The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

MISSISSIPPI has los lodges of
Knights of Honor.
New wheat is selling for $1.32 in
Petersburg, Virginia.
A. Tarkes has been found guilty
of wife murder at Vicksburg.
Georgia has turned the tables,
and is now shipping oats to the
West.
Harrison Carter will be hanged at
Jacksonville, Florida, August 4, for
murder.
An ice machine at Rome, Georgia,
exploded the other day and killed
one man.
The fine quarries of marble in
Pickens county, Georgia, are to be
developed.
The cotton crop in South Carroll
ma is said to be better than in any
other state.
North Carolina now leads the
southern states in the number of her
cotton mills.
A Blakely, Georgia, lawyer, Clar-
ence Wilson, has been arrested for
horse-stealing.
Dyersburg, Tennessee, has a mill
eral spring possessed of wonderful
curative properties.
Mrs. Sparks, of Franklin county,
Alabama, gave birth to four chill
dren last week. All are aliye.
DAVID Adams, of Rome, Georgia,
lived to be eighty-one years old and
then suicided by taking morphine.
Business in the south has in
creased nearly one hundred per
cent since good crops were assured.
Four Mormon missionaries are
conducting revivals in Lawrence
county, Alabama, with considerable
success.
A young son of General G. A.
Evans, of Georgia, is preparing data
from which he will write history
of that state.
Mrs. Camille Foye, an Atlanta
dressmaker, has fallen heir to an i'm
mense fortue by the death of Cali
fornia relatives.
A three-year-old child at Birming
ham, Alabama, picked up a pistol
which was lying Oh the table and
blew its own brains out.
A brave Mobile woman, whose
little child fell into a very deep well,
slid down on the chain and rescued
the halt-drowned infant.
Orange county, Florida, which but
few years ago was a bowling will
derness, now has taxable property
of the value of $1U,000,000.
The wife of w. A. Launon, of
Gibson county, Tennessee, scolded
him. and he found rest by taking
enough morphine to kill him.
The great iron viaduct for the
track of the Frisco railway south
of the Boston mountain tunnel, in
Arkansas, is 321 feet high and 800
feet long.
A negro woman, while dying at
Augusta, Georgia, confessed to poi
soning three men, who, at differ
ent times, died under suspicious cir
cumstances.
The painters of New Orleans, made
bold by the success of the coopers,
are on a strike for $3.50 per day.
The plasterers follow with demand
for $3.50 per day.
Dallas Thornhill and wife, of Rap
pahannock county, Virginia, have
been indicted for attempting to
poison a relative, James Thornhill,
so that they might succeed to his
estate.
VIM. Lovelady, one of the five of
Andrew Jackson's soldiers who wit
messed the unvailing of Jackson's
statue at Nashville in 1880, recently
died at his home in Morgan county,
Alabama.
Alice Jones, who abandoned her
baby in the woods in Independence
county, Arkansas, and left it for
eight days without food, has been
sentenced to five years in the Ar
kansas Denitentlary.
A young lady from Allegheny
county, Pennsylvania, proposes to
establish school in Florida for the
purpose of giving instruction in the
process of Matching silkworm eggs
and rearing the insects. She has
been in attendance upou the school
OF the Women's Silk Culture associa-
ton In Philadelphia.