Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 1

nmT'ii nvsi wr I I If II II IB II II I I I I I II inVJl KB, Btbllhecl 1871. JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY, FEBEUAEY 8, 1890. XO. 27 THE APPROPRIATION BILL. THE INSURANCE LAWS.

STATE LEGISLATURE. A LITTLE VISITOR. H. B. 416 To amend sec.

2106 Revised Code. Indefinitely postponed. H. B. 417 To amend sec.

1768 Revisen Code. Indefinitely postponed. H. B. 461 To amend ch.

36, Sheet iLcts of 1886. Indefinitely postponed. H. B. 459 To abate the State tax on State lands in Issaquena county.

Indefinitely postponed. H. B. 50B For relief of Ldzzie Lorraine West of Washington county. Passed.

INTBODUOTION OF BILLS. Mr. Watson No. 648 To amend ch. 27, law of 1884, in relation to railroads.

Rail H. B. 330 To provide for the establishment of a house for youthful offenders. In definitely postponed. S.

B. 186 To provide for the expenses of the joint committee who visited Beau-voir to await on Mrs. Jefferson Davis. Passed. H.

B. 229 To prevent fishing with gill nets in any of the waters in Hancock county. Passed. The special order of the day was taken up, being consideration of S. B.

No. 1, in relation to trusts, and H. B. 22. The House resolved itself in Committee of the Whole, Mr.

Witherspoon in the chair. The committee reccommended that H. B. 22, as amended do pass. The report wa3 adopted.

And the substitute was read a third time and passed, entitled a3 follows: An act to prevent public fraud and for other purposes. INTEODTJCTION OF BltLS. Mr. Vardaman No. 636 To incorporate the Greenwood, Alabama and Texas Railroad Company.

Mr. Cook No. 637 To adjust losses on fire insurance policies and for other purposes. Insurance. A Much Needed Change' Suggested from Vicksbtrg.

Vicksburg, Feb. 6, 1390. Editor of the Clarion-Ledger: We wish through you to call the attention of the Legislature to a much needed-change in the insurance laws of the State and can best do 60 by relating the facts of a case which suggests the necessity of the change. In 1887 the Fidelity and Casualty Company, of New York, an accident insurance company, through an itinerant agent, doing business in this State without a license and in violation of law. issued an accident policy on the life of W.

M. Cottorj, a resident of this place and baggage checker on the V. M. R. R.

On January 26th, 1888, young Cotton was accidently "killed by the cars in Jackson, Miss. He had given an order on his employer for the premium, which order was mislaid by the company and not presented for payment, but was mailed to Vicksburg for collection from Chicago on the day of and before young Cotton's death. The mother of Cotton, a poor old lady, and a widow, put the claim in our hands for collection, the company having refused to pay because the premium had not been paid before the death. We succeeded in getting service of process, in a suit brought in the Federal Circuit Court here, on an agent of the company who came here to look into the matter. The first fight was to put us out of court on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction.

The claim being that the agent summoned was not authorized to receive service, and the company at that time had not take out a license and establish agencies the State. That motion being overruled, every technical or other defence that could he offered was setup. Judge Hill, however, instructed the jury to find a verdict for plaintiff (Mrs. Cotten), which they did, and judgment was rendered for her January 17, 1890, for $3,277.50. Now, there is no way to make the money without suing on the judgment in Ixew York, and the company will not pay.

In 1888 the Legislature passed an act changing the insurance law, (acts 18S8, p. 9,) by which it was provide-, that Accident Insurance Companies should not be required to make deposits, also reducing the privilege tax, as to them, to $250. In February, 18S9, this company took out a license to do business in Mississippi, and has its agents throughout the State, and yet we cannot make a cent out of it, on a judgment standing in the State, and it will not pay. The act, referred to, of 1888 should be amended so as to provide: That if any Accident Insurance Company doing business in this State, should permit any judgment heretofore or here after rendered againstjlt in the State, to remain unsatisfied for sixty days, except where appeals have been taken in that time, the license should be thereby revoked and cancelled, and that it should be unlawful for them to thereafter engage in business in State before satisfying such judgment. You will see the justice and propriety of such a provision, if not its necessity for the protection of the widows and orphans of holders of accident policies in Mississippi.

