The Osceola times., 1877-06-30
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUT N.

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been appointed United States consul at
Leeds.
North Carolina has Just sentenced q
man to four years imprisonment for crime
committed in 1854.
ID. II. Hill, of North Carolina, ha.
been elected president of the industrial
university, located at Fayetteville, Arkansas
An eagle killed near Swaynesborough,
Ga, measured from tip to tip of the wings
seven feet eight inches.
Last years peanut crop in Virginia,
Tennessee and North Carolina is valued at
si,lO5,559 These states produced i7,l7O,.
600 bushels.
In all probability the pension agency
for the district of West Virginia North Car.
olina and Tennessee will not be removed
from Knoxville.
A mad dog bit two hundred and two
dog who were not mad at Sardis, Kentucky,
the other day, and the citizens don't feel
much like being out nights.
The business men of Nashville have
organized Merchants Exchange, and
elected John c. Mcclure president. The
board of directors are H. c. Hensley, Geo.
n .Iaeksoo, John N. Sperry Frank Moulton,
J. H. Wilkes, ana ). W. MGavock:
Rafe Pelton, negro, was hanged at
Marion, Arkansas, on June Is, for the muir
der of white man named Lester, about a
year ago. He made speech from the gal
lows, in a boisterous, naughty and defiant
manner, in the midst of which the sheriff
cut the rope, fearing rescue by the excited
negroes present, and Pelion's soul was
jerked to Jesus. Owing to the rope being
too long, the feet Of the culprit touched the
ground, but his boby was lifted by the dep.
uties aud the rope shortened. After hang.
ing fifteen minutes life was pronounced
extinct.
Senator Spencer, of Alabama, has left
with an exploring party Tor the Big Horn
country
Selim Rinker, formerly editor of Flakes
treasurer of Galveston, Texas, committed
suicide in that city recently by shooting
himself through the head. No cause stated.
A rather severe wind storm visited
Memphis and vicinity on June II. Trees
were blown down, houses unroofed, and
several steamers on the river were driven
from their moorings, sustaining severe
damage.
Another report OF meat shower comes
from ElaakL,,a7,- rr-.1,.- ~ -sei-atist says,
have placed the substance under fair mi
croscope and find it an organism, a loricated
infusoria From the average seen in one
drop the number must have been immense
indeed. The inclosing jelly is perfectly
transparent, except little coal dust and
paint from the roof. Each animalcule is
inclosed in a case or shell of silica and all
are alike, of the same family. One drop
contains about fifty or sixty, and they have
plenty of room to float around. They are
about one fourhundredth of an inch long
Where they came from cannot say; possi-
bly, from the decaying heaps OF kelp in the
Gulf of Mexico, or, as the winds have been
from the north for some time, they may
have come from the lakes.
The state debt of South Carolina is
given as follows by the Christian News and
Courier "When the entire fundable debt
of the state shall have been converted into
consolidated bonds and stocks, the state
debt will amount to s5,97G,9i7. This result
is obtained by the reputation by the repub'
licans in 1873 of the s6,000,C00 OF spurious
conversion bonds, and by the scaling of the
remainder of the debt to so cents on the
dollar. The actual bonded debt of the state
oc,. 81, 1867, principal and interest, was s5,.
522, ,576 To this must be added the bonds
issued to redeem the bills receivable issued
, under Gov. Orr's administration, making the
ante.reconstructon debt 5,007 $40, or $780,.
$50 more than the debt under the consolida'
ton act"