The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-05-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.

rested IN Raleigh, n. u, In one day.
A JUTE mill is being established in
New Orleans with capital Of $500 900.
THERE are one hundred and forty
FIVE orphans in the asylum at Oxford,
N. @.
IT is estimated that $40 .0O) 900 have
been sent out of Texas this spring for
COWS.
A COMPANY hes boon formed at
Barnwell, s. O., for building street.
railway.
THERE is not a Hebrew in Coving-
ton, Ga, though it has over 1000 in
habitants.
LARGE quantities Of Western corn
are being SOLD in Burke and Terrell
Counties, Ga.
THE commissions on tho sale Of the
Greenviile and Columbia Railroad
amounted to $4,000.
The increase of tax values in Lynch
burg, Va, for the last Eve years has
been nearly 81 ,OO0.0 900.
The police force of Nashville is now on
the lookout for vagrants, against whom
the law is to be rigidly enforced.
THE Directors of the South Carolina
Penitentiary propose to supply the city
of Charleston with building stone.
THE new code of Mississippi allows
a married woman 10 convey her property
without the consent of her husband.
THE cotton worm will again be in
vestigated this year by committee of
the National Government.
THE Board of Public Works of Mis-
sissippi have decided to lease out the
penitentiary and conyicts to the best
bidder.
THE subject of building railroad be-
tween Greenville and Laurens Court
house, S. c., is attracting attention in
both counties.
The Governor of Arkansas has par
doned Clement Burchett, who was con-
victed Of murder in 1870 and sentenced
to the Penitentiary for twenty-one
years.
THE Goode farm in Bell County,
Texas, contains 4,400 acres, 1900 in
cultivation, and between thirty and
forty tenant houses. 1t belongs to E.
N. Goode, who settled there without
capital some twenty-five years ago.
The congregation of the First Metho-
dist Church at Atlanta, on the appeal OF
their pastor last Sunday, subscribed
over $4,000 in about an hour md :
half, to be expended on the church
edifce.
The Chamber Of Commerce of Charles
ton has adopted resolutions urging upon
the representatives in Congress from
South Carolina the Importance of hav-
ing full appropriation made for the
jstties in the harbor at that city.
The Hon. John I. Harris is confident
that he will get his bill for returning to
Virginia the money advanced to the
General Government in 1912 passed At
this session of Congress.
THE Lynchburg Manufacturing Com.
pany, in Virginia, is manufacturing
sumac in large quantities for use IN
tanning, turning out fifteen tons daily
The company designs erecting paper
mill at Lynchburg at an early day.
"BLIND" or tBlack" measles is said tc
be prevailing at Wadesboro' and Shoe
Heel, N. O. Persons are attacked with
the edisease who had the measles yelrs age
1t is a very severe form of measles, anc
in several cases has proven fatal.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has beer
caused by the discovery Of vein o.
silver in Dickson County, Tenn. Tn,
ore has been assayed and pronounced t
be very rich. A company has been or
ganized with capital of $25,000 to de
velop the vein.
THE Young Mems Library Associa
ton of Atlanta is thirteen years old, hs
$500 volumes, Sc, 900 worth Of painting
and other property, snd has contracte,
for three story brick building, will
Mansard roof, to cost $2l 900. The cur
rent expenses per annum are $4,000.
WITHIN the past six months NOR,
than 1000 white people have emigrate'
from the neighborhood Of Greensboro
N. O., to Indiana and the Northwest
: More than that number of colore,
people have gone into Georgia ant
: other Southern States from North Caro-
lima.
, THERE has not been a death in th
old family Of J. w. Mize, of Sumte
County, Ga, in sixty-thres years, an
he has six uncles and three aunts who's
united ages are six hundred and thirt
years. His uncles, his cousins, and h
aunts number, all told, one hundred an
! fifty-six, that live in sumter County.
c The City Council of Norfolk, Va