Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1898 — Mississippi's Capitol. [ARTICLE]

Mississippi's Capitol.

The state of Mississippi is at length to have a new capitoL It is to be built upon the site of the present dilapidated structure, which has for years been unworthy of the state. The sum appropriated for its erection is $750,000, and a Jackson newspaper correspondent expresses the hope that the best men. men who have been fire-tried and firetested. men whose integrity is as pure ns the first opening lilac, when it spreads its clear leaves to the sweetest dawn of May, will be selected to expend It.