The Osceola times., 1878-02-16
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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A very black couple in Columbus. Ga.
have three Albino children.
North Carolina has 33l convicts il
| the penitentiary, and 700 at work on rail
roads.
The tenderest TROPICAL plants at Tamps
Florida, were not injured in the least thi
winter.
Tennessee has now eleven hundred and
twenty convicts, and expects to have twelve
hundred in two months.
Marshall, Texas, Herald: Reports from
all parts of the state represent the whes
crop as promising an abundant yield.
Diphtheria is again very fatal in Nash
vile. Conductor 4. b. House has lost three
children within a week, and has two more
sick,
The Fort Worth Democrat is authority
for the statement that one of Dayy Crockett's
sons was in that town the other day with a
load OF cotton.
Governor Hahn has offered bill in the
Louisiana legislature licensing gambling
houses, and prescribing the manner in which
they shall be conducted.
The Eastern Virginian tells of twenty
coast of Accommodate first Of the kind ever
known in Virginian waters.
Salisbury Watchman: There is little
negro girl, two or three years old, living in
town, with three feet and one hand. Her
right arm has perfect foot on it.
H. NJ. Moody has sent to the office of
the Jacksonville, Florida, Sun and Press a
peach. zone of some thirty that are on the
tree which had been 10 bloom the entire
season."
A Texan is exhibiting calf with eight
well-defined sheep horns, eight goa. horns
and two natural calf horns. He has also
Berkshire pig with three horns, five legs, six
feet and two tails.
Tallahassee, Florida, Patriot: Peach
trees are in bloom, and il the weather con-
tinues as mild as we have had 1t for the past
two weeks, vegetables will go begging for
the want of buyers.
The governor has appointed Hon. F.
Font1ine, Of Columbus and Colonel John
A. Speer, OF Lagrange, as the two honorary
commissioners 10 represent Georgia at the
Paris exposition.
One of the finest bayous in the state of
Louisiana, which was, twenty years ago, a
perfect Eden OF beauty and splendor, has
become a swamp fit only for the habitation
of alligators and bullfrogs
In Hampstead. Texas, the grand jury
indicted the gamblers, and the gamblers in
turn filed informations before the county
attorney against majority of the grand
jury; also tie county attorney himself.
Hutchins, the colored lawyer from
South Carolina, who some time since made a
vain effort to obtain admission 10 the Georgia
bar, has at last susceeded in carrying his
point, and is now a fullhedged Georgia
barrister.
Gus. johnson will be hanged on the
18th OF March, in Rome, Ga for the murder
of negro. lie will be the first white man
hanged in the south since the war for the
murder of negro So Gays the Atlanta
Constitution.
Tennessee will not only send large
display of her products to the Paris exposi.
ton, but will have about 10000 pamphlets
printed in French and German, and contain.
ing such information about the state as i'm.
migrants will desire.
The Richmond Transcript exhumes
the fact that Virginia once had native
African for governor. Governor Alexander
Spottswood, who filed the char in 1860,
was born in Tanger, while his father, a
British officer, was there on duty.
Mrs. Lily Murphy, of Pittsylvania
county, Va, died on Wednesday. During
her illness, her son, VIM. Murphy, aged "a
years, declared IL his mother died he would
go too, and when she died he cut his throat
with razor, but il is thought he will re.
cover.
The fishermen of jacksonville, Fla,
are complaining about the dull season in
their line. They all work on shares, and
receive pay according to the price received
by the parties they work for. The fish are
solt principally in ST. Louis, Nashville,
Louisville and New York.
The publication in the Charleston
News and Courier of the dispatch from Rev.
3. F. Portor, announcing the purchase of n
ship, has created the greatest excitement
among the colored people. The arrival of
the craft is already anticipated, and new
influx Of emigrants may be looked for.
Cullman, Alabama, Tribune: Last
Thursday ten immigrants arrived here from
the north also, eight or ten families went to
our neighbor colony Of Garden City. The
tide of immigration has indeed turned south
ward. We learn that some ninety families
will arrive here in the course of two months
from Pittsburg, Pa.
bdNunildu ICobCIuay
about halfpast twelve o'clock, considerable
excitement was created at Thunderbolt by
the appearance of several large porpoises,
driving an immense school of fish shoreward
The fishermen, white and colored, iocked TO
the river with their drag nets, and standing
on the beach managed TO make fine hauls.
A San Antonio special to the Calves.
ton News says: A dispatch from Capt. Z. E.
Sellers to headquarters, under date of Feb.
/, says: "In regard to the recent raid, am
credibly informed that the number Of ron.
bers was seventeen. There was politics
about it. They were all Mexican citizens
] can not find that any Of them have as yet
been seen in Laredo"
Fifteen plantations in the parish Of
Lafourche, which yielded 4,579 hogsheads Of
sugar in 1876, made only 3,l7l hogsheads last
season-a loss Of about thirty per cent. TAX.
ing this falling OIL in connection with the in.
creased expense of manufacture, the inferior
quality of the staple and the poo-er market
OF 1877, the Thibodaux Sentinel estimates
that the last sugar crop of Lafourche Will net
less than half that Of 1876.
Mr.. Frederick Herbert, a veteran of
the war Of 1st4.15, died in Lafayette parjsb