The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-10-07
NEWS GLEANINGs.

he says the sugar crop will fall off fully !
one-half,
The Mobile press Indignantly howl at
qhe published reports that the city is on
The decay. They assert that the city Of
Mobile is fast improving,
The cotton crop of South Carolina
will uoquestionably be short as com
pared with last years crop, but there i
some reason to hope that the loss will
not Be a. great AZ generally supposed
It is said the Pensacola railroad has
the largest pair Of track scales in Amer
lea, which are 1O6 feet long, and can
weigh three cars at once loaded with
spar timber,
Marion Ala.) Standard: A Perry
county woman, whose arms are cut off
Just below the elbow, threads her needle
hy sticking it iii her drees and tak
ing tho thread between her two stumps
Of arms and forcing it through the eye
Of tile needle. She does neat sewing,
hoes corn well and can pick City or sixty
pounds Of cotton per day.
Arkansas Democrat The cotton
crop Of Arkansas is much smaller than
il was last year But it must lie remem-
bered that We lost large portion Of last
years crop by bad weather, and much
u what was gathered was Of very in
ferior quality and sold for q small price
ii the weather continues favorable for
picking there will Be only 4 small diff
ference in the amount saved IL com
pared with last year
Mobile Register there seems to be
) fatal disease among horses and mules
in this neighborhold. Within the
forty~eight hours ending at dark last
night eight horses and FIVE mules have
died We also understand from Capt.
T. Il. Alba that he has several horses
under treatment for the same disease,
which is an affection Of the throat.
Some apprehension among the owners Of
valuable animals exists for fear that the
disease may become epidemic.
The state virginian: The rains that
have fallen in the past few days in
nearly every portion Of Virginia and
North Carolina will benefit the grass
and set the streams to running once
more, but they come too late to help the
tobacco crop. Indeed, some d the most
experienced tobacco planters are Of the
opinion that the rain, coming 50 late a.
Y y did, will do the crop more harm than
good, But the tobacco raisers will have
the consolation Of knowing that the de-
iicieucy in quantity will be made up in
measure.
The Madisonian: There is negro in
Morgan county, Lewis Jordon, who i
thoroughly conversaut with the rudi
nents Of the Latin language, knows .
smattering Of French, and is fast learn
ing to read and parse Greek. He is !
capital scholar in English grammar, anC
L ready in mathematics. He has ac
quired this extraordinary amount o.
learning without the assistance of pre-
ceptor, and seems charmed when unde
some great mental task. He hasn't ri
intelligent face, but rather the reverse
appearing at times silly in the extreme
He is ahou4 @I,;.+,v e. ,,.,,. III 49,
ieels confident that he can master sew
efal languages before his death. H
laughs at you when you ask if he coul,
not progress faster if placed under
competent teacher. He is humble, pc
lite and strictly reliable.
Knoxville Tribnnsl One of the mos
wonderful phenomena that have com
under our observation in long time
anaturaI flow Of gas from the earth
that burns with a briliiant aame whe
lgnited. The spot where this gas ei
eapes is about one mile ffom Oliver
Springs, in Anderson county, and in
pregnates the, atmosphere for yard
around with the odor- The gas seem
. come from spring on Coal creel
near the water hut for yards up III
mountain side there runs vein about
loot vide which, has been fred and
nmes burns brilliantly. At the end
'ue vein, on the bank Of the creek, Il
~ burns with bright yellow fan
and emts considerable beat. A pipe
sometimes introduced in the spring an
+" distance of several yards burr
.saaiy' A traveller passing few da,
ago stuck in a small pipe in the vel
pu' Two rocks, one on opposite sides :
'He pipe, and boiled tea from the tlan