The Osceola times., 1878-03-09
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

There are ten miles Of decayed Nichol-
son pavement in Memphis.
A st. Louis gentleman has paid ten
thousand dollars for gold mine in Cherokee
county, Georgia.
The tide Of immigration 10 Florida il
said to be flowing into the eastern and south
eastern portions Of the state.
Gen. Robert Toombs has about one
hundred thousand dollars invested in prop
erty and bonds OF Atlanta.
II anybody can ever straighten out the
Mississippi river, says the New Orleans Pic,
ayune, Captain Esds is the man to undertake
The state, county and city tax amounts
to four dollars and forty>fve cents on each
one hundred dollars of value on property in
Memphis
Georgia farmers report more cotton
under the shelters in the country at this
season than has been there at the same time
of year since the war.
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.
The liquor. dealers of New Orleans
have met and determined TO submit TO the
Louisiana legislature protest against the
introduction In that state Of the Mofett
liquor register.
Marietta (Gs.) Journal: The people of
Georgia carry of the palm for sending their
children away TO educate. Since the war
they have sent out of the state for this pur.
pose one million two hundred and Fifty
thousand dollars.
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.
Atlanta has received of the cotton crop
since September 1, 1877, ninety-one thousand
nine hundred and seventy>six bales, an in.
crease Of seven thousand and Linety one
bales over last year for the corresponding
| time.
Knoxville, Tenn, Chronicle The
whipping.post law was inaugurated at Bris.
tol, on the Virginia side, last week, by the
legal castigation of a colored offender by the
officer. Thirty lashes were administered.
The offense was stealing basket.
This is what the Georgia state geologist
| told reporter OF the Atlanta Constitution !:
have already told you, and proved to you,
that her gold region was richer and better
than that OF California, and that It's yield
must very soon become enormous. tell you
now that agricultural, pastoral and lumber
state on the Pacific slope, or in the northwest.
Besides this, she has water powers far supe.
rior TO and more numerous than those that
have enabled New England to dictate the
| financial policy of the government. We have
gold equal to California, copper equal to
| Tennessee, coal equal to Pennsylvania, iron
equal to any country, water powers equal to
Massachusetts, pasturage equal to Kentucky,
soil equal TO lows, lumber superior to Maine,
and climate better than any Of them. Our
future is In our own hands.
In response to the query, "Will sugar
culture pay" the New Orleans Picayune
says: Some four or five years ago farmer
from Greene county, Indiana, settled in
vermillion parish, below Abbeyvilbc, with
but little money; but he was working
farmer, and had some working boys. This
farmer had lately been making sugar on a
small scale, within ten miles Of the gulf
coast. His last crop is in his sugar.house,
unsold, since he did not need the money,
and hoped sugar would improve little. He
has Just purchased a sugar.mill to make four
or fye hogsheads OF sugar In day, for which
he pays twelve hundred dollars cash, and
will pay the rent when he sells his crop. He
has but one colored man on his farm, who
takes care OF the horses and does the chores,
This Indiana farmer and his boys do the field
work, aud they are constantly improving
their farm and making money. All such
white farmers and sons can make money at
farming anywhere in Louisiana. hundred
thousand Of such farmers would make the
state independent and rich in few years.
The Louisiana legislature is disposed
to adopt the Moffett liquor-repister. The
Times says: Nobody supposes in his widest
lose cent by the operation, a. they vim
naturally proceed IN Offset the tar 6y n.