Very truly, yours, Dabney, McCabe Andekson. Down with the Insurance Monopoly. It looks as though the Insurance Trust would have to go. A more complete monopoly was never foisted upon a State. It looks strange that an agricultural State like Mississippi, bitterly opposed to the tariff, should through her own Legislature, have enacted laws that amount to high protection to a few insurance companies.

The best evidence that this is true, is that these companies oppose the repeal of the present insurance law. The reason is clear. The law is greatly to their benefit. It gives them a monopoly of the insurance business in this State, and enables them to charge increased rates for insurance. It is not to the interest of the people to continue the law, unless it is desired that a few insurance companies shall fleece them.

Mississippi wants tarriff reform and she wants insurance reform. She is opposed to a high tariff on the necessaries of life and insurance in these days to a poor man is a necessity. Her legislators have it in their power to abolish the Insurance Trust and give the people what they demand free trade in insurance. We believe the present Legislature will respond to the demand of the people in this regard. Yazoo Sentinel.

The Jackson Clabion-Ledgep has begun a lively fight for the repeal of the law requiring a deposit of $25,000 from in-surande companies before they can transact business in Mississippi. It is contended that this deposit keeps many good companies out of the State and gives those who came in a monopoly and makes insurance higher than it would be was theJe free competition. Representative Peyton, of Hinda county, has introduced a bill in the House repealing the deposit feature of the law. Tupelo Ledger. AVhat Are tlio Thoughts of the Dying? In The Societe do Biologie, Fere affirmed that a dying person in his last moments thinka of the chief events of his life.

Persons resuscitated from drowning, epileptics with grave attacks, persons dying and already unconscious, but momentarily brought back to consciousness by ether injections to utter their last thoughts, all acknowledge that their last thoughts revert to momentous events of their life. Such an ether injection revives once more the normal disposition of cerebral activity, already nearly extinguished, and it might be possible at this moment to learn of certain important events of the past life. the remarkable fact that persons who, in consequence of grave cerebral affections, have been paralyzed for years, get back at once when dying their sensibility, mobility and intelligence. All such facts clearly show that at the moment of dissolution important changes take place, reacting upon the composition of the blood and the functions of the organs. Wiener Medizin-Ische Zeitung.

The beard of Henry S. Cook, a tailor of Norwich, is as long as he is. Mr. Cook is a small man, 60 years old. His beard is jet black and fine and silky, and so is his hair.

When he is erect and his beard unfurled, he can step on six inches of it. He wears it ordinarily coiled in a wad inside his Test. Barnum wanted Mr. Cook to travel with his circus; but Cook is prosperous, and does not care to be a freak. The natives of the Fee jee Islands have taken up cricket through the efforts of an enthusiast, Mr.

Wallington. They like the game much, although they do not like to confine themselves to the orthodox eleven, on each side. They play their matches with forty or fifty a side, or tribe against tribe. Somebody turn to us las' night. The dearest little midget; He's des as wee as he tan be; He turn all by hisself, an' he Des laughs, an' cries, an' winks at me, An' keeps me in a fidget.

He des turn in from baby land. The angels bwung him over; And jxipa told me that be found The little fellow on the ground, An' he was sleeping des as sound As I do. iu the clover. "Tourse I aiut sorry that he turn I'se glad to see him only I wants some love and tisses, too; For since he turn, they don't boo-hoo! is me like they ust to do. An' I is awful lonely.

lie's des bran new dp." that is why They fuss about him: maybe; An' papa said I nmsn't cwy "Tar.se he'd dot bigger by an by, But ain't he little now? Oh, my I He's only des a baby Dood dracious'. won't he ever stop? 1 tan't hear r.ufiin near him. No wonder all the angels thought That they could spare this little tot-He ewies so much hat why they brought Ilim where they hear him! -C. M. Snyder in Pittsburg Bulletin.

Painted in 80 A. I). A story comes from Japan of the recovery of a picture painted over a thousand years ago (in 859 A. by Kanao-ka, the father of Japanese pictorial art. It represents a figure about two feet high, every detail being finished with the elaborate care lavished by tlio old Japanese masters on their choicest works.

