The Osceola times., 1873-08-02

from father insisting on remain
ing in the room with his daughter
aud her beau, The jury cleared
the young man,
al hope, Mrs, Giles" said a Lady
who was canypssing for a quire al
the village church, "you will per.
suade your husband TO join us. ]
am told he has a sonorous voice."
"a snorous voice, marmW SAID Mrs,
Giles. "Ahl you should hear II
comm out Of his hose when he's
asleep
French newspapers announce
that the United States government
has granted the Nebraska Indi-
ans" tho right to travel gratuitous-
Iy on every railway train on which
they arc able to jump while it is
moving at full speed. "Thc Unit
ed States government is sure the
whole tribe will be extinct in six
months"
The Savannah News says that
the principal keeper of the Georgia
penitcntiary reports a man in his
charge whose name he docs no,
know, and desires to find out who
he is, of what crime guilty, as well
as the length OF time for which he
was sentenced. The prisoner him.
self would like to 80 out and look
up the matter.
The law prohibiting the inter
marriage of blacks and whites still
exists and is still enforced in Nebras-
ka. This gave q Probate Judge
there (TownscndD an opportunity
to indulge in little bit of fun. On
tho Fourth of July he was asked to
grant marriage license to a black
man and a white woman. IIe re-
fused, and endorsed bis reasons up
on the application. "Things," he
said, fare badly mixed. The Su-
preme Court of the State ofNebras-
ka has decided that negroes cannot
be excluded from juries any more
than rcd-headed people, or people
five feet high. Yet when, in accor-
dance with this decision, the Legis-
tature was asked TO repeal the law
forbidding the consummation of
happiness between negroes and
whites, the God and Equality Leg
islaturc killed the bill.
July is an imperial month. lis
pure heat, if it had no other don.i-
hating quality, exacts the respect
always rendered to power, though
we yield even that kind Of respect
under very emphatic protest. But
1t is the midsummer month, and
our semi-tropio agricultural pro.
ducts esquire the heat it brings, or
~ ground they OCCUPY might be
sown with tares or left unplowcd.
F. Nature, however, has decreed that
July shall rule the temperate zone
with equatorial influences, and the
subjects Of our latitude have no al.
ternative-they must obey. But the
law Of compensation, at least, mit-
gates our repugnance to absolute
obedience. During this month we
are vouchsafed the satisfaction of
looking upon external nature in the
fullness Of her productive agency,
while the devices of civilization
bave supl lied us with the means ofI
modifying the torrid rigor Of the
time,
Among the minor annoyances
pt life are the people who "do you
out Of small sums of money, in a
manner which preeludes your ask
ing for it as q debt or q swindle, or
those who borrow or take some
valuable little article from your ia
Bile or desk, and forget to return it. |
One OF these birds of prey had his
account balanced as follows.
A young lawyers clerk had suf- |
fered from the depredations of
wealthy patron of the office, who
regularly " did him out ofpostage
stamps, loose change for various
purposes, and finally "borrowed" P"
Ind forgot to return an expensive
pocketknife. Time passed on, and
the lawyers clerk had become an
able practitioner, when the exaspe-
rated acquaintance confided to his |
care a difficult case, which was care.
july worked up and gained, to the |
delight and profit OF the client, to
whom was presented q bill of $500.
After paying the account, the chen,
compllmented the attorney on the
skill and patience with which he
had managed the case, but added
"seems 70 me. your biz, $500, is
apretty big ope.H
Yes" laid the lawyer quietly,
81 charged yog 5000 for my labor
and the legal expenses, qnd$lOO for
a penknJe YOU had OF me when was |
u clerk without pay in Parchments'
Office, fifteen years ago.
"A case which is likely to call
forth all the emotional Resources of