The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

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There is not school in Issaquena
county, Mississippi.
The females outnumber the males
in Alabama by 1921.
The total number of doctors Ii
censed in Mississippi is 1910.
Work on the new courthouse at
Jacksonville, Florida, has begun.
Two hundred Hungarians have set
tied in Tazewell county, Virginia.
There are sixty thousand orange
trees at Bay st. Louis, Mississippi.
Mississippi was admitted into the
Union as state December 10, 1917.
Molasses made near Eutaw, Ala
bama, is being shipped to Cincinnati.
There were 213,829 acres of gov
ernment land sold in Mississippi last
year.
There will soon be three cotton
seed oil mills in and around Cheraw,
Alabama.
Another coal and mining company
has been organized in st. Clair coun-
ty, Alabama.
The Methodist ladies of Columbus,
Mississippi, netted $435 on their sup
per week ago.
The recent rains have done great
damage to crops, fences, ETC., in Pike
county, Mississippi.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
Mississippi Valley railroad roadbed
below Baton Rouge.
A lady of Athens, Georgia, has
musical pigeon that waltZeS to the
music of the piano.
Memphis is the second cotton mar
ket of the United States, New Or
leans ranking first.
The sanitary inspectors and police
OF Pensacola are getting the city in
shape for the summer
The grand lodge of Knights of
Pythias meet at Birmingham, Ala
bama, on the 18th inst.
The estimate is that twenty thous-
and people have visited st. Angus
tine, Florida, this season.
The death rate of Butler county,
Alabama, last year was 6.76 per 100.
The birth rate was 1871.
1t is Jacksonville and not Pensa-
cola that is to have the free mail de-
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The Ben Hill residence in Athens,
Georgia, which some time since was
sold for $1,000, is now held at $4,000.
The Pointe-a-la-Hache Observer
says the report that Uniontown was
recently flooded is without founda-
tiOn.
An entire family, and stranger
hunting in the woods, were killed at
Magnet Cove, Arkansas, by the recent
cyclone.
A young lady near cambridge,
Georgia, has about four acres in on
ions, and expects to realize $500 on
the crop.
A 5000 stock of goods is the prize
of a shooting match in Meridian,
Mississippi, the chances being held at
800 shot.
The planting outlook in Clarke
county, Mississippi, is gloomy. The
lands are soaked and the rivers over
their banks.
The land department of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith railway has sold
over 20OO acres of land during the
present month.
Several gentlemen are purchasing
land in the vicinity of Macon. Missis-
slppi, for the purpose of planting an
Ohio colony there.
Three acres planted in tobacco last
year netted Mr.. j. G. Harris, Dyer
county, Tennessee, farmer, nearly as
much as ten acres in cotton.
j. NJ. Coleman, ex-postmaster of
Crystal Springs, Mississippi, has pur-
chased 10000 cocoons aud intends try
ing silk culture in that place.
The town of Edwardsville, Ala
bama, is to be moved to station ON
the Georgia Pacific, one anda half
miles from its present location.
In tearing down the inside wall of
the Oconee, Georgia, court house, a
bottle OF brandy was found that had
been placed there sixty years ago.
A company has been organized in
Memphis for the manufacture of
wood pulp. A similar enterprise will
be started at Jacksonville, Florida.
The number of bearing orange trees
on Halifax river, in Florida, is esti-
mated at three hundred thousand.
New groves are being planted all the
time.
In Bibb county, Georgia, Mr.. Dot
tenheim, formerly a drummer for
Mr.. Sol WaXelbaum, has brought suit
against his late employer for $4,000
for calling him bad names.
Almost within sight of the court
house at Monticello, Florida, there
are 300 acres OF watermelons and
ninety acres in potatoes. These crops
are estimated to bring the producers
$4,000.
The Eagle and Phoenix cotton mill
company conducts a savings depart
ment. On January l, 1888, the depos-
its, nearly all belonging to employees
OF the company, amounted to
81, ,O69,0O0.
The two daughters of DR.. Baird, of
Hot Springs, upon retiring last Sun
day night took their usual look under
the bed for burglar and were terror
stricken upon linding him. The fell
low escaped before assistance arrived.
Four members of John I. Adams
family, of Talladega, Georgia, were
poisoned by using common lubrica-
ting oil in cooking food, it being mis-
taken for cotton seed oil. Physicians
were called in and successfully treated
the cases.
The state board OF agriculture of
North Carolina have decided to make
full display of the states products
at the fair of New England mechan-
| ic'S institute at Boston in September
next. An ample appropriation will
be made to secure an admirable dis
play.
West Point, Mississippi, with 1000
inhabitants, has recently raised $780,
600 for national bank, $4,000 for q
cotton seed oil mill, increased it's ad
valorem tax list 100000 in one year,
established cotton exchange, voted
$1,000 to a railroad, and is talking of
$4,000 cotton factory.
a negro boy seventeen years of age,
living south of Ell Dorado, Arkansas,
outraged the little daughter of Mrs.
John H Askew last week He was
arrested, identified by the girl, who
was only seven years old, and con-
fessed his guilt. He was taken from
the sheriff's posse by the outraged cit
zens and lynched.
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