The Osceola times., 1877-09-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
FuE SOUTH.


scout, was but twenty-eight when be died.
DlPhtheria in a malignant form ha.
hade IT'S Appearance along the Tennessee
border in Lee county, Va.
The Iredegsr works, at Richmond. Va
are building three hundred cars for the
Atlanta and Charlotte Airline.
FIVE persons have been hanged il
Abbesllle, ). C., during the past four years
and still the murderers follow their business
The Marietta (Gs.) journal says that
German inillet is being used as rice in lower
Georgia, The husks are removed and the
grain is palatabe food.
DIR. kenilworth, celebrated physi.
elan of Jacksonville, has given one hundred
dollars toward the trial OF Col. Hardee's
theory OF conclusion, as destructive OF the
germs of disease.
jacksonville has formed a military
Gordon around the city to prevent the ingress
OF refugees from Fernandina. The military
and fire companies have volunteered 10 do
this service.
The city attorney of Galveston has
given it rs his opinion that the city is not
llPble for s2,2 0 worth of scrip issued to pay
the expenses of entertaining the Kansas
delegation in 1875.
A colossal statue Of the late Andrew
johnson is to be set up as II monument TO
his memory pear his old Tennessee home. II
is OF white marble, and is being carved in
Philadelphia.
Hon. NJ J. Crawford and Miss Selmon,
OF Gainesville, Ga, were riding in buggy
few days since. Miss Selmon raised her
parasol suddenly, and the horses ran away,
throwing both out. He was killed instantly,
his neck being broken, and she was fatally
injured.
The New Orleans Picayune says John
Wesley Hardin, the Texas desperate, is a
very finely organized person. One of his
victims he killed for snoring. lie did not
like TO be disturbed in his sleep, so he arose
in the silent night and slew the snorer.
The Danyille Express learns that Col.
=. Samuel and Representative Barnes
have sold their large estate In Charlotte
county, Va. (Barnesvillel comprising be.
tween 1000 and 5000 acres, to Philadelphia
Catholic) colony. The sum realized from
this sale is $1,000.
A Corpus Christie special says: As a
bridal party were returning last evening
from church, Mexican men drove up near
them in a carriage and opened fire upon men,
women and children with six. shooters. One
OF the groomsmen was shot through the back
and VIII die. The groom fed.
The Vicksburg Herald states that the
planters near that city are suffering from the
depredations OF thieves, who steal their cot
ton In the seed and take it to the city, where
it is eagerly purchased by parties who ought
TO know better than to encourage the thieves.
Under the MoGat bell-punch in Vir.
ginia saloons, the price of liquor has gone
up, but the law really seems to be enforced.
The penalties are severe. A failure TO turn
the crank entails fine OF from $40 to 800
for the first offence, and forfeiture of license
lor the second.
Steamboat navigation of the Suwannee
rver, Florida, has been resumed after long
suspension. This is one of the bodies OF
water that would be utilized in the coustruc-
ton of the proposed Atlantic and Gulf ship
canal, and the extent Of its nayigable ca.
paeity is An interesting question.
A young fellow in love with widow
got so jealous at hall 10 Houston, Texas,
the other night, that he got a license and
preacher, anu, going to the widows home a
little before day, informed her that she must
marry him instanter or he would make a
lead mine of the other fellow. She married
him.
The statistician Of the department of
agriculture at Washington reports the con.
dition of the cotton crop the first week in
September as averaging the same as at the
same time last year. The worm is reported
III all the gulf states, but has done but little
damage, except in Texas and several parishes
in Louisiana.
The Savannah News says, outside of
any special call, Savannah has gone to the
A( Il H. L.. - L
nurses only await the demand when they
will be forthgoing The disease is epidemic
in Fernandna, and ii is the grand sell sacrl.
fee that prompts the departure of physicians
and nurses TO our afflicted sister city.
The Lancaster Is C.) Ledger says Eve
learn that Ezekiel Mayhew, a colored man
with SOME little education, and formerly
school teacher in Cane creek township, left
for Liberia on Monday last. As we under
stand, he is sent out to view the promised
land, and is TO return and report his observ.
ations by the first of next year"
The Asheville On. C) Pioneer say.
that last week, while number Of colored
persons, both male and female, were digging
for medical roots in the Bee Tree range OF
craggy mountain, one OF their number,
named Elvira Seneca, better known as Vira
Lytlc, was struck by rattlesnake upon her
right leg, just below the knee. She died
leaving four destitute children.
The Charlotte IN. C.) Observer says
mortgages upon crops of 1873 lately recorded
in the off ,e OF the register of deeds. The
crops, OF course, will not be put into the
ground until next spring. 1t is a bad show
ing for the farmers that they should he mort
gaging that which they themselves have not,
and will not have for twelve moRths, 10 Sc.
cure supplies for the present.
The Asleville On. c. Pioneer says
that at the last term of the court Alexander
Shaft was tried and convicted Of fornica
ton and adultery, and sentenced by Judge
Fnrches to six months imprisonment in the
county Jail At the first meeting Of the
board Ct county commissioners thereafter,
on application Of Shafts wife, he was hired
out to her at IS per month.
The Galveston News saws that the
question of prohibition continues to be a
leadm issue in some of the northwestern
counties, where the local option law is still
before the the people. The papers quote a
sentence from the charge of Judge Clark TO
the grand jury of Hopkins county, as fol.
lows: You may visit the graves of criminals,
and with propriety might write above the
rcmains Of ninety-nine out Of every hun
dred: A bottle OF whisky; deck OF cards
u six-shooter; violent death; eternal ruin.
The following is the estimated dana &c
by the late cyclone around Galveston: The
government works in Balyar channel, in
cluding portion of the fleet, $4,000; the
Galveston, Houston and Henderson railro d,
i. loss Of track and bay bridge, $40, 600; Gulf OF
Colorado and Santa Fe railroad, loss Of track
and bridge, $4,000; cotton presses, $500