The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-04-08
NEWS GLEANlNGS.


Georgia nv
Sixteen years ago Durham, N. o., con-
tanned sixty people; now that town has
a population of 1000. Manufacturing
tobacco did it.
The appropriation of $65,OOO for the
improvement of Savannah harbor will
be expended under the direction of Gen.
@. A. Gilmore, the news says.
The act "to abolish private seals and
prescribe short form of deeds, and for
othsr purposes" has been repealed by
the North Carolina Legislature
The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail
thinks that it is not likely that the ques-
ton of the annexation Of West Florida
to Alabama will ever be raised again.
The congregation Of the First African
Baptist church of Richmond, Va, has
paid off every dollar of more than $780,
900 debt incurred in remodeling its ed
i6ce.
Chattanooga Times A farmer in
Houston county, Ga, as we are told,
traded COW for snuff last week, taking
fifteen dollars worth Of the article home
for family use.
The Fincastle Herald mentions re-
port that the Arcadia iron works Com
pany has contracted with the Richmond
and Allegheny Railroad Company to
ship $4,000 tons of ore.
Negotiations are nearly or quite com
pleted for the permanent occupation of
the commodious shops Of the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad at Huntsville,
Ala, for the establishment therein Of
mammoth cotton seed oil factory.
A bill against treating" has been in
troduced in the Illinois Legislature 'It
not only makes treating unlawful, but
the man who is treated is in equal danger
of punishment, for it puts the person
buying liquor for another and the person
accepting on the same feoting.'
The Legislature of North Carolina has
granted one acre of ground, to be taken
from the southeast corner of the lot on
which the Governors mansion is now
located, to the trustees Of Shaw Uniyer-
sity, for the purpose Of establishing a
medical college for colored students.
Wheeling CIV. Va.) Intelligencer
Keene Richards, of Kentucky, one Of the
noted turfmen and importers of Arabian
horses in that State, died on Saturday
last. Many years ago he was a student
at Bethany College, and is we'll rem EN-.
membered as dashing and generou;
young fellow Of large fortune.
The total area Of Mississippi is AZ, 15t
square miles, of which not quite S,17:
square miles was devoted to the cultur,
Of cotton in 1879. The total amount O.
cotton produced was 922, $40 bales, owe
ahundred thousand bales more than tn,
crop of Georgia or Texas, according t,
the Aberdeen (Miss.) Examiner.
1t is his superstition which makes tn
Russian soldier 50 good fighter and $
faithful a defender of despotism. AL
he asks is the satisfaction of his anima
wants in this world; for the sake o
eternal bliss in another he will endur
Incredible hardships with. complacency
and will die with dogged resignation
unknown to other men.
The arrival of ''the first batch OF in
migrants" at Columbia, S. O., is reporte
to the Charleston News and Couriel
Nine men, woman and child, all fror
one neighborhood in the province (
Westphalia, Germany. They were r
ceiyed by Col. A. 7. Butler, acting Con
missioner Of Immigration: He will il
mediately order another batch, al
hopes to get q hundred next time.
Atlanta, Ga, special to-, Columbl
tGa.) Enquirer-Sun a APPOINTMENT raj
road man of our State remarked tn
nlne-tenths Of the business done
railroads in Georgia was in bringing pr
visions and guano from the West in
the State" He agrees with Stephel
that "the rich are getting richer and t
poor poorer" and that as our peoT
make larger crops the railroad busin,
Is lsproportionately decreased.
Wheeling Intelligencer: The she
men Of West Virginia ought to pass
resolution Of thanks to Delegate Low
Of Summers county, at their next me
ing, Tor the effective aid he rendered
the Legislature and before the pro
committee, in the passage Of the