The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-02-23
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

course of Nashville.
Rev. j. Edgar Black. a Baptist
minister, while working in a saw
mill, near Jesup, Georgia, had one
OF his hands sawed of at the wrist
Some Chicago capitalists are ne
gotlatlng for the purchase of 13,OOC
acres of land in Sequachee county
tennessee, as an investment. 1t is
well timbered and rich in coal.
Commissioner Hawkins, of Ten
nessee, is making arrangements for
experimental tests of the effect of
commercial fertilizers on the crops
IN every county in the state.
The Georgia railroad has COM
promised with Henry Hill, whom
the passenger conductor put of
near Madison, last summer. for not
wearing his coat In the lady's car.
The road paid $4,000 for this treatise
on etiquette.
nehtiyn Mentioned as candidates for
congress from the second congress
sional district of Tennessee, are
those of l.. G. Houk, VIM. Rule, Hor-
ace Maynard, Jake Thornburg and
Judge Rodgers.
A short time since a bar-room
was found hid in q pen of cotton
seed near Athens, Georgia. 1t seems
the proprietor kept barrel secreted
in that pen, with a rubber tube lead
ing therefrOm, and when a customer
wanted his jug filled it was easily
drawn. 1t was reported to a revenue
officer and broken up.
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: : 1t is pretty
much in politics as it is in astrOn-
omy. When a one-horse star cuts
loose from its own home circle to
cruise for itself, it brings up with a
crash in the system which attracts
it most and when all ambitious
Democrat cuts loose from his party,
he is Independent only during the
time it takes him to land with a
splutter amongst the Republicans.
More small grain has and will be
sown i'll southwestern Georgia the
present season than at any former
period.
Citizens of Alabama ray taxes on
$305, 900 worth of farming tools and
mechanical implements, and on
guns, pistols and dirks valued at
$354, 900.
The ten-mile race TO be run at
Maysville, by Miss Nellie Burke, of
Nebraska, and Miss Taylor of San
Francisco, is assured.
A number of Metcalfe county
Democrats have called on Hon. John
w. Caldwell to become a candidate
for reelection to congress from the
third Kentucky district.
The Glasgow Times reports the
assassination of Mr.. Thomas Kerr,
in Morrowboro, Cumberland county,
Ky, recently. He was shot through
a window by some unknown person.
Charles Catron was accidentally
killed near Edmundton, KY, few
days ago by the discharge of a gun
in the hands of young man named
Lewellyn, who was walking in front
OF him.
Atlanta Constitutions: Another
day of sunshine has been wrested
from the patent medicine almanac.
Such days as yesterday give fine
flavor TO last years potatoes, and
put the college girls teeth on edge
for a valentine.
Samuel Todd and John Anderson
were born the same day i'll few
hundred yards of each other. Both
of them died in Campbell county,
Kentucky, a few days ago, on the
same day, aged ninety.
Rev. Wittinghill, of Louisville,
has been conducting a successful
religious revival at TradeWater
Springs. Twenty-six people were
baptized by him into the Baptist
church, Sunday.
During the year just passed 322,-
934 tons of coal were mined in the
state of Alabama. y few years ago
the output could have been ex-
pressed in ciphers. This industry
has progressed more rapidly than
any other within the borders of the
state.
Glasgow Times Oscar Wilde,
the jockey club essense of snobbery
and the terrestrial pollen of celestial
bloom, thinks there is nothing but
beauty and charm in every thing
that blossoms. We would like to
see Oscar come up from the crystal
waters of South Fork, in aboriginal
costume, and lOll upon bed
of smart-weed AMI dandle with
August dOg-fennel. We'd know
better how to weigh his words.
Atlanta Constitution: The Rever-
end f. l.. DUPONT is still i'll the Gala
boose, where he will likely remain
until his friends in HOpkinsville,
Kentucky, can be communicated
with. During the day Sunday, as
we'll as yesterday, he kept himself
busy walking up and down i'll his
prison cell. He reaffirms his inten-
tion of killing himself, and by his
conversation induces the belief that
he has been an inmate Ofa Kentucky
insane asylum.
A very singular accident hap
pened recently to a little daughter
of Mrs. Harriet E. Roane, who lives
near Woods cross roads, Gloucester
county, Virginia. The little one ac-
cidentally got shoe-button hook
fastened IN the corner of her eye,
and, in the effort to remove it, tore
the top lid entirely off. The doctor
sewed it on as we'll as he could, but
the probability is that she will lose
the sight of the injured eye.
Atlanta Constitution The chances
for Senator Hill's permanent recov-
cry were never so bright since the
operation was performed as at pres
ent. DR.. Gross writes to Mr.. B. III,
Hill, jr., in this city, that he does not
think any further operation will be
necessary, and that the cure will be
permanent. This is the first time
he has written so hopeful about it
that the senator's superb vitality and
splendid health has asserted itsel
finally.
When several years old and three
or four feet high, the palmetto tret
has the precise appearance of
huge, growing pineapple, with it'
tuft OF green, bade-like leaves at thu
top. Until III" tree attains tht
height of several feet its body is em
braced with successive layers of ;
regularly interlaced growth o
shuck, wLitl, in color and appear
ance closely resembles the pineap
pie. Aftrr certain age they los
this, the trunk assuming a firm
smooth surface, which first make
its appearance next the ground
gradually extending to the top a
/ the tree natures.
Because Colonel Tom Green, o