The Osceola times., 1876-10-28
LATEST NEW S.
SOUTH AND WEST.

Mrs. Van Cott is stirring up sinner
ia Texas.
Six Savannah policemen have died o
the fever.
Darien, Ga, wants physician. Tn
common want.
Judge Shaefer of salt Lake, decide
that Brigham must pay Ann Eliza that lIttl,
amount of alimony.
A late Charleston circular puts tn,
present rice crop of Georgia and South Car
olina at 75,500 tierces, or about five per cent
more than any crop since the war
The Corpus Christi (Tex.) Gazette
keeps up its fire upon the regular Sunda'
bull-Gghts Just outside the town limits, bu
the bulls continue to sprinkle dirt on the
backs and gore one another as of yore.
Deaths from yellow fever in Savannah
alone, from September to October H. wer,
seven hundred and twenty.six, an average o
eighteen per day. 1t is estimated that The
population has been reduced by refugees
about 5000.
A correspondent of the Florida Asri
cuturst urges the owners of groves in Or
ango county to pay more attention TO pm,
apple culture. Unlike the orange, tn,
rooted plants come into bearing in year
and profitable crop can always be grown
between the young orange trees.
Corpus Christi (Tcx.) Gazette: Ar
| g Al, l.,
conceived a new plan for obtaining liyeli
hood. It is nothing more than peddling OF
live meat from door to door through the city
Young kids are driven in flock and sold to
customers at their doors for the moderate
sum of thirty-seven and half cents each.
Norfolk Virginian: 1t is rumored
that the colonization society is preparing tc
send out to Liberia from thirty TO fifty col
ored emigrants next month. The secretary
at Washington City is now in correspondence
with Messrs. b. & J. Backer & Co., with O
view of securing their passage on The bark
entine Resolution, which is to sail for Cape
Palmas, Africa, at an early period.
Richmond Whig: For the week end
ing Saturday the shipments of flour from
Richmond to foreign ports aggregate s,9Si
barrels, valued at So, 1915. The number
of barrels exported the previous week was
1857, showing an excess of ,2SO barrels foi
the week ending the fourteenth inst. With
the exception Of one cargo Of 2,467 barrels
bound for st. Johns, Newfoundland, all III,
above mentioned are bound to Brazilian
ports.
Norfolk Landmark: Passengers on the
"Valley Railroad" are attracted daily by the
conduct ola large and intelligent dog waiting
by the roadside for the daily newspaper
which was formerly thrown to him from the
baggage car for his master, who lived half q
mile from the rails. The master has been
dead many months, but the faithful dog has
not missed the mail train day since. There
Is no paper for that master now, but some
times the baggage man, in pity for the dog
tosses paper to him as the train rushes by,
which he eagerly seizes and starts ioyfully
over the hills for home. When the train
rushes by and no paper is thrown he rushes
wildly up aud down the track, gazing after
the cars with an almost human look of dis.
appointment, and joys deiectly homeward.
A dispatch from the camp on Am
phibious creek, Black Hills, October 18th,
via Fort Laramie, october 10th, says: Gen
eral Merritt, with all the best horses in the
Fifth cavalry, left here this morning, taking
sixty selected men from the Second and one
hundred and twenty from the Third cavalry,
ten DAYS rationS and one hundred and fifty
rounds Of carbine and twelve pounds OF pis-
tol ammunition per man, cn route Tor the
fork of the Cheyenne river, whore a large
band of Indians, led by Crazy Horse and
other h6stiles, are reported in winter camp.
The troops are in three detachments, ofiicered
by Captain Peale and Lieutenat Hall, Cap
tains Monnahan and Won Nhcist and Lieu.
tenants King and Snead. No wagons were
taken, and the rations are carried by pack
mules. The four hundred fresh horse,
which reached here day before yesterday with
recruits for the Fifth cavalry, will be used
in rcmoun,ing the old soldiers of this reg
ment, who will accompany General Meritt'
| nying column.