Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

The output of rice for this season in Eastern Texas is not less than 150,00(1 tons. Two white deer have been killed in tits Adirouducks this winter, the first in fifty years. Lord Roliert*’ title has been gazetted ns “Earl of Csiidnhar and Pretoria and Viscount Ht. I’ierre.” Knoxville, Tenn., proposes to put up a big convention lin 11. so as to gather all the big public meetings in that section. Chief Justice Lore of Delaware, who has had forty years’ practical experience iu dealing with criminals, declares ihnt the whipping post drives criminals out of tho Htate. A tree-planting association in New Jersey, after nn experience of several years, reports that “the results In improved nppearanee, general attractiveness mid comfort during tile Rummer season are most favorable mid out of all proportion to the comparatively small cost." Gov. Beckham has been presented with a cane liy a Virginian, who claims that it was made from n piece of Thomas Jefferson's office desk. The date of Jefferson's birth nud death, his dying words ami extracts from the declaration are cut into the wood iu the most unique aud artistic style.