The Osceola times., 1877-08-04
NEWS SUMMARY,
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'arolina and Tennessee is said TO be smaller
this year than last. II is sadl
Jacksonville, Florida has torn up her
street railway, and the Jacksonyillans are
going to leg it.
a Palatka, Florida. preacher was
driven out OF his pulri. recently by blind
mosquitoes.
A rich vein of silver ore has been dis
covered nve miles northwest of the town OF
hon'ague, Miss. Good judges say the ore
contains 65 per cent. OF silver with enough
gold to pay all expenses.
lhe ship channel company of Hous-
ton, Texas, assures the city that il intend,
to put the bays in navigable condition. nc.
cording 10 contract for the fall trade. Il
claims to have expended much more than ia
receipts, in improvements.
The mayer of Tampa, Florida, has
prohibited communication, direct or indi.
rect, with the city of Havana.
The health officer OF Savannah reports
the city never more free Of sickness than
row. There are no epidemics of any kind.
Alabama denies that the United States
government owns one-ffth of the public
'anus oil toat state. Government only owns
one-eigbth.
,, very large establishment for con-
vertlng cane into pulp for the manufacture
oil paper is about to be put into operation in
mi mott Al
company
A number of Spaniards are in south
Florida for the purpose of purchasing beef
Tor the Cuban market. They are well pro.
vded with money, aud are paying liberal
prices.
There is some talk of abandoning the
high school as part Of the public school
system OF Augusts, Ga. The newspapers of
the state deprecate the step. The working
of the school has been highly satisfactory.
immigrants from the north and west
arrive at Tampa, Florida, by every train, and
the industrial interests OF that section of the
state were never in more prosperous con.
dition.
The new directory OF Wilmington,
North Carolina, gives that city population
oi 1870, an increase of 1914 over the United
states census of 1870, and an increase of
400 over the census of the last directory.
The Pensacola, Florida, Gazette saws
there are fig trees in Pensacola known by
living men to be more than sixty years old,
but how much older is no. known. Sixty
years more, or a hundred years, may be the
limit of their thrifty lives; but We have no
data for prediction. They still yield pro.
iusely and are in full vigor.
! At the press convs of South
Carolina, in May last, itw mined that
an effort should be made u, from each
bounty in the state fifty dollars for the com.
letion Of the bust and mon ument to William
norc Smms. So far, nothing has been
ec,ed. Fifteen hundred dollars is
ded' The bust, psde by the artist Ward,
>ew York, is complete. Seven hundred
hfty doPsrs was paid, and the like
punt IS due on it,. The granite for the
IS ready, but unchiseled.
The Savannah News says four thou
acres of land, valued at 5000, known
the "Village property" on st. Simon's
ind, is being bargained fos by Mr.. W. J.
Us, the recent purchaser Of Cannon's
int, fora colony OF twelve Illinois families
Shreveport, Louisiana, wants town
ck whose strokes can be heard for four or
miles. Such time-riece will ba erected
in running order by November on the
yer of the Presbyterian church, which
be elevated thirty or forty feet, placing
dials about seventy feet above the
bund. The proposed clock, it is claimed
be the iecond largest in the country.
A Houston, Texas, man gets his poplar
nber from Decatur, Ala.
1t is thought ten escaped convicts of
lrion county, Georgia, are in Uchee creek
lamp.
!iailstones fell in Clay county, Texas
during the great storm measuring eight
inces ip circumference,
Most of the country parishes in ou-
isiana have been divided into ten wards. as
provided by an act Of the late legislature.
1t is stated that the United states
government still owns one-ffth Of all the
land in the state of Alabama.
Flat Rock, North Carolina, is above
the level Of the sea ., 100 feet, nearly 1000
higher than Greenvile. Asheville is $3.50; :;
Cpsar's Head. 5000; Cashiers Valley 1000,
while Mt. Mitchell rises to the height Of
ON, aud is the loftiest peak this side Of the
Pocky mountains. These elevations are
giren by the United States survey.
The Hot Springs commission has taken
recess for the summer, every member
drawing his pay during the recess, of course.
The labor Of looking after the survey of the
government reservation and of exercising
judicial functions with reference to the
squatters was too much for them. They had
Just gotten well into their work when they
adjourned until September They will re-
main year at Hot Springs.
The Charleston IN. C.) Observer says
an agent of the colonization society of Phil
adelphia has purchased 10000 acres in Tran
syivania and Henderson counties for emf.
grants. snd that he has made arrangements
.or the removal to these lands of sixty-fve
.sn'lies of people, who expect to come to
.'em about the first of September, settle on
s"em, and there make thsir homes. These