The Magnolia gazette., 1892-04-30
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
Items Of Interest Cleaned from the
eazette's Exchanges.

State penitentiary.
jackson has contracted for an
electric fire alarm.
Alderman has X. of p. lodge
with sixteen members.
Prentiss county farmers have
fair association.
The State Sunday School conven-
ton met Wednesday ia Oxford.
Col. w. d. Holder has been
elected commander of the confed-
crate camp in Jackson.
VIM D. Marlow a prominent
citizen Of Crystal Spri1gs, was
buried Monday.
The seventh Congressional dis
trict Alliance is called to meet in
JacksoA, May 10.
The Grand Lodge and Grand
Encampment of Odd Fellows will
meet Tuesday in Holly Springs.
Brother vardeman, Of the Green.
wood Enterprise, has been mem
toned for Presidential elector.
The 73rd anniversary Of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows was
celebrated by the lodges through
out the State Tuesday.
Hon. A. j. McLaurin, of Brandon
delivered the memorial address IN
Hazleburst, on the occasion of
decorating the soldiers graves
Tue leading business men Of
Vicksburg united in telegraphing
Mississippi congressman TO vote
against the Hatch anti-option bill.
Mr.. Nick Roberts and Miss Julia
Dancy, prominent young society
people of Holly Springs, eloped to
Ashland and were married Mon
day.
Rev. Thos. Il Markham. Of New
Orleans, delivered an eloquent adj
dress in Crystal Springs, Tuesday
when the soldiers graves were
decorated.
All public schools in this state
will hereafter be required to teach
the History of Mississippi aud Miss
Duvall's work Will prob IDLY be
adopted as the text book.
The Lincoln county Alliance
offers a $50. prize for the best four
acres Of corn. 1t has also decided
to discontinue the use of conner.
cial fertilizers.
The Mississippi Mills at Wesson
is doing y fine business now. Its
cotton goods are shipped through
commission merchants to every
State in the union and to foreign
countries.
Nj. j. Hart, a jew, who mar.
ried Miss Mary McCarlle, Cath,
Ole, in jackson without the OLD
folks knowledge, attempted tC
commit suicide Monday because
his wife was not permitted to liv,
with him.
An unknown man claiming to bt
from Franklin county, killed Z
merchant named Gotten in Poin
Coupce parish, La, Monday, in at
tempting to rob the store, and was
himself lynched by friends Of tn,
dead man.
Suggestions are in order as tc
how Mississippi can be represented
at the worlds fair without cent
to defray expenses. Enough money
might be raised to pay represen,
tAIlve, who could be put in u box
stall like prize bull at country
fair, to explain to visitors why the
resources of this great state are
not properly displayed, Brandon
News.
Mrs. Gov. Stone and Mrs. Lee,
lady managers of the Wnrld's
Fair, are organizing Columbian
clubs in every county for the pur-
pose Of having Mississippi porperly
represented at the Worlds Fair
To further this enterprise they
have issued an address to the prin-
cipalS of public schools, asking
that they set apa Friday, May
l3, as Worlds FAIR day, aud re.
quest each pupil to contribute tsn
cents to the fund.
Messrs. r g. Mccoy aud j. l.
Hammond Lately shipped a car Of
extra fine cattle to New Orleans
Twenty-four animals filled the cal
and their aggregate weight when
they arrived in the city was about
5000 pounds. One steer that they
bought and fattened gained 24J
pounds in forty-fiNe days, averag-
ing a gain of nearly six pounds 4
day. He lost 100, however, iu
transit between this place and New
Ofleans.-KOsciusko Star.
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