National Republican., 1882-09-21

A pig with horns like COW is q Macon county,
Miss, curiosity.
Illicit oyster dredgers are said to be at W ork in
Virginia waters.
fine bed of galena ore has been discovered
near Harrjsonburg, Va.
Ell Paso, Tex, has increased its population from
400 to $500 in the past eighteen months.
The first and only town-clock in the State OF
Florida surmounts the new courthouse at Tampa.
Governor Roberts, of Texas, seems determined
to have university though the free schools go to
the dogs.
Smiths Mills, q small village of williamsburg
County, S. c., was almost wholly destroyed by the
recent storm.
Moses McLane, colored man of McMullen
County, Texas has made $50 900 since the war in
raising cattle.
The young ladies of an East Texas town have
promised the preachers to give up the round dance
and waltz no more
Mayfeld, KY, is overrun with cats, q farmer
having brought and turned loose on the town a
wagon load of the animals.
The fourth grand annual fair of the Dixie Agri-
cultural Association will be held in Wadesboro,'
N. c., November s, 8, and 10, 1882
Jacksonville lFla,) policemen are made Of the
right ofstnE One OF them recently butted an
obstreperous darky into submission.
Chattanooga, Tenn, is bidding lively for the
Over 50, 600 have already been raised.
Levy County, Fla, is manufacturing a good
article of wine from the juice of the huokleberry,
which fruit is one of the staple productions OF the
county.
patent mas neen issued from tue IeAaS ihnu
office to Richard King, the cattle man, conveying
to him title to 1856 square leagues, or over half
million acres of land.
John E. Thompson, OF Rome, Ca, has entered
suit for the possession of eighty acres of land
claimed by the Elyton Land Company, in the city
of Birmingham, and valued at $4,000
A Cincinnati bankrupt concern has sent Harry
Tinsey, of the staunton (Va.) Eindicator, check
for two () cents, the dividend due him from an
estate. Who says editors are not lucky9
The Hot Springs, ARK; Sentins- M -stgrsuggests that
proceedings be instituted against Governor
Churchill and bondsmen to recover his deialca-
ton.
Mexico has now 600 miles OF railway in opera
ton, and as much more under construction, near
ly all this having been the work of American en-
terprise and capital, undertaken within the last
two years.
The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Com
pany is building branch road from Victoria to
The Inman ore banks, distance OF six miles. This
Is to be connecting link OF the road through the
sequatchie Valley, Tennessee.
Ono lumber firm ut Weayer's Station, Marshall
| County, Alabama, shipped seventeen carloads OF
| lumber, about $1,000 ieet 10 Philadelphia for the
| Pennsylvania Central Railroad, with whom the
| firm has contract for 100000 feet,
| A curious double pine tree is growing near the
| line of Green and jackson Counties, Miss. Two
distinct trunks, about twenty feet apart, rise fom
| the ground and unite thirty feet above, forming
one solid trunk, round and symmetrical.
There Is shown at Williamson & Upchurch's
store stalk OF cotton with just 1856 bolls on it. One
| limb has no less than twenty three bolls. such
cotton would make, i is said, three or four bales
| to the acre.-Rdieigh IN. C) Neaos and Observer.
| A Mr.. Davis, of Huntsville, Ala, who eloped
with Miss Merriweathor and merrled her in Chat
tanooga, q few months ago was shot recently by
| been spending the summer. The wound is con-
| sidered fatal
| The president of a Kentucky turnpike has an
nounced In published advertisement that he
will prosecute as public nuisances" all parties
riding on bicycles on his turnpike, because they
endanger the lives Of those travelling in vehicles
| on oid fnad -
| At tie show here Tuesday the seats careened
and preoipitated the entire crowd OF at least 800
people, splinlered seats m6ers &C., to the ground
| in Que heap amid the widest excltem 1nt. Many
| men, women, and children were seriously In
jured.-Mount Airy IN. C) Netos.
Colonel DuTett Bruce veteran hos1 soldier EoS6 of
born March i, 1859. He Is native Of Kentucky,
was born near Lexington, his father being
| pioneer from North Carolina. He served under
| General Harrison at the battle Of the Thames.
The Virginia agricultural chemist begun work
| In analyzng fertilizers, commencing with No. /.
| Whose brand II is he is not allowed to know.
In this way per fectly reliable report can be So
cured. The appliances for this work are perfect.
| The commissioner has about ll5 brands for
| analysis.
At Mathews Court House, Va, on Monday, W. p.
Roaue, o colored lawyer from Richmond, ad-
dressed the people IN tho Interests OF the Coaibn
iSts Roane is the frat eolored speaker who eyer
| addressed q Maihews County audience, and but
for the interpositon OF Judge Christian and Others,
| who kept the New Pointers quiet Roane would
| mover nave ueslICu " nAhAO ppcoCh III
| Mathews.
Judge L. L. Lewis, Of the supreme court Of ap:
/ peaIs OF Virginia, has allowed Attorney General
Blair appeals and supersedeas I'm the coupon cases
/ recently decided by Judge George Christian of the
/ Hastings court Of Richmond. and which appeals
| were refused by the court before Judge Lewis be-
| came member of IL. The appeals will involve
the coupons under the funding act OF 1871, as well
as the ten-fortes
Kaolin is being used on the South Carolina Rail
way with great success as a covering for boilers
1t 70 mixed with plaster of Paris in the propoft on
of two parts of the former 10 one Of the latter,
jute being mixed With II instead Of hair, which is
destroyed by the heat 1t Is said TO prevent loss OF
heat, huch more etectuslly than the ordinary
| wood tagging, while the greasy nature OF the
kaolin preserves tho iron from corrosion, at the
same time having no chemical action upon 1t.
The Medical Society Of Virginia, which has been
In session at Fanquer White Sulphur Springs Alnce
| last Wednesday, adjourned Friday to meet at the
Rockbridge Alum Springs nexI September. Many
interesting sub5eots were discussed The prize f0I
the best essay On "Aleohol. Its Use and Effects az
Graham Elzey, N. D.. Of Washington, d. O. the
prize for the bebs essay on Recent Progress In
Abdominal Surgery" 70 Hugh NJ Taylor, N. D.,
OF Richmond, va Or. william d. Cooper, Of Eau.
qnier County, was elected president.