Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1883 — All Over the South. [ARTICLE]

All Over the South.

I Chattanooga wants to tax the drummen SIOO each. Cleveland, Ga., has a ten-year-old boy who never had a tooth. There is a oalf in Georgia that prefers grindstone to any other diet. An iron cage ooeting $2,400 is to be placed in the Morgan county, Ala., jail, Nearly 19,000,000 feet of lumber have been shipped from Pensaoola this season. One man in Lexington, Miss., has shipped 1,750,000 pounds of seed ootton. Upward of 40,000 bales of ootton have been received at Little Rook this season. German labor is being introduced on farms in several counties in Tidewater Va. The telegraph line connecting Jackson and Natohez, Miss., will be finished this month. A whale about fifty feet long was seen in the East Pass of Apnlaohiola Bay, Fla., last week. The boy who murdered Buler escaped from the jail at Danielsville, Ga, last Wednesday. Reports from Arkadelphia, Ark., say that the frost a few nights sinoe has out down the fruit crop. Farming operations around Brealism, Texas, are three weeks later than for several years previous. An exchange gravely states that a ohuroh and grave-yard were burned in Deoatur, Tenn., last week. • “Aleck”’ the well-known valet of the late Gov. Stephens, is employed as a porter on a sleeping-oar.