The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-04-01


the Atlanta Exposition the use Of the
celebrated and wonderful exhibit Of cot
ton fibre and fabrics made BY the Chi
nese empire at the Centennial, and sub
sequently acquired by the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington,
Richmond State: The corn crop in
Virginia last fall was unusually large,
while the Western corn crop showed a
decided falling off 1t is generally the
case that grain-producing Illinois can
place corn in this market at much
lower figure than Virginia can, but this
year it is just the other way.
Atlanta Constitution: The telephone
is in complete working condition from
Gainesville to Auraria, nineteen miles;
Dahlonega, six miles, and Dawsonville,
4 sixteen miles-forty miles in all The
hearing and recognition Of voice over
the whole line is as clear and distinct as
if only a short distance away
An Oneida Indian, who is an ordained
clergyman, preached in New York Sun,
day, and in the course of his sermon
quantity rebuked the sin of profanity.
He said he was thankful that ''the
Creator did not give the Indian enough
language to allow him to be profane
without first learning English"
Speaking in the West Virginia House
Of Delegates Wednesday, on the dog bill,
Mr.. Lowry presented table sent him
by Gen Walker, Superintendent Of the
Census, showing the number Of sheep
u killed by dogs in West Virginia in 1879,
and the total number is 10,2O9. The bill
was passed. Yeas, sixty; nays, three.
Wilmington (N., C.) Star: Lanes
North Carolina brigade, during the cam
paign Of 1868, lost in killed, wounded
and missing ], $40 men. In the campaign
beyond the Potomac the brigade num-
!. bered but 1856 men. It lost 7S1 men.
/ This tells the story. There were few
such brigades in the army Of Northern
Virginia.
J About 800 laborers are employed in
the rolling mill, furnaces and foundries
Of Birmingham, Ala. about 400 in the
coal mines Of Coketon, six miles distant,
and about 100 at Oxmoor, also six miles
distant. The country around Birming-
ham is said to produce more corn, cotton,
wheat, oats and potatoes, acre for acre,
than the cane-brake.
Mrs. Schneider, of st. Charles, Mo-,
slapped her twelve year-old son Willie
because he was naughty, and when Mr.,
Schneider came home to dinner he
whipped Willie Willie then went to
!, the barn crying. When they found him
an hour or two later he was hanging
dead, suspended by a leather strap from
/, beam in the hay loft.
' The Atlanta Constitution The rail
! roads leading south from the Ohio rive
d are blocked with corn, pork, weat, hay
and other articles destined for Southern
consumption, all Of which should hav'
been produced in the South itself. Th
!. very fact Of the blockade is sad com
:, mentary upon the agricultural enterpris
of the South. The railroads cannot sup
ply us with articles that our own sol
would gladly produce if it was tackle
= with the pillow and the hoe.
n Chattanooga Times The project fo
. a new railroad to the top Of Lookout
!. succinctly this A horse track to th
foot go up on an incline to the point b
: stationary-engine power, taking ca
7 horses and all then horse road bac
s from the point to say near Chickamaug
2 bluff, which has many advantages ove
the point as hotel site, being we
= watered and having large tract Of fiji
= surface in the vicinity. The matter
in the hands Of live, energetic men I
'k means.
Il The proposed prohibition amendmel
~ to the State constitution Of Texas rea,
i, l. as follows: The importation into al
the manufacture or sale within this Sta
of intoxicating liquors as beverage
2. prohibited; provided, that the Legisl
az ture may exempt beer and native wine
IN unmixed with alcoholic liquors, fro
= a. the provision Of this section, and Il
ne Legislature shall at the first session aft
"a. the adoption Of this amendment ena
lys laws to carry out the provisions heres
las The President Of the New Orlea
,s- Board Of Health says that part Of 4
res sickness and mortality in the rear Of t
les city must be referred to the cultivati
me Of rice, and that the Legislature Of Lo
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