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The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
FOREIGN.

Bismarck is still vry i'll.
Half a million dohrs will be required
to put the Panama rai'oad in good running
condition.
The European govrnments are rescrv-
ing replies to the Aierican note on the
Cuban question until they can exchange
views.
Ayices from the dy of Mexico, Jan
uary 18th, say that fur hundred soldiers
have been sent to r;nforcc the Mexican
troops on the Rio Grade.
OF the 406 deputies elected to the
Spanish congress, 3Giarc ministeralists, 10
are clericals, contonlist, and (Senor Gas
telar) a moderate republican.
Havana journals asert that the Cuban
sugar crop will certairy he thirty per cent.
less than last year. hey also consider the
coming tobacco crop Nuelta Abajo almost
totally destroyed, owU to the drouth.
The French scnat will include TWEEN
ty-two radicals, siNteei irreconciable Bona.
partists seventy FusiUists Legitimists and
Orlcansts, i. e., Ministriaists, and fourteen
Ultra Lecitimists. Tbs estimate includes
life senators already clrted.
A Bonapartist association, styled the
conservative national onventon, has issued
a manifesto announciG that they will sup
port MacMahon untlthe expiration of his
term, in 1883. They will then demand that
an appeal to the poole he made for deter.
mining the future fom OF government for
France.
Letters from Lima, announcing the
complete destruction 4 the town of Abanca
by an earthquake onthe ith Of December,
state that between 4 y m of the ith and 9 a.
m. of the 9TH no les than 81 earthquakes
occurred, several of Which were very severe.
Details are meager nd the extent of the
loss of life is not reported.
A special dispath reviewing Gam
bettaS speech delivered in private at AK,
says the speech will iorce itself on the at.
tention of all FrancL 1t is essentially an
appeal for cancellation and the programme
OF the moderate republicans. In the speech
Gambetta says: "W do not want monop.
oily. They are too anxious to repair the
losses of France to oclude any Freuchmen
from the task of raisiIg up the country
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
Loss of the steamer Dante.

Another great maritime disaster has
occurred in st. Georges channel, involv-
ing a loss of no fewer than twenty one
lives. The steamer Dante, owned by
Messrs. Glover Brothers, Of London,
sailed from Liverpool on a voyage to
Bombay, with crew of twenty-seven
hands, all told, and two other persons;
who were either passengers or the doctor
and dpurser. She was under the command
of Captain Buchanan, and her Liverpool
agents were Messrs. Stoddard Brothers,
of Water street. About midnight she
had passed the Smalls, and was between
that point and the Tuskar light The
watches were being changed, when the
red light of an approaching vessel was
seen approaching TO starboard. The
night was dark and cloudy, and there
was strong breeze from the southwest
with good sea on, The helm of the
steamer was ported, but in short time
she was run into by the vessel, which
proved TO be the Norwegian bark, Grons-
vair, bound for Liverpool. The Dante
was struck amidships, on the port side ,
and such was the force of the shock that
she sank seven minutes afterward. The
chief officer and three men clambered on
to the bows of the bark. and the Others
were either carried down with the steam
er, or were left struggling in the water.
The second engineer was picked up four
hours afterwards, iioatingon aspar. The
captain, chief engineer and fireman
were discovered clinging to life-boat OF
the Dante after eight hours immersion.
All these men were taken on board the
bark, which put out boats to search
The survivors were brought To Liverpool
The Gronsvair was injured but slightly
having her cutwater and bows partially
stove in. Some of the survivors were
taken to the soldiers home, Liverpool
where their wants were attended to
The Dante was a vessel Of ,743 tons, anc
IL 300 horsepower and was built II
1874 by J. Softly 4 Co. She was valued
at e35.O and the value of her carg'
was between eighty and one hundre'
thousand pounds.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
Ice Prospects.

