The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-14
THE SOUTHERN STATES.


Three children in Louisville.
Georgia, were bitten by a rabid
Spitz dog.
Rev. a. NJ. Conway is on trial at
Wilmington, North Carolina, for
perjury.
Eggs sell at from fifty to sixty
cents per dozen at San Augustine
Florida.
There are seventy three saw-miIls,
all running, in Obeon county, Ten
nessee,
The people of Lake City, Florida.
are eating their third crop OF corn
for this year.
Ex-State Senator Barrett, of Ten
nessee, ornaments the chain gang at
Bolivar.
Hon. Alexander II. Stephens says
he now weighs five pounds more
than lie ever did before.
The explosion of bottle of ginger
pop caused an Augusta, Georgia,
lady to lose the sight of both eyes.
The largest exclusive gram farm
in the south is in Green county,
Georgia, and is owned by Toon
Powell.
Mineral wells are being discovered
all over the south. It's poor county
that can't produce half dozen or
more.
The average corn crop in Tennes-
see is 60,000.000 bushels, but it will
reach l00,OO0,000 bushels this year.
The wheat crop will reach nearly
100000 bushels.
While ringing the school-bell in
Franklin county, Georgia, Parker
Sewell, the teacher, was instantly
killed by the bell falling from the
tower and striking him on the back
of the neck.
The jealous husband of a pretty
woman at Fayette, Texas, branded
her with an iron used for marking
cattle, making a star and cross.
which she must bear OH each cheek
for life.
Mrs. BOzeman, whose age is well
authenticated to have been lis
years, died in the Halifax county,
North Carolina, poor house last
week. She leaves a great-grand-
child forty years old.
At Farmersville, Louisiana, little
Dick Aud, aged eleven years, was
playing changing" in the barn. He
missed his calculations and his play
resulted in a horrible reality. He
was dead when found.
Near Hurricane Springs, Tennes-
see, is a neighborhood of "long
Boards" There are ten or a dozen
men in the vicinity with boards
ranging from twenty-four to sixty
three and half inches in length.
The detectives at Mobile, Ala
bama, are paid 500 for each yellow
fever refugee they find in the town.
Quite number have been captured,
and the sleuth-bounds of the law are
doing flourishing business.
The crop of sugar made IN Louis
lana during the season of 1882
amounted to 159,874,950 pounds,
equivalent to 122,982 hogsheads.
The production of molasses amount
ed to 1851, 104 gallons, or 2O6,l94
barrels.
The New Orleans Times Democrat,
Mobile Register, and Vicksburg
Commercial have each recently
issued large trade editions. That OF
the Times Democrat was especially
notable, and was q gigantic enter
terprise ably handled.
The corn crop for the state of
Georgia is estimated by the state
agricultural department to be in the
neighborhood OF 100000 bushels,
which makes the yield about equal to
that of 1859, which latter has long
been regarded as probably the larg-
est corn crop ever gathered in the
state.
There is kind of dwsrfed kanga.
roo in the Stakad Plains of north
western Texas. Its body is about
eight inches long its fore-legs are
not more than an inch and half to
two inches in length, while its hind
legs are all of six inches. 1t has tail
about eight inches long, completely
bare except tuft of long hairs at
the end, and a ridge of short hairs
on its upper part. The animal is
also marsuplal, the pouch being
well developed. 1t is of soft blue
color. Its only mode of locomotion
is by jumping. precisely like the kan
CARGO. 1t can jump eight or ten
feet