The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-21
SOUTH NEWS,

country OF IlOIldd VII "ADiS PAoNN'S
his year 60, 900 or 10000 boxes Of or
angos
OF 25,i25 population of Harrison
county, Texas, 172o3 are colored while
of 8S,lO8 persons in Grayson county
only 4,55S are colored.
Good mules in Mississippi are worth
about as much as four bales Of cotton,
wbile.one can be raised for less than it
costs toraisc half bale Of cotton.
It is proposed to improve the Library
building at Augusta, Ga, borrowing
money for The purpose from the Orphan
Asylum and depending on increased in
come to gradually reduce The debt.
A new station-house is demanded at
Memphis The present building was
formerly used as a slave market and it
is said that in several instances death
has resulted from nights confinement.
Arkansas is in the same belt with
Northcrn'Africa, Southern Italy, Egypt
and Palestine, countries which, in for
mcr days, were seats Of the highest civ
lzati6n, and the granaries Of the world
Receipts Of cotton ut Madison, Ga.
this season already aggregate more than
10000 bales, and arc likely to be more
than double those Of last season, which
were not more than 1000 bales up to
April.
An effort Is anticipated in the next
legislature Of North Carolina to estab-
lsI criminal courts for the whole State
Or for the larger counties. Some change
seems to be made necessary by the heavy
doekets.
Tho yield Of sugar per acre on the
Techein st. Mary parish, Louisiana, is
simply astonishing On the left bank,
in several Instances it has averaged 1000
pounds, and $500 pounds is said to be
not UNUSUAL
A horrible death has occurred at Holly
Springs GA, traccablc to Christmas hol-
days inhibition Of liquor. Peter Reece
fell asleep in brush pile and froze to
death When he was found the hogs
had torn out his bowels.
The Richmond State / inks it was the
late Judge Percy Walker, Of Alabama,
vino sent the famous dispatch north an
nouncing the attack on Fort Sumter:
with cannon, mortar and petard,
jef Davis sends old Abe his Beaurcrard."
4 poor little boy in New Orleans
p'ckedsup a pockct-book containing
Si5225 IN cash and several promissory
notes His mother restored it to the
owner, who gave the boy complete suit
2 clothes and the mother money TO pay
Three months rents dueand more besides.
The South Carolina Legislature is
commended for its bravery in passing the
aH'Fdqeling law, the anti-whisky law,
Iic authenticated weapons law, and 9TH
8 valuable measures which were enacted
u q session which is, by constitutional
limitation, very short indeed.
n ihree plans or systems of labor are
used IN Louisiana. One Is the share
system, under which the laborer is fur
M" Ill
u'ied with dwelling, land, tools, seed,
e'c'' to make a crop Another is the
@nant system, paying a given rate per
'eie' On these two systems four-fifths
" 'ne cotton plantations in the State arc
olealed' The third plan is that of hir.
'ig laoorers by the month, which pre-.
+ vans IN st. Mary and st. james parishes
A,meetmg has been held at the room,
ule Union Francais, at New Orleans
ue Chambre Syndicate Consultative
Nv commerce Francais, which approved
aiyP9iI suggesting the appointment Of I
'ys'uenl committee in Paris to co-operat,
u''n the Chamber, and also the appoint
I'.' OF special committee to furnish
= 'ne French Consul in New Orleans
''V's and figures TO be laid before Eure
kan capitalists with a view to securin.
;aV establishment of French financia
~''''ullon on large scale.
Inc purpose of the Atlantic coas
.' ,sauooat canal company in Florida is {,
instruct steamboat channel connect
s Lake Worth with Indian river, In
Haa, Rau rlyer with Mosquito lagoon an,
,1'iiax river, and Halifax With Matau
- - ''Ver' which would bring the navics
y yyn up 70 St Augustine, thence throur
~ sS'sn =, river, and from that point int
! ~s ?, p Johns by cut into Pablo cree
T., %ayport, at the mouth of the s
wal,,, 4a 7 or into Julington creek, whic
.su'u bring in vessels twelve or foursce
-H-itH south of