantry, and subsequently major, and participated with great gallantry in a number of the principal battles of the war. In 1867 he joined his father in the cultivation of cotton iu Arkansas, and in 1883 received an appointment as assistant engineer of the Mississippi Levee Board and settled at Greenville, which ever afterward was his home. Afterward, being promoted chief engineer of the Levee Board, he made a study of the great problem of protecting the delta of the Mississippi from overflow, and the better to fit him for his work, learned the Dutch language and visited Holland and thoroughly inspected the system of dykes by which that country is protected against the incursions of the sea and rivers. He contributed, as one of the results of his visits to Holland, to the transactions of the Society of American Engineers, a very valuable paper on the levees of that country, which has been published.

His last great work was done as a member of the Southwest Pass Commission, and at the time of his departure he was engaged in writing- a work upon the levee systems of the Mississippi valley. Capt John Lamkin, a highly esteemed citizen of Pike county, died at the home of his son, Dr. L. H. Lamkin, in Natchez, on the 10th instant.

He had filled many places of honor and responsibility in his county, and was among the first to enlist under the Stars and Bars. He edited the Magnolia Gazette from 1885 to 1887, and during that period published many readable sketches of the bench and bar of the long ago, and of his experiences as a Confederate soldier and prisoner of war. amount of auditor's each: warrant sent to County. No. Pensioners, Adams Alcorn.

104 Amite 17 ur, 43 r. 115 97 58 122 At the county' Mr. S. 1. D.W c1iunty.and.Mis3 V1 8,872 50 i 3,187 60 1,990 00 4,280 00 326 00 3,300 00 992 60 97 60 3,317 50 1,616 00 946 00 1,417 50 682 60 927 50 65 00 375 CO 1,857 60 1,667 50 It, Driiitimond 10 30 At er.

Hon. AloV- 45 Greene 21 Grenada 28 Hancock 2 Harrison 11 Hinds. 52 Holmes 4c Issaquena 3 Itawamba tot Jackson 34 Jasper 67 Jefferson 46 Tones 40 Kemper 78 Lafayette its Lauderdale. 125 Lawrence 17 LeaKe 120 Lee 130 Leflore 1 13 Lincoln 42 Lowndes 25 Madison a Marion 17 Marshall 53 Monroe 156 Montgomery 69 Neshoba 117 Newton 89 Noxubee 28 Oktibbeha 60 Panola 02 Pearl Hlver 5 Perry 38 Pike 50 Pontotoc 142 Prentiss 07 Quitman 5 Rankin 02 Scott 75 Sharkey 3 Simpson S3 Smith 177 Sunflower 8 Tallahatchie 82 Tate 42 Tippah. 134 Tishomingo 69 Tunica 4 Union 95 Warren 60 Washington 5 Wayne 29 Webster 8a Wilkinson 22 Winston 131 Yalobusha 89 Yazoo 37 97 60 60 1,137 50 2,212 50 1,512 50 1,610 00 2,430 00 3,497 60 4,185 00 687 50 4,040 00 4,395 00 475 00 1,417 60 830 00 802 60 670 00 1,860 00 5,207 60 2,020 00 3,972 60 2,980 00 1,062 50 2,002 60 2,152 60 162 50 1,320 00 1,692 50 4,720 00 3,387 60 162 50 2,050 00 2,607 50 97 50 1,877 50 6,007 50 260 00 2,735 00 1,435 00 4,030 00 2,310 00 197 50 3,190 00 1,712 50 162 50 995 00 2,927 SO 767 59 4,512 50 2,075 00 1,555 00 Personal Assessment for 1900.

The following summary of the per sonal assessment in Mississippi for 1900 is given out by Auditor Cole; Items. Number. Cattle 239,812 Horses 190,978 Oxen 18,227 Mules ...170,882 Sheep and goats (oyer 10 head 142,894 Hogs 45,715 Carriages and other wheeled vehicles 140,335 Pianos, organs, melodeons. 150.075 Watches 27,774 Jewelry Gold aud silver Guns (over one) 3,746 Pistols, bowie knives, dirks sword canes 6,700 Capital employed In merchandise Capital employed In manufacturing Money on hand, deposited or loaned Indebtedness considered collectable Household furniture (over $250) Bonds, warrants, held. All other personal property Valuation 2,167,185 00 7,251.975 00 408.596 50 8,208,711 00 226,260 05 65,103 42 2,973,492 00 1,002,925 00 401,646 00 90,372 50 42,886 00 22,130 48 41,271 25 14,913,439 45 4,295,163 79 93 4,063,417 07 375,995 00 566,515 05 2,435,005 00 Total 857,400,338 00 EXEMPT property.