SO far this winter no ice has been gath
cred along the Hudson river, and as the
season has advanced considerably, with
continued unfavorable weather, the pros
poets for full crop are considered poor.
The season for storing ice generally com
mences about the end of December and
ends when the houses are filled, early in
February. All the large ice companies
and dealers were about to commence the
harvest at the usual time this season,
when The mild weather came and de
stroyed the ice which had formed up to
that time.
There are probably from 5000 to 5000
men along the Hudson waiting for the
work of gathering ice, and considerable
suffering is reported among some of
them. The ice dealers of this city have
on hand a considerable quantity and in
the poorest season manage to obtain a
good supply, although obliged to secure
il from remote points.
The ice business has gone up from
small beginnings to he one of the largest
minor industries OF the country. Ii
employs capital of over S2O, ,O0O,O 900,
and the aggregate sales of ice are more
than $30, ,OO0,OOO Forty years ago the
capital invested was less than 800 600,
and the aggregate sales not more than
$4,000.
Over one hundred thousand tons are,
exported to southern cities and foreign
countries As many persons are aware,
the ice.houscs are huge buildings, from
one to two hundred feet in width and
from two hundred to four hundred feet
in length, generally of wood, though
sometimes of brick, with double, triple,
quardruple walls, the interstices packed
with some non conducting substance,
such as spent tan bark, saw. dust, etc,
with doors closing tightly on each floor,
hut no windows, and with incline planes
movable and adapted to each story,
without rs well as within, and in the
case of the larger houses a steam elevator
is employed to drag the blocks up the
inclined planes and lower them on the
inside. During the harvest season the
work of gathering ice is pushed vigor-
ously, and at some of the large ice-houses
GOO tons are harvested in an hour
llbdHy ErcniRg ,Jormdi.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
NUMBER 40.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
We know all about shooting stars, but
often forget that the earth is a revolver.

We know all about shooting stars, but
often forget that the earth is revolver.
FLIES cause one-fifth of all the pro-
family in this world. This is the opinion
of bald-headed man.
"WILL you have me, Sarah ?" said a
young man to modest girl. No,
john" said she; "but you may have
me, if you will"
The Chicago Tines is willing to for
give JEFF. Davis for Andersonville, but
can never forget that he was once an
insurance man.
"Go OUT, young man; she's not here"
said Pennsylvania preacher, the other
Sunday, in the midst of his sermon, to a
youth who he saw standing hcsitatingly
in the doorway.
"SEEMs to me as though all rich men
were made and set up in business afore
my time" was the remark of sad-eyed
man, and then. with deep sigh, he
added: "Thcre's no use'n tryin'.
Nothin's left for feller nowadays 'cept
to start monument fund and be treas
urer of it,"
The most wretched being this season
is the man with an Ulster overcoat. He
had not counted on mild winter, and
the tare thought OF how he is to get the
wear out Of that coat makes him burst
into another perspiration and look more
like stage driver than ever.
PRAYER is the rustling of the wings
of the angels that are on their way bring
ing us the boons Of heaven. Even a.
cloud foreshadoweth rain, no prayer fore
shadoweth the blessing even as the
green blade is the beginning of the har-
vest, 80 is prayer the prophecy of the
blessing that is about to come.-Spur-
geon.
SEVERAL years ago a noted highway
man was arrested in the south of Ireland
and curiosity drew numbers to the Jail
to see the man loaded with irons who
had long been a terror to the country.
Among others was banker, whose notes
at that time were not held in the highest
estimation, who assured the prisoner
that he was very glad to zee him there
at last. The highwayman, looking up,
replied: "Ah, sir, did not expect that
from you indeed, ! did not, for you
know well that when all the country re-
fused your notes, took them"
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
uINCELuANEOuS.

Moody and Sanhy, in eighteen sun
day meetings held in Philadelphia, addressed
225,000 persons, or al average of Il, 500 at
each meeting.
The officers of the direct cable com
pany in New York nnounce their cable
broke again about ole hundred and fifty
miles from Torbey, Nca Scotia.
The bulletin of the American iron
and steel association contains detailed
statement showing thatthe production of pig
iron in the United States in 1875 was about
2,l00,ooo net tons, falling of Of about 600
600 tons as compared with the production in
1874. The stock on hand aud unsold at the
close of 1875, including the stock in the
hands of agents, aggregated about 100000
net tons, against 100000 tons year ago.
The consumption in 1875 was less than it was
in any wear since 1871.
The San Francisco Alta of the 3d inst.
says: During the year 1873 the rail
brought us 74,772 persons, and took away
29,S35, leaving q gain Of 4i,937. The sea
brought 3S,s27, took away l2,592, leaving
q ,235, total gain of 69,l72. One hundred
and eighty thousand five hundred and nine.
ty-nine arrivals in one year indicate Ger.
taiuly growing interest in the Pacific states
and territories, particularly in California, for
she retains the most Of them. The net gain
to our population by excess of arrivals over
departures has been, during the past SIX
years, 2l2, 702 persons. Should we ever have
an enumeration Of our population-whicf
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
The Cotton Tax and Mississippi Levees.

