The Osceola times., 1884-06-21

IL is said that over dozen new build
inps are now in process of erection in
the northern suburbs ofTampa, 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 furni-
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 BAN.
berg Barnwell county, S. c.. this year.
amount to 1920 bales, as against 1880
bales last year.
At recent sale in Howard county.
Mo-. calves brought $22.50; yearlings, $3i.,
50; 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 r lilway 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
| izens of Augusta, Ca, 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 land
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 amour.
in value yearly TO nearly 100000.
The Female Education Aid Associa-
ton, organized in Baltimore Md, has ur-
dertaken the task of founding and en-.
| dowing great female seminary which
shall offer to Young women the oppor-
| tunity for a tirst-class education.
| Tennessee has school fund of 81 ,00O,-
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-iifths
of the children attend school.
The business men of Vicksburg, Miss,
| have addressed a 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 III. Carvill
| Lewis exhibited some remarkable mug
gets found in Mon gomery county, n. C.,
forty miles east of Charlotte and two mile
| from Yadkin river.
According TO the report of Special
Agent Hurt, of the Department of Agr-
culture, there is at the present time
marked tendency in the State Of Missis-
sippi to contract the size of the larger
plantations in other words, a tendency
| towards smaller farms.
The Louisville, KY, cotton project is
| being pushed. Mr.. Arthur NJ. Diggles,
representing Eastern capitalists, appear
ed before the Louisville Board of Trade
offering one-iourth subscription to a ST.
100000 factory to have 10000 spindles.-
Baltimore Mfrs Record.
Tue 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
$4,000, 600 in 1863 to over sl2,000,000 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 the
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 1t is said to be over
200 miles long and its purpose is TO stop
the drift Of northern cattle southwark.
Ii is asserted tsat the timber region Of
East Tennessee is destined to become
second only to the bluegrass country,
for IFS 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.