The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-28
SOUTHERN STATES.

Tea raisingis the latest experiment
in South Mississippi.
Turtle eggs are sold in Tampa
| Fla, for ten cents a dozen.
Griffin, Ga, is trying to raise $780,
0OO to build cotton factory.
A turtle was caught day or two
since at Cedar Keys that weighed 1925
pounds.
Mr.. F. B. Sackett, Of Titusville,
Fla, recently took 800 pounds of
honey from six hives of bees.
A land sink occurred at the head of
Swift creek, in Hamilton county, Fla,
a few days ago. Large pine trees
disappeared below the surface.
Mrs. Ben Woody, of Dahlonega.
Ga, killed a duck Il few days ago
which had a saale of gold nearly as
large as grain of corn in its gizzard.
Bay-colored wild goats are said to
be plentiful in the pine wopds Of
Grant parish, La. The Colfax Chron-
icle says the meat of the animal is
extra fine.
The value Of the orchard crops of
Florida twelve years ago was esti-
mated at about $4,000. To-day
$1,5OO,OOO would hardly buy them.
Mr.. J. A. Mcqueen, of Cedar Keys
has four old "Continental' pieces of
paper money. They were paid to his
grandfather about the close of the
revolutionary war.
The cost of profane expressions ut
tered in public in Fredericksburg,
Va, is $1.50 each. The privileges of
the impecuneous in this country are
rapidly becoming extinct.
Florida has $50 factories, working
2, ,749 hands, with capital invested of
$1.679.930, paying annually in wages
1888, 1892, and yielding annually in
products, 81 ,685, ,403.
In the Gulf Hammock, Levy county,
Fla, are two live cypress trees. some
eighty feet high, that have cabbage
palmettoS growing out Of holes in
their sides, forty to fifty feet above
the ground.
A company has been organized in
New Orleans to build railway to the
jetties. The charter authorizes the
company to construct warehouses,
harbors, piers, wharVes, ETC., at the
junction of the railway with the sea
or river.
Charles Lanier, son of the late Sid
ney Lanier, the eminent poet, and
grandson of Col. Robert Lanier, of
Macon, Ga, has borne off the honors
of his school near Baltimore, making
the highest mark in scholarship dis
tinction ever won there.
The beautiful Virginia flag of the
Pulaski Guards was unfolded on Mon
day after twenty years rest in
charge of Sergeant Keffer. 1t was
presented to them by the ladies of the
county in May, 1861, just before they
went on that terrible four years
journey of death and disaster. The
survivors cling to it affectionately.
Atlanta Constitution: People who
prefer lard to cotton seed oil should
be deeply interested in the develop
ments in Chicago, where it is shown
that hoofs and offal are chemically
prepared and shipped south as first
class quality of hog lard. Nature has
in store many better compounds for
the kitchen than those found with a
Chicago brand.
Mr.. Percy E. Battaile, of Louisiana,
has caught in the last twelve months,
with steel trap fixed on the top of a
very tall persimmon tree, forty-one
hawks, five owls, five crows and a
large number of birds. One of the
hawks weighed four pounds and
measured four feet and four inches
from tip to tip of wings. Many of
the hawks were of the very largest
kind.
AS to the recent hail-storm in West
Tennessee, it is said that in some
places the crops were literally beaten
into the earth. A gentleman was
heard to say he could hold in his
hand every stalk of cotton left in an
eleven acre field. The forest trees
were stripped of their foliage. and
thousands of dollars worth of fruit
was destroyed. A more destructive
hail-storm has never visited that sec
ton within the memory of man.
Some of the hail was as large as a
common door-knob.