The Osceola times., 1878-11-23
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


murder in the Knoxville Jail.
There are sos prisoners (eleven women)
in the Arkansas Penitentiary.
There were fifty eight foreign vessels
ia the port of Wilmington, N. c., Friday.
One OF the wonders of the Texas State
Fair was a"Sieeping Beauty" made OF but,
ter.
Georgia has supported her 795 luna
ties the past ten months at an average daily
cost of "a IL cents.
A bill for the introduction OF the Mof.
fett register has been introduced IN the
Georgia Legislature.
The proprietors of the Belmont vine
yard, Front Royal, Virginia, have made 49,
coo gallons of vine this season.
General Joseph f. Johnston received
in Richmond 1868 votes and his opponent
GIL. Johnston's majority ia the district is
1915.
"Ida l.. NJ" writes to paper pub
lished near Button that he wants a hus.
band, aged twenty-six or twenty-eight, a
farmer, and a man who knows something
more than measuring few yard of calico.
Address her at Bluffton, Texas. No clerks
need apply.
Jefferson Davis has been singularly
unfortunate with his sons. Joseph II. fell
from the piazza of the Executive Mansion
in Richmond during the war and was killed;
William died Of diphtheria in Memphis in
1873, and Jefferson, the only surviving one,
has died in Memphis of the yellow fever.
William Newton, of Florida, was sem
fenced TO be hung two years ago for killing
N but ,ust a. ha 4
execution his sentence was commuted to
imprisonment for life. few days ago his
plot to murder the guards and escape from
convict farm was discovered; and, in des.
peration. he poisoned himself.
Richmond is not strictly temper
ance town. The Wig says: The Moffett
registers returned for the month Of October:
Alcoholic drinks, 105,477; tax, 81, ,66l. 70 !;
malt drinks, 142, ,l66; tax, $7l0.S3 total $3,-
1916. The total revenue derived IRON the
registers from the beginning of the system
to the ! 1t OF November amounts to $50, 1856 %.
New Orleans Times 1t is confidently
believed that the re ults of the inquire into
the subject OF yellow fever now being made
will be the utter subversion OF popular ideas
regarding quarantine. Through travel will
be interiicted in the future only by such
towns as will 20 against all scientific opinion,
and the mails will probably be uninter
dieted.
Mr.. Ayrauit, of Virginia, viii exhibit
at the State Fair his steer, weighing pesrly
1000 poinds, and heifer, $500 pounds,
which probably are the largest animals of
the kind in the world. One is a thorough>
bred Durham, and the other seven.eiehths
pure blood. They are well known through.
out the country, the steer as "Chempion"
and the heifer as "Queen OF Cattle"
Millett Brothers, cattle kings of
Northwes. Texas have the contract tor fur
nishing beef to AL the Indian agencies in
the Territory, embracing Fort Sll, Washita,
Usage, Cheyenne Fort Reno), Pawnee,
Conca, Mod0c Nez Perces, Ruapa, and Sac
and Fox agencies. To supply these ten
agencies il requires about 200 head OF $50
pound cattle per month.
A Galveston News special says of the
State Far in Austin "There were lis
entries of horses, Al of cattle, 113 sheep, and
81 hogs. The cattle and horses are thor
oughbred. Stock of Texas farms show TO
better advantage than those brought from
Tennessee, and Kentucky per-
hAps because OF more recent excellent
grooming. Ii is evident from the show
to day that Texas is taking position in rails
ing blooded stock with any of the Western
States.
All Saints Day was celebrated in New
Orleans by decoration of the many thou
sand new made graves. The Democrat says
of the Charity Hospital cemeteries: "There
were no visitors TO these golgothas twhefe
the record states that 32,962 persons are
placed where the weary are at rest) except
a detachment OF Battery r, New Orleans
Artillery, who remembered a poor dead
comrade aud laid wreath of evergreens
and flowers ON his grave"
G. X. Lombard, in his report TO the
Chattanooga Relief Committee, says: 1t
will be seen that altitude is no protection
against the disease, as every family occupy
ing Academy Hill suffered more or less,
while IN the hollow south OF the Academy,
on ground lower than the Dagger lot, there
have been but seven cases, and no two in
any one house, although the family were
not isolated, while in the Crabtree and Dag
ger lots two and three IN family have been
prostrated in one day.
Charleston, 5. g., isanticipating great
results from the construction OF jetties by
the United States Government at the mouth
OF it's harbor. A tantalzing bar has hitherto
proved an obstacle to the free passage of
shipping, but this projected Improvement
will increase the depth ol the water by at
least ten feet, and enable the largest ships
to pass at all times The opening between
the ietties will be a half mile wide, and
through it will flow the waters now spread
over line OF ten miles.
New South: The deaths at Grenada
and vicinity up to September 25 are, as near
as can be ascerta ned Adult males. ll2
fnt tal tEh
or the first, our merchants, druggists,
traders, and clerks furnished nearly half !;
four resident physicians, four ministers OF
the gospel, two lawyers, one chancellor. the
Postmaster, the Mayor of the city, two Al
dermen, two dentists, many mechanics,
among them both of the undertakers and
their employees. Some deaths have occurred
from yellow fever since, but not many
especially in the city.
A startling robbery and bloody tragedy
occurred few niyhts ago three miles north
of BRYAN, Texas. About midnight gang Of
Eve masked men, mounted and well armed,
went to the house of Thomas Higss, broke
in and tied him to the bed post, hand and
foot. The villains then robbed the house OF
$3.50. They then took Higgs and made him
walk in front to the house OF his brother,
Sam Higgs, a quarter OF a mile distant.
They forced him to knock at the door, and
ordered him to make no reply. His brother
sam, not receiving any answer, seized SIX
shooter and fir, d, mortally wounding Tom
Hirgs. The robbers then opened fire, com
pletely riddling the house with bullets
The occupants, however, miraculously es'
capped. ar
New Orleans Democrat: In the Ma,
sonic Cemetery lay the remains OF Edward
D,rnes and his FIVE children, the latter side
Inv side, the sod over them and the names,
"Hattie," "Millie," Woodland" "Jeffie,
and Robert" worked chysanthemums oyeI
the grave which they represented, while lhs
Mai in which these children we've buried