The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-05-28
SOUTHERN NEWS.

A NEW postothce IN Sumner County.
Tenn, will be known as A. 3. G.
EIGHT tobacco factories are in opera
tion at Reedsville, n @
The lumber business in Florida il
constantly assuming greater proportions
THR convicts al the Texas state peni-
Tertiary turn out 10000 bricks daily
GUANo of the value of $146, 220 hai
been sold this season at Hawknsville,
GA
ARKANSAS has more miles of navi
gable rivers than any other State in the
Union.
OVER 100000 head Of cattle will be
driven from Texas to Kansas this sum
mel
fHE penitentiary shoe-shop, at Rich
mond, Va, has been leased by Boston
firm
CHATTANOOGA is to have a paint fac
tory with capacity Of Eve tons per
day.
Tom BOYD received only $15 for
leaping from the bridge at Nashville
Saturday.
VIRGINIA has new county-Dickiu
son--form.d Of portions of Lee a4d Ad
joining counties.
ONE hundred and sixty thousand
shad we're placed in Deep River, North
Carolina last week.
RICHMOND, Virginia, has forty-fve
churches, which are attended by one in
sixteen of the population.
THERE are fifty colored type-settersin
the United States, nearly all Of whom
find employment in the South.
THE cotton mills of Columbus, Ga,
have used during the last eight months
15,462 bales of cotton.
A PARTIAL census Of the physicians
in Arkansas shows that there are 1,079
in sixty counties in that State.
The South Carolina State Library
which occupies single room in The
State Capitol, contains 2S, 600 volumes.
A LOT of jute seed has been listrib Ated
among the farmers o. Hanover County,
N. O., for experiments in jute culture.
EIGHTEEN gentlemen in Bryan
County, Ga, have organized Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Ami
mails.
A QUARANTINE warehouse, to be
used for fumigatiug mails and freights
in case of quarantine, is being erected
at Orange, Texas.
THE growing Of pineapples and bana-
mas has been successfully tried on the
Upper st. Johns and the Indian River
country, in Florida.
AT Yorkville, S. O., dealer, while
distributing some guaLo, found 10 il
two joints of human finger, on which
was gutta-percha ring.
THE fines and costs of man con
yicted of selling beer illegally, as as
sessed by the Criminal Court at Nash
vile, Wednesday, amounted to $3.50.
THERE are in one hundred counties
Of Texas $3.50 registered physicians.
Grayson County has the largest number
-158. One county was without a
physician.
THE deer which have been driven to
the high grounds of Louisiana by the
high water are being slaughtered in
large numbers, regardless of the game
laws of the STATE.
TWELVE molders at the Wason Car.
Works, at Chattanooga, have stopped
work because negro was put on the
force and given place in the room
with the other workmen.
THE Baptist revival in Raleigh, N.
c., has assumed such proportions thai
the church can not contain those who
attend, and the congregation had to Sc
c1re Metropolitan Hall.
THE third annual fair and races of the
Georgia Stock and, Fair Association will
be held at oglethorpe Park, Atlanta
commencing Monday, October Is, and
continuing six days.
THE capital invested in the sugar in
terest in twenty-four Louisiana parishe:
amounts to ssO,0OO,OOO. The product oil
sugar and molasses in these counties in
1879 amounted to $22,OOO,OOO
SOME of the best signs Of the return
Of better times in Eastern North Caro-
lima are shown from the general gooC
condition Of the county finances. II
many counties their paper is as good al
gold.
Two large ships have been chartereC
by the Virginia and Tennessee air-lin,
to be loaded for Liverpool with cottor
from Memphis direct, Seven Thousand
bales win arrive at Norfolk in yer,
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