Mississippi Political News Items

"Baltimore Patriot", May 1, 1817, Volume IX, Issue 100, Page 4

By the President of the United States.

    WHEREAS, by the section of an Act of Congress, passed on the 31st day of March 1808, entitled "An Act concerning the sale of the lands of the United States and for other purposes", the President of the United States is authorized to cause certain public lands to be offered for sale:

    WHEREFORE, I, JAMES MONROE, President of the United States, in conformity wth the said act, and other acts of Congress, providing for the sale and disposal of Lands of the United States south of Tennessee, do hereby declare and make known that public sales, for the disposal, agreeable to law, of the Public Lands in the district east of Pearl river, bounded on the the west by the Chickawhay river, on the south by the parallel of the 31 degrees of north latitude, on the east by the Mobile and Tombigby rivers, and on the north by the Creeks, Santabogue and Bogue Homo, (the one falling into the Tombigby and the other into the Chickasaw rivers) which have been surveyed and returned to the Register of the Land office at St. Stephens, and which have not been disposed of, or excepted from sale by law, shall beheld at St. Stephens, on the River Tombigby, on the first Monday of July next, and continue till the said land have been offered for sale.

    Given under my hand the eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.

 JAMES MONROE

    By the President,

    JOSIAH ME?GS, Commissioner of the General Land Office

    Printers who publish the Laws of the United States will insert the above once a week till the first of June and forward their accounts (in duplicate) to the Receiver of public monies at St. Stephen's for payment

Appointment by the President and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate

    Appointment by the President.  By and with the advice and consent of the Senate. - Thos. L. Hamer, of Ohio, Joseph Lane, of Indiana, James Shields, of Illinois, Thos. Marshall, of Kentucky, Gideon L. Pillow, of Tennessee, and John A. Quitman, Mississippi, to brigadier generals in the military service of the United States, in accordance with the provisions of the act approved June 26, 1846. ["Morning News, New London, CT"]

Republican Ticket

For Senate.

JOSIAH STALLINGS, of Columbus

For Representatives.

W. B. HEATHCOCK - of West Point,

A. J. EGGLESTON, Crawfordville,

L. J. WALLACE, Columbus,

RO. GLEED, Freedman, Columbus.
[The West Point Herald, Clay County, MS]

Great interest is being manifested in Madison County in the local option campaign which culminates in the election today.  The issue is whether or not open saloons shall continue to exist in Canton.  Thousands of circulars and pamphlets have been distributed by the factors among the voters of the county and both sides are very active.

Among the circulars being distributed by the prohibitionists is one showing that during the past decade the open saloon towns of Mississippi have shown almost no growth whatever, being virtually at a standstill, while the communities where saloons do not exist, notably Jackson, Meridian, Hattiesburg, Columbus, Greenwood, Brookhaven, Yazoo City, Laurel, Tupelo, and West Point have outstripped the saloon towns.

The prohibitionists are said to feel the greatest apprehension on account of the negro vote which will be cast almost solidly for the open saloon.  There are eighteen saloons in Canton and they annually sell about $500,000 worth of liquor, the greater portion of which goes to the dry counties of the central portion of the state. [The Biloxi Herald, April 27, 1907]