The Osceola times., 1878-07-27
OSCEOLA ARKANSAS SATURDAY, JULY o. 1878

treasurer Jones, OF Georgia, has been found
to be $270C00.
The assessors of Atlanta have added
a million and quarter dollars to the tax
able property of the city.
After second thoughts Charleston has
decided to pay the interest on her debts and
her current Indebtedness.
The Charleston News ard Courier call,
wheat and oats the white mans crops, the
evidence OF civilization and progress.
/ There are over one thousand registered
distileries in Georgia, and 1t is estimated
that at teast six hundred are manufacturing
| the "crooked."
Clarksville Chronicle: The elasticity
with which a people can recover from a
four hundred thousand dollar fire is best
shown by its rebuilding in the short space OF
three months.
Near Paris, KY, in a rural cemetery,
some ants, by diligently working for several
weeks, undermined coffin in vault, dug a
| tunnel and carried the skeleton which the
coffin contained through the tunnel to a
place seventeen feet from where il was orig.
inally.
A "Second Adventist" tried 10 Quit
the Sabbath day by working, made the de
feDse that according TO his religion Saturday
was his sabbath and day of rest, and he OBJ.
served that instead of Sunday. He was
found guilty.
The supreme court of Louisiana has
sustained Gov. Nichols in his refusal to de.
liver the bonds authorized by the legislature
to be issued for the benefit of the New Or.
leans Pacific railroad. Governor Nichols
opposition was based upon an irregularity in
the form Of the bonds.
The Vicksburg Herald says that the
point above Delta is washing away very yap.
idly, and that the powerful current is grad
ually grinding and sweeping away both
point and sand-bar, thereby resulting in
throwing the channel of the river further
OH from Vicksburg every day.
A convention of the educators of
southern states will be held In Chattanooga
the 9Th, 7th and sth OF August. DR.. II. A.
NJ. Henderson, of Kentucky, will discuss
" The Southern Educational Needs" and
Prof. G. A. Chase, OF Louisville, The Teach
er the Chief Factor in the Product OF
Good School,"
The Morgan (TenD.) Dispatch learns
that Frank w. Smith, president of the board
OF aid to land ownership, of Boston, will
reach Wartburg soon, accompanied by an
engineer and gardener and proceed to make
a thorough investigation OF the Cumberland
tableland, with view to settling a New
England colony.
w. H. Foote, colored, formerly a men,
Der OF the Mississippi legislature, and aiso
circuit clerk of the county of Yszoo, has
been appointed commercial agent OF the
United States at Puesta, San Domingo, an
Office worth $1,000 per annum. He sup
ported Tilden, Hendricks and reform in the
last presidential campaign.
Dallas (Texss) Commercial: Tom
SCOTS devil fish. as the Texas Pacific is
called, has ehtwined its arms around cities,
towns and valuable farms, and brought them
up out OF the depths of nothngness. Cast
your eye upon the huge monster as he lies
across north Texas and see how these cities
and towns and prosperous communities lie
contented and happy in its embrace. But
turn time backward in its flight. drag this
monster back into the oblivion of the past,
and then look again at north Texas, and
what do you see Grass, trees, cabins, wolves
and wild deer As between the two we pre-.
fer the devil fish.
Knoxville Tribune Col. Barnard, the
successful Indian fighter whom we men
toned some days since as being native OF
east Tennessee, We learn enlisted in the reg
ular army as a private in this city during
the year 1885, at which time he was employ.
ed as a blacksmith at Kennedy's shops, foot
of Cumberland street, on first creek. Col.
Barnard is son of the late John Barnard,
Esq, Of Washington county (who died about
two years since). He was born and raised in
the vicinity of Beach creek Hawkins county,
and his family and children still live in
Jenesboro. That Col. B. has more than once
" cleaned up" the redskins while the gen.
eral in command was holding prayers in the
rear for the delivery of his troops, is eulogy
sufficient