The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The New Orleans labor unions num-
Der 5000 members.
At Lake City, Florida, Parker
Adams, a prominent politician. was
shot and killed 10y Union Tells in a
drunken quarrel.
At Wadesboro, North Carolina. a
nVe-year-old boy became enraged at
his father, and Tor revenge set fire to
and burned down the house.
The libraries of Alabama are worth
S1lS,oOO, IaAaDle paintings, SIs. roo,
and $780, loo is invested in printing
presses and material.
The city Of Knoxville, Tennessee,
has entered suit against the Knoxville
water company Tor failure to build
the works according To contract.
w. L. Woodruff, ST., the venerable
founder of the Little Rock Gazette,
celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday
IN that city sunday.
A Winston, North Carolina, woman
named Glenn, aged hfty-three years,
lett her husband and seventeen chill
dren to elope with man not half her
age.
A Louisiana sugar-planter. after
careful estimates, places the sugar
crop OF that state at 25O,OO0 hogshealls,
and the molasses crop at 45O,OOO bar
rels.
A school teacher named Dowdy has
been sentenced to ten years impris-
onment, at Lethonia, Georgia, for alb
Quoting and debauching one of his
girl pupils.
The Lookout marriage association,
a an.iar..I -
ga, Tennessee, burst like a bubble, and
the policy-holders have had all the
officers arrested and jailed.
Farmer clubs are new institution
in the south One recently organized
at Des Arc, Arkansas, has 100 mem.
Ders, and invites merchants " bid Tor
their individual trade.
Allen Main, a well-to-do farmer of
Bullock county, Alabama, tied
thirty-pound rock around his neck and
then jumped Tito a creek.
AT fire ut Albany, Georgia, Sher-
man Black stolegnd took drink from
bottle which heBupposed contained
whisky. 1t proved,tO bea poisonous
liquid used in cleansing billiard balls
and Black died from the effects Of the
doEe.
Gov. Cameron, Of Virginio, has par
doned Smith and Meredith, The stu
dents of the medical college, ~en1
Chris. Baker and Caesar Roane, color
ed, the parties convicted of the char
ges i'll connection with the recent
grave robberies at Richmond.
Salem, North Carolina, Press: DIR.
l.. Bondthaler handed US for examina-
ton rare old volume, printed in
ZAP. 1t is history of Greenland, by
Rev. Egede, the Danish Lutheran mis-
sionary TO Greenland. and presented
by him to Matthew Stach, the first
Moravlan missionary to that icy land.
Charleston (South Carolina) News:
Lancaster county's tax for next year
will he the highest in the state. The
ordinary county tax will be four mills,
the railroad tax six mills, the school
tax two mills and the state tax four
and three-fourths mills, making to-.
tai OF sixteen and three-fourths mills.
Charlotte North Carolina) Journal:
The reported case of "a man named
Glidewell, in Stokes county, selling his
wife to a neighbor for $50 turns out
to be hoax. We do not care to offer
any advice to our brethren of the
press, but suggest that such canards
reflect seriously on our people when
paraded in northern journals.
Montgomery Advertiser: Since No
vember, 1880, including the space of
about two years, there have been de-
cided by the supreme court of that
state about 800 cases, or sufficient
number to fill about seven volumes of
the Alabama reports. This is said to
no xunrk fhan all tho 81
the United States supreme court have
done, and perhaps more than any
other court in America consisting of
only three judges.
North Carolina reports three Enoch
Arden cases. In Franklin a man
named Perry returned home from sew
eral years sojourn in the west to find
Mrs. Perry another mans wife; an
other man, who has been missing since
the war, returned to Halifax county
TO find the same condition Of things;
and still another, Mr.. George III. Vog-
eIer returned after long absence to
find his wife living at Salisbury,
welded to another man, Vogeler hav-
ing been given up for dead.
Memphis Avalanche: Reube Shaw,
the c0lored Jesse James, was arraigned
before the criminal court yesterday
and pleaded guilty. Judge Horrigan
sentenced him to twenty-five years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary-
ten years for house-breaking and
twelve years for shooting at Officers
Conway and Boyd with intent to kill
This. with the time he has yet to
serve for crimes committed in Harde- Z
man and Fayette counties, will give
him fifty years for meditation and re
pentance.