National Republican., 1882-08-28
SOUTHERN NOTES,

A West Virginia farmer sold black walnut tree
for $500.
Charleston, w. Va, is to have a new system of
water works.
Bananas are one cent each in Oeala, Fla, and
are very fine.
Sylvan Springs Ark. has 5000 inhabitants aud
no newspaper.
North Carolina is shipping large quantities of
wild cherry bark to New York.
Efforts are being made to establish cotton facto-
ries AZ Darlington and Society Hill, g.
The Brazos Bottom, Tex, sugar crops are very
fine Cutting cane will commence by the 1st Of
October.
W. w. Davis of Bristol Tenn Just on the yir-
g!nia line, ships to market about 1000 chickens
each week
Atlanta Gn, has killed 1900 dogs during tho
present summer, and the supply seems not to have
materially diminished.
Dw.C Benbow and C. II. Fisher, of the Ben
bow House, Greensboro, n. C3 have leased the
Grand Central Hotel of Columbia, s. c.
Washington County, Texas is filling up with
Germans. AS many MS 1900 of them, all natural
lied citizens, will vote at the fall elections
The West Gold Mine in spartanburg County, S.
c., is worked by Northern company. steam
power Is used and the product Is at pres mt about
$50 a duy.
Judge Hughes, of the eastern district of Virginia,
will hold the United States courts in the western
district until the appointment OF Judge Riyes'
successor.
The final survey of tho Grafton and Greenbrier
Road, which is to connect the Baltim re and
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being made.
Louisville, KY, has one whisky or beer saloon
to every thirty houses one LAWYER to every eighty
houses, one doctor TO every 120 houses and one
preacher to every 200 houses.
Capital is sought to initiate cassava culture on
large scale in lower Florida. The cassava is an
edible root OF the tropics, and Is very rich in
glucose, which Is the object Of Its culture in this
Instance.
Kanawhn, W. Va, owns the best gas coal in the
world, but yet her streets are unlighted, and her
citizens so about with lanterns in hand like his
toric hero Of Old, hunting for places TO put their
feet.-Sd!e Tribune.
will pay tax TO the Slate of Virginia this year Of
s7S,0O0 as against $4,000 last year. This is by
large odds the heaviest tax paid to the State by
any OF its railroads.
In Mecklenburg County, Virginia, It Is est imated
that about one-filh OF the area formerly devoted
to tobacco Is now given to cotton, and the cultiva
tiOn of the latter staple, we understand, has been
quite success there.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says that John
Miller OF stone Mountain, Is the boss watermelon
r User of the country. He has one about ready 10
pick that weighs sixty.hye pounds, and which
may so to seventy five pounds Leiore II is pulled
Two gentlemen from Connecticut, who settled
In Chesterfield, Va, recently, have opened a
kennel or dog college, as the county folks call IT..
ut Chester. They have between thirty and forty
settlers which they are breaking for their owners.
who live IN different parts of the State.-Rcha0nd
WIG.
An extract from the Planters Journal calls at
tention TO the annual convention Of cotton plant.
els ht LlLlle hOCk, ATk,, opening on the lOtl OF
October. This convention, the Journal says
"promises in all its results TO be the most i'm
portant and largest ever before held by the assl-
ciAtion and believe 1t will mark new era in the
progress 10 practical work of the association"
Marvin is acting as superintendent OF the female
ward, which Is being ADDED 10 the penientary,
and whose granite foundation is now nearly COM
pleted. Marvin Is as much at home In the arch-
tect line as he was in some of those which OBJ
tanned him his present lOcale.-RelmORd Pd.)
STATE. Marvin's much -marded experience with
females doubtless procured him the situation in
that department.
Aunt" Jennie Roots, q negress, who has reached
the ADVANCED age Of Leo years or more died at
last Monday. she was most remarkable woman
and there Is but little doubt that her claim TO have
known General Washington was well founded,
She related many incidents Of the Revolutionary
period, and says when she came to Kentucky the
country was "full of Indians. -DdRriYe (Ky.j Ad-
pOcdte.
The mysterious boom In confederate bonds
seems to have received a fresh impetus and the
bidding was very active yesterday, $50 per 81 900
being the figure generally offered. Major Il.
Wills, a leading buyer, is Inclined TO think that
Nobody seems TO know anything about the true
inwardness Of this extraordinary financial phe-
n0menon. Tho only thing certain about II Is that
the demand, with all its fluctuations, comes from
the good bnrghers of Amsterdam, who seldom
part with their gold without mature reflection
Charleston Is. C) Nsies aud Courier.
CHILDREN often need some safe cathartic and
tonic 10 avert approaching sickness. simmons
Liver Regulator viii relieve collie, headache siek
stomach, Indigestion, dysentery, and the com
nj 1iuts 1ncidautg 4 childhood