The Osceola times., 1876-09-02
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

| plus wheat THIS season at SIX hundred tons.
The rice hands of Beaufort, s. c., hav
struck for higher wages.
The east branch penitentiary is TO b
built at Rusk, Tesas,
W. II. Hunt has been appointed attor
ney-general Of Louisiana, vice Fields, de
| ceased.
Two companies of United States tr,op
from Mcpherson Barracks, Atlanta, hav,
been crde-ed TO rendezvous at Edgefiel,
courthouse.
The new rice crop is beginning to ar
rive at Charleston. s. C.
John Reardon, or Redding, one of tn,
Dallas, Texas, bank robbers, has been cap
tured.
The first bale Of cotton ffum NORTH
Carolina was sold at the New York cottor
exchange for i1H cents per pound.
Fifty-one workmen from Paris, Bor
desux, Havre, Marseilles, Lyons aud othel
cities in France. sent BY the French govern
ment to Visit the exhibition at Philadelphis
And study the improvements which are max
ing in the different trades they represent
have arrived.
This IL about the tenor Of the harvest
report from Wisconsin: Harvest is nearly
over, and while the chnch big has done
some dar'esc, Yet wheat will be nearly an
Average crop. Oats were never better, rye
good, and a splendid outlook for corn. Al
together, the farmers have no reason to com.
plain.
II is now reported that the prospect
for an abundant cranberry crop in the st..
Croix Valley, Miss, was never more prom.
Using. It is stated that the crop this year
will pay tor all the improvements made on
improved marshes. The berry crop this year,
so far, has been good.
The Nashville American says: "Three
hundred and sixty barrels of Irish potatoes
We're forwarded to New York city in one
day for shipment to Cuba where there is a
good demand for them. One Of our David.
son county farmers cleared 5000 on forty
acres Of potatoes, which he sold in June.
This gentleman came here two or three years
ago without cent in his..pockets."
The cutoff in the Mississippi river at
vicksburg, Miss, does not as yet leave that
city "high and dry" The vicksburg Her
aid says; "Just az we predicted before il
occurred, the cutoff has been a benefit 10
the city instead of an injury. lthas relieved
the suspense iu regard to the matter, with
out inflicting, as vet, the least damage, and
with nothing worse to fear in the future than
possibly small outlay to keep the harboI
clear"
A general order from the war depart.
ment directs Col. Ruger, on assuming com'
mand Of the department Of the south, on OF
about September /, to transfer the headquar.
ters Of the department to Atlanta, Ga. The
companies of the second infantry, now in the
department of the gulf, will be transferred
to the department of the south and head.
quarters, and the companies of the sixteenth
infantry, now in that department, will be
transferred to the department Of the gulf.
The south pass jetty company has an
official report IRON E. L. Carthell, chief as.
sistant engineer, at the south pass jetties,
stating that careful and exhaustive survey,
in which more than seven hundred sound
ings were taken on the very crest of the bar,
was made on the 14th, showing clear chan
mel twenty feet deep at average flood tide,
with at least width of forty feet. When the
width OF the channel reaches two hundred
feet, the company will be entitled to their
first payment from the government.
The Turkish minister at Washington,
Aristarchi Bey, has received an official declar.
alton by the Turkish government, dated the
10th, giving the history of the beginning Of
the hostilities with Servia and Montenegro,
representing that the Porte was compelled
10 repel aggression by force, and that the
Porte had religiously adhered to the treaty
OF Paris, and that the onus of having broken
their treaty stipulations rests on the princes
Of servia and Montenegro.
Strenuous efforts of the English and
German iron firms, says the Springfield Re
publican, to supply the rolling stock of Bra
lillian railways have failed to get the trade
away from American manufacturers. The
American goods are preferred for their quail
ity, after trial of the European, and the
expectation of our locomotives and cars has
revived, one brig carrying out parts Of twelve
common gauge and two narrow-gauge loco
motives and halfdozen cars, the other day
10 be assembled on arrival.