The Osceola times., 1876-08-12
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

A gentleman in Floyd county, ia,
destroyed two hundred and fifty bushels Of
grasshoppcrs by driving them into lime
sink in his field.
The funded debt of Savannah il put
down at over $S,700,0o0 and the rate Of tax.
ation is represented TO be so burdensome as
in some cases to absorb all the revenue de-
rived from real estate.
Runners are reported arrived at Red
Cloud agency, said to have come from Crazy
Horses band of Minneconjous, stating that
that chief, with portion of his band had
left Sitting Bulls domains, and they are en-
route to the agencies, avowcdly TO treat for
peace.
Texas has millions of bushels of wheat
for export, and the entire south will come SO
near TO raising their own b,cadstulls this
year that the occupation Of many produce
dealers in st. Louis and other western cities
supply herself very soon.
The Mississippi valley direct trade
with.Brazil project, which has lately been
engaging so much attention at st. Louis and
New Orleans, seems to have fallen through
chiefly owing TO what the st. Lonis Com.
mercial Gazette calls the indifference Of the
"sleepy capitalists, merchants and manuiac-
turers of those two cities"
A mother of four children in New Or
leans has been convicted of regularly send
ing them out TO steal. BY practice they be-
came very expert, and the profit of their
theiving enabled the woman to buy house
and live comfortably. She devoted herself
to the sale of the stolen articles and the gen.
eral direction Of the children.
News comes from Red Cloud agency
that some dissatisfaction is felt by the In
dians at the meager supply of food, which
consists entirely of corn, flour and beef.
They insist on sugar, coffee and tobacco, in
fulfillmcnt of treaty stipulations, and further
attribute the departure from the agencies of
those who have joined hostilities to this
fact, rather than to the desire for war.
An official telegram from Camp Brown,
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sent out from here report hostile Indians
moving to the southeast. They traced then
from the head Of Crazy Woman Fork to the
head of Little Powder river. Their number
is not known, but it is believed to be large"
This ccrroborates the reports received from
other sources that large number OF Indians
are doubtless making for the agencies.
An immense cotton factory will soon
be opened in Atlanta, Ga. The buildings are
of sufficient capacity for 81 800 spindles and
five hundred looms, and one.half Of the ma
chinery is nearly completed.
A little girl, child of parents living in
a healthy locality ON one of the ridges near
Pensacola, had an attack of yellow fever
which much puzzled the physicians, as there
was then no yellow fever in the city, nor had
she and her playmates been in contact with
any one from there. After her recovery she
described a game OF "hide and SEEK" where
she hid under an old sail so cunningly that
she could not be found. The sail had been
imported from New Orleans during the epi.
demic OF previous season.
Along the st. Johns river, in Florida,
the estimates of the orange crop have been
reduced one-half, and the young trees are
said to be dying by scores on account of the
dry season.
Grasshoppcrs are spreading in Georgia
and creating great alarm among the planters.
The Custer monument fund amounts
now to nearly four thousand dollars, and is
being increased steadily.