The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1889-10-12

so bv $50 feet In these build
ingS are %, 900 cotton spindles,
tweaty-six complete sets Of woolen
machinery aud 500 Icons, and II
requires four engines Of COM
blned energy Of 1000 horse-
power to furnish the necessary
motive POWER.
"Our obieci in making this dis
plny is to encourage our trade III
this section of The country. We
have been striving for business
Ia this valuable section aud are
making satisfactory headway,
We are doing all we can to invite
an exchange OF trade between
sections and although our capaci-
~ is usually taxed to its utmost
we arc ambitious to spread our
territory and increase our
capacity."
IL the third floor Of the tower
IS another fine collection from the
trwn Of Brookhaven, MISS. Cot
ton is the chief staple. Corn,
cane. sorghum. mliet, oais, rye,
AL kinds of grasses, sweet and
Irlsh potatoes, beans, peas, Deets,
carrots, and great variety Of
agricultural products are among
the exhibits, while IN fruits dis
play Is made of strawberries,
dcwbcrrles, blackberries. buckle
berries, plums, grapes, pears,
apples, quinces, figs and peaches.
A DISTURBING QUESTION.
There are very few who are
aware of the increasing gravity oil
a great national question Which IS
beginning to distrrb the patriotic
mind of The American people, a
question which has never before
been sprung 10 disturb The sen.es,
the preferences or the oifactory
pieiudices and principles Of d
great and progressive people.
Iadeed it seems 10 have been a
question which has hitherto brer
hy common consent scrupulonsly
avoided weighted as it was with
matters of such tteuc dous i'm
port to a nalion's veal and has
been kept in the back ground ps
far as possible under The shadow
Of less impartqnt questions, such
as the race question, the tariff
and pensions.
However, s. important a mat
ter cannot forever be held back,
aud The progressive development
of tins great nation is demanding
with thunler tones that The
@stheticism Of Uncle Sam shall
be catered TO as we'll As his more
solid mt rests.
We have SAID It Is grave IN
terest aud 1t IS, whsther the ma
teral interests oi the nation are
involved or not, since the news
papers. the great eighty, moving,
arausing. stnoag press have taken
up he question and are exciting
!, war not Of he roses plrticular-
Is, bnt OF he lowers generally,
and taking sides upon the great
question of which shall be the
national flower.
II IS preposterous to suppose Il
nation can ger along without a
national floral erublcm; 1t is alb
sord TO imagine nation prosper
ing wi hout a national iiower.
Thomas jefferson discovered
his greatest weakness as states
mat ia the omission Of mention
of this IN the DeclaratIon of Inde-
pendence and the most cgregious
error eom1n,ted by the Trainers
of the constitution was the neglect
to declare what the natl )aal ilowel
should be.
uC CttOi NdDilDb Dt ANliiCatCb
except by an amendment of The
constitution and rs such defcien
clrs are so easily supplied let Il;
hope that by the power oi TIM
conservative press, the wisdom
of the nation may eventually be
brought TO rectify the error
avert civil war and restore har-
mony and union.
When so grave matter con
fronts the nation as the selection
Of national emblem how III ih'
name Of reason can we hope for ;
solution of the race or any othe
porbiem?
Tbs question grows, to the dis
turbance Of al patriots. II nonl,
be dreadful il it partakes Of
sectional character.- | Natehe.
Democrat.