The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-09-27
tax on sane. 50, 647.T4.
Total privilege tax paid BY
railroads, so $50 u.


Mileage Of the railroads. is
2074.5 an increase of 1899 over
last year. Gulf and Ship Islgnd |
not included, having heen start
ed since February,
| Several private railroads. rot
being incorporated, are not as
sessed for advaloFem taNes. They
| pay taxes inthe counties in whicn
operated.
Sixty 1--WE Of the seventy five
counties are touche6 by railroad.
Washington has The greatest
mileage, 12G miles; valuation,
81, 209,S74.
The address delivered by this
writer at the unveiljng Of the
monument to Rev. Thomas r..
! Markham, D. D., in Metaire
Cemetery, New Orleans. in May
last, has been published IN nea,
| pamphlet form, and will BIO mail
cd 10 any survivor of Wither's
Artillery regiment who may de-
Islre it. A faithful likeness of the
beloved Chaplain, and y picture
of the monument are inserted.
Dr.. Markham MAS chaplain 81
that regiment, and this writer
was adjutant, and hence had OPP
poftunities vi observing his work
and estimating his military career
and sold!erly virtues.
An esteemed corfnS pondent
suggests the publication of the
property valuatlon. real and per-
sonal, OF the several counties,
; tie total state tax, the leVies oi
state and counties for 1890, and
The number OF polls as enumer.
} ated 6y assessors. This data is
: oelng compiled from The rolls a.
7 fast as received at auditor > Of
; ice, and will appear in these col
! umns as soon as completed This
, important iuformation will thus
; reach the public several months
in advance OF the biennial report
Of the auditor.
I IN Illinois correspondent wants
Q 4 stattment Of the number oil
negro senators and representa-
lives in Mississippi at the time ol
+ their enfranchiseHseDt, and now
y Ais9 any other data that will
: SHOW the decline in political pow
ef or the failure Of enfranchise-
It ment.
: The colored brother first came
to the front as Il voter and legis
d lator in Mississippi under tbs
y military order providing Tor th'
!. assembling of the Conssitulluna
I Convention OF 1858. There wei,
d seventeen colored delegates il
D. that Convention.
d The first legislature ihareafte
l. assembled January llth, 1870
1r There were 20 colored member
ID in the House, and FIVE colore,
members in Senate.
ss The Constitutional Convention
xt OF 1890 had one colored delegat
5h Isaiah I. Montgomery, Of Bol
O. ivar. He was a member of th
10 Franchise Committee, and mad
D one Of the ablest speeches in sup
I'D port of the Franchise Section Il
adopted.
$ The Legislature OF that yea
an had 6 colored in the House; 3 i
= the House in 1892, ard 3 in tn
House 1894; none in Legislatur
~ since, and no colored candidate
ne have offered since.
! !. The Aberdeen Examiner
IS noted for the interest il takes j
- +, all phases OF industrial develop
- ment. Hence we are not SUI
~ prised TO see it discuss the sut
~ = ject of s'Chickens in Mississir
: : pi." II states that there are
= thousand dozen chickens shippe
- cut Of the State to every doze
\ imported. It cites Bonneville,
!; Prentiss county, and Ellisvill'
=, in Jones county, as being notC
Y ", for their chicken and egg expor
- poultry handling in both
= those towns constituting leat
10 ing industry. In the census
,ss s 1850 Mississippi ranks 2lst in Il
tas production OF chickens, and lea
- ~ of all the states in the ratio
~ chickens to white population
,ha Very little attention was paid
~ obtaining reports of products
any kind from the negroes ,
Ill plantations, although they a
,;s all poultry raisers.
has The census of 1890 gave Mi
as sissippi 5, ,631 ,7S4 chickens, wi
ds. a white population of 544,85
hes while it gave Ohio 12,659,35
on with white population of 3, ,584
S05. Louisiana. with white po