The Osceola times., 1878-03-02
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

IN "a :
The public school fund of Memphis i.
in bad condition. There is a deficit Of five
thousand dollars.
Georgia and her industrial and agri
cultural products will be well represented al
the Paris exposition.
The Charleston Courier notes the
arrival Of one hundred more emigrants, and
still no ship in sight.
There are eighteen ships, fifty barks
twelve brigs and twenty.eigh. schooners In
the port Of Pensacola.
The trade in western horses and mules
and North Carolina.
Peter Cooper has established and en-.
dowed bigh-grade free school at Limestone
Spring, South Carolina.
The greenbackers of Galveston will be
represented in the coming city elections by
candidates Of their choice.
An Atlanta man shipped thirty BUSH
els of sweet potatoes TO Chicago. The sale
lacked 1913 OF paying freight,
The ways and means committee Of the
Louisiana legislature has reported favorably
on the Mofett-register system Of taxation.
Charleston N. c. Observer We have
thus far this season had five separate and
distinct freshets, and there are two more
weeks to hear from.
The Louisiana legislature is wrestling
with the question Of carrying the capital
back to Baton Rouge. II has been moved
from New Orleans twice, and as many times
brought back.
Charlotte, North Carolina, Observer
Farmers finding now no further need for
their private fences, the stock law being in
existence, are hauling them to town and
selling them for FIRE wood. .
There is constant decline in receipts
from the bell-punch in Virginia, either be-
cause the novelty of having drinks registered
has worn off and fewer are taken, or because
bar-keepers are learning to evade the law.
Charlotte IN. C.) Observer: Yester.
day'sbout thirty negroes, about half OF whom
were children, came down the Statesville
railroad from the southern part OF Iredell
county, on their way TO Charleston, there to
take passage on steamer for Liberia.
As a father jumped from a buggy in
Dallas, Texas, his pair Of high,mettled horses
dashed away with his little ten~year.old
daughter. None but q Texas paper would
venture to tell how she gathered the reins,
and stood 'em up on the ends OF their tails.
Richmond Enquirer: Philip Helfrich,
convicted of failing to registera glass OF beer
sold, appeared before Juigon yesterday, paid
the fine and costs, amounting to $49.30, in
accordance with the finding OF the court, the
supreme court having affirmed it's acti on.
The supreme ceurt of Virginia has
decided that the Mofiett law is constitutional
There is not the slightest probability tnat
the legislature will repeal the law, as from
the returns already made the auditor of
public accounts is OF the opinion that it will
produce not less than $525,00.
b An Atlanta gentleman proposes a
nobby banquet. He will invite ten persons.
There will be ten meat dishes turkey, goose,
quail, duck, sheep, hog, beef, chicken, ven-
sion and fish. One OF these dishes will be
placed before each guest, who will deliver a
ten minutes eulogy on the animal repre-
scented.
Texas is overrun with tramps, and
the Dallas Commercial offers this advice /:
Don't feed the tramps. II they ask for a
meal send them to the wood pile and make
them earn it. II they won't do that they are
not very hungry. A rigid determination on
the part OF the people not to feed those who
won't work will cure the tramping business
sooner than anything else.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer: Since Au.
gust 81, to date, the Eagle and Pbenix man.
ufacturing company have ginned 3l6 bales
Of cotton, against COS the same time last year.
This cotton was brought TO the factory in the
seed as, gathered from. the field, This is
one Of the great advantages possessed by
southern mills. The net earnipgs for the
past year were over one hundrsd end fifty
thousand dollars. "a faa
The coal production of the world has
increased enormously since 1915. In that
year Great Britain produced 81 500, 900 tons I;
in 1874, l25O4S,O0O tons; Belgium, 1s45,
4,960,077 in 1874, 1860, 900. France, 1916,
-4,l41,6.7; 1874, 16 $4,000. Prussia, 1S45,
3,5Q0,000; 1874, .4l,754,60O. In the United
States the production in 1874 was nearly ten
times thatin lS45.
The chief difficulty attending the use
of the telephone has been the want of an
alarm 10 indicate the Transmission Of conn
munication. Mr.. Redmond, Of Dublin, calls
attention to method which he hiss found
very effectual. 1t consists in sending the
current OF an ordinary magneto.electric
machine through the instrument, which pro-
duces a loud hum that is distinctly heard
many yards distapt.
The Lehman manufacturing company,
situated one mile above Prsttville, Alabama,
on Autauga creek, runs one hundred looms
and 5,s74 spindles, requiring one hundred
and ten operatives 10 keep the machinery
going. The water supply is abundant, and
In shcrt time they intend putting In new
Eclipse turbine water wheel, one hundred
and twenty five horsepower, which will
greatly facilitate operations.
The government is distributing tea.
plants in Georgia. Gen. Toombs said to q
reporter Of the Atlanta Constitution: II the
people would only learn the process OF cur
inq. the leaf, az good tea can be produced in
Georgia as in China" "Why," added he,
"tea has been planted and grown in this
state for the last forty years, nearly. Right
here, in few miles OF you are trees, II some'
body hasn't cut them down since saw them
last, that were thirty feet high, tea trees, that
were planted away back yonder in is42P
The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist
says the damage by the cyclone in that city
will amount to $4,000. The storm extended
some distance into South Carolina, but ite
ravsges were slight compared to what II did
In Augusta. Mr.. Henry Hammond's fences
and out>houses on his plantation, six miles
from here, were blown down, and DR.. Burk-
halter's dwelling and outhouses were de-
stroyed. A building was destroyed on Mrs
Walkers place. Fences and trees were lev,
elled on several other plantations.
Louisiana Sugar Bowl: We are glad
to see tina, the canvass Of the different sugar
parishes 10 fully verifying our estimate that
the loss from the freeze would not exceed q
per cent Mr.. William Robertson, who hal
recently visited all tho sugar plantations in
St Mary, Iberia. st. Martin, Lafayette and
vermillion, has found that In the parishes
named the crop is only about twenty pei
cent shorter than that Of 1876. and th,