According to a description in The Japan Mail the only parts of the body exposed were the face, arms and feet, but the lines and colorings of these portions plainly showed the hand of a great expert. "The flesh was firm, the contours were delicate, and the coloring, though centuries had passed since the time of its application, remained mellow if not fresh. But it was in the treatment of the drapery that the artist had put forth his greatest strength. Tlio folds hung with indescribable softness and fidelity to nature, and the splendid brocades of the priestly vestments were depicted so inimitably that one felt inclined to caress the soft rich stufl." The picture in the course of ages passed into the hands of the famous artist Kane Motonobu, and on his death in 1859 it was among the treasures he left behind, with a certificate from him that it was the work of the great Kanaoka. What happened to it after Motonobu's death is not known, but quito recently it was found in a pawn shop in Tokio.

It was purchased by a deal er a nd was offered for sale abroad, but efforts which were made to prevent this remarkable work from going out of the country wero successful, and it was purchased by a wealthy Japanese merchant, who intends presenting it to tho National museum. It has been said by experts that tho genuine works of Kanaoka now extant may be counted on the fingers of ono hand, and that tho whereabouts of each is well known. Dr. Anderson, in his recent work on Japanese pictorial arts, says oi Kanaoka that "as a student of the vvorka of the great Chinese masters of tho Tang dynasty ho most probably adopted their teaching, with unimportant modifications suggested by Corean example, and must hence be regarded as tho apostle ol an ancient and foreign art rather than the originator of a native school." New York Times. "Madame lioTary." The cause of my going so slowly is just this, that nothing in that book is drawn from myself.

Never has my own personality been so use less to me. It may be, perhaps, that hereafter I shall do stronger things. hope so, but I can hardly imagine I shall do anything more skillful. Here everything is of the head. If it has been false in aim, I shall always feel that it has been a good mental exercise.

But, after all, what is the non-natural to others is the natural to me tho extraordinary, the fantastic, the wild chase, mythologic, or metaphysic. "Saint Antoine" did not require of me one quarter of tho tension of mind "Madame Bovary" has caused me. "Saint Antoine" was a discharge. I had nothing but pleasure in writing it, and the eighteen months devoted to the composition of its 500 pages were the most thoroughly voluptuous of my life hitherto. Judge then of my condition in writing "Madame Bovary." I must needs put myself every minute into a skin not mine and antipathetic to me.

For six months now I have been making love platonically, and at the present moment my exaltation of mind is that of a good Catholic. I am longing to go tc confession. Correspondence de Gustavo Flaubert. Faded. The similes used by children are often so flavored by delicious honesty that they become anything but complimentary to those to whom they are applied.

A lady, somewhere in the thirties, had an enthusiastic admirer in a little boy of 10. Ho followed her about with unwearying devotion, and made her many a pretty speech, bashful but fervent. One evening she came down staira ready for a walk, with a fleecy whita shawl thrown over her head. Its soft folds proved very becoming to the face, bringing out its best characteristics, and softening incipient wrinkles. The little boy was waiting at the foot of the stairs, and when his friend appeared ho started forward to meet her.

