The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-22
NO. AZ
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A"AS POA ohhuLl III ROlu UulllOus
Peaches are selling at forty and
fifty cents a bushel at Mckinney,
Texas.
Over two hundred houses are in
course of erection at Chattanooga,
Tennessee.
Mrs. Carr, aged one hundred years,
died in Barbour county, Alabama, a
few days ago.
West Virginia produces nearly
one-fourth of all the nails used in
the United States.
Major Burke, who was wounded
in the duel with Mr.. Parker, the
other day, is recovering.
Judge Clayton, of Eufaula, Ala
bama, has decided that dealing in
cotton futures is gambling.
Miss Eliza Baum, of Charleston,
South Carolina, drowned herself in
the harbor while temporarily insane.
The mountains in Swain county,
North Carolina, are said to be OF
solid marble-red, pink, plaided and
black.
Pace Wallace, of Statesville, North
Carolina, was too intimate with Bob
Steinson's wife and Steinson shot
him dead.
A negro woman of Lynchburg,
Virginia, killed her child by throw
ing it into well, because it had the
small pox.
n man named Morris, in Upson
county, Georgia, tried to perform q
circus trick and broke his back.
Death resulted.
A careless druggist at Starke
Florida, gave Mrs. Jones poison in
stead ofa dose of calomel, and she
died from its effects.
A valuable deposit of asbestos has
been discovered near Roanoke, Vir-
ginia. The vein is large one, and
in toughness compares favorably
with the best Canadian.
The policemen of Charlotte, North
Carolina, are compelled to light the
gas lamps on their respective beats,
and one "cop" is utilizing the bicycle
as means of doing his work up in 9
hurry.
A lady Of Clark county, Georgia
was married before she was thirteen
years of age, was a mother at four.
teen, and, before her fifteenth birth.
day arrived, dressed in widows
weeds.
Virginia drinks up her entire
wheat crop annually, and it is stated
that the liquor drank in Louisiana
costs $47,000,000 $2,000000 more
than its combined cotton, sugar and
rice crop.
Pineapples grow to all enormous
size in Key Largo. One recently
exhibited at Key West from that
place measured a foot in length and
tWenty-three inches in circumference
1t weighed eight pounds.
Pensacola promises to be the tu
ture seaport of the south. During
May elghty-nine vessels, with al
aggregate tonnage of 68,116 tons
entered the port, and ninety-fiv,
vessels, with an aggregate of 55,61l
tons, cleared.
A man in Suwaunee county, Flor
ida, thought he saw O pole-cat nea
the road and fired at it only to dis
cover that it was his fathers head
who was lying in the bushes drunk
The ball took effect in the breas
and will result fatally.
A new and important industry i
being built up on Lake Jessup
Florida. The fine beds of mar
which have been discovered along
the south shore of the lake are being
utilized, with fish from the lake, il
the manufacture of fertilizers. A
company has been organized anC
buildings erected ON Bird island, il
the lake, a mile and half from th,
main land.
Commencement exercises take
place at Washington and Lee uni
versity, Lexington, Virginia, june
l8 to 21, inclusive. Sunday morn
ing, 18th, the baccalaureate sermon
will be preached by Rev. j. b. Haw.
thorne, ID. ID. In the evening Hon
Robert Ould will deliver the address
before the Y. M. &. A. The regatta
occurs Monday trustees Alumn
association and literary societies
meet Tuesday; addresses, delivery
of diplomas, certificates, prizes, etc.
and final ball, Wednesday.
The Tennessee state library con
tains some valuable relics, among
which is piece of the flag surren
dered by Lord CORVALLIS to Genera
Washington, at Yorktown, Octobe
10, 1871; Daniel Boone's musket
General Jackson's cap, and the sworC
of Colonel Du Puyster, q British
officer under Colonel Ferguson, cap
tured at the battle of Kings noun
tain in 1880. In a case with man
other things is to be seen a limb il
the shape of walking-cane, said IL
be cut from a beech tree sixty fee
high and four feet thick, on which i
plainly visible to this day the follow
ing inscription:
ID. Boon cilled Bar,
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