The Osceola times., 1877-09-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
TIRE sSUgr.


crossing, Castroville, Texas, is as dry as a
powder.house.
Haywood, North Carolina, boasts of
tobacco leaves one yard long and twenty and
one.half inches wide.
A pear tree at Newbern, North Caro-
Ina, is in bloom for the third time this sea.
son. IL has grown two crops.
There were ten thousand persons pres.
ent recently at meeting at Lebanon church,
near Hillsboro North Carolina.
A narrow-guage railroad has been
chartered, running from Denison, Texas, TO
Sabine Pass, by the way of Lawrence.
Two thousand dollars of the Peabody
iund, awarded to San Antonio, Texas, lifts
that place out OF a strait in school matters.
A rattlesnake with genuine horns an
ihch long is on exhibition in Charlotte, North
Carolina. The snake is a native of that
state.
Mr. 5. p. Williams, of De Soto parish,
Louisiana, killed in one week, with twenty.
eight successive shots with a rifle, twenty
eight deer.
The state geologist estimates the flow
OF water from the Alum Springs, Onslow
county, North Caroline, to be two thousand
gallens per minute.
Of one hundred and thirty seven col
ored people baptized at kideeway, near
Raleigh. n. C., tifty-one were baptized face
downward.
There are but five sound legs and three
good arms on the batte.scarred tickets of
the democrats in the present Virginia cam.
paign.
Bolton, South Carolina, boasts of the
most elaboratelv adorned public well in the
up country. 1t cost $3.50, and is quite
feature of the town.
Richmond, Va, shipped 5000 barrels
of flour to Rio de Janeiro last week. This
was enterprising enough, but it went in q
British vessel.
The receipts Of cotton at Norfolk, Va,
Tor the year ending September /, 1877. were
5O9,6l2 bales, an increase of 1854 bales over
the previous year.
Eight daily trains arrive and eight
daily trains leave Spartanburg, y. c.. every
day except Sunday, making sixteen trains
arriving and departing daily
There are twenty-five species of oak in
the state of North Carolina, eight species of
pine, nine of spruce, five of elm, FIVE of birch,
eight of hickory and seven of magnolia.
The board of managers of the Lee
monument (Richmond, Va, has extended
the time for receiving models TO the first OF
November. None of the models already re.
ceiyed will be exhibited.
The Austin State Gazette saws that
yellow fever is preceded by north winds pre-.
vailing for a considerable time. That paper
expresses some apprehension in view of the
winds now prevailing in southern Texas.
The Little Rock (Ark. Gazette thinks
the war between the IRON Mountain and the
Memphis and Little Rock railroads will lead
TO the construction Of new bridge, probably
at the Point of Rocks foot of Rock street.
In the land OF the Papabat they also
catch stngaree. One was at the Barnes
hotel wharf, Biloxi, Mississippi, the other
Gay, that weighed one hundred and twenty
two pounds.
Messrs. George w. Haseltine and
Owens, Of Lagrange, Georgia, have given
$1,000 to the fund for establishing n free
school for the negroes of that place. The
negroes have raised about $1,000 for the same
purpose.
A man in Chattanooga has genuine
pearl, which was taken with five others of
various sizes from a muscle from the Ten
nessee river, near that city. Ii is very lus-
uous, and appears to be of good quality.
Lieutenant Armstrong has received
reward for the capture Of John Wesley Har-
din. The balance, $l94, will be paid as soon
as an appropriation can be made for that
purpose
Five years ago the weekly shipment
of beer TO Nicksburg was about sixty kegs
per week, hut now the shipment amounts to
at least six hundred per week, a considerable
portion of which goes to the surrounding
country.
Savannah News Florida item The
time has come when the competition as to
the prize for the regular Florida yams, some
times called "nigger killers" is active. Or
landa leads off with a specimen weighing ten
pounds. tttfr
The New Orleans Times says that the
receipts from the sale OF United States public
lands last year only amounted to $500 81,
or not sufficient to pay for keeping up the
various offices nee cessary for their disposal.
and showing that the government would
ave money by giving the lands away.
The city council of Charleston, South
Carolina, propose to create a city official
whose duty ii shall be TO investigate the
origin and cause OF fires, The authority of
the chief of the fire department in this re-
gard having been called in question, his
labors in that direction have been discon-
tinued.
In Louisiana county, Virginia, last
, week, Miss Kunckles died after a painful
illness. Her sister came into the room where
the body was lying and threw herself upon
the bed in paroxyism of grief, and, as was
supposed at the time, tainted When her
friends made an effort to revive her it was
found that she was dead.
Ira ID. Robbins, alias Latimer, taken
from the Simpson county Miss jail by
r~erowd of about six hundred men, and hung,
is said TO have committed "innumerable"
murders. Most of his victims were women.
He was a Young man, barely thirty, and had
spent great portion of his life in the prisons
Of Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and
Texas.
The Edenton On. C.) Times; "a citi-
en- of Dare county told us day or two since
| that one day last fall he made a haul with
his seine in the ocean, ard ught one hun
dred and two sharks. The seine was only
two hundred and eighty yards long, and he
says that twice as many got away as he
nded.
The mayor OF New Orleans has ap-
pointed Captain J. A. Aiken Mr. Charles
Chafe, Mr.. A. j. Gomila. Mr.. T. Upper and
Mr.. c. J. Walker q committee TO ascertain
and report to our delegation in congress the
postal facilities required for that state. The
committee is sppointed at the suggestion of
"a 'he late postal convention.
Wilmington Star: North Carolina
furnished over one hundred and twenty-one
thousand troops for the confederate service,
- teAasive of nearly four thousand that were
- home in the service OF the stale.
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