The Osceola times., 1877-10-20
NEWS SUMMARY,
TuE SOUTH.

shipped from Knoxville last week.
The Georgia state fair offers pre.
'ilun of $500 for the best fire company in
fhe state.
The famous Dummitt orange grove,
gu the indian river, Florida, has been sold to
New Yorker fer S22, 900.
Jack Hunt, for the cold-blooded mur.
der of hIs wife in Monroe county, Tenn, is
10 be hsnged on the 2otb proximo.
Colonel Holiday, conservative can.
didate Tor governor of Virginia, declines to
canvass the state, as there is no opposition.
Two Sisters of Mercy have died Of
yellow fever at Fcrnandina, and two Others
nave gone from st. Augustine to take their
places.
Twenty-Five judges are TO be ap-
pointed to examine the models which may
he submitted for the Lee monument in
Richmond,
Hartsville Tenn Sentinel: The to.
"acco crop Of the state now being housed is
vastly superior to any that has been raised
for many years
In Virginia and North Carolina the
acreage planted in tobacco is fifty per cent.
larger than last year the yield promises to
~ ''''et ~ iht same fHtlo.
The Columbia Is. c. Phoenix SAYS that
there is enough material before the legisa.
i've investigating committee to keep them
VI work at least eighteen months longer.
Hon. Washington Leonidas Grice has
neen appolntcd circuit Judge in the Macon
"a, district vice Judge Hill, who died on
'ne bench at Knoxville n few days sgo.
Waco (Texss) Register, The pecan
crop Is reported good in this section this
wear and hundreds of bushels of the nuts
"lll likely be shipped from this place.
Black Horse ard Left Hand, the In.
dams who have been i'll at Fort Maron \,
Augustine, are convalescent aud reya,nipg
theIr usual health aud natural savageness
-Four little girls, the children of Mr..
Jacob Mu seNhte, of Robeson county. NC
died lately of diphtheria SO near together
That they were all buried last SUNDAY, at the
same time.
samuel &. Reid, Esq, has made hi,
hond, received his commission, and taken
charge OF the United States marshal's office
Tor the middle and southern districts of
Aiabs.na.
ireenville 6. c. News: Work was
commenced on the Greenwood and Augusta
railroad last week, one hundred penitentiary
ronyicts being employed under Superln.
teDdent Bailey.
a Georgia negro preacher said to his
mock; I'VE have collection to make this
'uornng, and, for the glory of heaven, which.
ever OF you stole Mr.. Smiths sheep. don't
put ANYTHING on the plate IL
\ pickct-line is kept around Jackson
vile, Fla, night and day, to keep out yellow
fever refugees, but one of them knocked
down colored picket the other night and
got in.
The demand for cotton-pickers is on
the increase IN Natchitoches, La, and the
price has reached 75c. per hundred pounds.
This would be Sl3 so per bale for picking,
or p per cent. of its entire value.
The first official returns from Rich
moDd under the Mofiat law are for the last
seventeen days of September. In that time
there were registered 1876, $50 malt and lS7,.
220 alcoholic drinks. The tax thereon
amounted to $3.50
According TO the Columbus (Ga.) En-
Gulrer one Of the strangest things in the
world is TO find southern planters buving
tons Of northern hay, while the heavy and
grlevous task the whole year round is to
keep the fields clear of grass.
\ wolf that had killed over thirty
sheep in Gadsden county Florida was killed
the other day, after an exciting chase, in
which there were forty dogs and a regiment
of men. 1t was five feet long and two and
half high.
Carpe, who killed his daughter, her
child and himself in Bradley county, Tenn,
few days ago, was an avowed atheist, and
was frequently heard to remark that his
family and himself might as well be killed
by his o%n hands
Savannah News: About fourteen hun
,lred head OF cattle and the same number of
sheep passed through Quitman last Saturday
They came from Colquitt and Mitchell coun-
ties and were on their way to fernando
county, Florida, where they will run in the
wilds during the winter.
Several letters, received by promi-
nent cotton firm in Mobile from parties in
the overhowed district, represent quite an
encouraging state Of things relative to crop
prospects. Reports from this region indicate
that, perhaps not a tenth of the damage at
first anticipated will be realized by the
planters,
From November |, 1876, to August 81
1877, the foreign exports of Pensacola have
been $780, cubic feet of hewn timber
1901 ,S26 cubic feet Of sawn timber, 2O,5ii
cubic feet OF oak timber, 2S,a2l 900 feet OF
lumber, 1907 bales OF cotton, employing 2s6
vessels, with tonnage of 2l5, 400 tons,
Rev. =. p. Bishop, of San Mateo, one
of the largest orange'growers in east Florida
states that the present crop of that delicious
fruit is most promising. In his opinion, the
value Of wild orange groves has been in.
creased over one thousand per cent within
the last nine years.
In Sumter county, Alabama, there are
two sheriffss; one by appointment Of the
governor, who holds that his term of Office
does not expire until November; the other
by virtue OF the recent election. The circuit
CLERK and other officers recognize the elected
one; the solicitor the governors appointee.
The same condition exists in Green county.
Atlanta Constitutions "Here, take the
pencil" were the dying words of Mr.. VIM.
A. Shorter, late editor of the Rome Courier.
Hon. Edward shorter, his father, relates that
on the death of his son in Rome, his wife, at
home in Eufala, Ala, awoke him. asking the
time of night, saving, willie is dead |
feel that Willie is dead" lie looked and
found il l:l5 by this time. our young friend
died ut l;l0 by the time at Rome. Mrs,
Shorter knew of her sons illness, but never
theless il is very strange that the impression
should have been vivid enough Just at the
moment OF his departure 10 cause her to
arouse her husband in order to get the time
OF night.
Mobile Register: An examination of
the railways which now, or by the consruc.
ton Of the short links, may be made to con.
meet with the terminus of the Texas and
Pacific road will show hat there is no impor-
tant point east Of the Mississippi which can
M, he reapbed and heneGted nv tho cnpt.