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

mend any candidate for help in his
education who uses it.
Ar Newbern, N. q, j. i. Rheen
planted crop Of peas on the list Of Feb.
ruary and finished gathering the product
on the goth Of April. He then cut,the
vines from forty-fye acres, and cured
them for forage, and on the evening Of
April 80 had the ground planted in
cotton.
The principal plank in the platform
of the Rev. Jefferson Washington, col.
ored, Independent candidate for Con
gress in the Fifth Georgia District, Is
thus stated by him: / am opposed to
having our children gobbled UP by these
medicated students, and I'm bound to
stop it,"
AT Argenta, Ark, an immense cotton
seed oil mill is to be erected immedi-
ately by Memphis and Little Rock cspi-
talists. They will also erect powerful
cotton compress, the press costing $780,
600, and having a pressure Of twenty
FIVE hundred tons to the inch capable
Of cd ucing bale of cotton to six and
half inches.
A GENTLEMAN passing colored
school at Tocooa, Ga, saw number Of
little chaps playing in the bushes--as If
they we're hunting for some one, using
sticks for guns, when he casually asked
them what they were doing, and re-
ceived the reply: eve is playin' rev.
nue. men hunting for licker."
THE evangelists Moody and Sankey
parsed through Indian Territory last
week, and while at Muscogee in the
Creek nation, Mr.. Moody arranged to
receive ten Indian girls from that ma
ton, for whom he will provide free
.ducation at the Young Ladies' Semi
nary established by him at Mortified,
Mass.
THE coiored Republicans Of Missis-
sippi demand that Blanche K. Bruce,
now United States Sena.or from that
State, shall have the second plsce on the
Grant ticket. Bruce is a colored man
Of limited education, native of Vir-
ginia, and Mississippi planter since
the war. His term Of service as Senator
will expire next March.
| A NEWSPAPER in Georgia says that il
the farmers of that state would devote
less Of their energies to the raising Of
cotton and give more attention to the
cultivation of sugar-cane, rice, arrow
root, the tea plant, wine-growing, and
the production Of early fruits, vegeta-
bIes and melons for the Northern mar
ket, they would be much more inde-
pendent and happy.
A FORCE of men stationed by the
United States Bureau OF Internal Rev
enue in Fanni, Union, Towns and Rabun
Counties, Ga, to break up the illicit
distilleries in those counties and to
bring the offenders to trial, is being paid
$1,000 a month. These men look upon
their occupation as fat job" and
will hardly apply for a discharge until
the appropriation runs out.
AT the Office of the Commissioner Of
Immigration for Florida, were recsived
on Saturday two letters which were
somewhat unique as to the requests con-
tanned in them. One was from Greek
firm 10 London, which wanted cargo
of orange-wood sticks, and the other
from gentleman in Kentucky who
wished water monkey forwarded to
him. si .9ir
THE season for elopements has begun
in Virginia. In that State such events
are much more likely to occur during
! the cheap excursions in summer 10
Washington City and the North. In
deed, Washington is regarded as sort
Of national Gretna Green. In many 81
these cases no cruel parents interpose
any objections to the match, but the
. hypothetical elopement was adopted
! with view Of economy. 1t saved .
wedding outfit and entertainments that
usually follow marriages.
,, The Richmond (Va.) State attributes
the failure Of foreign immigrants Il
settle in the South to the presence o
|, the negro as an important element o
the population of that section. On thi
other hand the Richmond Wig says
"Pruiudice against the negro is indigo
E nous only to the soil they inhabit, anC
= it is especially noticeable that the i'm
migrant class of foreigners when they
. first come among us know little or moth
ing of such distinctions until they hay
I imbibed it from accociation with our
selves
IT is likely that Congressional Com
: mittee will be appointed to visit North
]. ern Georgia and North Carolina thi
q summer 20 make a thorough investirs