The Osceola times., 1879-05-17
OSCEOLA ARKANSAS SATURDAY, MAY II 1879

On May l two tobacco firms in PEI
tersDurg, Va, bought, the one $4,000 and
the other $4,000 worth OF stamps.
The trsmps are fleeing Texas, having
got the idea that bill TO put them to work
mad passed the state legislature.
Danville IVA Times: Tobacco plsnt,
plentiful and doing well. In two week,
2219,t60 pounds of tobacco wers sold m
Danvile. The cash paid for it amounted to
$2i2 ,S22.
A petition asking that equal political
rights be conferred on women was presented
10 the Louisiana constitutional convention
saturday. 1t is numerously signed by the
most prominent men and women of New
Orleans.
Michael Propst, of North Carolina.
was married TO Nancy Augel before he vol,
unteered ss soldier in the war Of 1872
They had eleven children, and all are living
to-day. The Oldest is seventy-lwo years of
age and the youngest fifty.
Register: Fifteen carloads Of tobacco
passed through Columbia yesterday on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad,
on their way to Savannah and other south.
ern cities, the cause OF the large shipment
being the reduction OF the tobacco tax.
A correspondent of the News aud
Courier says an exodus of negroes from the
other South Carolina counties has begun
toto the county of Beaufort some / 800 hay-
ing already arrived. They talk Of ooncen,
t'ating on the coast and forming a sort of
negro republic. They have not grasped the
Kansas idea.
Raleigh paper says The revival of
ali .ta.. l.. a I. u. A
street Methodist church, by Mrs. Moon, still
continues, and so great is the interest that
meeting was begun last week in the Person.
street church, by Mrs. Painter,a sister of the
former lady. Both churches are crowded
every night.
Weldon On. C) News: On Saturday
last several hundred negroes met in town to
discuss the question Of gong to Kansas.
Several speeches were made pro and con-
and committee was appointed TO ascertain
particulars and report. No definite action
will be taken until more is found out in reS
gard to the advissbility of emigrstlng.
Galveston News: Intelligence has been
received from Lynchburg and San Jscinto
that the water was FIVE feet higher than
during the overflow from the storm Of Sep>
tember, 1875. Many families are represented
sessed of. and unless relief be afforded a
great deal of suffering will be the result.
The Chinese merchants of Augusta,
Ga, pay their liquor and tobacco taxes
promptly and willingly, whereupon the
News remarks that they say the Chinese
must go, but their ndust.y and business way
of conducting affairs Is very striking. The
revenue collectors say they are among the
promptest paying, and are always correct in
money dealings.
Charleston News and Courier Q G.
Leslie, the well known FISH merchant, re-
ceived yesterday from one OF his smacks a
curiosity in the shape of monster leather
back or trunk turtle, whose Shell measures
six feet, and which weighs about 500 pounds.
II was caught of Ch ,rleston bar, and is the
frs, OF this particular species that has ever
been caught in these waters.
Rockingham (Vs.) Register For
more than week the mountains east and
west of us have been on fire. We do not
know that we have ever seen such extensive
fires as prevail in the Allegheny and North
mountains. The light at night Is grand In
the extreme. For more than sixty miles In
length there wss a continuous strea OF
fire, sweeping over knobs and down in the
gorges.
The London World says the famous
privateer Shenandoah was, .aiter the war,
bought at auction by Nicol, Fleming & Co.
"a firm that has earned notoriety in con-
nection with the failure Of the City of Glas-
gov bank for the sultan OF Zanzibar. After
remaining idly at Zinzibar for some years
she was sent to Bombay tor repairs, but
foundered of Socotra, ali hands being lost
except one Englishman and a few Lascars.
For the present the Kansas fever"
among the southern blacks seems to have
subsided, but the movement will start afresh
and with greater force in the autumn, The
planters are so well convinced of the gen
eral disposition OF the negroes to move
northward, that all OF them who are able
ere already making arrsngements.to supply
themselves with Chinese laborers from San
Francisco. Many contracts have already
been made, II is understood, very low rates
OF fare being secured for gangs OF three
hundred.
An intelligent correspondent of the
New Orleans Ficayune concludes, from
extensive observations in Mississippi,
that there has not been as yet such
an alarming stampede OF negroes as one
would infer from the many newspaper res
ports. Here and there you can learn of
few families that have gone, and on close
investigation they are OF class who are
behind with their merchants for supplies,
are shiftless and very poor workers, and
scarcely ever accumulated anything, and
hence, from their very character, are OF lit
tie benefit to any community.