The Osceola times., 1876-01-15
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
UTH AND WEST.

| commission is now composed of Mr.. A.
Moscley, of Richmond, DIR. W. b. Robertson,
Of Lynchburg, and Professor NJ. c. Ellsey,
of Blacksburg, who have been extremely ac-
tive in the discharge Of their duties, although
with very limited appropriation at their
command. The report is very creditable to
them, and shows a comprehension OF the
problem to be solved in regard to the pro-
lection and multiplication Of food fishes in
Virginia As might have been expected, the
shad and the striped aud black bass received
special attention on their part. Much also
has been done in regard 10 the Introduction
Of the California salmon, that fish of the
future. They obtained large number of
eggs from the United States Fish Commission
for which they established two Matching
houses, one at Blacksburg college and the
other at the Virginia Military Institute, and
they propose to have others hereafter at the
University of Charlottesville and at the
Hampden school, at IIampden, whenever
their funds viii permit. The young fish will
probably be soon introduced into their new
quarters IN appropriate streams in Virginia.
The Commissioners also did what they could
toward propagating the shad, although the
season was unfavorable for the fullest meas
ure of success.
| A factory for the manufacture of a
new explosive, said to be ten times more
powerful than giant powder, is to be started
at Virginia City, Nevada.
The storehouse of Walter Caldwell, in
Argenta opposite Little Rock, was burned
Saturday night by the explosion OF coal
| oil lamp. Loss, twenty-five hundred dollars;
! insured for seventeen hundred dollars in the
insurance agency of J. T. Trezevsnt
Advices from Kansas City state that
Harvey county has brought sui, against
| ex-county treasurer Munger for ten thousand
dollars. the amount in which he is alleged to
| be defaulter.
Bill Smith, a notorious criminal and
desperate, escaped from the penitentiary at
Nashville Sunday night He had served
only two of his twenty-six Yeas sentence.
The semi-annual report Of the Michi-
can central railroad for the half year ending
January list shows the total receipts to be 49,
S73,2ls, and the operating expenses nearly
s., ,SSS,s7G
A telegram from Fort Sully states that
a party of miners have found sucply depot
near old St. Pierre, on the Missouri river,
and are constantly in communication with
camps on the Black Hills. They claim to
have found new route by which the hills
are reached in one hundred miles travel,
over easy road. Their messengers make the
! trip in two days.
New Orleans owes or is charged with
municipal debt OF more than 100000.
The eity's default on interest last year was
| 81, 29j,O57 its deficit on appropriations for
| interest this year, 81 ,2i2, 800; ON appropria-
tions for schools and police, s956,22o, max
ing q total deficit for 1875 and 1876 of s2,-
| 69S,777. The delinquent taxes uncollected
| for the last six years amount to s2,S52, i75G6.
A dispatch from San Diego says that
Colonel MINI, with the Sonora state troops,
attacked the main body Of the iagra In
dians at Pittshalla, on the third OF Deeem-
| ber and routed them with loss Of about
two hundred killed and wounded, The
Mexican loss was twenty wounded
The health experience os New Orleans,
according 10 the last report, proves, On
the data of the last eight years, the entire
feasibility of confning yellow fever TO the
places where it first appears by strict disin-
| fection. The total mortality from ordinary
diseases is much greater among the colored
than among the white population of the city
nearly double.
The internal revenue agent superin-
tending the government sales of lands in
South Carolina, for the non-payment of di-
rect taxes, reports that the town property in
Beaufort, South Carolina, belonging to the
government, was sold, December 30th for
$500, considered fair price. The sales at
Hilton Head and Sea Island were to be com
menced Immediately.
There are excellent prospects for fast
mail service between Louisville and New
Orleans.
II is said to be fact that convicts in
the Ohio penitentiary have, during an un.
known period, been manufacturing counter
felt nickel coin out of an amalgam used in
plating harness in the shops. The counter,
felt coin is a good imitation Of The genuine,
the main difference being in the upper part
of the shield, which is barred in the genuine
and smooth in the spurious. The base coins
are all dated 1870, and il Is impossible to tell
how much has been put in circulation.
The twenty-c cent pieces have proved a
failure in California. The San Francisco
Post SAYS: " Nobody seems to want either to
pass or to receive them, and in some mysterious
manner they disappear and go back to the
mint. and though destitute of such a coin,
We will reckon in bits for all our small trans
actions.
Utah has one Gentle 10 five mormons.
Nevada has population of 5O,5iO.
Taxpayers in Chicago are perfectly
frantic over their rates, which are six per
cent. on full valuation for city and state.
Everything of a taxable nature is taxed in
Chicago, and a man who does business there
is kept chronically on the ragged edge.