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The Osceola times., 1875-07-31

1t has been Justly said that tho
greatest discovery Of our lives is
that the world Is not so bad as,
in the first disappointment OF
youths extravagant expectations,
we are disposed to regard t. Tho
passage from boyhood to manhood
is 'over the bridge of sighs;' and
our first experiences of life as it is,
resemble the flavor Of the forbidden
apple--we are enlightened and
miserable. Gladly would we COM
mand the secret of feeling as wo
once did; but, alas, every day takes
from us some happy error some
charming illusion-never TO return.
We are reasoned or ridiculed out
of our jocund mistakes, till We are
Just wise enough to be miserable,
and we cxclaim with Lady Mary
Wortley Montague, "To my eX-
treme modification ] find myself
growing wiser and wiser every
day But time comes, at length,
when our views are more just.
We leave our imaginary Eden with
solemn step and Slow and begin
to appreciate the good qualities of
those whose friendship we thought
hollow, and the necessity of that
labor which we deemed curse.
We exchange ecstacy for content,
and, forgetting the iour rivers OF
our ideal Heaven, open our eyes to
the manifold beauties of earth-its
skies lslanded stars, and It's oceans
starred with islands, its sunshine
and calms, and the goodness Of its
great heart, which sends forth
trees and flowers and fruits for our
benefit and exultation.-[ Professor
Mathews.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
STATE OFFICERS.

Governor-A. II Garland
s,c'y OF statc-B. B. Beavers.
Aud.tur-Wm L. Miller
Trrnsner--T j. Churchill.
Au'y Gcu'l-T. T.. Hughes.
Aom. state Lands. y. Nmithoes
CHANCELLOR Il. Eaklu.
Chanccry Clcrk-A K. witt.
Chief Justice-E II. Engllsh.
Associate Justices Wm. VI. Harrison and
David Walker.
Congressman, 1st DI-nlct-L. [. Cause.
JUDICIARY.
Second Circuit Counties OF Mississippi, Gross
Crttrndrn. Poiutsutt, Craishcad, Greene, clay
ton aud Randolph
Circuit Judge l.. l., Mack.
Pros AIT y.-Runus II. Black.
LEGISLAlIE
4sth pi,trict-Couutic- Of Mississippi, JACKSON,
roistsolt aud C.aish,a.d.
state Scuaiur--J y henderson
ErInrscutltiyr-J. Euddie.
COUNTY OFFICER
County Judgc-L l. VI Culism.
SecrlG j. q Driver.
UOHnty Il rk J. X. T. Hale
r-casurer- l. Driver.
surveyor John IL RAINY.
assessor l.. Ward
Coroner 4. W. Lucas.
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Theology in Colorado.
[From the Denver Mirror !

lG rom lhe Denver MHIOf.
Tho report ola sermon by Frc-
mont county preacher is worth re-
peatlng here:
Boys, you'll find this life just
like a game ofseyon-up. You want
to save your tens and look out for
game, an never beg when you hold
a good hand. Also, recollect in the
long run low counts as mach as
high, if it is only "a trump. The
devil has stocked the cards, but iist
play 'cm honest, and when it comes
your deal yer boun' to git a wlnnin'
hand every time, and old split-hooi
will Just hayo to jump the game and
look for q softer snap. Also, II you
happen to turn Jack call it lucky,
but don't forget to remember that
turnIn' Jack is uncertain business
andIl never do to bet on.
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Turf "reminiscences of an Old
Frisco Darkey.

