The Osceola times., 1878-01-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
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hre.slarm telegraph.
A bagging mandatory is being Or
gsnized at Charleston, S. G.
The South Carolina house of repre-
'sentatives voted down the bill incorporating
the new county Of Ninety six" in that
state.
Mrs. Chisholm, of Mississippi tragedy
fame. Is to have Office in the treasury de-
partment at Warrington.
Bills have been introduced in the Viz
ginia legislature 10 incorporate the James
river railroad and the Virginia, Kentucky
and Ohio railroad companies.
A Big Bend correspondent of the
Macksville (Texas) Bulletin states that the
planters Of that locality will abandon cotton
next year and cultivate sugar-csne.
The Wilmington IN. C.) Morning Star
d;sined by the Duplin canal have been obi
gated 10 the canal company in return Tor the
reclamation Of the other.hali.
Raleigh IN. CO. Observer New York
letter: The whole region Of western North
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia is de.
scribed by DR.. White, from personal expert,
cnce, as being" Health's Eldorsdo."
The Vicksburg Herald says: "Com-
mon laborers are now earning in this state
and in Louisiana from $50 to $75 per month,
yet we are constantly bearing Of starvation
and strikes In the north. 1aborers, come
south"
The Cumming (Ga.) Baptist Banner
says little daughter OF James Mathis, of
Forsyth county. fell from tree recently and
struck snsg four feet above the ground,
which penetrated her abdomen and sus-
pended her In that position for several min.
utes before she was rescued.
Richmond fVa.) Patron; Senator
smith has drafted bill proposing to sp.
prentice out convicts of misd emeanor, under
proper restrictions, for the payment Of fine
and costs incurred in their arrest, nainten.
ance and conyiction Of such parties, .includ.
ing the value OF the property stolen.
Rattlesnakes are 30 thick at Slaughter
vile, Kentucky, that they have driven one
man out OF his house. For two or three
nights in succession they could be heard
rattlins under and around the house, and as
their,number didn't seem 10 diminish ma.
teriatiy after he had killed twenty seven Of
them, he concluded it Was time TO clear out.
o A Cumming, Ga, letter speaks of re-
parkable beet at th At place, which shoots up
s,Som the ground a stem about eighteen
inches high, and at the top OF the stem q
fully developed beet. which could not be
spsnned with the thumb aud finger. From
near the ground sprouts spring out from the
main stem, which present at the ends perfect
developments OF small beets. r
The Richmond (Va.) State represents
as being the usual salutation of the old coll
cfed people OF that section, Boss, remember
your old servant and SAYS IL is generally
accompanied by a supplicstory genuhexiou
that reminds one of other days. The State
says 1ey are grester beggsrs than the laz.
zaron' OF Italy, and have no idea of doing
you tbs slightest favor without being remsm.
bered in money,
The entire state revenue receipts in
Alabama during the year. have amount ted to
S9Ie b92. The state debt, includpg the Pet
ton .ftihcstes OF 81 ,255, amounts to 80 705,-
6is. The Mobile Register says. The auditor
informs us that the improved condition of the
'tttei shown in her appreciation of the fund.
ed Liabilities The per cent. obligations,
known ssstate money, are being absorbed as
an investment by citizens OF Alabama, and
the new two ana three per cent. bonds hgye
advanced invalueia least twenty per cent
within The past few months.
Danville (va.) Register: We heard Of
curious case OF absorption, the other day,
which will be'of interesttothe medical pro.
fession, at least. "A negro woman OF Henry
county, About sixty years Of age, and former.
~ the properly OF y. X. F0ntaine, deceased,
was I'll for a long time, and imagined that
she was "tricked." She died, but previous
TO death requested DIR. Smith to make post
snorteo examination, which he did, and found
IN the uterus the remnants OF fo1as, part of
the skull and other bones remaining. The
lotus, II Is not doubted, had been there a
number Of years, and had been nearly all
taken up by absorption, thus causing i'll.
health and death.
Elizabeth Ky. News Charlotte (va.)
Jletter Edgar A. Poe was a student OF this
university when he was eighteen years OF
age (ls26(. am informed by a classmate Of
his VIM. Werten baker, ESQ.,, 1.-THE university
hbrarian) that Poe was student whilst here,
having obtained distinction in several
studies. He pronounces as false the states
ment of Mr.. Griswold who wrote his irt
memoirs) that he was expelled from the uni
versity. Poe, no says, was fond Of kaming.
and lost large amounts Of money at Che card
table whilst here; he sxpressea-mueh regret
to my informant on one occasion that he had
contrac,ed large debts at gambling, and 61ed
the amount Mt 81 600, but he was earnest
and emphatic in the declaration that they
we're debts Of honor, and he intended 10 pay.
ten rs soon AZ be could. Like many school
bgs who are doffed "bsd," he had that
yPopensity Of using his knife upon the
bnches: his name iscut on bench In one
Q the lecture halls, and also on the mantle
b the room he occupied. Z" -