The Magnolia gazette., 1899-10-18

I correspondents IN these columns,
to enter the domain Of party pol
itics. But he ventures the sug-
! gestion, and expresses the hope
that every voter in Mississippi
will so to his election precinct on
the 7th of next month, and cast
his ballot for the candidates OF
his choice. The registered vote
of the state in 1895, was / ., 232 d.
The total vote for the two candi-
dates for governor at the general
election, was 81 ,330, SO that only
few more than one-half the
voters went to the polls. Every
man who votes at primary
should clinch his choice at the
general election. The statistics
of state elections are made up
from the general election, and
not from the primaries.
On September 27, seven miles
southwest of Carroliton, the FAM
| lily of Mrs. Mary McEachern had
delightful reunion at the OLD
homestead-the occasion being
her S8lh birthday anniversary.
She has been a resident Of Car
roll county since 1922, and has
lived in her present home since
1888. Ninety-five persons were
present at the reunion, seventy
of whom we're of the family con.
nection. Fifty six OF her direct
descendants we're present. She
has raised eleven children, ten of
whom passed their majo ,ity, and
nine raised large families, max
ing sixty eight grandchildren,
litty-tw 0 gteat' grandchildren,
and six great, great-grandchil-
dren. OF the total, thirty five
have died, leaving a total ot one
hundred and two living descend
ants.
The wife of General Maxine
Gomez is a Mississippi girl. She
married him in Sancti Spiritus.
She was reared and educated in
Wayne county. Her first hus-
Dand was "Fish" Johnson, from
whom she was divorced. She
then ,aught school in Mobile.
Sle is very handsome. During
the late war she moved her home
as often as the General moved
his camp, and her piano was all
ways carried along. She can
speak English, Spanish and
French. She and her distin-
guished husband have planned
for visit to Mississippi ia The
near future.
The Woodville Republican ha
the age on all Mississippi papers.
Volume IA, No. IL, is its vener-
able record.
A gentleman who has been
very active for many years in
the industrial development of the
South, and who resides in Ken
lucky, has been invited to pre-
pare a paper for the Southern
Industrial Convention, Hunts
vile, Ala, October 10-14, on
Legislation of the South as af-
fecting capital and corporations
in the South;" and he has asked
the editor of this department "to
outline the condition and trend of
legislation in Mississippi, in rela-
ton to capital and corporations,
etc.
We have replied that the laws
OF Mississippi, in letter and spir-
it, are specially friendly to capt.
tai and corporations. The Con-
stitution of 1890 passed an Ex-
emption Ordinance, exempting
factories for ten years, expiring
January 1, 1900. And the Leg.
islature, in 1896, amended the
exemption sections of the Code
by providing that all factories
established before January 1st,
1906, shall be exempt from ali
state, county and municipal tax
alton for ten years, except that
"a factory or manufacture be-
longing to or being in trust or |
combine shall not enjoy exemp-
ton from taxation. -
Any foreign corporation. of |
any kind, may be chartered in
Mississippi, on the payment of a
recording fee of three dollars, !
and it may turn loose millions of
capital in the state, in manufac-
turing, and be exempt for ten
years. Or it may operate in Mis- |
sissippi if chartered in another
state. Not so in Illinois. The
Glucose Sugar Refining Com
pany of New Jersey puts eight
of its capital at work in
Illinois. but it pays one per cent. |
or So, 100000 for the privilege of
having its New Iereav charfar