The Osceola times., 1886-11-20
SOUTHERN GlEANlNGS.

George Thoebe gives notice that he will
contest the seat in Congress for the Sixth
Kentucky district with Speaker Carlisle,
on the ground that the returns were doc
tored In the back counties.
The gaml lers arrested at Dallas, Tex.
recently, had their trials before Comfy
Judge Bower. Their fines amounted to
nearly $1,000. j. l.. Calhoun, the prin-
cipal room-keeper, was assessed over
$500.
Sam Carter was cut by James McClos-
key. at King. Tex, a few days ago, with
pocke,-knlfe. Carter struck McCloskey
with bar of iron, lreaking his nose,
when McCloskey cut him to the hollow be-
low the left lung. Carter is badly
wounded.
When Jailer Brooks at Columbus, Ca,
went into the corridor OF the Jail to lock
the prisoners in their cells few evenings
since be was set upon by six Of them, who
threw him down, tied towel over his
mouth and a rope around his limbs, took
his pistol, the key TO the outer door and
six dollars in money from his pockets,
and made their escape. The alarm was
sounded Immediately but the prisoners
all escaped. Among them were two mur.
derers.
The Carolinas take the lead in the num-
Der of wellto- do negroes. North Carolina
has twenty who are worth from SO coo to
$4,000 each. In South Carolina the me-
groes own Sl0000,00o worth of property.
In Charleston fourteen men represent
100000. Thomas II. Smalls is worth Sl3.-
600 and Charles c. Leslie is worth Sl200).
The family of Nosettes, truck farmers,
are worth Sl59,0)0. In the city savings
banks H." negroes have $i2i, ,g36. 80 on de-
posit. One man has over 50 900. He re-
Gently bought $1,000 plantation and
paid 5000 in cash.
The rice planters of Georgia have mar
keted nearly their entire crop.
There are twenty lime -kilns in Alabama
that turn out 2l,000 barrels daily.
Vicksburg, Miss, is figuring on the
construction of waterworks.
Hot Springs tArk.) officers recently
made successful raid on the gamblers.
citizen of Fairburn, Ga, is said 10
have walked 10 Palmetto, a distance of
seven miles, recently, in forty eight min
utes.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has
affirmed the constitutonality Of the local
option liquor law.
A candidate in Alachua County, Fla, Is
accused of having presented the women
of his district with cheap finger rings Just
before election.
Fire broke cut in the saw and planning
mill of NJ. j. Crocker at Helena, Ark, n
few days ago and burned it TO the ground.
Loss, $1,000; insured for -, 900 in the Pol.
can, Of New Orleans.
+. Spin'ig of the Eighth United States
his sight probably destroyed at San
Antonio, Tx, a few days ago, by the ex.
ylosion of aninferna machine.
Judge James Ferguson dropped dead at
the Union Depot at Houston, Tex, a few
evenings since. He was aged ninety
yeprs, lelonging to the Texas veterans,
and had lived in Houston many years.
He loas;ed that he had killed deer on the
site Of the court -house.
Miss Polly johnson was arrested at
Grayson, KY, few days ago by POST
,llice Inspector Jett on a charge of sm-
l,zzling n valuable letter. She was taken
before United States commissioner and
boun over to the District Court in the
sum of 800.
On the Monday following the last sun
day in Octoier this yer eleven arrests
for drunkenness occurred in Atlanta, Ga
On the same day last year five arrests
were made, and in 1884 seven. Prohibi ion
has been in force in that city since last
May only.
The North Carolina Senate stands %
straight Democrats, 3 Independent
Democrats and 90 Republicans. The House,
"a straight Democrats, Independent
Democrats and ~ Republicans. No labor
candida tes were elected.
The fence law of Georgia, which has
had the effect Of keeping hogs from roam
ing unrestrained through the woods, has
also had the effect of greatly increasing
the number Of skunks in the State. Hogs
are particularly fond of young skunks,
and devoured many Of them when the
woods werc open to stock.
William Bufcrd, a bad negro, and J ames
Taylor, col red, both of Keene, Ky, got
in difficulty few evenings since, which
resulted in the killing of the latter. lie
was shot four times. Buford has not been
captured ut this wr iling.
j.. c. Mccormick, aged twenty a
prosperous cotton broker, who was TO
have been married to Miss Carrie Lewis,
lady of high social standing and noted
beauty, at HawkInsville, Ga, a few days
since, committed suicide the day preced-
ing that appointed for the wedding. H.
had been subject to fits Of dependency,
and it is supposed that the excitement at.
tending the wedding preparations 50
worked on ais morl ia nervou, sensibiity
Us to cause self-destruction.
Excitement over tho recent foul mur-
der Of an unknown woman near
Dalton, Ca, continues Unaba' ed,
and has been intensified by the
confession Of Charles Patton and WIN
llallman, who were arrested on tue charge
of having committed the crime. Tae
name Of the murdered girl has never been
ascertamel, aud she was buried in the
pottc-'s field. Threats Of lynching were
rife.
A horrible accident occurred few miles
from jackson, Tenn. IA few nights ago.
The residence and all the contents, except
one let and trunk, belonging to the
Steonc brothers, hi sbly respectable farm
ers, were destroyed by fire. Mr.. John
Givens, young man about twenty year-
old, was visiting there, and was sleeping
upstairs. an IN coming down the stair
way the staiis fell in and he was prscipi.
tated into tha seething mass below and
burned tn death.
Charleston continues to quake.
Nearly all the cattle associations of