The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-12-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.

soon in Little Rock.
The Libby prison, in Richmond, Va,
has been sold for $4,000, and will be used
as 4 tobacco factory.
The survey Of the Savannah river has
been completed and the estimated cost
Of improvement is $Sl, 600.
A farmer in Pickens county, Ala, has
made ia gallons Of molasses from less
than half an acre Of sugar cane.
Gov. Wilt, Of Louisiana, has ordered
the planters to take care Of their own
levees, as the State is unable to make the
necessary repairs.
Mrs. Catherine CovencY Of New Or
leans, was bitten by black setter dog in
August and She died Tuesday Of hydro
phobia. She was seyenty-two years old.
g A. Peyton, i negro Of Memphis,
was sentenced 70 one years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary Wednesday for
marrying Levinia Washington, white
woman.
Mfs. Chaplin, Of Charleston, S. C., pre-
sented a petition to the City Council of
Charleston against liquorlicenses Itwas
signed BY 5000 persons.
Gen. Sherman, who is at San Antonio,
has decided THAT military bands can play
for private concerts as they are not en-
ployed as musicians by the government
Col Glenn, who has run level along
the Colorado river, says that there is am
pie fall from between the mouth Of Bull
creek and Austin to make practicable a
canal for driving machinery
A school for the instruction Of youths
in musical education il to be established
in New Orleans, in order to take adyar-
tagc of the act Of Congress placing 4
training ship at the 'sposal Of that city.
Oranges, the Sanford, Fla, Journal
says, are not cracking and bursting on
the trees rs they did last year. Some,
however, that were DANA ed by thorns
during the gale Of August, are dropping,
but very few.
Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of Gen.
Robert f. Lee, is in Staunton, Va, the
guest Of Mrs. John b. Baldwin Miss
Lee has Travelled nearly all over the
world, and never heard the "Pinafore"
until she heard il in Staunton the other
night.
In the case Of William Williams, col
ored, for killing the Rey. Mr.. Scott, col
orcd, of Austin, Texas, because Of ieal-
ousy, the verdict was to send him 70 the
penitentiary for life, It evidently
pleased the defendant, for, feeling his
throat, he smiled
on Tuesday letter was returned from
the Dead-letter office 10 the postmaster
Of New Orleans which had gone to En-
gland via New York, returned to Ameri
ca via Boston, forwarded from there to
the Dead-lettcr office and returned to
New Orleans, with nearly $4,000 Of
drafts in it.
There are at present in Key West
Fla, a male and female manatee, or sea
COW, the finest specimens ever captured,
They we're taken by means Of huge nets
constructed specially for the purpose,
which were spread in one Of the small
rivers emptying into the gulf upon the
Florida coast.
Complete census returns Of Alabama,
published in the Montgomery Advertiser
and Mail, give total population for 1880
Of ,255,069, against 9s4,215 in 1870,
being an increase in ten years Of 268,- |
S54. In this statement the figures for
the counties Of Calhoun, Clay, Shelby |
and st. Clair are not official.
Rev. Thos Stickney Haskell, who, up |
to the latter part Of 1876, was an actor
and circus performer, preached Sunday at
Il e Carondelet street Methodist Church |
South, New Orleans A large number
Of ladies and gentlemen were present to
listen to the eloquent words Of the be
neyolent old gentleman.
The motion to quash the indictment
in the case Of Abe Rothschild, the muir
derer Of Bessie Moore, at Marshall, Texas,
was sustained on Monday by Judge |
Booty He has been ordered into the
custody Of the sheriff to await the action
Of the grand jury, but the decision ofthe |
Judge il looked upon as virtually an ac-
quittal.
At the Baptist convention at Camden,
South Carolina, the report Of the Sta
tistical secretary, the Rev. Luthur
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