The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-02-17
NEWS GLEANINGs.

One thousand men are employed ia
the iron works in Cherokee county, Ala.
The only drawback to cocoanut rails
ing in Florida is that it takes ten years
fer the trees to. bear
Fifteen hundred executions for delin-
quent poll taxes have been issued in
Union county, sc.
An. old man on Caney Fork, in Mid
-dleTennessee, caught $4,000 worth of
saw logs during the last rise.
Tennessee has State law which i'm I.
poses fine of $500 forfeiture to report
small poz cases to the State Board Of
Health
At Louisville, Miss, John D. NJ.
Thrasher has been sent to the reniten-
tiary for life for the murder of w. d
Triplett. .A
The Georgia Supreme court has de-
cided that the cities Of that State must
stop their debts at z per cent Of their
taxable property.
Six hundred partridges in boxes,
shipped from Danville, Va, arrived in
Wilmington, Del, last week for the
Delaware Game Association, which is
trying to restock that State.
Fifteen thousand dollars have been
expended on the North Georgia agri
cultured college at Dahlonega. 1t will
take $4,000 to complete it,
Col. Benz. S. Ricks, Of Yazoo county,
Miss, the second largest planter in the
South, employs 1000 men, and made
1000 b les Of cotton last year,
The acreage Of wheat sown over East
Tennessee is unusually large, and the
prospect for an excellent crop was never
more encouraging for the time Of year.
Within the last three years over 81
100000 have been invested in manufac
turing enterprises in Georgia, and nearly
$l0,000,000 have been invested and con
tracted for in new railroads in our State.
Old Aunt Bonnie Holloway died in
Fauqnier county, Va, last week, in the
one hundred and fifteenth year Of her
age, the Oldest citizen probably in the
Old Dominion. When Lord CORVALLIS
passed through Eastern Virginia in the
summer of 1881 she said she was good
smart gal, big enc ugh to get married."
The Nashville Banner in some race
rccountings, says: At another race over
the Clover Bottom track Gen. jackson
entered his famous horse Truxton, and
was backing him quite heavily. Gov.
Cannon was on hand, but had no money,
50 he bet wagon load Of negroes with
the General. Truxton won tho race
and the General took in the negroes.
Gold is being washed from alluvial
lands within the limits Of Gainesville,
ga, which pays so cents to the pan.
The city covers deposit Of gold-bear-
ing material which should be utilized,
and no doubt will be as soon as the ca
nal Atlanta so much needs passes
through that section. The bed Of that
canal for distance of forty miles will
DC cut through veins and deposits Of
gold bearing ere.
There are three great land companies
now interested in Florida. The Disston
company holds 100000 acres of the
4,OoOOOO acres it bought from the State.
a third company (headed by Disston
also) proposes to drain the Lake Okee.
cnobee region and reclaim the swamp
lands The area of reclamation is al
large as New Jersey, Connecticut, Della.
ware and Rhode Island, and the Disston
company will get half of it, the State
retaining the balance of it. Two enor
nous dredging boats are already al
work at this, and the work will be pushed
to completion.
Atlanta Constitution Florida Notes
hight years ago there was only $l20, O0l
invested in steamers on the ST. Johns
now there are twenty eight steamer
plying that river, one Of which cos
sz4O,oOO, and to this feet there are con
slant additions. The Indian river an,
south Florida lakes and inlets are no,
dotted with sail boats, carrying freigh
70 and fro. In very short time thes
WIN be supplemented by steamers, an
tnen the quesaion will be settled, nel
region opened, the fertility, and beaut
ot which cannot be put in words.
"A, a CONTEMPORARY asks: How shal