The Osceola times., 1878-12-14
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

New Orleans has debt of s0,O0O,-
600, and the Mayor favors scaling it fifty per
cent.
The Democratic Congressional major
tiles in South Carolina range from 81 1861 to
1886.
A large force is at work grading the
Texas and Pacific from Fort Worth to Wea.
| therford.
The first ship of direct line between
Charleston and Europe is now loading in
Charleston harbor.
North Carolina has in two years in
creased the number of her live stock 500.
600, and their value $4,500000.
Fitty.two thousand one hundred and
seventy-one oranges were shipped from
Tampa, Florida, from November 9th to No.
vember 18th.
Representatives of one hundred fam.
lilies at Lynn, Mass, propose establishing a
cooperative boot and shoe factory someN
where in Texas.
Fifteen tramps arrested in Atlanta had
goods and chattels to the amount OF one
dollar in nickels and eight rezors--oply that
and nothing more.
rhe rece ipts of the Alabama Treasury
for the last fiscal year were S9l6,965 "a; dis.
bulsements, $6l5, ,Si5, Of which S5S. $40 92
were for feeding State prisoners.
The Columbus Enquirer foo;s up thirty
cotton gin houses destroyed in Georgia this
season. The greater portion are thought to
have been caused by incendiaries.
A bill to enforce the constitutional
provision against giving away or selling
iiauor within two miles of the polls on any
election passed the lower house Of the
Georgia Legislature by vote Of lO2 yeas to
80 nays.
Frank Jackson and Henry Underwood,
the surviving members Of the Sam Bass band
of Texas railroad robbers, are said to have
gone to Dakota, where they will probably
Join the Comanches, with whom jackson
once lived.
Tangier Island, Va, with population
OF over 500, strange to say, has neither a
hotel, restaurant, oyster house, tailor, milli-
ner, dres,maker, shoemaker, drug store, bar
ber shop, postoffice market, Constable, or
Justice of the Peace.
Characteristic Texas ITEM Major At
wood, of the United States Army, stationed
at San Antonio, was married IN ~. Louis this
week to the daughter of Richard King, the
"cattle king" of the West. The brides
father presented the groom with $1,000 head
of cattle.
Speaking of dull times, wicked Mo
bile man saws that q few weeks ago stran.
ger arrived there and bought bale OF
cotton, and a pleasant ramor was at once
started that the cotton buyer had arrived,
hut it only proved to be Chicago man with
the ear,sche.
The Eagle and Phenix cotton mills, of
Columbus, Ca, have sent to Mrs. FELTON, two
dress patterns of their own manufacture
one Of them. after it is made up, to be worn
on the day DR.. FELTON, takes his seat as a
member OF the Forty-sixth Congress. The
patterns are very handsome.
The School Commissioner of Georgia
pledges himself, should dog and hquor tax
be passed by the General Assembly, to sus'
| tain in every school sub'district OF the state
| absolutely free schools for both the white
and colorei races for terms varying ifom
| FIVE to eight months in the year
George Hurstou and Joseph Fulton
were two chivalrc young persons OF Salem,
| North Carolina, who quarreled, met in the
| twilight OF last F, iday and shot at each DINER
| in the manner of "the code" Fulton was
taken home to his mother dead, and Hurston
took to the road as a fugitive murderer,
IL has been discovered that Rev r f.
| White, shot and instantly killed while IN
the buggy with his wife near Sumter, ), C.i
was accidentally struck by ball hred at
hawk by little boy. The rifle used was a
Remington, aud the boy was over two hun
dred yards from the road where the minister
was killed.
Colonel Ieath and Robert Brinkley
began business in life as partners in Mem
phis forty years ago, and, as lawyers and
merchants, laid up a fortune each. Or
| Thursday the latter died ut Iuka, MISS, and
the remains of the former were brought
| home from New York and buried in Mem
phis Friday.
The Tribune thus sums up the ship
ment of cattle from Tampa, Fla, to Cuba
| Shipped from Tampa during the year, up tt
this time, 5,024 head; worth here, $70,3S6
From Manatee, 2,9ss; worth here, SAL ,sS2
Making the aggregate for both Tampa ant
| Manatee. both pla es being in Tampa Bay
OF $ll2.16s.
The report of tine Assessors upon thu
educational advantages of the inhabitant
OF forty. three Of the fifty eight parishes II
Louisiana is rather discouraging. IL show
| that there are $1,000 voters in all, of who
hs 900 know nothing OF reading and writing
| OF these uneducated ones 10 600 are white
and 81 600 colored.
Nashville American: The politica
| eomplexion OF the new Legislature by Off
cial count is: Senate --Densocrats, 10; Re
publicsns, 8; National Greenbackers, )
House Democrats, S.; Republicans. IA
| Nationa; Greenbackcrs, s. Total on join
| b,liot--Drmocrsts, "a; Republicans, II
] Nationsl GreenVsckers, g.