National Republican., 1882-07-29
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Goliad, Texas, viii build a cotton.soe oil mill.
Lexington, KY, is to have a temperance daily
paper.
Corn is selling for forty cents per bushel in Bas-
trop, Texas.
CocKe County Tennessee, comes 10 tho font
with a five. cared cat
On Monday Chattanooga, Tenn, shipped 1850
pounds of fruit TO Cincinnati.
On Tuesday patent was issued TO John II. Cha.
taiguo, Of Richmond, Va, for e scales for printed
matter"
Four Mormon missionaries are conducting revi-
walls In Lawrence County, Alabama, with consd-
rable success.
James NJ. Blckers has been commissioned post.
master at Lynnwood and Tilghman b, Je'er at
Coonsyille, Va
The Basic Land Company, of Switzerland, has
closed contract for s25,O0O worth Of land in Will
son County, Texas.
William r.. Claxton has been commissioned
postmasterat billiards. Wharf, and Joseph Howard
Smith at Oyerton, Va.
Houston, Texas, will build drawbrdge across
Buffalo Bayou TO secure the Southern Pacific Rail-
road shops. The bridge will be of iron and will
cost S5l 800
ColonerGore, of Cedar Key, Fla, Is a very in
dustrious man, and Is reaching out for a ior,une
He Is editor newsdoaer city clerk, board of health
clerk, State and county tax collector, ex- assem-
blyman, and last, but not least, planter.
Seth Carey, op old Texan aud member OF the
Texas Veteran Association, died at his home on
Cedar bayou recently at the ripe old age OF seventy
six years. Mr.. Carey was n native of Vermont,
aud went TO Texas In 1885 n soldier In tho Texan
army, and settled in that State when the war was
over
The Cotton Improvement Company contemplate
establishing at Hogansville, Troup County, Ga,
model cotton ginnery, with capacity OF thirty
five bales per day. The establishment viii cover
an acre of ground, and the machinery Will be so
arranged that when the cotton starts at one point
II will not stop until 1t comes out packed bale.
The survivors of the Eighth Tennessee Confed-
crate Regiment, have invited the surviving mem
bers OF the Sixteenth Forty first and Forty. fourth
Regimenlsto TO take part with them IN their reunion
to be held tho 3Dth of RpufrO Station
six miles north of Fayetteville, on the Duck River
Valley Railroad. All interesting time is antici.
patcd,
@. Braune, of Eutaw, Ala hos a solid gold
medal-one Of 200 struck--which is about $50
years old. 1t was made at the conclusion OF the
great thirty-year war in the Netherlands, aud
commentaries the success of Protestants In that
long and desperate struggle against the power Of
Spain and the Roman Church. These medals are
Justly regarded as precious heirlooms among the
Protestant people of Germany.
The St. Louis Journal of agriculture and Firmer
Is responsible for the f9llowing: "A pig recently
has become extraordinarily expert In the use of It's
fore legs. When In no particular hurry 1t draws
itself along on its hind quarters, but when 1t is
question of getting to the trough at feeding time
the singular beast balances itself upon It's fore feet
and trots along with the happiest combination of
grace and efficiency"
The Jefferson County (Ala) Iron Age says NJ.
DeIardeleben has now purchased the property
known as the Henry Ellen Coal Company, which
is situated In the Cdhaba coal fields and MS there
is some doubt as to the immediate completion Of
the Georgia Pacific Railroad through to this point
he and his friends associated in the Henry Ellen
Coal Company have determined to build first
class broad gauge railroad with steel rails for dis
tance of about fourteen miles so to develop the
| property purchased.
By a recent decision of the supreme court of
| Texas, affirming the validity of The charter and
franchises of the International and Great Northern
| Railway, the company is secured fr, edom from
state county, aud municipal taxation for term of
| years. The immunity was for twenty-five years
| from tho date Of compromise on the road then
| built, and for twenty-five on road subsequently
built, dating from its acceptance. 1t already saves
the company about s50l0OO per annum, and will
save it sum amounting to millions before tho full
| term of exemption has expired.