The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-02-19
SOUTHERN eLEANlNGs.


son County, Texas, a few days ago,
The Houston (rex.) Light Guard have
decided to goto Mobile in May next to COM
pete at the Interstate drill. Prizes ag-
gregatng $4,000 are offered They hope
to meet their close competitors, tho Tired
way Rifles, Of st. Louis. The Light Guards
are now the champions of the United
States.
While praying during a recent storm,
says the Natchez tMiss.) Democrat, ''old
Katie Hightower, who had been blind for
fifteen years, had her sight suddenly re-
stored, saud can now see as well as when
chiId.n-@
Az tile University Of Nirginin there is
no prescribed course Of study no entrance
examination no vacation, except the sum
mer one, and but six holidays.
A movement Is on foot for the erection
Of soldiers monument at Atlanta, Ca,
by ex-Confederate and Union veterans
The books printed III the South during
the war are now ID demand among collec-
tors. One Of these was spelling-booll
printed on common wallpaper. Another,
more ambitious, was illustrated with the
old trade cuts found in newspaper offices,
title-page IS the legend "Printed in the
fourth year Of the war Of independence. \
1 VIM. Robertson, Young man living in
Louisburg, n. G., while in grog-shop a
\ few days ago made wager that he could
4 drink a quart Of whisky inside forty
minutes. The money was put up and he
/ slipped the liquor from the quart measure,
/ getting through in thirty-one minutes,
| He died two hours afterward.
The carelessness Of negroes In regard to
their children is becoming every day more
apparent. Every week come reports from
various sections Of a child burned to death
through the negligence Of their parents.
Within the past month three We're burned
to death in Kershaw County, two in
Sumter, two in Orangeburg, two III Rich
land and others in other counties in
South Carolina. 1t is becoming such a
common occurrence that legislation on the
the subject has been demanded.
The commandment to love your neighbor
as yourself was recently fully exemplfed
near Barnwell, S. G. While Mr.. w. T.,
Cave and his wife We're absent from home
their dwelling -hous3 and kitchen were
consumed by fire, their children barely es-
Gaping with their lives The next day
thirty or forty Of their neighbors turned
out ana cut logs, hauled them to a mill,
had them sawed into lumber and during
the next week built for Mr.. Cave a new
dwelling as comfortable and commodious
as that which burned.
Edward Grieves, one of the freight de-
partment clerks Of the Galveston, Harris
burg 81 San Antonio Railway ut Houston,
Tex, wrote a letter to his wife few days
ago limiting suicide, and since that time ne
has not been either at nome or ~ the rait-
road office. me opinion prevails that ne
has committed suicide. lie was q man OF
fine address aud education.
bill was introduced ~ me leNas leg
islature recently donating all the pubiC
lands 70 the Tree schoolsi but similar nlll
failed during the last session ana y VIII
prooanly ''leeI tle sahls luVo 's0 oiis'
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lns ior some e'iiie'
The Chattanooga Pipe works nave re
sumed work after several months stop
page, employing seventy five hands, an
seventy five more will be added at a.
early day day. In the past few weeks tn
GlIlco Fulhace' cougoh iae'oi g
mills, the SCUM lrenesar ta.' y = :
and stove foundry nave resulleu opera ,
tons' ana now slVe euiplos menu W i'eaii
'oo men.
a bold attempt at robbery occurred