The Osceola times., 1877-05-26
NEWS SUMMARY.
the AOUTn.

tniteu ctates circuit Judge EmmOns,
whose brother recently died IN Florida, is
himself in such bad health that he is not ex
pected to hold court again.
The university of Virginia declines
The challenges sent by Washington and Lee
university to row six-oared race either nj
Lexington or Lynchburg.
y A hail-storm at Rio Grande City, Texas,
the 5th, injured many persons, and killed a
large number Of sheep, estimated at four
hundred. The hail was so destructive that a
grown mule was killed.
An exchange says there is one nugget
oi Georgia gold in the geological bureau
worth one hundred dollars, and it is quite
an ordinary nugget, too, for Georgia,
There are now in operation at Colum.
o"s, ia, eight Gotten mills, one wooden and
one oagging factory, four Touring aud grist
es'aol'shments, two foundries, pillow manu-
'actory, steam engine and boiler works, and
"uIloer oil minor industries, among which
may be counted steamboat building.
A woman at San Antonio, Texas, had
man arrested and placed in Jail on charge
OF assault She then proposed tba, II bo
"ouio marry her she would withdraw the
charge. She proposed that 40 he broucb, IN
the prison door and have The ceremony per.
ioimeh there, but he preferred staying in
l'"' Inc court then released him.
Major Jones, with his rangers made
io''y arrests in Kimball county, Texas, In
WV Weeks fhe Judge was guarded to that
'o'"!' and there being no court house.,
N was held in the rangers camp, under
a &c trees The Judge sa, ON log and the
Iary and lawyers on the ground.
The ncsroes living with the Choctaw
sad Ct'ckasaw nations we're made fre, Inv
the treaties Of 1866, but these treaties did
'pof stPulate that the negroes should become
9nemoers OF the tribe, SO that they simply re.
tnain citizens OF the United States, who are
legally residents OF the Indian territory
that is, they cannot vote, cannot sue, can.
not SIT upon jury, and have no interests in
the schools and courts of the country in
which they were born and bred.
An exchange says that West Virginia
has the largest and most valuable body of
f'mber OF any state in the union. Prof. Fou.
taine estimates that the area still covered nv
forests is between 100000 AMI 10 600 900
acres ard that the value of the surplus ecf
rcrvble timbe, is--salln-1HEz=--z--->--z.--a&-
sia,,Aa ir...,, : " "a -.35, 90 600 AZ /
The forests. tn. o.L w.I,nt
cs poplar, maple, elm, syeamor,, '"d and
iin size there not suys-'eu On
'@n ~. :" .,".a. continent :. some portion. o,
Texas, OF late, have almost been equal in
fury to discharge of canister. The Austin
terrible. The hail remained on the ground
Two feet deep two days after the storm. II
killed eight hundred head Of sheep for Mr..
Ramsey. In ravine near his sheep pens
the hail was eighteen feet deep Five DAYS
later 1t was still there to the depth OF four
feet.
Tie Star Nindicator, a prominent paper
Of the Indian territory, says The people
Of this territory know nothing about hard
times. They should go to the states, and es-
pecially 10 the large cities, and see the alb.
ject poverty that prevails. Then they would
cope back satisfied that they were the most
favored people on Gods green earth. True,
great many Of them have bu, little and
live hard, but then this j. their own fault
for one-tenth part OF the exertion that is
required to keep body and soul together
among the people of the older states will
give anybody here competency.
v Mobile Register The benefits TO be
derived IRON the establishment of the pro-
posed cotton factory will be meager in COM
rarison with the great results to which it
will lead. In ten years the proposed fac>
tory will leave in the city $50o,oO0. One
thousand bales tf cotton manufactured here
would leave in the city annually $4,000
One thousand bales handled here would
leave only 5000. Something must be done
to stop the receding current OF the com>
m,rce Of our city 1t is principle demon
stated every day that T" the greater absorbs
pN lesser" We may awake from our leth.
syy to find ourselves resting in the bosom
Of our neghbor. The success of the pro-
psed factory will be the turning point in the
wdfsre Of our city.