The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-18
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A new paper, the SOuChern voice,
has made its appearance at Jackson,
Miss.
Selma, Ala, advocates electric
lights, and expects soon to have
them.
The farmers of Cherokee county,
Ala, will sow more oats this fall than
ever before.
An ice factory will be established at
Tallahassee, Fla, in time for the COM
ing season.
Real estate valuation in Chiffon
county, Ala, increased over $50, 600 in
the past year.
Over 200 walnut logs have been cut
near Stanford, KY, for shipment to
Liverpool, England.
The university of South Carolina
has opened with more students than
it has had since the war.
Ten thousand and forty-seven per-
sons in Kentucky are now drawing
pensions from the government.
Henry Cox, the telegraph operator
at Poney station, Ark, on the Fort
Smith road, is but ten years old.
At Midway, KY, Frank Lane shot
and killed an unknown man who was
engaged in robbing his chicken roost.
There is water power enough going
to waste in Harris county to spin the
cotton production of the state of
Georgia.
In Kentucky it is feared that a
great deal of the tobacco throughout
the state is being cut before it is thor
oughly ripe.
The total tax valuation of property
in Kentucky this year shows an in
crease of $11 ,077.050 over that listed
for the year 1882.
A Henderson county, KY, tobacco
grower has 100 acres Of the weed I'M
der cultivation, which is described as
very extra in quality"
Efforts are being made to revive the
corporation of Waverly, Tenn, to the
end that licensed liquor saloons may
again be opened in the town.
Under the new arrangement by the
postoffice department, the salary of
the postmaster at Columbus, S. c., has
been raised from $1,000 to $500
Green county, Ca, has not had a
good soaking rain in over four months,
and majority of farmers have not
been able to SOW any small grain.
The oranges around Madison, Fla,
are bursting open and falling from the
trees, caused by the recent rainy
weather following a severe drought.
The organization of a Merchants
and Produce Exchange in Mobile
seems assured. Preliminary arrange
ments have been made, and the move
ment is gone into heartily.
The White Bluff silver mine in Ar
kansas, now being opened, bids fair
to be bonanza to its proprietors. An
| accurate assay shows $50 ounces OF
pure silver to the ton Of ore.
The citizens of Ozark, Ark, have
for several days past been kept in a
state of excitement by several at
tempts to burn the town, and are on
the lookout for the incendlary.
Prof. Dodge, of the agricultural de.
partment of Louisiana, says that not
withstanding the reports indicating
a falling off in the sugar crop, very
nearly fair yield is promised.
On last Monday night the stave fac.
tory belonging to Henry s. Durrett
at Limrock, jackson county, Ala.
was destroyed by fire. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000; no insurance.
A negro woman, living in Lowndes
county, Ala, lately gave birth to g
child on Thursday, and on the Satur.
day following gave birth to two
more. None of the babies lived.
The Athens, Ga, factory has 10,OO(
spindles, $50 looms, a surplus capita
of $4,000, and pays 10 per cent divi
dends. 1t also runs two free schools
for the children of the operatives.
A farmer, writing to the Troy Gala.
Messenger, argues that, with the ex.
ccption of last year, the farmers are
in spite Of the short crop, in as gooC
financial condition as at any time since
the war.
At ball on the Chatworth planta
ton, in the vicinity of Franklin, Ed
ward Webb and Philip Stansfeld be
came involved in row, and the latte
received pistol ball squarely between
the eyes. The ball flattened on tn,
skull, however, causing no damage O
consequence.
In some portions of East Felician;
the drought has been so severe tina
parties are hauling drinking waite
from Thompson's creek, distance o
five or six miles. Many are compelle,
to drink pond water. This is pre-
nounced to be the most extraordinar
drought since 1889.
The Lake Charles Commercial re
| ports that on Thursday of last weel
, at Mermentau, Calcasieu parish, Nj
/ Jean Bite. Martin, while working i
the woods, was instantly killed by th
limb of tree falling on him. Nj
Martin leaves wife and sever;
small children.
: Smith Shaw and Dick Shaw, unde
: indictment for the assassination {
: Gen. Tucker, at Okolona, Miss, hav
: obtained change of venue, and wi
!. be tried at the February term of tn
/ circuit court of Pontotoe county.
: is said Smith Shaw procured the xii
l ing, while Dick Shaw, with the ASST
5 lance of Mat. Simmons, perpetrated
. Simmons is already convicted and III
: der sentence of death.
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