The Osceola times., 1879-01-25
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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Richmond, Va, claims 70, 900 inhabir
tants.
Florida's orange crop was not damaged
by the cold.
Is costs $4,000 a year to run the
schools of New Orleans.
Mobile will celebrate Mardi Gras in
brilliant style the 2sth proIimo.
New Orleans will celebrate Mardi
Gras with all her wonted brilliance.
A large number Of New York people
are emigrating to Texas and FLORIDA.
Gsllstin's indebtedness, bonded and
otherwise, was $il ,3S6.s2 on the first Of Jan.
usry.
The cotton business in Augusta is at
standstill, owing to the differ ence between
factors and buyers.
Atlanta, Ga, buried 8l7 persons last
year. OF these, 377 were psupers-322
black and 55 white.
A prospective South Carolina immi-
grant writes friend in Liberia, inquiring If
there are any coons in that country.
VIM. Early, q murderer confined in
the Dallas, Texas, Jail, spends his hours im>
ploring mercy from the spirits OF his victim.
There were eleven contestants for the
office OF keeper of the workhouse' in Knox.
vile, Tenn, a position paying $500 year.
The late Hon. Julian Hartridge, of
Georgia, had a paid.up policy in the New
York Life Insurance Company for $4,000.
Tupelo (Miss) Journal: The piscato-
rial commission the other day deposited two
thousand shad in Town creek, just outside
of Tupelo.
There are in Georgia $500 persons
between the ages OF ten and eighteen who
csn neither read and write, as compared
with 1s6, ,244 in 1874
The Liberisn ship Azor returned TO
Charleston Friday, and will probably take
another cargo of darkies to least on roast
monkey without lard.
William Busselman, of Vicksburg,
shot and killed James Linscott in a saloon,
for abusing him when he attempted to re-
monstrate in quarrel.
1t is claimed that the most expensive
and beautiful monument in the United
States is the monument to the confederate
dead at Augusta, Georgia.
The loss of life by yellow fever in the
south this year is estimated at about fifteen
thousand, and OF money and trade at about
TWO hundred mllll0n uOllhrs.
The convicts of Augusta, Ga, were
organized and put to work on the roads last
Tuesday, as the supreme court had decided
that they could not be hired out.
The Constitution complains that At.
lanta has about one dozen barrooms to every
church. and the saloons make money while
the churches go into bankruptcy.
Gslveston pays her municipal officers
$ls,330 this year, and will pay them ss, $40
less next year. The mayors salary alone
will be reduced from 5000 to 81 500,
1t is thought that the governor of
Georgia will commute the sentence of death
of George Brown, of Cobb county, for the
murder OF A. d. jenkins, to imprisonment
for lie.
The city council cf Richmond, Va,
does not believe a city worth thirty>nine
millions of dollars should insure its build.
ings, and proposes TO cancel all policies as
they expire.
The Methodist college building at
Harrison, Arkansas, was burned on the 18th
ultimo, and the citizens of that place offer q
reward OF $475 for the apprehension OF the
incendiaries.
Thomas Reed, cashier of the First
National Bank OF Galveston, has defaulted
to the smount of e27, 900 and absconded. A
reward Of 81 900 is offered for his appie
hension and delivery.
The Macon (Gs) city council has
passed an ordinance requiring every one
doing business of any kind whatever to
register his or her name in book kept by
the clerk for that purpose.
In the United States Court at Ntw
Orleans, last Tuesday, Myra Clark Gaines
got a judgment and execution against a
number of persons for large amount OF
money, with interest at per cent, from
various periods in 1877.
Clarksville (Tenn } Tobacco Lea:
Such an ice season as we have had recently
was never witnessed in this country. Ice
was from seven to ten inches thick. Every.
body has a full ice house, and some have
filed cellars and other houses.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun .Au.
gusta is the only city OF its size in the world
where the cows are allowed to patrol the
town instead of policemen. 1t is said that
one enterprising heifer climbs up the bell
tower and roosts there every night.
New Orleans Times: John L. Gums
Minis, indicted under section 5,l67 of the
United States statutes for embe zzling letters
containing articles Of value, WIS arraigued
in the United States circuit court on Mon
day morning, and pleaded not guilty. His
bond was fixed at 5000, and he was re.
manded TO await the appearance Of his
surety. Cummings was brought from Ken
lucky on q requisition. There are five
counts against him in the Indictment. He
was route agent or messenger of the
postoffice department between New Orleans