The Osceola times., 1876-06-03
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Osyka, Miss, is going TO build cotton
factory, and lis Port Gibson.
The corn crop Of Arkansas last year
was about eighty million bushels, while the
wheat produced amounted To sixteen mil.
lion bushels.
The Alabama supreme court has de.
cidsd that the Act Of March 7, 1876, provid.
ing for impeaching certain officers, is uncon.
stitutional.
The New Orleans Picayune says there
were twenty-nine negroes killed in Wilkin.
son county, Miss, during the recent distur.
Dances there.
The first sack of Texas -four, shipped
from Dallas to Galveston, sold at auction for
1896. IL was purchased by the Brazil coffee
importers. They will send it TO Dem Pedro,
Emperor Of Brazil.
A grand jury at Atlanta Ga, found a
true bill against the late state treasurer
Jones, for Illegally Withholding money from
the state TO the amount of $ll0275. Jones
was arrested and required to give bond for
$4,000.
Columbus, Ga, has shown more sub
stantial progress than any city in the south.
While Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Savannah
and other wealthy cities are talking about
building one cotton factory, Columbus has
erected six, and now has another in progress.
At Galveston, on the 23rd, fire lie
stroyed the Southwick building Ia threestory
brick corner OF Strand and Twenty-fourth
streets, and two wooden buildings adjoining.
The loss is estimated at one hundred thou.
sand dollars; partially covered by insur.
ance.
The Piedmont factory, on the Saluda
river in South Carolina, has just been COM
pleted, and is now in smooth running order,
making cloth equal in texture to the Gran
iteville factory. One. hundred hands are
employed, and the annual consumption OF
the raw material will be about four thousand
bales of cotton.
The house that Mississippi built on the
centennial grounds is composed Of every
variety OF wood that grows in that brave old
state-ffty-six in number. Forty-two kinds
will be used in the finish on the inside. Mr..
q. Berglund left McComb City on the sth
instant TO superintend the erection OF the
headquarter building for the centennial
board Of the state of Mississippi.
A large meeting of citizens interested
in rio. aud suyar pI.pt;p, In I ou;s;,na ,as
held at the chamber Of commerce, in New
Orleans, last week, in opposition to the IIa-
waiian treaty. Hon. Vim. NJ. Burwcll, Lieu
tenantGovernor G. c. Antoine, John &. Potts
aud Tobias Gibson were, appointed COM
mittee to proceed to Washington and urge
the defeat OF the Hawaiian treaty.
Hon. Thomas l.. Jones, of Kentucky,
has introduced a bill in the house to charter
railroad frsm Charleston, s. C., to Chicago.
The proposed road passes through the mid
die of Kentucky. The bill lprovides that the
government is to guarantee the bonds of the
company, payable in fifty years, 10 the
amount of $4,000 per mile, the principle
and interest lat per cent payable in gold
The bill will not come up for passage until
the next session Of congress.
The Port Eads correspondent of the
New Orleans Times thinks there is no rea-
son now why sailing ships as well as steamers
should not make use Of the jetties, and says
Captain Fauria, Of the Keyser, examined
the channel few days ago, and was SO
pleased with the results that he has decided
TO use the jetties hereafter. He deserves
great credit for his pluck and energy, and
has shown his confidence in the success of
the jettes by deciding to have this ship go
through here"