"Oh, Miss Helen," he cried, clasping his hands, "you look like an angel 1" Then, as she advanced still further, and the bright light of the chandelier disclosed the fact that she had by no means the aspect of immortal youth, the child added, innocently, "A worn out angel!" Youth's Companion. Liberal Provision Made for tlie Different Institutions. The Appropriation bill will be on the desks of memlers this morning. Following is a general summary of the bill For the support of the Lunatic Asylum at Jaekson For the year 1890 $60,000 00 For the year 1891 60,000 00 For the support of the East Mississippi Insane Asylum: For the year 1890 37,624 61 For the year 1891... 32.250 00 For salary Superintendent East Mississippi Insane Asylum For the year 1890 1,800 00 For the year 1891 1,800 00 For the Deaf and Dumb Asylum For the year 1890 19.343 72 For the year 1891 16,371 93 For support of the Blind Alylum For the year 1890 7,930 00 For the year 1891 6,700 00 For salary of Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum at Jackson For the year 1890 2,500 00 For the year 1891 2.500 00 For expenses of the member of the State Board of Registration not residing at the capital For the year 1890 20 00 For the year 1891 20 00 For clerk of the supreme court For the vear 1890 260 00 For the year 1891 250 00 For books and blanks for the snpreme court For the year 1890 100 00 For the year 1891 100 00 For norter to the capitol For the year 1890 300 C0 For the year 1891 300 00 For stationery, postage and express charges for the departments, fuel and gas for the capitol building and contingent fund for all State officers except for Governor For the year 1890 3,000 00 For the year 1891 3,500 09 For salary of the superintendent of the penitentiary For the year 1890 1,200 00 For the year 1891 1,200 00 For traveling expenses of the Superintendent of the Penitentiary: For the year 1890 250 00 For the year 1891 250 00 For the support of Alcorn University including interest on the Agricultural Land Scrip Fund: For the year 1890 9,500 00 For the year 1891 9,500 00 For the support of the State Nor-School at Holly Springs: For the year 1890 2,500 00 For the year 1891 2,500 00 For the support of the Normal Department of Tougaloo University: for the year 1890 1,500 00 For the year 1891 1,500 00 For printing the several reports of the departments and the benevolent institutions, laws and journals, all other printing and advertising ordered by for the session of 1890 and for miscellaneous printing: For the year 1890 13,500 00 For the year 1891 7,000 00 For salary of the Secretary of the State Beard of Election Com-missioned: For the year 1890 150 00 For the year 1891 150 00 For Continent Expenses of the Senate 1,000 00 For Contingent Expenses of the House 1,000 00 For salary of Railroad Commis-sionen pay of clerk, traveling expenses of Commissioners: For the year 1890 9,500 00 For the vear 1891 9,500 00 For traveling expenses of the Board of control of the Penitentiary: For the year 1890 250 00 For the year 1891 250 00 For contingent fund for the Executive: For the year 1890 2,500 00 For the year 1891 2,500 00 For support of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at illc For the year 1890 33,000 00 For the year 1891 29,000 00 For Library "for 1890 2,000 00 Far building president's residence 2,500 00 For support of the Industrial Institute and College at Columbus: For the year 1890 26,000 00 For the year 1891 24,000 00 For the Natchez Hospital: For the vepr 1890 5,000 00 For the year 1891 5,000 00 For interest on the Chickasaw School Fund at 6 percentum per annum: For the year 1890 48,997 02 For the year 1891 48,997 02 For salary of Librarian and Keeper of the Capitol: For the year 1890 1,080 00 For the year 1891 1,080 00 For support of the hospital at Vicksburg: For the year 1890 10,000 00 For the vear 1891 10,000 00 Kind, Generous Words.

The editor of the Clabion-Ledgeb returns his warmest thanks to the State press for complimentary mention, the following being among the best he has received: New Mississippian The re-election of Mr. R. H. Henry as public printer, is certainly a compliment of the highest personal character. Indeed, few men have ever made a successful fight against such odds.

His opponents, Messrs Banks and McNeily were men occupying most enviable positions in journalistic and political circles; besides being possessed of the greatest personal popularity and representing two hitherto invincible sections east and west Mississippi. The mistake, which in our opinion, proved a fatal one, was that of over-zealous friends injecting into the canvass very serious charges against his character as a man and official, which the majority of the people believed to be without basis, and from which his re-election proves a vindication. Tupelo Ledger The election for State Printer was a deserved compliment and victory for R. H. Henry, the present incumbent.

The vote stood 67 to 78 in his favor, notwithstanding the combined forces of some of the shrewdest politicians in the State were against him, and nsed every means in their power to defeat him. SUMMARY OF YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Kills Both the Senate Penitentiary Bill and the Bill to Abolish the Office of Superintendent of the State Penitentiary. SENATE Twenty-eighth Day. Friday, February 7, 1890.

Senate met pursuant to adjournment. How Evans in the chair. CONSIDERATION OP BILLS. j.j ri'o provide for a new regis- tiou and the holding of an election in f'ite county to vote on a subscription to hmCipital stock of trio New Orleans and Vorthwer-tem Railroad. Passed.

os-To protect crops in Copiah coantv. Pv(d. jj Sj'po provide a general law for he incorporation of railroads. Passed. llll To incorporate Antioch church county.

Passed. 15. -To resell certain lands in the nntv of Warren held under void tax titles collect the taxes due thereon. Indefinitely postponed. S.

B. If" To amend see. 1214, Code, with reference to exemption of wages of laborers. Passed. B.

Tc amend an act to incorporate Holly Springs Cotton Mill and Mannfacturing Company. Passed. S. B. To amend sec.

1993, Code, in lation to granting letters of administration. Indefinitely postponed. Jj S. 104 To exempt from taxation a hotel to constructed in the city of Natchez, Passed. S.

