The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-27
TIE SOUTHERN STATES.

Florida farmers are importing Ger
man labor.
The prohibition movement in Little
Rock has collapsed. /
The city council of Nashville has
voted free water to the poor.
Over thirty different specimens of
oil have been secured in the finds" in
Overton county.
A log cut in Suwanee county, Fla,
required sixteen mules to haul it, and
made $1,000 feet OF lumber.
A stock company for the establish
ment of cotton mill has been organ
lied in Shreveport, La, with capital
stock of 100000 to 100000.
Fishing along the Gulf coast is at a
standstill. Cedar Key fish dealers
are sailing their fish because there is
no market for them at present.
Gwinnett county, Ga, has magis-
trate who grants divorces to parties
who will swear they can't live peacea-
bly, together, and pay the costs of the
proceeding.
der in Georgia who has never drawn
any pension, because all of his COM
mand were killed and there is no one
to certify to his having been in the
army.
Macon Telegraph: immense guam
titles OF sugar will some day be pro-
duced in Florida and southern Geor-
gia. 1t ought not to be long before
the people in those sections awake to
a full realization of the capabilities of
their soil in that direction.
The Third United States Artillery,
which has been posted in Atlanta for
several months, has gone into winter
quarters in Florida. 1t is expected
that Congress will make an appropri-
alton at its present session for the
establishment of permanent post at
Atlanta.
During the past four years Arkan-
sas, Florida, Louisiana and Texas
have doubled their railroad mileage.
The total mileage in the four states
now stands 26,O49, against 1850 ten
years ago, and during the decade it is
estimated that at least $300,QO0,OOO
has been invested in these Enterprises.
Miss Belle Patterson, granddaugh-
ter of the late ex-President johnson,
who resides at Greeneville, is engaged,
so report says, in writing thrilling
novel, pOrtraying some of the marked
traits Of character of one or two rug
gedly honest and plain-spoken East
Teunesseans.-Chattanooga Times.
Capt. Terry, of Yalaha, has made
5000 pounds of guaVa jelly this sea-
SOD, and is still manufacturing, hav-
ing used nearlya ton OF crystallized
sugar. A large quantity of guaVaS is
also being preserved and put up in
jars, and he has discovered a process
for making guava wine, said to be SUI
perior to orange wine.
At the Vicksburg cotton CONVEX
ton formal resolution was adopted
admitting women to membership in
the association, with the same rights
and privileges as the male members.
Mrs. Charles Smith, of Mississippi,
was the first lady who Was consti-
tuted member of the association;
specimens of prepared jute and of ar
tistic work were received from Miss
Stanton, of NatcheZ, and Mrs. Davis,
of Cincinnati.
Shorter college, at Rome, Ga, is to
be lit up by electric light at an early
date.
The Arkansas insane asylum con-
tainS 250 patients, which is its full
capacity.
The Pioneer Cotton Mills. of Mem
phis, employ 14O persons and consume
forty bales of cotton per week.
The cotton factory at Admission,
Ala, is now running late at night to
enable it to keep up with its orders.
A barrel of Florida egg plants, con.
tanning AZ, sold for ST., or oyer 40 cents
each, in Washington, d. G., few
days ago.
The wheat and oats crop in north
Georgia are reported as looking re-
markably healthy, and promise more
than ordinary yield.
Memphis has two new enterprises
of Importance in progress-aourn mill
with a capacity of $50 barrels per day
and a grain elevator with a storage
capacity of $1,000 bushels.
The people of Jackson, Miss, will
celebrate Christmas on a more ex.
tended scale than usual. Among the
features will be grand dinner by the
citizens to the students Of Centenary
college.
| ANC" PO4O ANO"o ftho We tiASo1SOSN1 IL
rapidly becoming a very important
coaling station for steamers plying be
tween Southern ports and Europe
Five British steamships coaled at thai
port in one day last week.
| The manufacture of articles from
soapstone is being prosecuted in ear
nest by company in Alexandria
Va, now engaged in that enterprise
and the stone from their quarries il
said to be of the very best kind.
, The iron ores of the James rive
valley and vicinity continue to grow
, in a favor with steel and other manu-
features, and the valley route will bt
the shortest and most direct between
, the ore beds and the Pennsylyani;
furnaces.
The farmers of Marshall county
/ Miss, at a recent meeting in Holl,
Springs, voted in favor of a Ho-fenc
| law. Stock raising is looked upon b.
them as promising thing, and many
expressed their intention of abandon
ing planting to go into it.
Work on the Mississippi valley roat
is being pushed forward in vigorou
; style, north of Baton Rouge. Pro
gress near the city has been slow
: owing to the scarcity of labor; but a
soon as the grinding season is owe
: there will be plenty of hands avail
able.
Cincinnati capitalists have pur
chased mineral lands in the vicinit.
, of Clanton, Ala, and will begin opera
/, lions at once in getting out cope
: and mica. The mica is to be found il
! the greatest quantity, and there il
very little doubt that the enterpris
will be successful.
} Taxes to the amount of S814,75-
due the defunct corporation of Mem
phis still remain uncollected, the in
: terest on which now exceeds $500, 1000
Receiver Lamb thinks that about
= 100000 of the total amount due
principal and interest - may possibly
, be collected, and that it will require
three or four years hard work.
Memphis Ledger: The telegraph
enterprise here has $50 subscribers, a
an average of $50 each per annum. L
makes up the handsome sum of $27,
500. The wires cover about 200 miles
and hang on 1000 poles. Lines now
run from here to Brownsville, Jack
son, Germantown and Holly Springs
while that to Grenada will soon be il
operation.