The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-07
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Deeil lOUHu III Nilcluhec county, 0a'
Key West yields about 2l,5Oo per
month to the internal revenue fund.
Real estate in Lafayette, Ala, is as
sessed sl14,l75 and personal property
s112,175.
The revival al the Baptist church at
Durham, N. Ct, resulted in forty-seven
conversions.
1t i proposed to scale the city debt Of
New Orleans to the extent Of fifty cents
on the dollar,
Lands in Montgomery county, Ala,
have more than doubled in price within
five or six years.
The building Of the Library Associa-
ton, al Thomasyille, Ga, cost $4,000.
It has 1000 volumes.
II il against the law in Fort Smith,
Ark, to carry a pistol in any other way
except in the hand.
In Perry county, Miss, John a. Syl-
yester planted poplar tree near an ap-
pie tree, and the poplar bore apples.
In some instances in Grayson county,
va, Ave and six Persons Of family died
of diphtheria, and in one instance an en-
tire family.
Some thirty families from Michigan,
| New jersey and Florida, are locating in
North Georgia. On the line Of the ATTAIN
ia and Charlotte road.
William Lockridge, Of Highland coun-
ty, va, says that he has killed in his
time as many as 1,500 deer. The old
mans stepis still firm.
The receipts Of the State of North Car
olina from all sources during the year
ended September 30, were 1916, 1864
and the disbursements were 1852, "a.
The Supreme Court Of Mississippi de-
clares that eighteen mills on the dollar,
including three mills for State tax, is the
utmost limit to which taxes can be laid.
About sixty Swiss colonists, the men
.being generally possessed Of means, ar
rived at Mount Airy, Ga, Saturday 4
colony Of Armenians are expected in the
spring.
The entire amount collected by way Of
taxation in North Caoolina is $2,0S2,7Co,
Of which the counties spend two-thirds,
the schools one-sixth and the State the
remainder.
Walnut furniture has been received
rom Chicago and put in place in the
| new post-office at Atlanta, Ga. The
old furniture will be used to furnish the
post-ofiice at Macon, Ga.
The dueling bill has been passed by thu
South Carolina Senate, with an addi
tional section providing that it shall no
effect indictments now pending or oftense
committed before its passage.
Three men sit in the United States Sen
ate who were Governors Of Southern
States when the war broke out, and re
mained in office by reelection at its close
Harris, of Tennessee Vance, Of Nortl
Carolina, and Brown, Of Georgia.
The fat lands on the Escambia rive
in Santa Rosa county, Fla, are alluvla
deposits from the rich lime lands Of Ala
bama. and it is thought that they wi
make the largest possible crops OF TIC
for hundreds Of yea without any mi
lnure.
Two bells found by diver betwee
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie, take
, from the wreck Of vessel Of about 81
tons burden, bear the date 1874, an
4 must have been cast nearly two cent
ries before the discovery Of America.
i There is an extensive deposit of kaoli
9 or porcelain clay, in South Carolin
, near the Georgia city of Augusta, Of Il
a finest quality, equal to the demands OF
! hundred years. 1t is said to have be-
. used to adulterate flour, being soft, viii
and free from gravel.
9 Old Poldo Lamar, in Alabama, is dea
3 He was positively known to be ITO yea
~ old. Butaccording to his statement
"a his age when he came to this count
u from Africa and his recollection of "
a. times long ago, he must have been ]
or years old He was able to go abo
10 where he wished until about mon
', ago, when he fell in the fire, since viii
he time he has been confined to his bed.
is The South Louisiana Canal and Ma
CATION Company in less than twelve yes
nv beginning about six miles west of F
he Livingston, near the Southern entral
n