Kit To authorize the Board of of Sharkey county to employ finattordoy. Passed. S. 10" To provide for an additional notice of the peace and constable in district No. in Tallahatchie county.

Passed. S. I'-. 141 To amend and reduce into act the act incorporating the town of Dnrant and the acts amendatory thereto. Parsed.

S. B. To authorize treasurer of Alcorn county to settle certain claims. Passed. II.

B. 5 To amend chapter 45, Code, in relation to exempt property. Passed. S. B.

To exempt from execution, attachment or garnishment money derived from insurance on exempt property. Indefinitely postponed. lis To fix time for holding circuit courts of Marion county. Passed. S.

I')) 1 amend an act to anthorize the construction and use of railroads in the citp of Jackscn. Passed. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS. Mr. McDonald No.

21 2 To prevent sale of liquors within the corporate limits of Hickory Fiat, Benton county. Temperance. Mr. Williamson No. 213 To anthorize ins board of mayor and aldermen of the city of Jackson to procure and put in operation an electric lire alarm system.

Mr. Jayno No. 214 To authorize and empower he Louisville, Now Orleans and Texas Railway to purchase other railroads. Nailroads Mr. Jayne No.

215 To amend sec. Revised Code, in relation to roads, ferries and bridges. Judiciary. Mr. Dodds-No.

210 To amend charter of the town of Corporations. Mr. Dodds No. 217 To authorize Judges of the Supreme Court to make and enforce rules and regulations gov-erning the preparation of records for appeals to said court. Judiciary.

Mr. ISloomfield No. 218 To incorporate the Mobile end Natchez Railroad Company. Railroads. Mr.

Martin No. 219 To amend and continue in full force an act to incorporate the Mississippi and Louisiana Bridge and Railroad company. Railroads. Mr. Martin No.

220 To anthorize the board of Supervisors of Adams county to receive pay for services rendered in performing committee work. Counties and Comity ttoundavies. Mr. Carnthers No. 221 To protect in county of Panola.

Counties and onnty iSoundaries. Mr. Dillard No. 222 To repeal that part of action 8 of an pet entitled an act incorporating the Yazoo and Mississippi alley Railroad Company and declaring its powers, approved February 17th, 1882, whicn requires taxes to be paid into the te Treasury. Finance.

Dillard To secure the payment of taxes on bonds of the State, ir, a 1 ii lines and towns. Finance. Mr. oct 224 Authorizing sale of ods under attachment Judiciary. Wilson To authorize the ird Supervisors of Holmes county nirue an allowance to pay for repairs eiglerville white school.

Counties and t-oruity Boundaries. Jayue No. 226 To incorporate ine Nashville and Chattanooga Railroads. At Senats adjourned. HOUSE Twenty-Seventh Day.

February 7. Ulet Pursuant to adjournment; -Feaker Madison in the chair. ave of absence was granted to Messrs. erspoon, Gillespie and Reid. nni lerrJ Introduced H.

B. C34, re-v1Jlnn? the clerk of the Board of Super-dli" Lake county to keep a claim o1" B' 2 To amend chap. 50 Revised for? aa to extend the right to distrain note Snd suPPlie8 to assignees of rents, plies contracts and accounts for sap- reltion to sureties on indefi iDds' Vote whereby this bill was and i postponed was reconsidered per Waa referred for engrossment, of t'ii fcbTTo Provide for the regulation PrisonIfarmentiar5' eRtablishment of a ectnHU8ton moved to 8trike out the Tn fr the convict farm. Mr on was tabled. bled Senate bill be ta-g- Carried.

upiH8G7To abolish the office of the definiS Taen of the Penitentiary. postponed. roads. Mr. Watson No.

649 To proviJe for publication of delinquent poll tax. Public Printing. Mr. Blount No. "650 Authorizing the appointment of a stenographer for the circuit courts of certain counties in the third judicial district.

Judiciary. Mr. Robinson No. G51 To prevent the advertising of lotteries in the State. Liquor Traffic.

Mr. Beeman No. G52 To provide for a ballast ground for Pascagoula Bay. Judiciary. Mr.

Pelham No. 653 To provide for the sale of lands struck off to the State at tax collector sales. Judiciary. Mr. Magee No.

654 In relation to cancelling certain entries of swamp land and for other purposes. Public Lands. Mr. Perkins No. 655 To incorporate the town of Eden in Yazoo county.

