The weekly defiance., 1882-10-24
NEWS GLEANINGS.

Selma, Ala, has sixty artesian wells
Nashville has a total indebtedness fo
$1,526, PITTS.
Six editors will hold seats in the next
Georgia Legislature.
Fhe city tax in Tallahassee, Florada,
is but seven mills on the 500.
Gadsdcn, Alabama, has doubled its
population in the last twelve months.
Georgia's surplus crop Of sweet potas
toes will reach 100000 bushels this year.
Wah Hing and Tin Sing, two China
men, have embarked in the grocery bus
mess at Nashville
Florida is making preparations to re-
ceive an unusually large number Of new
settlers this winter.
The Georgia prohibitionists have
nominated legislative candidates in
twenty nine counties.
a meteor fell few days ago near
Orange City, Florida, killing a colored
women, whom it struck
The waterworks at Hot Springs
Arkansas, are completed, and are said
to be the best i'll the State.
Annie Hubbard, who murdered her
child in Colbert county, Ala, goes to
the penitentiary for ten years.
The Vicksburg Commercial says Ia
bOrers were never in such demand in the
valley Of the Lower Mississippi as now
A complaint comes from several por-
tions Of Florida that the orange CROP is
2ieg out bad, and will be short about
4 shird.
,he ashes Of common weed, known
" some in Florida as sickle weed, are
Palmost pure potash, being as strong as
baking soda.
q It&believed that the orange CROP Of
~~Elorida will this year be worth nearly
double that Of 1880, which brought over
$672,00O.
4 West Indian has pure hased ten
acres af ground near Tampa, Fla, which
he willplant in mulberries for the bur
pose Of raising silk-worms.
The Vicksburg, Mississippi, papers
complain that, with population Of
from $4,000 to $4,000, they can count
upon but one mail per week.
a COW fell into pit near Cedar Kew,
tla, and remained there fortytwo DAYS
without food or water. When discoy-
cred the animal presented pitable nict-
ure Of pelt and bones, but was still able
to walk
Pr ". FL Bennett, an eccentric citi
citizen Of Meridian. Miss, died dav
Of two ago: and his estate, valued at
s50,OO0' was left to a negro cook, cut
ting Oft his wife and heirs The will Is
to be contested
Georgla's corn crop is the LARGEST
since 1859, and Will reach 10000 900
bushels The oat crop reached 5, 600, 900
bushels, and the wheat crop $500, 900
bushels. 1t is thought |, 1000, 600 bales of
cotton will be raised.
Mrs Ann Talley, Of Spottsylvania
county, VA, aged seventy years and IN
robust health, became impressed With
the idea that she would die At certain
hour on certain day, She prepared
for the anticipated event, and, true to
her premonition, her death came
Goldsboro, IN. o., Messenger: "A ~
cullar and frightful disease has appear
ed ~ Northampton and other counties
II the northeastern part Of the State
lt ls called yellow chiIls or hemorrbapic
fever, and il generally fatal in its IL
suits. Persons affected turn yellow and
vomit blood.
New Orleans will experiment with
mesquite wood for paving streets II
Is native Of Texas, partakes almost 81
the hardness Of iron, is very durable
and it is believed will make ! betta,
street than granite. It grows abun-
dantly in Texas, and can be easily and
cheaply transported.
Mrs. Lizzie Valley, convicted al
Nashville and sentenced to a term 81
lhree years in the penitentiary for al
legged cohabitation with Owen Prentiss
ex-city editor Of the World, is said to
pc neice Of the distinguished Coded
crate General Bragg. 1t is limited tha
Prentiss will be released On bond. anc
the case against him will never come |,
a trial
At Columbus, Texas, about twent,
Doyf, whose ages range from ten to six
teen years, about six months AGO organ
lied band of robbers, and since tha
time have been engaged in stealing
They undertook to rob q freight cal
which led to their discovery. They ha
a cave abross the river where they de