The Osceola times., 1878-08-17
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

A snow.white mocking bird has been
captured in Texas.
Savannah is exercising most vigorous
quarantine measures.
The Memphis board of health will keep
no secrets, but will announce every case Of
yellow fever appearing.
Four hundred German families are
settling on 10000 acres OF land in the north.
ern portion of Taylor county, Texas.
The superintendents of the various
railroads centering at Macon, Ga, have
agreed to accept Mexican dollars at a yalua.
tion of only ninety cents.
Four companies of u. s. troops,
recently qartered in the barracks below New
| Orleans, have moved TO Holly Springs, Miss,
frightened by Bronze John.
New Orleans has at present a popula.
ton of only 100000, which, however, is
steadily increasing by emigration from
France, Italy, and Germany.
A Negro named Ephraim Miller, living
in johnson county, Texas, fearing that the
eclipse was the beginning of the worlds
| end, killed one OF his children and then
| committed suicide.
Henrietta (Tex. Journal: Three buf-
faloes have identified themselves with W. S.
Browns herd of cattle. This unusual occur.
renee is worthy OF note, and the fact goes to
prove that something may yet be done with
| the buffalo.
The New Orleans board of health has
| adopted resolution declaring that the
mode OF quarantine adopted by Mobile is
| unnecessarily harsh, and the request is made
| that the Mobile authorities permit the pass.
age OF through freight and passenger trains
after being fumigated.
The Augusta News says sixteen me-
groes who returned from Liberia on the Azor
passed through the city Wednesday morn.
ing, on their way to Mississippi. One of
| them said he had carried away thousand
dollars some years ago, and now brought
back nothing. All said they had enough of
| Liberia.
Dallas Commercial The statement
that one thousand of the delegates who at
tended the state convention had pistols or
revolvers upon their persons may be
stretched little, but at best it speaks very
badly for Texas. II shows that our repre-
sentative men either feel that they are not
adequately protected by law or that they
have very little regard for it.
Fish in Florida are 80 numerous that
| they even inhabit the clouds and fall down
from thence with rain. According to the
Gainesville News, one of the printers of that
paper put bucket out to catch some water
| during the heavy ram on Wednesday, and
after taking it in found four minnows in the
water. They had doubtless fallen from
higher regions during the heavy rain, and
they seemed uninjured by their aerial navi.
CATION.
Montgomery Advertiser: All through
Alabama crops are very good and the yield
promises to be large. An immense amount
of grain was sowed, and the harvest was
fine. The rains OF the last few days, it is
feared, will greatly injure the cotton in the
| prairie and canebrake portions OF the state.
as during showery and rainy weather the
worms flourish and multiply. OF one thing,
however, the people are we'll assured-they
have the biggest corn crop raised in many
| years.
New Orleans Times: The extraordi.
| nary haste made by many surrounding
towns, little and big, to quarantine against
| New Orleans, thereby subjecting their own
citizens as well as ours to great and unneces.
| sary inconvenience, is a striking illustration
| of the recklessness and selfshness of fright
eued humanity. II has ali the evidence OF
an irrational panic combined with what ap-
pears to be studied effort to make their So
called precautions as irritating and injurious
as possible.
Atlanta Constitution: The Mobilians
are badly frightened. They see Bronze John
advancing in irresistible power. In their
vivid imaginations he rides on every breeze,
and turks in every railroad car Nothing
seems to be free OF him, lin their eyes, ex.
cept a few through mail pouches and there
Is so strong suspi ion against them that
| they have to be transferred to solitary box
car sixty miles west of the city-at lonely
Boloxi, to which port the coast train is per.
nitted to come in its eastward journey.
Sanford (Fls.) Journal: The young
wife OF Harry Smith, living out on the Pine.
apple Ridge neiehborhood, has the true grit
| for pioneers wife. A few weeks ago, dur.
ing the absence Of her husband, she discov.
cred an alligator after her chickens. She
] quietly gets her husbands revolver and
| empties six loads into his gator ship, making
him squirn every shot; then brings out the
double.bsrreled shotgun and peppers him
with that and ends the fight BY chopping