The Osceola times., 1879-04-12
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS,

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10 establish starch factories in Florida.
Machinery has been put up at Fer.
nan o, Fla, to work the palmetto ibef.
The sponge trade of Cedar Keys, Fla
since the first of January amounts to s75,5OO
A company of capitalists have com.
menced building street railroad Ia yicks
burg.
About one hundred and ifty bills
nave been passed by the Tennessee legisla.
ture.
Florida immigration, while not 80 brisk
a. heretofore, is OF more substantial char,
acter.
There has not been a white man con-
fined IN the iail Of Taliaferro county, Ga,
In three yeas.
Athens Ga, has bonded debt OF
$4,000, which bears interest at the rate Of
seven per cent.
An Augusta man has sold seven bush.
els OF watermelon seed at the rat Of thirty.
two dollars per bushel.
The society for the prevention Of cru.
city TO animals Plumbers one hundred and
twenty members in Lite Rock, Ark.
The $4,000 appropriated by the Ala
bama legislature to purchase limbs for
manned soldiers is exhausted already.
North Carolina will employ fifty con.
victs in dr. lining and reclsiming Angola
bay, an immense body OF swamp lard.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson will soon have
1900 acres of his orange grove plantation
enclosed by hedge of Mccartney roses
A New Orleans policeman endesvorcd
IN to his tIa, -. 4. l.
TO handle pistol, and accidentally shot her
in the chest.
The tennessee legislature has passed
bi . thorizing the state board OF health
TO establish quar- milne whenever and wher
ever IT may deem it advisable to do so.
The penitentisry feature was stricken
from the tramp act in the Texas senate, and
the penalty made thirty TO ninety days i'm.
prisonment at hard work in the county
Appeal: Memphis WAS never bette
governed than she Is now she was never
in better sanitary condition, never had a
better outlook, and never saw the day when
her people should be more cheerful as TO
the future.
Knoxville Tribune: Putnam county
has the champion moonshiner. He is a boy
ten years old. He used tar kegs for beer
tubs, an old cofi-e-pot for a still, and an
el1erstalk for worm. A good average for
this miniature moonshine essab ishment was
four gallons per week.
Dallas (Texss) Herald: Capt. Hall
has force Of five hundred men Il work,
has completed nearly fourteen miles Of
grade and this week has opened up the
fifteenth, sixteenth. seventeenth and eigh-
teenIh miles on the Westherford extension
Of the Texas and Pacific.
The Mississippi papers state that q
fatal disease has broken ont in the counties
bordering the Alabama line, which is pro
nounced by the physicians as black meas,
les" and by the negroes as the black
plague" IL is represented to be very con.
tagious and usually fatal, not single case
having thus far recovered.
Key West Vidette: Reports brought
by the sponging fleet inform us that IN the
bay TO that sheet Of water extending from
the Tortugas TO care Florida they found
millions of the largest sponges floating upon
the water, all perfectly putrid, killed, as
they believe, by the poisoned water that not
long since destroyed myriads of fish.
Scottsboro (Als) Citizen: We had an
interview with Mr.. ID tniel Martin, of the
b .lle onte vicinity, last Tuesday. Mr.. Mar
tin informed US that he is now in his 10Th
year, ami married his present wife, who is
not vet seventeen, about four years ago
She was only twelve years and fifty days old
when he married her anL he was seventy five
Arkansas Democrat Enough food is
thrown away every year on worthless dogs
ia Arkansas to support five times the nuns
Der of suffering poor in the state for the
same period. And yet great many people
doubtless majority--are opposed to any
infringement of the sacred aud inalienable
rights Of the dog. We are queer people.
Albany (Ga Advertiser: II the Geor
gia legislature will restore the code OF honor
by iemov ny all penalty fro n dueling. aud
substitute for the present law 40 act making
the practice Of carrying concealed weapons
punishable by death. bloodshed viii de
crease. aud such shocking tragedies q the
one enacted in the state capitol, last week,
will soon become ike sngei visits.
Columbus (Gs Times: This is a fast.
running world, and the south need ask no
odds Of the north in all branches OF indus
try Why, We don't need even their ice any
longer TO cool our summer drinks, for the
Industrial Ice company Of this city is now
turuing out as fair an article OF that indis
penssble luxury as can be furnished by the
best of the isr-fsmed northern lakes.
Dallas (Texas) Commercial The ne.
gro emigration from Mississippi has been
disastrous all round. In the first pace
many plantations have been almost depot.
lated of lanorers, and the planting interest
seriously affected. In the second place. the
emigrauts themselves, having changsd re.
munet alive employm Mt TO, actu,l poverty
in many cases. now possess neither the
money to complete their journey nor to
returA home.
The citizens of Natchez and ConcOr-
dia parish, La, have held . meeting 10
call the attention of congress to the coDdi,
ton of tue Mississippi between the banks Of
Concordis parish aud Adams county, aud
the danger Of its breaking into Lake Con-
cordis aud changing its course. This would
seriously damage a number Of Louisiana
planters, ant at the SINE time cut of
n ,tcher rom the river Just - vicksburg
has been cut Oh.
The New Orleans and Texas railroad
is now completed to a point about four
miles beyond Berwick. The road ia well
graded, and about two miles Of the distance
Is surfsoed. he work is being pushed &C.
lively forward and about third OF mile OF
track is daily put in running order, the dis
lance varying from 1900 to slo0 feet every
twelve hours. II is estimated that ~ this
route, when eonpleted, the run between
New O,leans and Houston will be made in
fifteen hours.
New Orleans Times The reports from
the parishes continue to speak in large terms
OF the exodus of the negroes now in pro-
gress Ii Is said the enthusiastic welcome
rendered the citizens Of Naichitoches on
heir return after the trial in this city, has
caused a CONSERVATION in the minds Of the
colored people, and that, 10 spite OF the ru'