The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-06-25
SOUTHERN NEWS.

County, Ga, is Aourishing.
Two ladies were appointed postmas-
ters in Virginia towns last week.
1t is an indictable crime to kill tur-
key buzzard or carton crow in Tennessee.
SEVERAL lots Of tobacco were sold re-
Gently in Oxford, N. c., at 81. so per
pound.
CobuMBus claims to Us the home Of
more fine horses than any other city in
Georgia.
The Texas farmers are generally very
far behind the times in the use Of labor
swing machinery.
THE farmers of many counties in Geor-
gia have planted cotton more largely this
year than ever before.
A MAN on the Peninsula Railroad, in
Florida, gathered ten thousand good
oranges from one tree last fall.
THE competition in the ice business in
Charlotte, N. O., has reduced the price
to three-quarters of cent.
TwENTY-THREE new post routes are es-
tablished in Mississippi by an act Of Con
gress approved on the Sd inst.
GoID is found in fifty-six counties in
Georgia, copper in thirteen, and silver in
three, iron in fifty-three and diamonds in
twenty-six.
PLANTING fax for the production Of
linseed oil and lint is proposed to be tried
near San Antonio, Texas, where fax
grows Wild
THE Mississippi mills at Wesson have
their 400 looms running eleven orders
ahead for the full capacity Of the mills
for the next three months.
NORTH CAROLINA is taking an active
interest in fish culture. All the leading
streams in the State are now being
stocked with the best varieties of fish.
ALL the saw-mills along the South and
North Alabama Railroad are kept buy
supplying orders for lumber. Large
quantities Of the lumber are shipped to
Northern markets.
TOBACCO from Western North Carolina
is scarcely ever injured by the horn
worm. This crop has been grown there
but few years, and the worms have not
yet learned to claim it.
PUCK quotes colored philosopher as
saying, twenty years ago niggers was
wuf thousand dollars a piece. Nov
dey would be deah at two dollars dozen.
. It's 'stonishing how de race am runin
, down"
TIE raising of Angora goats in West
ern Texas is increasing, and is alleged t.
bea profitable business. It is said tha
the meat is much better than mutton
t and each goat yields about two pound
}, Of hair annually. In the Eastern marke
! il is now worth 55 cents per pound.
+ Ar Clarksville, Texas, farmer nance
Q Canterbury has been held to answer tn
s charge of swindling. He made cottol
g bales with one hundred pounds Of cottoi
q and the balance cotton seed. The bale
q weighed SO much that a cotton buyer
|. suspecting foul play, bored into bal
n and struck the seed.
= THE Ocean Steamship Company, {
i Savannah, paid $1,000 cash for cit
as tract on the water front, the terms Of til
le sale being that the party purchasin
ie said property shall erect thereon a graf
Y elevator with the capacity for at lea
- y 100000 bushels Of grain, within twelN
4, months from the date Of said sale.
ID WHILE number of ladies were sittir
8; in the piazza of residence in Mt. Plea
OF ant, S. c., mad dog rushed into Il
- group and snapped several times
n them, catching the dress Of one of Il
SO ladies' in its mouth. Fortunately, d
ladies were able to make their escap
as and the dog finally butted its hei
OF against the building until it was inseni
~ ~ BILE.
Ias ONE of the prodigies brought into n
ms tice by the Exposition at Nashville is
he boy only five years old who is able to res
IT. pronliscuously in books and newspaper
~ ~ never stopping to spell word, emph
~ ~ sizes well and enunciating slowly and d
eof tinctly, like well-educated man. =
RS, name is W. G. L. Wetmore, and hishoI
vas wilson County.
yer In Edgefeld County, S. O., Thom
,J 'Is M. Blease was shot and instantly kill
for for by Gardner, his son-in-law. Tits report
iii that bad feeling existed between the n
me on account of Gardner's marriage w
Blease's daughter, and that Blease b
.on made charges against Gardner Of d
les. cate nature, and, threatening to kill hi
ith had sought him for that purpose. Ga
IAN ner being apprised Of his father-in-la
.eI intention, killed him upon meeting hi
he JoHN BURNSIDE is the most extens
tls sugar planter in Louisiana. He OF
der and ,nerafas eight ulanfations located