The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-03-15

tHtTS WIS IlO place luOfS QUIZ
rageously and persistently lied
about. Mrs. Angelic Miazza has
recently referred to the stories
about selling water and driving
soldiers off the sidewalk. After
the siege of Yicksburg a squad
of soldiers at Washington, Ga. /,
were abusing the people Of jack
son in terrific terms A jackson
lady miss Mary Moseley) hap
pened to be visiting there at the
time, and when she heard the ti-
rade on the town she loved so
well, she asked permission to
read them a letter received that
morning from her brother-in law
Mr.. Barrows. 1t described, in
graphic and pathetic terms. the
arrival Of a soldier of the Vicks-
burg garrison who had reached
Pearl River swamp just in time
to see his baby daughter buried
by torch light on the bank of the
river. And the letter went on to
describe many of the trials and
sufferings of the entire. commun-
ity. They listened attentiyely
and respectfully; several mani
tested considerable emotion; all
expressed regret at what they
had said, and promised never
again to speak an unkind word,
or think an unkind thought, of
the people of jackson. | have
seen scores Of the ladies Of Jack
son tear up their carpets and
make them into blankets, and
many of them spent much of
their time in the hospitals. And
what was done here was done at
Vicksburg, and every other city
and town in the State. | was
much impressed by what / heard
Corporal Tanner tell the Confed-
crate veterans at Richmond: eff
it had not been for your women,
the war would have been over in
six months. -
A paragraph is on the grand
rounds to the effect that the De-
partment of Agriculture estimates
that the cost of production Of
cotton per acre is SID. AZ; return
S19.03; profit S3.61 per acre.
This is the way it is figured out
by bureau clerks in Washington
Some Of the farmers OF Pike and
Warren might reach different re-
suits. A crop that won't net
more than 1851 per acre isn't
worth fooling with.
Jones county appears to have
made the best tax paying record
for 1898. Every cent collected
on real estate. and not an acre
advertised for sales The sheriff
Of Grenada county notified the
editor of Sentinel that he had no
tax-list for him this year. This
means that Mississippians are
placing higher value on their
soil. They have none to forfeit
or give away. Our OWE people
are realizing what Capt. Merry
proclaimed several years ago,
that Mississippi is the best all
around state in the Union.
Rev. Isaac Malek Yonan and
wife, of Persia, spent Last week
in Jackson. In several addresses
at Presbyterian church, they de-
scribed the religions and customs
of their native country. Mr..
Yonan has been in this country
six years. He has graduated in
theology and in medicine, and
will return to his native land in
June as a medical missionary,
He speaks the English language
fluently, and his wife, who has
been in the country only two
years, also speaks it quite we'll.
The Greenville Democrat Of
Friday last. has the following
SlgnlHcanb paragraph.
s'The distribution of the public
school fund of the state is be-
coming an important state issue.
Under the present system our
section Of the state gets the best
of the situation, but the system
which enables to pay one county
$50. 90 a month, with five or six
months public school, and gives
to teachers of other counties S25.
per month for only four months
is unjust and will eventually ruin
the state. -
Major Jonas notes in his very
readable Aberdeen Examiner Of
Lieut.. Colonel fernando Money,
of the Fifth United States Vol
unteer Infantry, to duty as Mill
tary and civil governor of Bara-
Goa, Cuba, a town of about 5000