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Show JEFF DAVIS' BIRTHDAY. It is Generally Observed in a Quiet Manner. Beauveir, June 3. Today is the anniversary anniver-sary of the birth of Jefferson Davis. He was born in Kentucky in 1S08, and con-stquently con-stquently had he lived he would have been S4 years of age today. In many parts of the south the anniversary of the birth of the ex-president ex-president of the confederacy was observed with quiet but appropriate ceremonies. In this state, under a resolution passed by the last general assembly, the day is declared de-clared a legal holiday as a testimonial, to quote the preamble of the bill, "of the loving lov-ing consideration and high appreciation by the people of Mississippi, to remember and cherish with profound gratitude the heroic deeds of Jefferson Davis in time of war, his suherb and faultless bearing in the time of peace, the sublime spirit with which he bore the taunts and jeers and criticisms of a partizan world, and the sacrifice he suffered suf-fered so grandly for the people he loved and the cause he believed to be right." |