The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-09-23
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n Toxss at the recent elections.
The Louisiana sugar industry will
nan out handsomely this season for the
pelican State.
And now they are talking Of making
an excellent substitute for butter out of
COtton.seed oil.
The crops of Marshall county, Ala,
are reported in good condition, the
drouth to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
Silk culture in Alabama is being agi-
tated by many of the papers. They
seem to think that it would handsomely.
Louisiana is a well timbered State.
The New Orleans papers claim that there
are millions to be made in the wooded
lands ofssthe State.
The health Of JEFF. Davis fince he ar
rived in Europe has been wretched. He
will probably return to America sooner
than expected.
The two ice-manufacturing establish
ments at New Orleans are making big
money this season. They charge 500
ton and can't supply the demand.
The tenant farmers in many places of
the South are asking reduction of rent.
Owing to the drouth they have raised
httleor nothing on their places.
The Virginia Historical Society is be-
ing built up. It is an ancient and
honorable institution, and its friends
everywhere will be glad to know that
its prestige will be sustained.
Pensacola old bonds are now in re-
quest since the compromise of the city's
debts. Twenty-Five per cent. has been
offered for 500, 900 Of the old bonds, and
declined
Colonel R. F. Maddox, the big cotton
man Of Atlanta, estimates that the cot
ton crop will be short about l 200, 900
bales. But, with all this, there will be
an abundance Of cotton in the land.
Arkansas Democrat; Cotton-seed oil
is being generally used here for cooking
purposes, and is liked about as we'll, if
not better, than the stuff brought here
IN buckets and sold as leaf lard; besides,
tbs SO much cheaper.
Georgia is not to have a prohibition
campaign, after all. The bill to submit
the question to the people was defeated
in the Senate by a vote of twenty to
nineteen, and reconsideration failed.
Inc House will probably let the bill
Ole on the calendar, and thus avoid
committing members.
Charleston had trade last year Of
a'2ll, 100. It receipts of cotton wer,
ozS,ZS1 bales; Of rice, 1881 tierces
Of spirits of terpentine, 1886 cakes
roSn, 2Sl, All barrels; of crude phos
phate, lOS,lS9 tons; lumber, 1850,
'o' teet, of commercial fertilizers, 100,
!ons-the whole Of the value of $50, PIG,
900.
The New Orleans Democrat state
mat not drop of the water of the Re,
fiver now runs into the Mississippi, bu
al goes to swell the Atchafalaya
which, re enforced by large percent
age Aot Mississippi water, is daily in
cfeaslng in size, and constitutes direc
menace to the future OF New Orleans.
Mountain, Ala, Home: Mr.. J. W
MCMILLAN planted tive acres in water
%slons and one half acre in cantaloupe
su .uls year. from which he has sol
O''oO,and.has used himself and treate
al Us friends to what would have sold fc
sOO more. This beats cotton raising to
~ 70 talk about, to say nothing 4
's''lng several tons of good hay off th
same land.
me legislature of Georgia has kille
us oill to appropriate 81, 900, 900 /
~ Tuild new capitol by a large majorit,
me Present capitol building was orig
aally intended for an opera house, al
1 not only unsuitable for State hous
0u' Is unsafe. The dead bill provid,
y 'ne expenditure of $4,000 per a
aum until the whole amount was pai
- 'ae end Of the FIVE years time s
part 70 construct the new sdihce.
Richmond Dispatch: Misfortul
usver comes single. The drouth is n
su,y ~. running the crops, but the chole
Killing the hogs in s,me Of the sout
n counties. In portions o f Nottowl
sna Brunswick counties it is stated
a'ge number of hogs have recently di
n 'nis disease, and others are dyin
Sne farmer in Nottouax, 49, =