The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-08
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Newton, Alabama, will build cot
ton factory.
Atlanta boasts five pair of horses
worth $1,000 each.
Florida watermelOns sells for two
dollars apiece in South Carolina.
A colt four feet in height was re-
Gently folded at Vienna, Georgia.
Another gold mine has been dis
covered in Bedford county, Virginia,
Murrain is destroying the cattle
in several counties in Georgia.
A Methodist Episcopal college is
to be built at Greensboro, Ala.
Lafayette, Alabama, has a typo
who has been at the case since 1922.
Onions fifteen inches in clrcumfer-
ence are quoted as Georgia enter
prise.
The oat crop in some parts OF
Georgia averages 100 bushels to the
acre.
Eastern capitalists will build a
large cotton seed oil mil at Chester,
South Carolina.
Virginia contemplates making ar
rangements to ship sweet potatoes
to England.
The Kanawha Valley is the richest
section of West Virginia in coal and
timber.
A fruit drying establishment, on
a large scale, is to be started at
Greensboro, South Carolina.
Harrison Carter, of Jacksonville,
Florida. has been condemned to
death for murder.
Vicksburg will get the cotton seed
oil works to be removed from Ref
uge Landing, Mississippi.
Four children were poisoned in
New Orleans by eating popcorn col
ored with aniline.
Mrs. Morgan, blind woman of
Kew West, Florida, will consummate
her sixth marriage soon.
Indian river, Florida, has been
found to be navigable, and line of
steamboats, will be put on it.
The wheat and oat crop in north
Mississippi, which is very fine, has
nearly all been harvested.
Vicksburg girls have organized a
band of "sweet sweepers." This is
the latest southern craze.
A man who is twenty-one years
old and weighs but twenty-seven
pounds is curiosity of Courtland,
Alabama.
Three hundred thousand dollars
have been subscribed in Selma, Ala
bama, toward building a cotton fac
tory.
A lady in Lake City, Florida, has
an orange grove, cork trees, tea
plants and black-pepper vines all in
full bearing.
An escaped prisoner was tracked
by blood-hOunds at Wetumpka, Ala
bama, recently, but took to water
and escaped.
Alligator hides have become in
such demand that many alligator
farms are being started IN Lou isiana
and Florida.
The people of Aberdeen, Btissis-
sippi, are largely experimenting in
silk culture. The worms are fed on
Usage orange leaves.
The Petersburg Georgia, Inder-
appeal says the best and largest
fruit crop ever grown in Georgia
will be ready for the market in few
weeks.
Macon, Georgia, will soon have a
new evening paper, as will also At
lanta.
A man at Oglethorpe, Georgia, has
invented a wagon-wheel in which
the spokes can be put in or taken out
without removing the tire.
In the seven counties around Grit
fin, Georgia, 80 distilleries will be
running this summer. The peach
crop in the same section will be i'm
mense.
Cocoanut growing is becoming an
important industry in Florida.
They grow to perfection, and prom
Use to add greatly to the wealth of
the state.
1t has been discovered that the
hot springs of Jemez, New Mexico,
possess wonderful curative powers,
and are becoming great resort for
the afflicted.
Jacksonville, Florida, has Just
made its first conviction under the
new law prohibiting the intermar-
riage of whites and blacks. The
culprit was fined $50.