Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1882 — Commercial Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Commercial Statistics.

Uncle Nace and Jim Webster got into a dispute on Austin avenue. Uncle Nace is one of the wealthiest colored property owners in Austin, and puts on style accordingly, while Jim Webster is comparatively poor. “I kin sell you out forty times befoah yer kin sell me out one time,” said Nace pompously. “Of course yer kin. Who am gwine ter make me an offer for sich a wuffless, knock-kneed, goggle eyed moke as you is. ” Texas Sift ings. The American Government is at present constructing some iron lighthouses. One of them, which is nearly finished, is at White Rock, Narragansett Bay. It is made of iron, and consists of a pilework foundation in three sections, each about 6ix feet high, with forty piles for each section. The lighthouse, which is erected above the pile work, consists of four sections, and is surmounted with the lantern. The height of the whole construction is about sixty-three feet above the level of the water. Other iron lighthouses are to be constructed at Connecticut and at Border Flatts, Fall Jtiver.