The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-02-16
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A fine fruit year is predicted in
the south.
Two Evergreen, Ala, pigs have
horns two inches long.
Real estate in Columbus, Ca, ad-
vanccd S17l,000 last year.
The West Virginia legislature has
defeated a bill TO tax commercial
travellers.
n $4,000 hub and spoke factory,
employing 100 men, will be erected
at Tullahoma, Ala.
a good field of corn is growing in
Nelusia county, Fla. 1t was planted
the first of December.
Emerson Etheridge is to be resur-
rected in connection with the inde-
pendent movement in Tennessee.
Raleigh, N. c. has 27OO dogs, and
the small boy is losing flesh because
there aren't cans enough to 90
around.
The rabbits are stumping the state
i'll Alabama. The overflOwed bot
toms are responsible for the innova-
ton.
General Gordon owns an orange
grove in Florida. He owned il be-
fore the war. sold it, and rebought
it few years ago.
[ The Chattanooga Times saws it is
generally believed that Horace Nav
Eard will be the Republican nominee
for governor of Tennessee this
year.
a fire at Knoxville, Tuesday night,
destroyed, among others, the build
ing in which Parson Brownlow's
Wing was published, the office of
Honorable Horace Maynard.
Jake Standifer sought human
gore at Eufaula, Ala, and he got it.
He attempted to shoot a Mr.. Car
michael, raked up a fight with a
negro, and then shot himself through
the head with fatal effect.
Chattanooga Times: The Roane
iron company is now securing an
order of steel blooms from England.
They are arriving i'll car load lots
every day. This order will amount
to about $4,000, the duty on which
will be $4,000.
A drove of thirty-five hogs drank
long and deep of a barrel of syrup
skimmings near Buena Vista, Ga,
and in few hours every big and
little pOrker was drunk as a lord.
They cut up all manner of didoes,
and finally the whole gang got
weak i'll the knees and dropped off
to sleep.
Atlanta Constitutions: The atti-
tude of the administration towards
the south is not without its in
f1uence. Men who were running the
prospects of the Democratic party a
year or two ago by killing negroes
at every cross road are now ell
deavOring to ruin il by joining the
Republicans. The Democratic party
is as seriously opposed to the mig
ger-killers as it is to the Republi-
cans. 1t proposes to fight both ex-
tremes.
On Friday last, about ten miles
from Albany, Georgia, a tattered,
emaciated, hal1-starvcd woman was
discovered wandering in the woods.
She was taken charge of by kind
persons, and il was soon found that
she was n poor French woman, who
had been abandoned by her bus-
band on the way from Pensacola to
Eufaula. The woman could not
speak a word of English, and ever
since Christmas had been wander
ing i'll the woods, living on mush-
rooms and toadstools.
Two Misses Merlwether, bellies of
Huntsville, Ala, elOped Friday
night, with two young lawyers, and
were married in Chattanooga.
Ayoung woman entered the depot
at Atlanta, and, while. waiting for
the train, amused herself by curslng
everybody and everything in sight,
for which an unfeelin9 policeman
gave her a reserved seat in a cell.
This is her soliloquy: "My name is
Georgia Chambers, and my home is
in New York. For three wears |
was one of John Robinson's bare
back riders. | have travelled with
every circus that ever pitched can
vas in America, and this is the first
time l was ever in jail"
Aiken Is. C) Recorder Mr.. B.
Brocker, of Chataugua county, New
York, who has been residing at Mrs.
Stephenson's for some time past as
a deliberately i'll invalid, was mar
ried at II O'Clock Sunday night, to
Miss Lydia Randall, of New York,
by the Rev. E. G. Edgerton, rector of
st. Thaddeus Episcopal church. Mr..
Crocker died at $50 o'clock the
same night, leaving u widow after
having been married less that six
hours. Miss Randall arrived in
Aiken Oh Sunday and left yester-
.day, in company with Mr.. w.
'Crocker, father of deceased. Miss
Randall came from South Carolina
to marry Mr.. Croker, in order TO
carry out a sacred pledge made
some years since under peculiar cir
cumstances.