The Osceola times., 1878-03-30
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

The Virginia penitentiary is to be
let.
The Nashville gas company sends to
Alabama for coal.
Cullman has the only snuff factory in
the state of Alabsna.
The Chattanooga steel rail works will
be in operation June LIST.
Memphis desires TO hear Capt. Eads
on the subject Of river improvement.
The contract to improve the harbor Of
Jacksonville, Florida, will probably be given
to Capt. Eads.
Gov. Holiday, of Virginia, has offered
rewards for the apprehension OF the lynchers
OF Charlotte Harris,
Certain lands on the st. Johns river,
Florida, sold the other day for four hundred
dollars per acre.
Mr.. Caswell Bell, aged seventy, shot
himself In Atascosu county, Texas, because
a widow wouldn't marry him.
The sheriff OF Denton county, Texas,
recently passed through Dallas, sscortng
four murderers and two horse thieves.
A Selma, Ala. man has patented a
machine for distributing poison on cotton
plants, and thinks he will be a millionaire
shortly.
Three persons in the parish of Assump-
ton, In Louisiana, killed nine thousand ALI.
gators, and sold their hides for seventy five
cents apiece.
The expenses OF the recent session of
the Louisiana legislature were two hundred
thousand dollars less than for any year since
reconstruction.
The results of artificial propagation of
fish in Virginia are beginning TO be exhibit,
ed in the large number Of shad and herrings
in the streams.
The merchants OF Corpus Christi,
| Texas, have forwarded to their representa-
| tive in congress protest against the free
importation Of foreign woods.
Memphis Appeal Work on the Gus.
tom house will not be recommended until
congress determines whether or not the
building is to be finished with Tennessee
marble or other stone.
Richmond Dispatch There is seri
Gus falling off in the revenues OF the Msfiett
register. This is not at all an indication OF
fault in the register itself, but Of dishonesty
in some liquor sellers.
Shreveport Times A resident of San
Pedro, Texas, killed his wife with hatchet
| because she would not get out of bed first to
make the FIRE. A coronef's jury brought in
| a verdict OF Died from natural causes"
Dallas, Texas, Commercial First
Murderer-The right OF trial by Jury is the
cornerstone of American liberty. Second
! Murderer You bet it Is. And then they
loaded their pistols and went to look for a
new victim.
Nashville American Collector Wood
cook says that he has received information
from the persons coming from the counties
mentioned. TO the effect that the Illicit dis.
tillcrs are making an organized efort at
resistance, and that a very bitter feeling
exists among them.
The bill passed by the Mississippi leg.
! islature, few days before adjournment, IN
aid OF the Ship Island, Ripley n Kentucky
railroad, donates large body OF lands held
by the state to assist in its construction, and
provides for the employment of convicts
along the line Of the road. The act requires
| the company to begin the work of construc-
ton at both ends Of the road within six
months.
West Virginia has the largest and most
valuable body OF timber OF any state In the
union. Prof. Fontaine estimates that the
area still covered by forests is between nine
snd ten million acres, and that the value OF
the surplus exportable timber is fully seven.
ty.fve million dollars M 1t stands In the
forests. The oak, walnut, cherry, ash, pop.
lar. maple, elm, sycamore and lecust attain
| size there not surpassed on the American
continent.
Rockdale (Texas) Messenger: Rock.
dale, on Monday, witnessed a strange phen-
omenon. II was shower OF leaves. As far
as the eve could reach the heavens above
were filled with them, reminding one OF the
days OF the grasshoppers. There was nc
commotion OF the atmosphere to be observed
in any direction on the horizon. The sup.
position il that they were lifted up by an
immense whirlwind and carried great dis
tance. They were falling all day long.
New Orleans Times We have learned
with regret that It is very probable New Or
leans will not send to the Paris exposition
a respectable sample OF cotton, and, indeed
10 any cotton Is sent there at all from here II
, will only be bale or two put ur by some in
dividua. TO exhibit the power OF some press
or for some other purpose altogether foreign
TO cotton as grand national product. And
, il is also said that even our cotton exchange
. will content itself with sending a mail bo,
containing few pounds OF this great staple
A letter from Col. A. Burwell, ,
. prominent lawyer Of vicksburg, is printed
/ Ia the Memphis Appeal, in which the claim
Of Memphis as the eastern terminus OF tn,
J southern railway route TO the Pacific are
urged, and the disadvantages Of vicksburg
which he styles the doomed city" are clear
ly set forth. Col. Burwell states that he |
sctuated to this opinion against his own per
I sonal interests by facts too palpable TO b.
p ignored. All his worldly possessions are q
The south end Of vicksburg, but he canno
!, help but recognise the superior advantage
q Memphis possesses for the eastern terminul
OF the great trunk line Of the Southern Paci
. ci6c railway.
Il New Orleans Democrat: At the pres
q eut time there are in the port o. New Orlsan
q txenty.one steamships, forty ships, forty
u two bsrks, four brigs and fifteen schooner
2 makias an aggregate Of l?s vessels againi
!. njretystwo last year at this data. Ths Brit
~ vtesuer Texas has cleared fer Nverpoo
Il 10 s6.iee bushels Of cesl in balk, and q
n sleansf Ithurisl, for The 0ns pese ~