National Republican., 1882-07-13
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Edgewood, Ca. is building a cotton-seed oil
mill.
sixty:two German emigrants have settled at
Cullmnn, Ala.
Charlotte and Salisbury, n. c., have each mar
riage aid association.
In Greensboro, N. c., peaches are selling at
thirty cents per bushel
Local option was defeated in Collin County,
Texas, by majority of 6l5.
The Sunday Graphic, of Macon, Ga has just
entered the field Of newspaperdom.
Abingdon, Va, has four tobacco factories, two
tobacco warehouses, and three eafhouses.
Colonel X. L. Stafford, of Texas, has made sale
of 800 head of stock cattle at sl3 per head.
Women are hereafter TO be admitted TO the Uni
vcrsity Of the State of Mississippi in all its depart
nents.
Twelve thousand dollars are monthly expended
in Key West, Fla, for lottery tickets. Amount Of
prizes drawn is not given.
upon her public schools, of which sue has 6, ,3S2,
money to the amount of 81 100, 1855.
b. B. Groom, of Clark County, Ky has bought
two hundred and tifty thousand acres OF land i'll
Texas, and will establish cattle ranch this fall.
The New Orleans, La. waterworks company will,
after August l. furnish water on monthly and
quarterly payments ut yearly rates. good idea.
Under an order of court the Atlanta (Ga) Cotton
MILL recently sold under ermortgage foreclosure aud
which has been idle for the past two years, re-
sumed work Monday.
Mr.. G. W. Palmer, of saltville, Va, recently
made two valua Bile additions to his splendid herd
OF short. horns, viz: at cost of So 525 and
| one heifer at a cost OF 81 900.
The Sunday school convention of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church South commenced its session at
| liarrisonburg, Va. on Tuesday. large number
of delegates from Maryland and Virginia were in
| attendance
| w. A. Stuart esq.,, grazes on his extensive farm
in Russell County Virginia, this season 200 cattle
| and l50 mules. He has recently sold 500 cattle,
averaging /, 400 pounds at $40 per head.-Abingdol
| Vd.) Trade Journal
| The new iron bridge of the Richmond, Fredcr-
| icksburg and Potomac Railroad, which spans the
| Rappahannock at Fredericksburg, Va, is about
completed The bridge is over GOO feet long aud
| splendid structure.
The Athens (Ga.) Banner aud Wdtchmdn has dis
| covered That the great Spanish leader Dc Soto
passed through that, city (or where the city now
| stands) several hundred years ago on his way to
| the Mississippi River
The Basle Land Company, of Switzerland, has
closed u trade with Mr.. Jake Miller, OF Guadalupe
County Texas, for lands to the amount of S25 900.
A large colony of Swiss arrive this fall and more
| lands will be bought
A colored man standing under O tree eating an
apple, in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, was struck
| by lightning aud killed the other day. His skin
was not scratched, but every bone was broken.
Moral: Never get under n tree to eat an apple.
| The Matador Cattle Company, of Texas, is fenc-
ing the north line of its range with barbed wire
| fence. This fence, when completed will be fifty
two miles and will connect with fence erected
| by the Aduir- Goodnight interest, about eighty
miles long thus making continuous liIc of fence
of about one hundred and thirty miles.
Colonel Charles r. Jones, editor of the Charlotte
w. VI OoSeIter, VINO lately puplisheu manifesto
| announcing himself as an independent Democratic
candidate for Congress- says that he does not pre-
pose TO leave the Democratic party, and that ii the
| Republicans put forward candidate he will not
| allow his name to 60 before the people.
| A child two years old, living near Downville,
Washington County, Virginia, while playing with
| the head ofa dead chicken few days since, was
| attacked by rooster. The attack was so violent
| that the ROSTERS spurs were imbedded III the
| childs skull and in pulling the fowl away they
| were pulled from their sockets. A physician was
called in and he had to cut the spurs to pieces be-
| fore they could be extracted. The child Is recoY
erng from its injuries.
| The Charlotte Observer thus tells why good men
| left North Carolina: In the olden times 1t was
" treason " for man in North Carolina to aspire
to positions of trust and emolument unless he be-
| longed to the patrician class, and hence Andrew
| Jackson, James X. Polk, Andrew johnson, Will
| liam r. King Joseph Brevard, Thomas H. Benton.
Joseph II. Hawley, Hugh Lawson White, and
thousands of others emgrated to other States,
where their brains and Drawn were appreciated.