The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-04-22
NEWS GLEANINGs

The factory at Selma, Ala, uses an
pually about 1850 bales ofcotton,
It'll reported that persons from dis
tance are rapidly buying the coal lands
Of Tuscaloosa county, Ala.
The yicksburg Herald says that Yala-
busha county, Miss, has imposed tax
of 81 on each dog, except one to fam
ily in the csunty.
The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune says that
sheep-sheaFng in South Florida is be.
gun, and that thewool clip this year will
be larger than ever before.
The pistol law has been signed by Gov.
Churchill, of Kansas. 1t imposes fine
and Imprisonment for thirty days, and
allows the court no discretion.
The Brady land, in Rockbridge county,
va, 1000 acres of mountain land, as
sessed at ten cents per acre, has been
sold to a Pennsylvania firm for S23, 600.
Petitions to the Legislature of South
Carolina are circulating in Marlboro;
asking the total prohibition of the man=
ufacture and sale Of ardent spirits in the
State
Citizens living on Seneca river, in
Anderson county, S. G., say that it is
very seldom-now they ever catch a shad
in that stream, from the fact that dam
across the Savannah river, at Augusta,
prevents them from coming higher up
the stream than that city.
The Memphis Board of Health has
offered to the National Board of Health
the quarantine grounds and buildings on
Presidents Island for use as an inspec-
ton station, and has requested the Ma
tional Board to place an Inspector or In
spectors on duty at New Orleans and
such other Southern ports as may be
deemed necessary.
L Since tue Inauguration Of the Board
Of Harbor Commissioners at Norfolk.
4 VA, the total amount Of excavation is
L Sl1S9S cubic yards. The board has
granted permits to the seaboard and
koonoke railroad to reclaim large por.
ton Of the Portsmouth fats adjacent to
ls North-street depot wharf, and to con
siruct thereon extensive docks and piers.
The Charleston News and Courier re,
ports that in Greenville county, S. G..
there were recorded last year 2, $40 liens.
averaging about 245 each, making an
aggregate Of slo5, 300 in property pledged
BY the farmers for supplies. This season
mus Tar there have been 972 liens given,
lof amounts ranging from So to $3.50.
averaging about $45, making a total of
AS74O. =
alhe Memphis Avalanche recalls the
i'e' tnat Randolph, an ancient and de-
Cayed pest village of Upton county
isnn,, was once the commercial metrop-
- "es' tennessee. Fifty years ago
twas place Of far more Importance
'uSn memphis. It never fully recoy-
sisa from the disastrous blow struck bv
'ue panic OF 1887. 1t was burned finally
n iS6S by the Federals, the Confederate
WI iaulkner having fired into a pass.
ing steamer.
New Orleans Democrat: 1t il said
%'' wheat IN Northern Texas is begin
Jung to break down in Just the same
~anner as 1t did last year what the
aase ol this was no two persons seemed
masree upon at the time, but later Il
- pretty generally conceded to be the
h. 0iA ol worm. The worm has not vet
T., 1sa seen on the ground, but it NAV be
r. ra. II Is working on the root of The
tba l' ana will make its appearance on
u's surface later.
Anderson Is. o.) Intelligence March
IL The work of immigration t. soma i,
forws,J, Deing successfully pushed
ot ea'a va, oy the Agricultural Department
9is State Co. "a. P. Bntler- 1tb,
tvnllnlSslonef tsmna.o Of Agric1lture, who IS
int,pSl ipSiarliy II charge Of the matter, has
ot Suuced C, andsettled in different parts
f,n;,. aou'l Carolina over 100 German
jsoan.asin es since the 1st of January, and
c.,.,-, ,u,iHulng the work in a most suc.
ana promising manner.
v,ll "aa'a N Constitution; In the Stone.
urn, cemetery at Winchester a larpe
%ras ,r q soldiers from Georgia lie un.
and nd,-probably fully 500. Virginia
non,, maryland, by erecting handsome
iDdaS,sn's id,nsn's' have acknowledged their
ino". ieuness to their own heroes. and il
aa % '.l,' proposed that the peopleof Geor.
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