In letter to General Cyrus Bussey,
president of the New Orleans chamber of
commerce, congressman Morey, speaking
of the cotton tax collected by the govern
ment, says :" If the chamber OF COM
merce would approve the idea, ] suggest
that they pass appropriate resolutions
asking the senator's and representatives
from the state to support measure
looking to the setting aside Of the pro-
ceeds of the cotton tax collected in the
states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkan-
sas, Tennessee and Missouri as fund for
the reclamation Of the alluvial basin of
the Mississippi river. venture to say
that the prospect of the cotton tax being
refunded to those who paid the tax is de
cidedly slim. The objection that the
money would go into the hands OF others
than producers, the question of the par
ticipation therein of the laborer who was
interested by virtue of having planted on
shares, and had the tax deducted from
his share, the suspicion of jobbery that
has attached and will attach in future to
all attempts to have this tax refunded,
are reasons that will be pleaded, and, as
think, successfully, to prevent the pas
sage of any measure Of that kind"
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
LATEST NEWS.
SOCTIu AND WNT.

The annual death-rate New Orleans
of negroes is double that of 'hites.
Forty-thrce carloads iron for the
extension of the TRANSIT Connental railway
have just been received at,herman, Texas.
Bob Hatton," the Irmium hog OF
Wilson county, Tenn, we'hs eleven hun
dred and forty pounds, anGs by no means
fat.
Work is to commence 1t once on the
forty mile gap between Lite Rock and Pine
Bluff, on the Little Rocl Pine Bluff and
New Orleans railread.
Augustan, a negro, the man who
assassinated ex Senator 0utt, of st. Iaun-
dry parish, Louisiana. he murderer was
pursued into a swamp, bu'will probably be
captured.
The new census of Txas shows that
the state has apopulatonoi about one mil
as compared with pspultion Of eight hun.
dred and eighteen thouind five hundred
and nineteen IN 1870.
Californias wine pduct in 1878
stated at eight millions oGallons. The sup-
ply is greater than the dmand. The makers
have, in convention, decled that two-thirds
Of it might be proftablynade into brandy if
the government would rduce the tax.
Sioux Indians, undo Sitting Bull, at
tackled white party ear Fort Pease, on
Yellowstone river, Janary I'd, killing one
man and wounding five, hsides cutting ofi an.
other party of nine me. The Indians are
several hundred strong, nd twas feared the
entire garrison would I massacred unless
speedily assisted.
Captain Eads, in accent report, says
that there are only onohundred more mat.
tresses to be laid to sng the jetties up to
low-tide level, and to otain twenty feet of
water on the bar; that yer a million cubic
yards of earth or depos have already been
eScavated from the baretween the jetties,
and that two million moe yards will increase
the depth to over twcnt feet.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05

not exceeding four pounds for each package,
and that the postage thereon shall be one
cent for every two ounces or fraction thereof.
After discussion the bill was passed without
division. The house then went into commit.
tee Of the whole on the military academy
appropriation bill, which appropriates 1891, :
2il. Without action on the bill the house
adjourned.
In the house, on the 9th, n question
of privilege was raised by Mr.. Dunnell in
reference to some remarks made by Mr.
Whyte, of Kentucky, some days ago, which
were regarded Ms offensive to Mr.. dams,
clerk OF the house, and which MIR. Whyte
at the time had agreed to expunge from the
report Of his speech in the congressional
record. After discussion, Mr.. lioar objected
to any further alteration Of the record, and
there the matter ended. Much time was
wasted in discussing amendments to the bill
providing penalties for the sending Of oh
scene literature through the mails, and the
bill was finally reconmtted. The house then
went into committee of the whole on the
military academy appropriation bill, and
soon after adjourned
In the house, on the 2Sth, Mr.. Elkins
presented a memorial of the territorial legis-
lature for an enabling act and admission Of
New Mexico as a state. Referred Mr.
Goodin asked leave to offer resolution
declaring that the people of the United States
constitute nation 10 the extent aud for the
purposes defined in the federal constitution ;
that the rights and powers OF the United
States government are defined and limited by
the federal constitution, and cannot be en-
larged or diminished except by amendments
to the constitution. Mr.. Hamilton and others
objected. Mr.. Springer introduced bills to
prohibit American citizens from holding
slaves in foreign countries, and to regulate
elections in Utah territory. Referred. Mr..
Hunton from the committee ON revolutionary
pensions, reported bill to amend an act of
lIth Of February, 1871, pensioning soldiers
Of 1872, and To restore to the pension rolls
those persons whose names were stricken
therefrom in consequence of disloyslty. Re
ferrcd. Mr.. Barnum offered resolutions for
the appointment of committee to take
order for experimenting the funeral of Mr..
II. H. Starkweather, late member from Con
necticut, and that his remains be removed to
Norwalk, Conn, under the charge of the
sargeant-at-arms and attended by the com
mittee, and that as an additional mark Of
respect the house do now adjourn. The res
olutons were agreed to, and the house
adjourned.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05