Corporations, Mr. Baker No. 656 To repeal sec. 1, ch. 3, acts 1888, as far as relates to transient venders of fruit trees and grape dines.

Agriculture. Mr. Gillespie Ne. G57 For the relief of Dr. L.

P. Young. Claims. No. 658 For the relief of Jim Bell.

Claims. Mr. Washington No. 659 To authorize the board of supervisors of Oktibbeha county to establish boundary lines and for other purposes. County Affairs.

Mr. Hudson No. 660 To erect a cotton bagging factory and operate the same by convict labor in the penitentiary. Corporations. Mr.

Henry No. 661 In relation to petit lareeny. Judiciary. Mr. Denton No.

662 To exempt the firemen of the city of Meridian from county taxes. WTays and Means. Mr. Muldrow No. 663 To require the publication of semi-annual statements by insurance companies.

Public Printing. Mr. Baker No. 664 To amend section 433, ch. 8, Revised Code in relation to salaries of public officials.

Fees and Sal aries. Mr. Whitman No. 665 Torepeal act to amend section 2901 and section 2902 Revised Code in regard to grand and petty larceny. Judiciary.

By Mr. Washington Resolved by the House, the Senate concurring that both Houses meet in joint session llth, at 7 p. to elect a Superintendent of the penitentiary. Adopted. Mr.

Watson Resoved, that it is the sense of this House that the privilege-tax law passed in 1888 should be so revised as as to reduce the privilege tax on various avocations and enterprises. Ways and Means. Mr. Taylor of Montgomery A resolu tion reviewing the recent complaints of overcharges by the Public Printer and the action of the Attorney-General in the premises; therefore resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring that the Attorney-General be authorized and requested to take proper steps for the collection from the Public Printer of said sum of $871.20 and for the return of the same to theftresrury of the State or any other sum that may be legally due. Pnblic Printing.

II BJ 374 To further amend the school laws of Mississippi. Ordered printed and made special order for Tuesday night. At 8:55 the House adjourned. The Two Speakers-The new Speaker in the House of the Mississippi Legislature, Mr. Madison, is very much like Reed, Speakerof Congress.

Madison is fatter than Reed by fifty pounds, and has a balder pate. Keea may be wittier, but in 6olid "horse sense" and in avoirdupoise, Madison first kicks the beam. Then Madison is of royal blood, of most illustrious Virginians. These two men will serve at least to show how corporeal fatness affects partisan conceptions of inter-race relations. The oleagmousness of Reed's harrangues, when dealing with Northern sentimentalism sickens his Mississippi counterpart, who uses Reed's phillipics as he does seltzer powders, to blow himself up, and then he blows up Reed.

His breezy speeches, under these circumstances, won for him the honor he has achieved at Jackson. Reed is proud of his greasy obesity; Madison of his practical wisdom, and both have been heard soliloquizing: "Fmlonaer round from head to tail, Than mammoth elephant ur whale, Inflated with supreme intensity, I li 11 these quarters of immensity." Reed, when thus happily sentimental, rubs his prodigous paunch, and Madison has a coal-black barber ''shining up" his luminous skull. Birmingham News. Important Resolution. Hon.

L. S. Terry, of Attala, has introduced the following resolution in the House: Resolved, That the committee on Ways and Means be requested to consider the adviseability of making failure to give into the assessor for assessment any debt which should be so given in, a ground of defence against a recovery of such debt in any court, and to prevent recovery in any court, on any policy of insurance, or in any action for damages, against a corporation or individual for property which should be given for assessment, which was not of a greater sum than such property was valued at for the assessment; and to entitle any tenant, or other person in his behalf, to defeat a recovery of rent for one year which exceed one-third of the assessed value of the land rented. The speech of the Hon. W.

D. Witherspoon, ef Meridian, in favor of the Constitutional Convention bill is said to be one of the ablest made on that great question. Dowd is an old Oxford boy, was educated here at the Stale University, and the Globe notes with pride the fact that he is one of the rising yonng men of the State sustaining the repntation won at college by close application and hard study. Oxford Globe. Mr.

Magruder No. 638 To require to pay Insur- Accident Insurance Companies judgments rendered against them ance. S. B. 124 To provide for new registra tion in Amite county.

