The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1873-01-25
NIultnnt In Isnrvo.

AAA hEKos
TIE Cincinnati courts are doing large
divorce business.
BALTIMORE exports annually SS,OOO,OOO
worth Of canned oysters.
PARsoN Brownlow has written the inscrip.
ton for his tombstone.
Twenty inches is the average thickness
Office on the Main rivers.
JArAN now sells three times as much ten
as she did three years ago.
TnE discovery of rich gold quartz is
announced at Silver Bay, Sitka.
MEMrHIs has debt of s4,447,oO0, and
ia unable to raise the January interest.
EDwIN A. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. j.,
is II years old and worth $4O,OOO,OOO.
Drsky Georgians pay for stolen turkeys
at the rate oftwo lashes per pound.
WAVES forty feet high dashed over the
qqays at Naplas during recent hurricane.
A HYMESEAL paper called the Bfat,.in,o-
nfdi Ne,cs, was started in Chicago on the
let inst sa II As Nwt
ss A DUEL, with guns loaded with buckshot
was fought last week between Sheriff
Brownel, Of Holmes county, Fla, and
man from Alabama, resulting in the death
Of both parties.
There are 57S widows OF Revolutionary
soldiers still receiving pensions. During
the year S3S3S applications were granted
fer pensions. Altogether, the Government
has 32,229 pensioners, to whom it pays
$25,4S0,57s,30 year.
United State District Judge Underwood,
Of Virginia, is expected soon to resign on
half pay. The President is considering the
name ofa prominent Richmond lawyer,
native Southerner, who has never been in
politics, as his ssuccessor a8
THE Baltimore American on the first In.
stant entered upon the hundredth year Of
its existence as o daily Journal and on the
first day Of next January it will be one
hundred years old. That paper ought TO
publish the proceedings Of the Centennial
Celebration. ~
The Tichhorne claimant has engaged Mr..
Sergeant Sleigh, one of the most noted adj
vocates Of the English bar, to defend him
on his trial for perjury, in the hope that.
having Sleigh, he will be allowed to slide.---
The prosecuting attorney, however, says
it's snow use.
'fnE cqaiieoctial storm Of disease is
showing signs Of abatingi but before the
storm passed over, it took the name Of
zip-I-took-it, and gentleman not far from
the GAZETTE office, thinks it ought TO be
Kuock-emstilf, for he says 1t came very
nearly knocking him stiff
AN Illinois original has named his family
after the days Of the week, beginning with
Monday. He has nov got down to Satur-
day. The next will be Sunday, and the
clerical profession has been chosen.
This is certainly ,oeek family, and when
its darling Sunday arrives, we presume it
will rest from oil its labor.
A HANDSOME young Yankee peddler mado
love to buxom widow Of Pennsylvania,
bat accompanied his declaration with an
alluson to two impediments TO their union.
"Name them," said the widow. "Ihe want
Of means to set up retail store is one of
them," he replied. They parted, and the
widow sent him ample means. When thOy
met again the peddler had hired and stocked
his store, and the smiling fair one begged
to know the other impediment. Il have
wife already" cried the peddler.
Al RESPONSE WANTgD.-The compositors
Of the New York Tribune, at chapel
meeting on the 9th instant, approved Of tho
proposition that the printing Offices in the
United States give one or more pounds Of
old type each for the purpose Of making
statue to Horace Greeley, to be erected
over his grave in Greenwood, and ask the
compositors throughout the country to give
the proceeds Of one thousand ems, to be
set up on February 81 next, the sixty-sec-
ond anniversary OF the birth of Greeley,
the money to be forwarded tothe President
OF the New York Typographisal Union
No. 6, at No. ~ Duane street, in that city,
Of which Union Greeley was the first Pres
ident, Will the printers answer!