The AVERAGE HERO OF A WoMAN's
NovEL.-W. w. Story, in his last chap
ter of "In Studio" makes one of his
conversationalists discourse as follows on
the average hero of woman "Do
women like brutal men! They are GER
tainly fond of drawing them in their nov
els, They generally either give us as their
hero consumptive clergyman, devoted
to the poor, and constantly investigating
slums, and getting "A typhus fever in con-
sequence or a fellow with brutal man.
ners, large muscles, and an infinitely ten
der heart, which he displays in the most
peculiar and unexpected moments. 1t
would seem as If, by contrast to their own
natures, they preferred touch Of brutal
rty and violence in our sex. If they do
not take to this, they go in for the Lara
and Conrad style-a melancholy creature,
who has suffered terribly, who loves to
skulk in the shadows, who avoids society,
and cultivates his wounded heart"
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
Camcron's March Across Africa.

MADEIRA correspondence Of the London
Telegraph gives further details respect
ing Lieut.. Cameron's expedition. The
gallant explorer, in traversing the
breadth of the entire continent, from
Zanzibar to Angola, met on the whole
with favorable reception from
the natives. He reached Benguella
ON the 9TH and Loandaon the 10Th
of November, with fifty-seven ease
coast men. all in good health. 1t
was Cameron's intention to remain at
Loanda until AN opportunity arrived for
sending his men home around by the
Cape to the east coast. OF course, the
especial interest attaching to his mission
is the great question of the connection of
the Congo with the great eastern lakes.
II appears that he followed large river
flowing out of Lake Tanganyika in a
southwester'y direction, tracing its
whole course till he came upon new
lake, which he named Livingstone" p"
From this body OF water a second large
river runs westward, which the lieuten-
ant, having traced it for a considerable
part of its length, believes to be the
Congo. 1t would seem that he was una
BILE to continue along the river on ac-
count of meeting a tribe of hostile ma
tiyes. He had TO choose between fight
ing his way through these unfriendly
tribes. with the risk of losing all his
journals and papers, or of taking differ
ent direction. The latter alternative
seemed preferable, and though it PREF
vented the absolute verifcation of his
important discovery, he has personally
no doubt that the stream flowing out Of
Livingstone Lake and Congo are one
and the same.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05

lr is asserted that the Sultan of
Turkey is much more intent on building
a grand mosque that is to perpetuate his
name than defending his empire from
the attacks made on it. Although
mcnaced with the greatest dangers, he
can scarcely be induced to attend to any
thing but dancing girls and professions
to the mosques. He was originally a
man of fair capacity, but is now so far
gone in dissipation, it is said, as to be
seemingly incapable of striking blow
for his honor and kingdom.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
IDejaxet.

