The Osceola times., 1879-04-19
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

The late frost 'did serious damage t,
fruit in Texas.
The Texas murderer now pleads "eme
tional jim-jams
They are still talking in Charleston O
raising monument to Calhoun.
Lightning struck a team of six oxer
in Alabama and killed FIVE of them.
A negro was sent TO the Texas peni
tcntiary for two years for stealing ducks.
Wheat is heading in Texas, but OF
account OF drcuth much of it is very low
Corn has gone up to fiIty-five cents Al
San Antonio in consequence Of the drought
The sea has thrown up the sponge a,
Cedar Keys, Fla, to the value OF S75, ,5oC
since January
A pair of horses in Virginia, aged re-
spectively 80 and "a years, still put in
good days work.
Gov. Hubbard, OF Texas, says that
during his administration twenty.one mur
derers have been hanged.
North Carolina has fifty-four cottor
and woolen mills in operation. The capita
invested amounts to l,s3s,00
Charlotte Thompson, the actress, own,
one OF the finest plantations in the south =
5000 acres near Montgomery, Ala.
In Bullock county, Ala, persons sen.
fenced to hard labor are hired TO the highes
bidder, and bring $3.50 per month.
The exports from Norfolk, Va, fol
March, aggres ated 81 ,21l ,297, sgsinst $3.50,
100 in 1879, an increase of S679,l06.
John Letcher, Virginia's war gov,
ernor," has recovered from long spell o.
caused by fall on the ice.
Work upon the Lee msusoleum al
Lexington is progressing fayorably, but 81,
900 are still needed for its completion.
Gen. Joseph X. Davis, a nephew O
Jefferson Davis, was married at Missour
City on the 18th ult. to Mss Margaret Green
JEFF Downing, an old Georgia fisher
man, was missing. His friends slew two al
lIgators, and found him slowed away in thei
bellies.
The biggest orange tree in Florida i,
eight feet,hye inches around the trunk, 81
feet in height, ana 81 feet in circumference,
al the top.
An Alamo monument association ha,
been formed in San Antonio, Texas, to erec
a monument TO the heroes who fell on thai
memorable spot
The Missouri house of representatives
has passed bill making it unlawful tor any
dealer to sell to minors pistols, slungshots
brass knuckles or other dangerous weapons
A few dsys ago Prof. +. II. Bradley
formerly of East Tennessee university, ami
assistant geologist OF Georgia, was crushed
to death by the caying of q gold mine neat
Nacoehe, Ga.
Clark county, Ark, one of the five
original counties established by the terrific.
rial legislature Of Missouri, has been abol>
ished, half going TO Dallas and half to
Nevada counties.
The confederate monument TO be erect
ed by the ladies will be unveiled at Colum.
bus, Ga, on the 2jth, and Gov. Colquitt will
deliver the address. Muldoon, of Louisville,
made the monument
William Bollinger, a native Of Win.
Va, died last week in Monroe
West Va, in the l05th year Of his
age, having been born on January 10, l775.
He was Il soldier of the war OF 1872.
Texas Jimplecute In several instances
we hear of corn being plowed over and
cotton planted. The Colorado potato bug
has already made its appearance in small
numbers, and have commenced deposlting
their eggs.
Vicksburg Herald: If the Kansas
fever has not died out it has tsken-a lull in
this section We shall probably hear very
little more OF it after those at home have an
opportunity of hearing from those who have
gone before.
North Carolins prides herself or the
completion OF a tunnel under the Blue
Ridge mountains. The Western North Car.
,lioa road has done the work at Swannanoa,
md it opens up the western part of the state
,bout Ashville.
Little Rock Gazette: / the newsps
,ers would combine in one common effort
o show that large cotton crop ought to
md would be planted, we would have more
,orn TO sell in the south next fall than ever
vas heard of before.
A firm in New Orleans say they have
are orders for laborers from the section OF
.,ouisiana and Mississippi lately aban ioned
~ tho negroes. Many white laborers and a
air proportion Of Cinnamon are sent for
ward almost every day.
Pointe Coupee Pelican: Last year it
vas estimated that there were at least one
hundred and fifty casks OF dewberry wine
made in this parish. The dewberry crop OF
his year bids fair to be large one, sugar is
heap, and we trust that the vintage OF this
rear will double that of last,
vicksburg Herald: The exodus of the
,olored people to Kansas and to other west
.rn states has, for the present at least, al
most entirely ceased. The last boats leav'
ny here bound up stream had no more
,olored passengers than customary
Troy Gala Enquirer Real estate OF
very kind in the corporate limits OF the
,ity has advanced since last fall, and lands
n the county command better prices than
or several years. People are generally more
ettled and better contented in this section
han at any time within the past decade.
The state-debt meeting in Nashville
,npointed the following committee to go to
Sew York TO urge the bondholders to ac-
,spt the fifty cents and four per cent CONS
,romise: Ex.Gov. Neil 5. Brown, ex>Goy.
James ID. Porter, Hon. Henry cooper, state
treasurer Marsh 7. Polk and Col James l.,
Gaines.
Dallas Herald. And the drouth still
continues. The sixth day Of April has
reached us and still no rain. The situation
; ali that is di.heartening, but still we have
nope that the end is near at hand. All
North Texas is athirst, aud prays Tor friend
" clouds that will give the absolutely neees>
,ary q moisture for our crops, for our gardens,
Tor stock, and for everything else.
A colored boy from Perry, Ga, re
Gently arrested for stealing, declared lhat
,s derived his kleptomauiacal propensiiies
rom wearing a pair OF old shoes which had
heloursd 10 a convict, and that the sand
conyict had put "spell on him. he in,
Iormrd the Ssundersville Courier that this
~ ,vss oon.idtred sound by the ipts l.lsept