National Republican., 1882-07-11
SOUTHERN NOTES,

Monroe, La, Is to have q cotton-seed-oi mill.
Montgomery, Ala, proposes swimming school.
New Orleans, La. thinks of establishing Castle
Garden for the accommodation of immis grants.
company with 100000 stock has determined
to build q railroad from Savannah, Ca to 1ybee.
The Rockdale paper-mill, one of the finest pieces
Of property In Georgia, is now lying ide.-1occoa
Richmond County. Georgia. has declared in
favor Of the fence under the new law, by ma
jority Of 73S.
Another rich discovery of ore, assaying about
800 to the ton, in gold, has been discovered near
Dahlonega Ga.
The new ice factory at BRENNAN. Texas, is turn
Ing out the genuine article, which retails at one
cent per pound.
A colored boy in Accomac, Va, is represented to
be six feet eight inches tall, weighs 234 pounds,
and wears sixteen-inch Shoes.
Watermelons as big as hogsheads are being re :
ceived and kindly noticed by members of the edi
| toral fraternity in Georgia and Florida. See7
The railroads running out of New Orleans, La,
have been quarantined. to guard against the in,
| PRODUCTION of yellow fever.-Montg0mery (Aid.)
| Advertiser.
To fence or not to fence is the question upon
! which the people of Georgia are now dividing.
| Last Friday Hall County decided in favor of the
| affirmative.
The average wheat crop in Clarke County,
Georgia. is reported to be from twelve to tifteen
bushels per acre.
mine of corundum has been discovered on the
| farm Of H. J. Lamar, about six miles from Indian
| Spring in Butts County, Georgia.
Portsmouth, Va, is agitating the question of
| new city waterworks A proposition to bring
| water from Lake Drummond or Deep Creek Is un-
| der consideration.
Good ink is made from the mineral water found
| ut the base OF kennesaw mountain, Georgia. Visi-
| tors to the spring should take with them goo ]
| supply of blottiug paper.
| 1t is said that Mr.. Larrow. of Lamer, NO., has
| O beard that reaches below his knees, and his
moustache is twelve inches long. He must have
discovered new fertilizer.
Thomas County, Georgia, is to have LeConte
| pear orchard of a hundred acres A company
has been formed, headed by Il. L. Blackshear, esq
as president, with capital stock of $4,000.
Chatham County N. c., has woman black
| smith who can shoe q horse as well as anybody.
| She is also good wagon maker, being able to
| make all the woodwork for wagon, and then
iron it.-PitSboro Record,
Mr.. W. II. Moseley made on his Woodland farm.
two miles from this place, 112 bushels of wheat
two and half acres, averaging forty five bushels
to the acre. How is that for "Appomattox poor
| landT-Lynchbur0 (pd.) Ergfnfdn.
Andrew Glover, colored barber of Walhalla,
s. c., disappeared on the 9th ultimo. He was a
| Democrat, and was delegate to the county Dem
He pobably hated himself to death for having
been found in such bad company.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office
and others, claimants TO the Lowe mill. l.grant
comprising sixteen thousand acres of land situ-
ated in AlaShua ia County, Flerlda; Representative
| erty, which Is reported of great value.
Since the spring of 1880 the corporate authori-
| ties OF Memphis, Tenn have addressed them
elves vigorously to an improvement of the streets
as well as the sanitary condition of the city, and
as a consequence in that time eight and bali
miles of streets have been paved with stone, and
forty miles of sewers and forty miles of subsoil
pipes have been put down all at cost Of $500 900.
Captain c. 9. Clay says that ho will have during
| this month bale Of cotton on the m irket, If he
| gets sunshine enough; that he has seventy-five
acres of early cotton in cultivation the stalks nu
| foet high and averaging fifteen to twenty-five
bolls TO the stalk that he also has in cultivation
$50 acres of corn that will average twenty bushels
to the acre. This is on the Huguenin place In
| Sumter County.-Sumter (Gd) Republican.
A great many Southern planters have extensive
| lines of fencing, but the cattlemen of Wes err
\ Texas are constructing the longest line In the
world. They are undertaking to fence off the
cattle the Indian Territory, Kansas and Colorado
| with wire fence across the Texas Panhandle and
| thirty five miles into New Mexico. Eghty-five
miles is now under contract and being built The
course of the fence will be in the line of the Can
adiau River and its entire length will be tive
hundred miles Its object is to stop tho drift o
the Northern cattle, and it is believed the enter
| prise will pay large percentage on the invest
| ment.-GalUeston (7er) Netos.