The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-11-05
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Selma, Ala, is growing rapidly.

Tomato cider is a new drink in Texas.
A negro woman 10S years old died
near Fort Valley, Ga.
Nashville ships fifteen car loads of
lumber northward every day.
Five negroes were elected to the Geor-
gia Legislature at the recent election.
The ladies Of Macon propose to make
a vigorous winter campaign in the tenn
perance cause.
The people of Clarendon, Texas, are
building abode houses. They are made
of sun-dried bricks.
A colored couple were married in the
poor-house at Barnesville, Ga, the groom
ITO years old and the bride only forty.
The three richest men in Georgia are
Joseph E. Brown, Of Atlanta and Fer
dinand Phinizy and John A. White, of
Athens.
Barnum is having bad luck in Texas.
An elephant, two tigers, a giraffe, train
ed oxen and a number of smaller animals
in his show have died.
The tobacco outlook has increased the
value of timbered land in Buncombe
county, N. G., at least fifty per cent.
within the last three years.
In Schley county, CD, freedman,
with one mule, this year made twenty
three bales of cotton, weighing over 900
pounds each, and 200 bushels of corn.
A young man died at San Antonio,
Texas, after licking cotton from the eff
feet O. poison put on the cotton to kill
insects. His brother is i'll from the same
cause.
A colored girl named Lizzie Hampton,
in Union county, S. c., has given birth
to twin children, which are Joined to-
gether by union of the breast bone,
having but one naval, but supposed to
have two sets Of intestines confined in
one cavity.
r. A. Hyslop, a gentleman living in
Norfolk county, Va, recently captured
an ordinary live turtle possessed of two
well-formed heads. The turtle was
brought to bay in the woods by dog,
and is considered such curiosity that
Mr. Hyslop has decided to send it on to
the Smithonian Institution at Washing
ton.
Leprosy exists to n considerable extent
in the parish of Lafourche, La. An at
tempt to make in official investigation
was lately resisted with arms, the lepers
and their friends believing that the suf-
fcrers were to be isolated on an island in
the ocean. The report of the pl ysicians
is that the disease is not gaining ground
Baton Rouge, La, has no public
schools open. The same is true of St
Landrey, and the Democrat, Of the latter
parish, says: eve have school officials
State and parochial, all the time, but nc
schools. What is the use of having al
organization that accomplishes nothing
Tho public school system Of this State il
a dclusion and snare"
| Samuel Hawthorne, who killed McGe,
at Vicksburg in September, has been sen
fenced to the penitentiary for life by
| jury Of twelve colored men. This is til,
first case in Mississippi in which whit,
man has been convicted by negroes. Tn,
jury is said to have exhibited every evi
dence of marked attention, and brough
in their verdict intelligently.
The Vallambrosa Place, near Dublin
Ga, once the home of Gov. George NJ
Troup, but recently the residence Of Col
Robert Wayne, who married a grand
daughter Of Coy. Troup, was destroye,
by fire. The family pictures and fin
old silyerware were all lost, and many o
the historic oaks were killed by the fire
Col. Wayne has suffered losses from fir
four times within eleven years.
In Tennessee, under the law O. 1877
no liquor can be sold within four mile
of an incorporated school of learning
unless located in an Incorporated tow
or city. The friends of temperance az
taking advantage of the enactment i
some portions of Shelby county by secul
ing charters of incorporation for schooI
in their neighborhood, in all cases mea
some little village where the ineb latin
fluid is dispensed.
The Kings Mountain Centennial A
sociation reports surplus of funds r.
naming after defraying the expenses
the recent celebration. 1t has dete
mined to build an iron railing around IL
} monument and construct dwelling
house on the mountain near by for II
keeper Of the monument, who is to |