Registration and Election. S. B. 120 Ratifiying consolidation heretofore made of the N. Natchez and Fort Scott Railway Company.

Railroads. Mr. O'Neill No. 639 To prevent frauds by persons under contract for service- Ju diciary. Mr.

O'Neill No. 640 To provide for recovery of value of property, by the owner in cases of larceny. Judiciary. Mr. Johnson No.

641 To aid in the suppression of traffic in stolen seed cotton. County affairs. Mr. Griffin No. 642 To repeal act to amend sec.

2194, Revised Code, in relation to appeals from justices of the peace. Judiciary. Mr. Magruder No. C43 To provide for the sale of certain interest in land.

Judiciary. At 1:45 p. adjourned. NIGHT SES3ION. House met pursuant to adjournment.

Speaker Madison in the chair. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS. H. B. 75 To authorize the city of Aber-dien to issue bonds for school purposes.

Senate amendment concurred in. H. B. 044 For the relief of certain townships situated in Tallahatchie county. Claims.

Mr. Jones No. 645 Relative to the repeal of Sheet Acts of 1888 wherein nonpayment of poll tax was made a misdemeanor. Fees and Salaries. H.

B. 215 For relief of Commercial Bank ef Brokhaven. Senate amendment concurred in. Mr. McKnight No.

646 To amend sec. 2001 of Revised Code 1888, in relation to guardians. Judiciary. Mr. Thomas of Washington.

In the re lief of Dr. John L. Hebron. Public Health and Quarantine. A number of Senate Bills were read twice and referred to appropriate committees.

S. B. 191 To repeal an act to incorporate the town of Clarksdale. Passed. S.

B. 200 To provide for inspections of public roads in Tate county. Passed. S. B.

188 To protect crops in Copiah county. Passed. S. B. 151 For the relief of Julia and Ayres Shields, of Adams county, and Nannie J.

Spell, of Holmes county. Passed, S. B. 152 To autnorize the city of Natchez to appropriate money, in aid of the erection of a Confederate monument in said city. Passed.

S. B. 102 For the relief of assessors in the State and for other purposes. Passed. H.

B. 100 To require fire escapes to be kept in hotels, universities, boarding-houses, restaurants, colleges, theatres, etc. Passed. IL B. 242 To double poll tax for school purposes.

Indefinitely poetponed. H. B. 246 To protect minors and for other purposes. Indefinitely postponed.

II. B. 283 Amending law regarding admission to the bar. Same. H.

B. 274 In regard to Judgments. Same. H. B.

253 In relation to costs in cases tried before Justices of the Peace. Same. H. B. 2S7 To authorize the judge of the 5th Judicial District to appoint a stenographer.

Same. H. B. 365 To amend an act to enable defendant and third person to replevin property seized under attachment for rent or supplies without bond. Passed.

H. B. 249 In relation to the recording of deeds and other instruments. Passed. H.

B. 272 To amend section 1753 Revised Code in relation to enrolled judgments. Passed. II. B.

263 To amend section 1611 Revised Code in reference to taking depositions. Passed. H. B. 277 To remove the civil disabilities of minority of Cephas Barton, of Calhoun county.

Passed. II. B. 333 For relif of Win. D.

Potter of Pontotoc county. Passed, II. B. 169 To prescribe the liability of sureties on official bonds. Passed.

H. B. 376 To define the meaning of the word money in indictments. Passed. H.

B. 379 To amend ch. 54, Acts 1888, in relation to carrying concealed weapons. Indefinitely postponed. B.

391 To amend sec. 1733, Revised Code. Indefinitely postponed. H. B.

293 Forthe relief of George W. Anderson, of Coahoma county. Passed. H. B.

392 To validate sales of land in Quitman county. Indefinitely postponed. H. B. 396 To amend sec.

1975, Revised Coda, in relation to filing of wills. Passed. H. B. 397 To repeal sec.

1567, Revised Code, in relation to special demurrers. H. 403 To amend sec. 403, Revised Code, in relation to replevin. Indefinitely postponed.

H. B. 409 To amend sec 1610, Revised Code, so as to authorize notaries public to take depositions. Passed. H.

B. 413 To protect passengers on railway trains. The bill prohibits any railroad company doing basiness in thi9 State, to for heating purposes in passenger coaches any coal or wood stoves, to go into effect after fct day of January, 1891. Passed,.