The Osceola times., 1877-03-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
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Ine capacity of the ice works at
snreveport, La, is li,oOO pounds per day,
Oil in large quantities has been found
IN Dickson county Tennessee.
On the 25th 1881 barrels of resin were
shipped from Charleston to Rotterdam.
Eight prominent Pennsylvania iron
men are prospecting about Chattanooga.
The Belle Rowland, with thousand
bales of cotton, sank on Swan Lake, La, on
Goth.
John Narrell has been arrested Mt At
lanta Ga, for robbing the mails, and in defaut
of $2,6O0 bail, ia in jail.
There was s., 500 insurance on the $685.
ooo ioAs by the burning Of the opera and
ma<Kethouse, Waco, Texas.
The members of the house of represen-
tatives of the legislature of Arkansas receive
mileage on % ,322 miles.
Judge NJ. c. Farley, of Georgia, died
on the night OF the cath, the identical time
that he predicted six weeks before that he
would yield up the ghost.
Jesus, whose sirname is Santistevan,
murdered his wife, Maria de Jesus Martinez,
by shooting and beating her with pistol, at
ros, Idaho Territory.
The area of the public domain Of Texas
is now $780, 800 acres, out of which must
come the l3,692,O 900 acres OF the Texas and
Pacific railroad reservation.
stem of orange, fourteen inches in
length, holding fourteen oranges of large
size and fine quality, received attention at
the Jacksonville, Florida fair.
A little girl in Savannah, Ga, was Bit
ten on the finger by playful dog, and died
in nineteen days of hydrophobia; still moth.
ing was ever seen wrong with the dog.
The Confederate Memorial Associa-
ton" of Chattanooga, Tenn, has s., 500 in
the treasury, and contemplstes erecting the
monument al an early day. 1t will be thirty
feet high, with a cubic base six feet in dinen-
sions, and will cost 5000.
John X. Bynum, a jeweler of Bolivar,
Tenn, and leader Of the Bolivar brass
band, was locked up in the calsboose of that
town on Friday night, the 2Sd, and the key
carried mile away. During the night the
calsboose took fire and was consumed, burn.
ing the unfortunate prisoner before relief
could be obtained.
Raleigh Observer: We learn from Mr.
Dumont, the attorney for the Massa chusetts
colonists who have been prospecting in west
ern North Carolina, that they have negotiated
for the purchase Of about SIX thousand acres
of land lying twelve miles above Morgan.
ton, in the region Of country known as the
Dnvile valley, and that they are making
efforts to secure additional tracts adjoining
this.
Resolution: That we, the Florida
fruit growers association, in convention as.
sembled, would most earnestly request the
legislature, now in session, to appropriate a
sum of at least 5000 per annum, for the
purpose OF disseminating knowledge of the
inducements for immigration to our state,
this sum to be placed at the disposal of the
board of immigration, lately created by this
legislature, for that purpose.
The Picsyune states that in Louisiana
there is very wide disposition on the part
Of planters to cultivate this year those neces.
saries of life tor which they have heretofore
been compelled to draw upon the west The
growth of grain promises to be more extern
sivc than it has ever been before, and the in.
creased raising OF hogs and cattle is very
marked.
Florida if all reports are true, has bad
a nice streak of luck in the sale of state
lands. A party of English sad German cap.
italis,s have parchssed 5000 900 acres Of the
Florida state lands, and are organizing an
emigration company. The money paid for
those lands, it is said, will pay off the
state debt and leave balance in the treas.
ury.
Cotton Prospects, 1877: In the general
result of our crop, considered in respect OF
pounds, "Ses island" makes a very insgnif
cant figure. The largest cr,p grown since
1926 was that of 1859 60, when Florida pro.
duced 1885 bags, Georgia, ls, $50, and South
Carolina, s,s0l-altogether 52,4i3 bags
Since the war the condition of things has
been so wretched on the sea islands that the
whole crop has dwindled down lin 1856
to only 1896 bags; or Florida, $780, Geor
ria, ,2l3 and South Carolina, i,sS3.