The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-09-13
STATE CAPITAL NOTES.
EAST MISSISSIPPI INSANE ASYLUM
COST OF THE SCHOOLS.
Members Of the Legislature Re.
elected.

Jacllson. Sept. d, 1S90

jackson, Sept. II, 1899.
The editor OF this department
being in Meridian on 3lst ult.,
was invited by DR.. j. NJ. Buch-
anan, superintendent of the East
Mississippi Insane Asylum, to
visit that institution. \ trolley
ride Of nearly two miles took us
to the beautiful Asylum Park,
that seventeen years ago wa an
ordinary forest. The buildings,
though not so large as those hear
the Capital City, are very impos-
ing, and the entire equipment is
very complete. There are 3l5
patients, all white and about
equal, as to sex, in numbers.
Scores of applications are regis
tered for admission when vacan-
cies occur, as is the case at jack
N. A brick building has just
be n completed thBt will accom-
mo late fifty, and the brick has
been burned for a similar build
ing at the other end OF the main
building. These will be known
as the convalescent cottages.
There will be no bars TO the win-
duws and the lower story will have
a gallery around it, where the pa
tients can sit and cta. and read,
I nd imagine that they are on
the way to rec overy. This plan
has been adopted in several other
states, and with splendid effect.
DIR. Buchanan only med cal
assistants DR.. 4. L. D1nson. Mr..
r.. f. Moody issteward and Miss
Saliie Murley is supervi- Dress.
It axes a iut OF money t. sup
port an institution OF this kind.
Here are some OF the items of a
biennial supply; 5744 hbis. -four,
80, 926 lbs. bacon, 1908 lbs.
pork, 10, 634 lbs. coffee, 3.117
lbs. sugar, 1S5 lbs. tea, 10. .609
lbs. rice, 20 bbls. gcits. 81 sacks
salt, 975 bushels corn meal, !, 1872
gallons molasses, 5000 lbs. leaf
lard, 149, ,94l lbs. fresh beef,
4547 bushels Irish potatoes, So
bushels sweet potatoes, 6S95 gall
Ions buttermilk, 40, $50 tons Of
ice, 1717 tons coal, etc. The
farm and garden products OF the
place valued S333l. 80; butter and
milk S24S6. so.
Mississippi may be in the rear
in some things, but her benevo.
lent institutions are UP to date.
EDUCATIONAL EXPENDITURE.
The Industrial Leage Of Penn
sylvania is compiling statistics
relating to appropriations for ed
ucation in the several states. and
here are the figures for Missis-
sippi furnished by the editor of
this department:
Appropriation for 1898 CON-
mon schools s 950, 600 00
Special Appropriation 1899 54,022 81
State University and State
colleges, support, improv-
ments. etc. i1O,6O4 50
l,114,627 i9
Estimated additional ex-
penditures by separate
school districts and by
counties extending terms 3S5,372 81
Total 100000 90
The expenditures in the mum i,
erous private colleges and acad-
emies in the state would easily
increase the total TO two million
dollars.
Nearly all the Mississippi news
papers are now being received
and filed at the office Of Secreta-
ry of State, where they can be
seen by visitors to the capital.
The Secretary feels quite "at
home" in the company of his old
exchanges, and is delighted to
have the weekly visit of SO many
new and bright ones.
A list Of Mississippi governors,
and the vote at each gubernato.
rial election from 1917 to 1895, is
going the rounds credited to a
leading Mississippi journal. AS
this identical matter was compil-
ed by the editor of this depart
ment, and published in April last
tits not in order to give credit
elsewhere, and we are quite sure
that the journal referred to does
not claim it. The data in the
publication was obtained by the
examination of many thousands
of pages of legislative journals.
The Greenville Democrat gives
Governor McLaurin 105 instruct
ed votes for ,senator. and 115