The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-23
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Claiborne county, Miss, will rails
more corn this season than during an,
year since The war.
New Orleans Picayune \ farme
can not do well by proxy. He mus
be on the ground himself.
The Readiuster Coalition party OF
Virginia have put twenty speakers in
the field, who will during the canvas,
make two hundred and fifty political
speeches.
The German carp sent to Florida
by the fish com mission does not
thrive in the everglades. The alliga-
tors scare them to death and the tur-
ties eat them.
Mrs. Florence Jones, near Gerber,
ON Lookout mountain, fifteen miles
from Chattanooga, found under a
large rock, Il tin box containing Sis
in gold.
The destructive effects of the seven
weeks of drouth on the crops in the
region of Helena, Ark, have been en-
tlrely obllterated by recent rains and
the dlSconSolate farmers are happy.
The longest treStle in the world is
now building across Lake punchar-
train Oh the Northwestern railway.
1t will be two and half miles in
length and requires, besides the piles,
15,OOO,OOO feet of lumber.
a Chester, 5. c., horse was scared
to death by bicycle last week. 1t
was seized by a violent trembling, be-
came unmanageable for IA few min
utes and then died.
Florida Times Union jefferson
county is to be represented at the
Louisville exposition. Messrs. +. b.
Simkins, Samuel Pules and others are
making up a car load of stuff to take
there, which will illustrate the char
acter of the soil and its products.
Georgia has just completed build
Ing containing five hundred rooms.
for her colored insane citizens, at Mil
ledgeVllle. After the colored lunatics
were transferred to their new quar-
tiers the work of remodeling their old
asylum began, and in which the white
lunatics will be cared for,
Pulaski Crepn.l Citizen We have
In the Southern states in operation.
or III course OF rection, 19l cotton
factories. This outnumbers bv
twenty-Seven all the cotton factories
in New England, outside of Massa-
and exceeds by sixteen the
number in that state.
Selma (Ala.) Times To narrow
gauge roads this state must look for
the completest developments of it's
resources. We haven't got the capital
to built broad guageS for feeders for
local, convenience, but we can and
must send narrow gauges out into
every section where they will pay,
Rome (Ga.) Courier: The big heather
and shoemaking establishments in
Massachusetts that have failed can
not attribute their misfortune to any
lack Of protection, for they are pro-
tected in double sense. There is
high duty on manufactures of leather,
so as to out off foreign competition,
and hides are admitted free of duty as
2 bounty to the manufacturers of
leatfef-
Shelbina (Mo. Democrat: a very
wicked man in Clinton county, named
Miller, was SO cruel to his wife she
could not live with him, and he en-
ployed lawyer to get "a divorce; but
the powers above took the matter in
hand, and before the lawyer could
write the petition for divorce,
stroke of lightning saved all such
trouble by summoning Miller to il
higher court.
Meridian, Miss, Observer: A child
was bitten by dog in Jasper county
three weeks ago and soon became
strangely affected, but the nature of
the malady was not known until it
was found that several dogs, that had
been attacked by the same animal, had
gone mad. A maidstone was then
procured and applied to the cash and
adhered nicely and the child recov-
cred rapidly. The maidstone belonged
to Hon. A. r. Carter, of Meridian, who
has had it in his possession forty-6ve
years.
Rev. G, w. Manly, formerly pastor
of the Aiken, s. c., Baptist church,
has written a letter to Intendant w. |
9uitman Davis, of Aiken, dated Leip-
sic, Germany, July %, asking for pa |
pers to establish ms identity, 50 that
he can Hrove to the police that he is
not dynamite conspirator. Mr.. Man.
ly is prosecuting his studies at the
University ofLeipsic, and is much
annoyed by tRe English detectives,
who have spotte6 him as one of the
dynamite inyincibf6s who propose to
blow England into the ocean.
Aiken Is. CO. RecordeE: An alliga-
tor measuring ten feet and seven
inches in length and weighing 300
pounds, was killed in Aiken county
last week. The existence of this sau-
rian reptile in Glover's pond hasHeen
known for twenty-s¥ years, and
many is the load of bucS$shot that has
been fired at him, but it Was reserved
for the good Workmanship nd long
range rifle of Capt. George On eermin-
ate his depredations. The Xeptile
must not have been less than Nifty.
and not improhably seventy-fveN or
100 old. \