The Osceola times., 1879-07-05
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


section as the health belt.
The other day there were 10, 900 sheep
on the San Antobio market.
The ice factory at Sherman, Texas,
turns out 5000 pounds day.
A San Antonio merchant bought 90
600 pounds Of wool in one day,
There are l,500 lots and squares in
Galveston to be sold for taxes.
Five thousand New Orleans petition
ers wish Sunday temperance law.
Augusta, Gs., WAS laid out in 1885,
and named in honor Of an English princess.
The Colorado potato beetle is playing
havoc with the potato crop in the valley OF
Virginia.
Robert Fslkner, of Warren county,
North Carolina, is l05 years old, and has
voted 81 times
At Ssdler's Bend, /. L., thirteen horse
thieves are said to have been hung in the
past two weeks.
A colored drummer. repr' senting a
New York house, is doing business In North
Carolina towns.
One hundred barrels Ell watermelons
were shipped in one day last week from
Gainesville, Fla.
The wheat crop In the upper portion
OF South Carolina is said to be the finest
made since the war.
A few nights ago, in Concordia parish,
La, mad bull gored half a dozen horses
and mules to death.
1t is said the narrow guage railroad
can be built anywhere in Texas at cost OF
less than So GOO mile.
In Lsvacs county, Texas, a man clip
ped Of the ear of hog and was sent to the
penitentiary for two years.
OF the 10000 900 barrels of beer
brewed in the United States last year,
Georgia brewed only $500.
Two Mormon missionaries are in Ala
bama getting up big colony to go to the
land of many wives in October.
A widew Of a Georgia railroad engi-
neer, who was killed in the discharge Of his
duty, has been awarded $500 damages.
DIR. Arlington, of Goldsboro, N. c.,
has by experiment satisfied himself OF the
feasibility Of silk culture, and will plant 50
or rs acres in mulberry trees.
The first mssionar sent to the Indi.
ans west of the Mississippi river was Mrs.
Washburn, who has lately died at her home
in Arkansas. She was in her SD year.
Rev. Z. P. Roe, OF Cornwall, the nov>
elist and small fruit-grower, has recently re-
turned from a trip to Virginia. He states
that be there visited one field OF strawber.
ries that included about 100 acres OF land,
on which we're engaged about 1000 negroes
picking the fruit
AT Edwards Depot, Miss, two of Mr.
Charles Dillop's children were bitten by a
rabid dog ten days ago, since which time
one of the children lied and the other is
not expected TO live. Mr.. John Dillon was
also bitten at the time, but as yet has shown
no signs OF hydrophobia
New Orleans Picsyune A property
holder in this city holds real estate assessed
at 1000. During the last nine months
the amount of taxes paid on this property
was 81, ,764; insurance, 1885; repairs, 81 ,l97;
the ct returns for the period named reach
the magnificent sum OF &4lO.
The bark NJ nrovia sailed from New
York Saturday for Liberia, CARRYING fifty
colored people as passengers, embracing all
ages. Most of them come from Arkansas
and the Carolinas, although other sections
of the country are represented. Mr.. A. L.
Stanford, formerly member of the Arkan.
sas senate, was one Of the passengers.
The biggest tree In Georgia is a syca'
more tree on the fsFm Of Mr. Henry Hill,
in Walker county, which, says the Lafay.
cite Messenger, is supposed to be about 10
feet high, is 58 feet In circumference, and
1871 feet in diameter. II is also hollow, and
contains a natural door three feet wide and
seven feet high.
ipesking OF pinespples, the Key West
Kew says: The crop OF this delicious fruit
this tesson will double that OF any former
wear, Forme " they were raised at Key
Largo; now they come from Elliotts and
other keys in such quantities as to make up
a large export trade. For weeks past we
have been shipping them to Galveston,
New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, and all
alonglthe coast.
The annual distribution of prizes BY
the society for the prevention OF cruelty TO
animals. TO drivers who have taken good care
of their horses or mules during the past
wear. took place in front OF the city hall,
Auynsts. last week. Forty-seven prizes
were distributed az follows; Fifteen TO
drivers owning their horses, twenty.seven
TO drivers not owning their teams, and hve
TO drivers for disseminating the use OF the
chsck-reip on horses.
Austln leAheJ Ctcsceuou' in0 49,,
msster.genersl is suHmenting the NUMBER OF
nost routes everywhere in western Texas.
This is evidently very necessary. The mall
coach robbers for a long time seem to have
had no occupation. They did rob the mail
pouches on the unoccupied mail coach
s.yen miles from Menardyile, on the 18Th,
but gained nothing. People don't send
money in western letters in these days oil
part i human sanity, and the postmaster
general is doing the country good service.
Atlanta Constitution From the best
incarnation we can gain OF the growing
crops il would seem that We are on the
threshold OF prosperity more brilliant
than that Of the past, and likely to be more
enduring because founded on sound eco.
noraical principles. From all quarters Of
.he south come the glad tidings Of increased
c,..ssa and increased fertility. The cereal
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