The Osceola times., 1879-01-18
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Chattanooga is to be Signal Service
station.
The city of San Antonio and the coun.
ty owe over sl,0O0,00o
The Picayune says it is settled that
New Orleans will celebrate Mardi Grss.
After year or more in darkness the
streets OF Nicksburg are again to be lighted
New Orleans has a debt of $4,000, :
600, and the mayor favors scaling it so per
cent
Forty-nine turtles, weighing S,2lS
pounds from Indian river, arrived at Jack
sonville, Fla.
The assay Office at Charlotte. N. c., is
now receiving gold at the rate Of about one
thousand dollars per week.
BY the burning on Monday of the Fe.
male Orphan Asylum in Savannah, forty
children were deprived of home.
The Lee Monument Association is
making arrangements to canvass every house
in Virginia on the 18th Of January, the an
niversary Of Lees death.
At auction, in Savannah, = cargo of
white pine OF 10000 feet was sold to J. A.
Roberts d Co., for export to the West Indies
Galveston pays her municipal officers
SIS, 800 this year, and will pay them $S 900
less next year. The Mayors salary alone
will be cut down from $4,000 to $500.
The Dallas Herald says il Texas have
IN. B.-Mr. Printer, not has a fair count in
the next census she will be entitled to four.
teen more Congressmen-twenty in all.
Jackson, Miss, mad 400 cases OF yellow
fever and s4 deaths. She received little
over $4,000, and the average cost of pa.
tients was S27. Quarantine cost the city
$l60.s4.
Texas has LOO convicts, five or six
hundred OF whom are kept within the walls
and the rest are hired out to work on rail.
roads and farms. One is said to be hired to
his wife and lives comfortably at home.
Fsrmerville La.) Gazstte: We are.
gratihed to learn that the corn crop Of this
parish is amply sufficient to meet the demand
of home consumption, and many planters,
who in former times came TO Farmerville to
purchase their bacon and lard, now bring
these necessaries to town to sell.
A man in Lexington, Va, mailed a
letter to a fictitious name in Japan, with
request that it be returned il not called for,
and started 1t by way of the Atlantic. His
object was TO see how long it would be in
going around the world. Ii came back by
way of San Francisco in Just one hundred
days.
Concord On. CO Sun. Three negro
men living in the lower part OF the county
left their families last week and ran awav
each taking white woman with him. We
don't know which to Pity, but feel that the
Send us a good missionary, or two more, il
convenient,
That awful Mrs. Gaines is still ge...ino
in her work in New Orleans. Says the Pic
ayune: On yesterday the case OF Mrs. Gaines
VS.. Brown, Administrative, involving title to
a plantation in the pa,ish of Ascension, hav-
ing a front of 1872 arpents on the Missis.
sippi river, came up for hearing, Mr. Mills
for Mrs. Gaines, Messrs, Charles 5. Kellogg,
Singleton 4 Browne and Elmore 4 King for
defendents. Judgment was rendered in
favor OF Mrs. Gaines against Mrs. Brown.
Charleston News and Courier. The
present low price of Gotten as attracting il
to many quarters not usual hitherto, and in
very large quantities. This was particularly
exhibited yesterday by the extraordinary
clearance from this city OF the superior Brit
ish steamship Euxine by Knoop, Hanemane
a Co., direct for Sebastapol, Russia. She
has on board 3940 bales, which is the hrst
cargo OF the leading Southern staple TO that
great Russian stronghold on the Black sea.