The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Jennie Quearturmus was burned
to death at Nashville, Tennessee.
y duel ut Okolona, Mississippi, re-
suited in the death of Geo. Williams.
Pensacola, Florida, will celebrate
Christmas by holding municipal
election.
The South Carolina penitentiary
contains S24 convicts, 77S of which are
colored.
This years crops in South Carolina
are said to be worth $S,000,000 more
than last years.
In the fifth internal revenue district
OF tennessee there are 1,26l,2 gal
Ions Of whisky in bond.
Herman Davis, dry goods and clio
thing dealer, Nashville, failed for
Sl3, 1929; assets, $2,7S6.52.
Wild ducks are so plenty in and
about Lake Charles, Louisiana, that
they sell at twenty-five cents per
dozen.
At Water Valley, Mississippi, Bob
and Coon Strong, brothers, fought,
and the latter was fatally stabbed.
At Spartansburg, South Carolina,
Patrick Henry stabbed John Kelly in
the heart with small pocket knife
They quarreled over trivial matter
Carse Jones has been arrested at
Sweetwater, Tennessee, for wrecking
a train near that place, with the in.
tention of robbiUg it, nearly three
years ago.
A Farkis, sentenced to be hanged al
Nicksburg, Mississippi, for the muir
der of his wife, has been granted {
respite until the supreme court car
investigate his case.
A powerful blow from the fist OF
Lerby {. May, of GAINESVILLE, Arkan
sas, knocked four teeth down the
throat of j. c. Chandler, constable
and lockjaw, which will result fatally
has enSued.
The message of Gov. Hagood, o.
South Carolina, gives the debt of that
state at $6,671 600, there having beer
a reduction of $4,000 in the past year
, The taxable property of the STATE
amounts to $145,0O0,0O0.
Two pieces of marble, hewn into
the shape and size of the human head
were recently found in gold mine il
Cherokee county, Georgia, while the
workmen wee sinking shaft. Tit
heads were beneath six feet of clay
and the work was skillfully executed
The anti-prohibitionists of BerrieI
county, Georgia, are charged witt
forging the names of many prominent
citizens to defeat the passage Of 1.
to increase the tax on the sale o
liquors in that county. The matter
will be Investigated by the courts, ant
many arrests are anticipated.
Near CORTLAND, Alabama, a party
of men attacked two Gypsy peddler!
and brutally murdered and robbed
one of them, the other escaping. Geo
Williamson was the name of the muir
dered man. The marshal of Court
land, man named Mayfield, has beer
arrested, together with two coloreC
men, charged with the crime. The eS
capped Gypsy has identified them.
Statesville, North Carolina, Land
mark: Mrs. Mary Ann Gruber, OF
this place, has in her possession some
love feast bread of the centenary Of
Methodism, October %, 1889, and alsC
remnant of her wedding cake
She was married December 5, 1920
and last Tuesday was accordingly hel
siXty-second anniversary. Age anC
handling have reduced the cake to 8
powder.
New Orleans Times-Democrat: An
other steamship. drawing more water
that the Cremona, recently reported
passed out to sea through the jettieS
yesterday without the slightest deten.
ton. The vessel in question was the
City of Lincoln, having on board $751;
bales of cotton, 3046 sacks of oil cake
$50 tons of coal, $50 tons of stone bal
last, and drawing twenty-five feet ant
two inches of water.