National Republican., 1882-08-15
SOUTHERN NOTES,
Kentucky has one drinking saloon to every


Kentucky has one drinking saloon to every 43s
inhabitants.
per share. good investment.
A force of l. 900 men will be put to work soon
improving Muscle Shoals, in the Tennessee River.
The ex- confederate soldiers of Cabarrus County,
North Carolina, have organized q " survivors
association"
D. Giles & Co., of Chattanooga. Tenn, have
taken a 1884, contract TO furnish Knoxville with
water works.
The horses of the late Jesse James, the Missouri
outlaw, are advertised for exhibition in Richmond,
Va August l6.
About eight hundred Mexican war veterans are
expected at the national convention at Memphis,
Tenn, September 13.
A colored infantry company, seventy eight
strong, has been organ'ze zed In Staunton, Va, with
]. A. w. Smith as captain.
The Eighteenth Georgia (confederate) Regiment
held reunion at Acworth on the 10th instant.
About one hundred survivors were present
Wheat is down to eighty cents per bushel at
Nicholasville, Ky. 1t is thought it will get low
as seventy five cents before the season is over.
Foster, the swindling jeweler recently convicted
in Montgomery, Ala, is said to be the incendiary
who burned eleven business houses in Montezuma,
in Alabama, in 1875
Mr.. George A. Bricken, of Lebanon, KY, sold
1000 bushels of orchard grass seed to 4; A. Lecog
Darmstadt Germany. The price is withheld, but
is said to have been remunerative.
A new cave, said to equal the Mammoth Cave
of fKentucky, has recently been discovered on the
farm of Rudolph Rauback, of Harper's Ferry,
and but short distance from the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad track.
Hon. William NJ. Evarts, of New York; Hon.
HAMPTON. % Of % south Carolina have ACCEPTED @ nVi %
tations to attend the coming exhibition of the
Lexington (Ky) Fair.
Henry Coleman, of New Orleans, was killed by
lightning. He was seated In q house reading a
Bible when thunderbolt entered an open door,
killing him and not damaging any other person
or thing in the house.
Reports concerning the rice crop now give sat
islactory assurance that the yield in Louisiana is
the finest and largest ever grown in that State.
This years success will give additional impetus
to rice culture next year.
The Bridgewater Mills, at Fredericksburg, Va,
Will start on Monday on the modern gradual re-
duction system of manufacturing -four by COM
plee roller plan of breaks, being the first mill in
Virginia TO start up I'm full on this system.
1t is proposed to run trains over the Georgia and
South Carolina railroads from Atlanta, via Au-
gusta, to Charleston, 309 miles, in ten hours. The
Central road intends to do better by making the
run from Atlanta, via Macon, TO Savannah, 800
miles, in nine hours.
MIR. Hugh Stewart, of Augusta County, Va, re.
turned in the steamship Indiana recently from q
six months visit to England While abroad he
contracted TO furnish farms for 100 English fami-
lies either in Virginia or Texas. He also sold for
$4,000 tract of land In Webster County, W. Va.
The Atlanta Post.. Appeal says: There lives in
Morgan County, within two hours ride of Decatur,
a white man Of sound mind and memory, the hus.
band of wife, and the father of several children.
an honest, industrious farmer, about As years of
| age, who can read and write and has comfort
able home, who never knew until last Saturday
that Garfield had been assassinated." Fortunate
man.
General Fltz Lee, of Virginia, has ordered the
commissioned officers of the Old Dominion Guard,
Suffolk Greys Peninsula Guard, Norfolk City
Guard, Wise Light Infantry, Farmyille Guard and
Petersburg Greys TO meet az JarTatts Hotel August
90, at 10 o'clock a, m, for the purpose of Organiz
ing the fourth M regiment OF the first brigade and
Lee will preside at the meeting.
There is u dearth of pennies in Texas, so much
SO that the appearance OF any number of them is
made the subject Of newspaper comment. A re-
Fe Railroad yesterday paid out S. IN pennies, and
| the Galveston, Houston and Henderson paid out
nearly as much. The passengers take philo-
sophicnl view of the matter and murmur not.
Yesterday afternoon gentleman who evidently
bought cigar on Market street and paid for the
| same in pennies. This is the first Instance the
Neios has learned Of where pennies have been
used in the city,
The Texas legislature having passed a law re-
quirng all railroads in the State TO charge for pas
senger tare not more than three cents mile, the
| Texas Central Railway passenger fare schedule,
which is fair sample of the new regulation, has
been made to read thus " All tickets at the rate
of three cents mile; no half fare tickets shall be
] sold children OF years and over shall pay full
| iaTe under years they go tree" Exact change
is 10 be made on the Central Road in the sale Of
tickets and TO accom- psh this the road will place
coppers in circulation of the denomination fone,
| two and three cents. All half fare, mileage, and
local excursion tickets are to be called inr and
/ more passes issued.
| The Victoria CTexas) Adpocdte says: Thursday
last The attention Of mauy of our citizens was at
lracted by heavy roaring sound resembling that
caused by train of cars crossing distant bridge.
| At that time the sun shone brightly and a dead
| calm prevailed. The zenith was somewhat
| a heavy cloud hung far away IN the northeast
| We were in the street at the time and several
| seconds elapsed before we could mark the diree-
| ton of the roaring, which proved to be directly
| over head. This strange and alarming noise con-
tinued for llleen or twenty minutes, and gradually
! snbsided, rolling away 10 the east Immediately
| amer which immense drops of rain with an coca
oual hailstone began To fall, aud u light breeze
| s9rung up from the cast bringing with II a re-
| freshing shower.