The Osceola times., 1877-06-02

richmond, Va. the llth instant, with l57,.
ol0 gallons of refined petroleum., valued at
$25,5l5.
Recent reports from twenty-five or
thirty counties in Texas chronicle no depre.
cations by the grasshoppers.
Both confederate and federal graves
were decorated under the same ceremonies
at Columbia, S. C., on the 10th.
The wheat crop in that portion of Vir-
glnla between Richmond and Winchester is
unusually promising, and is considered an
average of that product in the state.
Nashville is the nineteenth city in the
Union in its relation to mail service. Mem.
phis the eighteenth and New Orleans seven.
eentb. Augusta, Ga, is the fifteenth.
A number OF bids for building five
locks On the Muscle Shell Shoals canal Ten
nessee, were handed in the 18th, the lowest
being sl53 800, and the highest 1921 200.
A man living near San Antonio, Texas,
cut 1000 shingles from one cypress tree,
which he sold for $500; enough to paw for
the whole tract of land upon which the tree
grew.
New Orleans Democrat Was ever
corporation or individual so harassed, ham.
pered and bedeviled by law suits, claims,
doubtful titles and every other form Of vexa.
ton to which our complicated legal and
political system exposes every member of
our society, as this corporation of New Or
leans now is?
The French mining engineer, Simolis,
says The silver mines OF Colorado and OF
northwestern Texas give undoubted evi.
dence of great wealth the ores are true
silver ores, and the mines are identical with
those of Mexico, Of which they are con.
tinuation."
Work will be resumed at the Norfolk,
Va, navy-yard as soon as appropriation is
available. The system of Job work by con.
tract is 10 be abandoned, and the govern.
ment yards will be devoted to the building
of national vessels, point in favor of Nor.
folk.
The recent hail storm in South Caro-
lima followed the Greenville and Columbia
EaiIoal-to Ninety.Six, Numbers of the
farmers have replanted their cotton fields,
some with cotton and others with corn.
Some have even been plowing up their
wheatfelds, which were beaten to pieces
by the hail, and planting corn to make
crop upon their lands II is impossible
avan t. apnroximata tho in p;urv dana -, a.,
storm, but enough is known to say that i,
was enormous.
little Rock Gazette: Perhaps,the most
striking advantage possessed by Arkansas,
aside from her climate, is in her forests of
timber. The collection OF Arkansas timber
at the centennial excited the admiration of
all who visited our state DuildIng-its variety
and excellent quality standing without a
rival. The oak, the ash, hickory and walnut
of the boundless forests of north Arkansas,
and the pine and cypress Of the south, will
vet be source of untold wealth to the state
Mobile Register; We need actual help,
in the shape of government aid bestowed in
a safe and prudent manner toward putting
us on our legs again, and overcoming in
some degree the monstrous inequality in
government appropriations for the benefit
OF the two sections. In 1874 the secretary Of
the treasury made an official report to con-
gress Of all congressional appropriations for
works of internal improvement from 1889 to
the date of the report, by which it appears
k,, g r..
the benefit of the northern states, and but
s69s2, $50 for the southern states.
Austin Statesman II New England
factory can make profit of one per cent on
pound of raw cotton it has done well.
southern factory has an advantage of at least
one cent, some say more, on the raw material.
Has it been considered what this means?
This, in fact, has been done generally by the
factories in Georgia and South Carolina. A
factory that cost $4,000 in the south will
make rs much clear priit as one that cost
100000 in the north. A factory in the
south will make twice the dividend of one
in the north. Can our capitalists find a
better place to put their money than in such
factories?-
A most wonderful occurrence is re-
ported from Princess Anne county, Va to
the Norfolk Virginian: A few weeks ago
there appeared in the virginian the report
of horrible murder in Princess Anne
county, of negro man murdered by his
wife assisted by her childen) dragged down
to creek and thrown overheard. His body
was seen atterward by some boatmen float.
ing in the creek consequently the woman,
her son and daughter were arrested and
carried before magistrate. The woman
and boy confessed the murder and were put
in jail to await trial. All kinds Of runners
are in circulation about the murder. A few
days ago ] heard that the negro man that
had been reported murdered was stopping
at one air. James P. Halstead's, and l went
to Mr.. rs to be sa;isfed if such was the
fact, and Harry Martin was there, and
seemed to be astonished to hear that his
wife was in Jail. These are facts known and
seen by myself. The mystery about the
matter is yet to be developed.
Pittsburgh Telegraph correspondence
At the present time there are some fifteen or
twenty gold mills in northeastern Georgia,
some of them propelled by steam, but the
majority by water power In Lumpkin
county, the matters OF the rsboola creek are
brought some twenty miles by canal and
an iron tube, and hydraulic power of two
hundred and fifty feet pressure is obtained