The Osceola times., 1876-10-07
LATEST NEWS,
SOUTH AND WEST.

savannah had received money contri
buttons amounting 20 ss6,5l4.ss up to the
twenty-fifth.
inere IRE six hundred convicts in the
MISS -ssippi penitentiary, and of the number
!. I've hundred and thirty-nine are African. OF
the male persuasion.
Charles Hendrick, of Des Arc, AK,
was snatched by the strong arm of the law
from twenty minutes sleep with his bride
and sent to the penitentiary for swearsng
falsely about her age.
AT POwhattan, Ark, one day last
week, Mrs. Morrison aimed blow with a
hatchet at the head of cold man Scott" her
stepfather, and killed her mother, an old
woman eighty years old.
Savannah (Ga.) News. There are
now more than six hundred lunatics in the
state lnnatic asylum. The institution is
greedy crowded, aud there are between sew
enty and one hundred applications for the
admission Of patients, for whom the author.
tiles are wholly unable to provide room.
captain P. f. Murphy, died near No.
bile last week, of apoplexy, whilst taking a
bath. When the war commenced, he was
commanding the receiving ship Pennsylva.
mia, a, Norfolk, but resigned and entered
the confederate service. He commanded
the Selma in the naval engagement below
Mobile, where he was wounded and cap.
tnraJ hy tho fadara1 forooa
Dispatches announce the sudden death
at Galveston, on the twenty seventh, of Gen.
Braxton Bragg. He was born in Warren
county, North Carolina, in 1915, and gradu.
ated at West Point in 1887 His earliest
military reput tion was gained in the Mexi.
can war "a little more grape, Captain
Bragg" making his name house hold word
throughout the union. In 1855 he retired
from the army. His services as a confeder.
ate leader are still fresh in the mind of the
country.
The Cherokees and other civilized In.
dians of the Indian Territory are greatly ex.
cited over the proposed removal OF the
Sioux into their country. They say the gov
ernmeni is again preparing to violate the
treaty stipulations by removing these In.
dians to their country without their consent
They characterize the action of the commits
sion, in agreeing TO give the Sioux homes in
the territory OF Oklahoma, as being similar
tho the one made by Satan on the mountain
1900 years ago. There will be united and
solemn protest made by all these people
against the consummation Of the alleged
outrage against the rights of the civilized, as
well as the Sioux Indians.
1t has been permanently settled that a
cantonement will be established at old Fort
Reno this winter, consisting Of four companies
of infantry two Of the Fourth, Captain Won
IIerman's from Fort Bridge, and Captain
Bisbee's, from Fort Ilartsufr; one of the
Twenty.Third from Camp Brown, and Cap
tain p locks company OF the Ninth infantry
from Fort Laramie; the latter will be per.
manent commander of the cantonement.
General Merritt, who is now in the vicinity
Of Deadwood, has been ordered to scout
across west to the Little Moon, on his way
south. BY the time he reaches Platte, or in
about two weeks, Crook is expected to have
a fresh command ready. to take the field in
person for vigorous campaign. General
M'Kenzie, with the Fourth an other cavalry
will probably compose the expedition.