National Republican., 1882-07-10
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Jackson, Miss, will soon have four railroads.
seagul eggs sell at fifteen cents per dozen in
Tampa, Fla.
The other day a Savannah, Ca, constable bit off
another mans nose.
Tho new railroad between Atlanta. and Macon,
Co., has been completed.
The ex-confaderate General j. B. Hood, is to
have monument at Austin, Texas.
The editor of the Griffin (Gal Ne,oS has been pre-
sented with peach weighing l31@ ounces.
Richmond and Bibb counties, Georgia, have by
law i pSSp"'"I WV >'' ''''' - wv N'
George Adams colorcd, grew collard thirteen
feet high the present season. So says the pdIdostd
(Gd.) Times.
Frank James, the Missouri outlaw, has been
located in Florida by some euterprising news
paper man.
Clarksville, Va, has three largo tobacco ware
houses, the annual aggregate sales of which
amount to over one million pounds of the leaf,
Within limit of three miles of Auburn, KY,
live three brothers who three years ago IN arried
three sisters. aud who now have three ch ildren
each.
W. c. Elan, ESQ.,, editor of the Richmond Va.)
Who, has written u letter declining 10 become u
candidate for the Readjuster Congressional NOM
ination in the Richmond district
The Richmond and Mecklenburg Railroad will
be completed to Fort Mitchell, eleven miles from
Keysviiie, Va, by the 10th OF this month, and If
the work is vigorously prosecuted, will reach
Chase City this fall.
Mr.. w. Smallwood, assistant postmaster at Lula,
Ca is the father of eighty living children. There
is no doubt about this fact. Mr.. S. was born In
1906 was in the of 1872, and is to-day active
as many young men. Some of his children are
mere babies.-Aliens (Ga.) Banner,
The following postmasters have been commits
stoned for Virginia: Mrs. Norella E. Currin,
S James r G an1 eoyT
D.. Edmonds,, Richland; William Waddill, jr,
Wilcox Wharf,
The Atlanta (Ga.l cotton factory, the largest in
that city, was sold at commissioners sale on
Thursday last. Lemuel Coffin, of New York, was
the purchaser at $4,000. Notice was given on
behalf Of the first mortgage bondholders that the
sale would be contested
Probably the largest wharves in the Southern
States have recently been finished at West Point
Va, which is the point Of tonnage debouehment
of the Richmond and Danville system, which eX-
tends now to u point fifty miles west of Atlanta
and Is rapidly going forward toward the Missls-
sippi River.
Last week 600 900 feet of lumber and 744O rail-
road ties arrived at Corpus Christi, Texas, from
Louisiana, with 10000 feet of cypress posts for
CAPTAIN Kenhedys new oo p6sllrs pp6s sO IN Cameron
80 tons Of wire to fence his pasture, which con-
tains 400, 900 acres.
The special correspondent of the Baltimore Snn
at Petersburg, Va reports that the corn crop Of
that section will fall below the average and that
the oat crop is an entire failure. The wheat crop
has been harvested and is excellent. The peanut
crop has beeu much injured by the cool weather +,
and 1t Is feared Will prove failure.
Postmasers were commissioned Saturday as fol-
lows A s. Asber'E a. KoSnoakWs W KSsnoaSe 9iiSS
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County, Virginia; ]. d. Noell. at Halifax, Halifax
County, Virginia; Mrs 8. g. Robertson, ut Ca Ira,
Cumberland County, Virginia; ]. @. Hidy, New
Hampden, Highland County, Virginia.
The names Of the following post offices have
been changed Stamping Burches, Floyd County
Virginia, TO Pax" and A. Heylton commissioned
postmaster; Shenandoah Iron Works Page County,
Virginia to Mines" and s. T. Kite commissioned
postmaster, and Kyle, Wythe County, Virginia. to
"McTeer," william Pierce commissioned post
master.
In the Richmond, Va, city circuit court satur.
day Judge Wexford (Funder judge decided the
cases of Gannt Il Royal against the different
boards Of the State in favor OF the plaintiff This
is the case in which is involved the S5O00O0 appro-
priated by the leglsl for educational pur-
poses, 100000 Of which was appropriated to incor-
pOrate the Colored Normal and Collegiate Insti-
tute. Attorney General Blair Will carry the case
TO the supreme court.
Dallas, Texas, has Just had a visit from sngu-
lar character-Jack Hail. alias No. Arm Jack, en-
route to Stephensylle jail from which institution
the prisoner escaped six months ago, after re-
ceiving sentence OF ten years in the penitentary
for horse stealing, Both his arms are OH above
the elbow, having been crushed I'm a sugar mill
when he was a child, butth bones grew out sew
eral inches from the flesh, and their surfaces are
rough like corn -cobs, and Jack writes beautiful
hand by holding pen beside his chin and press
ing the protruding bone against II, He shoots
pistol or firearms expertly, and manages horse
as we'll as the average two-hnnded man. The
height of his ambition appears to have been
stealing horses successfully. He Is about thirty
years of age. He was arrested In the Choctaw Ma
ton.