The Osceola times., 1876-09-16
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST

| '"f iioih nNufopuobld.
Georgia shipped by her various rail-
roads 239, $50 watermelons in 1873, and only
isl,754 this year.
There were shipped from Charleston,
). c., last week, 7,ls0 barrels of resin, most
OF it going to Rotterdam and Liverpool.
The price of picking cotton in Georgia
is forty cents'per hundred, without rations
in Mississippi and Arkansas sixty cents, or
fifty cents with rations.
Macon, Ga, expects to receive the
coming season, 10000 bales of cotton, against
| $4,000 last, ard Columbus expects 65,C00
against $1,000.
The lumbermen of Minneapolis re.
port that there are 10000 feet of logs on
their hands. They regard the lumber mark
ct as overstocked.
Gen. JEFF. Thompson, of New Orleans,
died last week at his old hcme, st. Joseph,
No, where he had been visiting for his
health for some time past.
The salt Lake courts have ordered ex-
ecution to be issued on Brigham Youngs
horses, carriages and other goods, to satisfy
al attachment for three thousand six hun
dred dollars alimony due Ann Eliza, his
nineteenth wife.
In order to obtain this information have
written to the auditors of the cattle-growing
states and territories for the actual number
of cattle assessed in the year 1850, also for
the number in 1875, in order to show the in.
crease in fifteen years.
The cattle trade of the southwest and
west has grown to be one of the great factors
to the general business properties of the
country. The following table made by a
correspondent of the Kansas City Price Cur.
rent Of last month shows how much this
branch of industry has grown. We quote
from his letter:
Charleston Is. C.) News and Courier !:
A little duck, while swimming in a pond
near the Savannah aad Charleston railroad
depot, day or two ago, was caught by the
foot by an oyster, and, as the tide was COM
ing up, would have been drowned had not
its cries attracted the attention of work.
man, who released it from its uncomfortable
situation.
There is a chance that the new naval
rendezvous, which is to take the place Of
three or more navy yards, will be located at
Tybee or Cockspur island, or on the coast of
Georgia. These points meet with some favor
among prominent naval officers, as either OF
those islands afford superior natural advan'
| tages for such rendezvous. The Savannah
river being fresh water is considered TO be
| the most suitable harhor for our iron-clads
as the deterioration Of that class of vessel.
is not so great in fresh as salt water. The
location of the islands is such that they
could be easily defended in ease of trouble
with any foreign power.
Intelligence, by way of Bismarck is,
that on the 3lst of August Crook was near
Glond:ne, south of the Yellowstone, en- route
to Glendine for supplies. Terry was on the
north side or the Yellowstone, fifteen miles
below Glendine, marching towards the Mis-.
souri. Eight miles below him the Josephine
saw q large fresh trail leading north, which
ten. Terry should have struck September
lst. The Josephine reports. thirty inches of
water in the Yellowstone on the 30th inst,
with fifteen inches on the rapids, which she
passed over at that stage. The Far West is
above the rapids, and will winter in the
Yellowstone.
The vital statistics of Charleston are
attracting good deal of scientific attention
in other parts OF the country. According to
the census the colored population of Charles
ton exceeds the white by only ten per cent,
and yet the deaths stand as follows for the
year ending June 80, 1876: Whites, 6i2;
colored i,2i0 OF the colored there were 466
deaths under one year, while the whites un-
der one year were only $50. In Richmond,
Va, during the week ending Saturday, July
18TH there died eleven whites and twenty.
one blacks. The death rate thus is thirteen
in one hundred for the whites and twenty
eight for the blacks. A Rich mond exchange
says that the summer is more fatal proper.
tionately to the whites than blacks, which
would make the above difference more
strongly marked Tor the whole year. In the
country districts il is probably not so bad
.Sarannsh Ne,S.
All Of the following states and territories
have furnished me the official report for
1875 and some for 1860, but those who could
not give me the number for 1860 have got
ten from the interior department. at Wsshing.
ton, and other reliable sources, as follows:
States. 1860 1873
Illinois ,,25.'0 l,ash C10