The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-19
TEE SOUTHERN STATES.

ston, North Carolina, last week.
Pilatka, Florida, has ripe bananas
of this seasons growth.
A German baron is erecting a |
residence at Fort Dade, Florida.
The apple trees in White county, |
are pink with blossoms.
Half-pound peaches are common
in San Saba, Texas.
Chickasaw county, Mississippi.
levies tax of 1924 to $1,000.
Madison county, Kentucky, has
mule that gives milk like a COW.
The south will make 100000 gal
Ions of cotton-seed oil this year.
The principal streets of Atlanta,
Georgia, are being rapidly macada-
mixed.
A new hotel is being erected at
Houston, Texas, which will cost
100000.
Ex-Gov. Stone, of mississippi, runs
boot and shoe store at Iuka, in
that state.
Mississippi's new asylum for the
blind will be opened about the latter
part of October.
The artesian well at Meridian Mis-
sissippi, has reached depth of 500
feet, and the end is not yet.
Thirty five cents per bushel for
corn at Starksville aud West Point.
Mississippi. 1t was $1.40 last spring.
A Moss Point, (Mississippi,) ne
gress recently gave birth to four
babies. Who says the colored race
is dying out?
The Mississippi stock breeders
association will hold its fourth
annual fair at Meridian, October 80.
A special session of the Episcopal
council, to elect an assistant bishop
for Mississippi, will be held at Jack
son in November.
There being no paupers at all i'll
Amite county, Mississippi, the SUI
perintendent of the poor farm has
resigned, and the place shut up.
Meridian, Mississippi, is now
lighted by gas, and the people are
accordingly happy.
Every mill in Houston county,
Georgia, with one exception, was
washed away by recent storm.
In addition to the large number of
minerals known to exist in Stokes
county, North Carolina, regular
veins of graphite and asbestos has
been discovered.
The freight rate on cotton by rail
from Scooba TO Meridian, Mississippi,
a distance of forty miles, is So per
bale. Naturally the farmers haul
most of their cotton to market.
Recently, at Brownsville, Texas
two enormous water spouts were
seen in the Laguna Madra, four
miles north of Point Isabel. They
took all the water from the lagoon,
leaving it dry where they passed it.
Meridian, Mississippi, has thus far
received about 800 bales of this
years cotton, which has brought
from ia to 11Ac for middling. A
good market for a small place.
A speaker in Clay county incurred
the ill-will of some scoundrels in his
neighborhood, and the miscreants
revenged themselves by cutting of
his horses tail.
Two hundred German immigrants
arrived at Brennan. Texas, in one
day recently. They came direct to
Galveston by steamer, and thence by
rail proceeded to their destination
Alexander Doyle, the New Or.
leans sculptor, has just completed
| the model for statue of Gen. K. E
Lee, to be erected in that city. 1t is
said to be an excellent likeness.
In the overlooked district OF The
parish of st. Landry, Louisiana
malarial fever is prevalent, causing
much distress among the people
also, in Richland, Madison, Lincoln
and Carroll parishes.
1t is rather costly sometimes tt
start q street car too soon. Mrs
Kemp, of Baltimore, who was in
Ijured by the starting of a car while
she was getting of, has obtained a
verdict of $4,000 damages.
Madstones appear to have marke
value in North Carolina, where |
local paper records the sale of hal
interest in one for five dollars, add
ing that q clouded title lessened thu
value OF the share disposed of.
Arkansas women petition agains
saloons on the same condition a
men. Consequently whisky ha
generally to GO The saloon-keeper
contested their legal right to petition
but the'law has been pronounced
constitutional by the court.
Mr.. Stephen Strickland, of Hills
borough county, Florida, manure
his orange trees with 'possums
Since January he has killed enough
to put around $50 trees, and Is noy
pretty well advanced on the seconG
round.
The saber which old John Brow
had upon his person at the time b.
was captured at Harper's Ferry, tn
10Th of next month twenty-five
years ago, is now in the possession
of General T. G. Baylor, of Jefferson
county, West Virginia.
A reporter of the Ne,0 Mississtp
pidn was informed by the secretar.
of state last Monday that his RECORD
showed that there were 225 matri
monial insurance and endowmen
companies in Mississippi, with be
tween fifty and seventy-fve charter
OH file.
Quilting bees and cat shaking ar
the rage in certain parts of Missls
sippi. After the quilting cat is pu
upon the quilt the young folks tax
hold of the corners and toss the ami
NAL till it jumps off upon one of tn
young ladies who is then crowned
queen of the "Bees."
i E. P. Andren, of st. Augustine
Florida, in fishing recently with ne
for turtles caught q fourteen-foo
sawfish with a saw three feet tel
inches. The monster weighed be
tween seven or eight hundred
pounds, and drove his teeth man,
times into the sides of the boat.
In Wilkinson county, Mississippi
there is q man who, in 1860, register
ed a VOW that he would not cut hi
hair or shave his whiskers till tn
Southern Confederacy had game,
her INDEPENDENCE. He has kept hi
VOW, and now his hair reaches hi
knees and his whiskers are long an
shaggy.
The editor of the Augusta (Geor
gia) Evening Neaos is an amateu
: entomologist, and has made the i'm
, portant discovery that a goo,
healthy bullbat can swallow at leas
! quart of gnsts daily; and that tn
; reckless destruction of bullbats b.