The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Laura Vest, brave girl of Lin
coin county, West Virginia. has
saved five children from drowning.
A company has been organized at
Augusta, Georgia, TO build a railroad
from that city to Elberton, Georgia.
Two men found $4,000 in gold and
silver while digging a vault in Ire
dell county, North Carolina, re-
Gently.
The first number of the ArkdnSoS
TiUrele1', published at Little Rock by
Opie Read, was issued Sunday.
Sam. Wilson. a Montgomery, Ala
bama, negro, has an insane idea that
he is Christ and that he is pursued
by Satan.
Senator Jones, of Florida. will
receive, next month, the degree of
doctor of laws from Georgetown
university.
A Petersburg. Virginia, saloon
keeper has musical bottle which
plays Il tune each time a drink is
poured from it.
George Allen, of Birmingham,
Alabama, took chlOroform while
having tooth extracted, and died
from its effects.
A suit on some bank stock has
been pending i'll the circuit court of
Bedford county, Virginia, for over
fifty years.
Lincoln county, West Virginia,
has citizen LOG years of age, who
lost his dog recently and walked
twenty miles i'll search of it.
During cyclone in Montgomery
county, Arkansas, recently, a child
was blown from its mothers arms,
and has not yet been found.
General FItzhugh Lee is lecturing
in southern cities on "ChancellOrs-
ville," for the benefit of the Southern
Historical society.
A rich deposit of kaolin has been
discovered in Macon county, Ala
bama. The material is indispensable
in the manufacture of friedrich.
A paper has recently been started
at GAINESVILLE, Virginia, by a man
named Hewitt. He will endeavor
to hew out both fortune and fame.
Thirteen hundred and fifty-two
miles OF railroad were constructed
in the southern states during the
five months from January l to
June l.
A huge petition asking congress
for an appropriation of $4,000 for
the improvement of the Suwannee
river has been gotten up at Madi-
son, Fla.
York Gresham, colored, had a
tooth pulled in. Milledgeville, Ga,
the other day, which was about 100
years old. Gresham's age is 113
years.
Mrs. Mary Jones, who assisted in
making cartridges used by the
American troops in the battle OF
New Orleans, died at Baton Rouge,
La, few days ago.
Cabb Campbell, cOlored, was Ia
ken from the Jail in Fairfield cOun-
ty, South Carolina, Sunday night by
a mob who hing him. Campbell
had ravished white woman.
The Athens, Georgia, cotton fac
tory pays an annual dividend OF
twelve and one-half per cent, be-
sides putting like per cent. into a
sinking fund for future repairs and
additions.
The town of Edenton is the second
in age in North Carolina, having
been established is IVA or 1715
Bath, the oldest town IN the state,
was laid out in 1905.
Miss Stella Patterson, of Ameri-
Gus, Georgia, was practIcing target
shooting with an old pistol, which
prematurely exploded. The ball
entered her abdomen, infiicting a
fatal wound.
Every distillery in Arkansas has
been compelled to shut down for
want of grain, and an exchange says
that this will tend to the establish.
ment of many fruit distilleries this
year.
A safety car coupler has been in
vented by citizen of Rome, Ga.
and practical and most satisfactory
test made. A company for the manu-
ufacture of the coupler has been
formed.
| A halfcraZed woman was recently
found in the woods near Newport
Ark, who had been without food
for nineteen days, and all the susie
nance she had was obtained by
chewing maple bark.
At Leesville, Conway county
Arkansas, Wade Beed shot and killed
Captain John Reeves because he was
reprimanded by the wife of the lat
ter for leaving gate open. Beed
escaped. This is his third murder
James Cain, of Walker county
Georgia, aged eighty-seven, who
raised twelve children to maturity
and has 1O3 grandchildren and
forty-six great grandchildren, is still
as lively as cricket and fond OF
talking politics.