The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-06-24
NEWS GLEANINGS.

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Key West, Fla, shipped 900, 900 cigars
last week.
Apricots sell in Lake City, Fla, at IS
per bushel,
Pensacola, Florida, is to have new
hotel, cost 100000.
Wilmington, North Carolina, has a
population Of II, SOC.
North Carolina has commissioner
immigration in England.
New Orleans is to have school for
the training Of women nurses.
North Carolina has 221 Masonic lodges
at work with membership of S,199.
Six hundred thousand oranges will be
shipped from Enterprise, Florida, this
fall.
Monticello, Fla, has shipped this sea-
SON 5OS barrels and 30 crates Of Irish
potatoes.
A green turtle, weighing over 400
pounds, has been captured off the Flor
ida coast.
One hundred children work in the
Maysville, KY, cotton mills for rs cents
to $l.25 week each.
The Association Of Atlanta Preachers
have signed respectful protest against
the issuing Of Sunday papers.
Mr.. Matthew Berry, near Ramer,
Montgomery county, Ala, is sending to
the high school his eight children.
Nine spongers came into Key West,
Fla, last week, after nine weeks
cruise, and sold their sponge for $2,511.
The Adventists of Granbury, Texas,
have erected large tabernacle for the
purpose Of expounding their doctrines.
Six thousand cans of oysters were re-
Gently sent North in one shipment by
the canning establishment at Newbern,
North Carolina.
One hundred and two thousand, eight
hundred and thirty-five pounds Of straw
berries have been shipped from Chatta-
nooga this season.
A correspondent Of the Atlanta Con-
stitution says Savannah is the modern
sodom and has four hundred bar-rooms,
OF one to every twelve adults.
Such severe storm prevailed in Lee
and Sumter counties, Georgia, that in
one place, for nearly mile, you could
walk on the trees that had been blown
down.
In Harris county, Ga, dinner-horns
are said to have gone out of fashion.
PROVISIONS are so scarce that when a
horn sounds all the neighborhood re-
spond to the call.
&Charles johnson, of New Orleans, the
convicted ship-burner, says that a num-
Ger OF business men, cotton brokers
chiefly, were Interested" with him in
MS business-the ship-burning business.
A number Of young men from Greene
county, Ga, started down the river in q
canoe about six months ago to try the
novel business Of trapping beavers. The
voyage was very dangerous, but success.
iul, and each mans skins netted him
500.
Two little boys, Clarence Gross and
Willie Dominy, were wrestling in Dub
I'm, Ga, and fell on their sides. Will,
got up, leaving Clarence on the ground
Inc by-standers noticed that he did mo-
sur and approaching they found he wa
dead.
Mr.. J. W. Slaughter, near Pineville
1eorgia, was having we'll dug on hi
pace, and when about twenty feet deel
well'preserved oak leaf was found firm
y imbedded in the chalk. When abou
nity feet deep live snake Of the blacl
species was found.
The Atlantic and Gulf Coals Cana
ana okeechobee Land Company" is tn,
ulEnihed title of the organization which
proposes to reclaim the Florida Ever
slades. The company will have a cap
ilal Of $4,000, 900, and will build
oSnai to drain Lake Okeechobee, eas
anu west, and also canal 300 miles lon
slOng the east coast Of Florida. Color
,sS from Europe are to be settled on tn
lands Sugar and indigo are to b
grown on the reclaimed lands. Tn
vompany held meeting at Philadelphi