The Osceola times., 1879-05-10
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


Cnarleston's debt amounts to nearly
s4000,000.
Corn in San Antonio is scarce at one
dollar bushel.
The south Georgia strawberry crop ia
inner this year than ever before.
There are two hundred clnvic.s for
life in the Mississippi penitentisry.
Recent good rsils have saved the cot,
ton and corn crops in northern Texas.
The population of Atlanta is said to
be increasing at the rate OF siI thousand a
year.
The Texas legislature has pass d a
law giving $40 acres TO every veteran pen.
sioner.
The citZens OF New Orleans are &C.
tive in putting the city in good sanitary con.
diton.
Thirteen hundred cases are before the
supreme court of Tennessee, representing
hve million dollars and twenty thousand
litigants.
A negro named johnson Spencer has
been ,ynched near Ssa' kville, Mississippi,
for barn burning. 4..
The prospect of the corn and cotton
crop in Mississippi is promising. The plant
ers are busy aud hopeful.
The recently planted crops in Alabama
suffered greatly by the heavy rains. Large
areas will have to be replsnted.
Gen. Simons, who recently died in
Charleston, was in command OF the southern
forces when Fort Sum'er was attacked.
-Four hundred Illicit distillers are TO
be brought before the federal court at Nash.
vile, There are eight hundred witnesses.
II the new Indian Territory is opened,
il will secure Galveston two new lines of
railroad connecting her with the "new
west"
North Carolina il one OF the five
states in the American union that have al
ways refused the veto power to their gov>
ernors.
A mad dog in Chesterfield county, s.
C., recently bit Mr.. Tucker, who in turn bit
two of his children, and the lives Of all
three ere despaired Of.
Houston, Texas, has voted to place
herself practically uoder the control OF the
Galveston board of health, so far as matters
CT quarantine are concerned.
The Nstchez cotton. mill has been in
operation less than year, and SO great has
been the success that the stockholders sre
about TO increase its facilities.
The white taxpayer. of Selma pay
over three thousand dollars 10
support hospital and furnish physician
and medicines for the colored population.
"The remains OF the old fort" ssys
the 81. Augustine Press, Thrown up by
in 17i0, when he attacked the
city, are still TO be seen on Ansstssia island"
Trucking in the eastern part o. North
Carolina is a growing industry. Last week
contracts were made for the delivering of
5000 bushels of green peas in northern
.
Poindexter, who killed another clerk
in Richmond for remarking upon the sym.
metry Of his (P.'s) sweetheart's ankle, has
been sentenced to two years in the peni
tentiary.
The crops of northern Texas are all in
fine order. II had been thought that the
wheat crop would be lost by the drouth, but
the recent rains have revived it, and all is
The Knoxville papers announce the
desth of Prof Warren DuPre, pi esident of
Martha Washington college, at Abingdon,
Va. lie was an eminent man in The NJ. f.
church south
South Carolina can make more money
in wheat, hay and oats than in cotton, and
produce as much grain to the acre as in the
west; so the Agricultural society OF that
state affirm in their report
Mississippi is TO have convention at
in May to take into consideration
The present agitation OF the labor question.
The planters hope to stop the emigration OF
the colored people north, and call upon the
colored people to send delegates.
The Mississippi Stockbreeders' sssociN
ation are TO hold n convention, the purpose
OF which is TO try and induce planters TO
emancinate themselves from the thraldom
Of king cotton and desote themselves 10 tue
better paying pursuit Of stock raising.
DR.. Pratt, the gentleman whs die.
covered and FIRST developed the immense
phosphate beds OF South Csrolns, is in
Georgia, and says that Georgia has the ma,
terial and Atlanta can manufacture ferti.
lizers cheaper than any place iu the country.
The presidents house at William and
MhTN ttlltRt, NiIElDitf tAiht h'ot 'hhi't
down n few DAYS ago. This house was built
in 1879, and was accidentally burnt by the
French troops, under lafayette, on their
way 10 the battle OF Ynrktown. in 1851. IT
was then rebuilt by Louis WI. out OF his
privste funds, and has survived the fires
which have since then so often destroyed the
college. II is the only house IN virginia
built by reignins sovereign. I...
Nashville American; An amusing IN
c dent is related Of deputy.msrshsl Chap
msn and noted distiller OF Overton county.
CHAPMAN and posse surrounded his house,
and knew be was in il. After making search
and failing to tiud him, he politely requested
his wife, who was ,itting on a chest, to rise.
The good lady obeyed, and toe chest proved
10 he locked on the inside. He turned it on
end, when the man on the inside, having bis
head downward, called for quarter and sur
rendered.
Atlanta Constitution There is q law
in Georgis. and, we believe, in other south
ern states, which prohibits the intermar'
risge of races. With possibly one or two
exceptions, there has been no attempt either
10 evsde or violate this law. and thus FAR IL
has slumbered quietly in the statute book,
heing less 2 bar TO miscegau alton than the
instincts and desires OF the whites and
III cts. The indications are, however, that
tn con titutonalty Of state laws prohibits
inc intermarriage will shortly be tested be-
are the supreme c)utt OF the United states,
with every prospect that they VIII oe neid
void aud OF no effect.
While Ia Georgia tea culture Is b..
ginning 10 attract attention, In some portiea;