The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The population of Little Rock, Ark.
is %, 1853.
Illinois corn crop indications point
to yield of 1S0,0O0,OO0 bushels.
Horses in nineteen counties in Hi
nois are suffering with CHAMBERS.
The prospect for corn and cotton
throughout Northwest Louisiana was
never better.
At sale Of Attorney cattle in
Frankfort, KY, the bull, Wanderer,
brought $2175.
Thu Charleston, S. c., telephone
exchange now has three hundred and
forty subscribers.
The corn crop in Georgia and Flori-
da is said to be the best even grown
in the two states.
Gainesville and Pensacola will soon
have street railways. Pensacola is
putting down her track.
Fifty-two students are registered at
the colored normal school at the Lin
coin Academy at Tallahassee.
One hundred and six new houses
have been built at Cullman, Ala,
within the past three months.
Norfolk, Va. boasts a population
of more than $4,000. 1t is the third
cotton market in the United States.
The July crop report of the depart
ment OF agriculture shows a general
improvement in the condition of cot
ton.
The grandest waterfall known in
the world has just been discovered in
Washington Territory, Il clear fall of
1906 feet.
A ten-year old girl in Denison, la,
studied night and day to excel in her
class. Suddenly her memory left her,
and now she is an idiot.
There are 1925 members of the
Baptist church in Arkansas. Next
in point of members comes the Meth
odist denomination, Al ,613.
Ice by the cargo can be bought at
Bangor for 40 cents a ton. Fifty
pounds for a cent is cheap enough
for frozen water or anything else.
The returns on the property of the
white people of Wilkes county, Ga,
shows gain over last year of $115,-
600. That is a good showing for old
Wilkes.
The report of the principal shows
the number of convictS in the Georgia
penitentiary to be 1915. The proper
ton of whites and blacks in the insti-
tuition is lis whites to 100 blacks.
The Montezuma Record says: "We
hear nothing but encouraging reports
from the farmers regarding their
crops, and with favorable seasons one
of the largest crops ever raised in this
section of Georgia will be gathered
this fall.
News received at Raleigh, n. c., as
to the tobacco and cotton crops in the
state is much more encouraging.
There will be three-quarter crop of
tobacco, and fair average crop of
cotton. May was the dr. est month in
years, and the exec ,sive drought near
ly destroyed the crops.
The grading of the Jacksonville,
Tampa land Key West railway is
practically completed between Gaines
Vile and Palatka, there being not
more than five miles altogether in
small sections, unfinished, and. if the
rains are not too heavy, will be done
The Americas (Ga.) Recorder says
The belief is gaining ground that
budded peaches in this section are
failure, and the only way to secure,
full crops and yield each year is to
plant seedlings. A planter a few
miles from this city has two orchards,
one of budded fruit and one of seed
lings. The first only yields crop
once in three years, and the trees do
not live long, while the seedlings yield
tbinf 9ne reason eu nr of i tb;a is o thst the
budded peaches come from distance
ding was done on trees raised at
home we believe better suits would
be had"