The Osceola times., 1877-03-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUT n.

Grafton in Robertson county, Tenn, which
pay 10 the United States 81, 600 every month.
The United States troops at New Or
cans are under orders TO be ready to
march.
At the Mardi Gras ball in New Or
leans San Francisco belle wore $50, 900
worth of diamonds.
The American ship, John DeC Costa, will
sail from Charleston with 5000 bales Of up
land cotton.
There will be no election Of state libra
rian OF the legislature OF the state of Tennes.
see, as the incumbent, Mrs. Haskell, is found
both worthy and competent.
The municipal tax of Charleston this
year is s625,0O0 at the rate of two and half
per cent. twill be collected in three install.
ments.
Turpentine lands on the Altamaha,
Nocmugc and Oconee rivers, in Georgia, sell
e nifty cents TO five dollars per acre, The
acIs yield 10000 to J., 900 feet OF lumber per
" fitee hundred hands arc employed in
the New Braunfels (Texa-) WOODEN mills
These mills have recently added improved
machinery and will manufacture broadcloths
as well as army End navy goods.
The country in Georgia along the line
OF the Macon and Brunswick railroad is pre-.
emlnently sheep growing country, the
"wire grass" Indigenous to the soil, being
sufficient Tor stock the wear round, Stock
raisers are not obliged to feed atall.
Cotton seed oil is largely sold for olive
oil, which it is said TO equal for culinary and
table uses. There are five cotton seed oil
factories in New Orleans, producing an
amount equal to the entire production of
olive in France.
A Chinese laundiyman died of starva.
tion IT Louissiile, the other day, with these
pathetic and expressive words on his l;ps:
"Bes' thing Chinaman do in Kcntuckec he
die-hce weekee-only washee lun shir,ec
him no get payee-hcap s,arye on meth,
ing"
The school census for the city of Gal
her of children of school age to be 2,il4; un'
der, 1911; over, 1,0l3; native Texans, 1904 );
other states. l,0ll foreign, 1885, white, 3 SIS:
colored, 1,lGo. OF the total number, 1895 can
not read.
Major Thomas Walker, who served
through the Indian war in Florida, the Mcxi-
can war and who was major of the Seven,
teenth Georgia regiment in the late war, and
who WIS an actor of promincncein in his native
country, Scotland, in his early DAYS, died at
Albany, Ga, recently.
A bill has been introduced into the
legislature of Tennessee to reduce the salaries
OF clerks of courts, revenue collectors and at,
torneys general TO 81, 800 per annun, exclu>
sive of the pay for necessary clerical assis>
tancc. The bill provides that all fees over
and above that amount are TO be paid into the
state treasury
The eucalyptes globhlus, or fever-trce,
which was TO do away with southern
plaques is curiously enough succumbing to
ievcrs chief enemy frost himself. The
New Orleans Democrat says: Every one
of these trees planted in the Laiourche
country is desd-killed by our late cold
winter and their late friends and admirers
are convinced that whatever be the virtues
OF the tree, it will not exactly do for the
climate OF Louisiana.
A gentleman in Fayette county, Texas,
writing to the Galveston News, rays: was
out surveying all day yesterday and am very
sorry TO inform you that the whole face Of
the earth is alive with hoppers, and unless
they are drowned out soon will destroy
everything. We entertain the gravest ap-
preheusions as to the future, with almost u
certainty of no fruit or vegetables, and pos
-tibly no crops of any kind. They are de.
stroying everything green.
In 1886 the manufacture Of India
rubber goods caused new demand for
spirits OF turpentinc, increasing it, value
greatly and creating demand for new terri
tory near shipping points, Up TO this time it
was considered that the country on the west
and south sides of the Cape Fear river in
North Carolina would not yield turpentine
A test being made in 1887, the error was dis.
covered, and the business extended rapidly
in that direction,
The Augusta factory is in prosperous
condition. The product of this factory for
fear weeks, ending February q, 1877, was
larger than for the same period for several
wears, The cotton consumed amounted to
nine hundred and seventy bales, and the
cloth manufactured amounted to I,t55,il7
yard'. The last four weeks of this time the
amount manufactured was much lager than
for the two previous weeks This is nj the
rate Of about fourteen millions Of Yards per
gnnum,
Cotton prospects, 1877 Tho times
have generally been very hard for the past
three wears, and all interest subjected to y
most painful strain. How has cotton Jared
under this pressure? Consumption in the
United States has steadily increased. In
ls10-7l, when times we're comparatively flush
the consumption reached i,ioO, 1876 bales; in
1884 the wear of the panic), it was ,SN5,.
alS bales; in ls7l-5, 1,2o7,soi bales; and in
1876 corrected figures, 1856, l9s bales,
This is the first element of comfort to our cot.
ton growers
The Barataria canal company think
the Esd's ieities a failure, but think their
canal would be most eminent success,
They think that this canal will so cheaper
ireights that the agricultural products of the
Mississiupi valley will soon be more than