The Osceola times., 1879-03-29
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

A 1000 acre pl antation near Natchez z,
sold ior $500.
Memphis now has two receivers and
nothing to give.
Considerable emigration from Virgins
to the West Is now going on.
The entire length of the boundary Of
Ie e1as is 1880 miles, including SIS miles Of
Gulf coast.
The Texas legislature has passed bill
setting aside ope>fourth OF the State revenue
for school purposes.
The legislature of Tennessee refused
to pass a bill making the marrisge OF first
cousins misdemesnor.
The little cotton factory at Girard
Ca, has proved so successful that twelve
more looms have been ordered.
The police have taken a c.nsus ol
Knoxville and given her a population Of
15,77l-an increase Of over 5000 since 1870
A happy Texas editor says: Our Office
Is almost entirely surrounded by cattle, and
the grunt Of the pig Is heard beneath the
hoor.
A New Hampshire manufacturer i.
sending machinery to Apopks, Florida, to
test the stsrch making qualities Of the root
of the cassavs.
A North. Carolinian has seen and
heard the phonograph, aud describes it as q
saussgs-mill with a voice like a women's-
rights convention.
Senator Rollins, OF New Hsmpsbire
has purchased Fort George Island, Florida
1t is intimatod that he expects to build a
manufacturing city, on the cooperative
plan, on IT.
The present governor OF Alabama,
Rube Cobb, as he was formerly called, is a
fiddler OF considerable note. He used to
draw a lively bow away up in st. Clair
county, and long before he ever dreamed OF
being governor Of the state Of Alabama.
The Hot Springs Sentinel states that
neither that town nor county makes any
provision for the burial OF paupers. II q
ander dies In that locality the citizens
make up "pony purse" and bury him, or
he remains on top Of ground, food tor buz.
yards.
Vicksburg Herald The exodus OF
plantation negroes continues unsbsted, not.
withsta pding the bad luck OF those who
have gone before. Quite a number of emf
grants took passage on the Anchor line
steamer, John B. Maude, yesterday, with
their little plunder.
Jefferson Davis is living at Mississippi
City, small station on the Mobile and New
Orle.Ds railroad, near the coast, and is in
circumstances which make him entirely in
dependent Of the be efits resulting from the
pension bills and such special legislation.
lie is working quietly on his book, with
Major ". I. Walthall, formerly Of Virginia,
rs his secretary.
Andvew johnson, jr son of the late
President johnson, died near Union Depot,
Tenn, few days ago, and was buried beside
lis father in Greenville The Knoxville
Tribune says "His many friends, who knew
HIM years ago as one OF the brightest boys
t Georgetown Academy during his fathers
tay in the White House, and later as jour.
nalist at Greenville, will be panied to hear
of his sudden death. He was genial, whole>
nuled gentleman, a man Of more than orr
'uarv ability and culture, and a true
friend"
Says the Quincy (Florida) Herald A
poor darkey, whose corn.crib had been caps
iured by the sheriff to secure the payment
of his taxes, brought huge army pistol
and broken rihe, and laying them upon
the desk in the tax.collector's Office, said {:
Mars Morgan, l rather part wld my rlght
arm den desc wepins, but you mus try to
get the tax outen 'em. De children mus
hab bread, and dat bread am in de corn.
Please, sab. take de artil'ry an let up on
de corn" This appeal was more than the
.ind-hearted revenue man could stand, and
he proceeded forthwith to "make arrange.
ments."
According to the Chatham Record,
North Carolina has a remarkable legislature.
they have been economical even to stin-
giness, and vet liberal even to extravagsnce.
hey have cut down and retrenched almost
to meanress, and yet they have made appro
priatons amounting almost to waste. They
have acted on some measures like children,
swayed by sudden impulses, and like dema>
gogues courting popular favor, and yet they
have enacted laws and carried through
measures that would mark them as patriots
and statesmen deserving the lasting graft
tude Of our people"