The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-07-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.


this season.
Bn1-PosrrNG is forbidden on telegraph
poles in Charleston, S. G.
Tine new courthouse at Gallatin,
Tenn, is q handsome building.
CIDER is made in Texas from tomatoes,
and sells at $1.25 per gallon.
Two more new factories will soon be
under way on the canal at Augusta, Ga,
The site for the Marine Hospital has
beenlocated at Fort Pickering, Memphis.
The Star claims 10000 population for
Wilmington, N. O., under the new census.
MOBILE has received $4,000 bales OF
cotton this season, 10000 short Of last
year.
FLINT River has Just received de-
posit of 10O,0 young shad, at Albany,
Ga.
CoTToN goods manufactured in South
Carolina are being sold extensively in
New England.
THE ladies of Little Rock have build
ing association, and 100000 have been
subscribed.
THE Lane cotton mill at New Orleans
has been enlarged to 10000 spindles, and
is doing well.
The stock Of sea-island cotton at
Charleston is nearly exhausted, only 510
bales remaining unsold.
GREAT fears are felt everywhere in the
cotton belt on account Of the appearance
Of worms at different points.
New cotton factories are Bpringing up
everywhere down South. One will be
started at Chattanooga this season.
VIcKsBuRG is looking into her sanitary
condition and is determined that Yellow
Jack shall not catch her mapping.
Or the 1000 oonyicts in the Virginia
State Prison only two admit that they
merit the punishment they are enduring.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New Orleans
Times, from Kansas, says he has never
yet seen half q crop raised in that State
GALVESTON has controcted for an arte-
sian well, 1000 feet deep and eight
inches in diameter, at total cost of
1913, 1000.
THE Kansas exodusters are still slowly
and sadly working their way back to
their old homes in Mississippi and Louis
lana.
Cows are going blind in the neighbor-
hood of Jackson, Tenn, and no cause
can be assigned for so remarkable o
disease
The Board Of Health, New Orleans,
has adopted stringent measures fol
sanitary purposes, and seems determined
to enforce them.
A MAN at Helena, Texas, believes there
will be another flood in November and
this second Deucalion is building an ark
for the occasion.
A DIsGUsTED negro, returned from
Kansas, says that "if Kansas should be
rooted in it would be the biggest niggei
poor-house in the world"
PoINT CLEAR, near Mobile, is the New
Port Of the South. 1t is situated at the
entrance Of Mobile Bay, fronting botl
on the gulf and the bay.
THE princely rancho of Capt. r. King
of Nueces County, Texas, is inclosed b,
a wire fence IT'S miles in length, inclos
253,000 acres Of grazing land.
ufttt, I,,,l1to,, oeco,re, ~ Az 1.,tl
mint will reach 5000 during the pres
ent year. The mining interests of Nortl
Carolina are being pushed forward witt
great energy.
NEGRO man in Pointe Coupee Par
ish, La, pulled an old log out of th,
river the other day and found in it SIG
in old French coin, much blackened witt
age and exposure.
ICANNINe shrimp and preserving fresl
figs for the general market is a successfr
industry of New Orleans; rivaling tn
famous canning establishments in Balti
more and the North.
THE census enumerators have ascer
thaneu bnab IOf tne lasJ Ten years IN
mortality in New Orleans has bee
twelve in 1000 per annum, an exceed
ingly low death rate.
The Columbia and Lexington Is. G.
Water Power Company viii send thei
, agents to different points South to CON
) municate with capitalists with the vie,
J of inviting them to invent.
, A PARTY in Jacksonville, Fla, has er
j tered into an engagements with larR
London firm to furnish them with an ur
r limited number Of sticks of orange an
other Florida woods suitable sor walking
canes and umbrella handles.
a VERY few Of the working men throw
a ont of employment by the failure of th
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