National Republican., 1882-07-25
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Lynchburg, Va, consumes about 75o 900 gallons
of water daily.
Gold has been discovered in paying quantities
in Bedford County, Virginia.
Hunter r. Booker has been commissioned post
master at Hampton, and John W. Wertz at Grays-
| vile, Va.
A Sunday school convention of all denomina-
tions in the State is to be held in Petersburg, Va,
| October 10 to 13 next.
The Lenoir cotton factory, located in Loudoun
County, Tennessee, has been destroyed by fire. to
| gether with a large quantity of raw material.
A London Englandl syndicate is negotiating
for the purchase OF 10000 acres of Texas land. II
| is expected the sale will be ratified about Octo-
| ber1 l.
Lem Livingston, colored, passed the best ex.
animation for the West Point cadetship at Jack
sonville, Florida, beating several white COM
pettors.
William A. Lathrop has been appointed post
master at Pocahontas, Tazewell County, Va. aud
| William A. Gordon at 1ndiantown, Orange
| County, Va.
| University ut cost of $4,000. The building is to
be completed by the LIST of June.
| The Monticello (Miss.) Advocate says the work OF
! cleaning out Pearl River, prosecuted under the
| supervision of the United States Engineer De-
partmemt, has proved failure and worse than
| a farce"
At Brownswood, Texas, recently the prisoners in
Jail made break for liberty, knocking down the
officer who was giving them breakfast. While
feet as to kill one prisoner and wound another,
securing them all
The largest wheat crop that has ever been raised
| in Montgomery County, Maryland, has been har-
vested this season, many fields yielding forty
| bushels per acre. On sixty acres Of land State
Senator Moore raised 2 100 bushels of wheat, being
| thirty five bushels to the acre.
"a factory for the manufacture of curled hair for
| cushions out of Florida moss has been built at
Pullman, H.. Sixty hands are employed at the
moss, which Is shipped in bales. The manuiac.
turers claim that the article, produced is as good
| for furniture as the more costly hair.
| Atlanta, Ca, is building new court. house
which will be completed IN every way by the frsi
of January. at cost in round numbers OF $4,000
| About S55OO0 Of this amount has been paid The
| building is 10 be warmed by steam i'll winter and
cooled by a steam ventilator in summer. The
tower Is To be nearly two hundred feet higher aud
four sides will present four dias of clock.
The following are the total net receipts of cotton
at all the porIs since September l. 1881 Galveston
426.ss5; New. Orleans, ,l72si5 Mobile, I2C2, ,sS2
Savannah, 7250G4i Charleston. 1914; Winning;
ton, l33 223; Norfolk, 60j,S05 Baltimore, IS O66l
New York l70,4l7; Boston, 30, 10; Providence,
l2.4Os Philadelphia, sl5io; city aud West Point
sucola lO,l37; Portland. 7G9i2 lndianola, i3, 1888,
and Washington, N. C., lo,5ol. Total, 4,6Oi,ss6.
Elijah Dalton the patriarch of Warrior Noun
II M seaps oS oH c Mh and hs son bsy yh
road. He was married in 1910, and his wife is stl
living. She is 90 years old, spry and active, and
amusement is cutting wood. His memory Of pas
events is astonishing. lie says the winter of lS0(
was the coldest he ever saw lhehe olu people Dotn
seem good for tel or fifteen years more of life.-
| Carolina Spartan.
correspondent Of the Baltimore Sun writing
| from Westminster, Md, says: The canning esab.
| 1shments In this county have been working Wig
orously for some weeks past. At New Windsor
| Baile Stonter have put up as many asT 900 can:
of peas day. The establi-hment OF Smith, Wing
ling 4 Co., this city, has put up 5000 cans of wax
cherries 500 cans of red cherries 1000 cans OF
goosebcrries, aud $1,000 cans OF peas. That of b
+. Shrver Co.. also in this city, has put up about
| 10000 cans of peas, besides large quantity o
small fruits Sweet corn Will soon I've ready, and
| immense quantities will be canned. Lewis Ship
ley, at Mechancsyille will can only tomatoes this
| n lar Vipfd