The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-05-20
NEWS GEEANINGs.

Ing IL III HlVSiNoo thStNs
The T.ite' Stock Journal learns that
the New Orleans. Chicago and Sts.Louis.
railroad has erected a vast amount Of
barbed wire fencing, along its; track in
Southern Mississippi and Louisiana, and
will sosn. ltaseit ali alopg thedhre, 50 as
to keep off stock from. the track,
The Little Rock Gazette publishes
specifcations. 81 shaterial and work
required to build q hospital for the in
sane NJ little Rock, Ark, from which it
appears that the dnain building is inten-
ded tp be siStg-three feel. front. by one,
bundled ard four deep, and the wings
each one hundred and sffty-Six feet long
and forty feet wide.
Na@prieans Picayune: Texas'. towns
grow 50 fast that the populations al
ways ahead q the returns. According
to tic last cen Census Galveston had %, 25S;
San Antoi1io;;.2O, 56l; Houston, 1866 !.
Austin, 1880; Dallas, io,S5S. = -
AT Blackyiiic, S. O., correspondent
Of the Augusta (6a) Chronicle and
Constitutiqnaiis Gays he.south Caroli-.
ma railroad has built she'd 200 feet long
and fifty feet wide, intended for cotton
market in the fall and 70 store fertil-
hers in the spring.
The sHb-treasury at New Orleans has
been notified from Washington Of the
discovery Of Il counterfeit $40 gold coin,
an imitation Of the New Orleans coin
age Of twenty years ago. About ten
years agoa number Of these counterfeits
were in circulation, burt of late years
none have been seen.
The Houston (Texas) Post says that
Fort Worth has an artesian well $50
feet deep, and the water rises out of a
bed Of white sand fourteen feet deep.
The well affords about 100 barrels Of
freestone water per hour, which is sufi-
cient tofsupply the needs Of the whole
city 8
The Confederate monument in TaIla-
hassee, Fla, is seventeen and half feet
high. The base is Of gray sandstone, on
which. rests an immense block Of white
marble, with appropriate Inscriptions
engraved. A tapering shaft of pure
Write marble, slirmounted by an Egyp-
ton shaped marble vase, rests on this
rock. f
Chattanooga ('renn.) Tradesman: The
expense Of the great Cotton Exposition
at Ataifta will reach high figure. TO
run the machinery will require not less
than two miles Of shafting. All sorts Of
novelties in The. manufacturing line are
70 be shown. The enterprise will be a
success in all respects, and every city in
the South should take a hand in it, for
is own benefit and for the encourage
ment Of our king of industries. For
cotton'is now-more truly king than ever
Of exports, and soon to be king of South
ern manufactures. i1
Charleston News and Courier; Tuition
at the South Carolina College is abso-
luteiS free except in the department of
literature, where the students pay such
fees as may heagreed on with the in
structors' The South Carolina College
: emphatically poor mans college. It
s.supportedfby the annual interest on
tho invested proceeds of the sale of. the
agricultural land script given the State
oy act of Congress. The whole fund
was lost, but il was replaced by the
present State government, and the inter
est isregulariy paid. This interest main.
lalns the College at Columbia for whites,
aAa the Clafin University at Orange
o9gg, for colored persons only.
Judge a. S. Merrimon, having been
invited to address the prohibitiop@cen-
vesation at Raleigh, N. O., responded in
anable, adcid and ferxent speeehy. IN the
course ofrwhich he saids Alllegislation
Is q bundle Of compromises. This bill
8asnQt what'many people wanted, but
seldom are statutes just whatwe wish.
Whatever else it may be-, prohibition i.
IN It The question must be bediseussed in
,ne light of reason, and it must be plain.
" discussed. But remember this: The
act prohibiting. the sale Of liquor is a,
much ~ a law as any on the statute book
Hs legislature doe. not ask the people
% adoptor reject this act, but only it.
penal provisions II goes into full foree
and effect on the FIRST Monday Of octo
'ySr next sThe county commissioner,
eanp9t a Ii; issss d Iicence after that date. i
: therefore idle to speak upon the stat
ute, ,stgf It Ia nof- a -, -....4. 80.