Talk about close time, why, you
chaps don't know what close limo
Is-never seen close time an dead
heats. Now, I'll just tell you bout
a race dat | see once in Frisco an
dat war race you bet. DE rcgu-
lar raein' oh de day war ober an
den it war fifty dollars entrance for
outsiders, do winner in dc fuss heat
to take de pot. Wal, dar war nino
bosses entered for dc race, an dey
war good hosses, too, you jess bet.
De owners drove de hosses dar-
selves, an dar war fun ahead. Dey
war all brought up afore de judges
stan an when everything was set,
tied he sent 'em up de track for to
get start.
"De start war all right, an dey
got de word "go," an go dey did,
you .es' bet. Neck an neck dey
went round dat track, an come IN
neck an neck. Fact. Den de Judge
he call "dead heat" an dey walk
back for sponge and anodder start.
Dis time dey got de word, an ava
doy went again like steam, neck an
neck again, sure, an come in neck
an neck, making anoder dead heat.
Oh course dar want any bettin',
case dar want muffin, nor no hoss
to bet on. Dey all seem jes' alike.
Wal, doy war sponge off, an do
Judge sent 'em back again for de
third start. 1t was jes' dc same as
before, an jes' as shuah as dar ever
war hoss in dis yer world, dem
hosscs run eight dead heats dat
same way"
"Nonsense," said several Of the
more intelligent'lis listeners.
Fact, shuah, replied tho nara
Tor soborly. Wal, do people an
do judge war gettln' tired ,ob dat
sort OBJ thing an dc Judge he say
dath he send 'em off again for do
las time, an if it war anodder dead
heat dat each hoss take his stake
an go homo. Wal, dey get annod-
der good scnd-otr all togcdder, jess
de same as before, an away dey
scooted for de quarter stretch, KEEP
ing close togcdder all do while, jes'
de same at dc halt-mile pole-jes'
de same comm dawn on the home
stretch, ar cbory.body say dat it
would be anodder dead heat. Each
hoss war doin' his yaller darndest,
an jcs' as dey got near dc judges
stan, an war about to go under dc
wire, one man he jabbed a pin into
his hoss, an it made him stick his
tongue out bout half yard, SO do
Judge he say dat dat hoss he win do
race by halt a tongue. Now, how
am dat for close ?"-Exchange.
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alter he mas completed its circle,
and IT will never again pass through
the same portion of space, but
make his second revolution IN an
other part of the universe, where
new material-comets and stray
worlds-wlll be within his reach.
In all these wide-reachlng wan
derings, we shall ever be, as IT
were, at the suns side. Even now
we are, FL unconciously, making
with him each year n journey of
thirty-three millions of miles as he
travels around the great unknown
center Of his mighty system.
From all this it will be seen
that the sun is constantly increas-
ing in size, and therefore increas-
ing his attractive power, so that in
time he may have power sufficient
to draw our world and all the 9th
or worlds of our family INTO him
self, and We be melted down TO be.
come part OF the sun.
The burning OF our world is ex-
pressly predicted in the sacred
scriptures whore it is declared that
the elements shall melt with fer
heat, and the earth also, and the
works that are therein shall be
burned up r. Petcr.] 'Ths sum-,
