The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-03-25
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VIM. l. johnson, caressingIy called
Buckshot Bill, Chief of United States
Scouts, is authorized interpreter in four
teen Indian tongues and speaks eleven
more. Bill was once taken prisoner by
Split Nose, a Comanche, and saw eleven
of his comrades burned. He says he has
lit scalps hanging in the Smithsonian
Institute taken by his own hands.
Capt Nelms says that there are now
about ,150 convicts at the various prison
camps Of Georgia, The largest number
at any one place is at the Dade coal
mines, where there are about $50. The
decrease in the number of convicted
criminals for the years 1889 is said to
be about twelve and one-half per cent,
and for the year 1880 about fifteen per
cent
The Charleston banks refuse to take
silver certificates at par. The certificates
represent silYer-coined dollars in the
United States Treasury, and are receiva-
BILE for customs dues; but the demand for
silver to pay duties at Charleston i
small, and the banks must charge aquar-
ter per cent. discount on the certificates
to pay expressage on them to some city
where a large amount Of custom-house
duties is paid.
The Concho (Texas) Times says that
Judge Pruesser describes Ell Paso as fol-
lows: 'Imagine the main street Of San
Angela with the houses all Aat-roofed
and about thousand drunken men, rail
road hands, gamblers and adventures, al
staggering, fighting and yelling through
the streets, and you have a pretty cor
rect idea Of FL Paso as il is. That there
will be good town there some day, d
probably further down the river, ! hav'
no doubt"
Robert Collyer, Sunday, in the cours'
Of lecture on George Eliot, said: "a
to her after life, it isn't question
Of casting stones, but it is whethe
she did the best possible here with tina
fine spirit. believe that her soul is a
rest. In the boundless bliss of heavel
alone could such a soul find its place
Old Father Taylor, Of Boston, once sal
to CaIvinist who was talking abou
Ralph Waldo Emerson's going to tn
bad place after he should die; swell,
Emerson goes to hell, be will change tn
climate" And SO / say Of George Eliot
The negros in Liberty county, Ga, al
said to be well behaved and industriou
The Rev. ]. I. H. Waite, who located
Liberty in 1874, has done much towar
their moral and intellectual advance
ment. TIL academy which he establish
ed at Midway several years since is in
prosperous condition, and numbers 2t
pupils on its roll. The assistant teaehe
are young colored men, one Of whom r
ceived his education at this academ,
Another school has been started recent
J at Dorchester by the Rev. Mr. Wait
who is devoted to his noble mission.
Speaking Of the improvements whic
t are to made at Athens Ga, this SUI
5 mer, the Atlanta Constitution say
t Athens is already one Of the most bea'
full, aristocratic and progressive cities
t its size in the Southrn States, with
population largely made up of the wealt
lest Of Georgians. Its long avenue
lined with stately old Southern mansio
with beautiful yards and shade tree
. reminds one vividly OF the princely tim
: Of ante-bellum days. The colleges
Athens are numerous and of the hight
: order, and from their halls have 60
out men who have become honored al
I distinguished both in private and in pu
. lie life. n