National Republican., 1882-07-05
souTHERu NOTES,

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Six eolored men sit on the grand jury at Browns
General J. h. Weaver IS weaving Greenback ar
| guments in Texas.
A chair factory at Marietta, Ca, has sold los 900
| chairs in the past year.
| An t-mill the first In tho South is to be es.
| tablished ut Sumter, g. @.
matrimonial insurance company has bton
organized at Bainbridge, Co.
| Sixteen thousand men are now engaged in con-
| structing railroads in Florida.
| And now Atlanta, Ga, is talking of establishing
| shoe factory on large scale.
Six Norman missionaries are on their way from
| Utah TO Tennessee after converts.
One of the richest mica mines in the world has
| been discovered near Athens, Ga.
Four hundred and forty. lone pounds of tea have
| been raised on one acre Of ground In Georgia
All the Offices in the capitol building at Rich.
| mond, Va were closed July by order OF GOV.
crior Cameron
| The Crescent Rifles, of New Orleans, La, won
me nrst prize OF l,5OO at the competitive drill in
Louisville, KY, last week.
Tho statue of Henry Clay has been removed from
| the Capitol Square, at Richmond Va and after
having been cleaned and repaired 1t Will be
| placed in the capitol building.
A man In Florida has grated In q fruit tree six
| varieties of the citrus family. Growing from the
| stump may be seen shaddocks, lemons, lines,
citrons, sweet and sour oranges
The North Carolina Oil aud Guano Company at
| Lenoxyille proposes TO be ready for business in
sixty days, with factory of the capacity o from
| ~ w iivV' hsh psi uuy' hbOul iOIly nuuuS Will
| be employed.
The State of Georgia still gives away land within
her borders to actual settlers for the fee exactod In
| colonial times aud grants head rights under The
same conditions that existed In the days of General
| Oglethrope.
Presley Nelms is the Oldest citizen 0. Monroe
| County, Georgia, being 10i years of age. 10 yet
chops with an ux, uses the hoe, and can get about
with surprising activity. He has aliving son over
| 10 years old.
An iron furnace with a capacity of forty tons is
/ to be built Il .ds "a. by the MpssrS
| lord, Of New Castle, Pa, ana which, IL is ex.
pected will DO IN operation before the close Of the
| Mecklenburg, Cabarus, Rowen and Wilson
| Counties, North Carolina, report cotton blooms
the first on the 26th of June In the last two coun.
| ties This shows the blooms to be IL to IA days
| later than last year.
July Sd, at Brenham, Texas, C. W. Johnson,
| young man recently IRON Kentucky was shot in
| Christian, aged 49, The cause was an alleged
scandal put in circulation by tho deceased.
The Hillsyille Sva) Wrgtn!Gn says that the root
| and herb establishment of Banks & Son in that
place is the largest OH this continent 5000 pounds
| OF roots Icing taken in every week. Within n
radius OF thirty miles there are over 1000 var les
Of medicinal floral, OF which over 200 ptcm ms
| have been collected
A novel but profitable industry in the noun
tains oi North Carolina and East Tennessee is that
| OF collecting roots (mosty aure). The roofs are
| shipped 10 Philadelphia and Boston, and used ior
| the Manufacture of door knobs and pipe. bowls.
The roots fl, quently weigh from Is to 150 pounds
| There is constant demand, and tho prices are
| paid for them by the ton.
| Among the cotton States Mississippi stands flrst
| in production, sixth in population and yield per
| acre. Twenty seven per cent. OF the cotton pro-
duced In the State comes from tho Yazoo bottom.
| while oyer one. half OF tho whole is produced in
what might be termed the iirst. class upan viz:
| the tableland bordering the Mississippi bluff and
| the two prairie belts
A singular and fatal accident occurred recently
| near Greenville, s. G. no e ba sIn4Hmc, an old
| cOlored woman, went 10 the death bed her sou.
| IN law who had died S on after her arrival. soon
| alter his death she began rr pairing his remains
| for burial. While nus engaged thunder storm
came up but she did not dcslst ana st.ll remained
| by the body, the door OF the house having been
allowed to remain unclost despite The rain. Sud.
| denly there WIS vivid fash Of lightning followed
| struck down by tho dreadful current, Her body
| was much mnngicd ana toin aud death " as .p.
| paTently instantaneous.