The Magnolia gazette., 1881-08-19
NEWS eLEANINGS.
.Ws TisEsbaTs, Mississippi has

- - poisoning the nsn OF ,PlacK Lake. La, Dy
the wholesale, with India berries
.s,ce Anew cotton compress is TO be erected
in Norfolk. Virginia, which is intended
+ TO- be the most powerful in, the world
Bradley county, Arkansas; is de-
{ scribed asa glorious garden, where the
.a people own their farms aad the crops
~ hide the houses from sight
.liaqSixty!one thousand three hundred and
: .lseventy tons of guano were imported
= into North Carolina during the past
season. .
s''~'A' sohn E. Peoples, Of Anderson, S. o.,
''.7- is the greatest rag man in the State. He
ships annually from 100000 to 100000
pounds of rags. '.ss 'i'
colored Baptist minister, John An
asge James, eofF Forsyths Georgia, i'm
,. mersed fifty conyertslin fftysfve min
-utess nei
Louis Kent, a colsred man of Missis-
isiRBi, haslhaa the honor for three years
past of sending the first bale of cotton
tomarket, Ii sa80IIu4
Parties are poisoning the streams in.
.as, Sumter county, Georgia, with green
wanuts and devil shoestring 10 kill the
fish. This. is violation of law.
Judge Gillian, Of Oglethorpe county,
Georgia, often has applications from men
to buy marriage license on time. He
takes a lien on the bride and then issues
them.
swarm of bes have made hum TO
7a.s themselves in the tower of the Presby-
teran church at Covington, Ca, where
the. are supposed to be butting up honey
for winter use.
Senator Lamars hea lth is still so poo
that his physician has forbidden him to
speak at public meetings at present
saying he could only do so at great risk.
Old man Burnside, the New Orleans
millionaire, didn't know he had any
FelativeAg But there is,a little army of
them marching right alongto fight ever
those five or six. millions of "flthy lu.
cre.n 7r z~ov,s.rz.v~5,., .1 Jat
In the South the cry is again heard,
"Raise what you cat" The people have
commenced eating cotton seed oil and
may be they will be able to eat cotton
after awhile
Some negroes of Oglethorpe county,
Georgia, have organized church
founded on a new belief. They say there
lsn0helb and the preacher proposes to
forgive all sins upon the payment of
~, lee ranging from ten cents to dollar, rs
the class of sin may dictat E.
aef The Dallas Times thinks that s'In
the beautiful hereafter, il towns should
become spirits, Galveston will be found,
with hands extended standing on the
corner of the New Jerusalem asking for
aims It ia the boggar town of the
State"
Mr.. Joe Beasley, an experimental
gardener near Columbus Georgia, has
succeeded in raising some melons with
delicious lemon flavor. He makes an
nclslon in the vine short distance
from the root, to which he attaches
lemon, and by means of absorption the
juice is taken into the melon.
Constitution: Whatever Georgia
may do, the two Carolinas will be we'll
represented al the Expositions and so
will Tennessee Never had Georgia
such an opportunity to show the whole
civilized word her natural resources
ana uuequaled capabilities, and if it
goes unimproyed the men who are re-
tsponslble for the neglect will live to see
y "a a melrs action condemned o thousand
ti5 times
s7s. Last week a ludicrous occurrence
happened in Montezuma, Ga. A col
A oreq man was sporting around a five
dollar gold piece, and unwittinelv
handed it to a notorious negro woman
s2i # named 5Sallie Bpnlgs,s for Inspection.
she' deeming herself bank, and that
Jl sne money was intended for deposit,
placed it in her mouth ana swallowed il.
neglecting forgive the man a Certificate
of deposit.
puring protracted meeting at Rock
Hill church, Georgia, in Dooly county,
,sssligy9urng man qf eighteen years, the son
pt widow lady. ppirtofessedd religion and
united himself to the church (Metho
S,.,.s dist. on.soihg home he told his moth
@ els ot IT. whOAissa Baptist. She wa,
y. eagniy incensed, and made an elder son
~ 'nis seeker Of religion, and together
they gave himzah unmercifal.beatinp
stsss and threatened a. mora sevs+oa "A, 4