The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 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 promlsingly.
There are few hogs, but heavy
mast in Houston county.
Jackson, Mississippi, is to furnish
a mule insurance company.
Augusta, Georgia, will abolish the
tax on commercial travellers.
Three newspapers at Starkville,
Mississippi, employ lady compost
tors.
A squash weighing twenty-eight
and half pounds is Florida pro-
duct.
Cotton caterpillars are damaging
the crops in several counties in
Georgia.
Good health and fine crops pre-
vail in the vicinity of Macon, says
the Mississippi Satn.
Cholera has killed nearly all the
hogs in the-vicinity OF Masons, Tap
ton county, Tennessee.
A Moss Point, Mississippi, negress
recently gave birth to four babies
two boys and two girls.
w. j. Purvis, of Edwards, Missis-
sippi, has matrimonial policies on him.
self amounting to over 100000.
On the Hopkinsville, Kentucky,
market SO far this season 9123 hogs
heads of tobacco have been sold.
The millennium is at hand. An
ice dealer has been arrested at At
lanta for cheating his customers.
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, wants a sig
nal service station, but General Ha-
zen deems it unnecessary at present.
Mississippi ranks twenIy-fourth in
the Union in the live stock enumera-
ton, her total number being $685.
994.
A Bourbon county, Kentucky
man has just sold 1000 Southdowns
and merino sheep, which go to
Texas.
Colonel Robert Crockett, a grand
son of Davy Crockett, is publishing
a sprightly little paper, The GleaneT,
at Dewitt, Arkansas.
Oscar Wilde pronounced Miss
Alsatia Allen, of Montgomery. Ala
bama, the most beautiful young lady
he had seen in the United States.
The average yield of oats in the
Huntsville section, Alabama, is
given at forty bushels to the acre.
Wheat will average twenty bushels.
The Vicksburg Herald notes a
rapid increase in the value of real
estate and a greater demand for me-
cEanics than the supply in that burg.
A negro living in Newberry
county, North Carolina, claims to be
10Y years old, and says he at one
time belonged to the grandfather of
General Wade Hampton.
Rey. Mr.. Brooks, of Eufaula, Ala
bama, has invented an incubator
that holds 240 eggs, and has proven a
success. Tho machine is made of
wood, aud is heated by kerosene
lamps.
hCCCAb Va LnO COhl
deposits in Fayette and Walker
counties Alabama, reveal six seams
of coal, from three to seven feet
thick, that will probably yield from
5000 to 1000 tons per acre, and Of
quality unsurpassed by any in this
country or Europe.
A Russian Hebrew refugee, who
went with his wife and a family of
children to Atlanta, eight months
ago, and had but four dollars in his
pocket, is now building two neat cot
tages in that city. He is tailor and
averages $50 per week, but every
member of the family contribute to
the general fund.
A few days ago a daughter of
Judge Williams, living at Wills
Point, came in from the west on q
visit to see her father and her rela-
tives, and on Tuesday evening her
little sister picked up pistol and
playfully said, isis. T'll shoot YOU"
and pointed it at Mrs. Smith. The |
pistol fred. The ball entered the |
body of the lady just below the navel,
and her wound is believed to be |
mortal