The Osceola times., 1879-03-22
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Texas has 100 convicts.

Atlanta has no detectives on her police
force.
Alabsma's late legislature cost the
state over 100000.
For the Lee monument there has been
collected this year 81, 04551.
In Texas, when man sells mortgsged
property they send him to the peniteniiary.
Yellow and red coons, with heads
resembling wildcats, are found in Accomack
county, Va.
The Alabama legislature appropriates
$4,000 TO the state beard OF health. to be used
al their discretion.
An Augusta man has sold seven bush.
els OF watermelon seed at the rate of Thirty.
two dollars bushel.
Monticello, the Virginia country seat
of Thomas Jefferson, will be sold at public
sale on the Goth inst.
The Dispatch says since the poisoned
fish appeared along the gulf coast of Florida
all the buzzards have left.
The new ice works in Columbus, GA,
will furnish zee at one cent pound cheaper
than nature can manufacture it.
The governor of Texas has approved
the bill appropriating six hundred thous>
and dollars TO the public schools.
North Carolina will employ fifty con.
victs in draining and reclaiming Angola bay,
an immense body of swamp land.
James Corning. OF Arkansas, by will,
binds his executors to dig five graves for
him and set up five tombstones to his
memo y.
Clark Mills, the eminent sculptor, Is
ct Fortress Monroe, making casts of the
heads OF the Indisn students attending the
Hampton normal school.
A serious drouth exists in the San
Antonio section of Texas. Wells have dried
up, and some farmers have to d i've their
stock FIVE miles to watar.
An Arkansas legislative bill proposes
TO charter the Arkansas insane asylum lot
tery association TO procure funds to erect
such an institution at Little Rock.
The New Orleans Democrat says the
exodus Of negroes from Madison and other
upper parishes to Arkansas continues, to
the rapid depletion of the labor supply.
1t is stated that Gen. G.. T. Besure-
gard has been selected TO succeed Hon.
Alex. stephens, of Geors ia, in the supreme
Grand command Of the Grand consistory of
the Sons of Malta in America.
The Texas legislature is discussing the
question of issuing four per cent. bords of
small denominations like those OF Georgia,
1t being expected that they viii go into cur
rent circulation and answer the place Of
money.
North Carolina is about to increase
her tax on liquors, the bill for settling the
state debt having passed. North Carolina
paws Ss,500,0O0 annually tor liquor, 81 ,000,-
600 for education, and s209, 800 for religious
purposes.
The North Carolina state senate, by a
vote OF thirty.tive to eight, has adopted a
resolution instructing special committee to
incorporate 10 the bill for the sale Of spirits
uous liquors the principle of the bell punch
now IN use in Virginia.
Donaldsonville Chief There is now
elty here in the way OF q courthouse. 1t is
a very small hatboat covered in. Being dis
covered h,,ting down the river il was
pulled ashore, and is now occupied on court
days by his honor the colored Justice of the
peace, TO settle disputes.
Newberry, S. c., Herald: A year ago
the Liberia fever was at It's height. This
wear 1t is the Colorado fever The darkies
least a few Of them are, and are trying T.
agi,ate the question. A goodly number OF
them declare their intention to go TO Colos
rado.
Brandon, Miss Republican We learn
that very fatal disease has broken out in
Scott county, between Hllsboro and the
county line, which is pronounced by the
physicians as black measles, and by the ne>
A.. Ia N
gious and very fatal not single case having
recovered.
In Richmond j. f. Poindexter at
tempted TO cowhide c. C.. Curtis. Curtis
took cane, and. gong to PoindeIter's
place of business, demanded an apoogy,
and, upon its being refused, persisted in his
attempts to cane him until he was riddled
with bullets from Poindexter's pistol, Four
balls passed through his breast and one into
his brain, causing his death.
A South Carolina paper says: Cyrus
II. Mccormick, the Chicago millionaire,
who owns Dorn's gold mine, in this coun.
ty, has gwen $4,000 towards the con
struction Of the Greenwood and Augusta
railroad, which is pushing right through to
sure and speedy completion. Mr.. McCor.
mick's munifcence places the enterprise be.
yond the possibility of failure.
Charleston News and Courier: The
direct accounts of the condition of Senator
Hampton are encouraging. Although suf-
ferng considerably at intervals, there ap.
pears to be no danger, the trouble being
merely local, and capable Of relief by the
lancet. Almost every fine day he is out
hunting or fishing, still ndulging in horse
back exercise, and riding almost rs well as
ever.