The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-10-06
Southern News.


DIR. John NJ. Greene died in Key
West, of yellow fever, on the 18th
instant.
The name of the postoffice at Moor,
Fairfax county, Va has been changed
to Garfield.
Horatio G.. Potter, of Moscow,
Pa. has elOped with his seventeen
year-old step-daughter.
A big hotel is to be erected on
the summit of the main peak of the
Peaks OF Otter, Virginia.
A fruit canning establishment,
recently started in Knoxville, Tenn,
employs 125 persons
The old boys of the Army of the
Cumberlahd..met at Chattanooga on
Wednesday.
There is great Indignation in Mis-
sissippi over the ASSASSINATION of
General W. f. Tucker.
The cotton crop of South Caro-
lima will unquestionably be short as
compared with last years crop.
Rain has been general throughout
the south. Some places have been
visited by heavy wind and rain
storms.
A man was whipped in Chicago
for calling another an "official bull
letin," which was construed to mean
'1iar."
The James river has been so low
at Richmond that persons walked
across it. 1t is said that this never
occurred before.
Five hundred persons are scour-
ing Stone river, Rutherford county,
Tennessee, for muscles yielding
pearls.
Correspondence has passed be
tween the two parties in Ohio rela-
tive to doing away with the cam
paign.
Old Chipco, the well known Semi
mole chief, is reported dead by a
correspondent of the Key West Key
Of the Gulf
The contract for the building of
the Iron Mountain branch from
Peach Orchard, Arkansas, to For
rest City, has been let.
Morris Metzger has been hung at
TItusville, Brevard county. for the
murder of Samuel Moore, an ex-fed-
eral soldier, in February last.
The Rev. William Marshall, col
Ored, of Clark county, Ky, an
nounces that he will pray for any
desired object on receipt of seventy
five cents.
A Mormon apostle is said to be in
Mexico, endeavOring to secure land
for settlement, with religious free
dom absolute and undisputable an
nexed thereto.
The mushroom farm that is to be
established in the Mammoth cave,
Kentucky, will have the capacity for
producing million pounds of the
delicacy daily.
Three steamers of the Iron steam
ship company, of New York, have
been chartered by a committee of
the Pennsylvania legislature to con-
vey troops from Philadelphia to
Yorktown, to participate in the cen
tennial celebration.
On September 28th, between the
Isle of Hope and the Skidaway is
land, a ferryboat loaded with mar
ket people, on their way to Savan-
nah, sank and ten colored women
and two colored men were drowned.
The bodies have been recovered and
buried.
Cotton planters on Choupique and
in several other parts of AvOyelles
parish, Louisiana, complain of an
excess of seed in cotton. Fifteen
hundred pounds of seed cotton
make this season bale of but 425
to 435 pounds, and sometimes even
less.
At Little Rock, Arkansas, China
men are not devoid of patriotism.
While the city was draped in mourn
ing for the late president, and while
the bells were tolling, young man
of that city sent his shirts to q Chi
nese laundry. The Chinaman sent
back the following: "Chinaman no
washee to-day. Mclean nobleman
deadee. Washee no shirt tor clong-
lishman."
. IOul w llIlduIS, SOlOICu, w do HuuS
at Henderson, Mississippi, on Friday
of last week, in the presence of 5000
people. just one year previously he
murdered Mr.. j. A. Finkle, a re-
spectacle, worthy citizen of Mount
Enterprise, of that county. Dis
pleased with a settlement, i'll which
he claimed that Mr.. Finkle had not
paid him, by fifty cents, all that was
due him, he deliberately loaded his
gun, went to Mr.. Finkle's house and
murdered him.
In Savannah the annual death rate
for 1000 whites for the year 1880
was 1885, and for the colored 45.47.
In the mayors opinion, the disparity
is due 10 a non-observance of sani-
tary rules on the part of a portion OF
the colored people and to their I'M
intentional neglect of the necessities
of the sick. The authorities pro-
vide medical attendance and dis
pensaries for them, but they have
not yet learned to take full advan-
tage of the city's liberality.