National Republican., 1882-08-09
SOUTHERN NOTES.

| Georgia stands well on the liquor question. She
has forty-two prohibition counties.
Jackson. Miss. has, newly chartered Fire,
Wind, and Lightning Insurance Association.
In Texas 700 miles of railroad track are reported
to have been laid during the last six months.
The old Episcopal church at West Point, Va.
has been turned into an oyster packing establish
ment.
document on record at Lewisville, Ark, mort
gagged three dogs to secure debt of $3.50. 1t was
filed in 1852.
According to tho Cynthiana Ne,ps. there are at
present G0,0oo barrels Of whisky in bond in Harri-
son County, KY
A party from Minnesota have entered ,45O acres
Of land between Lakes Minnehaha and Minnecola,
Fla, and expect 10 build Il town.
Professor Houseau, of Belgium, has arrived at
sau Antonio, Texas, Tor the purpose of observing
the transit OF Venus In December next
The colored people of Corsicana, Texas, have
organized a company with capital of S25 0OO, for
the purpose of purchasing and improving lands.
1t is reported that Judge II, D. Twiggs, of Au-
gusta, Ca, will run us an Independent candidate
FOR Congress in the eighth district now represented
by Hon. A. H. Stephens.
The root of the buttwood, which grows wild and
luxunantly about Tampa Bay and vicinity, is used
for making cough syrup, which is highly recon-
mended for all pulmonary diseases.
Mr.. II. S. Crayton, jr., of Anderson, s. c., sold
recently $500 confederate note for S3O 1t is said
TO be the only note of that denomination issued
by the confederate government in 1861.
Fourteen years ago Morgan County, KY, passed
law prohibiting the sale of intoXicants in the
county, and the West Liberty Scorcher says the re-
suits have been most beneficial in every respect
The Coushatta Q.a.l Cdi.en (Red River Parlsh)
says the cotton crops along the river that parish
raised in Red River than the parish can use
| Mr.. William Veal, citizen of Twiggs County
Ga, lost his vile last week, making the third wife
| in less than fourteen months. The first died May
H. 1881; the second July 2s, 1881; the third July
%, 1882.
A lady in the neighborhood of Balcony Falls,
months has gathered from 100 hens 500 dozen eggs,
besides Matching some 800 chickens and gangs of
other poultry.
The Trinity and Sabine Railroad has been COM
| pleed TO the East Texas road, thirty-fye miles
from Trinity. Work will be energetically con-
tinued for my miles further. This road taps the
| richest pine lands in Texas.
Cotton planters in the Mississippi bottoms, says
the Vicksburg Herald, are determined to fight the
worm that has now appeared in full force, and
pounds OF London purple" with which 10 wage
| war
A cutoff about twelve miles long is being built
| from near Chattanooga, Tenn, 10 q point near
| Dalton, Ga, called Cohutta. Ii makes the dis
tance from Dalton TO Chattanooga seventeen miles
shorter than the present route around by Cleye-
! laud.
| IYThe people of NanIachie, Colfax Parish, La,
| have gone largely into the cultivation of sun
| flowers The stems they use when dried for kind
| to sick horses-they claim that the flowers adorn
their premises and ward off malaria
The Oldest stove probably in the United States
Is the one that warns the hall of Virginias capt.
| tol In Richmond. II was made in England and
| sent TO Richmond in l77O and warmed the House
of Burgesses for sixty years before II was removed
TO It's present location, where 1t has remained for
| thirty years.
Mrs. Mildred Walker Campbell died in Fred
ericksburg, Va. last week, aged 95. She was the
relict of The Rev. John W. Campbell, the mother
| of Charles Campbell well known as The author of
u history of Virginia, and descendant OF Gov
| ernor Spottswood, of Virginia. She was buried Rt
/ Petersburg, in which city she was closely idenu-
fed with the rise and progress of Presbyterianism.
Track laying Is progressing ON the Georgia Pa
| cifie beyond Villa Rica, and the grading Is COM
| pleted within three miles OF Admission, Ala. In q
| few days trains will be running afty miles out
| from Atlanta. Admission and Atlanta Will De in
daily communication by October 1. General John
| d. Gordon and Mr. George W. Perkins are now
in London for the purpose OF negotiating 5000
| 900 ofthe bonds of the road.