The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-06-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.

teven hundred pages OF new laws
THE sportsmen of Alabama have or
ganized State Association.
THERE are seven or eight candidates
for State Auditor in North Carolina.
REPORTS Of the wheat crop in Tennes-
see are still gloomy.
THE houses in Charleston, S. u, are to
be remembered.
SOUTH CAROLINA has 10000 colored
Good Templars.
EIaHTy-Two houses were built during
the past year at Athens, Ga.
CLARK Mills proposes to undertake
an equestrian statue of Gen. Joseph p.
Johnston.
TUE glass works Of Wheeling, W,
Va, are unable to fill the orders made
for their products.
THERE will be more grain and cotton
raised in Texas this year than during
any three previous years.
THE authorized capital Of the Sibley
Cotton Mills, at Augusta, Ga, has been
increased to 81, 100000.
ONLY two cotton factories are in
operation in Louisiana, both of which
are located in New Orleans.
The United States Fish Commissioner
lis depositing large number Of young
fish in the streams of South Carolina.
THE Sherman (Texas) Oil Mill is
nearly completed. Its owners have on
hand SOC, 900 bushels Of cotton seed.
NEW ORLEANS papers state that from
the present outlook magnificent crop
Of sugar will be harvested this season.
ALMOST the entire wheat crop on the
line of the; Nashville .and Chattanooga
Railroad is seriously effected with the
rust.
THE Pratt Coal and Coax Company, Of
Jefferson County, Alabama, are now
getting out three hundred tons of coal
daily.
ONE hundred tons Of mangansie
were mined, washed and shipped to
England last week, from Augusta Coun-
ty, Va.
The proposed ship canal across tn .
northern end of the peninsula Of Florida
is just now attracting great deal Of at.
tention.
GEORGE SENKINs, Of Barbour Coun.
ty, Ala, killed rattlesnake which
weighed forty-two pounds and had four
teen rattles.
The orange grove of Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, at Mandarin, on the st.
Johns, Florida, yielded Jsst year 81, 1000
to the acre,
The old Colonial church at Halifax,
N. O., is over a century old. In the
church-yaFd there is tomb stone
erected in 1879.
THE Alabama State Fair Association
/ win hold an attractive exhibition thi,
year at Montgomery, commenu ng or
the Sth Of November.
MRS. DELLA Mckinney, of Dallas
County, Ala, will be one hundred year,
old on the 9TH of November. She is !
native of Tennessee.
IN some parts of Middle Tennessee The
farmers have plowed up their whea
fields, having lost all hopes of crop
and have planted vegetables
A GANG of negro robbers has beer
discovered in Tallahassee, Fla. They
had false keys, with which every door il
the town could be opened.
| In Baker County, Ga, where las
years cotton stalks have been left stand
ing, they have put out new leaves an.
have plenty Of squares on them.
THE South Carolipa Penitentiary ha
received orders for palmetto hats from
the States Of New York, Georgia, In
diana, North Carolina and other States
MILLER B. GRANT, who has been il
the Savannah Jail for a year on tn
charge Of embezzlement and forgery t
the amount OF Slo,U ,UOU, has been adJudge'
Insane.
.IDAMs CoRBErf; miser, died nea
Falkland, Pitt County, N. G., aget
seventy. Over 81, 900 were found whicl
ne had secreted, also $4,000 in Con
sederate notes. ssN
A POPULAR vote in Powhatan County
Va, on the question Of subscribing $50,
300 to aid the Richmc,ad and South
western Railroad resulted in. larg
I majority in favor Of such aid. s%e.
A YOUNG man married, plowing,g hi
wife hoeing, and his baby sleeping il
The fence corner in cradle, is what
gentleman saw near Hartwell, Ga, n
,ently. M is8
RICE is becoming one Of the most in