The Osceola times., 1879-01-04
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

bonded debt of sS000,O00.
Atlanta claims to have added 5000 Il
her population during the past year.
Six thousand barrels of rice have beer
raised in Caleasieu parish this year.
If Texas had as many people TO The
square mile as Massachusetts, she would
have a population of 72,OOO,00o.
The Dallas poor farm contains 33l
acres, with 40 in cultivation. This year the
occupants have raised 720 bushels OF whea
and 1900 bushels of corn. Only one guard
at $50 month, is employed.
The Enterprise (Miss.) Courier gives
an account Of the unearthing, near thai
| place, of an enormous alligator from his
winter quarters, about thirty feet from the
/ enhance and six feet under ground. lie
was drawn from his den by a chain placed
round his neck.
1t is believed that the poisoned water
rom the gulf, which recently threated Key
| West with a plague, by bringing TO the
shores, I'll along that neighborhood, thou
sands of dead fish, has passed, as the vessels
from the Southern coast along the Gull re-
port no more dead fish seen.
An Arkansas murderer shot man
"just to see him kick"
Atlanta has this year appropriated
over Sl3, 900 to her 1870 miles
Turtles are selling at only six cents 8
pound in Cedar Key, Mullets two cents a
pound
Fifteen wagons filed with colored
people left the neighborhood OF Macon,
Tenn, for Arkansas, where they propose to
settle.
The Legislatures of Tennessee, Arkan.
sas, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina,
Texas and West Virginia meet during the
first two weeks in January.
The Governor of Virginia pardoned
two convicts for gallantry in fighting the re-
cent fire in the penitentiary.
The foundation of the car shops of the
Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern
railroad has been laid at Birmingham.
The Alabama Legislature is composed
OF II planters, A lawyers, A merchants, -four
physicians, miller and insurance agent
The 500 Georgia convicts are divided
into fourteen camps. Under he twenty
year lease which begins the first of next
April, the number OF camps is to be reduced
to three.
Montgomery Advertiser: We learn
that colored laborers are making contracts
for the coming year very rapidly. They
have done so well this year that most OF
them are encouraged to remain as they are
now.
Little Rock Gazette: Mr.. John Glen.
ents, who lives about six miles east OF Dei
! Are, on what is known as Surrounded Hill
| killed few days since the largest panther
ever seen in this part OF the State, il any
where else. Its body alone measured nine
/ feet in length. Ii had been depredating on
| the young cattle and hogs of the neighbor'
! hood for several years, and the panther is al
expensive boarder, for it never eats the flesh
of anything 1t kills after the meat becomes
tainted.
Petersburg Index-Appeal: A party o
| twenty.three boys from New York, in charg,
| Of the agent, Mr.. II. A. Holt passed through
| Petersburg Yesterday on their way to Burke
vile, in Nottoway county. where homes with
the farmers are already provided for them
| This is the third company sent to Notiowa,
county, under the auspices of the New Yorl
Children's Aid Society.
Thirty canvas sers are gathering stats
! ties OF yellow fever in New Orleans for tn,
use of the Board of Health and the yellow
| Fever Commission.
/ btlIlOttdl lut tpiutulp dJu pudidi
tine have kept New Orleans far behind il
cotton receipts, while other ports particu
arly Savannah, Charleston and Galveston
have largely increased their receipts of thu
staple. thus it was that this city stood
three weeks ago, fourth on the list of cottoI
ports, and on Saturdays list still behind Sa
vannah, something that has not occurred
since cotton fret began to be cultivated il
the South, OF course everybody knew ths
| this was due to a strange variety OF accl
ldents and that it could not last long. Ou
city soon occupied its proper position. In
! one week it distanced Galveston and Charles
ton, yesterday ii passed Savannah, and to-
day II stands, as it should, first on the list
Wm. Grimes experience in sheep
raising in North Carolins. He bought a tnt
! flock one or two years ago, and gave then
| great care, until one Sunday, while the ne
groes were at church, the dogs made al
evening call and slaughtered all but 2S O
| the gentle bleaters. The experiment wa,
] then abandoned the 2S survivors were al
| lowed to run on the farm until one solitary
mutton remained TO tell the tale.
Columbia Is. O. Register: There dice
| in Lexington county yesterday remarkabl,
| aud well-known character to the people o
| Columbia. He was known to the people o
the city Ms "O,d Carolina" and was body
servant of Major Thornton, of the British
army, during the war of the Revolution, anC
| there is not man hereabouts that doubt
the old mans age, which he claimed to b,
100 years. He left widow nearly 100 year
Old, an infant son of nearly so and grand
| son of so "to mourn his irreparabe loss"