The Osceola times., 1876-02-12
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

Work has been commenced on an in.
sane asylum for the state of Arkansas.
A dispatch from Kansas says that six
horsc-thieves were hung at Solomon valley a
few days ago.
The Georgia house of Representatives
passed the bill calling constitutional con.
vention, but fixed its assemblagc for April
1877.
The Pacific trains are still .snow-bound
in Utah. Several uncessIul attempts have
been made to force way through. Give us
Texas Pacific.
The court of appeals at st. Louis har
affirmed the decision Of the lower court that
the Missouri state lottery is Illegal. This
ease will probably go up to the supreme
court.
John Stallwagen, a private banker of
Buffalo, who suspended lately, has drowned
himself in the Erie basin. His body was
found frozen solid. His assets are $4,000,
liabilities Sl0s,O00
DIR. J. :. johnson, keeper of private
infrmary, at Memphis, was arresed last
week charged with killing Kate Mccormick
and her child, of Humboldt, in an attempt
TO produce abortion.
4 Louisville dispatch declares the
present food from the overflow Of the Ohio
in that vicinity the most damaging that has
occurred for years. Railroads have suffered
severely in all directions.
1t is reported that the negro assassin
Auguste, who killed Col. Oflut in st. Ian
dry parish, La, on the 23d of January was
forcibly taken from Jail shortly after his
arrest and hung in the presence of a large
crowd ofswhites and blacks.
The Indianians recently tried and con-
victed at Indianapolis for completely in
whisky frauds, were placed in the state
prison at Jefersonville Wednesday evening
The prisoners, previous to their present
trouble, occupied high positions, and were
numbered among the best citizens OF Evans
vile.
Hirman Harkelrode, of IIarkelrodc's,
and well known and wealthy planter living
25 miles below Memphis on the Mississippi
side, was waylaid and shot last week near
his home, the ball passing through both
lungs and inilictng wound probably NOR
tai. A negro recently discharged by ITarkcl.
rode is suspected.
The Pacific jockey club had meeting
Chance, Golden Gate, Katie Pcase, Revenue,
Jr., Grinstcad, Foster, Hook Hooking were
present, paid entrance money and settled all
the arrangements for the $4,000. The race
will come OH ON the 22d instant, IL n good
day and track; failing that on the next good
day. The meeting was harmonious and sat
sfactory. Wild Idle of the turf, Spring
Oak and Fannie Hall won't go.
Hon. Alexander II. Stephens writes to
a friend in Washington that he shall not be
able 10 take his seat in the house before
spring Other advices state that Mr.. stephens
is rapidly declining, and that his recovery is
not looked for. Mr.. Stephens has said that
he shall not resign, so that the seat will
remain vacant until his recovery or death.
The district represented by Mr.. Stephens
contains y large colored population, and the
result of a new election cannot be predicted.
Mr.. Stephens was elected without opposition.
Robert Austin, possessed of fiendish
desire to kill somebody and not particular
as TO his victim, deliberately murdered
Henry Greene, who had invited Austin to
his house to stay all night, in White county,
Tennessee, last Sunday night. After firing
the first and fatal shot, as the body was fall
ing, Austin steaded it with one hand and
drove bullet crashing through the dead
mans temple, the blood and brains spatter-
alike. But Austin was not yet satisfied with
his fiendish work. Still holding the body
up in his grasp, he sent third ball through
Greene's heart, pushed the mutiated corpse
from him, leaped upon his horse and rode
away.
A telegram from Wells, Nevada, SAYS
the west bound train, due in San Francisco
Tuesday evening, attempted to force the
blockade to day.with twelve engines and
snow w-plows, but stuck in the first cut west of
Toano. The train was hauled back to Toano
aud will lay there until the weather moder.
ates. The wind is blowing a gale and the
snow is drifting badly on Peoquop range,
where the railroad crosses. The tea that
arrived by the last Pacific steamer is lying
here awaiting more favorable weather A
Green river, Wyoming, telegram says nas-
sencer train and pay-car left that place going
west this morning. Both are stuck in the
snow near Bridger station. The passenger
train bound east has been abandoned for
to-day.