The Osceola times., 1877-09-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
TRE SOUTH,

vada county, Arkansas.
his summer is said to be the hotties,
IN san Antonio, Texas, for thirty years.
The buffalo are reported dying on the
drouth. '"'
Fort Worth, Texas, has two -four mill,
mat use one thousand two hundred bushel,
ot wheat every twenty four hours.
The San Antonio (Texas) Express
proposes the importation of English spar
rows as q remedy for cotton worms.
The state Of Virginia wants the scalp.
of foxes at the rate OF one dollar for gray
and dollar and half for red foxes.
Two immensely rich black lead mines
nave been discovered in Barlow county, Ga,
on the Western and Atlantic railroad.
Mr.. J. c. Dove, a bee-raiser of Darda.
nellie, Arkansas, received three Italian queen
pees, direct from lta-y, that cost him 81 SO
each. " W
1hc improvements of the CoOsa river
nov actively in progress, will give uninter.
rupted navigation OF seven hundred miles to
Mobile.
The Memphis Appeal gives summary
oil the building done in that city within the
past Two years. The aggregate IL a million
anu half dollars.
The receipts OF the street railway
company in Memphis, Tenn, at the fye-cent
iare are largely in excess Of receipts under
the ten.cent system.
Belle Boyd, who figured 80 extensively
during the war as a scout for the confed.
crate forces, is now living at Calvert. Texas.
ana supports herself and sister by sewing.
a petition in bankruptcy has been
filed by Robert N. Blakemore and John w
Iouid, hrm OF Blakemore 4 Co, of Memphis.
Liabilities about $50, 900; assets about $4,000
The Nashville American of the 18th
,:,s,nn. cvn.a,ns !:st of eighty criminals of
Tennessee now running at large. and for
are offered.
Last weeb twenty. three tramps were
put on tbe train between Nashville and
,I,,hattsnrosa. distance of nearly $50 miles
They would get on at nearly every other
station, only to be put of at the next
A. NJ. Davis commenced bee-culture
three years ago with two hives in Shreve.
port, Louisiana. He now has seventy.fve
hives. and his sales OF honey this year will
net him $1,000.
Among the inmates of the Virginia
penitentiary are man and woman who
stole one hundred dollars from the latter's
mother upon which to get married and set
up housekeeping.
II is stated that one farmer in jefferson
county anticipates gathering seventy.five
bushels OF corn per acre from several acres
the present season. And this is the first
years experience at farming in Florida
Sdpunnah Necs.
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BY contract with the authorities of
Memphis General Forrest takes the vagrants
ana tranps convicted in that city Of its
hands, and pays therefor ten cents day,
"orFlng them on his plantation.
Frere D'Esti, the leader of the Murphy
movement in Nashville, Tennessee, caught
in the act Of stealing. was held on prelimi.
nary trial in bond of two thousand dollars
to answer. His brother Percy is at large.
The steamship Rio Grande recently
made the trip from New York to Galveston
IN seven days and seven hours. This is
claimed to be the quickest time on record
although two hours were lost in going in and
out Of Key West.
Captain Malachi Corbel, keeper of life
station No. 8, on the coast of Virginia, near
Norfolk, will receive medal from the gov
ernment treasury department for saving life.
On one occasion he rescued seventeen of
the English bark Tinto.
There has been dispute for some time
in Van Zandt county. Texas, whether the
county seat should be Wills Point or Canton
BY decision of the district Judge, Wills
Point has the best of it, and the county
records will remain there.
The pilots engaged on seagoing vessels
across the bar at Galveston say that the water
in the bay and gulf is clearer than they have
seen it for many years. The anchors OF
heavy ships which can not come inside can
he seen lying on the bottom in twenty-five
feet of water.
A tombstone with six-shooter en-
graved on il is to be erected to the memory
of one Tom Burns, who was killed in the
Choctaw natien last month. The Fort Smith
tArk.) Independent surmises that six
shooter was probably the last thing Tom
saw, hence the novel design.
In the archives of the Tennessee his
torical society Is Gen. Israel Putnam's com.
mission, signed by John Hancock, and that
Of Daniel Smith, first secretary OF the terri.
tory south OF the Ohio river, dated 1890, and
signed by George Washington and Thomas
Jefferson.
The Vicksburg Herald says that ain a
few weeks there will be more labor needed
in this state than can be procured. A vast
crop Of cotton and grain is to be gathered.
The cotton crop requires great labor in the
fall and winter. II is 6rst to be gathered,
then to be prepared for market, and then TO
be transported TO market.
The Savannah News says that in less
than sixty days the Enterprise factory Of
Augusta, Ga, will be in the full tide Of sue.
cessful operation. The building has been
completed and the machinery has been
placed. The mill starts out under the most
favorable auspices-freedom from taxation,
1900 spindles and 1913 looms.
The Memphis Appeal says; "During
the year 1875 our mortuary reports, kept
accurately and carefully, show that there
were 652 deaths among the white population
and 60l among the negroes-that is to say,
there were nearly four times as many negl oes
died during the year rs white people, con.
si1ering the proportion Of the number OF the
two races.
Capt. Louis Parker, an old settler OF
the island OF Galveston, died August 22d.
He was a soldier under General Houston,
and took part in the battle of San Jscnto
and subsequently during the war with Mex.
ico he was the pilot That marked cut the
advance Of General Scoit's army into the
Mexican territory. Since the late war he
has been engaged in the manufacture Of sails.
The northern settlers in Florida have
bought up most of the land in the neighbor.
hood Of Starke, Bradford county, and, as
usual, at advanced prices. At Kingsley lake
six miles from Stsrke, everything has been
taken up, as high as 500 per acre having
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day, and sales are being made through the
aount. Mama Of tho hasf landa m tha atat a