The Osceola times., 1879-05-03
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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A long drouth Is embarrassing tn,
planters around Natch,z
The Texas legislature has appropri.
ated 100000 to frontier protection.
There were more divorces than mar.
risges in Houston, Texas, last week.
| Chattanooga is about TO fund her city
debt, which only amounts to $4,000.
There are 4 900 900 acres of land in
Alabama subject to entry or homestead.
Charleston is ship ing daily by ex.
nrees 1880 quarts of strawberries to New
York. hose. -
The whale driven on the North Caro-
lima coast is said to be worth not less than
slsCo.
Commissioner Killebrew, of Tennessee
reports wheat in fine condition aud corn
backward.
The cold snap caused great deal Of
corn and cotton, even as far south ss Florida,
to be plowet up and planted over.
In Louisiana negro had dog killed
by train, and in revenge he ditched q
freight train and wrecked eleven cars.
Jake Sommerville gets ninety-nine
years in the Texas peniteDtiary, for the mur.
der of Chas. Roberts, three years ago.
Robbers entered the house of j.
Fisher, stock man, near Dayton, Texas, put
pistols to his wite's head, and made her
hsnd over $4,000.
The New York holders of Tennessee
bonds have agreed 70 accept the compro-
mise OF fifty cents on the dollar and four
per cent interest.
In Florida there are seventy cigar
| factories, The largest is that Of Sidenberg
Co, at Key West, where l0,70s, ,l70 cigars
we're made in 1878.
Courier-J Journal: In Memphis, last
Monday, eight widows took out licenses to
marry as many widowers. Yellow fever makes
strange bedfellowa -r &
During the war an old bachelor named
| McKissick was killed near Waco, Texas, and
the other uay, while tearing down his
shanty, negro found ss,065 in gold.
The Lane cotton mill in New Orleans
was established in 1857. now runs 6s looms
and 2707 spindes, employees IS operatives,
and makes 1000 yards osnaburgs day.
The crops in North Carolina have
been somewhat retarded by drouth ar d cold.
The open weather has been favorable Tor
work. however, and the farms are In fine
condition in the main.
The Herald Gays it hailed in Dallas
Wednesday for one hour and half. Birds
were killed, fruit knocked off the trees, and
other damsge done. Crops are too back.
ward to be much hurt.
The tornado that destroyed Walter
boro, =. C., killed three white and three col.
,rkt nd I.A shraa
whites severely and three colored persons
mortally. Seven churches were destroyed.
The Fort Worth Democrat thinks
that should Currie's lawyers get the COW.
ardiy murderer Of on the plea OF insanity,
there will be general regret throughout
the state that there is no law in Texas to
hang lawyers.
The ladies of Columbus have got the
soldiers monument after fourteen years OF
work. 1t will be unveiled on the 26th. Gov.
Colquitt Of Georgia, will deliver the ad-
dress, and Gov, Cobb and Ex.Gov, Watts, of
Alabama, will be present, .... .....
Among the articles placed in the cor.
ner stone Of the Columbu federate mon.
ument was piece Of the bloody battle hag
OF the 18th Georgia regiment, in carrying
which seven men were killed in the battle
OF Sharpsburg, and several Others wounded.
Under new enactment of the Texas
legislature, physicians, not permant Mt, are
taxed $50; each horse entered for less than
a quarter race, $25; over q quarter. $40 /;
each bullfght, ETC., $500; hie insurance
companies, $1,000 The state tax on BARRIERS
was stricken out.
The Savannah city council have re-
solved that the board OF education be noti>
| fed that there are no funds now in the city
treasury to meet the appropriation OF $40,
900 TO the board OF education, and that
there is no prospect Of there being any
durlng the present year.
Virginia's amended Moffett liquor
law will go into effect on the LIST OF May. 1t
seems TO be understood that BARKER ers
will reduce the price of spirituous liquors
from fifteen to ten cents after that time, and
no drawbacks or checks for ~ cents, SIS is
the case now, will be given.
FiIty.eiaht persons joined the differ
ent churches of Salisbury, N c., last Sun
day-a part OF the fruits of Miss Painters
revival. Over one hundred have made
profession OF faith during the meeting, and
a large number are still at the altar with
daily and nightly accessions.
The rice fields on the Cape Fear river,
near Wilmington, which have lain idle and
grown up with weeds since the var, have
been reclaimed and planted this season by
several energetic parties, who expect 10
raise at least two hundred thousand bushels
Of rice in the next five years
Galveston News: The proclamation
by the governor of quarantine against GER
tain ports from whence danger is to be ap'
pretended during the summer will probably
be issaed in q few days, and arrangements
W. II be made for the sccomm odatiop OF pas
sengers who may be 80 unfortunate az TO be
detained at the quarantine station.
Vicksburg Herald Be il enacted, that
any citizen OF Mississippi who makes oath
| that he carries a concealed weapon because
| he fears an attack upon his life, shall be FUR
nished With guard, armed with a musket,
| TO protect said citizen, etc, End that any
cit zen found with concealed weapon, who
does not make oath that he fears an attack
and who is not entitled to carry one, shall
| be imprisoned in the county jail thirty days
Georgia sends out Of the state snnu-
ally three and halt million dollars for
Qusnos, and DIR. Pratt, the distinguished
Georgia chemist, is endesvoring to form a
stock company fer the manufacture OF Ter
tilizsrs in Atlanta. He says that within the
| iiu,ii. os Georgia are to he iodnd all the
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