The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-12-03
SOUTHERN NEWS,

The assessed value Of taxable property
in Georgia has increased $4,000, 600
during the past year
Weaver carried Walker county, Texas,
by majority Of sixteen over Hancock
and Garfield combined.
The cupola Of the courthouse 1T
Clarksville, Tenn, is surmounted by i
brazen eagle measuring twelve feet from
tip to tip.
A building erected at Lexington, Ga,
for dancing hall when that town was
in the zenith Of its glory i now used Al
a stable.
The Appeal says that the all night
houses, where men can be around, drink
and quarrel, are the cause Of nearly all
the rows that occur in Memphis.
The City Council Of Fort Smith, Ark,
has passed an ordinance prohibiting the
carrying Of pistols in the city limits in
nay other way except in the hand.
The city board Of health Of Yicksburg
has petitioned the National Board Of
Health to have sanitary survey made
Of the city and its surroundings.
Nearly one hundred more marriag
licenses have been issu ed to colored cou
pies in Mecklenburg county, n. q, this
year than to whites.
The new Mississippi code fixes the
fee Of Coroner for holding an inquest
at SIS instead Of $40, the former figure,
and some Of the Coroners are resigning
in consequence.
A proposition is about to be submitted
to the Little Rock City Council for the
construction Of new waterworks. A
number of prominent citizens have a
new organization in contemplation.
Cotton seed was first planted in the
United States, in 1921 in Virginia as an
experiment. 1t was first planted in
Georgia and the Carolinas in 177S-74,
and in Louisiana in 1742.
A watcr-wheel put up for Touring
mill at Augusta, Ga, weighs 6,QOO
pounds and is to furnish 135-horse
power II was manufactured in Chat
tanooga.
At fashionable masquerade party At
Vicksburg, two ladies who attracted
much attention rand admiration during
the evening we're found to be young men
when the unmasSing took place.
The finest dress ever seen in Atlanta
was worn at the inaugural ball by Miss
Leila Austell, of that city. It cost
$4,000, and was trimmed with lace pur
chased by her in Paris, at 5000 per yard.
A boy in San Antonio, Texas, whilC
standing in front Of his fathers hous'
eating peice Of bread, was suddenly
attacked by an electric flame, which il
supposed { ) have come from lightning
rod near by and was badly burned.
Gen. Phinnoy, at the Georgia Mining
Company, has thoroughly tested til,
Robertson process for reducing ores
and the tests show yield Of IS to $ll
per ton from ore that yielded only $l.5'
per ton. Works will soon be erected q
Gainesville.
The cotton crop Of Texas was closet
by killing frost. The total will amoun
to i ,250, 900 bales and $6O,000,000. Th
Chicago Texarkana Mexican Centfa
, cotton factory, with capital Of $4,000
I was started here to-day. Forty thou'
! and dollars was subscribed in Dallas
t The new statutes of Mississippi prC
. vide that in cases where persons are dom
business as agents, or in their ow
r name, with the goods and capital {
= other people, the principals name mus
he conspicuously displayed at the pli (
Of business, or the goods shall be liabl
3 for the debts Of the person conductir
Il the business.
J ! During the last three years nearl
1 400 people from North Georgia hay
y been converted TO Mormonism, and EN-
, grated to Almaso, Col. The people
the colony oppose polygamy and the
is only one polygamist among ther
The colony is still growing, "a party
: fifty being ready at present to start fro
t Virginia to join it.
n A man by the name Of Albert Gree
4 4 while walking with young lady
Sunday, sin Cleburne county, Texs
" was approached by Ellen Powell, who
he had ruined. AT night, Green ant
. companion blacked themselves, fore
an entrance into the woman's house a
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