National Republican., 1882-11-30
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Sixty Mormon converts left Georgia last week
for Utah.
whoeplng cough is epidemic at Macon among
Large numbers Of Georgans are seeking new
homes In Texas.
John Bell win be hung at Dsblonega, Ca, De-
cember s, for murder
Georgia has 1888 political newspapers. The other
one Is church paper.
Savannah up to last week. had received 112,o0O
bales OF cotton this year.
The Episcopal ladies OF Gallatin, Tenn, arc
raising means to build a church.
Chattanooga, Tenn, is 70 have l0o.ton iron
furnace; capital invested, 100000.
Over 500 emigrants have left tho vicinity Of
Chattanooga recently for the far West
The coal miues al wiuterss Gap, Tenn. arc
being rapidly developed. The veins average three
feet.
Through cars are now run from Chattanooga to
road.
Mr.. j. W. wallack editor of the Knoxville mi
bune will be candidate for clerk of the Tennessee
senate.
Bishop Kayanaugh, of Kentucky, will preside
at the South Georgia Conference to meet at
Americus
One man In Athens, Ca, is said to have won
1900 hats on the recent election, while another
won 1900 nickels.
A Georgia man advertised for " one dozen fe-
male cats" aud the papers down there are getting
awful funny over it,
Governor Alexander H. Stephens has appointed
Colonel j. III. Estel of the Atlanta Ne0s, on his
| staff as All aide -de.c camp
The actual capital now invested in Southern
cotton mills Is placed at S50,OO1UOO, giving en-
poymenI 10 10000 hands.
| The schooner Quickstep, of Brunswick, Ca, is
missing, and 1t l. UelievcI that she has been lost.
| She had Il crew of six men.
| The Southern car works at Knoxville have Just
received an order from the Richmond aud Dan
vile Railroad Company for 2OJ caIs.
| Mr. John Boyd, Of Jonesboro' Tenn, announces
| himself as candidate for Doorkeeper of the House
| of Representatives for the next Congress-
At Talbatton, Co., two prisoners set fire to the
jail and attempted to escape dining the excite
nent Ihe jail burned, but the prisoners iaied TO
| get away.
Governor Stephens, of Georgia, has entered
briskly into the .pardoning business, and an At
lanta letter says depopulation OF the convict camps
and penitentiary Is threatened.
| Mrs. Mary Allread died on the 18th instant, in
Floyd County. Georgia. at the advanced age OF 1O3
years and days Sac was native ot South Caro-
| lina aud moved to Georgia eighty years ago
General Bradley T. johnson Is urging that ex-
conicde aies should furnish more material for the
| future history of the war, so that the victors
may not color the accounts OF tue victory tu suit
| themselves"
| Memphis woman is scredited with giving birth
| to n child which has snout like an elephant.
| The cause OF the mallurmatiou is supposed 70 be
that the mother mad been frightened by an ele-
| phdnt at circus.
| ]. C. Burns, of Quiggs County, Georgia. has
man in his employ VINO picked In seven days
5000 pounds OF cotton. The least amount gathered
was ON the last day, 5lS pounds. He challenges
| the world to beat it.
An ordinance has been passed by the city coun-
| Gil of Knoxville. Tenn, 10 annex Mechuncsyie
as the ninth ward OF that city. 1t will probably
| give the city to the Republicans and add about
| 200 population to Knoxville.
Dr. BraXton Craven, ID. D., president of Trinity
College, of North Carolina, died suddenly last
| week of heart disease. He was one of the most
prominent members Of the North Carolina Metho-
| dist Conference for many years
The fact that twenty Of the eighty lone bakeries
| in New Orleans make bread with we'll water is
sufficient 10 alarm the Times Democrat Whlcn al
legcs that the well-wdter OF that city il poisoned
| to hign deg &c and unit for use.
| smart Nashville youth put cartridge on the
railroad track, and when the cars struck 1t it ex
pludeu, the ball entering the right eye of u man
standing near destroying that feature and enter.
| ing his head. His condition is serious.
| Georgia Legislators are furnished with tickets
over thu railroads Of the State every Saturday and
the, Augusta Nelrs say the rush Tor the clerks
desk alter adjournment is Us fine sight as circus
| ticket. seller wishes TO see in a life time"
Rev. Dr. Bachman of Chattanooga, was seriously
injured recently by falling from his porch iully
eight feet, whlly suffering from an attack OF YER
igo. AT last accounts he was still confined to his
bed, though his injuries are not considered dan
gerous.
The Fruit Growers Association Of the Gulf
States held a meeting at New Orleans last week,
and TOOK measures to give proper reception TO
the Mississippi Valley HORTICULTURAL Society which
will meet in New orleans February 2l, %, 49, and
"a, 1883.
The Lake Eustis (Fla) SENT Tiopical says that
silver spring ana orange spling can be traced 10
hundred square miles are drained Into a vortex,
where ii disappears Into the bowels OF the earth.
This is the most wonderful sink III Florida, and
although nothing fantastic aupo;tains to it as
the freaks of the Santa Fe River, srn!-it is sub
lime subject of contemp palion.
- A fagman OF the Georgia division of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad was
killed near Rockmart last Sunday week 1t seems
he had been working very hard for several days
and nights and was worn out. Sunday he went
| to flag down train to give special orders, aud ar
riving at his post little in advance of time, sat
down on the track and fell asleep. and while in
| this condition the train came by, running across
his body, mangling 1t dreadfully, and causing in
slant death.
Colonel John w. Ford, who died at Bentonville,
Ark, on the 7th instant, was one of the pioneer
journalists OF Tennessee. He established the first
| paper published at McMinnyile, entitled the
Warren Register, many years before the State capi
tai was permanently located at Nashville. He ad-
vocated the claims OF McMinnville 10 the location
of the seat of government account of its central
position and about this time changed the name
of his paper to the Central Gd=ctte, under which
| title he published 1T until lS40 or 1850 when he
went TO Chattanooga and started the Advertiser,
| which had but brief existence.