The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-09
The WEEKLY STATESMAN.
AUSTIN, 49, TEXAS.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The county Jail at Atlanta contains
ZIG prisoners.
An Augusta, Georgia, woman
gave pet dog a $40 funeral.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, will be
lighted by electricity January l.
Tennessee is extensively shipping
cattle and hogs to Florida.
James b. Pace is announced rs the
wealthiest man in Virginia.
The late Gen. Holt, of Macon,
Georgia, left an estate valued at
100000.
Montgomery, Alabama, expects to
handle 10000 bales of cotton this
sea son.
Thomas Marsh, a man who was
born without legs, recently commit
ted suicide at Graham, North Caro-
lima, by hanging.
Lord Houghton, of England, has
purchased 10000 acres of land in
Southern Florida, and intends going
extensively into sugar culture, in
vesting at least 81 100000. %
Judge Lochrane, of Georgia,
sports a walking stick which is sur
mounted by ducks head. The bill
of the duck holds $3.50 sapphire,
and the eyes are diamonds, which
cost $7100 each. So says the Savan.
nah Nelcs.
H.O. Maher, United States weigh
er of customs at New Orleans, has
resigned because he was refused
leave of absence for fourteen days,
which time he wished to spend in
electioneering for friend in the
third Louisiana district He wanted
TO go aud he has gone.
There are now 979 patients in the
Georgia insane asylum, 257 of whom
were received during the present
year. Chatham county furnishes
the largest number. "a; Fulton fol-
lows with 4S, and Richmond with 46.
The patients range from fifteen to
ninety years of age.
The New Orleans gaslight COM
pany has notified that after Novem-
Der 8 the supply of gas will be turned
of and the city left in darkness.
The contractor for coal-oil lamps
has given like notice. The COM
psnies demand their pay in cash, and
as the city has refused to give it,
this has brought about the present
trouble.
BY a recent decision of the SUI
preme court of South Carolina,
characterized by the Charleston
Nelcs and Courier as "the most i'm
portant judicial deliverance that has
been had since the adoption OF the
new constitution" no felon IN fu-
ture has the right to vote. This law
is being generally adopted In the
southern states.
John Holmes, of Alabama, has
raised eleven children, seven boys
and four girls. He has seventy
three grandchildren, forty-three
boys and thirty girls. Mr.. Holmes
Is seventy-nine years old, weight
800 pounds, has killed fifteen hun
dred deer and one bear. The en-
tire family live in Morgan county,
except one son, who lives in Blount.
All the older ones belong to the
Missionary Baptist church.
Mobile Register: In an interview
with Col. s. g. Cobb, of Pensacola,
who has recently had a conversation
with the secretary of the navy, it
Ia learned that there is no
probability of removal of the Pen
'sacola maynard. Col. Cobb, who is
well versed on this subject, says that
the government could not replace
this institution with its natural adj
yantages at cost of less than half
million of dollars.
Robert A. Martin, of Petersburg,
Va, writes the Rdil0dy Age that
what is now known as the Peters
burg railroad was chartered in 1880,
and that there is reason to believe
that it was the first road in this
country to use steam power in trans:
porting passengers, as the Baltimore
and Ohio road first used horses.
The road by its charter was prohibit
ed from charging over seventeen
and half cents ton per mile for
freight and eight cents u mile for
passengers. The freight cars held
three tons of produce and coaches
from sixteen to eighteen passengers,
and the highest speed attained was
sixty miles in five hours.