The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-10-29
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Ten. r, Akers has been re-appolnted flsh
Commissioner for Middle Tennessee.
Rome, Ga, had but FIVE bar-rooms three
years ago, while it now has twenty-one
A seventy-acre field near Norcross, Ca,
yielded seventy bales Of cotton this year.
A nugget of gold weighing two and half
pounds has been taken out of the Christian
mine, in North Carolina.
Forty thousand dollars have been sabscrib
ed for grain elevator in Richmond, Va.
The amount needed is 100000.
The last grand jury impaneled in Claren-
don county, S. c., included four colored men,
all Of whom could read and write.
The cotton oil works Of Eufaula have been
completed. They have 1000 bushels Of cot
ton seed on hand with which to start opera
tions.
There are in Georgia ss,522 colored men
who own, by the tax receivers returns for
their respective counties, 55l ,19s acres Of
land.
In Dodge county, Ga, a Mrs. Wright has
made twenty yards Of silk, having herself
raised the trees, attended the worms and
woven the silk into cloth
The receipts of the North Carolina colored
State Fair, recently held in Raleigh, were
something over $4,000. The expenses Of all
kinds, including premiums, will fall rather
short Of 81 500.
Edward L. Stroheoker, aged thirty years,
son Of a prominent physician in Macon, Ga,
Broadway, New York, suffering from poison
ing from using opium cigarettes.
Mrs. Annie Perkins, the oldest inhabitant
Of Danvlle, Va, was buried last week. She
was 104 years Of age, and was the mother Of
Rev VIM, Perkins, a Baptist minister, Of the
old "hard-shell" denomination.
There are in Chatham county, Ga, includ-
ing the city of Savannah, 10,9l7 school child
ren, of whom only 4,03l are white. The de-
pariments Of modern languages and calls
themes have been abolished in the schools
of Savannah.
! Vicksburg is making a movement toward
improving her streets, but the new blocks Of
the Nicholson pavement are being laid on the
same planks that have rested under the old
pavement for ten year and the improve
mtnt will hardly be permanent.
At Henderson, Texas farmer named j.
A. Tinkle was shot dead by negro boy who
, had been in his employ several years. Mr..
, Tinkle had Just sold his cotton for $400, and
the negro secured this money and escaped
before his crime was discovered.
Two bales Of cotton from Harris county
Ga, were received al Columbus a few days
J ago, which were ginned and packed twenty
: three years ago. The bagging and rope are
in good order The cotton was sold and
brought nine cents per pound for one and
ten cents for the other.
vicksburg Herald: What this town and
county wants Just now is labor-good, indus
trious labor and plenty of ii, Negroes have
become 50 triling that they cant be utilized
any more. just think Of common roustel
demanding salary Of 800 per month anC
his board for rolling cotton.
A correspondent writes from Amelia coun
ty, Va, that twenty-five cents is the usua
price for baptising converts in that section
and dadds: "Several colored Baptist preacher
in this county charged fifty cents head TO
baptising; but, of late, one Of them ha
agreed to do it for twenty-five cents cash
and now all have come down to that"
w. L. Hidden, the ninerslogist, who wa
lac in II,
platinum, to supply Edison's electric light
is again in the western part Of the State. Fl
is now looking principally for chromate q
iron, which is being used in the manufactur
! of the finer kilds Of paints, and in dyein
! and calico printing.
A horned snake Is kept as a curiosity b
H. C. Gregory, at his residence in Mansborc
, Va. 1t is about three feet long and has
horn ON the end of the tail, about one and
/ half inches in length, a little bent and resen
bling very much the spur of a rooster. Th
snake uses the horn as a weapon, which
said to be very deadly. Even trees are sal
Z Z to have been killed by its blow.
r Tarboro, North Carolina, has colore
re ollect when she began TO wear male clothing
r still dresses and acts like II man does man
~ work and bears mans name She has a
q aversion to being with women or doing the
IL kind Of work, and says she would go to Il
Z penitentiary before she would wear bonne
g, She is mother, but not at all motherly, al
ut her child calls her papa.
~ In Georgia the number of children enroll,
e. in the public schools of the State has rise
of from 1875 ia 1873 to 62,ssO in 1877, the la
st year covered by the State School Commi
n sioner's report. The number of color,
ne children in attendance at the pub ic schoC
a ae has more than doubled in the last five yeal
he The State makes the same appropriation I
he the colored State University that il does +