The Osceola times., 1878-06-29
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

A Salt well has been discovered in
Anderson county, Tennessee.
Tennessee has received 900 Northern
settlers within the last ten months.
The Pensacola Advance says the
orange planting mania is increasing in
Florida.
The sheriff Of Pickens county, S. c.,
charges that five revenue officers hrutally
murdered a moonshner named Ladd.
The first colered Baptist church in
Nashville is said TO be the finest church
| e iifce ever erected by colored people in the
south.
A member of the Central Baptis.
church, in Nashville, has been expelled for
allowing his child TO be baptized by Catho
lie priest.
The New Orleans managers of the
Morgan railroad assert that the road will be
built through to Texas in the shortest pos.
sible time.
They have loc'ted Captain Kidd's
Treasure near Key West, Florida and there
is considerable excitement over it in the
neighborhood.
The Atlanta Judge to whom was re
ferred the legality of the ordinance against
opening barber shops on Sunday has decided
that shaving Is q moral necessity.
An Edge6eld, Tenn, firm has lust
shipped two hundred thousand feet Of wal.
nut lumber TO firm in Richmond, Ind, 10
be converted into church furniture.
The rapid increase of population in
Texas may be seen from the popular vote at
the state elections In 1866 the total vote
for governor was 60 $50 in 1870, 1884; In
1878, SS,36l in 1876, l9S.l37. The vote this
year will probably reach 250,000.
Mississippi has no public debt except
a small amount in funds which are held at
home and are worth their face in gold.
Stale tax is very low and county taxes are
reasonably so. The court dockets. civil and
criminal, are cleaner than ever before.
1t is stated that several pushing men
have organized for the purpose Of man ufac.
turing iron cotton ties at the old rolling mil
in north Memphis. The capacity OF the
works will be from forty thousand TO Nv
thousand bundles of ties per aunum. or
about one>third of The number ann nually sold
in that city.
San Antonio Herald The farmers
about Benham, encouraged by an offer OF II
Frische, uade by circular, to pay cash for
beans, planted the crop extensively. Ffische
went back on his promise, and plies of that
vegetable, large enough to excite the envy OF
Boston, now rot on the wsyside and In the
fields.
A large colony of Germans has settled
in Tyler county, Texas, where they are puts
/ ting in farm of 10000 acres under one
fence. The residences of the colonists ere
| built toge her in town plat as in GERMANY
They have with them doctors, merchants,
blacksmiths, etc, and are perfectly indie
pendent.
Gen. BENJAMIN f. L Bonneville died
in New Orleans a few days ago. he was
the Oldest living graduate Of West Point
He served with distinction in the Fiorids
and Mexican wars. HIS Greer furnished
Irving with the materill for his B ,nneville's
Adventures"
Atlanta Constitution The peniten
tiary system Of Georgia appears to be an
essy road To reform. According to the
Oglethorpe Echo, the convicts on Alexan-
der's farm are allowed TO gamble. One Of
the convicts, a horse>thief named McCord
won all the money OF his fellow prisoners in
a weeks time and then broke the guard. A
wheel of fortune should be introduced for
the amusement Of these fatigued villains.
Tennessee now has five military and
two artillery companies: The Chickssav
Guards and Memphis Light Guards. of Mem,
phs; Porter Rifles, OF Nashville; Sumner
Guards, of Gallatin; Knoxville X fles, Of
Knoxville; Bluff Guy Light Artillery, o.
Ms%nh,., MsIsni,,. and BurnI Light Artillery q