The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-06-04
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Tex, will cost $4,000.
FHE culture of peanuts is becoming
more general in Virginia.
The proceeds of the Frog opera in
New Orleans amounted to 81 ,250.
IS. Texas 8 per cent bonds are quoted
at 102 and are scarce in the market.
ONLY one hotel in Jacksonville, Fla,
will remain open during the summer.
UNMuzzLED dogs on the streets Of
4 Memphis are shot down wiSaout mercy.
NEARLY 1000 workmen are employed
upon new buildings going up in At
lanta.
The summer uniform of the police
Of Richmond, Va, includes white
gloves.
II is estimated that the present rice
crop in.Louisisna will be double that of
last year. 40
A COTTON compress, costing SAC, 900,
will be erected at BRENNAN, Texas, this
summer.
FISK University, at Nashville, has
been presented with a bell weighing
1000 pounds.
DURING this year 100000 bushels OF
corn have been shipped to Europe from
Richmond. Va.
VIRGINIA is set down for 1926, 900 in
the Congressional River and Harbor APP
! r,ranr;o tinr Rill
| A GOOD quality of white porcelain
clay has been discovered in Forsyth
County, N, O.
A GRAND agricultural and mechani-
cal fair is to be held at San Antonio,
Texss, next fall.
i Mrs. SALL1E Gray, of Meridian, Mass,
is III years old and still engages in
letter-writing.
In Henry County, Ga, whole drove
of hogs, while lying in heap, wee
killed by lightning.
LoNa staple seed cotton is so scarce in
East Florida, but one-third the usual
crop win be planted.
New ORLEANS has shipped to France
and Italy within a year 100000 gal
Ions of cotton seed oil.
AN evening paper has been established
at Lynchburg, Va, making three dailies
now published there.
THE Hon. John N. Hudson, State
Senator from Americus, Ga, has been
sent to lunytic asylum.
THERFis lady postmaster at EIon,
Amherst County, Virginia. Her last
predecessor was also lady.
THE Legislative Council of Memphis
aas passed an ordinance abolishing
all hanging signs from over the side
walks.
A coLoRED barber at Macon, Ca, was
stabbed to death with an umbrella
while engaged in a quarrel with another
man.
A CONFEDERATE Memorial Associ-
alton is to be organized at Memphis to
care for the heroic dead in Elmwood
Cemetery.
THE average yield Of the oats crop in
the vicinity of Austin, Texas, this year
IL from eighty to one hundred bushels
per acre.
J. F. West, who killed negro some
time ago at Barnesville, Ga, has been
refused bail and is now in Jail at
Griffin.
A FARMER in Montgomery County,
. Tenn, drove the bugs from his tobacco
plant beds by treating them to dose Of
+ rotten eggs.
THE water in Wolf River, so long de-
tested by MemphiaDs, has been officially
7 pronounced the " third best water in the
United States"
& THE planters Of Alabama and North
/, srn Mississippi are more engrossed thar
t ever in the cotton crop, and are neglect
ing everything else for it.
! THE President of the Mississippi
$ State Agricultural College, at Stark
o vile, receives an annual salary of 81, 800
I and the professors 81, 900 each.
OVER $40O, 900 has been raised in thu
. North for the construction of the new
/ Sibley mills in Augusta, Ga, and tn,
e remaining 5000, 900 is promised.
The cotton mills at Carrollton, Miss.
have been bought by one King, !
n Georgia manufacturer, who win add 2ol
4 operative to the working force.
THE credit of the State of Mississippi
! is at par. Her warrants are equal t
4 currency and are paid on demand. He
c bonds command premium in the mai
ket. yaa saa3 8df III
q n. THERE is not single liquor saloo
in any town on the line Of East Tenuel
40 and Ganrria railroad hAtwaAn Cha