Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1882-06-24
ALL oTER THE SOUTH.
here are but zao Jews in Florida.


Clarksville, Term, has female cobbler.
Monteauma, Ca, boasts ofa turtle with
six feet.
West Virginia has a population of slS,-
457.
York Grisham, ofcanton, Ga, is llSycav
CID.
Pensacola, Fla, will erect a $4,000 court
house.
Austin, Texas viii spends 600 for a city
hospital.
Texas has nearly 2,4oo coayicts in he,
peniten tiary.
There is,ut one negro voter in Newton
county, Ark
Little Roct, Ark, has cotton, hemp and
rope factories.
The Temperance movement is growing
steadily in Virginia.
A warn factory is in successful operation
AZ Baton Rouge, Ia.
Mineral wate5s take The place Of wine Al
Atlanta dinner parties.
Pink-sye has broken ont among the horses
in parts cf Nirsin'r.
8 man in Heard county. TIA, has gan
der said to be li0 years old.
1t COS. a woman $22e0to swear ON the
streets ot Galveston, Texas.
A fourteen pound cabbage has been ship
ped from Americas, Ga.
Three million more shad are to be placed
in the rivers Of Texas.
Wool is selling at twenty-five cents per
pound in portions of Mississippi.
Flrorida shipped 2e,9is, $40 oranges dur
ING the season ending June /.
Early county, Ga, raises cabbage weigh
ing nine and half pounds.
Jesse Kendall, aged lO5 years, has Just
died in Conecuh coUrty, Ala.
Large and luscious peaches for five cent
per dozen at Charlotte, y. c.
A child recently born at Dolly, Ga, has
a well-defned horse OF his am.
4 cotton-seed oil-mill will be erected at
/ Camden, Ark, during the summer.
Several mules were killed in Coahoma
county. Miss, recently by hail stones.
An unusually rich copper mine has been
opened in Cabarrus county ~ {,
! Mr.. Shrueger is in jail al Calvert, Texas,
4 for the murder Of her husband
4 three.year Old baby on exhibition at
Petersburg, Va weighs l2O pounds.
Gov Roberts, of Texas, is said to dcspsc
newspapcr men worse than yipers
( Georqis's wheat crop this year will be the
best raised in the past twenty years.
! Virginia will come to the front this year
with a remarkably large fruit crop
+ An iron furnace that will employ 400 men
F is to be established at Cadsden Ala
( A disease similar to the "black-tongue' is
killing the cattle in Wilcox county Ala.
The library Of the Tennessee Historical
Society contains law book 20i years old.
A spring t1rnip twcnty-one inches in
circumference has been raised at Paris, Ark.
Ofthc 100000 acres Of land in Missis.
sippi less than 100000 ia under cultiya
ton.
/ It is estimated that tie cotton-worm de
stroys $l5. 100000 ofthc cotton crop every
year.
Col. Tom Ochiltrcc, the Eli Perkins OF
theScuth, will run for Congress in Texas
this fall,
An immense and very full vein Of barytcs
has been discovered in Botetourt county,
Virginia.
/ 4 farmers convention in Fast Tennessee
adopted resolution fayoring compulsory
education.
Southeastern Alabama Is said to be i'm
proving more than any other portion OF
that State.
An alligator was recently captured while
on a promenade down the principal s,rcctot
Jacksonville, Fla.
A negress at Montcluma, Ga, recently
gave birth to triplets whose combined weight
was l9l pounds.
Two mcn found 5000 in gold and silver
coin while digging vault in lredell county
. y. G., recently.
The Georgia lunatic asylum Is fail to ov-
eraowing.
For the first time in sevcnty-fye years,
Putnam county, Ga, is without saloon.
The annual reunion Of Hoods Texas
brigade will be hcldat San Antonio June o.
An East Tennessee physician predict q
scourge of cholera and typhoid fever this
summer.
Pinkeye is playing havoc With the horses
in Huntington ard otherploccs in Tenne
see.
There are moro ladies connected with the
press in Mississippi than in any other South
crn STATE
Two uotcd takers Of Lake Providence,
La, will soon begin gO-as-you-Please talk
ing match FOX so side.
4 Petersburg, Va, saloon-kccper has a
musical bottle, which plays tune each time
a drink is poured from it.
Seven thousand acres Of cotton land, which
has been worked one time "a under water,
in Bolivar county, Miss.
A Ncwbene, S G., paper chronicles tho
killing ofa crocodile sixteen feet long, ana
with teeth like broom-handles.
Southern papers point to the immense a
mount of farinsng machinery being sold as
evidence Of the prosperity Of the South.
Reports from all over the South indicate
that the cotton, which vas badly stunted by