The Rock Island Argus

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

There are 791 postoffices in Mississippi.
There is not a school in Issaquena county, Mississippi.
The females outnumber the males in Alabama by 17,247.
The total number of doctors licensed in Mississippi is 1840.
Work on the new court house, at Jacksonville, Fla., has begun.
Two hundred Hungarians have settled in Tazewell county, Virginia.
There are sixty thousand orange trees at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
Mississippi was admitted into the Union as a state December 10, 1817.
Molasses made near Eutaw, Alabama, is being shipped to Cincinnati.
There were 213,829 acres of government land sold in Mississippi last year.
There will soon be three cotton-seed oil mills in and around Cheraw, Ala.
Another coal and mining company has been organized in St. Clair county, Alabama.
The Methodist ladies of Columbus, Mississippi, netted $435 on their supper a week ago.
The recent rains have done great damage to crops, fences, etc., in Pike county, Mississippi.
Work is progressing rapidly on the Mississippi Valley railroad roadbed below Baton Rouge.
A lady of Athens, Georgia, has a musical pigeon that waltzes to the music of the piano.
Memphis is the second cotton market of the United States; New Orleans, ranking first.
The sanitary inspectors and police of Pensacola are getting the city in shape for the summer.
The grand lodge of Knights of Pythias meet at Birmingham, Alabama, on the 17th inst.
The estimate is that twenty thousand people have visited St. Augustine, Florida, this season.
The death rate of Butler county, Alabama, last year was 6.76 per 100. The birth rate was 13.71.
It is Jacksonville and not Pensacola that is to have the free mail delivery. It commences May 1.
The Ben Hill residence in Athens, Ga., which some time since was sold for $6,000, is now held at 12,000.
The Pointe-a-la-Hache Observer says the report that Uniontown was recently flooded is without foundation.
An entire family, and a stranger hunting in the wood, were killed at Magnet Cove, Arkansas, by the recent cyclone.
A young lady near Bainbridge, Ga., has about four acres in onions, and expects to realize $1,500 on the crop.
A $15,000 stock of goods is the prize of a shooting match in Meridian, Mississippi, the chances being held at $100 a shot.
The planting outlook in Clarke county, Mississippi, is gloomy. The lands are soaked and the rivers overflow their banks.
The land department of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railway has sold over 2,000 acres of land during the present month.
Several gentlemen are purchasing land in the vicinity of Macon, Mississippi, for the purpose of planting an Ohio colony there.
Three acres planted in tobacco last year netted Mr. J. C. Harris, a Dyer county, Tennessee, farmer, nearly as much as ten acres in cotton.
J. M. Coleman, ex-postmaster of Crystal Springs, Mississippi, has purchased 10,000 cocoons and intends trying silk culture in that place.
The town of Edwardsville, Alabama, is to be moved to a station on the Georgia Pacific, one and a half miles from its present location.
In tearing down the inside wall of the Oconee, Georgia, court house, a bottle of brandy was found that had been placed there sixty years ago.
A company has been organized in Memphis for the manufacture of wood pulp. A similar enterprise will be started at Jacksonville, Florida.
The number of bearing orange trees on Halifax river, in Florida, is estimated at three hundred thousand. New groves are being planted all the time.
In Bibb county, Georgia, Mr. Dottenheim, formerly a drummer for Mr. Sol Waxelbum, has brought suit against his late employer for $50,000 for calling him bad names.
Almost within sight of the courthouse at Monticello, Florida, there 300 acres of watermelons—and ninety acres in potatoes. These crops are estimated to bring the producers $20,000.
The Eagle and Phoenix cotton mill company conducts a savings department. On Jan. 1, 1883, the deposits, nearly all belonging to employes of the company, amounted to $1,069,000.
The two daughters of Dr. Baird, of Hot Springs, upon retiring last Sunday night took their usual look under the bed for a burglar and were terror stricken upon finding him. The fellow escaped before assistance arrived.
Four members of John T. Adams family, of Talladega, Georgia, were poisoned by using common lubricating oil in cooking food, it being mistaken for cotton seed oil. Physicians were called in and successfully treated the cases.
The state board of agriculture of North Carolina have decided to make a full display of the state's products at the fair of New England mechanics' institute at Boston in September next. An ample appropriation will be made to secure an admirable display.
West Point, Mississippi, with 2,000 inhabitants, has recently raised $50,000 for a national bank, $50,000 for a cotton seed oil mill, increased its ad valorem tax list $100,000 in one year, established a cotton exchange, voted $6,000 to a railroad, and is talking of a $60,000 cotton factory.
A negro boy seventeen years of age, living south of El Dorado, Arkansas, outraged the little daughter of Mrs. John H. Askew last week. He was arrested, identified by the girl, who was only seven years old, and confessed his guilt. He was taken from the sheriff's posse by the outraged citizens and lynched.