National Republican., 1882-07-20
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Fort Worth, Texas, is to have woolen mill.
There are but four paupers in Rankin County,
Mississippi.
LaA week the Postanaula ice factory at Rome,
Ga was blown up.
fine quality of milestone grit is to be found
near Marion, in Smyth County Va.
The Thomasyille (Georgia( Pear Company will
build dessicating and canning establishment
According to the Vcksburg (Aiiss.) Herald the
cotton worm has not made its appearance in that
vicinity.
The best grit for the manufacture of millstones,
to be found in the world, is quarried in Moore
County, N. G.
On Tuesday the Tredegar Company, of Rich
mond, Va, shipped 1000 Kegs of railway spikes to
The assessed value of taxable hogs In Escam-
bia County, Ala, only amounts to S6S6; that of
sheep aggregates S2O, ,S56.
The city of Petersburg, Va, has appropriated
$4,000 for the purchase OF site to accommodate
the Central Lunatic Asylum.
The foreman of the Calvert (Texas) Foundry is
said to be nephew of President Arthur. He is a
Democrat and good citizen
St. Louis, Mo-, is getting from the Richmond
Va, granite Quarries five hundred thousand Bel
gian blocks for paving purposes
The Gallego iRichmond, ya;) mills are making
at the rate Of 1000 barrels of flour per week, most
of which is destined forth Brazil and other South
American markets.
Colonel e. G. Davidson, prominent New Or
leans ia politician, and once elected TO the United
States Senate, but counted out, died at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, last week.
Sanford Fla, has recently grown two pine.
apples the weight of which aggregated twenty
two and half pounds The largest weighed
twelve and half pounds.
The Old First Virginia Infantry Association eel
ebrated its twenty first anniversary (battle of Bun
Rum on the 18th instant, at Blenner's Park, head
of Broad street. Richmond.
Afler one weeks trial of prohibition in Newport
the board of aldermen, has voted to grant liquor
licenses, and the swells can get their regular
drinks as of Wheeling wv Pd) Register.
The Gainesville Reporter, of Sumter County,
Ala, says; "Mr. Wnitton, who lives on Dr.
Dancy's place, near Sherman, fed wagon load of
cotton seed to his hogs Now he is hauling his
hogs away in the same wagon-it killed EN-"
Kentuckys famous bluegrass is said to be
State was when General Hurrison's army was re-
turning South i'll 1910, when they brought large
quantities Of the seed from little Indiana village
on White River, In what is now Hamilton County.
1t still grows in that part of Indiana.
The Galveston (Texas) Ners says; "Messrs. Can
non aud Walthew captured few days ago, at
their cane camp ten miles above Moss bluff, OH
the Trinity River, rattlesnake measuring ten feet
in length, six inches in circumference, and hay
the schooner Pilot Boy yesterday morning by
Captain Kuhlenthal, who was careful TO have his
prize well Gagged. The reptile is one Of the largest
that has ever been seen In this section"
Among the most prominent farmers of Floyd
County, Virginia, is a colored man. II. A. Rey-
nolds, who is owner of the fine farm formerly
tains 600 acres and cost $4,000, all Of which has
been paid, Reynolds is rated at $4,000, and Is a
polite, klnd- hearted man, respected by all who
know him, and is leader in the church and in
county politics. John Z. Reynolds, his son, is
teaching colored school,-LyHchburg Advance.
The log cabin which Washington made his
headquarters when surveyor in the valley of
Virginia still stands intact over the spring SOL
diers Rest, Clarke County, Virginia. Soldiers
Rest was built by General Daniel Morgan, Of revo-
lutfonary fame. Wien bruised and bloody from
the numerous fights with which he was wont TO
celebrate court-day in the neighborng town of
BeTryville he would retire to the old spriug-.
house, where his wife would battle his head and
bind up his wounds The cabin is now used as a
dairy.
In buckingham County, Virginia, within au
area of ten or fifteen miles there are about forty
distilleries engaged in manufacturing oil from sas
safras root Each mill gives employment to three
hands-a fireman, rOot-chopper, ana "bOss."
They use on an average 1900 pounds OF root per
day for each mill ana turn out one to one and
half galous of oil per day, weighing ten pounds
daily $4,000 pounds of sassafras root, make about
fifty gallons of OIL worth about $3.50 gallon, aud
thus earn S225 per day.
Mr.. J. B. Lghtfoot jr., agent Of the Midlothian
(Va.) Coal Mines has received instructions from
of the Burrows estate 10 open the pits get out the
bodies Of the unfortunate victims in the recent
disaster, and go 10 work 1t is deemed that suhl-
eient time has elapsed for extinguishment of the
fire; Notwithstanding which fact, the work of re-
opening will be carried on with tie greatest eau
ton, so as not 10 endanger the lives of any one.
The pit will probably be opened the latter part OF
+ this Week.-RicluaoRd Dispatch
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