Horses. 13,097 212,518 Sheep 67,598 Goats 20.081 Hogs 381,816 Asses 403 Number of polls assessed, 1900 204,515 AumDer oi pons assessed, isyy Increase 20,638 Captain Devereux Shields. The good people of Natchez bestowed great and deserved honors on Captain Devereux Shields, on Tuesday night, the 19tb. It will be remembered that he and his company, the 29th United States infantry, after desperate fighting with an overwhelming force, were captured in September last. He was twice severely wounded and four of his men killed, and about thirty of the eDeray killed.

After weeks of weary marching over mountainous forests on the island of Mardinizne, the captain and his men were rescued by our forces. After being treated in a hospital for several weeks, he reached home by way of San Francisco and New Orleans. At the latter place his wife met him. On reaching Natchez at 3:30 p.m., there was a great military and civic demonstration, which continued until the Shields home was reached. The program at the operahouse, which commenced at 3:30, included an address of welcome by the secretary of State, as the representative of Gov.

Longino; an address by Mayor Benbrook, and an address by Hon. James A. Clinton, who, in behalf of the citizens, presented Captain Shields a magnificent sword. To the several addresses the captain made appropriate response, rie stated that he had simply tried to do duty as a soldier. The operahouse was packed, and the immense audience very demonstrative throughout.

A reception at Institute hall followed. I Amount '344750 652 so oo co 162 60 I Pat Crowe is Suspected by the Police of Omaha as the Leader of the Kidnapers. THEY HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO LOCATE HIM Strennou I.florts Being Made Barn the Reward of Offered by Cud ally A Story From Milwaukee Apropoa of the Abduction. Omaha, Neb. 22.

It is stated this morning that Pat Crowe, well known in local police circles, is the man whom the police suspect of being the leader of the gang who abducted young Edward Cudahy from his home, in this city, Tuesday night. Posses of officers in citizen's clothing are looking for Crowe, but so far he has not been arrested. No Frenh Developments. Beyond tint: there are no aevelop- ments in the case. The police and detectives are working on the matter are inclined to believe that men not well acquainted with the city and Hurrounding country would have been unable to manage the affair u-i it was carried out.

Tor this reason they were searching erai local men who are known to beai a bad reputation. PinUenoiiH ut Work. An extra force oi Pinkertons Lave anv-'ed and have been put to work on she case. Th only cow they h.v to -nork on ir present is a of the ter thrown on lr. nuking the con-iitiuus.

the boy would Is r-. ued. The ui iual copy was i-i money, this being one or tue consul erations (Lmanded by 'he despar' M'-. C'u'lahy has coniivnied the offer of of for ibe iT-r of the abductors. WENT FISHING FOR SUCKERS.

A Smooth Strancer Makes a Nloe Watt of ClirlBtmas Money Out of Furmers. Mnscoutah, 111., Dee. A number of farmers in the vicinity of Maseou-tah believe they have been "done" by smooth stranger with a few samples of high-grade liquor. They paid in advance for whisky which never came, and they have given up hope that it ever will come. A few days ago a stranger appeared at Mascoutah.

lie said he was a traveling salesman for a Peoria distillery. He was well dressed and a good talker, and soon had himself in the confidence of enough people iu the town to satisfy his purposes. He hired a buggy and a man to drive it. and went out into the country. He stopped at every farmhouse mid talked.

He had with him a sample case of the finest liquors. At each house he uncorked a bottle, and let the farmer have a couple of fingers of the finest whisky the farmer ever dreamed of. Then he explained that the stuff was made at the Peoria distillery, that he was selling limited quantities of it for the holidays, and that the farmer had a chance to get it chep, because he would be buying direct from the distillery, and there would be no middleman's profit. Almost, invariably the farmer was impressed, and if he hesitated, another drink of the whisky was certain to make him feel rich enough to buy a whole distillery. So they gave orders for from one to five gallons of the whisk'.

After the man had entered the order on his book he told them he was authorized to offer them a liberal discount for cash in advance. To some he offered ten others 20 per cent, and to some as much as per cent. The farmers were thrifty, and eagerly took advantage of the offer in almost every instance. In a couple of days the stranger cleaned up about four hundred dollars in the vicinity. Then he came back to Mascoutah and boarded the next train for somewhere else.

