National Republican., 1882-08-31
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Ke lucky has l,7l5 miles of railway.
Houston, Texas, wants a high school for colored
youth
Virginia has already funded over $500, 600 under
the new law.
Fair Promise aud Never Pay are the names OF
two precincts In Tennessee.
The Mexican veterans of Missouri hold their
annual reunion at Sedala, September O.
Mrs. L. G. Coburn, a lady of San Antonio, Texas,
has 10000 silkworms at work in her yard
Diphtheria is raging to an alarming extent in
some portions of Pittsylvania County. Virginia.
II is sail that twenty-thTec counties in Northern
Texas VIII this year raise 200 900 bales of cotton.
Within the last fifteen years Atlanta, Ga. has
expended for permanent church. Improvements
over 81, 100000.
Cane cutting is expected to commence about
October at Houston, Texas and by the 5th sirups
will be on the market.
The dog;tay fund of Fauquer County, Virginia.
has paid all claims for sheep killed by dogs during
the fiscal year ending LIST of July, 1882.
Captain X. j. Hancock, of Albemarle County,
Virginia has sold the two. year old colt EllSt, full
brother to Eole, to f. Gebbard, of New York, for
$4,000 cash.
James Stewart. of occohaneck Neck, Va, died
lew years ngo at the age of Ill. He had seven
wives, the wife Of his last marriage being younger
than the first.
Dr. J. NJ. Blanton, of the agricultural bureau, of
Virginia, says that the acreage planted in tobacco
in the State is about so per cent and that the con-
ditloD OF the crop is about 100 per cent.
Dallas City, Texas, Is building FIVE public school
houses ht u COSt OF S0,OUU eacO. san Antonio is
erecting high school at cost of $4,000. Corsi.
cana has Just built two school houses ut cost of
sl2, 600 each, and Austin needs one in the eastern
part of the city ut cost of $4,000.
The Columbia Is. C.) REGISTER says: "Mr j. NJ
Crawford exhibited yesterday stalk of the "Milo
South American maize,' which he estimates will
yield at least 200 bushels to the acre. The fodder
is abundant and tender and the seed is said to
make good bread -four, and is greatly relshcd
by poultry and stock ofevery kind.
In the list of patents issued for the week ending
fhn Nl1fNNts
ginia: Mathew A. Sims. Warrenton, spark AR
roster; Hiram NJ. Smith, Richmond, press Robert
". TrayloT, Richmond. journal bearing and box
inkstand; Robert w. Traylor, assignor to N s.
Harsrove, Richmond, machine for reducing mica
for the manufacture of starch, &c.
A telegram from Rocky Mount, N. c. to Chief
Post. .Onice Inspector john Frey, at Atlanta, Ca,
states that at that place on Monday Post.O Office In
speetor Booth and Lund arrested Postmaster Pen
nington, charged with rfing registered packages
passing through that office. Penniugtons pccu- :
laiions extend back only about month, but in
that time he is said to have stolen over 81 000 most
OF which was money order funds. The ins pect-
| orS say the evidence is conclusive.
Captain Carson, Of Griffin, Ga, has some peach
trees of which the foliage is perfectly black, and
| the peaches are also black until half size, when
| they change into white. These peaches are now
ripe and are not unlike other white clingstoneS.
| The trees were brought from a North Carolina
nursery for Early Amsden June, but, like a good
many other trees bought of foreign nurseries, they
are about rs far from what they were represented
as they well could be-Grt6in (Gd,) NeiCS
Georgia is progressing in its agriculture as well
| as in manufactures. The estimated corn crop this
year IS 350U0,OOO bushels which is nearly double
what 1t was last year. The cotton crop increased
from 93i ba in 1870 to sl4S9S bales in 1880,
and there has been steady increase in the num-
ber OF nearly all kinds of farm animals pecu-
liarly gratifying feature in the agricultural condi
ton of the State is the multiplication Of small
farms. In 1870 there were 69y56 farms in the
State ;:in 1850 there we're lSSG26 The largest pro;
portion OF farms are between 100 and 900 acres, and
the next largest between twenty and fifty acres.