The Osceola times., 1876-04-15
LATEST NEWS.
SOsiTBs AND WEST.

SOUTH AND WEST.
The present agitation of the Chinese
immigration question in California, is likcl,
to result in bloody riots.
Mississippi will be represented at the
centennial by handsome building, com
posed Of every variety OF wood grown in the
state.
The Security bank, of Washington, has
closed and will go into liquidation. Liabili'
ties about 100000, of which $53,00O are due
dcpositors
The Vue de Leau hotel, a noted sum.
mer resort at IIowePs Point, Hampton
Roads, burned last week. Loss, $4,000
insurance, sl5,00O
The California legislature has passed a
bill abandoning tuition in languages and
music in the public schools. The two cost
in San Francisco $4,000.
The will of Mrs. Edward Creighton,
the widow of a millionaire of Omaha, Neb.,
bequeaths 100000 to found and support n
Roman Catholic school in Omaha.
Burton Hendrick, formerly secretary
to Gov. Warmoth, Of Louisiana, was found
dead in his room, in st. Louis, last week, with
an empty chlorform bottle at his side.
The Georgia press generally report
| that the late cold spell was not as damaging
in that state as at first apprehended. In
many sections fair fruit crop is expected.
Rice-growing upon Cape Fear, North
Carolina, has became nearly extinct Only
| 1000 bushels were raised last year, agains'
an annual product Of 100000 bushels be- .o,,,
the war.
A man named Jones was shot md
killed by A. p. Mitchell in :. personal rem.
centre at Traskwood, tw'y i've mils : soutb ot
Little Rock, on the st. louis o..d Iron Noun
tain and Southern railway. last week.
The Cons Jlidated Virginia mine has
just divide a its thi.. teenth monthly dividend
oi si'oS 1000 geld! In twenty.three months
the ' zine bis taken out s3O,Oo0,O0O OF treas.
".e, ard divided si7 $4,000 of profits.
The supreme court of Tennessee sen.
fenced l.. A. Gilbert to be hanged at Fayette.
vile, May 29th, for the murder Of VIM. John.
son, blind magic-lantern Snowman. The
prisoner received his sentence with laughter
Elizabeth 7. Greenfield, colored
singer, famous throughout the country some
years ago, under the name of the Black
wan, died in Philadelphia last week, at the
age of sixty-eight. She was born slave in
Georgia, but was manumitted while child
The property of the South branch dis
tiIlery company, Chicago, owned by Haas
Powell X Co., has been declared forfeited
to the government. Simon Powell pleaded
guilty Of conspiracy to defraud the govern
mcnt. Indictments as to other members o
the firm were dismissed.
In the Ohio house bills were passed
to confer police power upon conductors o
railroad trains and to compel them to eject
three card-monte men and other sharper,
practcng their vocations, from the trains
and also to forbid employment of children
under fourteen years of age as gymnasts oil
public singers.
Col. Edward p. Jones, a prominent
resident Of Canton, Miss, and now widely
known throughout The saaih, temporarily
located at indianapolis, engaged in intro
ducing his several patent inventions, com
mitted suicide oy taking hydrate Of chloral
Report says, business trouble, coupled viii
excess. ye drink, was the cause.
The United States engineer in charg'
q n 10
coast, is now constructing harbor in eros
, tide some six miles above the city Of Savan
nah, in order to defect from its natura
course large portion of the waters of thu
, Savannah river. The Charleston chamber o
commerce protests against it, as threatening
the commercial interests of the city and th'
, rice Of plantations of the coast.
A Kansas City special states that dur
r ing the snow storm last week Mrs. Geo. Hol
+, lon and two little children, living near Wa
, mego, Kansas, on the line Of the Kansa
Pacific railway, started to go to neighbor'
: house, only quarter of q mile distant
/, Darkness coming on and the storm beatini
;, them so furiously, they became bewildere'
and wandered about the prairie until cS
/ hausted They were found frozen to deaf
!. not twenty yards from the house they wer
a in search of. The mother had taken o
!. nearly all her clothes TO protect the children
and was herself in an almost naked col
u dition.
II The annual report of the stockholder
c of the Langley manufacturing company is a
e encouraging exhibit. II shows that there
y certain profit in cotton manufacturing in tn
II south, even in these times of depression an
d dullness in trade. The profits for the yea
were s35,2i4 from which had to be deducte
$i,O37 for interest, and sls,9Os to repair th
r losses by fire last year-leaving sl2,164 I
Is net profits. 1t will be remembered that on
'f portion Of the property, with consderab
J. stock, were destroyed by Ere, caused i
y lightning, a few months ago. No dividen
y was declared, as the company are applyin
= profits to an increase OF the capital stocl
n The Langley mills are situated in Soui
If Carolina, near Augusta, Ga.
Y The New Jersey legislature has d,