The Osceola times., 1879-03-01
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

] tnhu any otuef CITY OF lts re III inc Woriu.
The Moffett register bill was "remorse
lessy slaughtered" in the Florida legislature
A proposition to punish theft by
whipping was elected by the TIE xas legisla'
ture.
The governor of Louisiana has not
yet signed the bill repeating the lottery
charter.
A steam rice pounding mill Is to be
erected at Georgetown, 3. C., at cost oi
10000.
A bill before the Florida Legislature
dispenses with all municipal governmentsi in
the state.
The Picsyune says tue prices Of real
estate in New Orleans show an upward
tendency.
Mississippi farmers are setting uneasy
over the prospect OF a wholesale departure
OF negroes for Kansas
The Children's Aid Society, of New
York, has sent 6fty>one more boys to homes
among the farmers Of Virginia.
The New Orleans Times says blunder
on the part of the legislature leaves the
Moffett register unrepealed in Louisiana.
The great mortality of fish on the Flor.
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by the obnoxious gas from submarine
volcano.
Two Georgians have married each
others daughters, and editors are getting
bald wrestling with the question OF their
relationship.
Rev John Locke Martin has been re-
moved from the pastorate Of the Presbyterian
church at Denison, rexn, on account OF
drunkenness.
The eldest child of George Patrick, OF
| Denton, Texas, playing doctor administered
dose OF acid to his brother Willie. who died
in intense pain.
Little Minnie Quinn, aged twelve, OF
Atlanta, has published pamphlet edition
OF poems she has been writing since she was
seven years old.
John Edwards, who was executed at
Smithfeld, N. G., last Friday, was sixty,
seven years old, and was convicted upon the
evidence of a six year old daughter of the
murdered man.
Seventysfive counties in North Caro-.
lima have 375, 439 sheep, and seventy five
| counties report lll,039 dogs. Last year
zs,0st sheep were killed by dogs, and only
10000 have died from disease.
A Georgian claims that 10000 have
emigrated from that state and the Carolinas
| to Texas during the past five years, and that
| 10000 of them will return now that they can
get emigrant rates back.
Texas papers ore praying for the whip>
ping post. The San Antonio Herald has
heard of a negro who stole box OF sardines
| valued at twenty cents end who was sent to
the penitentiary at a cost Of $1,000 to the
state,
Twenty six persons have been killed
and thirty wounded in the settlement of
personal differences in Breathitt county, KY,
since the ar, and not a person has been
hung or sent to the penitentiary in conse-
quence.
The relief fund, $26, ,464, which was
garnisheed by the creditors of the city OF
Memphis, has been released, Judge Baxter
holding tnat such fund is not subject to gar
nishment by the creditors Of the city OF
Memphis.
Samuel Gustine Thompson arrived in
Nashville yesterday from Philadelphis. He
represents the holders of 81 100000 of len
\ nessee bonds living in the state OF Pennsyl-
yania. He says these bondholders are willing
| to settle with the state on the same basis as
the New York bondholders.
The New Orleans Times says the sp,
preparation made by the last legislature.
amounting to some seven or eight hundred
| thousand dollars more than the practicable
revenues of the state, 1t is doubtful whether
members of the constitutional convention
will get their mileage and $4 per diem or any
other sum.
When Gen. Veach, of North Carolina,
escorted Governor Jarvis, Senator Nance's
successor to the gubernatorial chair recent>
w. he shook hands with him aDd said. Now,
Jarvis, I've done all can for you. BE CONS
Portable, and you'll soon get used to it. God
bless you, and make me your successor.
GoodSbye."
Vlcksburg Herald On yesterday the
remains of a person who died Of yellow fever
in New Orleans were transported through
our streets for burial in the city cemetery
The efiiuvia emitted from the casket was
plainly perceptible, and physician expert
enced in the treatment of yellow fever ad
vised a gentleman who intended doing so
not to attend the funeral.
'Chas. F. Barry, who suicided in New
| Orleans, left the following note to the coro.
ner's jury; Gentleman, you can bring in
your verdict without trouble or delay. |
have taken my own life by taking morphine
| and laudauun. tried hard TO make a liv-
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passion on my old age or would give me EN-.
| ployment. / was reduced to utter destitu>
| ton. There is not cent to bury me-"
Gov. Roberts has sent four messages to
the Texas legislature in three weeks. One
| of the last -wo favors normal school to
catch the PEABODY fund OF six thousand dol
lars annually. The other advises making /:
a felony for "a Indian to come into Texas !;
/ ha gauts
the appointment of an agent to press the re-
| imbursement OF the state for moneys ex>
pended sor frontier protection on contingent
| fee.
The ladies OF Virginia are to erect at
Winchester, June 9th, a shaft memorial to
the confederate dead. 1t will be dedicated
| on that day with appropriate ceremonies. 1t
will be 10 height twenty-five feet, the base
| four feet broad. The column will be made
of the finest Italian marble, and surm ounted
| by funeral urn and drapery, and the base
of Richmond granite. On its front will he
the coat of arms of the state, and on the
different panels win be appropriate inscrip>
tons.
The temperance editor of the Raleigh
| IN C.) Observer is responsible for these
| figures: "If the population OF the state be
| l,I71,120 souls, our people pay $500, $50 for
| liquors, about !, S,l0OO,OOO for educatlon, and
for their religion S26q, $50. That is, they
think eight times as much Of whisky as OF
christian faith. There are 100000 bales OF
cotton grown in North Carolina annually.
These bales will average 400 pounds. At Q
cents per pound, this cotton will bring 81
200 600. All the cotton grown IN the state
will not pay the liquor bill
Dallas (Texss) Commercial lntelli'
gent and responsible parties in this city say
that about nine o'clock yesterday morning
| there WAS Mainly visible In the noriherr