The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Middle Florida complains of too much
rain.
Lexington, Georgia, parties will go into
silk culture.
Florida cotton is opening pretty freely
and promisfngly.
There are few hogs, but a heavy mast in
Houston county,
Jackson. Mississippi. is 10 furnish 4
mule insurance company
Augusta, Georgia, will abolish the tax
on commercial travellers.
Three newspapers at Starkvilie, Missis-
sippi, employ lady compositors
A squash weighing twenty eight and a
and a half pounds is a Florida product.
Cotton caterpillars are damaging the
crops in several counties in Georgia.
Good health and fine crops prevail IN
the vicinity of Macon, says the Mississippi
SIM
Cholera has killed nearly all tie hogs in
the vicinity of Masons, Tapton county,
Tennessee.
A Moss Point Mississippi, ncgress re-
Gently gave birth to four babies--two boys
and two girls
w J. Purvis, of Edwards. Mississippi
has matrimonial policies on himself
amounting to over 100000.
On the Hopkinsville. Kentucky, market
so far this season 9,123 hogsheads of to-
bacco have been sold.
The millennium is at hand. An ice deal
er has been arrested at Atlanta for cheat
ing his customers.
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, wants signal
service station, but General Hazen deems
it unnecessary at present.
Mississippi ranks t@enty-fourth in the
Union in the live stock enumeration, her
total number being (, 1893, 99i.
A Bourbon county, Kentucky, man has
just sold 1000 Southdowns and merino
sheep, which go to Texas
Colonel Robert Crockett a grandson of
Dayy Crockett. is publishing sprightly
little paper. s1He. Gzenefs at Dewitt, Arr
kansas.
Oscar Wilde pronounced Miss Alsatia
Allen, of Montgomery Alabama, the most
beautiful young lady he has seen in the
United States.
The average yield of oats in the Aunts-
vile section. Alabama, is given at forty
bushels TO the acre. Wheat will average
twenty bushels.
The Vicksburg 1lerald notes a rapid in
crease in the value of real estate and a
greater demand for mechanics than the
supply in that burg.
A negro living in Mulberry county,
North Garelpa. claims to he 107 years old,
and saws he at one time belonged TO the
grandfather of General Wade Hampton.
Rev Mr. Brooks, of Eufanla,. Alabama,
has invented an incubator that holds 240
eggs, and has proven n success. The ma
chine is made of wood, and IS heated by
kerosene lamps. q.
A remarkable blind negro at Selma, Ala
bama, is o hostler and gardener, and does
his work without help as well as any one
could do it. He guess within five
minutes of the time of day whenever
asked.
Colonel Gore. of Cedar Key, Florida, is
n very industrious man and is reaching cut
for fortune. He is editor, newsdealer.
city clerk, board of health clerk state and
county tax collector, ex-assemblyman and
last but not least planter.
Recent examinations of hecoal deposits
in Fayette and, w alller counties Alabama,
reveal six seems of coal, from three to
seven feet thick, that will probably yield
from 5000 to 1000 tons per acre, and of a.
quality unsurpassed by any in this country
or Europe.
A Russian Hebrew refugee, who went
with his wife and family of children to
Atlanta. eight months ago, and had but
four dollars in his pockeI, rs now building
two neat cottages in that city. lie is a
every member of the family contribute to
the general fund.
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