The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

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railroad carried $1,000 passengers.
The total school population of Ar
kansas during last year was 272,Oo3.
A Marysville, Mississippi, negro
killed four large panthers in one day
recently.
The timber on the government land
in Dorsey county, Arkansas, is worth
$4,000.
A man at Athens, Georgia, pawned
his horse and saddle to the police to
pay his fine.
An immense bed of phosphate has
been discovered in Brunswick county,
North Carolina.
The price of ore and timber lands
in Dickson county, Tennessee, has
lately advanced.
A hard wind at Rome, Georgia,
blew down the liberty pole and trailed
the stars and stripes in the mud.
A white partridge has been caught
ON the plantation of Mr.. Samuel
Carter, of Murray county, Georgia.
w. F. Crouch, of Starke, Florida,
has shipped this season over 100000
oranges to New York and Philadel-
phia.
1t is announced that the Southern
press association will meet at Chat
tanooga, Tennessee, on Monday,
April 4.
1t is said that Capt. Howgate, the
defaulting signal service officer, is
spending the winter very pleasantly
in Florida.
A young lady in Saundersville, Geor-
gia, was frightened to death by two
dogs running violently toward her as
if to attack.
At recent swell wedding in New
Orleans the clergyman's fee was
800, and the lace on the brides dress
cost $500. The whole wedding cost
5000.
The real estate business in Mont
gomery, Alabama, is on boom. 1t is
estimated that the transactions of the
past five months exceed those of the
past five years.
The citizens of Natchez have pur-
chased for Bishop Thompson's use the
"Dunleith Mansion in the suburbs
of Natchez, one of the finest residences
in the south.
A spring in st. Tammany parish,
louisiana, pours forth clear, cold
water all day, but at sunset it sudden
ly goes dry, discharging no water I'M
til the sun rises.
In North Carolina mother fatally
beat her ten year old daughter with "a
club. The girls little brother then
struck his mother with a bar of iron,
fatally injuring her.
1t is estimated that in the two Caro-
linas, Georgia and Louisiana, a total
population of about 100000 people,
white and colored, are dependent
upon the cultivation of rice.
NJ. B. Sykes writes the Courier
Journal from Rex, Mississippi, that
Judia Charles, colored woman who
attained the great age of los years,
died in that place January 81.
At Dahlonega, Georgia, the gold lot
known as sis, in the fifteenth district,
has been sold for 5000 to a capitalist
from the north, who will at once put
up the proper machinery to work the
mine.
Work on the Savannah river is pro-
crossing. The jetties will be built
and the stream improved as far as
possible with the limited appropria-
ton, which is considered altogether
too small.
The Arkansas legislature has pass
ed bill which prohibits for two
years the selling of liquor within two
miles of any church or school on a
petition of majority of the adult in
habitants.
The sportsmen about Macon, Geor-
gia, have been INDUCING in the luxu-
ry of a fox chase. Twelve dogs were
entered, and the chase embraced a
circuit of twelve miles, The dogs
made the distance in less than TWEEN
ty-five minutes.
A woman in Rome, Georgia, being
shut up in station-house, tried to
choke herself to death with her stock
ing, and came within an ace of sue
cess. An over-careful news-gatherer
telegraphed the information that the
stripes were red and blue.
At FlatrOck, North Carolina, Mrs.
Mrs. Alexander HollingswOrth be-
came exasperated at her husband.w who
was a confirmed drunkard, and as
saulted him with an ak, nearly sever
ing his head from his body and killing
him instantly.
The original South Carolina ordi-
nance of secession is preserved in the
Office OF the secretary of state at
Columbia. 1t is written on parch-
ment, in entitled an Ordinance to
dissolve the union between the state
of South Carolina and other states,
united with her under the compact
entitled the constitution of the United
States of America" and is very brief,
containing besides the title, date, ETC.,
but little more than 100 words.
A swindler named Williams, repre-
senting himself to be an agent of the
United States government to look up
and care for the graves of Union
soldiers in the south, spent several
days at Macon, Gorgia. He jumped
his boarding house bill. He was well
dressed and fine talker, and had been
in Augusta. representing himself as
northern capitalist going to Florida
to invest in orange groves. He spent
few days in Brunswick, trying to
buy suitable site to erect bank.
Neubert, the patentee of the pave
ment of that name, who shot young
lawyer in New York years ago while
sitting on the lap Of the notorious
Diamond Rose, his (Neubert's) wife,
and who sought to end his ruined life
by taking morphine at Denison sew
eral weeks ago. but was prevented by
timely discovery, is now in the city
hospital at Dallas, Texas, being treat
ed for epilepsy. He is in a despond-
emit frame of mind. The hospital au-
thorities maintain strict watch lest he
repeat the effort to suicide.
Mr.. ]. A. McCurry, of Harris coun-
ty, Georgia, has invented 4 very SIM
pie level for terracing hillsides, laying
off bitches and similar farm work. He
has applied for patent, and will ar
range soon for its manufacture and
sale. BY its use he has terraced his
entire plantation so as to very effect
ually stop all washes, and the increas-
ed fertility of his land has already
amply repaid the expense. He is of
the opinion that, under a good sys-
TEN of rotation, land properly ter
raced will become richer and richer
every year.
Conservative Legislation.