The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

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Many cows have died in Milledge-
vile. Georgia, on account of over-feed-
ing on cotton seed.
The improvement of county roads
is a subject which the recent rains
have agitated in Georgia.
The car-drivers of Memphis have
been picking the locks of the money
boxes and appropriating the contents
Knoxville attains a high pitch Of
Indignation over Chattanooga's quar-
antine against her on account Of
smallpox.
Mr.. w. &. Watson, of Boswell,
Georgia, has several lots to give away
to persons who will build substantial
houses on them.
4 negro in Newman, Georgia, was
paid his weeks wages in whisky. The
next morning he was found in mud
hole frozen TO death.
Chattanooga and Atlanta are at
daggers' points. each being unable to
establish clear claim to the honor Of
distributing the small pox.
A prisoner who was before the
court in New Orleans jumped through
"a window at the rear of the dock, and
has not been heard of since.
Work on the Atchafalaya river
levees is being pushed vigorously. In
the neighborhood of Simmesport the
levees are being rapidly rebuilt.
A small pox patient at Gads den,
Alabama, let himself down from a
second-story window by a rope made
of his blankets, and took in the town.
The project for a Confederate monu-
ment at Nashville seems at last to be
assuming tangible shape, and If the
line indicated is carried out the monu-
ment is certainty.
A young man named Hurst was in
staDtly killed few days since at
Klein's Landing, Sunflower river,
while yoking up team of oxen, by
being accidentally struck on the head
with the yoke.
a test case was made in Sparta re-
Gently of the amount of water a bale
of cotton would absorb in about one
half an hours rain. The increase In
weight was thirty-seven pounds.
The experiment, made In a large
number of interior counties of Georgia
last year, of planting upland rice, was
so unsatisfactory on account of the
long summer drouth. that very little
was planted last spring.
At Greenfield, Tennessee, an agent
for st. Louis cotton firm was caught
weighing cotton with a brass pea,
hollow inside and packed full OF shot,
and making difference of about 8
per cent in the quantity Of cotton re-
quired.
Opelika, Alabama, continues qaiet
without any city government. The
city marshal resigned. There is re-
ally no sheriff, and but two commits
sioners, if report is correct. remain;
no quorum, no power, no disturbance
whatever.
The sugar crop of Louisiana has
exceeded very largely any crop since
the war. Two and half to three
hogsheads per acre has been an aver
age on many estates of 900 or 800 acres
of cane each. Some of the best cane
has yielded as much as four TO four
and half hogsheads.
There is considerable comment upon
the apparent lack of profits from the
Atlanta cotton factory under ex-GoY.
Bullock's administration. Ex-Goy.
Bullock has been acting as receiver
for two years. He says that the
money has been spent in permanent
Improvements, but declines to talk on
the subject
The Times-Democrat says that the
Passion Play" about which New
York is so much agitated, was played
in New Orleans in 1856 under the
"Azael" and the management Of Dion
Boucicault. An old play bill has been
unearthed, which gives the cast entire
and a synopsis of the so-called Biblical
drama.
A sensation was created at Dalton,
Georgia, the other day by a sick man
who was put off the train at that
place. The mayor threatened to quar-
antine the patient in the waiting-room
of the depot and enforce quarantine
against the road before it agreed to
remove the man, who finally proved
to have the measles.
The Big Hill standard gauge rail
way, a short line of about two miles
leading from the Richmond and Ale
ghany line, near Galawater, to the
fine ore deposits of Messrs. Mason,
Hughes and Lowry. Is assuming
tangible shape, and will soon be built,
force of workmen now being en-
ployed in getting ready to build the
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