The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-10-11
STATE CAPITAL NOTES.
MISsISsIPPI'S LIBRARIAN. GEN. S.
D. LEE, TELLS OF THE SIEGE
OF v1CKsBURG. YELLOW
FEVER TREATMENT.
Jackson. o.. 8. 1SN0

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INDUCED in little pleasantly at
the expense of the state officers
who have selected the present
time for little rural recreation.
Others nave complimented" Gov
ernor Conan and few others
still on duty. But none have
mentioned the fact that the State
Librarian il regular at her post.
She remained through the fever
of 1897 and 1898, and she is here
now, and keeps the Library open
as regularly as ii u e supreme
court was in session and attor-
neys were dropping in and cut
The State Library is lonesome
place these days, but the law says
il shall oe kept open every day
except Sunday, and that is be.
ing done. The state may have
had as good, but has never had,
and perhaps never will have Il
better librarian than Mrs. Helen
d. Sell 1t is tho only position
that a woman, under our consti-
tuition, can fill, and it is pleasant
To not that the innovation has
worked SO we'll.
The supreme court will be ad-
journed from day to day until
2lst. II it cannot then proceed
With business, the October term
will lapse, and special term will
be called.
The many Masonic and other
frienls Of Judge Frederic Speed
will be pleased to know that he is
now under the very best medical
treatment the country affords--in
the Presbyterian hospital, Chic
ago. In penci-note to this
writer, dated 4th, he says: "Mrs.
Speed is with me, and has a cot
by mine. We are as comfortable
as we could be anywhere, and
be- among 50 many sick. Car
room IS small, but very neat and
tidy ptA, a noble institution,
in Which lhc Lord is worshiped
10 spirit and truth, night and day.
Itisa memorial of many who
have crossed over the river
Surely their works do follow them
DR.. Graham is chief surgeon,
and he ranks among the first Of
his profession. :
Dr.. ii II. HARRISON made a
personal and very thorough in
vestigation of the health Of Vicks-
burg, and gave the public a sat-
isfactory report to the effect that
there has been no yellow fever in
that city this year. He says the
local physicians admit that there
has been an unusual amount Of
typhoid and malarial fevers there
during the last few months. Rev.
DR.. Sproles has published a state
ment confirming what the health
and city authorities and the press
of Vicksburg had declared, that
Vicksburg has had no yellow
fever.
The Oxford Eagle notes that
"Jackson is figuring upon the
cost and location OF a new State
House. Our observation and
opinion IS that it is not, and will
not do any figuring upon that
question, next time. The SEN
sible thing will be to let the legis-
lature take up the matter at its
own time and dispose of it in its
own way, without outside pres
sure, from any quarters.
The Franklin Advocate faYors
a new site Tor the new capitol
for three reasons: first, "becasue
the old capitol grounds are en-
tirely too small. being only a
narrow strip between the eastern
extremity of the city and the
swamps Of Pearl river; second
/ because the old building can be
used until the new one is COM
pleted; third, because an up-to-
/ date state house should be locat.
ed on ample grounds, that car
be beautiled, etc.
The borrd OF supervisors oi
| Kinds county refused to quaran
/ tine the rest of the county against
jackson. Sensible. 1t don't re.
quire quaransines to prevent 80
cial visits batwaaD tOyyn anf
country just now.
tThe Star, published il
Jackson by the Money brother
in 1851, has the following in on
OF its October issues, copied from
the Hinds county Gazette:
"Gov. Al. G.. Brown and Coy
John j. McRae were in attend
ance on church at Spring Ridge