The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-08-23

plus revenue in their reports to
the railroad commission for the
second quarter this year. Sew /
eral show considerable deficits.
Judge Frederic Speed, oil
Vicksburg, is in steadily doclin-
ing healtn, which his host Of !
friends in Mississippi and else.
where will be sorry to hear. Hell
has a national reputation as a |
Masonic jurist and orator. InI
the Mississippi Grand Bodies he
has most worthily worn the man
ties of Hillyer, Walter, Howry
and others of the great lights of
the craft who have passed away.
The ninety-one banks of Mis-
sissippi, outside of the National
banks, report total resources
S15, S07 ,578. 80. the cash on hand
being 81, 210, 479. SO; sight ex-
change, 50, ,059, ,6S2.98. The rest
in stocks, bonds, collaterals, etc.
The liabilities are for same
amount, and they include capi-
tai paid in SO, 1872, $50. SO; sur
plus S542, 1888. 81; undivided
profits S608, 745. 70; individual
deposits subject to check S9,031,
9S2.28; time certificates of de-
post, S797, ,100.12.
About S25. 900 has been sub
scribed to the stock of the cotton
factory to be erected at jackson
by colored men. 1t is thought
that the amount needed will be
made up before the end of the
year.
In a report of the funeral Of
the late Governor Atkinson of
Georgia, it is noted that "the
Capitol porters attended in
body" If an Executive funeral
were to take place at the capital
of Mississippi, and the capitol
porters were to attend in a
body" Taylor Murry would have
all that part Of the procession to
himself. The state capitol of
Mississippi is the only public
building of its kind in the United
States that gets along with one
porter, but there is only one Tay-
lor Murry.
The Aberdeen Examiner pro-
tests ag linst the aU ards of pub
lie printing to parties outside the
state; or rather, it complains Of
the law that compels contracts
thus to be made. Another
printing outrage is the way
Major Jonas puts it, and he fur
ther says that "there is no state
in the Urion as cruel and OPP
pressive to its printers as Miss.s-
sippi. =
INTERESTING SOUVENIRS.
The editor OF this department
is the recipient of two tokens Of
kindly remembrance, from Mrs.
Annie Walter Fearn, M. D.. /,
who, with her husband, DR.. Bur-
rus Fearn, recently returned
: from China, and made brief Wis
it's to Yazoo City, Jackson and
Meridian. They will go to New
York in September, and after a
post graduate course of twelve
months will return to their hospi-
tall missionary work IN 500 Chow.
Their baby girl of two years,
prattles Chinese almost exclu-
,, sively.
One of the souvenirs is the shoe
Of Chinese bride, of red silk,
handsomely embroidered--f O III
, inches long, high heel, sharp
! toe-weighs Ia OF. It is the
: custom for brides to put their
bridal shoes away until death,
when they are buried with them
In this case, the bride was one
of her patients, and she gave
: her the shoe as special mark Of
! her gratitude.
The other souvenir is a bronze
figure weighing 3l4 o., anG
about two inches high, the dra-
!. gon head, "Tur, signifyine
covetousness, with one paw
!, grasping the sun, which also
represents the king. A figure
like this is at the entrance of ev'
cry public building and residenc:
! of every yamen, or official, as al
admonition against official tips
! The figure now on our desl
was taken from the altar of al
). ancient temple, and was made
! perhaps a thousand years ago
) 1t makes a neat paper weight.
= PoPULIsT STATE CONVENTION.
s The Populist State Convention
b met in the Capitol at jackson, OIL
18th, and after a session of 81,
IS hours adjourned. Nineteen coun