The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-07-06
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

AuAuphlu, UeOTSld. Has W pay uNc
cents per pound for ice.
The huckleberry crop in Southern
Florida is total failure.
A large cotton mill is to be erected
in Tallapoosa county, Alabama.
The war interest on Tennessee
state bonds amounts to S4,041 900.
The thermometer reached 105 de-
grees at Paris, Texas, Friday OF last
week.
A spool factory is to be established
at Plains Station, FauQuier county,
Virginia.
A bible owned by o. P. Smith, of
Union Springs, Alabama, is 246
years old.
Virginia has 1,512, sos inhabit ant s
40, 125 square miles, and 282, $50 taml-
lies.
Key West, Florida, receives about
one hundred immigrants each month
from the West Indies.
To refuse to be vaccinated means
term in the work house at Nash
vile, Tennessee.
A mammoth iron furnace is to be
erected near Covington, Virgins, by
European capitalists.
A large cotton seed oil mill is to
be erected at Bailey's Mill, Jefferson
county, Florida.
The cotton factory at Selma, Ala
bama, has declared a semi-annual
dividend OF eight per cent.
The fruit crop of Georgia, it is
estimated, will aggregate 100000
bushels this year.
Eastern capitalists are buying up
all the gold mines in the vicinity Of
Charlotte, North Carolina.
A factory at Augusta, Georgia,
has just shipped an order of 1000
bales of goods to Africa.
Laborers on the streets at Rich
mOnd, Virginia, quit work because
they could not get their pay.
The members of the Nashville,
Tennessee, fire department have Or
ganized benevolent association.
Brooksville, Florida, has Mocha
palm III bloom. II is the only tree
of the kind in the United States.
A huge stork, measuring six feet
eight inches from tip to tip, was
killed near Eutaula, Alabama, re-
Gently.
A hen and a grouse occupy the
same nest at Amelia, Virginia,
while Matching out their respective
broods.
Atlanta, Georgia, has purchased a
lot as burial place for the police
men who die in INDECENT circum-
stances.
On Johns Island, near Charleston,
South Carolina, j. w. Glover and
his two little children were killed by
lightning.
A man who stole his own horse
from the sheriff, who had levied on
it tor debt, has been jailed at Green
Mill, Georgia.
Rev. A. NJ. Conway, a Baptist
minister, of Wilmington, North
Carolina, has been depOsed for acts
unbecOming christian.
In North Carolina during the past
year sixty-three new postoffices
have been established and seventeen
discontinued.
The marketable timber of North
Carolina is estimated at 5,226, 000,O 900
feet, board measure, mostly long
leaf pine.
James j. keenan, kissed his wife
at Nashville, then drew his revolver
and shot her in the breast. He gave
himself up.
The Morrow Gold Mining COM
pany, of Buckingham, Virginia, is
surveying for canal fifteen miles
long, to cost about $250,000.
A Selma, Alabama, youth shows
his confidence in marriage benefit
associations by carrying over $780,
600 worth of policies.
SUIT has been brought by Ring
gold Young, of Opelika, Alabama,
for the lands upon which the town
of Alexander has been built.
w. T.. Lee, of Franklin county,
Virginia, has sued the Virginia Mid
land railroad for $4,000 for an in
jury sustained in an accident.
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children found an apple in a field,
ate it and died in a few minutes. 1t
had been poisoned to kill birds.
The mayor of Jacksonville, Flori-
da, has vetoed the ordinance closing
business houses on Sunday, because
saloons were not included.
Two good looking young women
flooded Atlanta, Georgia, with spu-
rious two-dollar-and-a.half gold
pieces, skipping out in time to avoid
| arrest.
Jackson county, Georgia, is the
only place in the South where clay
fit for jug making is found. Two
factories are run in the county, and
the jugs are all made by hand.
A convict who escaped during the
recent fire at the Nashville, Tennes-
see, penitentiary, has cheekily writ
ten letter to the prison authorities
asking after the health of the con-
victs.
Professor w. J. Land, of Atlanta
Georgia, was determined to die, and
to effect this end, took poison,
severed an artery with knife and
then blew his brains out with a
pistol.
a Charlotte, North Carolina, hen
commenced cackling a month ago,
and has never been able to stop, even
for a moment, awake or asleep. This
is the first case on record of a hen
with the Mysteries.
A stationary engine, while being
hauled across creek at Forsyth,
Georgia, ran over the head of a
negro who fell from it, but the
darby was not seriously hurt The
engine weighed $500 pounds.
Anderson (South Carolina) Mtelli-
gencer: Mr.. T. S. Crayton, jr., sold
a $500 Confederate note last week
for $50. 1t was the only note of
that denomination issued by the
Confederate government in 1861.
A negro entered the house of the
good shepherd, at New Orleans, at
night and attempted to abduct one
of the white female occupants. He
was set upon by number of wo
men and badly beaten, but escaped.
AT San Antonio an old adobe
building on Acequia street, that is
now $50 years old, is being pulled
down to make room for a modern
structure. 1t was built by the old
settlers from the Canary islands III
1880 Many of the timbers, which
are cedar wood, are good yet.
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