The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-09-02
NEWS GIElNINGs.

Vegetation is frightfully parched in
Middle Tennessee.
Real estate ison the up grade in Bason
Rouge Ia.
The blackberry crop Of Pulaski coun-
ty this year was worth $500.
Arkansas has $500 miles of navigable
rivers.
Wilmington, North Carolina, is ship
ping large amount of lumber to
Hayh.
Selma, Alabama, has fifty-dve over
flowing bored wells affording plenty
Of good water.
Mississippi produced the largest
amount of cotton in 1880, the number
Of bales being 955, sos.
The Mississippi river commission will
build ninety barges, and will have FIVE
steam tugs.
A live oak tree in Miconopy county,
Florida, measures twenty-five feet in
circumference.
A North Carolina colony is talked of
which shall be free from "beer saloons,
churches ministers and lawyers.
Nashville wants to be the iron center
Of the South. II is now the next thing
TO 1.-THE rock CENTER
Railroads, railroads, railroads is the
cry from one end Of the South to the
other.
The drouth in Virginia is absorbing
all other interests. The tobacco crop is
already badly injured.
Southwest Georgia is happy in tho
success attending the boring of artesian
wells Water in abundance has been
obtained at depth of $50 feet.
J, B. Morrison, of McClollansville,
South Carolina, has raised three hun
dred pounds of excellent Malaga grapes
his season.
The Fort Smith oil-mill and cotton
compress is about completed. 1t is one
Of the largest in the country, and cost
$4,000
Pleas Harper, negro, bought plan
tatlon on Broad river, in Georgia, pay
ing for the same $4,000. 1t comprises
2,100 acres.
On account of his sons death, Gov
ernor Brown has resigned the Presidency
OF the Cotton Exposition, and Govern
u oolquitt takes his place.
The Cotton Press Association at Sa-
vannah is moving In the matter of hav-
ing seven iron bands put on each bale
Oh cotton whom it is pressed, instead of
slx, as heretofore.
The official majority against prohibi-
uon in North Carolina was 1876.
oniy three counties in the State gave
maIorities in favor, which, combined
amounted to but 25S. Next year 1ndi-
ana tackles the same question.
There is great anxiety at vicksburg
lor fear that the recent Congressional
appropriation of $4,000 for the i'm.
Proyement of the harbor at that point
= not going to be expended as iudicious-
y as expected. The citizens are NOV.
ing In the matter, becaues at this stage
"a W water good work can be accomplished.
me German society organized at New
ofieans for the purpose Of promoting
.ns interests of German emigration to
'ne South is meeting with flattering
success 1t is stated that large mum
oer Of Germans are now on their way
,Iom Europe to points in the South.
meas. '-
Vne OF the Cotton Exposition's at.
.iac1lons viii be an ensilage cattlery'i
= iull operation. The pits are being
Jug and the multitude of horses, sheep
nOgs' COWS and mules viii be fed in the
eAsllage during the exhibition. The
nam object Of the system is to save la
Dor and time.
a., Inc Georgia Legislature has passed
onl making a complete change in til,
management Of the State penitentiary
ny w = the Office Of Principal Keeper o
warden is abolished, and board o
'nise Commissioners elected, clothe,
"l'h unlimited power to control tn
operation Of affairs. This power wa
formerly in the hands of the Governor
me thirty-eight States of the Unie,
contain 1929 counties. Texas leads "A
1aslng l5l counties, followed closely b,
usOrgls's 1877. After Georgia in th