The Osceola times., 1879-02-22
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

There are eight murdeTsra in the Little
Rock jail
Only seventy one deaths in Nashville
in January.
The wheat crop is seriously injured in
Virginia and Alabama.
Negroes abont Vicksburg are prepsr
ing for general emigration.
Nasbville's debt is $l7l2,000, and it
WAS increased last year 100000.
Texas is going to sell enough wild
lands to build new state house.
Virginia has not dollar in her treas.
ury, and legislature in session.
North Carolina has sent man to the
penitentiary Tor stealing horseshoe.
In South Carolina there are 30,S2S
whites and 235064 blacks who cannot read.
Some one says whisky drinking is like
sitting down on a hornets discriminating
but not nourishing.
Isaac Brown. an oct geuariaD Of JET
ferson county, Ala, has plowed the same
teld for sixtystwo successive years.
In two years the governor of Texas
pardoned 100 convicts. Of the number 45
were murderers, and 3S horse thieves.
The Atlanta Constitution estimates
that during the past two seasons the farmers
of Georgia have paid out $4,000, 600 for
mules.
In the Louisiana legislature, the hous e
voted to repeal the Mofett register law, and
in Alabama the house has indefinitely posts
poned the consideration OF The Mofiett bill.
At Temperance celebration st New
market, a little LAD appeared in the process
sion, bearing flag on which was inscribed
the following: "Alis right when daddy's
sober"
b. Frank Jonas, Louisians's new sena>
tor, is a Hebrew, and IS said to be the sec,
ond ever elected to the United States sem
ate. The other was Judah p. Benjamin,
also sent from Louisiana.
At Deniron, Texas, Buffalo Jack shot
Ben Grant, and was in turn shot through TIE
heart by an officer. At Muscogee, l. r.,
Wild Bill shot one Brown through the heart
and another mao through the leg.
There are one Thousand two hundred
aud seveny-two postotfces in Tennessee, out
OF thrty,nne thousand six hundred and
seyenty.nine in the forty,nine states and
territories. OF these, seventy-elght are
money ,order offices.
where in North Carolina of nine hundred
negroes. They are engaged in working q
quarry. They have organized a local sell
government and the whippingpost is the
principal penal institution,
The New Orleans mint is likely to meet
with an unexpected obstacle TO its business
prospects. Ii is a month since the depart
ment began to advertise for bids for silver
bullion to be delivered at the New Orleans
mint but as yet there have been no offers
Terrebonne claims to b. the banner
sugar parish of Louisiana. The crop for the
year 1873 is estimated al about ! 600 hogs
heads, the same amount of hogsheads pros
duced in ls6l-less enough uncultvated
lard (uncutivated in 1861 to produce a
surplus of 10000 hogsheads.
The Great National Dog Fight will
not take place IN louisiana. The legisla
ture passed bill that puts II fine OF 800
and three months imprisonment on the "ad.
vance agents" of the twenty.one trained
bulldogs sent down by the advanced civili-
Zaton Of New York. Mr.. Bergh's letter
did the business.
Nashville Banner: II is a remarkable
fact tnat during the present term Of the
criminal court more lawyers have been adj
mitted to the bar than there were criminals
convicted. Nashville is full of old and Young
lawyers, and how they all manage to make Il
living is one of those things which nobody
can correctly ascertain.
Some years ago one Cannon hired a
man in Texas to murder an enemy. The
man who did the murder was condemned to
die, but the night before the day setsfor ex'
ecution his wife brought him poison IN her
mouth, ami both were dead wben found the
next morning. Cannon has Just been cap
tur,d and will PROBABLY hang.
Charlotte Observer: Information has
been received at the assay Office tdat mug
get Of gold, in the pure state, was recently
found in Ctbarrus county, near the Pioneer
mills, which weigh he'd OF er thirteen ounces,
or nearly one pound. 1t is weil.known
TACT that the largest lump of gold IN the
United States was picked up in Cabarrus
county many years go.
Hon. Jonn A Cobb, OF Georgia, ha.
Is 600 bushels of corn on his plantation OF
last years crop, and all of this corn is yet
on the cob. He has steam corn>sheller
that can shell one hundred and twenty
bushels per day. This gentleman is one Of
, the progrs sssive farmers OF the country. He
generally makes two or three hundred bales
Of cotton, and keeps his stock in the best
order.
Ge1. Gustave ; Rosseau who gradu
ated at West Point in 1898, and served es a
volunteer in the Mexican war, dropped dead
as he was driving along the road in his buggy
in Ascension parish, La. Tue only living
graduate of West Point from Louisiana, who
graduated before General Rosseau, is ex.
Governor Joshua Baker. whose date OF grs l.
uation is 1919. Governor Baker is at pres,
ent a planter on the Teche.