The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-26
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

a dove black as a raven was re-
Gently killed at Nashville.
Ex.-Gov. j. M. Stone, of Missis-
sippi, runs shoe store at Iuka.
Gadsden, Alabama, has doubled
its population in the past twelve
months.
The Georgia prohibitionists have
nominated legislative candidates in
twenty-nine counties.
The Nashville authorities arrest
and fine all sports" and "mashers"
found lettering on the streets.
The waterworks at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, are completed and are
said to be the best in the state.
Annie Hubbard, who murdered
her child in Colbert county, Ala
bama, goes to the penitentiary for
ten years.
The caterpillars have seriously
damaged much of the cotton in Lou
isiana, especially along the Missis-
sippi river.
Charles Matthews, editor of the
Hornet, recently assasslnated at Hot
Springs, Arkansas, had $11, 900 in
surance on his life.
DR.. Hunnicut, of Malvern, Arkan-
sas, claims to have invented a ma
chine which will successfully and
safely navigate the air.
The Vicksburg, Mississippi, papers
complain that, with population OF
from $4,000 to $4,000, they can count
upon but one mail per week.
A West Indian has purchased ten
acres of ground near Tampa, Florida,
which he will plant in mulberries for
the purpose of raising silkworms.
Julius Leggett, colored, has been
sentenced to death at Bennettsville,
South Carolina, for arson. The
hanging Is set for December Is.
In Princess Anne county, Virgin
ia, Robert Ward fell against a rapid
ly revolving circular saw and his
head was neatly and quickly cut off.
Manufactured milk Is being sold
at FL Paso, Texas. The ingredients
and the secret of manufacture are
not known, but the article is calcu-
lated to deceive the most expert.
Gov. Hagood, of South Carolina,
will go into the hay business extern
sively in Barnwell county, South
Carolina, as soon as his present term
expires, which will be in December.
Several southern exchanges note
an Improvement In the behavior of
the colored people since the appear
ance of the comet, the superstitious
darkies believing it to be fore
runner of coming dissolution of
the world.
Near Iberville, Louisiana, a singu-
lar accident occurred. Two boys,
Gabriel Hunter and Jacob Garner,
were gathering pecans, and the
former threw an iron ramrod up a
tree and it fell on the latter's head,
passing through his skull and brain
down into his throat, killing him IN
stantly.
The case of Belle Smoot, a negro
woman who was elected from the
ladies' car on the Kentucky Central
railroad and who sued the company
for $4,000, goes to the supreme
court. The United States district
court dismissed the case on the
ground that it was civil rights case,
and not in the courts Jurisdiction.
Mrs. Lizzie Valley, convicted at
Nashville and sentenced to term of
three years in the penitentiary for
alleged cohabitatlon with Owen
Prentiss, ex-city editor of the World,
is said to be niece of the dis
tinguished Confederate Gen. Bragg.
1t is limited that Prentiss will be re-
leased on bond, and that the case
against him will never come to a
trial.
There are now in circulation in
Atlanta two petitions to which
names are asked, and which will be
presented to the next legislature of
Georgia. One petition is but q rep
etition of the prohibition law, while
the other asks that. all saloons and
bar-rooms be required to dispense
with the blinds which are kept in
front of the counter to protect Gus
TONERS ffom view.