The Osceola times., 1878-06-15
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


Arkansas is shipping walnut and oak
logs to Liverpool.
The amount of back taxes due the city
/ of New Orleans is 100000.
A Davidson county, Tenn, farmer is
making molasses from corn stalks.
There are twenty-five thousand vol.
umes in the North Carolina state library.
The bones of msstodon were recently
blown up by rock blast near Rome, Ga.
A one-legged psuper of Houston,
Texas, has sued the county for his support
A thousand acre plantation in the
/ Yazoo valley, Miss, recently sold for sos an
acre.
The Dallas and Wichita (Texas) rails
road hes been placed in the hands of a re.
ceiver.
The petition of the Macon ladies for
/ the free pardon of Kate Southern makes a
document ten feet in length.
/ The American Baptist Home Mission
Society owe $i5, ,433 incurred for freedmen's S
Institutions at Natchez and Nashville,
The Georgia Historical Society has
been presented Gen. Lees plan for organ>
izing negroes into confederate regiments.
The Richmond State remarks that "the
latter days of Jefferson Davis, like Jobs,
are likely to prove more prosperous than his
former"
The tobacco area planted in Virginia
this year rs reported TO be smaller than that
of last year. The planters complain of the
| low prices.
There are said to be nine hundred and
forty more colored citizens enjoying the ad-
vantages of the public schools of South Caro-
lima than white children.
On the plantation of Mr.. Tom Shan.
non, near Thomaston, Ga, while the father
and mother were temporarily away, a cabin
containing six negro children was burned.
The Oldest child was ten years Of age.
The average wages per month paid
farm hands in Georgia, with rations, is in
north Georgia, 50; middle Georgia, $3.50 :
southwest Georgia, S7.4l east Georgia, sS /;
southeast Georgia, sl0.10; average for the
state, $S.0s.
Kingston East Tennessean; A letter
dated Boston, April 80, stated that party
OF four capitalists would leave that city on
the Friday following to view 400, 900 acres of
Cumberland mountain tablelands, owned by
Cyrus Clark, of Pennsylvania, with the ex.
pectation of making purchase for the col.
onization Of eastern people.
The East Florida Banner states that
eighty thousand dollars have been subscribed
toward building a railroad from Orange
lake to the Ock lawaha river. The present
crop OF oranges up there is put down at six
million, and it win be difficult TO haul them
to the river in wagons and over rough roads,
so a tram road will be laid down this sum
-. fnl hxra md
costly road as soon as the fruit growers are
able to build it.
New Orleans Picayune on new route
through Texas: For less than six millions
OF dollars road can be constructed AGA
miles long, beginning here and terminating
at Dallas which will open up to market and
render available for settlement wide re.
gion OF great productive capacity. This
road will place the heart Of the richest sec
ton OF northern Texas within twenty. four
hours of New Orleans, and while adding
incidentally to the market value OF wide
regions in both states, it will form new
artery of life-blood to the commerce of this
city.
Galveston News: Galveston is simply
dong nothing. She is just about as inert as
wet rag. Any stranger passing over the
city would be apt to ask the question how
do all these people live? The city does not
even produce an aX>handle. There was a
broom factory some years ago, but that gave
out. There is not a lanyard in the place,
nor a wagon shop, nor a cotton or wooden
MILL nor an oil.seed factory, nor the vestige
Of place where pound OF bone dIst or
oil cake could be produced in fact, the city
is destitute of all pretensions to either
wealth or progress in the domain of manu-.
facture.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: The grand
Jury OF the city court Of Savannah recon.
mend that the representatives Of Chatham
county, in the general assembly, introduce
bill for levying a special tax upon gambling
houses and houses of ill-fame, placing them
under the surveillance of competent officers
and otherwise subjecting them to such police
and sanitary regulations as may be deemed
necessary for the good of the community,
Two grand iures OF this county have made
similar recommendation, but no steps have
ever been taken toward carrying II into
effect. IL would seem TO be the part of wis
dom to regulate evils which cannot be sup-
pressed,