French papers overflow with anecdotes
respecting the lamented and popular
Delazet. She was great admirer of
the first Napoleon, and when she heard Of
the second marriage Of Marie Louise she
exclaimed, Indignantly: " How could
she If that great hero had ever SO
much as kissed my hand never should
have washed it again !"
Once, when she was at Caen, she took
fancy to visit the market on market
day. There, among the noisy pdysannes,
who were crying their wares and disput-
ing the prices thereof in their loudest
tones, she noticed one who was the most
active and popular of them all, and whose
face seemed strangely familiar. Dejazet
was about to approach her, when the bell
of the market sounded the signal for
closing. The market-woman climbed
into her cart, whipped up her horse, and
disappeared. Her face, however, haunted
the actress so persistently that, finding
out that she occupied small farm not
far from Caen, Dejazet resolved to pay
her visit On arriving at the farm,
she found its proprietress in the act of
peelng carrots for soup. On beholding
Deazet she started to her feet with
shrek, and carrots, knife, and ALL went
rolling on the ground.
"Virginie she cried
Theodore !" exclaimed her visitor,
who in the market-woman recognized
one of the former stars of the Gymnase,
the beautiful and gifted Madame Theo-
dorc, who, wearied of her profession and
its triumphs, had ten years before quilted
the stage and disappeared from Paris.
The two former comrades embraced each
other warmly. Drawing Dejazet into
her little parior, she pointed out to her
the wreaths of silver and of gilded
laurels that hung against the wall the
sole remaining relic Of brief and bril-
liant career
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
FROM wAsHuNGTON.

The investigation of the Alaska Com
mercial company will result it is said, in an.
nulling the existing contract and leave the
secretary of the treasury free to advertise
for new proposals. The Alaska purchase
cost the government, at currency rates, sio'-
O0O00O, for which less than three per cent
interest is obtained in the letting of the seal
fisheries. Responsible parties are willing To
pay,six per cent on the amount invested for
the privilege of taking seals on the islands of
St Paul and St. George.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
k.AN.

The Philadelphia oal exchange has
decided, in consequene Of glut in the
market, to stop all ming from the eth of
February to the llth o March, inclusive.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05

DURING leap year the girl who counts
all the gray horses she sees, until she
has got up to a hundred, will be married
within a year, to the first gentleman
with whom she shakes hands after count
ing the one hundredth horse.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05
TIMELY TOPICS.

lHE Dutch war in Acheen is still Ian.
gushing a fresh lot of from 1000
10 100 troops are 10 he cent from Java,
ana after thier arrival operations will be
renewed, with the view OF subugating
The enemy, if possible.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05

A RECENT visitor to the Dismal swamp
describes it, in Forest and Stream, as
having lost none of the characteristics
which gave it its name. Bears are not
50 plenty there as when the region was
rarely penetrated by man, yet they still
afford sport for hunters. Lake Drum
mond, once believed by the ignorant to
be bottomless is really not in any place
more than fifteen feet deep. Its water
impregnated with the juices of juniper
and gum leaves, is of the color of wine
and is drunk as remedy by consump-
tives.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05

The success of the new harmonic
system of multiplex telegraphy "A
charmingly simple name, by the way
cNcites the suspicion that our knowledge
of the powers and uses of electricity is
merely in its infancy. 1t suggests, more
over, an immediate application of the
fluid in a manner which will benefit inn
mensely all those large cities and towns
Of the country which are gifted with
musical taste. If the telegraphic appa-
ratus can be SO constructed rs to produce
notes 1t would seem an easy matter to
connect an operate company or Thomas
orchestra by wire with every town which
has telegraphc facilities, and make one
concert answer for all. 1t would be a
great saving to the performers. and the
wholesale character of the w rformance
would undoubtedly cheaper it consider
ably.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05

THE country is being flooded with
pamphlets opposed to the Tom Scott
subsidy for the Southern Pacific rail
road. These bear no imprint of the
office of publication, but the stockholders
of the Union Pacific will probably find
big printing bill in their next treasurer's
Tcport
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05

THE following is a statement of United
States currency outstanding at the end of
the year 1878:
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05

Mrs. A. NJ. WooD, eldest daughter
of the late President Zachary Taylor,
died at Freiburg Germany, aged 65.
She was the widow of Gen. B. c. Wood,
United States army, and mother of Capt.
John T. Wood, one of the most distin-
guished officers of the Confederate navy.
Her death leaves but two surviving
children of President Taylor-Mrs. Bet
tie T. cambridge, formerly Mrs Bliss,
living at Winchester, Va, and Gen.
Richard Taylor, of Louisiana, licuten-
ant general in the Confederate army.
The Osceola times., 1876-02-05

GoErHE in his seventy-eighth year,
said there were three things he desired to
see-a canal connecting the Gulf of
Mexico with the Pacific, another con-
meeting the Rhine and Danube, and,
lastly, the English in possession of
SueA canal. 81 should like to live to
see these great things" said her, "and
iar them it would be worth while to en-
dure another fifty years. The English
came into possession of Suez canal Just
within the half century.