The Osceola times., 1876-04-15
TIMELY TOPICS.

IAL L vi lCC.
''h Z" hmense shower of flies which fell
on 're snow Of Ontario last month is sup
Pos''d to have originated in the same way
as the kentucky fall of meat. These
HES are said to he about three times as
large as the ordinary mosquitoes, and are
rhoIght TO have been waited from the
West Indies, 1t is probably the first
time that Aolus ever undertook to
whistle Shoe Fly.
FROM the effects of the sultan's pccu-
liar financial policy, the Turkish treasury
has been so thoroughly exhausted that
the government has not been able even
TO furnish hospital supplies for the troops
operating against the rebels in IIerzego-
vinia. The mortality in consequence has
been terrific. A surgeon in the service
reports that the losses of the force in the
field, mainly from disease imperiectly
treated, have not been less than 10000
men.
The people of Georgia do not believe
in newspaper quar-els. The grand jury
OF Polk county, at its recent session,
made the following report to the court
after returning several indictments:
awe also feel it our duty TO censure the
course and conduct of our two newspa-
pers toward each other, and urgently re-
quest the two editors TO cease wrangling
about themselves and branch off into
agricultural articles, or Others that will
tend 10 develop the interests and welfare
of our country"
TIE religious press of Europe are re-
joicing over news that the Turks have
permitted the Christians to place bells in
the church of the Holy Sepulchreat Jcru-
salem, recalling the fact that no bells
have been heard in that church since the
great Saladin entered the city in 1877.
For several centuries past the use of
church bellshas been prescribed throur'a
out the Ottoman empire, on the gr' .ur 4
that they afforded an easy means cf arous
ing and exciting the people fox rcvolu.
tionary purposes.
Col. JoHN II. SyToNr,. the newly
elected governor OF Mississippi, wa.
born IN hende' son county, Tennessee
when the VIZ broke out he was living
at luka, NJ ,ssissippi, and went from that
place as captain of the Iuka Guards. II,
distinguished himself at the first battle
OF Manassas, became colonel of the second
Mississippi regiment, and served with i,
throughout the Virginia campaigns
After the war he was chosen treasurer o
Tishomingo county, and was subsequent
ly elected state senator, which position
he has held for six years.
THE Lendon Times has an editorial
on the subject of the adventures o
the survivors of the emigrant shiy
Stratnmore, which concludes as follows
"The vessel which at length arrived Il
rescue them was IA United States whalcr
Vn her course to the South Sea fisheries
Her captain, we are told, gave up tn,
chance of the vessels profit for the sake
of the poor creatures he found at Crozett's
and who needed an amount of care they
could not have received if he had taken
them with him. We are sure the Eng
lish nation will judge as il deser YES tn,
sacrifice to which Capt. Clifford sub
mittcd, and will not tail to do honor
and something more t!.Ian ba.e honor, L
the deed and to the man.
A REMARKh .8LE case was decided il
the New York supreme court recently
Josephine Ash brought suit, through he
gnar'.ian, against Henry Astor, one G
the well known Astor family, for 500, 90
damages for assault, alleging that, i
1869, Astor violently pushed plaintiff
then only four years old, from a chail
causing such internal injuries as to Grip
plebe for life. Her father testified tina
the girls backbone was around her hip
and that she was compelled to go aroun
the house on all fours; and that she
now unable TO walk or care for herself i
any way; and that Mr.. Astor made hil
r.romise not TO tell anybody, saying b
would put 5000 in the bank for tn
child, which he never did. The jur
found verdict for plaintiff for the fu
amount claimed, and the court adde
81 200 for costs.
MANUFACTURERS THE SCALPS q
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