The Osceola times., 1878-08-03
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


new constitution. ..-...
Mrs. Gen. Toombs is quite i'll at the
White Sulphur Springs. 3D..
Portionsof North Carolina are suffer.
ing from severe drouth.
New corn is being engaged in Texas al
10 and Is cents bushel.
Columbus, Ga, has received this seasor,
over II 900 bales of cotton.
AT one point on Red river III, 900 cat
Tic have crossed since April.
The genuine cotton caterpillar has ap-
Peared in Concordis parish, La.
In Texas butter sells at from Is to Is
cents, according to strength" I.II
The Louisiana democratic convention
meets in Baton Rouge, August 8. rIf .,.s
The Mobile cotton mill is to be in.
creased in stock and doubled in capacity.
Amelia Island, Fla, has produced
water melon five feet eleven inches in circum.
ference.
Outside OF the cities the Moffet regis
ter is said to be the most popular law ever
enacted IN Virginia.
The Eagle and Phoenix cotton. mill No
D. NJ toiudDus, oi., Deguu operation,
and will employ three hundred weavers.
Since the first of May northern ice has
gone up in New Orleans from s12 to 1876 per
ton, and manufactured ice from $40 to $22
The salaries Of the agents along the
line of the Macon and Augusta railroad have
been scaled thirty-three and third per
cent. CIiEt r|0rF
Oakwood, Texas, is moving a mile to
get on railway. In that state they think
nothing OF bundling mp town and taking it
west.
Barton county, Ca, shipped 225, 900
pounds oil dried apples and peaches last
season, and will double that amount this
year.
A man Of seventy and a woman of
thirty were married in Augusts, and inn
mediately after asked for certificate to the
poor.house.
The papers claim that it has not been
hot in the south, but North Carolina man
saw the sun kill and cook a snake that got
too far out in sand field.
There are one hundred and four news
papers and other literary journals in North
Carolina. Upon these periodicals nearly two
hundred editors are engaged.
At the Houston fair was exhibited a
specimen of corn raised in Fo.d Bend
county, Texas, and taken from a field that
produced sixty~eight and a half bishels to
the acre.
Macon county, Texas, has produced
one hundred and twenty five pound pump.
kin. On the same vine are five still grow.
ing, none OF which weigh less than one hun
dred pounds.
One case OF yellow fever has appeared
in Key West, aud there has been a general
stampede Of tie United States forces. The
Key OF the Gulf does not believe il to be
yellow fever.
When Sam Bass, the celebrated Texas
train robber, was mortally wounded, two
men were killed and several others wounde !.
He ana his party OF outlaws had come into
Round Rock for tobacco.
Tea raised in South Carolina and pre.
pared in Baltimore was lately exhibited in
Washington to dealers, who were unable 10
distinguish II from similar varieties Of
Chinese and Japanese growth.
A San Antonio special says: A fifteen
hundred pound clip OF wool arrived in town
yesterday from the Guadalupe mountains,
one hundred and fifty miles beyond III Paso,
or about one thousand miles fiom here.
Bars of pure gold, weighing twenty
ounces each, have been ploughed up at or
near Lexington, N. c., to the value OF
$4,000. 1t Is supposed TO he the proceeds
Of stage robbery committed some forty five
years ago.
Monteller Utz, at one time as wealthy
a man as lived in Page county, Va, was on
last Tuesday taken TO the county poor house
as pauper. BEFORE the war he owned $50
acres OF land and forty-three slaves, besides
much other valuable property. His property
was lost through Encouragement.
The future growth of Florida is not, in
the opinion Of the Sumpter Advance,in the
number OF immigrants brought into her
limits, but in the millions Of young orange
trees that are gradually coming into bearing
Every tree that natures and puts forth fruit
adds $15 TO go per snnun TO the wealth Of
the state, I.f4
Russell Register: Rumors Of the sp-
proach Of the Internal cotton caterpillars are
flying in the low lands Of middle Alabama.
We have not heard Of any yet in Russell.
This hot dry weather will keep them away.
II will soon be too late to do much damage
now, as 1t takes, we believe, three crops Of
them TO do any harm. .es.'
A party of scientific people, teachers
and pupils, male and female, from Indiana
and Illinois, are walking In the mountains
OF North Carolina. The Asheville Citizen
says they have walked from Somerset, KY,
through the Cumberland mountains, and are
walking on to the Black, which will complete
a distance OF 200 miles.
Dallas Herald; An intelligent and OBJ.
servant farmer who has Just returned from
an extended trip over the counties Of John
son, Hill, Ellis and Dallas informs us that in
life.tme's experience in the north, west
ana south he has never seen such crops as
now cover these counties like grand pano-
rama Of fruitfulness.
1t is thought the Texas cattle drive
this year will foot up 100000. Most Of them
60 by Dodge City up the Arkansas and
Purgatoire into the Platte valley, BY the
introduction OF blooded stock the quality
has been greatly improved IN the last four
years, and these plain>fed beeves are getting
the best prices in eastern markets.
New Orleans Picayune Mrs. Lena
Hamilton, who was convicted of perjury and
sentenced to five years hard labor, has, on
petition, been psrdoned by the governor.
The sheriff, it appears, refuses to release her
until the pardon is confirmed by the senate,
the law requiring the sanction Of The latter
body to the condoniug acts OF the executive.
The Nashville American says at Rhea
Springs, Sunday, man by the name of Col
Inns became deranged, and, stripping him
self, ran muck through the town, knocking
down several persons who attempted to pre-.
vent his entering a church. He was over.
powered and put in Jail, but when the jsiler
came 10 he killed him and knocked his wife
senseless TO the floor. el tfi
An extensive South Carolina planter
says previous to 1866 the natural aecennisl
increase Of negroes on his plantation was 25