The Osceola times., 1879-02-01
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Georgia's new four per cent. bonds are
selling rapidly at par in New York.
The recognized debt of North Carolina
is si6,s60,045 principal, and $10,l62, 1872 in
terest.
A bill calling constitutional conven
tion has passed both houses of the Louisiana
legislature.
Rev. VIM. Mack, ID d., an old Pres
byterian divine, died in Columbia, s. c.,
few days ago, aged 70.
Coyotes, rendered desperate by hunger
came into Comanche, Texas, and attacked
the graves.of the dead.
Texas will not only supply her own
people with bacon this year ,Ibut: will have
considerable for export.
| A bill to ret cal the Mofiett liquor law
has been offered in the Virginia legislature
and referred to the finance committee.
The Jaeger brothers are gathering the
| Arkansas wild grape vine and shipping it
to France to be used for grating stock.
There is neither doctor nor barroum
| in irwin county, Ga, and Glib. Gray died
there the other day over one hundred years
old.
New Orleans proposes to compromise
her debt at forty cents on the dollar, and
bill to that effect is now before the leg. .isla.
| ture.
The Az)r is advertised to leave
! Charleston for Liberia, February %, with
i 175 emigrants and an assorted freight. The
cost OF passage is $3.50.
Albert Pike is row engaged in organ.
izing the knights Of the Cactus" to be
composed of the veterans Of the Mexican
war, anu the order to descend to their male
children.
The rice lands of the estate OF the late
| S. c. Doar, once valued at $l75,00o and lo>
Gated in Charleston and Georgetown coun.
| ties, South Carolina were sold on Thursday
for 81 200.
1t is positively stated that in 1890
Virginia advanced the United States Gov.
ernment $l2e,000, and Maryland $4,000, to
aid in building the federal capitol, and that
both these sums, with interest, are still due
| the states named.
Raleigh News: The constitutional con-
vention abolishing annual sessions OF the
legislature saved $4,000. Taxes are not
reduced, but there is deficit, according to
the governors message, of nearly 100000
| In the state treasury.
The authorities of Columbus are still
experimenting with kerosene oil as street
| lighter in lieu Of gas. SO far but little dis
ference has been seen in the strength and
| brilliancy of the two lights while the former
will cost but $l2 80 per annum and the lat
ter $50.
In 1874 there were four gold mills in
| operation in Georgia. There are now over
| forty. There were then about forty stamps
| at work; there are now over i've hundred.
| The stamps at work now will get out over
s. 600 in gold bullion this year, if not
another stamp is added.
The South Carolina Legislature passed
q law providing that any person convicted
| of carrying concealed weapons or arms on
the streets or highways shall be punishable
by fine of not less than 5000 or more than
$1,000, and imprisonment for not less than
six months nor more than one year.
The Galveston News warns stock men
that they must make provision to feed stock
in such cold snaps as the present. The pa
pers of Northern Texas report large mum.
bers OF cattle either dead or severely injured
by the late cold weather ana the want of
food, and even Of water, where the streams
and ponds have been frozen.
The citizens of the south are awaken
ing to the necessity of economy Says the
mayor of Atlanta: We must run the city
on what We receive, and We must not go one
dollar beyond it. The appropriations for
the various departments must be SO man
aged that the receipts will cover them ali.
Ii is going to be a hard year, but | believe
the council is determined to make il safe
| one.
According to the Fernandina Ella J
Express, Notwithstanding the fact that
nearly two inches of snow lay on the ground
for twenty-four hours, and the novelty of
sleigh riding was INDUCED in by the citizens
of that city, it has yet to hear Of any injury
done fruit trees. Orange and lemon trees
in the city are looking green and healthy,
and reports from the country state that no
trees were killed or even injured
OF the Liberian ship Azor the Charles
| ton News and Courier says: This bark still
lies in the tream, and it'll said that the Ex
| odus Association is unable to raise the
means for paying the slight expense of en-
| tering her at the custom house, probably not
| much, if anything, over 800. What has be-
| come of all the money wrung from the col>
| ored people? Collections were tsken up in
some cf the colored churches yesterday for
the benefit OF the Azor.
The senate of Virginia refused, by
very decided majority, to repeal the whip
| ping post law. A Richmond corresponds nj
says The infction Of corporal punishme mt
since the adoption of the law has s,ved a
| very large amount of criminal charges to
the commonwealth. II has proved to be a
good law in this city. Formerly the docket
of our police court sas crowded with petty
larceny eases; under the new order of Things
these cases have been very greatly dmin.
ishej. Petty thieves are afraid OF the lash.
Denison News Passengers from Fort
Sill who arrived by the stage at Caddo yes
terday report that the Kiowa and Comanche
tribes of Indians had left their reservations
and gone on the war path. They have al>
retdy commenced depredating on the Texas
settlements. The fact that six buffalo.
hunters are reported killed will cause some
unessiness, as ex>Mayor Winn and several
other well known Denisonlans are on the
Grange" About eight hundred United
States soldiers have left Fort Sill and gone
in pursuit Of the Indisns.
Gov. Vance says OF the debt of North
Carolina, which amounts to nearly Sl7 ,000,-
600 principal and over $1,000, 900 interest:
1t is out Of the question for us to attempt
to pay it at its face value. Indeed, do not
conceive that there is any moral obligation
upon us to do so, nor do our creditors expect
il of us. Quite one-half of our property.
upon which the bonds were based, was wan.
toniy destroyed by consent of large ma
iority of those who held them, and no court
OF conscience upon the earth would permit
a creditor to destroy one-half of his security
and claim payment out of the remainder.
But we can and should pay something.
New Orleans Democrat The Moffett
register has again come up before onr le, l.,
lature, in the form of bill to repeal this
law and abolish this tax. The MoHfett regis
ter law should be repealed at once. 1t has
ot, it is true, ever been enforced In this
state, nor is is likely ever to be; but, whether