The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1888-08-04
The EDITOR ABROAD.

scribe all that we have seen dur
ing the past week, in the columns
of the GAZETTE.
We attended the simi-centen-
nial session of the Mississippi
State Baptist Convention, at Jack
son, where we had the pleasure
of hearing some very eloquent
sermons and able speeches, by
the foremost ministers and lay
men of that large and rapidly IN
icreasing denomination of Chris.
aians.
The reports OF the several COM
mittees were very gratifying.
Every department of church work
rs liberally sustained. The in-
stitutlons Of leaning, fostered by
the Convention, are In u flourish
ing condition. The Convention
Board has had IN the field the
past year, sixty four missionaries.
Eight hundred and fourteen per-
sons were baptized, fifteen houses
of worship bul't and seven re-
paired, by the missionaries. The
receipts of the Board were as
follows: General Fund, So, $751;
20; Sustcntation$333.90; Church
building, sl4,171.00; State Mis-
sions, $9,l2S.45; Home Missions,
$1,l96.13; Mississippi College,
So, 1885; Foreign Missions,
$5,202.S6, an aggregate of $780,
3S4. 80. In addition othe above,
the Board has supported thirty
six young men IN Mississippi Col
lege, who ale preparing them
selves for the ministry, aud three
ministers who have gwen their
entire time to work among the
colored people. Great prosperi-
ty has attended every department
of the work.
During our stay in jackson,
we weie the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. G. Campbell, 109 Presi-
dent street, TO whom we arc in
debted for lnnumerable courtesies.
They have delightful home, ele-
gantiy furnished and dispense a
generous hospitality.
While IN jackson, we met Mr..
Juo l.. Stricken, a young gentle
man of Fort Adams, Miss, on
his way to the National Surgical
Institute, Atlanta, Ga. and so we
concluded to come on with him
We found him to be a very pleas
ant companion and Il most de-
lightful time was spent on the
way. We took a through sleep
er at jackson and not single ac-
cident happened on the way, tc
impede our progress. A lay-oycl
of slxhours, at Birmingham, Ala,
afforded an opportunity for us tc
take look at that thriving city
which has sprung up like magic,
within the past fourteen years
Thele are a great many hne bust
ress houses, in eourse of erection,
and large number Of residences
are also being built. The grea
furnaces there. are doing a spIeu-
did business. They are run every
day and night, and tits sal1 they
could supply the whole worlC
with iron for Yeas TO come
Large quantities, of coal, lim'
and brick, are daily being shippet
from Birmingham.
The inhabitants Of the plac,
come from all quarters OF th,
globe. Every State IN the Unlol
is represented. Push and prog
ress, seem to 5e the leading charac
teristics of the people.
We were very much surprise,
to find that these IRON lands wer'
Of a red color. There IS not
clay hiIi in all Pike county, hal
SO red as the mineral lands o
Alabama. An old MissIssippial
would say that these land
would not sprout COW peas, ant
yet we saw splendid crops o
cotton and corn growing along
the line of the Georgia Pacifi
railroad.
The scenery from Birmingham
to Atlanta is varied. 1t IS com
paratively new country an'
trees of almost every variet,
thickIy stud the ground. Their
are two tunnels Oh this route
IN going through them, J ou cea
not see your hand two inche
from your nose. On approach
ing Georgia decided change il
the appearance of the countr.
is noaicabie. The landscape i
places is strikingly beautiful. o
ei'her side can be seen great hill
which look like mountains, whll
hign above them, towering lik
giants, the majestic pine rears it
crest and stirred by the laz
oeeze, seems to bow a wclcom