The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-02-11
SOUTHERN NEWS.

storm was the first ~ fourteen years,
Farm hands are said to be more scarce
in Thomas county Ga, than they have
been since the war.
Three hundred German carp have been
placed IL various points up the ST, John
river i'll Florida.
a Louisiana planter says that lie con
sders twenty geese in cotton field equal
to one hoe-hand
Negroes are said to be leaving Gadsden
county Fla, il such numbers that ii
amounts 10 m exodus
Toceoa, Ga, having IN existence of
| eight years, has acquired thrifty popu-
lation approximating 4 thousand souls,
Thousands Of robins roost il cane
brake about fifteen miles from Homer,
~. They are taken to Homer by the
sackfull.
4 clipper ship, brought into Port
Royal, S. ii, loaded with guano, came
up q the dock 1t haIf-tidc, drawing
twenty-one feet,
In Louisiana tho census exhibits I78
Chinese, SO Iniians and halfbreeds,
eight half-Chinese, one West Indian and
one East Indian.
n. Garbini has been elected President
Of the New Orleans Fruit and Produce
Association, 4 new and permanent organs
zation of wholesale fruit dealers.
IL the Inst four months Of 1880 col
portuers Of the American Bible Society
supplied 1913 destitute families and 955
destitute individuals with The Bible,
Harry Stephens, the well-snown col
ored body-seryant Of Hon Alex. II.
Stephens, who died last week, At Craw-
fordyille was The owner Of perhaps S20,-
600 worth Of property,
Tho Sc. Augustine (l7la.) Press SAYS
that the majority Of the farmers there
abouts, instead Of raising their own corn,
buy i ~ the city stores. A cotton planter
could scarcely Do worse than that.
All amendment Of the constitution of
Arkansas has been proposed in the Leg
islature, providing that tie general elec-
tions shall occur every fourth year, State
Representatives be elected for four years
and tile Legislator, meet every fourth
years.
The Perry, Ga, Home Journal says
that The old plantation system, almost
universal ii Houston county before the
war, has gone t, its DEATH and small
farm now constitute the order Of agri.
cultural work, There are very few ten
mule farms in Houston.
There Is a proposition to form new
North Carolina county Oh,
of parts Of Sampson, John.
ston, Wayne, Cumberland and Har-
nett counties There are several propo-
Gtions to cut off portions Of Wake county
for tile formation Of new counties, but
Raleigh is ayerse.
AT Scarboro, Ga, John f. Toole is
President, Warren r. Wood, Treasurer,
and James A. Fnlcher, Secretary, Of the
"First National Non-cursing Society,
scarbero Division No. l." The object
Of the organization is to discontinue the
practice IF profane swearing.
BY clerical error, in making up the
list Of cities or census bulletin No. 10,
the population Of one enumeration dis
trict Of Atlanta was omitted. The true
population, Gen. Walker, Superintend-
cnt Of the Census, says, Is 37,42l, not
! ~, 39s, as previously announced,
Real estate in the business part Of Or.
angeburg, s. g., is as high as in Charles
ton. A cotton factory with four Glenn
ent attachment. is established, The crop
Of upland rice raised IN the county will
probably reach about 10000 bushels.
The cotton crop is between 10000 and
10000 bales
The answer of the citizens Of Memphis
10 the petition Of bondholders or credi-
tors Of the old corporation Of Memphis
alleges that the compromise proposed by
the taxing district, twenty-five cents on
the dollar, and IN addition, the taxes
due the old city, say II ,248,0 ,082, is fair,
just and honorable.
Knoxville, Tenn, was laid ont in 1871,
and named in honor of General Knox,
OF Revolutionary fame. The first Ter
ritorial Legislature assembled there in
1894, the constitutional j convention in
1875, and the first State Legislature in
1876. The seat Of government was re-
moved to Nashville in 1910
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