The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-30
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The cotton crop of Alabama ha:
nearly all been picked.
The peanut crop of Virginia is re.
ported to be an excellent one.
Corn is selling at fifty cents pei
bushel at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Fruit-bearing banana trees are
quite numerous this season in Mo-
bile.
The largest single brick yard IN the
United States is said to be at At
lanta.
Columbus, Georgia, is moving to
build thorough system of street
railway.
Macon, Georgia, will have the elec-
trio light as soon as the work can be
executed.
Sixteen Kentucky newspapers have
"gone where the woodbine twineth"
this year.
The Atlanta Post appeal is the
only Georgia paper issued every
day of the week.
An effort is being made to light
the principal streets at Vicksburg
with the electric light.
Henry Todd, colored man, of
Darien, Georgia, sixty-five years of
age, has made 100000 since the
war.
An organ factory, with capital of
$4,000, has commenced business at
Dayton, Rockingham county, Vir-
ginia.
Jefferson is the banner cotton pro-
ducing county in Arkansas. 1t
leads the van with 1000 bales, and
Phillips county comes next with
$4,000.
Lord Houghton, of England, has
purchased 10000 acres OF land in
southern Florida, and intends going
extensively into sugar culture, in
vesting at least 81, 100000.
John Little, an enterprising four
teen-your-old of Sumter county,
Alabama, has made three bales of
cotton, eighty bushels of corn, and
1UO bushels of potatoes, alone and
unaided.
The Florence, Alabama, Gazette
has seen some very fine and rich
specimens of iron ore, found by Capt.
Cypt, of Wayne county, Tennessee,
in vein which runs through his
county and several miles into Lau-
derdale.
So little Is heard about the indus
tries of Tennessee nowadays that
most people will be surprised to
learn that, while two years ago
hardly a pound of dried fruit
was shipped from Chattanooga,
the dealers in that city alone have
handled so far this year over 100000
pounds. Knoxville and Nashville
are going into the business extern
sively, and lesser places more mod
estly.
Chattanooga furnishes romantic
episode in the marriage of a run
away couple in its railroad DEPOT on
Thursday night last. The young
lady, Miss MOllie Anderson, Ten
nessee belle, and her lover arrived
by an incoming train and were mar
ried by a clergyman, who had been
telegraphed for, while the mails and
baggage were being transferred from
one train to the other. The cere-
mony was short and sweet, and was
over in time to allow the young
couple to depart on the outgoing
train. No cards.
The Sibley Mills. Augusta, are
lighted by Edison's incaRdescant
electric lamps. The lights we're
i used for the first time on Monday
evening last. The Chronicle and
Constitufionalist says: "At about
half-past five o'clock the armatures
of the huge dynamos in the
wheel basement of the mill
began to revolye, when a single turn
of the switch shot a glare through
hundreds of pear shaped glasses
pendant from the ceilings. Not a
throb from the cables connecting the
generators with the long line OF
lamps; not a spark from the ma
chine; not a flash or puff announc-
ed the lighting up of the entire ap-
paratus. An instantaneous glow,
and the slender bamboo threads be-
came brilliant, mellow and incande-
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