The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-03-25
NEWS GLEiNINGs.

u1ly CeHtS VI phO NOAAetA'
Thirty drumniers visited Natchez in
February, and paid s75 privilege taxes
IN the Cherokee nation there are l07
schools where the English language is
taught
There are 22o students at the South
Georgia Agricultural College, at Thorn
asville.
The granite for the base of the Cow
pens monument is arriving at Spartan
burg, S. @. tt
It is alleged that the oysters found off
the Texas coast are the largest and finest
in the world.
A license to sell liquor in Nebraska
costs $1,000, which shows that their
drinks are dear to them out there.
Lizzie Crompton, aged seven, Of Pat
erson, N. j., jumped rope 175 times,
and then stopped a'-few minutes to die.
WINDOWS home is in Minnesota, he
was born in Ohio, married in Massachu-
setts, and he lives in Washington.
A bill has been filed in Chancery con
testing the title Of lands covering large
part Of the fifth ward Of Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Strawberries cultivated near Charles
ton, S. O., are expected to yield l,00O,-
.OOO8quarts for the Northern markets
from $50 acres Of land.
Thomas Smith, Of New York, who re-
Gently compehed his young son to keep
the track in walking match, was fined
500 and sent to prison forten days.
A bill has passed both houses Of the
Florida Legislature taking Sumter county
from the First Congressional district
and transferring it to the Second.
Kansas druggists, according to the new,
absurd law, can not sell camphor, CO.
logne or favoring extracts into which
alcohol enters without the prescription
Of a.physician.
The Prescott (Ark) Dispatch say
that there are seventy-fve saw mills on
the line of railroad between Little Rock
and Texarkana, and timber enough for
750 more.
Miss Mary Maury, Of Milton, N. q,
who was engaged to be married to Thos
DeJarnette, who is now under sentence
Of death for shooting his sister in a low
house, has married Mr.. Charles Cor
don.
A correspondent Of the Savannah (Ga, }
News says that the largest tea plantation
in the United States is located about
fifteen miles from Fleming, Fleming is
about twentyfour miles southwest Of
Savannah in Liberty county.
Karl Gerhardt, Hartford draughts.
man, modelled 50 fine a figure of his wife
in clay that Mark Twain and Charles
Dudley Warner have sent him to Europe
for education in sculpture.
The Money Order Superintendent a
New York says the M. o. Department il
only sixteen years old. The smalles
money order ever sent was one cent
Last year over $l00,0O0000 was sen
through the department.
Two Of the Texas Congressmen ar
Georgians. 0lin Wellborn began hi
legal career in Atlanta, and moved t
Texas in 1868. d. B. Culberson wen
from LAGRANGE to the army, and the
to Texas as Adjutant General Of tina
State. III
Garfield kissed the Bible on the twer
ty-first chapter of Proverbs, and tn
verses he. kissed were these: ever
way Of man is right in his own eyel
but the Lord pondereth the hearts.
/. 'NFo do justice and Judgment is more a.
ceptable to the Lord than sacrifice"
The Maine liquor law is still suppose
to be in. force in that State, and the LIE,
islature is still loyal to the prohibitor
statute 80 long upon the Maine books
but for the refreshment of the inner ma
engaged in the Maine Legislature, liqut
is made quite accessible to the capt.
building in Augusta.
siaIhe Texas Legislature is said to ha'
passed q resolution requiring that WON,
sEall be employed in the State depal
ments for every position that they a
competent to fill upon the same terr
and conditions as men. The heads
departments, It appears, have hither
declined to give the women any pub
employment IA 1hnA9 98E
The Rev. Dr. Philip scbaf, Charm
Of the Bible Revision Committee, q