The Osceola times., 1876-04-15

of the Eckford Base Ball Club to meet
last night and reo-ganize.
If you can't subscribe for your
county paper. get an ''insider' to place
you on the pauper list.
Reader, are you an osf5ider You
are? Know, then, that you have no
rights which scrip speculator is bound
to respect.
-"Big. long-legged man don't al
ways sometimes get ahead oflittle boy"
is Chinese for the race is not always to
the swift"
Mr.. A. T. Stewart, the princely
merchant Of New York, died lest week.
We have not learned whether he left
US anything in his will or not, but we
expect nought.
We often hear married men say
they care too poor to take their county
paper" Why don't the grand jury in.
dict them for obtaining a family under
false pretenses?
Our new mayor, Mr.. ]. IL. Dr.
YER, has set q good example in the way
of a plank walk in front of his resi-.
dence. We want more Of them who
will follow suit, and assist the corpora
ton!
In answer to the call for the con-
vention of the editors and publishers Of
the state, to meet at Searcy on the 9TH
day of June, the secretary, brother
Jacob Frolich, may put us down "pres-
ent, or accounted for"
Mr.. John Lovewell still wears the
horns as the successful hunter. Last
Saturday he succeeded in bringing
down 4 fine buck, and on Tuesday
morning he did the same to fine tur-
key gobbler, which weighed over 10
pounds. OF course we were invited
out to dinner.
Having occasion to pass the grave
yard a day or two since, we were
struck with its dilapidsted condition.
A small donation taken up by subscrip-
ton would put a neat board fence
around it, and We are satisfied every
one who has friends or relations inter-
red therein would not withhold the pal
try sum it would require to do this. 1t
is a shame to leave our dead in such
condition. Will some one interest him.
self or herself in this matter and attend
to iti
Spring was ushered in this week
with two or three slight unpleasant
uesses," one the result on the part of
one of the be.ligerents Of well devel-
oped case Of accumulation of county
scrip )" another was the result of "too
much chin-music" applied to the car of
female, and the third, we were un-
able to learn the cause, but are pleased
to say that everything has been AMIGA
bly, adjusted and no blood shed, which
is an improvement on past spring open
ings.
From private letter from Mr.. ].
W. Rhodes, we are informed that he
has purchased the interest Of Messrs.
Mason & Williamson, at Golden's Lake
P. o., better known as Crowell's land
ing. The style of the present firm is
y. W. NHOuCs y W. Out WHO tHc w.
is, he does not inform US, but we are in
clined to suspect that the copartner-
ship when it deer take place will ey-
tend until time is no more. Success to
you, Joe.
A small child of Capt. H. M. Nc
Weighs came near drowning last Sum-
day at the crossing in front of Messrs.
Smith 4 Burns store. 1t fell off the
sidewalk into the mud hole, which is
some two or three feet deep, and not
withstanding the fact that two hale and
hearty men were standing within few
feet Of the child when the accident oc-
Cured, its mother, Mrs. McVeigh, had
to run from her residence and rescue it
from its perilous predicament. She
ought to have padded those two fel-
lows good. They richly deserved it.