The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-05-13
NEWS GLEANINGS.

ore in circle OF slXuy miles AROUND Vnls
city to run two hundred furnaces profit
ably,
The only debt owed by Mecklenburg
ca,inty, n, G., according to the Charles
town News and Courier, is 100000
contracted to aid in the construction of
railroads.
Charleston IS. C.) News and Courier:
The production Of cotton per acre is
Greater in North Carolina than in any
State in the Union. Georgia is next in
the scale of productiveness.
The Cedar Keys (Fla) Journal de-
sires to know whe can tell how the shell
mounds in that neighborhood came
thore. Some of them are nearly twenty
feet high. Digging for building pur-
poses discovered variety Of shells.
The Louisiana Western Railroad Com
pany has built mammoth hotel, cover
ing a ground area of 14S by 100 feet, in
The Attalapas country, west of the bayou
Vermillion, and town has been laid
out and named McComb, in honor Of
the president and principal stockholder
Of the railroad company.
The Nashville Banner says that Liv-
ingstone Hall, now in course Of erec-
tioH, will nearly double the capacity of
Fisk University. The main university
building is five stories high. Jubilee
Hall is four stories high, with base
mcnt story, and will, perhaps, be com
pleted by September, 1882, 1t is in
contemplation to erect another building
between Jubilee Hall and Livingstone
Hall
Reporting the return Of Okeechobee
expedition, Jacksonville, Fla, matter in
Savannah (Ga) News says; The Kis-
simmee river was carefully examined.
The lands are rich beyond expectation
Lake Okeechobee was sounded for forty
miles. Its average depth is eight feet
The Caloosahatchie was traversed for
sixty miles in a row boat. The lands
around the lake and the TWO rivers are
capable of producing sufficient sugar to
supply the whole country. The climate
is delightful. Operations will be com
menced without delay. =
Pascagoula (Miss) Democrat-Star /:
There is a mistaken idea amorg our
wool-growers on the coast that prices
will range up in the forties for the early
clip, based upon the assumption that the
crop will be short. It is true that many
sheep have died during the past winter,
caused by the severe weather, but when
we consider the quantity of wool grown
in this section as compared with what is
raised in. California, Texas. and the
Southern States, the amount raised on
the coast is very small, and is not likely
to affect the general market very much.
Tallahassee Floridian The old idea
Of getting below the frost line" seems
to be little hard to keep up with. OF
course more damage was done by the
cold in some sections of the State than
In others, and generally the more north.
ern sections were visited more seriously
but the actual experience of the past
winter show the idiotic absurdity Of the
claim that any portion of Florida, short
Of the extreme southerly coast and keys
Is exempt from damage by frost in ex
ceptlonal seasons like the one just past
and that the frost questions after all il
one OF seasons and surroundings, ratheI
than one of location.
n H. Angomar recently died in New
York, and when his succession wa
opened in the Civil District Court a
New Orleans, the New Orleans Time
says that it was discovered that $3S
represents the. entire value of his estate
lie leaves a widow and three children
He was an INVENTOR man Of great en-
efgy' and his process for the propulsion
.! s'Teet-cars would perhaps have mad
MN rich man if he had lived. H
mad received all the substantial encour
agement he wanted.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-su
@ys that Columbus has population a
nearly 10000 within the corporate lin
y, and that including the suburbs
y, win reach between 1900 and 1900
Noucing y that it has been omitted fror
aa ne census listof cities having over 10
WV population, the Enquirer-Sun infer
'nat there is an error in compiling tb
,e'urns. 1t says; ''There is a probabi
.y that there is an error in compiliu
'ne returns after they left here, as OF
reporter, with the enumerators. exam
inea them and counted every nam
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