The Osceola times., 1884-05-24

1t is said that over a dozen new build.
ines are now in process of erection in
the northern suburbs Of Tampa, Fla.
Some Tennesseans have been prospect.
ing near Fort Dade, Fla. for a suitable
place to establish marble yard.
Georgia furniture manufacturers pre-.
dict big movement Of Western f;i1Ei.
ture men and wood workers into the
South.
The Mississippi Valley Cane Growers'
Association will hereafter be known as
the National Association of Cane Grow
ers.
The shipments of cotton from Bam-
berg, Barnwell county, s c., this year.
amount to $500 bales, as against 1880
bales last year.
At recent sale in Howard county.
NO.. calves brought $3.50; yearlincs, $3i,.
so; two-year-olds, $43; cows, from $26 to
$40.
Governor Lowery predicts that Missis-
sippi will manufacture into cloth, with
in few years, every pound of cotton
raised in its limits.
| Nearly 500 niles of railway have been
built in Mississippi during the past two
years, and the cotton mill output of
the State has been doubled.
In their memorial to Congress the cit
| liens of Augusta, Ga, ask for an appro-
priation of $500, 900 100000 for a pub
lie building and 100000 for the river.
The South Carolina Legislature has
appropriated $4,000 TO make an exhibi-
ton for the State at the Worlds Indus
trial and Cotton Centennial Exposition.
Palestine, Tex, is constantly growing
Among other buildings goodly number
of dwelling houses are being erected by
men of moderate means, for their own
use.
1t is said that the farmers of Tennes-
see complain of the rabbit pest, but are
making way with them by supplying
Nashville with half of her meat supply
from that prolific source.
Bermuda grass is being extensively
planted in Southwest Georgia. No lend
is too poor to promote its rapid growth.
1t will afford an excellent pasturage the
greater part ofthe year.
1t is claimed that .he building OF the
proposed Macon and Florida Air Line
Railroad would reach fourteen counties,
the total farm products ofwhich amount
in value yearly TO nearly 100000.
The Female Education Aid Associa-
ton, organized in Baltimore Md, has un-
dertaken the task of founding and en-
dowing great female seminary which
shall offer to young women the oppor-
tunity for first-class education.
Tennessee has school fund of 81 ,0O0,-
600 annually for 100000 population, out
Of which less than 100000 enroll in the
public schools, while the daily attend
ance is less than 100000; only two-tfths
of the children attend school.
The business men of Vicksburg, Miss,
have addressed memorial to Congress
asking that body to restore the harbor Of
Nicksburg, by making an appropriation
to bring the Yazoe river in front of the
city.
At a recent meeting of the Academy of
National Sciences, Professor II. Carvill
Lewis exhibited some remarkable mug
gets found in Mon gomery county, n. c.,
forty miles east of Charlotte and two miles
from 1adkln river.
According to the report Of Special
Agent Hurt of the Department of Agrl-
cultme, there is at the present time a
marked tendency in the State of Missis
sippi to contract the size of the larger
plantations in other words, tendency
towards smaller farms.
The Louisville, KY, cotton project is
| .th
representing Eastern capitalists, appear
ed before the Louisville Board OF Trade
offering one-icurth subscription to ST.
100000 factory to have $4,000 spindles.-
Baltimore Mfrs Record
TIE Lynehburg, Va, News says that
the report of the Executive Committee
made a splendid exhibit for the business
Of Lynchburg. An increase of the asses
sed values of the city from little over
100000 in 1868 to over $l2,000000 in
1888 is magnificent showing.
The South Carolina Times and Demo-
crat thinks that persons from abroad
, looking for homes can find no better
place to settle than in Orangeburg coun-
ty or town. The lands there are excel.
lent and varied in character, and tho
people are hospitable and public spirited.
The longest line of fence in the world
will be the wire fence to extend from
the Indian Territory west across the
! Texas Panhandle and thirty-fve miles
into New Mexico. II is said TO be over
200 miles long and its purpose is to stop
the drift of northern cattle southwark.
1t is asserted tLat the timber region of
East Tennessee is destined to become
second only to the bluegrass country,
for its fine lands have not been cleared
out of great forests Of poplar, hickory,
walnut; sycamore and other valuable
timber which have reached fine state
of development.
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