The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1873-04-04


Fort Mac3n is opposite Beaufort, on
Bogues Point. Ii is easier to take drink
Of whisky than it is to take Fort Macon.
Fort Macon was took once. was in
Goldsboro in April 1861, and there was an
extra cut with Uncle Abe's proclamation
calling for $4,000 men; and Gov. Ellis
telographed to the captain OF thirty-two
men, not to take the 10000 men, but to
take Fort Macon. saw him raise the
men, and saw them leave to take it, Which
wasn't . hard job, as the garrison consisted
of an old Scotch sergeant and lis wife
That was a wild day for Goldsboro barrels
of whisky were drank to light the torch
light Of liberty with. In the sitting room
in the hotel whore stopped was white
marble monument, and on it was
written in red chalk, " Sacred to the mem
ory Of Abo Lincoln, wto died April =,
1861"
conyersed with plain man today
He has lived on the Plains ten years He
says they never postpone case out there,
BECAUSE there is not wood enough TO make
the post 10 postpone with.
Ii has recently been discovered that no
such man as William Hell ever existed
And there is a man down here, scholar,
who says 10 such man as George Washing
ton ever lived. lie declares that he has
looked through every dictionary in exist
euce and there is no sEch word in the
English language. | have looked, and !
can't find it either.
Lots Of tar aro made in North Carolina.
The way they make tar is to take some tar
and cook 1t until il becomes tar, then it's
tar. Then trees ore half chewing gum, the
other half turpentine, tho other half rosin,
and the rest sticka--in fact, everything
about EN- sticks, and tho bert sticks to the
trees tighter than the bark sticks to dog
This brings me 10 historical "reminiscences
that has never been published in print type
either. was taken into the pine woods
and shown SONS trees which, years ago,
three brave Americans climbed, to capture
possum. As they embraced the trees, forty
! feet from the ground, the tnr season com
menced, and those poor fellows froze to the
trees and staid there until they died. Years
afterwards some boys discovered the re-
mains. Nothing but the bones were left
and the boys, like good boys, went directly
home and lwore that they had discovered a
hoopskirt factory One man, learned
tarites, said it must have been left there by
the Normans. Another man, VINO was well
acquainted with the Normans, said they
never wore hoopskirts. a Western mar
said he'd often heard Of whoops on the
skirts Of the woods in his country, aud biz
remarks elected applause. Then the party
Visited tue woods and decided that th'
relics were bones, not hoopskyts. 1t VA
the greatest cause Of up tree | ever hearC
of.
Some North Corolinians are awful thin
Two Of them would make fair sized pei
handle. They grow leugthwise oil righ,
but they don't grow sideways or thicker
worth cent. they never unbutton thei
clothes they crawl in and out Of 'er
through the button-holes, and in som
sections one good sized sack-coat woul
button around a whole family. The chi
dren nuder six years look like croche
needles, only darker in hue. They US
wind-mills here to grind hash.
hear rumors that the fowls are gettin
the epizoots. hope it won't go to ii
legs, as it did with the horses. If it doe
is chicken-pes will have it badly. There
a, nothing on earth that has more legs than
chicken pie---it's oil legs. was in q roo
= at Wilmington to-day, and saw sight tn,
! filed me with so much awe that took
a drink. It appears one day, 1914, fema
woman put some powder into a new chic
:" en-pie she was building, She took it (
black pepper. 1t acted worse than empt
- =, ings or yeast, for when she put il on b
stove and the warm atmosphere got into
= it made the pie rise, but it didn't make
:, light, for it hain't lit yet Those chick
=, legs blew up into room overhead a
~ stuck to the wall in a row, and they ha
ne been used for clothes pegs ever since. II
a1 is fact, for hung my hat on one Of e
aud it didn't have brick in it either. I
" hole that the chicken-pie made in
wopan's head is still to be seen in the WI
~ There is lots Of curious things in t
;. section. saw few days since 81
4. where the soil is SO fertile, that one y
. % ), ago last May, wooden legged man stopl
tho on it a few minutes to talk, and bis !
,ars sprouted, and he grew SO high he had
,os be sawed down. The medical men deciC
~, it was quite feat for man without
,ha to perform, and they ascertained that