it is also predicted, shall become
as sackcloth-i. c., black-and the
moon as blood We know that
this has been the fate Of other suns
that are now dark-vlsaged wander
crs in the abyssos of space, their
light forever gone out. Philosophy,
then, as well as revelation, teaches
us that this may be, the fate of our
own sun. Such, then, is this Won
drous body, the sun. A molten or
whito-hot mass eight hundred and
fitty-six thousand miles in diameter,
cqualing in bulk one million two
hundred and sixty thousand worlds
like our own, having surrounding
ocean OF gas on fire fifty Thousand
miles deep, tongues of flame darting
upward more than fifty thousand
miles; volcanic forces that hurl in
to the solar atmosphere luminous
matter TO the hight Of one hundred
and sixty thousand miles drawing
to itself all the worlds belonging
to our family of planets, and hold
ing them all in proper place at
tracing with such superior force
the millions of solid and stray mass
es that are wandering in the faith
omless abyss, that they rush help
lessly toward him and fall into his
fiery embrace. And thus he con
tinucs his sublime and reslstlcss
march through his mighty orbit,
having a period of more than eight
cen millions of years.
How awfulIy grand is all this
How sublime the operation of these
tremendous forces! How insignifi-
cant appear men and all their petty
affairs How overpowcrihgly great
that Omnipotent Berg, who Great
ed all these vast worlds, and gave
birth to these mighty forces, and
who holds them all in HIS hands so
that they are all obedient to His
will,
1t is tremendous thought that
we too are all in the same hands !;
that we too are all Ills subjects,
and cvermore must SO remain and
wiling or unwilling, must at some
time give TO him an account of all
done by us IN this lower world.
How presnmptuoss and madly un-
wise is all wrong doing!
The wise man will not forget
this, but will carry this thought IN.
to all the business relations OF this
brief life, ever remembering that
from the future there is no escape.
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Said colored Georgia preach
er: 'Dars robin and stealin' all
around. bar's de Bcecher business,
de Woodruff business, Sumner Is
dead, tornadoes come whooping
around, de Freedman's bank has
busted, and it pears as il the end
was nigh, mighty clus at hand
Worth knowing Newly ordain.
ed deacon: Il suppose you gener-
ally make longer coats for men who
hold extreme viewsY Clerical taxi
or Well, sir, they do generally
prefer a long coat but with that
coat, | assure you you may hold
any views you like.
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1t is respectfully suggested to
the young man who goes by this
Office without any vest that the lit
tie tag at the bottom of the shirt
bosom is not intended to wear Il
ioeket in. OF course in tree
country man has a right to wear
. locket there, but the usagcs OF
polite society do not encourage it.
On some accounts it is better to
keep that portion of the garment
out Of 7lght.-[Chicago Tribune.
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" s'' 'a"'s t'ss'1psaiy u'auYv'sI
forblds the Prince Imperisl, a penn;less
Young gentleman nineteen wear old. and
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-12

