The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-01-12
Southern News.

Mississippi is the only state in the
Union without a national bank.
Wolves are committing depreda-
lions in various portions of Arkan-
sas.
Key West, Florida, made its first
shipment of tomatoes last week.
They were grown in the open air.
1t has been determined to sell the
buildings and property of the Cot
ton Exposition at Atlanta at once.
Poplar wood is shipped from
Rockbridge county, Virginia, to
Philadelphia at $40 a cord, to be
made into paper.
w. w. Wheeler attempted to kill
his wife at East Nashville, Tennes-
see, Saturday, by shooting her with
pistol.
The Pratt and Helena coal MINES,
near Birmingham, Alabama, have
been sold to Memphis capitalists for
$1,000,000.
The Atlanta Exposition closed
with impressive ceremonies. Frank
Norton, of New York, read a poem,
and Colonel W. T.. p. Breckenridge,
of Kentucky, delivered an address.
A lady in Prince George county,
Virginia, is reported to have re-
Gently given birth to twins, each
with full suit Of HAIR.
The pineapple crop of Monroe
county, Florida, is an unusually
large one. One farmer will cut
100000 the present season.
Beaufort county.South Carolina,
this year, in addition to state taxes,
paid into the state treasury, as phos-
plate royalty, $1O6,S49.5O.
Mound City, in Holt county, Mis-
souri,, place of only about 1000 in
habitants, has just completed an
opera house costing $4,000
When the invidual who removes
corns, bunions, warts, ect., ETC., hap
pens into Alma, Arkansas, the city
council taxes him So day for call
ing himself a "chiropodist."
A misplaced switch in the yard at
Stanberry, Missouri, caused an en-
CINE and tender to be thrown from
the track last week, causing the
death of George G. Bartlett, the fire.
man.
A registered letter, containing an
Alabama, Class A, $500 bond, No.
1855, sent from the executive office,
at Selma, on the 9Th instant, to John
3. Manning, New York, has been
lost in the mails.
There are six large cotton mills in
and around Petersburg, Va. They
have $4,000 spindles, and the past
year consumed about IL 900 bales OF
cotton, and manufactured over H.
10000 yards of cloth.
Over 100000 are paid to Georgia
in revenue from fertilizers ; the fec
is fifty cents per ton. More than
100000 have been received on in
spection of fertilizers, by the state
of Georgia, more than the depart
ment of agriculture has cost.
A three-year-old child of Dahlo-
mega, Ga. whilst playing with a sill
yer half-dollar, let it slip down Its
throat. The coin got hey ond the
tonsils, but being too large to go
any further, lodged in the passage
1t was removed with great diff
Guilty.
In Little Rock, when "Colonelp is
introduced to you, why you know
at once that the gentleman is per-
fectly willing to go with you and
take a drink. When General is
introduced you may know that he
is willing to take several drinks.
captain" is less fortunate; you
only owe him a nickel cigar.
The Savannah NeacS has seen a sill.
yer medal, found near the Macon
and Brunswick railroad. 1t is oval
in shape. and measures five and a
half by four inches. The diverse
shows a we'll executed engraving OF
two figures-one an Indian chief
the other the Goddess of Liberty
representing America extending the
calumet of peace with one hand, and
pointing to the plowshare with the
other. One hand of the Indian is
extended to receive the calumet
whilst from his right hand falls the
tomahawk. Over the picture is the
Inscription, "G. Washington, Presi.
dent" and beneath it the figures
"17e9"