The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-10-04
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE-sIILLsAPs col
LEGE BISHOP GALLOWAY
NOT IN LOVE WITH QUAR-
ANTINEs.
Asylum Attendants 10 be Uni
formed-Eaat Mississippi In
sane Asylum. l. & c.
Gulf & Ship Island r. Il.
"Gen." McClurg, etc.
jackson. Oct. 2, 1899.

Correspondence Magnolia Gazette.l
The three handsome residences
lust north Of the capitol, that have
been occupied by the Sullivan,
johnson and Terrell families, and
the engine house Of Jackson Fire
Company No. l. were destroyed
by fire on Saturday night, Sep
tember 80. The Presbyterian
manse barely escaped. A strong
wind was blowing southwark, ana
thousands Of burning flakes fell
on tho capitol roof. Fortunately
it was sheet iron. The gr ater
portion of the population wa7 out
10 witness the fire, which threat
ened to be q general conflagra-
ton. Yazoo City Fire Depar.
ment tel graphoi they woad
bring dowu their entire apparatus
il needed. The fire started All
G:30. The families are absea;
from the city.
The engine house was one q
the landmarks Of the long ago.
1t was at north end Of Capitol lot.
The Legislature appropriated
$500 toward its erection, with the
proviso that it should be removed
whenever the Legislature should
SO demand A concurrent reso-
luton will not be necessary.
On the Cay the seeoni case Of
yelowfever was declared il jack
son, sixty five Mi aps College
students arrived. Tne coEoga is
going ahead, having qaarantlned|
against the city. No students
had arrived for Bejhaven. That
G0.l @ H8t 5aaa uGtti afteea
killing frost. Dr.. t'itzhagh is
soreIy disappointed at the third
annual interruption il his college
work.
Bishop Galloway had a tough
time in getting 70 Atlanta from
Jackson. When he reached the
Alabama line. he and several
persons from New Orleans were
not only detained Ely The quaran-
tine sguardg, but were subjected
TO Irritating discourtesies and
kardships. Butthe Bishop reach
ed Atlanta on schedule time, and
at n big meeting Of all tho Meth
odists in that city, he and Bishop
Gambler raised sixteen thousand
dollars for the Methodist Centen-
NAL Education Fund.
Hon. J Hiram McGehee, ofI
Franklin county, and Democratic
nominee fer senator, 9Th district,
is not specially in love with the
quarantine business. On 9th Of
September he took his wife to New
Orleans for medical treatment.
While absent, two Of the children
were taken down with typhoid
fever, but they cannot getto them
because of the quarantine.
On and after October 10, the
attendants in the wards of State
Lunatic Asylum will be require /
to wear uniform. The twenty
two male attendants will wear
navy blue with brass buttons; the
female attendants will wear blue
serge in winter and blue duck in
summer. Among other advant-
ages will be this: that visitors
passing through the wards will be
able TO distinguish attendants
from patients. Attendants are
sometimes embarrassed by hear
ing sympathetic remarks, such |
as "She don't look like crazy
person. which is sometimes an
swered by the attendant dropping
her keys. The wonder is, thatl
this regulation was not adopted |
years ago.
A recent mention in these coll
umns of a visit to the East Mis-
sippi Insane Asylum, gave some
of the items of subsistence for a
biennial supply. Two very Sc
rious mistakes have elected some
criticism. and very justly, if the
figures as published were correct.
For instance, the flour consumed
in two years was STA barrels not
5744 barrels as published. The
amount of ice consumed was 49,
0-0 pounds ice-not that many
tonsI Dr. Buchanan and his
patients don't need 40, 9,050 tons of
ice, in two years, To keep them
cool.
The fifteenth session of the In