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The Right Kind of a Candidate.

Hon. Lafayette S. Foster, Of Connect
cut, will be remembered as formerly q
Republican United States senator from
that state, and Republican president pro
tenn, of the United States senate. He is
now the Democratic candidate for congress:
in the Third district, in Connecticut land in
his letter of acceptance he says:
My own ideas, very briefly expressed
are as follows: | believe that the functions
OF government should be limited to few
simple purposes, the first and most impor
tant OF which is to secure protection, jus
tice, and equal rights to all, irrespective Of
race, color, or opinion. Under our politi
cal organization, as a nation, believe
these ends can be best secured by an alb
stinence u the greatest public extern,
Gu the part of the central or Federal gov,
ernment from all intermeddling with
local selt-governulent by the peo-
pie. | believe in limited taxation, and
that the Federal Government should in
duce economy aud public integrity by lim
lting not charging its functions; never at
tempting TO do for the people what they
are willing and better able to do for them
selves. Think the best interests of our
country call loudly for change in the pc
Icy of the National administration. The
best interests of good government demand
it, Whether change into the hands Of
another political organization will give u'
a better policy, will be affirmed by some
and denied by others. | have faith that
such change will be beneficial. What
look for and pray for most Of all 10 that
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-12

THE ARGUS was the first paper in the
United States to bring out Hon. s. s. Cox,
of New York, for speaker, giving, at length,
such reasons for his election that the arti.
Gle was widely copied and Endorsed by
many leading Democratic papers through
out the country. Having, for the future
benefit Of the Independents and Democrats,
taken so much interest in the election OF
Mr.. Cox,it is gratifying to find Republican
papers agreeing with us. The following is
an editorial from the Davenport Gazette Of
the 18th inst.
The st. Louis Republicans warm politi
cal friend of Hon. s. s. Cox, of New York
undertakes task for which it is evidently
disqualified through deficiency of fact.
and figures" to elucidate, of explaining
how Mr.. Cox secured, many years ago, the
still close-clinging title of Sunset Cox. ,
But that is matter of little Importance t.
the public, while the name of Sam Cox
is familiar to political people as a house
hold word. He has had prominence fol
years in his own party, but was never more
prominently before the public than from
the present connection of his name witt
the speakership OF the house of the mex
congress. HIS party will have the major
ity in that body, and of course elect ;
speaker from among their own house lead
ers. If Mr.. Cox be not selected for the
place, one requiring peculiar abilities and
OF personal immense responsibilities, his
party will in our opinion make a grievous
mistake, more especially if the choice, miss
ing him should fall ON Fernando Wood
With the exception of ex-Speaker Blaine
no man in the next house is a better par
liamentary tactician than MIR. Cox, or bet.
ter acquainted with the rules governing
such a body. No man could be more
adroit in using this knowledge to the ad
vantage of his party, than Mr.. Cox. Will,
this is an objection to him with politica
opponents, it will recommend him to hi
party friends. But we trust if Mr. Cox b.
elected to this position he will drop tn,
partisan in the speaker. No man has bet
ter deserved the honor than he from the
hands OF his own party, nor do we believ,
any selection would be more acceptable t,
the Republican members.
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%7he Daily Argus Is delivered in any
part of the City, at t,oentu cents per toeek,
or eighty cents q month. By mail $40 a
year:
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MT. Potter tells how Henuepin was
Killed.

Our canal was tackled upon the river
and harbor bill in the senate, and passed.
There had to be conference committee
between the two houses. The speaker
named P. Sawyer, of Wisconsin, E. o.
Stanard, of Missouri, and A. Fl. Willie, of
Texas, on the part Of the house while on
the part Of the senate, Zach Chandler, of
Michigan, VIM. Window, Of Minnesota,
and George r. Dennis, Of Maryland were
named as the committee. Mr.. Potter. of
the Davenport Gazette, who was one Of
the lobby committee, writes letter to that
paper from Washington, in which he says ::
sat first the friends of the Hennepin
canal were more than satisfied with the
committees, as Mr.. Sawyer had made
great pretences of friendship for the canal,
and Senator Dennis had voted for it on the
call of the yeas and nays while Mr.. Stan
ard and Err. Window, of the respective
committees, were known to be uudoubting.
" loyal But regret to say that Sawyer
went back" on all his professions, having
evidently determined to slaughter Henne-
pin, either in selfish fear for the safety of
the bill or because he felt secure of the
appropriations for his own pet project, the
Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and could safely
put his foot on the only valuable plan for
connecting the Mississippi with the lakes
Certain il is that he sold us out and was
enabled to carry off Dennis with him in his
treachery TO our canal. Old Zach Uhand-
Ter, whom Michigan has properly repudia
ted, signed the conference report On the
part Of the senate. and Mr.. Stanard, find.
ing Sawyer and Willie determined, reluc.
family united with them. Mr.. Window,
indignant at the sacrifice of the best cheap
transportation scheme in the lot, refused
to sign the report. And so the Hennepin
canal went to the block for want of one
more true man, on either the senate or
house committee.
80 near were the friends Of our project
to triumph in the campaign that has jus
closed. Very few, l imagine, have at any
time believed that victory would thus b,
brought almost within grasp and for tn,
failure to achieve complete success d.
not know where can lay any blame, ex
cept upon the gentlemen who failed t,
stand up to their avowed opinions, on tn,
conference committee. They have de
prived the grain growers of the northwes
of their only hope of cheap transport across
Illinois; they have disappointed tho hope
of the myriad friends of this importan
project"
Here was Republican committee, will
a Republican house and Republican sen
ate to back them, and they deliberatel!
slaughtered our canal bill, Neither Haw
ley, or our senators, or our committee hao
influence or tact enough to save it. Las
fail the Gazette, as well as the Republican
papers in this district, Dragged that tn
Republicans had the power to pass thi
bill, and they must do it in order to saw
their party in this region of tbs west. In
stead of doing it they have killed it,
What ought to become of their party, i
such case? We reckon we shall hear, 4
more of their ability to pass that or an
other bill.
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