The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-04-29
NEWS GLEANINGS.

line ubllb COuub9 VI W y thSS 'a'J HiS
duced last year 81, 900, 900 worth ofiron.
During March the yellow pine lum-
ber shipped from Jacksonville, Fla,
amounted to 1881, ,779 feet.
The Houston (Texas) Post says that
over 100000 people petioned the Legis-
lature on the prohibition question.
The Yicksburg (Miss) Herald says
that the cotton factory at Water Valley,
which has been idle for some years, will
soon be put in repair and run again,
Col. James Crook, one of the Alabama
Railroad Commissioners, told a reporter
Of the Atlanta Constitution that Gen.
Gordon owns 100000 acres of the finest
coal lands in the world.
Gainesville (Ga.) Southron; The gold
mines Of Northeast Georgia are yielding
large dividends, with all the drawbacks
Of winter and sprilg unequaled for Sc
verify in half a century The rainfall
in March and April largely surpassed
that of any season within the memory of
the oldest inhabitant
Memphis (Tenn) Appeal: With the
city-debt bill in force, and also the State
debt bill, the rate Of taxation in Mem
phis will be as follows State-debt COM
promise on the 800, fifty cents; city
debt compromise on the 500 fifty cents;
city taxes for all purposes, 81 60; State
and county tax, seventy cents; total
amount Of tax, $6 30
Columbus (Ga) Advertiser Numbers
Of our planters are now paying high
prices for hay to feed stock on, and in a
short while will be paying nearly the
same per 100 pounds TO have the grass
killed in order to make a bale Of cotton
to an average Of three and a half acres
of land, This is one reason why our far
mers can accumulate no money, and in a
great measure accounts for the many
poor horses, cows and hogs to be found
in this country.
Emigration has set in from the Valley
Of Virginia to Piedmont, Va. A num-
Der Of farmers in the valley have recent
ly sold out and bought farms in Fauqui-
er and Piedmont counties. At Warren
ton, last week, farmer arrived from
Rockingham county seeking suitable
farms for twenty-five neighbors in that
county The cause assigned for the
change is that Piedmont (Va) lands be-
ing cheaper, the farmers can own larger
tracts.
Tuscaloosa (Ala) Times: Tuscaloosa
has three newspapers and one magazine
Methodist, Catholic, Presbyterian,
Baptist, an Episcopalian, and several
colored churches; a University, two
High Schools for boys, and a number Of
good schools for small children; two
banks, one national and the other pri
vate; two cotton factories, two planning
mills and furniture manufactures and s
cotton-gin factory; an Insane Hospital
and Theological Seminary for coloreC
preachers; and fifty business houses.
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution Mayo
English told me yesterday that the il
crease in city property this year woult
60 sharply over 81 100000. Bob Griffin
one OF the assessors, estimated that 0
this amount fully 100000 was in ney
houses that had been added during tn
year, and the balance in increased val
ues' This is capital record for a youn
CITY and puts our total assessments abov
SzO,OO0,OO The debt of the city
ABOUT ten per cent of the total value, bu
US decreasing while the city is growing
mayor English thinks that in thre
years the debt will have shrunk to Sc,
en- per cent of the total value, which
.ignest rate permitted. The outlook fc
last. So
A writer in the Reidsville IN. G
ZINES, speaking of the birthplace of L
hicnardson, said to be the richest ma
~ 'he South, says that he was born
eergeansville, Caswell county, N.
ne and Esquire Samuel S. Harrisc
were born not half mile apart ar
Wi.hin two weeks of each other. III
Tiu ladies' used to say that when OF
uied OF old ago the other would qual
mi'n lear, His name is Edmund
N'cnardson, not Edward r. "He fiji
y, out as young man clerking in Da
w'ie at Sulliyan's Hotel, the ''Old B,
aaVern'" Forty years ago he drove
'ue way from Mississippi here in sulh
ana there wasn't railroad to be see
now see the difference. They want
MIN Tor Governor. but he wouIn,t he