The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-08-21
SOUTHERN GLEANISGs.

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miles of railway to Aransas Bay on the
Gulf of Mexico, with the design Of Great
ing rival city to Galveston.
A cast in plaster of paris has been taken
of monster watermelon recently exhib-
tied at Corpus Christi, Tex. The weight
of the melon was sixty and one-half
pounds. The cast will be painted like the
original and sent to the Worlds Fair
TIE mari beds OF Western Alabama are
said to be practically inexhaustible and
valuable as fertilizers. The richest depos-
its are found along the Tombigbee and AL
ALBANIA Rivers and their tributaries.
The management has been authorized to
negotiate with the French Government for
the exhibition Of Bartholdi's statue OF Lib
erty at tho Worlds Exposition in New Or
leans for short time before it is finally
set up at Bedloe's Island.
In Alabama is a China treo ten feet
in circumference Its top was torn away
by a storm; but six feet up tho trunk
two more trees have taken root and grown
up as high as the old tree is. Half
way up the trunk of the original treo
peach tree stands out, and now is filled
with fruit.
Near Freedonia, Tex, few evenings
| since horrible encounter took place
between four desperate men, in which
one was shot through the heart, another
was ia ally stabbed the third received a
deadly wound in the shoulder, and the
other was shot in the breast.
The Georgians rightfully claim that
their State gave the women of America
and OF the world the first college. The
Wesleyan Female College, created in
in 1888 by the State of Georgia, adopted
by the Methodist Conference in 1910, en-
dowel and remodeled in 1882 by George
!. Seney, is to-day the monument which
marks the earliest com plsGe recognition of
woman's claim.
Savannah, Ga, is shipping fresh
oysters to the North. A dealer there
says: "The oyster is as good and as
healthy food in July and August as in
September, December or April, but you
must know where to get him. There are
extensive beds of oysters on the South
ern coast that have scarcely been touched,
and there is no danger of the supply run
ming out for many years to come, IL ever"
Tom Green County, Tex, which is about
the size of Massachusetts, though it has
no towns, has an assessed valuation of
S5,000,000 and population of $50, 900 sheep
and cattle.
! ONVi q ihilllOh lpullllS VI otu 4aluiAlN Nbb-
ton was shipped from Lake City, Fla, last
year. There were also fifty cars Of cotton
seed, each car containing 22,5)0 pounds,
making total of seed of 1, l25, 900 pounds.
Reports upon the cotton crop from the
Memphis district are favorable.
Among other purposes for which the
counties of Georgia are permitted to pro-
vide by local option legislation is the taxa
| 80 l.. 4 r..
Floyd County, and the returns just com
pleted by the Tax Receiver show that
2,2OO dogs have paid their taxes.
David McEvoy, Dallas (Tex.) boy,
was shot and probably fatally wounded d
few days ago while stealing watermelons.
Riotous negroes broke up party at Dal.
las, Tex. few nights ago, and ono OF
them, a lewd woman, was thrown into the
water of Long Lake.
A broker at Macon, Ca, advertises for
bills of sale for negroes, Offering in pay
dollar for dollar in Confederate money and
bonds.
Prof. Guerin, prominent educator in
Tennessee, was thrown from his horse in.
Dickson County few days since and in
stantly killed.
A recent fire at Cattletsburg, KY,
caused a loss of $4,000. Falling walls
buried number of liremen. James Nc
Kenzie, David Kinner, jr., and John Ora.
ham, were killed. Robert Miller and Sam
uel Kelly were fatally hurt
A few nights ago at Rogers & Ballom
tines railroad camp, on the Wilson Rail-
road, twenty miles below Harriston, Miss,
two colored men were shot by one Thos.
johnson, also colored. One of the men,
name unknown, was mortally wounded,
and the other, Charlie McCulloch, bar
Der, was killed. No cause is assigned for
the shooting other than that Of the reck.
lessness of the murderer
Mr.. Charles Tilden, President of the
Bank Of Louisville, and also President OF
the Louisville Board of Managers OF the
Masonic Widows and Orphans Home,
died suddenly few nights ago from neu.
ralgia of the stomach, at his residence,
near Louisville, Ky, Mr.. Tilden was at
the bank Saturday and seemed as we'll as
usual. In the afternoon he drove to his
home on the Bardstown road, near the
city, and continued apparently well until
few minutes before II p. m. when he was
attacked by violent pains, dying before O
physician reached him.
j. Bruce Halsted, Professor of Higher
Mathematics at Princeton, has been elected
to similar position in the University Of
Texas.
The Fruit and Vegetable Shippers AS.
ISOLATION of Madison County, Miss, at a
recent meeting resolved to distribute their
shipments in the future, thereby avoiding
overstocked markets. Upon full bearing
, OF evidence the association exonerates
Chicago merchants of unfair dealing in ths
, past.
In row between colored people at Ster
: ling, Ga, a few days ago, negro woman
J whose favor was in dispute between two
. suitors, was shot and killed by one q
them. Mr.. Halzendorf, merchant, wal
probably fatally wounded by a flying bul
let. He fired at his supposed adversary
wounding him seriously.