The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-07-08
NEWS GLEANINGS.

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est ofange grove in the world-l 600
acres.
Some 1900 dogs have been listed fof
taxation il Lewis county, va
a. fruitscamring factory, g cost $iO,-
600, 4 to be Built in Nashville, Tennes-
see,
The market price for turtle eggs in
st Augustine, Florida, j. 16 cents per
dozen.
Georgia pays out about s5,oO0,Oo0
per year to increase The cotton crop and
lessen the price,
A company has been organized with
4 plenty Of capital 70 90 into the bust
ness Of canning fruits and,oysters at
Pascgoula, Mississippi.
A negress, arrested at Abbeyille, S.
d, for carrying pistol, was discharged
on the ground that The concealed weapon
actdses not apply . women.
Ioudon Hood, 4 well-known negro
died III Mcriy ether county, Ga, last
week, aged uinety-fve years. Il was
his proude5t boast that during his long
life asa slave he had never been whipped.
Tie fruit growers Of California have
challenged the fruit growers Of Florida
to exhibit fruit with them in the city Of
New York during nest spring.
Gen, Gordon i prospectiycly The
richest man III Georgia Gov. Colquitt
il reported 70 have recently made So
900 BY the sale of i coal mine il which
be and Gen Gordon were Interested.
A writer in the Ennis (Texas) Re
view proposes raising catalpa trees for
fence posts he says that III five years
from planting the tree is large enough
for posts. and that in ten We rs it il
large enough for railroad tie, He es-
Inmates that 1900 trees can be grown on
an acre.
dhFVHhtdl Hi4illaltho tt'tt w N1hl iEth
ity wants are called gum log preachers
in the Georgia II, +. Conference. They
are "hard stock and are generally put
of;onsome mountain community, where
they get 4 salary ranging from $50 to
5000 year
4 South Carolina paper says that
thousands and thousands Of doves arc
infesting the rice fields of West WA
tatee. In.some places the rice has been
replanted two or three times, and yet
the stand is not good, owing 60 its dc.
struction by the birds
a party Of miners in Northeast Goor
gia, AZ the depth of twenty feet below
the surface, found seventeen diamonds
They have heen' pronounced genuine bs
New York firm, and are said to b,
equal to the African diamond Their
may have been "salt' in the neighbor
hood,
Recent census bulletins show tha
Selma has 1923 people; Greensboro
1888 Demopelis, 1899 Marion, 2,Q74
Jacksonville, $50; Oxford, ,S61; Annis
ton 9l2i Lafayette, l,d6l, and Tallade
ga ! ,233.
While Rev. Mr.. COLLISION, Of Hou,
ton, Texas, was taking farewell Of hi
Methodist congregation, preparatory I
going over to Episcopalianism, and VIZ
giving his objections 70 Methodisn
Brother Jeems +. DunbIe interrupte
hlmn saying; 81 have no right to ol
leet y your Quitting the church il 70
think proper, buS / have a right and d
protest againt your using Methods
pulpitto abuse the Methodist chuich il
or TO condemn Methodist doctrine
There was quiet on the Potomac aft,
that 1
n loS Georgia produced %, 100, I,
bushels Of Indian corn against II, ,64l
47s bushels in 1870 OF wheat i
made last year S,l5S, S35 bushels again
@'lzlOl7 bushels in 1870. The oat or,
1850 amounted to 5,5l4161 bash,
against 1901, ,6o1 bushels in1S70. On
1896 bushels of barley were grown
the State in 1880, but the product
1910 was still smaller-5,640 bushe
me figures Of rye are 101 ,759 agail
$3.50, and Of buckwheat 439 arai,
fo2. Georgia is not bdckwheat Sta
AZ VT. J N, Darsey, Of Hinesyille, G
was annoyed last year BY the ottt
1ust back ofhis house is 4 spring brar
which affords a home for a great ma
SsEers Fish being SCARCE, when
Vorn was inmdttoh, they left the brar
and took toseating the corn, and Il
could destroy as much as SO many cot
AIR. Darsey would sometimes run
many as ii Vp mt ~ 9h. F;.,Lf (, se,,,a =;