The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Richmond, Virginia, has a floating
debt OF $4,000.
Two Atlanta dogs killed ninety-twc
rats In thlrty-Gve minutes.
Augusta, Georgia, is confident al
gettiny SlO0,OO0 public building.
The new directory of Savannah
Georgia, gives that city a population
OF over 1000.
The lawyers of Charlotte, n. C. will
form : bar association and purchase a
compile law library.
Savannah, Georgia, has contracted
TO haVtthe city lighted by electricity.
dI dn annual cost OF $4,000.
james; Steely, of Scottsboro. Ten
nessee, ulnk enough mean whisky at
one drlnRto cause his death.
John C!jammack, a civil engineer
LOOK cnort at New Orleans to induce
Sleep anu ever woke-up again.
orange Fy, Fla, one of the liveli
eSI CoWnS l that state, started in on
Ghe new yea as an Incorporated city.
There wer466 more liquor saloons
IN georgia lh6o1 than in 1882. There
are sCll zolI Moons in the state.
A farmer ling near Maplesville.
Alabama, ha practically demon,
Strated the facshat fine rice can La
grown in Alabna.
II. j. Reddin assistant comuis
sioher Vi agrlcuire OF Georgia, says
INC la la. nIet9 VI " state are IN better |
coIlulIion Indn ILL have been for ten |
years
Inc scnool Lui of Virginia has
uGon inoi osSeu ~ 'O,OOO, One-tifth OF /
Wn!cu sun 10 " devoted to the
lllalnGendnce VI Scolored normal
NasnVl11e Amerlcr A fruit dis
tlller i ~ w dLlgn ceky has, lately,
IIoill NV DuoneS VI nit, made 112
TO be unprecedented.
The Chattanooga, T. essee Timeo
- IeSponsiolG III ING fement that
the legislature from Hams conntv
refused a free railroad Z
Montgomery Advert. The ra-
cepIs u coICon q! ILLS pS are 25,662 !
they are about 1900 gres than mr.
entire receipts from Septeer 1881 !
up to the first of Septemb asst wear
In Dyer county, Tenness A lexan
9sIoS Si - ,;t Ioieo q moio ,d stump,
block over it and then toucl off tie
blast. A splinter struck in tbe
head, infiicting injuries VIII result
ed fatally.
New Orleans Times-DemoG Ono
million standard dollars wei,.;dav -
transferred from the Vault ths
sub-treasury, in the custom b.
the United States mint. OnP+bo 81
large wagons of the SouthernSasS
company was used, and, Az ~
large loads were taken, it. ri.Sed d
something over half a dozen tshU
the wagon to make the transfeiO' W
The New York Telegram, in "
ticle on crime, credits Virginii,Ib th
forty-three murders last year, 40
thirty-one, Arkansas twenty. br
Tennessee twenty-one, North Cal, W
nineteen, Georgia sixteen, Mis- ba
fifteen, Alabama eight, LouiaJ
and South Carolina seven eachl lab
Florida three. OF the legal execut /.
Georgia had eleven, south Caro- tt
nine, Louisiana seven, North Ca.
ma six, Tennessee and Texas four e; n,
Arkansas, Virginia and MississI Fl
three each, and Alabama and FloII r.
one each. Judge Lynch executed 1 OK
persons in Alabama, four in Lou
ina, four in South Carolina, two es a..
in Florida, Texas and Mississippi, a ~
one in Virginia. Suicides were I'd
ported as follows: Arkansas So
North Carolina five, Alabama, Gef
gia and Mississippi three each. The
statistics do not cover one-ffth part at
the crime, but even at the greatPe
figure there was no more in the sousu
than was enacted east and north. d