The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-08-16
STATE CAPITAL NOTES.
JACKSON WILL BE "A BIG C.TY
SOME DAY IF 1T CONTINUES
10 GROW.
Grand Lodge Knights and Ladies
Of Honor Mississippi's In
sane-Fortunate Typo
graphical Error.
Correspondenee Gazettel
Jaekson, August IA, ts99.

The assessment valuations of
jackson show an increase of
S311 ,632. 90 over 1898. Total as
sessment S4, ,046, ,637. 90.
The condition Of Col. j. S.
Hamilton has somewhat improv-
ed. He was seriously injured in
the head few nights since by
falling down stairway in his
residence--tripped by adog that
he was trying to get out of the
house.
The populite state convention
will meet in Jackson on Wednes-
day, and il is thought that full
state ticket will be nominated.
The attendance will not be so
large as to necessitate meeting in
a tent or elsewhere than the cap
itol.
The northern terminus of the
new electric car system at Jack
son is the State Lunatic Asylum,
and the eastern terminus near the
residence of Bishop, which led a
facetious passenger few eve-
Hings since to remark, This line
begins at Christianity and ends
at Insanity. =
j +. Stanfield, the present pop
ular sheriff Of Holmes county, has
announced. for railroad commits.
sioner for the first district. The
other candidates for that district
are Messrs. McInnis and Law
renee.
The Board of Public Contracts
awarded the public printing for
the state for 1900 and 1901, as
follows: Glasses L, 2, 8, to Vance
Pfinting g apany. Jacksonville,
Fla; class 3 to Brandon Printing
Company, Nashville; class A to
4 Walker, Evans C Cogswell,
Charleston, S. G. Glass l is
legislative printing; class 2, laws,
journals and all pamphlet work;
class 8, miscellaneous; class a,
assessment rolls; class 5, binding
and re- binding books. All this
work should be done in MISSISSIPPI
pi, and the law should be SO
amended.
A Mississippi dealer in one of
the ''wet" towns OF Mississippi,
less than fiiry miles from Jack
son, is mailing his customers an
affidavit from the Kentucky dis
tillery stating that it had shipped
of one brand alone, S18, 400. 90
worth, to August 15, 1898, and
possibly as much more in the last
twelve months. The wet towns
get the revenue, and the dry
towns get the "wet."
Some excited passenger on the
first run of the trolley cars in
jackson, put a 2x gold piece in
the cash box. If he has discov-
cred the loss, he has made no
proclamation of it. If he thought
he was depositing copper cent,
he got badly left.
Col. j. S. Hamilton has recent
ly made a trip over the proposed
route Of the Gulf & Ship Island
Railroad extention, from jackson
to Sanford, in Covington county.
The road is graded one mile north
of lions Seminary, and the track
has been laid three miles north of
Sanford. The distance from
Sanford to Gulfport is ninety-one
miles. Timber lands in Coving-
ton, Simpson and Smith have
gone to high figures. General
Manager Bulls says the road will
enter jackson by the 1st of May
next.
Editor Williams of the Lumber
ton Head Block, says that when
the democratic state convention
is held in the chapel of the Deaf
and Dumb Institute, it will lack
whole lot of being a deaf and
dumb meeting.
The secretary of state of Mis-
sissippi received q letter few
days since from the Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, Honolulu, H.
l., just seventeen days from Hon
nll1lsa The .es;s.ll .l.- =. 6 ss;i il z1hed~
ule 10 San Francisco is thirteen
days, the distance being 5645
miles. The Minister wants to
send q pamphlet to each member
OF the next legislature telling all