National Republican., 1882-08-22
SOUTHERN NOTES.
Guards, colored, are visit

The Portsmouth (ya) Guards, colored, are visit
ing at Providence, X. l.
Lake City Fla, the highest point in the State, is
only 203 feet above the level OF the seu.
Nashville Tenn, has ZOO misdene iDor cases
on the docket OF the criminal court for September.
Norfolk, Va, is 10 have large establishment
for the preservation OF timber by the cieosote pro-
ce-s.
-Four disilleries are starting up in les than two
miles of Cross Roads, a Pulaski County (iy) VII
lage.
Mr. Samuel Harris. colored merchant Of WI,
liamsburs, Va, is reported 10 be worth S5,0Oo
He handles $4,000 of goods annually
Mrs. william Boarding, who died recently in
Perry County, Alabama, was lO7 years o.d. Her
husband, who survives her, is lUO years old.
Cleburne, Texas, has recently made two ship"
ments OF $1,000 bushels of wheat each, one TO
Liverpool aud the other to Florence, Italy.
NJ G. W. Baugh of North Dauyille, raised a
cabbage which lad twenty six heads On the one
stalk.-RichmoR nd (FdO 'Yhig. And each head was
as big as basket
Clarksyiie, Mo-. has raised the cost of a saloon
liceuse to 81, 200 per annum. There are but four
in the place, and the probabilities are that ut least
three Of these will be closed.
The other day cockroaeh got between two of
the wheels of the town clock of Dallas, Texas
causing q stoppage of about eight hours Tney
must grow large coekroaches down there.
A correspondent writes the Courier; Journal from
Cumberland, Miss, that old "UncIe " Tom Jemi-
son, who was 10 years old when the Revolutionary
war closed, has Just died at the age OF III years
There are about 200 acres of land on Matecom-
Gently been purchased by three Key Westors, who
Intend to convert it into one big eDcoanut grove.
The Gonzales Inquirer says that Mr.. Cunningham.
living on Canoe Creek, Gonzales County, Texas,
has growing in his nursery green tea. lie is con
yiuced that 1t Can be successfully grown in this
country.
There is no prohibition in Putnam County, and
vet there is no barroon there. Public opinion
4 has stopped the liquor traffic in that section.
After ali public opinion Is the strongest law.-At-
| lantd (Ga.) Post -Appedl
4 Mr.. Menilaus, of Lincoln County, Mississippi,
has raised fifteen of jue. lie has sold IL Tor
| S. ton green, but stripped of leaves. He thinks
4 IL can be made profitable by the use oil suitable
| machinery to prepare II for market.
| The Southern Pacific Railroad has been built
eastward from FL Paso to The 4lOth mile post. the
| gap between it and the westward extension of the
| Houston and San Antonio road is thirty nine
| miles This gap will be filled up by the LIST o.
| November.
Near Lawrenceburg, Tenn, an elm tree, said 10
be the largest in the United States II not i'll the
world is growing. 1t is 105 feet i'll diameter and
/ 329 feet ia circumference from tip TO tip of its
branches The size of the trunk and height OF the
| tree are not given.
| A coach containing sixty German emigrants for
| Ashyille, n. c.. passed through Richmond, Va,
1 last week. They were hearty. hale set OF young
| persons of both sexes. Among them were only
/ three children. They were direct from Germany,
| and we'll fixed for mmediate work.