The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-08-09
STATE CAPITAL NOTES.
STATE SELLS THE FIRST BALE or
NEW COTTON THIS YEAR.
Current News and Notes of Cen
eral Interest.
Correspondence Gazette. J
jackson, August I, l8o0.

Inc QenOCFdblC SldLS NOH RChbiOiA
will be held in the chapel of the
Deaf and Dumb Institute. The
entire building and'grounds will
be at the service of the convention.
The chapel is we'll lighted and
ventilated, and electric fans will
add to the comfort of delegates.
The electric cars will pass the
building every few minutes.
The city OF jackson should no
longer defer the erection of an
auditorium, or public hall, for the
accommodation of great assemblies.
1t is said that blessings brighten
as they take their flight, +" and
this may be the experience when
the democratic state convention
of 1902 shall be called 10 meet
elsewhere.
The following counties are yet
to hold primaries and mass meet
lngs for county officers. Some
will instruct for governor:
August 10-Clarke, primary.
August 10-Jasper, primary.
August 1l-Holmes, convention.
August 11-ltawamba, ma SIS
meeting.
August 14-Neshoba, mass me IT.
ing.
August 19-Calhoun, mass meet
ing.
August 2l-Tate. mass meeting
Col. w. A. Montgomery, can
didate for governor, expresses
the belief that the constitutional
amendment for an elective ju-
dietary will be adopted at the
election in November. He fa-
vors it.
a correspondent wants to know
how many newspapers there are
in The state Of Mississippi. Ac-
cording to a list carefully COM
piled on 1st May last, by Mr.. A.
j. McCallum, manager of A. N.
Kellogg company, there were 202
newspapers then in the state, in
Guiding 21 OF colorcd persuasion.
The electric street car system
went into full operation in jack
son on 1T inst, wien nearly the
entire population we're indulging
in their first ride. The next pub
lie Improvement will be sewerage.
The cash is on hand to pay for it.
The Vicksburg Dispatch quotes
Col. w. A. Montgomery as say
ing, in a recent interview with
him, that Judge Longino is al
ready the governor, and there
seems to be no other solution of
the matter. But the Colonel
says he didn't say it just that
strong.
Hon. James F. McCool has re-
tired from the race for governor
He is splendidly equipped for the
high office, but he did not develop
the strength which justified the
probability of his nomination.
In high station, or in private life,
he is the same safe, sound and
sensible Jim McCool.
Mr.. r. II. Triplett. Of Leake
county. candidate for railroad
commissioner, died at New Alba
ny while prosecuting his canvass.
The first bale of cotton market.
ed in Mississippi this year was
from the .'Sandy Bayou con-
vict plantation in Washington
county. 1t was sent to Green
Vile, TO be sold at auction.
Experience is developing some
defects in the primary election
law. The Aberdeen Examiner
suggests an amendment that viii
require the primaries or nomi.
mating conventions to be held il
all of the counties on the same
day. This, it says, will put ar
end to the touring of the com.
monwealth by armies of strikers
and campaign managers who &c
from polling place to polling place
from the beginning to the end o.
the voting season. =
The proceedings of the las
meeting of the Press Association
are being distributed. The pam.
phlet is creditabIe to the ability
Of Secretary Mcclure as re-
corder, and to the skill of Mr..
Blakeslee as printer and pub
Usher. The New Albany Gazette
imprint means good work.
Mrs. Eva B. Wilkinson and hel
sister, Miss Kitty Bowen, havs
been obliged to retire from ths
management Of Hamilton College
at Water Valley, on account d