The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05

Macon, Georgia, has been made
signal station.
A bed of mari has been discovered
at Cuthbert, Georgia.
An egg farm is to be started near
Birmingham, Alabama.
PrattSville, Alabama, has Just
emerged from an epidemic of measles.
The Arkansas legislature has passed
a stringent law for the protection of
timber.
Capt. a. n. Spencer, of Louisiana, is
called the Nestor of journalism in
that state.
In Marengo county, Alabama, mo-
lasses making is fast becoming an
established industry.
n telegrapher at Rome, Georgia,
has invented a Geographic key that is
likely to displace all others.
1t is estimated that the losses by
the flood along the Ohio and Missis-
sippi will aggregate $lOO,OO0,OO0.
Robert Neville. of London county,
Virginia, has recently purchased three
English draught horses for $500.
1t turns out that Warden Bass, of
the Alabama penitentiary, has been
in office two years without bond.
A thirteen-months-ol child in Car
roll county, Virginia, died from the
effects of swallowing a copper cent.
A charter has been granted to a
company in Mississippi that has for
one OF its objects the culture of jute.
Tie Democrats of Hart county,
Kentucky, have declared their prefer
ence for Gen. S. b. Buckner for gov
ernor.
ID. 5. Fearing, prominent lawyer
OF Raymond, Mississippi. has assumed
editorial control of the Hines County
Gazette.
An aged lady in Gainesville, Geor-
gla, has some relics of old furniture
which were brought from England
over 250 years ago.
A New York firm will shortly es-
tablish a regular lumber trade with
Mobile, and will at first send out a
vessel once month.
A bed of coal six and half feet
thick, two and half miles long, and
a half mile wide, has been opened in
Pulaski county, Virginia.
A Hall county, Georgia, man has a
hat which he claims was captured
from British soldier by his grand
father during the Revolutionary war.
A boy in Mobile burned down two
buildings to win two bets, aggregat-
81, that there would be two fires in
the city before certain specified dates.
A raft of four hundred walnut logs
out of the Arkansas river passed Ar
kansas City Sunday, on its way to
Boston. 1t will be shipped from New
Orleans.
Jackson and Grenada, Mississippi,
are connected by telephone, and mes
sages readily pass over the line be-
tween the two places, distance Of
eighty miles.
On deed which was registered at
Dresden, Tennessee, a few days ago,
the signatures of ten persons were re-
quired, and out of this number nine
made their mark.
At the reception of the commander
Of the United States corvette by the
municipal authorities of Mobile, the
other day, 4 toast was drank in honor
Of the late Admiral Semmes.
Two brothers in Talbot county,
Georgia, raised last year, on one acre
of land, at the rate of one thousand
one hundred bushels of California
yams, the best hill yielding thirty-two
pounds.
George Wade and wife, of Green
brier county, Virginia, celebrated the
siXty-first anniversary of their mar
riage last week. For sixty years of
this time they have lived in the house
they now occupy.
Mr. &. A. Pike, secretary of the
Historical society of Louisiana, states
that at the next meeting, which is
subject to call by the Hon. Charles
Gayarre, proposition will be made
to excavate some prominent Indian
mounds in that state for the purpose
of ascertaining if the relics will COM
pare with those from similar places in
Missouri and elsewhere. Mr.. Pike is
in favor of eXcavating the mound a
| few miles south of the capitol.