The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-04-08

heard from.
This is a good move in a new
direction, and its progress will
be watched with much interest.
The Coleman Mills, recently
erected in North Carolina, is own
ed and is to be entirely operated
by negroes. Its capital is S65, :
000-nearly all paid in.
The projectors OF the proposed
cotton mill are not seeking stock
subscriptions outside of their own
race. They started in to do this
themselves, but of course appre-
ciate the encouragement and ex-
pressions of good will from citi-
zens generally of the state, and
will no doubt be influenced in To-
eating by inducements that may
be offered.
Before Col. Wesson erected his
big mill in the pine forest where
now the city of Wesson is located,
he interviewed the business men
of Jackssn, but they gave him
the cold shoulder. Any sort of
encouragement then would have
secured what has grown to be one
of the largest manufacturing
plants in the southwest, and Jack
son to-day would be a city Of at
least twenty five thousand popu-
lation. She is now making COM
mendable strides in making up
for lost opportunities.
The Picayune has done the
South a timely and substantial
service by the publication, in
pamphlet form, of the letters Of
Mr.. Hargrove on Cotton Mills in
the South. We had clipped them
from the Picayune for insertion
in our scrap-book, but were de-
lighted to get them in the con-
venient and enduring form in
which they appear and are being
distributed free gratis for noth-
ing The picayune is a small
coin, but the Picayune is a large
and great newspaper. 1t may
not measure up to 16 to 1, but it
is free and unlimited when it can
promote the material interests of
Louisiana or Mississippi.
Brame & Alexander s Afissis-
sippi Digest is being freely pur-
chased and literally compliment
cd by the legal profession. tits
ponderous volume Of 1456 pages,
neatly printed and well bound.
1t connects with Georges Digest,
and includes all cases from vol.
40 to T3, and also the period COW
cred by the digests Of Andrews
and Heidelberg. The price is
S15. 90. The state encouraged
the publication by appropriating
S5000.00, for which it received
500 copies. A copy has been.
sent to each county library, to
each judge, chancellor and dis
trict attorney, and to others nam
ed in the Act Of 1896. The work,
tits pleasant to note, was done
by a southern publishing hous e.
Marshall & Bruce, Nashville.
& The secretary of state has re-
oeived this request from an ex-
tensive publishing house J" Please
send us copy Of any publication
issued by your Bureau Of Indus
trial Statistics, from which we
could select matter for a very ex-
pensive work we are engaged
upon, in which we are to give re-
liable statistics concerning the
state of Mississippi. We desire
especially to secure information
on fisheries, horticulture and for
ests. The data desired cannot
be furnished, the state having no
bureau or departmental of statistics.
For this reason, hundreds of in
quiries addressed to every de-
partment of the state government
cannot be answered.
DIR. S. e. Chaille, dean Of the
Medical Department Tulane Uni
versity OF Louisiana, is anxious
to procure correct list of the
medical graduates who served in
the recent war. He wants the
full names and addresses of all
the medical officers of the volun-
teer regiments and other COM
mands who enlisted from Missis-
sippi in 1898. Address the Doc
tor, New Orleans, P. O. Drawer
261.
st. Andrews Episcopal church,
jackson, had specially inter-
esting Easter service. A vested
or surplice choir of twenty one
young persons. furnished the
music. Bishop Thompson con-
hrmed class OF 26. In the
morning, in urging liberal col :
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