The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-11-08
STATE CAPITAL NOTES.
TIE JACKSON FEvER-BIG LAND
sALEs--FREE GREAsE--MIssIs-
sIPPI SroNE-BRooM CORN
SHEEP RAISING.

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SHEEP RAISING.
Hairy Veteh--Gov. Bob Taylor
A Veteran Editor-A Missis-
sippi Girl in South Africa
Capt. p. X. not Struck
on Health Boards.
Correspondence Gazette
jackson, Nov. 8, 1899.
The yellow fever record for
Jackson for the year 1899 is go
cases, i i deattIs. I'he appearance
ofirost and ice on the morning of
Bird closed the reign of quaran- :
tine and general worry for the
season. The prophecy we heard
Surgeon General Wyman express
last fall, that if we had severe
winter, we would not have a
lnlrd visirauOn vi yellow lever.
1t has been a hard blow on the
Capital City; but with this ex-
ception, and the fever at Missis-
sippi City, the state has been
fortunate. Including the eleven
deaths from fever. the rate Of
mortality in Jackson for Septem-
Der and October has been, per-
haps, as low as that of any city
OF its size in the country, north
and south. VIA complete
sewerage system, and the re-
moval, let us hope, of the peni-
tentiary from city limits, jackson
will prove too healthy for conta-
gious or infectious dis sases Of
any kind,
For the fifteen months from
July 2, 1898, TO September 30,
1899, the sales Of public lands in
the Office of Land Commissioned
E. II. Nall were as follows:
Chickasaw school .SI9, 220. Il
Forfeited tax ..,,.......... 81. 3S, 563. o
Swamp -............. ................ 30, 463 o.
Lowry Island ...............-.. 2,929. 0t
Internal Improvement
and Rev. Agent ....4 $50. So
A. & M. College laws go. z.
sol, 407. 81
For the preceding 2l months
Of the present administration
Land Commissioner Simonton
soId--from January 90. 1896, to
September 30, 1S97-S45 96951,
making total sales Sl37. .377 90.
The merchants of Hazlehursl
have been much com mplimented
on what has been styled "a novel
scheme to please their farmer
customers '--greaslng, free, al
wagons that bring cotton TO town,
We have often thought that
the merchants OF all our cities
and towns should do many other
things to please their farmer Gus
toners, especially in those sea
sons of the year when the female
\ members 60 to town to do their
/ shopping. Merchants might as
Isociate in the erection OF free
stock sheds, and in providing a
room where the madam and the
children could dust, and bathe,
and rest and lunch. The cos
would be but a trifle 70 each mer.
chant. The accommodation would
be immense.
The Aberdeen Examiner, il
| speaking of The Rankin county
stone quarries, says: Better
|, quarries than these exist in Tisn
omingo county, and the quarrle,
in Jefferson, Jasper, Clarke ant
lsewnerein the state were sAowr
by exhibits at the New Orlean.
Exposition to promise great our
come when developed. II out
next Legislature will provide fot
! q geolooicsl survev M:sei 9sirp
will surprise the oldest inhabi,
tarts by herexhibitof phosphates
, fine lignites. kaolin. glass sands
, iron ore and possibly coal and oil.
We noticed recently, that 1
wagon load Of broom put up il
BALES, like cGtloA, aus seen o.
the streets OF Forest, and It's val
, Ne was estimated at $50. 90 tc
/ S35. 90 per ton. For the enccHr
:. agement of Mississippi farmer
who have lands adanted 10 br15a
corn, we will quote the prices n
Chicago, by Earl Bros, largt
dealers:
There is nothing that is soun,
selling below S85 90 to S 0. 90
and from that the market rangei
2 up to Sl10, and even Sl20 pc
ton for choice. fine preen hnrl o