The Osceola times., 1879-06-14
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS,
Atlanta has As, COO inhabitants.
Atlanta has q debt OF $500, 900.

Atlanta has As, COO inhabitants.
Atlanta has debt of $4OO, 900.
Montgomery, Ala, owes over $500, 600
There are four ice factories in Atlanta
Mississippi has hall a million of dogs
There are 1896 school districts in
Tennessee.
Houston, Texas, is building two new
opera.houses.
Silver has been discovered in Marion
county, W. Va.
The cattle disease is spreading in
southern Georgia.
Atlanta proposes to tax her insurance
agents $500 year.
A large number of negroes are leaving
Florida for Louisiana.
An extensive lead mine has been dis.
covered near Berne, Texas.
In 1877 Jacksonville had LOO in.
habitants; it now has $4,000.
There are at present $1,000 head Of
cattle on the Fort worth trail.
A man living in Henrietta, Texas,
has domesticsted four bunaloes.
The various towns in west Tennessee
are originating boards of health.
The seven.year locusts have appeared
In the woods near Dallas, Texas.
Manatee county, Fla, has produced
coffee which Ia said to be excellent.
The cut>worm is very destructive 10
the corn crop In all parts Of Virginia.
The cornerstone of colored male
college has been laid at Meridian, Miss.
A galvaaized-iron ice.cresm freezer
has poisoned several people in Atlanta.
Out OF LOIS convicts In the Texas
penitentiary, sl5 can not read or write.
There are no symptoms of the Kansas
fever in the Louisiana sugar parishes.
Another rich silver mine is reported
to have been discovered near Hot Springs.
Bufialo-gnats are killing the horse 8
and mules along Sulphur river, in Texas.
A citizen Of Hood county, Texas. has
enclosed his farm with hedge Of cactus.
Pensacola, Fla, Is boasting of ripe
figs seven and half inches in circumference
A meteor weighing 140 pounds has
recently fallen on Fourche mountain, Ark.
In the south, since the war, over 200,.
900 negroes have joined the Methodist
church.
Dallas, Texas, farmers are offering
$3.50 day for harvest hands and can not
get them.
One precinct of Waco. Texas, sub.
scribed s27, 900 toward the st. Louis and
Texas railroad.
Farmers along the Warrior river, AL
ALBANIA, are planting more cotton than any
year since the war.
A printing Office now occupies the
room where Crockett and other heroes OF
the Alamo fell in defence Of Texas indepen'
dence.
It is proposed in Memphis that mem
bers OF Gen. Forests old command contri'
butte to the erection OF monument TO his
memory.
The Memphis papers deny unequivo'
cally the statement that there has been a
single case Of yellow fever in the city since
the 18th OF last December.
News comes from all parts Of Missis
sippi that the colored people are working
with unusual energy, and that crops are in a
most hourishing condition.
Bills will be presented TO the next
Georgia legislature levying direct tax on
dogs and whisky, ad valorem- all for the
benefit OF the public schools.
Gen. Ord has at his headquarters in
San Antonio the marble>topped table on
which Gen. Lee wrote the famous capitula>
t;on ~ tho con fad rate armies.
1t Is estimated that about $4,000 OF
the 100000 debt Of the Southern Methodist
publishing house have been subscribed, and
some are sanguine that the balance can be
secured by the first OF January next.
A resolution has been introduced to
the city council OF Houston, Texas, to sus'
pend the FIRE, police and street departments
of that city, since there is no money to pay
their salaries, which amount to $4,000 a
month.
The board of health of Cslcssieu
parish, La, has established quarantine
against vessels from any port in the West
India islands and of Mexico, south OF Texas.
The Mayor has issued a quarantine procls'
nation.
The average salary of Methodist min.
;sters in fourteen southern conferences is
said to be $572, and the average amount
Maid s4Ss. In northern conferences the av,
srage is 500, and the deficiency in paymen!
about twelve per GEN..
A special to the Galveston News
from Plano, Texas, says the average OF cot
ton in that part Of the state is seventy~hve
per cent. greater than last season, and the
prospect OF good crop was never more
iattering than at present
There IL a live sensation among the
colored people in Collin county, Texas; Ihey
see nightly one black and two white horses
coursing athwart the sky, the black one pre-
sauing death and the white ones offering
transportation to the land Of the angels.
The Highland (Va.) Recorder tells
the prize sheep story Of the season. II says
that recently pack OF dogs one nignt az
tackled hoek Of sheep In that county ana
kiIled several Of them but on q second az
tack. the following night, the sheep got tne
better Of the dogs, killing six or eight ol
them. n.
lit by Col. Shorter, OF that city, AZ COS.
nearly 100000, and donated py MN "a
Rsnt;st church, is described as supert
S,,;,d;ng and second in its educational ia
o;i;tiss 70 no similar institution in the south
s srn states. II is regarded as about the finest
Individual donation ever made in this state
Dallas (Texas) Herald: There are nc
,..s than fourteen criminals in Texas who
have been found guilty of murder IN the
srs. & degree, and who are awaiting the ar
,;vsl Of their days Of execution or the de
s ;,;or Of he court Of appe sls. There willt
hs more haus.rgs in Texss this year tnan u
snv NO Sta.ss IN The union.