The Osceola times., 1877-11-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 ~ y SOCTU.

There are seven competing model
ior the Richmond Lee statue.
The mayor of Fernandina, telegram,
that he needs $1,000 to keep the well from
saries.
Three cargoes of wheat have been
shipped 20 England from Charleston, S. c.
this season, being the first in the history OF
the trade.
Nashville requires drummers to nav ,
bcense of S5e Five were arrested IN.
other day, but released on the ground of IN,
ignorance ~ the law
An order has been issued to the prison
ofncials of North Carolina to desist from
ns'ns vac roo on convlcis under any circum
'ssH"es. Unconstitutional.
sarah johnson, young Girl sentenced
10 pe hung at Statesville, n. C., for killing
her oebe, has had her sentence corumuted "a
ten years in the penitentiary.
Alex. w. Pryor, who killed a negro at
columbus, Ga, three or four years ago, and
was sent to the penitent.ary for ten wears
has been psrdoned by Gov. Colquit
a dressed wild turkey gobbler, weigh
ing 10 tha. condition twenty-five pounds
graceda Richmond dinner table sunday
the beerd that had been taken from his
oreasf was ten inches long.
FLORIDA oranges this season are re-.
narkably thin skinned and unusually sweet
III ~ SAID that the fruit from the same trees
last year were thick-sknned and more acid
and tnat dronth produces the latterand much
ram the former condition.
IN September one hundred and twenty.
one emigrants settled in Tennessee under tho
auspices Of the Immigration bureau. A
large colony of Quakers from pennsylyania
Is settling in Blount county. The CoTse
connty landholders are donating fifty acres Ia
actual settlers
lhe san Antonio Herald of the 10th
mas private adyices to the effect that the
PREDATORY bands of Indians on the Staked
plains; as well as the dissatisfied Indians ON
me reservations, are preparing to 90 to Mex.
'h npS~ 70 JON tle greasers preparatory
10 brush with our army.
New Orleans Democrat: People will
heg'n to think that we of Louisiana are get
hng Purltanical il this sort OF thing goes on
nnch longer. Parish after parish is falling
IN iihe under theprohibition banner, and now
the largest parish in the state comes out with
asnndsy law fully equal to the "blue laws
of Connecticut,
Vicksburg Herald: The present season
has been very bad one on cotton planters.
IN the MI! lands, by this date. the larger
potion OF the cotton should have been picked
but instead OF this being the case only n
very small portion has been housed, and yet
t6e bad weather continues. =
st. Augustine (Fla.) Press: About
MY INDIANS from the Tort took Il ramble on
the north beach on Thursday, and picked up
several hundred sea-beans. The beans have
been washed ashore by the strong east and
southeast winds OF late. They grow on the
west India islands, and ~ this season Of the
year ripen and fall into the sea.
Wilmington On. CO Star: The
heaviest hail storm ever witnessed in Halifax
county passed over a portion of that county
sast Sunday. Some cotton fields were liter.
ally stripped Of bolls, leaves and limbs, and
oe cotton beat into the ground so as not to
he worth gathering up. Piles of the hail
were IN fence corners two days after il iell.
The time Tor ming applications before
the Hot Springs commissioners has expired.
Nine hundred aud fifty claims have been
e,ed. One hundred and sixty-two OF these
have been examined, aud len dismissed.
ihe commissioners are now engaged in tax.
hng testimony. All claims not now filed are
barred. The claims have all been SURVEYED
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done. The plan of the future city is vet TO be
adopted and the claims for new lots
awarded.
a Fernsndina, Fla, correspondent
gives distressing account oi the suherimgs
OF eight hundred helpless families in that
locality from the yellow fever plague, now
devastating the country. The temperature
has been up to l05o for many DAYS, and the
patients have been greatly reduced and un.
tued TO withstand the ravages. of the dis,
ease. 1h' poverty ot the afflicted region has
entalled additional troubles, but has been
greatly relieved by the generous contribua
tions oi 81, ,s02 fs from sympathizy north.
erD and other cities. Over $4,000 of this
amount have already been expended. '
Eads' new iron dredge- boat, costing
$1,000 0, Tor use at south pass and en- route
rom Pittshurg Ia the ietties, has reached
-Nlnclnnati and has created considerable in
teresi and curiosity there. She somewhat re.
sembles gunboat, her hull, deck and bulk
heads all being built OF iron. In the center
OF the boat are three hopper.shspped tanks,
each twenty-five feet square, in which the
mud is pumped up and deposited, and when
full the boat will be taken out to sea and dis.
charge them. Her pump is an immense
affair, and is worked by two cylinders twenty
by thirty inches, set in the hull Of the boa
between The cylinders for propellng the
boat. She has fifteen engines ia all on board.