The Osceola times., 1879-02-08
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS,

A snOw-white hpck deer was killed il
Amelia county, Va, last week
Alabama pays thirty cents day 70
fee ling prisoners. The total thus paid on
last year was $3.50 92.
Page county, Virginia, has forty-thre
distilleries. Only one makes whisky, al
the rest making appIe-jack.
During the past year there were pal,
into the Louisiana treasury 81 s04 ,OS3 Oh
aud expended $2,405, 1882 81.
The debt of Columbia, S. c., is nearl,
$4,000 0, though her charter forbids he
contracting debt of 100000.
The Prsther cotton mills, erected Al
Union Depot, Tenn, at a cost OF $4,000
were sold last week for s10,500.
Knoxville, Tenn, owes S207 900 anc
payment is demanded on 100000 OF it, will
no money in the treasury to pay 1t.
A committee has been sent south from
Lynn, Mass to select location for a com
pany OF 100 shoemakers and their iauilies
Col. r. w. Jamison, recently re.e e cted
city attorney of Macon, Ca, blew his brains
out, rather than remain dyspepsia's tortured
victim.
Two hundred and sixty nine head OF
cattle, valued at $500, were recently ship
ped from Pensacola on the Spanish steamt
Guillermo for Havana.
A atal cattle pestience is prevailing
in the city of Boston, Bowie county, rrx4s
One man lot 80 head, and tie disease seems
to be rapidly spreading.
A large mass. meeting was held in
Wheeling, w. Va, last Saturday, TO adopt
resolutions looking 10 the abolishment OF
convict labor in that State
Austin (Texs-) Statesman: Two
months ago corn was thirty cents per bush.
ell, now 1t is seventy. Oats, hay and fodder
have proportionately risen in price.
Pensacola imposes \ tax OF so 900 on
all establishments where liquors are sold and
theatricals carried on, and managers prefer
to abandon their business rather than pay
the tax, thus producing the desired effect.
Alabama has 81 0OO, 900 outstanding
obligations beariug per cent. and non.
taxable. The legislature is eonsideringa bill
to substitute 6 per cent. bouds, and thus
save S2O0 in !. terest annually.
The town of Hot Springs has, upon the
requisite application and showing, been de.
cisred by the proper authorities city of
the hrt class. She now ranks second TO
Little Rock-they being the only cities of
the drst class in the state.
Floyd IVA Reporter As an evidence
OF the hard times and scarcity of money in
this county, We would state that on Tuesday
last three young mules, two two years old
and one three, were sold on the streets un.
der execution, and the three brought only
s72.
Miss Emma Strickland dsugf ter OF
Mr.. g. A Strickland, of Bell county, Texas,
committed suicide recently by takirgs,rych.
nine. Her parents objected to her marriage
with Mr. Thos. Blackstone, and desired her
to discard him, which she did, and imme.
diately after took the fatal dose.
Piedmont Virgiuian During the re-
cent cold spell the ish commissioners were
Transporting about fifty thousand young
salmon over the Midland road. It was 30
cold ,hat the n began actually TO freeze at
Rapidan station, and in order to save them,
river at that point.
The Rev. Edmund Withers, distin.
guished, pious and jealous minister Of the
Episcopal c1ureh, died at his residence at
Norwood, Ia Nelson county, Virginia. last
Saturday. The deceased was sxty~one
yeas OF age, and was well known through.
out the diocese OF vi ginia, where he has
labored in the cause of Christ for the past
thirty eight years.
In the recent conhsgration at Mande-
vile, S. c., persisted the bsttle- flag of Col.
Keitps regiment, twentieth South Carolina
volunteers. IL was the Southern Cross"
and showed the effects of honorable service,
being rent by shot aud shell, and its starry
cross dim with the smoke OF battle. Col.
Keitt's portrait, In full confederate uniform,
was fortunately saved, but many historic
relics OF the confederacy were lost
New Orleans opposes national quarsn.
tine because il viii affect her trade, but
here's the way the country papers talk: We
can readily appreciate the situation in New
Orleans. But there is only choice OF two
evils either to quarantine the fever ont of
New Orleans and retain the trade OF the in-
terror, or permit it to be brought in and
lose it. The people in the country havs
made up their minds on the subject, and
they can make quarantine very effective
with shot guns.
Chicot cnunty circuit court, Arkansas
has indicted one james c. Carlton for obs
tanning reigi under false pretensss. The
bill o. Indictment says Carlton ptoiessed a
change of heart, and tn members OF toe
Blptlst chutch, being credulous admitted
him to the told. About last Noven,ber he
began TO show ga rcprobacy OF mind ana
contempt OF his obligations TO the church,
contrary to the statute in such case made
and provided agaln,t the peace and dignity
of the Bapaist church"
Gov Vance, of North Carolina, par
doned Lewis We'll the other day, the only
Hebrew in the penitentisry. He was con.
victed OF manslaughter, and sentenced to
ten years imprisonm mt. The governor, on
pardoning him, indorsed the following on
the paper: al take pleasure in saying that
| sign the pardon in part recognition OF the
good aud law.abiding character OF our Jew
ism citizens, this being the first serious case
ever brought to my notice on the part OF any
of that people"
A petition to the legislature ia in cir
culation in Galveston, and being numerous
ly signed, asking for the appointment of a
receiver to wind up the affairs OF the city
1t says that notwithstanding that title IL
of the charter lorbids the authorities to
create for the city larger indebtedness
than one mi lion two hundred thousand dol
lars, yet by publication in the city's official
organ of December, 1878, the Indebtedness
is shown to be 15Ss75.4S above the allowed
limit, with considerable floating debt for
running expenses.
Mobile proposes TO follow in the foot
steps Of Memphis, and abolish her city gov
eminent to settle her debts. For this pur-
pose an act has been prepared and prese ed
to the legislature OF Alabama creating a
board of commissioners of eight, to hold Office
Professionally until the affairs of the CIV can
be organized upon permanent basi Ii
this plan is to be adopted taxation for city
purposes during the next .wo years wi not
exceed six tenths Of one per cent, AMI the
administration Of the city affairs viii be
conducted upon basis OF 100000 per