The Osceola times., 1877-10-13
NEWS SUMMARY,
THE SOUTH.

Memphis received nine hundred bales
OF cotton on the lst instant.
Hon. A. H. Stephens has educated
more than sixty young men and boys.
Two Cherokee Indians have been sent
2 TO the penitentiary in North Carolina.
A stalk of cotton with four hundred
bolls on it is on exhibition at Augusta, Ga.
Colonel J. l. Thornton, first secretary
OF state of Alabama, died at Euiaw recently.
James Magce killed two of the men
who took hin into the woods to hang him,
xaeso', aud in Texas and escaped.
w. G.. Meadows has been sentenced TO
death in Arkansas for throwing train from
the track and killing fireman.
Judge Mackey, of South Carolina,
says: "The condition of the public roads
measures the civilization OF a country"
Only five hundred and seventeen con-
victs in the South Carolina penitentiary, but
the doors are yswning Tor many more.
Miss Matte Davis, aged twenty.one,
blew her brains out with pistol in Wynnton,
Georgia.
General John b. Gordon entered the
confederate service as captain Of the "Rac.
coon Roughs."
The grape crop OF Florida is unusually
heavy, and the orange groves are reported
fine condition. ~ ----' :. 49,.
John Neely Bryan, the founder OF the
town and city of Dallas, died in the asylum
Tor the insane at Austin, Texas, a few days
since.
The Marietta (Ga) Journal says that
farmer near that place raised hinety-three
bushels OF corn last year per acre, and says
his crop Is better this year.
If South Carolina carries out all the
railroad projects now agitated future maps
OF the state will look like they had been
struck in the face with u big gridlron,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee
and Kentucky have nearly the same number
OF convicts in their respective penitentaries;
not varying ten from nine hundred and fifty
each.
New Orleans Delta A body of thirty
four white farm lshorers arrived here two
days ago from Minnesota and Wisconsin on
their way to sugar plantation on the Teche,
twenty miles from Morgan City.
The Augusta Chronicle learns from
Governor Hampton that Hayes has promised
to make southern tour during the winter,
and will visit Savannah, Augusta, Charleston,
Columbia, New Orleans and other cities.
Texas has 1850, 900 people, and Louis
lana only about 10000. When the war
ended Louisiana was the more populous
state Of the two. Three years from now
Texas expects 90 have twenty congressman.
Montgomery Advertiser: The cotton
men are in high dudgeon at the report that
the late rains will cut down the quantity to
nominal figure. II is all moonshine that
tn rty thousand bales have been destroyed
i'm lul oil s.rh tp a .trI
much damage has been done.
Liberisn immigration meetings are
fashionable now in many of the southern
states, and the Raleigh News ,aks the occs-
sion to remark II is probable that the meet
ings will be held ten years hence Just as vt
present, but il is extremely doubtful whether
any one will reach Liberia unless he pays bis
own expenses.
that TIE people of north Louisiana east
Texas and south Arkansas, who are depend.
en-; on the Red river ~ an outlet for their
products intend to ask at the next session |
Of congress for an appropriation of 500 900 |
10 secure low water navigation in that river |
all the year round.
Mesilla New Mexico) independent: |
number of emigrants passed through town |
this week en- route from California and |
Arizona to Texas Among the party was |
burly old backwoodsman, his wife and |
dozen tow-headed children, who have moved |
hack and forth over the road from western |
Texas TO California three times within the |
last thirteen years.
An Augusta lawyer says Of the tele-
phone "No doubt after a while it will be
perfected to suck extent that lawyer
can sit in bis office in Augusta and argue a
case before the Supreme Court in Atlanta
without the trouble and expense of going to
that city, and at that distance you can say
what you please without being liable for
contempt"