The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-15
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Ahab Hamilton, of Brookville
Kentucky, ,froZe to death in the woods
while drunk.
Judge Wilson's orange grove ir
Polk county, Florida, yielded this sea.
son ] 1,000,OQOoranges
Memphis is holding its nose, be.
cause of the slaughter-houseS, and
crying for an abattoir.
A hog weighing 935 pounds was
shipped to Louisville by Hellory Bell
of Fairfield. Kentucky, a few days
ago.
Marshal j. NJ. Hansford, who killed
the desperate, Reynolds, at Somerset
Kentucky, was acquitted on the ex-
amining trial.
Mr.. David Pierce, of the vicinity OF
Athens, Tennessee, is within six
months of his one-hundredth birth
day, and is still hale and hearty.
The people of Morgantown, North
Carolina, have erected handsome
brick academy in their town with the
hope of buildingu fine school.
An earnest effort is being made to
secure the early closing of the Nor
ganza crevaSse, the only break now
left in the Louisiana system of levees
below Red River.
The question of a canning factory is
beginning to be agitated in Green
vile, South Carolina. Practical men
are figuring on the subject, and have
demonstrated that such factory will
pay large profits on the small capital
required.
Near Melton, Kentucky, Henry
Smith found his wife and James Pat
terson in tlagrante delictu, and, of
couse, he raised a row. In the fight
Patterson stabbed Smith six times, in
flicting fatal wounds, and then es-
capped to Indiana.
Northern manufacturers are eX-
ploring the Virginia mineral lands.
Recently apurchase of 1900 acres
was made by Pennsylvania COM
pany. A superior quality of ore has
been found, and it will be shipped to
Pennsylvania furnaces.
G. II. Williams, of Meridian, Missis-
sippi, has been awarded verdict of
$4,000 against the Planters insurance
company, of Memphis. and its Missis-
sippi nameSake for malicious prosecu-
ton. These companies charged VIII
liams with burning the Phoenix hotel
in 1875 to get the insurance.
The old war horse Beauregard, the
last surviving charger of the late war
in Maryland, died at Chantilly, that
state, last week. He was ridden by
Capt. W. /. Rasin at the surrender at
Appomattax, and previously by Lieut..
Henry Z. BlackistOn. who was killed
at Bunker Hill. Virginia, in July,
1888 1888. --r
The Hinesvif1e y Georgia. Gazette
farm, which, it says. is one-of the the
coming industries of that section.
Small farms, instead of planting a
large areain cotton for a money crop.
are satisfied that the same amount of
work and capital applied to a small
space of land well prepared and plant
ed in vegetables will pay better,
The Atlanta Constitution states
that the Marietta and North Georgia
road Is the great route for quail hunt
ers. The other day there was $1,000
worth of dogs (cash valuation) in the
baggage car on that road, attended by
$1,000 worth of negroes (old valuation.
On the return trip they had $3.50
worth of birds, which they counted
while eating $50 worth of lunch
Memphis Avalanche.
There are 10000 square miles of al
most unbroken forests in North Car
olina, comprising pine, chestnut, oak,
maple. beech and hickory timber in
their finest growth. 1t is estimated
that in ten years the timber alone in
North Carolina will exceed in value
the present total valuation of all the
property in the state, including land.
The state grows nineteen varieties of
oak, and its pine forests are of the
heaviest The building of new rail-
roads will rapidly open this region to
the northern and eastern lumber
markets.
Among the vessels now lying in
Ship Island harbor loading with lum-
DCl ID IIlC ddldOllCd, 1IOlll DdICtlOlld,
which has had remarkable history.
She was built in 1881 by the Danish
government as a man-of-war, and
served as such until 1867, when she
was sold to some Norwegian mer-
chants. Capt. Balfour, now harbor
master at Biloxi, when a boy of six
teen, being then a Danish subject,
served on board of her as marine,
and now meets her officially under
very different relations on both sides.
She is built of oak and camphor wood,
and is commanded by Capt. Olsen.
Her tonnage is 694.
General Young, of Georgia, has
received from Col. Fradk Coke, of
Charlotte, North Carolina, about a
barrel full of old deeds and grants
from the state of Georgia for lands,
in the aggregate to about
100000 acres, located in several coun-
ties, including the county of Rich
mOnd, in which is situated the city of
He, as agent of Col. Coke,
will proceed at once to take legal steps
for the recovery of this immense
property. The lands lie in the coun-
ties of Richmond, Franklin, Washing
ton, Dooly, Cooke. and others in mid
die Georgia. The grants were made
to Tench Coke, who was assistant
secretary of the treasury under Wash