National Republican., 1882-09-07
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Lines sell at three cents per dozen at Tampa,
Fla.
Halle, the murderer of Major Blair, has been in
dicted at Camden, s. G..
A solid lump of pure silver weighing nearly n
pound, was found near Magnolia n. G., recently.
W.B. C0lburn, of Carteret County, N. c., has
shipped nearly 100000 melons during the present
season.
The total consumption of cotton by North Caro-
lima mills and factories for the year ending August
81, 1852, was 20,000.OOO
North Carolina has 776 saw mills with n capital
of 81 7iS 2l7, employing 3,O29 hands, and the prod
ucts are worth s2,O72,196.
Greensboro, N. c., has novel law suit. 1t is to
| decide the jnership of an alligator found run
ming at large in the streets, and to which several
persons laid claim.
In Mecklenburg County, Va, it is estimated that
! about one-tifth of the area formerly devoted to
tobacco Is now given to cotton and the cultivation
of the latter staple has been quite success there.
In many portions of the South. through the
northern Tier of States, the farmers have begun
breaking ground for wheat. The indications are
that the acreage will be largely in excess of that Of
the season Just over.
The efforts making to establish the feasibility of
silk culture in Texas are meeting with every de-
srable encouragement The State has everything
requisite for silk worms, and long IL expects to
rank among the foremost in the culture ofsilk
Fiity-oue counties in Georgia now have no IL
censed saloons, Two Others close out October /.
| Seven have only one each, and in many counties
the sale is confined exclusively to the county
| town. The prohibition element is becoming
stronger and more formidable every day.
Company b, Sixth Virginia confederate cavalry,
| had pleasant reunion at Little Washington,
Rappahannock County, Va, last week. II is pro-
| posed TO erect a monument on the court house
| green to the fallen confederate dead of Rappa-
hammock County and inscribe thereon their
names
Jacksonville Fla) paper says that General
| Sanford will arrive in Jacksonville next month.
| He has perfected, through the foreign company
with which he IS connected, plan for the colo
| niEation of Swedes In Orange and Alachua Coun-
| ties, Fifty families are to be sent forward the
present season, who will be put TO work the COM
| lug winter on the roads and drainage of the SAN
lies will follow after who will go on the San
| ford lands in Alachua County.
| The Staked Plains are fast losing their reput8-
| ton for being a barren dt sert. Says the Crosby
! County (rexGs) Sun: We learn from a gentleman
Just in from that section that the colony OF Quak-
! ers who ale settled ON the Staked Paus, in CrJs-
| by County, have the finest CROPS this year that
sent word to the stockmen in that country that
they Will sell corn nj 10 cents bushel less than ii
can be bought on the railroad, and they will be
prepared to furnish any reasonable amount
The railroad from Newport News, Va TO Old
| Point is nearly completed and II is expected that
| trains Will be running on the Hampton Branch in
| the course OF two weeks. II will be great con
Point. The town Is being built up rapidly, quite
number Of new houses being in course Of cree
| tion. The shirping Of wheat from the port has
| eommenceS .lnd at present there are two steam
ships there one English, the Severn, taking 60 900
bushels of wheat and supply of coal; one a
Havana TO Liverpool with a cargo of sugar, has
taken in supply Of coal 400 tons); also, two or
three Italian barks have loaded with wheat and a
number Of other vessels.