The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-10
NEWS GLEANINGs.

pAo3opN5NNNs
The jailor at Trenton, county, Tenn
is paid 800 year.
It probable the Virginia legislature
will abolish chain gangs and the hip
ping~post.
At sale in vicksburg, Miss, recent,
", plantation containing 1900 acres
brought only $2,225.
Out of ninety convicts hanged in the
United States in 1881, Arkansas heads
the list with fifteen.
There are nine colored men in the
Mississippi Legislature, eight in the
house and one in the senate.
The cotton mill at Wesson, Miss,
pays twenty six per cent. dividend, and
the stock is worth over $500.
A two-inch carp put in a pond near
Atlanta, two years'ago, was caught a few
days since, and weighed seven pounds.
The Mississippi press alarmed at tine
recent heavy sales of land to spectators
in that state, is urging that the state
lands should be withdrawn from the
market until they are explored, classi-
fed and appraised, and then they should
be sold in such way as to swell the
school revenues of the state.
Augusta, (Ga.) News; A Pennsylva-
MIA firm is manufacturing paper at Sa-
vannah, from what is called the "saw pal
metto," a material heretofore regarded
as nearly useless. The paper is said to
be Of superior quality, and especially
useful as transfer paper, which has
heretofore been imported.
Messrs. Mertz, Finley & Purdy, kave
bonded the Mertz gold mine, situated
two miles northwest of Gainesville, Ga,
to Eastern capitalists for $4,000. The
ore is quartzite, with liberal showing of
free gold. Both walls are argillite, A
test ton of the ore will be shipped East
this week.
Winston, IN. o. Sentinel. A man
by thename Of Woods committed suicide
at Laural Springs, Ashe county. He
came in from hunting and asked his
wife to pull his boots Off She refused
to do so, which so wounded his feelings
that he caught up his gun and by the
use cf his foot, discharged the contents
into bis body, killing himself instantly.
They wer4 both young and had been
married only about year.
Atlanta Constitution Florida letter.:
"lhe Speer grove. with 600 trees,
would bring perhaps $50, 900, and this is
the best in Florida. This is about SO,
900 per acre, for six acres. 1t is the
best because it is the Oldest. The lar
gest yield ever known from one tree
came from the oldest tree in the state,
at 81. Augustine, which bore $4,000
oranges. This is held to prove that up
TO 20 or 100 years the yield of tree will
improve. There are several trees that
have yielded 1000 and 5000 oranges.
Florida Key Of the Gulf: A friend
describes to us a remarkable scene wit,
messed by him at a religious meeting on
WILDLY Island. w. T. A., memcer
Of the church, while praying, called
upon God 10 strike him dead If certain
statement made by him in the strongest
and most unequlyocal manner was not
exactly true. He had hardly uttered
the las word when he fell dead. Com
ing as this did, in the church, and upon
aleading member, the effect upon the
congregation can only be imagined.
II believe" says Gov. Bigelow, Of
Connecticut, in his message, of his TRIP
South, "that the visit gave a large body
Of Connecticut citizens new and truer
ideas Of the South in feelings and mo
tives. We hope that these Southern
citizens whom me met, and to whom W,
are indebted for such a fraternal vel
come, gained truer conceptions Of th,
temper Of our people toward them. i
has certainly given an added c0rdialit,
and heartiness 10 the good feeling be
tween Connecticut and South Carolina.
Atlanta Constitution: Georgia nov
exports 100000 feet Of lumber snnu
ally. The lumber goes to every part O
the world from Brazil TO New Bruins
wick, and from Algiers 10 Germany
The getting Of this lumber strips abou
$4,000 acres Of land annually. II !;
safe 70 estimate that half as much No.
timber is destroyed or wasted bv A.
turpentine men. twill he seen tbars
fore, that We are getting awav ~,
our pine forests very swiftl. - ~