The Osceola times., 1878-08-10
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Verely from drouth.
A Texa, man has raised and shipped
north this year $50 mocking birds.
The city assessment of Dallas falls
100000 below what is was for 1877.
The Georgia state fair, at Atlanta in
October, oaers 81 500 in premiums.
The streams in parts of Georgia and
North Carolina are said to be lower than for
forty years.
The Fort Smith ARK Herald reports
that work will soon be resumed On the let.
ties at that place.
The Charleston, Is. C.) Journal of
Commerce has suspended after eating up
s60,0oO over and above its capital.
Mountain trout in streams on the
south side of the Blue Ridge can not live
Every effort to raise them has failed.
Montgomery disposes OF about twelve
day, and it is all manufactured at home,
The Austin Statesman thinks, unless
Texas sets up the whipping-post, the state
will become an unendurable den of thieves
and scoundrels.
The Sunday ordinance in Richmond
worked so badly that it was promptly re.
pealed, and the back doors of bar.rooms will
be open as usual on Sundays.
In Georgia white girl, aged fifteen,
ran of with negro man, and both landed in
the Savannah jail. The girl claims to be
negro, and clings to the man.
The ice dealers of Charleston have
raised the price of that article, but the
man ufactory at Savannah supplies the de,
mand at less than one cent a pound.
The subject of the narrow gauge rail.
road up to the summit of Lookou mountain
is again being agtated, with the view of
converting that height into summer resort.
The reporter sent over with the Libe-
rian emisrant ship discovered one negro in
Monrovia who had made money and was de~
lighted with the country. lie was an under.
taker.
Austin (Tex.) Statesman Some peo-
pie predict that corn will not bring over
fifteen cents bnshel this fall. Farmers had
better make their arrangements TO feed as
much as possible of it to hogs and cattle.
A correspondent of the Blue Ridge
Echo mentions the fact that q farmer In
Rappahannoek county, who sowed ten tons
of phosphate last fall, now offers his entire
wheat crop to any one who will pay for the
fertilizer.
The Macon Telegraph says: A very
daring robbery OF a large amount of money
In the mails in Georgia has just been dis,
covered The post Office officials and the
detectives are actively engaged in their in
vestigntions.
The government refuses to pay $50 per
ton for ice, and custom house and other EN-.
ployes Mt New Orleans have to drink warm
water. The MAYOR of the city is taking steps
to import ice, rs it is absolutely indispens>
able in the treatment of yellow fever.
Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser: The
law authorizing the hiring out of state and
county conviots will no doubt be bone of
contention in the next legislature. An eff
fort will be made to repeal the law on the
ground that II interferes with honest labor,
Galveston News: A monster of the
deep, in the shape of shark thirteen feet
long, was pulled out OF the bay yesterday
evening. The mouth was sufficiently large
when open to permit the passage OF a mans
head and shoulders and IL required twenty
men to land him on the wharf.
The property of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad, which is to be sold under a judg.
ment OF foreclosure, at Mobile, Ala, on
August 19. comprises 372 miles of main line,
fifty.six miles of branches. all equipments
and appurtenances, including over 1000
cars and nearly 100 locomotives, the lease OF
the Aberdeen branch, about 100000 acres
of land and the franchise OF the road.
Dennison (Tex.) News: There is
great religious revival among the negroes at
Preston Bend. few weeks ago two negroes
on Judge Portef's place we're killed by
lightning. A day or two after that a team
ran away and broke negros leg. The
superstitions negroes inte erpreted these oc.
curreuces as special vi'itations of Providence,
and the result has been thai nearly all the
colored population have experienced re-
ligion. Ii keeps the colored preacher busy
baptizing the converts.
Austin (Tex.) Statesman Last year
cotton in this section of the state averaged
about one.third of bale TO the acre, and the
total shipments from Austin amounted to
about 10000 bales. The cotton crop in this
section of the state now promises full bale
to the acre, or three times as much per acre
as was made last season, with an increased
acresge. Therefore some anticipate that the
shipments from Austin this season may
reach $4,000 bales. Certainly the shipments
will be more than double what they were
last year.
New Orleans Democrat The present
type OF yellow fever differs in many particu-
lars from the characteristics OF the same dis.
ease in former years. This year the patient
feels no pain in the back, and his pulse, skin
and general appearance do not indicate a
high stage of fever. The fever is hidden,