The Osceola times., 1876-07-22
LATEST NEWS.
MOUTH AND WEST.

;. ID. Linton, of Greene county, Geor-
gia, raises one hundred bushels OF oats per
acre.
The market at Houston, Texas, re-
Gently destroyed by fire was valued at one
hundred thousand dollars.
A telegram from San Francisco reports
general panic in mining stocks, and several
failures among brokers.
Two Primitive Baptist churches in
Randolph county, Alabama, exclude patrons
Of husbandry from their pale.
The loss experienced in the state of
Iowa, by the recent floods, amounts to one
million dollars.
Edward f. Hale, was shot and killed
last Saturday by Henry Shredder, at Mack
vile, on the Sunflower river, Mississippi.
Forty bodies of the victims of the
Rockdale, Iowa, disaster have been recov.
cred, leaving but one missing.
Seventy-fve thousand young shad
were deposited in the waters Of Pearl river,
near Jackson, Miss, recently, by the United
States fish bureau.
The recent food in the Brazos river
destroyed large amount Of property in the
counties of Palo Pinto Stephens and Shack.
leford, Texas.
Lieutenants Hogden and Mcintosh,
killed in the Custer fight with the Indians,
were both young and promising Georgians,
recent graduates of West Point, and still
beardless boys.
Four hundred and thirty prisoners are
now confined in the Tennessee penitentiary
at Nashville, while six hundred and twenty
are hired out in various portions of the state,
making the total namber of convicts one
thousand and fifty.
The first bale of Texas cotton, this
years growth, arrived at Galveston Sunday.
1t was raised by Mrs. NJ. Houseman, Of Mey.
ersville, Dewitt county, and weighed foar
hundred and twenty pounds, classed low
middling, sold for twenty-six cents, and was
shipped to New York.
Crop reports from two hundred and
thirty.eight points in Ohio, Indiana, illinois,
Ne ltucky and Tennessee, show that the sea-
son thus far has been very propitious for
growing most kinds of grain, but Just az har-
vest approaches there is threatened disaster
from continued rains. From all points, ex-
cept Tennessee and southern Kentucky,
fears of destruction of a portion of the
crops from this cause are entertained As
the crops now stand, wheat promises a yield
of two-thirds; oats less than an average crop;
corn AN unusually large crop; hay in abun.
dance, but rank and weedy. Wheat is suf.
fering considerably from the ravages of the
weevil.
The riot at Hamburg, South Carolina,
terminated disastrously TO the colored mil.
tIa, who set the law at defiance. A piece of
artillery was turned loose at the brick
house in which they were barricaded, re-
sulting in the death sf six, and wounding Of
three. The negroes abandoned the house,
and took refuge in cellars and outkouses.
Fifteen were captured. The unfortunate
affair is deplored by all good citizens of both
races, and there is deep regret that better
counsel did not prevail. Crowds of people
from Augusta visited Hamburg. Whites
and blacks intermingled freely. There were
no threats, but deep regrets that blood had
been shed and lives lost. No further trouble
is anticipated.
Returns from the various gran.pro-
ducing counties in California, which appear
in detail in the San Francisco Bulletin, are
Of the most encouraging nature. The uni
versal testimony from San Diego to Siskiyou
is that the rainfall last winter was abundant.
A few Of the coast counties have had too
much rain for successful grain culture, but
these counties do not figure in the aggregate
outturn Of grain. The spring weather was
Just es favorable. There were none of the
blighting uorthers to parch the soil and
wither the tender wheat plants. All the
wheat counties have also enjoyed remarka-
BILE freedom from rust. The west side of the
SAM Joaquin valley yields good:crop this sea-
son, the first in many years. The barley
crop this year.is unusually large, and the
surplus for export will be considerably
greater than ever before. The total acreage
of wheat is placed at 100000 acres; yield
24,776,OO0 centals, of which l4,902,OO0 is for
market, and of this amount there will proba-
bly, be lS,s75,000 centals for export The
total acreage Of barley is 900 acres; yield
iO,066, 900 centals, Of which 100000 will
probably be placed on the market; surplus
for export about 100000.