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


West Virginia contains $1,000 per-
sons over ten years Of age who can
not read.
Valuable mineral springs have been
discovered in the vicinity of Waldron,
Arkansas.
About S5.OO0,OO0 is the amount now
invested in the manufacture Of pig
iron in Alabama.
\ bill making it criminal OffenSe
to deal in futures has passed the Ala
bama state senate.
\ negro in Newberry county, South
\ Carolina. has forty-twO children and
1924 grandchildren.
An attempt was made to blow up a
house of ill-fame at MurfreeSboro,
Tennessee, last week.
Sixteen very large whales drifted
ashore on the sea beach near Canaan
eral, Florida, recently.
The Mercury newspaper and job
office, at Meridian. Mississippi, has
been destroyed by fire.
A gentleman only thirty years old
married his fourth wife at Woodbury.,
Tennessee, few days ago.
The aggregate number of barrels of
potatoes raised in Northampton and
Accomac, Virginia, IS 74o.OOO.
Frederick county, Virginia, has five
cloth manufactures, turning out over
10000 yards of cloth per annum.
A remarkably rich vein of ore has
been struck in the Gold Valley mine,
in Rowan county, North Carolina.
A man living in Polk county, Ten
neSSee, had six acres in tobacco last
year, and it made him SO per acre.
Only four miles of iron has got to
be laid to complete the railroad from
Pensa cola to the Apalachicola river.
The Chattanooga Times says that
fully 500 dogs have been kill since the
slaughter commenced last summer;
6O.OOO still remain.
The Macon, Georgia, Telegraph
thinks that Governor Stephens keeps
his house too opGn-for his own good
aud that OF his successors.
The grand jury of Mobile has been
Ill SESSION two weeks, during which
lilne it has examined 25O WITNESSES
.lnd found l43 indictments.
There are 10000 square miles of al
most unbroken forests III North
Carolina, comprising pine, chestnut,
oak, maple, beech and hickory TIM
| DER.
Perhaps the rarest curiositieS ever
| brought to Jacksonville, Florida, are
Cwo monkey-1aced owls, recently cap
tured in one of the cavernS i'll Fort
Marion, at ST. Augustine.
1t is very probable that the city of
Atlanta will get a special appropria-
ton OF $l5,UUU to buy land and begin
the erection of permanent United
states barracks in that city.
The North Carolina legislature is
faVorably disposed towards Il bill
which makes null and void all con-
tracts for cotton futures. The meas
ure has passed first reading.
In Anderson county, Tennessee,
there is well which elnits a perpet-
ual stream of illuminating gas, and
1t is said that crude petroleum may
Oe found in the same locality.
! The Alabama legislature recently
refused to grant charter for the
Rome, Georgia, and Decatur railroad,
saying it was against the policy of the
state to grant charters to roads lead
| ing out OF the state.
An Atlanta youth being wanted in
| court on several indictments for lar
ceny, wrote the court a letter in which
he said: al have fever and kant
imagine what's the matter, unless l
am taking the smallpox
The Rome Georgia. Courier says
that the manufacturing element of
that city has increased 100 per cent
within the past twelve months, with
Il good prospect of a proportionate
growth for the next year.
A rich vein of gold quartz, over
seven feet thick, has been stuck in
the Morrow gold mine, Virginia. 1t
yields now $50 day. The new
machinery, now being added, will
greatly increase the yield.
The Alabama legislature has pass
ed an appropriation bill in favor OF
| the Mobile medical college. An ap-
University and Agricultural college
of that state has also been passed.
When Gov. Stephens, of Georgia,
was lad the ladies of the Presby-
terrain church, appreciating his great
cap Utilities and fine promise, aided in
having him educated for a minister;
but he, becoming a lawyer, made the
money at his profession and refunded
it.
The first Strawberries of the season
went from Palatka, Florida, to Phila-
delphia. The whole consignment
amounted to twenty-three quarts.
From the time the berries were
shipped they were owned by five diff
ferent people, and the combined cost
and profit was $94.50.r-
A negro and mule had fight on
the public square in Gainesville,
Georgia. The negro kicked and cuff
ed and jerked, and worked himself
into "a great fury, the mule holding
| mis- own pretty well, until finally, in
mis- wrath, the negro seized his mule
ship in the nose with his teeth. This
soon brought him to terms.
Randolph Gilmore, mulatto, was
arrested at Columbia, South Carolina,
charged with counterfeiting silver
coin. He confessed and implicated
two white boys, fifteen and eigh cen
wears old, named William and Srmnes
| Gilmore They were also arrested
and confessed that they had. been
carrying on the business for two
years.
New Orleans formerly took 2, O00, 600
bushels of Pittsburgh coal annually.
Now she receives less than half that
amount, the remainder coming from
the coal fields near Birmingham, Ala
bama. Still the Pittsburg miners
stand out for their four cents, and
one large operator has made up his
mind to go to the mountain, and has
already taken up 5000 acres in Ala
baIna.
Gen. Augur has taken steps to have
Fort Duncan. on the Rio Grande at
Eagle Pass, moved half mile further
down the river. The Mexican Pacific
railway bridge spans the river three
quarters of a mile below Fort Duncan,
and hence the removal, as Gen. Sher-
man Oh his recent visit to the border
ordered that bridges spanning the
Rio Grande should be under cover of
guns from the forts.
| One of the most noted housekeepers
in TalbottOn, Georgia, has not bought
a pound of store-lard in forty-five
years. She also has never failed to
plant her Irish potato crop during the
dark nights of February in forty-tive
years, and this year is the first year in
forty-ive that she has failed to put
hog hair on her potatoes. She main
tains that nothing helps Irish potatoes