As soon as the effects of the free whisky wore off the farmers came to the conclusion that it had not been so free after all. Some of them had paid as much as $20 for "two fingers," with a mighty slim chance of getting any more. They made inquiries in Mascoutah and found that the stranger had not left his address there. It also dawned upon them that he had not told them the name of the distillery from which the sample whisky came! The time when the farmers expected to get their whisky has passed and they have become persuaded that they have drank all the whisky they are likely to get from the Peoria distillery. Fire In Chicago.

Chicago, Dec. 22. The three lower floors of Sears, Roebuck nve-story warehouse were burned out. Friday "afternoon. The loss amounts to $50,000.

furs or metal; all factories for manufacturing machinery, implements or articles of use in a finished state and ready for consumer's use without additional process of labor; all factories for making wagons, carriages, buggies, clothing or shoes complete; all factories for making barrels or boxes complete, whether coopered or lose, ready for transportation, and all creameries. And all cities, towns and villages are hereby authorized to encourage the establishment of such factories and plants within their respective corporate limits, by exempting the same from municipal taxation for a period not longer than ten years." The press of the State would do a great public service by maVing special note of this, to the end that every city and town in the State may do as Jackson has done, pass an exemption ordinance, and follow that up by the widest publicity iu the press and by private correspondence. Mississippi promises to become as noted for her manufactures as for her agriculture. She certainly will be if her people will only take advantage of their opportunities. A fertile soil, a genial clime, and a homogeneous citizenship are elements that ought to insure the prosperity and greatness of any common wealth.

In all these, and many other respects, Mississippi is richly endowed. Confederate Monument at Aberdeen. The patriotic and persevering efforts of the Ladies' Memorial Association and R. E. Lee Chapter, U.

1). of Aberdeen, came to a successful and grand conclusion on Wednesday the 12th instant, when a very handsome monument to the Confederate dead of Monroe county was unveiled with imposing ceremonies. The procession included the Okolona band. Confederate vet erans, Col. II.

M. Levy of 1st regiment National Guard and staff, company 1st regiment, Henry Light Guards, Battalion Cadets A. and M. College, school children, Ladies' Memorial Association and Daughters of the Confederacy in beautifully decorated carriages, citizens in carriages and the Juvenile Bicycle Corps. Capt.

E. L. Sykes, for the ladies, read a historical and descriptive sketch, and at the conclusion of the impressive dedication ceremony, conducted by Commander R. E. Houston, assisted by Chaplain A.

J. Brown, the Misses Mary Gillespie and Annie McFarland, one to the left and the other to the right of the shaft, drew the cords and the veil descending, revealing the monument in all its beauty, and disclosing for the first time the life-like figure of the Con federate soldier that surmounted it. Cannon pealed, the band played "Dixie and battle-worn veterans gave "that rebel yell." The exercises were concluded at the operahouse. Company's roster was read, and "dead on the field of honor was the response to many a precious name. Hon.

W. M. Cox, of lialdivyn, was orator of the day. His address, says the Examiner, "was worthy of the occasion and the gifted orator. It was broad, eloquent, logical, pathetic.

He fought the battles upon lines that anticipate the final judgment of the historian, and made out as clear a case for the South as was ever presented to a people. It was a grand effort, and there was many an eye dinned with tears during his recital, and many a heart that throbbed with pride when scenes in council and on the field were rehearsed." This writer was honored with a place on the program, but, unable to attend, sent the following: Dec. 12, 1900. To the Ladies' Association and R. E.

Lee Chapter U. D. Aberdeen, Miss. I beg leave to extend my congratulations, and to express my admiration of the patriotic work you have so nobly accomplished. Mississippi contributed eighty thousand men to the cause of the Southern Confederacy, and among the best and bravest were those who fought under the Stars and Bars from Monroe county.

May your example be followed by every county in the State. But the grandest monument yet to be erected is the one that shall commemorate the devotion and fortitude of Southern womanhood during and since the cival war. J. L. Power, Secretary of State.

The progressive, prospering and beautiful city of Biloxi has sustained a serious setback in the shape of a half million dollar fire. In a few years this disaster will be referred to as "a blessing in disguise." Biloxi will be fairer and busier, and more hopeful than ever before. The schools continue to send in their votes for the State flower. County Superintendent Womble reports the following as the vote for Tallahatchie county: Magnolia, 433; Cape Jasmine, 11; Chrysanthemum, 106; Rose, Golden Rod, 4. All schools that have not yet reported are requested to do ao as soon as possible..