National Republican., 1882-08-16
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Ashe County, N. c., produces l,6i6,ooo pounds of
copper yearly.
Georgetown KY, is to have two large new tobacco
factories this fall.
Up to the present time 2S5 bales of new cotton
have been received at Cuero, Texas.
colony of Pcunsylvunans have located in
Manatee County, Fla, few miles from Fort Os
den.
The ex.confcderate soldiers of Missouri held
their annual reunion at Sedalia on the 18th in
slant.
Lexington, KY, has deleaed local option" by
a, majority of l,Sl; SO the saloons will not be
closed.
General Gordon, who is now in Europe, has sue
ceeded III placing SS,OOOOOO Of the bonds of the
Georgia Pacific Railroad.
In order to improve the mouth,of the st. Johns
River, Florida i is proposed to build two jettes,
each about 10 QUO feet long
The Diston Companys dredge, near Kissim-
NEE, Fla, has competed the cut between Lakes
Tohopekaliga and Cypress.
The ninth annual exhibition of the Virginia
and Tennessee Border Fair will commence al BIis-
tol on September ~ and continue four days.
One firm in Green boro'. N. G., has already pur-
chased nearly 100000 pounds of blaekberries. Ten
thousand pounds were re eived in single day.
1t is said that the managers OF fair to be shortly
held a. Charlotte, n. c., have arranged for bull-
be BJurbons.
Bleyins, eolored, lO4 yelis old, living on Plum
Lick Creek, in Bourbon County, is hale and hearty
and can thread u needle without glasses.
1t is said that over fifty mill and factory dams In
Wake, Orange, Durham, Chatham, aud Graville
Counties have been wa he'd away or ruined by the
heavy rains.-Rdieigh lN. C.) Netcs and Obser,er.
A Tallahassee, Fla, finn has received an order
from II Northern tobacco factory for 1000 pJuni,
Of bright, dry fs leaves; To what use they Will
be put Is easily sed.-LOaisui4e Courier. JUlr
ndL Certainly. They are to he us ID as bathing
costumes, a Il Madame Eve.
peculiar disease, laal in nearly every case, has
broken out among tie cattle OF Brooke County,
West Virginia. 1t Is believed to be what is known
as 'fhe Southern Cattle Fever" aud is supposed
3 have been communicated by some stock re-
Gently brought 10 the county from Alabama.
The survivors OF the Eighth Tennessee Confed-
erte ltesiment have invited tie surviving mem.
gers of The Sixteenth, Forty first and Forty iourh
Regiments TO take purt with them In their reu 10 /
10 be held on the 3Olh of August, ut Renfro SAti H.
six miles north of Fayetteville, OH Duck hIyer
Valley Railroad.
syndicate, appears as the principal incorporation
OF tie Virginia and North Carolina Railroad
COMPANY which has $4,000 capital, and intends
to build a railroad from Richmund, Va, TO some
point OH the boundary line between Virginia and
North Carolnu, i'll Mecklenburg County, of the
former STlle.
Retugio County, paid tax last year on So 100 head
o cattle; has bought this year 90 900 head besides
1900 calves brauded last year: lie has never sold
anything under four year old steers, and never
sells female cattle under any circumstances, which
would give him 10 day the round sum of $4,000
head OF cattle, besides this seusOn's calves. He
Ths Stanford (Ky.) Inferior Journal says: a. C.
Robinson hns found among The papers OF his
iaIher, deceased, u number vi odd looking pieces
OF paper which over huIdrcd years ago passed
for money in the lhen young Stale OF Virginia
one OF tnen i for s00, and promises that 1t will
be exchanged at the Treasury at the rate of one
for forty Spanish milled dollars The others are
for six Spanish mIlled dollars and one is ior one
sixth Of such dollar The paper is of the coars-
est kind, aud lOoks much like tie nauil a Wrap.
plug paper of the present day"
John Il. Green, of Covington, Ky, says he has
discovered perpetual motion, and has filed
caNeal preliminary 10 taking out letters patent OH
bis invention. He uses hollow sectional wheel
Mhlch, Dy the exclusion Of air and the introduce
ton OF alcohol the pressure caused by the alcohol
seeking the highest point creates the power that
produces perpetual motion OF the wheel, lie
claims that this power may be applied with sue
cess 70 any mgchine from the simplest to the most
complicated. The constant effort OF the alcohol
to atlain the highest point, which the peculiar
structure OF the wheel prevents, Is the prnlipe
upon which the greatest discovery and Invention
OF the age Is sbased.-ktntucky Commonwealth. The
machine Is set in motion by crank.
The Birmingham (Ala.) Agesays: Messrs Cole.
man i Bro, OF this city, have recently made "a
sale OF iron at price which, to the ordinary pig
iron consumer would be startling. The sale was
six tons Of Alice No foundry Iron from the Alice
furnace, at birmingham, Ala, and six tons of
Diamond foundry iron from Gcorgin, TO u large
price of the Alice was $50 at the furnace and the
cost OF iron delivered Is Sl05 per ton, making SIS
freight. The distances of shipment, which are
rarely, If ever equaled, are as fOllows: From the
Ogden, 032 miles; 70 Dalton 3i5 miles-a total of
1913 miles by lall. The distance from Dillon 10
Helena is l2J miles, over which the iron will be
hauled by wagons, making total of 279j miles.
Messrs. Coleman have alsl shipped car load OF
the Alice iron 10 Salt Lake City, Utah,