The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-06-11
SOUTHERN NEWS.

! IN pihSe III Wytho OOuntyJ va.
THIRTY thousand ssw-logs are being
RATED down Pearl River, Mississippi.
RAILROAD ties are being shipped
from Norfolk, Va, to South America.
THE Ice factory at Chattanooga,
Tenn, after years inactivity, is again
In operation.
A COMPANY has been formed at Rock
port, Texas, for the purpose Of doing
large business in canning FISH,
FoUR mills at Richmond, Va, manu-.
featured, during the ten months just
closed, 2S7, ,476 barrels of -four,
WILLIAM III. HARMS has been ap.
pointed State Commissioner of Immigra-
tion of Louisiana by Governor Wiltz.
The receipts Of cotton at Houston,
Texas, this season are 15O,446 bales,
against 97,S46 for the same time last
year.
LYNoHBURG, Va, is doing heavy
business in the gusno trade, large
quantities being shipped in all direc.
tions daily.
THERE have been filed in the Eufaula
branch of the probate Office of Barbour
County, Ala, since the LIST of January,
1,042 mortgages.
The Bersha zinc works of Wythe
County, Va, will furnish the United
States Government with zinc, for alloy
with silver in coinage.
The Mississippi State Board Of Health
has ordered quarantine TO be estab
lished at the port of Pascsgoula against
vessels from infected ports.
In Montague County, Texas, a gentle
work OF went mad and attacked man
on horseback, goring the horse to death,
while the rider escaped by climbing q
tree.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office of Texas has had prepared
separate maps Of tifty.seven counties in
that State, to be used in attracting emf
grafton.
The Farmyille (va.) Foundery and
S&w-mill has secured contract from
the Atlantic Oil-re6ning Company, OF
Philadelphia, for 100000 barrel stav
and headings.
BARLOW iron furnace, in Barlow
County, Ga, with capacity Of twenty.
five tons daily, has closed on account Of
the advance in freights by the Western
and Atlantic Railroad.
THREE-FouRTHs of all the Baptist
Churches in the country are in the
South. The membership of this denom-
ination in the Southern States is 1,500,-
900. of whom 100000 are colered.
The Lynchburg Mems publishes re.
ports from eight prominent tobacco.
growing counties in Virginia, in all Of
which there is great scarcity of plants,
caused by the cool weather and the
ravages Of insects.
THE people of Arkansas are no great
ofice-seekers. The candidates for Chief
Justice, Treasurer, Secretary of State,
Superintendent Of Public instruction,
Chancellor and ohancery Clerk in that
State have no opposition. -,
Tive men, without any other facilities
than tin pan, in FIVE days obtained
800 worth Of gold in Byrd's Creek, ten
miles from Christiansburg, Va. They
have now hired number of hands aud
gone to work systematically.
A HANDSOME dome is to be CON
structed over the new capitol in Baton
Rouge, La, broad enough to accommo-
date dancing party at the height of
over one hundred feet from the ground.
Extensive improvements are going on
all over Baton Rouge.
A LARGE lime-kiln has been built in
Washington County, Ga, where there
is large quantity of limestone, on the
Central Railroad. This is three hun
dred miles further south than any other
lime-klins, aud promises TO meet ready
demand for its products.
A MAN 10 New Orleans has for pets
host of big and little spiders. He first
became enamored OF them on account OF
Iheir thrift, courage, industry and skin.
BE has at length become so engrossed
with them as pets that he spends his
whole time with them and does not care
to zee visitors
THE valuable water power of Maj. G.
W. Anderson, near Willismstown, s. O.,
.ogether with 272 acres of land, was sold
for $4,000 to representative of
Charleston capitalist. The object Of
this purchase, 1t is understood, is the
erection OF a cotton factory with cap
ital of $400, 900. ls e
A BOY was stamping some packages al
the postofice in Macon. Ga, when
lady came in who bought three.cent
stamp, and then, turning to the boy,
coolly asked him to run out his tongue.