The Osceola times., 1878-08-03
aT.-z,. OsCEOLA ARKANSAS SATURDAY, AUGUST 1878

beloved and struck for the land, dragging
the alligator with him. Attracted BY ihs
blood and the noise, other slligators came to
the attack, and as the OF tossed them in the
arr with his horns, he incautiously lacked
into the water, when huge alligator seized
him by the nose and drowned him. '-u'H
The late heavy and protracted rains
have very materially damaged the cotton
crop in the northern portion of Texas In
many places the farmers have been unable
to work their crops for two weeks, and the
weeds and grass have almost taken the crop
| In some OF the counties. In the southern
portion Of the state the prospects are more
hopeful, and In many localities nnprecedent
ed crops will be gathered
The weed known as the common beg
| gars' lice is said to be n wonderful product,
and is being cultivated successfully in parts
OF Florida and southwest Georgia. Poor
lands are made rich, and deserted lands i'm.
proved BY lis culture thereon. 1t takes the
place OF clover; 10 a fine producer OF milk,
stock fatens rapidly on It, it is pslatabls
and nutrious, makes a fine forage, and can
be cut as often as three times per season.
Fort Smith, (Ark.) Herald: Two
young men, Ferdinand Grif and Pstrick
O'Reilly, left Fort Smith Mondny for the
Benedictine monastery, at the Pottawat>
tonic Mission, in the Iudisn territory, to
become members OF that order, and devote
their lives 70 the ciyIksHon and spiritual
Gri walked from New York to this place in
order to ioin the Benedictine order. ...
Hampton, IVA Monitor: On Wednes-
day last a white girl, about fourteen years of
age, was arraigned before Justice Larrabee,
OF Mill Creek, charged with, stealing q pair
of shoes. Being found guilty, the justics
allowed her to choose between receiving FL.
teen lashes or going TO jail for thirty days.
The mother Of the girl insisted tnat she
should receive the whipping, which was
accordingly administered by a colored
constable. ~. tNNN lf tHFss
Newbern (N. o. Nit She'll: The
bands On the A. and N. c. railroad yestsr-
day, in moving pile OF lumber, discovered
den OF snakes and commenced the work
OF destruction. After belaboring the snakes
for some time with sticks and missiles, they
counted up the dead bodies, and found that
they had annihilated twenty.one horn snakes
1.-THE longest one measuring six feet aud the
shortest one FIVE feet), one black snake and
one king snake.
Goliad (Tex.) Guard: We heard a
farmer say the other day that he would en-
gage 25,000 bushels OF corn, to be delivered
10 the city at twenty-five cents per bushel.
This shows the abundant crop thst has been
raised in the county the present year. While
corn can be raised at such figures and cattle
at such low prices, the great northwest may
soon see their main industry gradually leave
them to be transferred to southwest Texas
that of fattening cattle for market 81 81
Lake City Reporter At the planta-
tion OF Mr.. Turner, near Lake City. Fls., q
most singular scene occurred, the charming
OF thirteen.foot alligator by rattle snake.
The snake first saw the alligator, and with
his rattes attracted the latter's attention.
Then began the charming process, which
lasted fully half an hour. The alligator at
first turned his head once or twice, but was
Immediately called to order by the rattles
OF the snake. Toward the end of the half
hour, with fixed eyes, the alligator moved
slowly toward his terrible eneny until
within striking distance, when the snake
curled himself more compactly, and with all
the strength he could muster, struck the al.
ligator. For a moment the alligator shook
tremulously, and then, as if by magic, made
semi-circling backward movement pecu-
liar to the species, and brought his tail
down upon the snake with fatal effect.