The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-12-31
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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AT Little Rock the telephone has 17O
subscribers.
Land Is selling in Sumter county, Ga,
at $15 per acre.
Land in Louisiana can be bought at $2
to $25 per acre,
The total bonded debt Of the city Of
New Orleans is $15, ,63S.
There has been 140 rainy days in Jack
sonyille, Fla, this year.
At Galveston an estimate puts the
cotton crop at 5,555Ooo bales.
The receipts Of cotton at Savannah net
over half million bales.
At Bay st. Louis, Miss, Conrad Hof,
man picked 5000 oranges from one tree.
Morgan City, Louisiana, shipped $780,,
600 oysters to New Orleans in one week
Cleveland county, N. q, will consume
1000 Tennessee hogs next year
Many citizens Of Biloxi, Miss, have
not yet gathered their oranges.
There are seyenty-fye inmates in the
deaf and dumb asylum at Austin, Tex.
Ten thousand children attended school
in Kinds county, Miss, during the past
year.
Receipts Of cotton at Wilmington, N.
O., during November, S0,43O bales,
against is, All bales in November, 1879.
The debt Of Columbus, Ga, is $780,
800. Only $3.50 Of old bonds remains
to be exchanged for five per cents.
Adams county, Mississippi, contains
%, 90G inhabitants. Of which 1S,059 are
colored.
There were 4,255 letters mailed at
Birmingham, Ala, in the first seven days
Of this month.
Tobacco outlook has increased the val
ue Of timbered land in Buncombe coun-
ty, North Carolina, fifty per centin three
years.
Arkansas has 1885, 900 acres Of land to
give to actual settlers. The State Land
office receipts are $4,000 in excess ofex-
penses.
Joseph Sewell, on fifteen acres Of Geor-
gia upland Chat had been in cultivation
ffty years, made eleven bales Of cotton
averaging over 500 pounds apiece.
The bulk Of the Louisiana cane crop
is uniniured, and it is thought that the
crop will be the largest made in nearly
twenty years, reaching 225,000 logs
heads.
, Darien, Ga, timber merchants intend
doing larger business this year than
they have done since the war.
Official returns Of the census from al
the counties Of Georgia, except three
show net increase in the last decade o.
! 527557.
. Counties in Georgia having the largest
i, population Fulton, 49,5l5; Chatham
) 45, 10; Richmond, S4,569i Bibb, p, ,l4O
I Burke, 27, 1877 Floyd, 24,4lS; Houston
! 22,412.
One of the most valuable features o
6 the Memphis sewerage system is the en-
It tire abolition Of privy vaults, death deal
; ing nuisances in large cities.
i r. Y. McAden, Charlotte banker, ]
erecting a cotton factory in CASTOR coun
= = ty, N. G., to have 1000 spindles, Tn
4 II seventh cotton factory in that county
N A yellow brocade silk dress, l27 year
ls old. is shown in the industrial exhibitio
I ! at Charleston. The silk was spun i
n South Carolina and woven in Englan
ID for Mrs. Pinckney, wife Of the Chief Jui
~ tice Of the Province of South Carolin;
: About $4,000 cattle have been receive
ne in Farquier county, Va, in the las
en three months. They are brought froi
- Tennessee and southwest Virginia an
IL fattened for the Baltimore and Washing
an ton markets.
y At the rate of $24 per month the
- convicts now on hand will bring rev
nd nue. to Greene county, Ala, of 1854
lg It is said that the convicts will be we
u ~ clothed and kindly treated, but will
os- required to do good work.
on o., The report Of the State Auditor
ie ,te North Carolina shows that the valuatic
be of land has increased in eight years 81;
lg, $50, 1000, or twenty per cent. The i
sot sot creased value of town lots is 100000
,el- or fifty per cent.
nat Texas is entitled to the banner whit
~. ,uS she gave to Georgia four years ago +
polling the largest Democratic MAORI
in presidential election. Tilden h
IN over so, 900 majority in Georgia al
Ich about 10000 in Texas. Hancock b
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