Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01
Southern Items.

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Is jails.
Number of convicts in Kentucky
State Penitentiary. $50.
ANorth Carolinian raised 317 pounds
of pumpkins on one vine.
An Alabama town celebrated Christ.
mas with gander pulling.
Memphis is 81 years old, and has
bonded debt of 100000.
Tn some places in Mississippi corn is
selling at 30 cents O bushel.
Old Father Foote gets $4,000 for run
ming the New Orleans mint.
The Enterprise says pork is selling
in Ellis county, Texas, at 2h cents.
Memphis, Charleston, Mobile and
New Orleans are all hopelessly bank
rupt.
A Texas Sheriff pursued a nine-year-
old murderer hundred miles before
capturing him.
A North Carolina negro swears he
will 90 to the penitentiary honestly"
before he will work for SIS per month.
If Texas had as many people to the
square mile as Massachusetts,, she
would have population of ~, OOO, 600.
A Texan, whose wife wanted to see q
doctor bad, rode his horse fifty miles
in four hours and five minutes in search
of one.
The Charleston Ne,ps and Courier
puts the valid funded debt of South
Carolina at not exceeding two and
half millions.
The New Orleans Pic. suggests that
IeOrncr-loafers be labeled with the
NAMES of the streets for the convenience
Sf strangers.
Texas has 164 organized counties,
and all their Sheriffs are to meet in
Austin to tell the Legislature how to
diminish crime.
The Courier says there is man in
Spencer who continues to pay tax On his
negroes, Notwithstanding the enamel
patton proclamation.
Alabama clears some $50, 900 year
working out her convicts. On the last
day of December there were but eighty
five in the penitentiary.
Major Geo. Lowder, of Concord, N.
c., celebrated his ninety fifth birthday
by blowing twice around ten-acre field
and walking mile in thirteen minutes.
More Southern Planters raised their
own meat and bread last year than ever
before. Those who did so are indie
pendent of the price of cotton for one
year at least.
A cotton plantation of 4,240 acres,
situated about eighteen miles below
Columbus, Ga, was sold at auction last
week for $4,000. The purchasers
were New York parties. .
The schools OF the Commonwealth
are suspended in half the counties, and
the people who have paid the school tax
see their children growing up in igIo-
ance.-Richmond Wing.
Rice can DO probably raised on most
of our uplands. Water is not neces-
sity, as is often supposed. 1t is used
Iel low lands to facilitate the cultiva-
N n of the crop by drowning the grass.
st. 7ammiaay (La.) Farmer.
Justice of the Peace in Dallas was
fined $25 for carrying a concealed
deadly weapon. Were that law stimuli
taneously and universally enforced all
over this country, it wouldn't take three
hours to pay the national debt.
1t is gradually dawning on our PEG.
pie that the present snap of weather is
the coolest that this country has ever
known. The thermometer dropped
down in certain portions of the city
to "a deg. above zero, and averaged
4 deg. all through town.-Atlanta Con-
Shtation.
The Jackson Tribune and Sun tells
about how Miss Maggie Shatley said
"No" at the altar, where she had been
led to wed Mr.. David Cameron. The
parties lived near that city. 1t is
claimed that the lady's parents at
tempted to make her marry Mr.. Cam
eron against her will, and, woman. like,
she didn't do it.
venerable marriage took place at
Burkeville, Va. The groom was Col.
Foster, aged 70; the bride was Miss
Cummings, but three years his Junior.
They had been affianced since youth,
but, as the lady insisted ON gift of
$50. 900 from the Colonel on her wed.
ding day, the event was postponed until
the lady compromised.
For the past ten years the dog has
been an issue before the Georgia Leg
islature, the sheep-owners making q
vigorous effort to thin out the ours and
protect their fiocks by taxing the canine.
Two years ago a dog-tax passed the
House, but was killed in the Senate on
constitutional grounds. The constitu-
ssnal convention which met last year
8@oved that objection, and there is q
good prospect that the present session
Of the Legislature will add 500, 900 to
the State revenue by taxing male dogs
twenty-five cents and female dogs twice
as much. Every man who fails to re-
turn his dog for taxation, according to
the provisions of the bill, is to be liza
Die to five dollars fine or ten days in
the chain-gang, and the State will pay
fifty cents for the scalp of every such
cur.