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

Austin, Texas, is to have sa500O0 hotel.
Lexington, KY, has sixty nine liquor saloons.
Atlanta. Ga is to have public market house.
In Meridian, Miss, saloon license costs 81 800.
Kennedy Carr, of Boyd County, KY, is l07 years
of age.
Herdic coaches have been introduced at Corpus
Christi Texas.
Iuka Miss, has five men whose combined ages
| make over 400 years.
Shrimp being caught in large quantities
near st. Augustine, Fla.
But two of the eleven distilleries in Robertson
County. Kentucky, are running,
The Fredericksburg Wa.) Grays have elected NJ.
b. Rowe captain, vice Brookes, resigned.
The orange trees at or near Tampa Fla are
blooming for the second time this season.
Forty five thousand bushels of oats have been
shipped from Ninety in Abbeville County, s. q.
This fall the Stunewall cotton factory, near En-
terprise Miss, will make 1900 yards of cloth u
day.
"old ADAM an ancient negro, who claimed to
have lived 10 years, died at Mckinney, Texas,
last week.
Toombsboro', Ga, has an artesian we'll 500 feet
in depth, with steady flow Of fifteen gallons Of
water minute.
Portsmouth, Va, complains that the English
sparrows are nuisance, Washington found out
the fact several years ago.
Mr.. +. NJ, Damper at Charlee Apopka. Fla,
raised of Of twelve vines this year $40 watermel-
ons. Some OF them weighed over fifty pounds
A large cotton compress, with a pressure of
100 pounds, aud capable of compres>ing sixty
bales per hour, las been erected ut West Point Va.
In one mill at Randleman, N. c., 4GOS spindles
are running, and 100 looms are at work on plads
aud checks for Philadelphia aud New York mar
kes,
The Observer, of st. Martin Parish (G.a) says
small white worm, with black head, is destroy
ing the cotton on several plantations in that
parish
Mr.. ]. L. Fortner, of fernando County, Fla,
says he will make oil one acre OF land planted in
sugar twelve barrels of sugar and four barrels
of sirup.
The sugar crop of Rapides Parish, La, accord
ing to the Sugar Bowls calculations, will be at
least 42Ol hogsheads. ln 1861 the sugar crop was
1857 hugsheads.
The Griffin, Ca, Nelos says: A lady bought eleven
yards OF cloth and paid for IL in butter, giving
stone weighing FIVE pounds in the center OF the
crock, anu the dealer cheated her yard aud II
half in measuring the cloth. Who was ahead on
the trade, and how much?
Columbus, Ga, has ten cotton and Woolen mills.
the only bagginS factory In Georgia, the largest
mills, trunk factory, a paper. box factory, a
paint factory, and two clothing factories They
run 1850 looms and employ 2,l07 operatives in
textile mills alone. Consumption OF cotton last
year, 1854 bales.
The following are few of the large orange trees
in Florida: The Fort Harley tree in .Alachua
has borne l6, ,O09 oranges in one season. another
in st. Johns County yields $4,000; another in
Bradford County over 10000, and lemon tree, at
Fort Reid, 50 years old, has borne over 10000,
These are only few of the large orange and
lemon trees in Florda.-FiOrtiG Dispatch.
Silk culture has become an established industry
of North Caroliua, From four years orchard Of
5000 white mulberry plants Mr.. Fasnach, OF
Raleigh, reports that in April and May, with an
| ordinary laborer and his daughter, he gathered u
crop OF 200 ounces OF eggs worth loo, and the
punctured cocoons Uorty pounds) are worth 10
cents pound or $50 more. The product In CO.
CoOns was $3.50 from three ounces of eggs worth
sl1j. handsome return for six weeks labor
from four acres of average soil.
A correspondent OF lfhe Macon Telegraph, writing
gom smiihyille, Ga says; our village viii soon
Conte pears w. w. Thompsoa, our energetic
fruit man, is leading in this matter He owns,
probably more pear trees than any man in the
United States. One thousand and seven hundred
trees are planted out in scientific style In full view
Of the passing trains as they enter the town, lie
also owns lwo-thirds of the Sandford grove ut
grove on Lake Jessup Florida. We have now over
1900 trees in three miles Of town. aud some 2 600
more Will be set out this fall"