The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-01-20
NEWS GLEANINGs.

females.
Birmingham has hopes Of large car
mandatory.
Mississippi has four times asmuch tim
Der as Minnesota.
Marion county, Fla, has $4,000 acres
Of land in orange groves.
Russian Jews are constantly settling
in all parts Of Mississippi.
Fifty-fye cotton mills in Georgia, and
others in process of erection.
Real estate at Milledgeville, Ga, has
doubled in value in the last two years.
Birmingham, Ala, has raised the Ii
cense of whisky dealers to $3.50 coun-
ter.
A bill has been introduced in the Vir-
ginia Senate TO abolish the whipping
post.
The salary Of the Mayor; of Savannah
has been increased from 81 800 to 81, 900
a year,
It is said that twenty seven of the ex-
hibitors at Atlanta are going to establish
factories there.
There are eleven men in the Clarks
vile, Ark, Jail charged with murder in
in the first degree.
Three Butler county, Ala, boys in one
days hunt killed fourteen foxes and
twenty-five cat squirrels.
Forty thousand dollars have been sub
scribed toward proposed car manufac-
tory in Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. Nancy E. Pearce, who cut off her
child's head in Howard county, Ark.
has been adiudged insane.
The street letter-boxes in san Anto-
MO, Texas, have been robbed SO frequent.
y that the postmaster has ordered them
taken down.
Many Georgia farmers believe there
will be great advance in cotton next
spring, and are holding back as much Of
their crops as possible.
Since 1860 Tennessee has acquired
nearly 100000 additional population,
and has made crops every year Of an
average annual net profit Of $27, 500, 600.
lnthe four States Of Georgia, Alabama,
South Carolina and Tennessee the num-
Der Of persons employed in the manufac-
ture Of cotton is ,7Ss, against $500 in
1870.
The Mayor Of Birmingham, Ala, has
gwen orders to the police force Of that
city to require all merchants to discon-
tlnue the sale Of cigars and tobacco on
Sunday.
The father Of Rev. Richard Jordan Of
hhea county, Tenn, is still living, at the
age Of lO6. His son is seventy-five. His
wlie Is eighty-seven, but looks older than
her husband.
The Cincinnati Southern railroad has
contracted with the Glen Mary (Tenn. J
mines for twenty car loads Of coal per
aay Tor their engines, at seven cents per
bushel unscreened
Inc new capitol building at Austin,
iexas, is to be S66 feet high, 566 feet
long, and 2S5 feet in depth, the seventh
highest building in the world, and the
second in the United States.
The Trustees Of the Georgia Academy
Tor the Blind have purchased ground at
Macon for the erection of an academy
ior the colored blind. The State appro-
prlated $4,000 for the purpose.
In North Carolina there are fifty. three
cotton mills in operation, and six Others
are In progress aud nearly completed
.hefe are also four or five woolen mills
u operation in "the old North State. J"
A mulatto woman named Fannie
crawford has just returned to her farm
"a mississippi, with fifty negroes from
eumpter county, Ala. This year, about
cioslng time, she worked 800 hands on
ner farm, which she manages herself.
WIN increased capital pouring into
new Orleans, with the jetties opened for
'ne largest vessels, with four railroads
running there, and at least three more
On the way, the Times-Democrat wishes
'ne whole world Ga happy New Year. .
The Vicksburg and Ship Island and
sne memphis and Vicksburg railroads
nave leased 600 penitentiary convict:
from n, the Mississippi State Board Of Pub,
ilc Works which are to be divided be.
sween the tive roads and put TO work
near vicksburg.
"A good danf -f