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The Osceola times., 1877-06-30
TIun THREE uORsHMEN.

Three horsemen halted the ian before,
Three horsemen entered the o,Ken door,
And loudly called for the welcom. cheer
That was wont TO greet the traveller here.
A buxon, rosy, porily old dame,
Good woman how's your wine and beer
And how'syouI little daughter dear7"
"My house is ever supplied with cheer.
But my daughter lioth upon her bier"
shadow over the horsemen fell
Each wrapped in thoughts he could never TELL
And silently, one by one they crtpt
10 the darkened room where the maiden slept.
The golden hair was ripping low
Over forehead pure as Snow,
And the little hands so closely pressed,
Clasping cross 10 the pulseless breast.
II loved thee er. the death-chili lay
On thee, sweet child, b" and one turned away;
~ would have loved thee, /" the second said,
"Hadst thou learned to love me, and lived 10 wed.
~ loved thee always. love thee now -
he third one cried as he kissed her brow;
"ln the heavens to come soul shall wed.
have loved thee living, love thee dead"
Then silently out from the osken door,
Three borsemen went TO return no more.
-FfOB hs German.
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galloping after the hounds. But recently
an English lady, who enjoys what is con.
sidered an enviable fame for skill and
daring in riding close to the hounds
and who is also pattern vile and mother
has announced that she will risk her
life no more riding on a side-saddle, but
in the next seaon will ride masculine
fashion. Her announcement has set the
whole fashionable world to talking, since
she is a woman Of spirit, and 1t is believed
she will do as she says. II she does she
will have followers without doubt, and
may be that this will inaugurate the long
expected dress revolution.
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NUMBER l3.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
, me Roscs.

June Roses.
Ths summer bright, the summer fair,
The summer, sweet, serene, discloses
10 all its realm Of riches rare
No other bloom that can compare
With yunes delicious roses.
Springs cloudy days and summer heats
Come when life only sropes and proses
But life II redolent Of sweets
When poetry the spirit grcets
And scatters sweet June roses.
Life's June-what shall We call those hours
In which the SOUL serene, Teposesf
Their bloom di.peliius gloom that lowers,
All these are LIES June roses.
-Cofiage Hsarth.
SHAp have been caught in some of the
rivers Of Ohio, and there is great re-
joicing.
English cockneys talk about the
Roesun harmy hon the Janube, you
kpaw."
RED HOT times may soon be expected
in Sing Sing. The convicts are going to
making stoves.
A CHUNK Of the Giants Causeway,
three feet high and twenty inches thick,
costs $40 delivered at Glasgow.
The mosquito has arrived at the
watering-places. Same old look-same
bite.
New JERSEY is said to offer strangers
better shake Of the ague than Arkan-
sss can ever hope TO turn out.
How Is 1t that most any man can jump
out OF bed on dark night and put his
hand on the Matchbox the first time
trying.
The Cincinnati school board didn't de-
eide TO "repair and erect new building"
though one Of the members proposed It.
THREE New Hampshire men met their
deaths last year by falling ON Pitch-forks.
One can't be too careful about where he
falls these times.
A WOMAN at Elizabeth, New Jersey,
has 1000 receipts for making horse-lini.
ments and salves and yet she never owned
even clothes-horse.
A New York state tramp was throw
ing stones at a train of cars when an en-.
ginc came along and divided him into
sixteen pieces and a bunch OF bones.
THE presidency of a life insurance
company has its s0rrows. 1t takes an
official SO long to count over his salary
that he has no time to go a-fishing.
BosToN isthreatened with new paper,
to be called the New Departure and
Colored Progressive Democrat, and TO be
edited, ss the Post phrases it, by "a col
ored citizen Of Boston.
MANY years ago Mr.. Peter B. Brigham,
OF Boston, made will giving the bulk of
his large property for the emancipation
of slaves. This having become useless,
he made another giving $3, 200, 900 for q
hospital for the sick poor.
WILLIAM GRENALGH, Of Fall River,
Mass, aged twenty-five, wrote to his
mother few evenings ago that he and
his wife were quite well. Two hours
later he died Of a sudden attack of paraly.
sis, and the news waosent M postscrip
to his letter.
A CHARMING young lady OF the
Washoe valley has many admirers. One,
greatly infatuated, and somewhat exas-
perated that he could never seize an OPP
portunity to speak to her alone, at length
proposed to her plumply in the presence
Of one of the enemy. He was accepteft
and, Overjoyed at his success, at
invited the other young man to 1fct a.
groomsman at the wedding, He de-
clined.
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Miss HENDERSON, the daughter Of ex-
Gov. Henderson, of Houston, who, with
her father, was lost for two DAYS in the
woods of Harris county, has died from
the fatigue and suffering of the wander
ings. During the fearful two days and
nights of wandering she was without
food. The buggy in which she and her
paralytic father were riding was over
thrown. She was compelled to abandon
her father until she could obtain aid.
He was discovered by a party of negroes
who went in search OF him.
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-lle Side-Saddle,

ThaV are few taps for the female sex
any md ke deadly tlisn the side-saddle,
and no d e Of ans senstyrieves at the
decay Of he noble art Of horse woman
ship" long as that art cannot be prac-
ticod q kcept at the imminent risk Of the
ladies tioing so. English people are a
voted 'horsemen, and the ladies, as W
as the pen, take the highest me-
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How the Cinnamon Fly Kites.

The Virginia (No.) Enterprise says:
" Yesterday noon the residents OF the
eastern portion of the city were surprised
by the appearance in the heavens OF a
fiery, flying serpent Of immense dimen.
sions. Its head appeared lurid flame,
while its eyes rolled as If in search Of
victims Its motions through the air, IA
IL billowed here and there, were like the
contortions of huge snake. This mon
ster was Chinese kite. Its head was
red paper, with eyes half red and half
white, which rolled a. the wind found
its way through the apertures represent.
ing the sockets. This head-kite was fol
lowed by eighteen others, about eighseez
inches apart, made of tinted paper<ah
long in shape, through the m = r.
which passed .5cs made on
extending "%r.
and sI.a,1.. ,t1r.i.9g2mmissions foM MS
da'ni'i dant sAs lives fntx: ao
anr HMX
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Three horsemen halted the ian before,
Three horsemen entered the oaKen door,
And loudly called for the welcom. cheer
hat was wont TO greet the traveller here.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Gen. Longstreet is hard at work upon
n report of the Gettysburg battle for the
Philadelphia Times. IIe expects to throw a
good deal of light upon the subject.
As a result of the cgarmakers' strike,
manufacturers are negotiating TO get the
business of cigar making away from New
York entirely and transfer it to Cincinnati
and New Haven. These two cities are said
to be foremost in the business
The necessary appliances for the con-
struction of the five locks at Muscle shoals
were shipped from Chicago last week, and
work will be begun immediately upon their
arrival. A gentleman from Chicago will ac'
company the tools and appliances and will
remain on the work.
Ex-Gov. Abner Coburn, of Maine,
| owns $4,000 acres OF land, divided as fol-
lows: Maine, 10000 acres; Canada, 1885,.
| 900; Wisconsin, 5000; Dakota, $1,000
Michigan, 2O,COO; Minnesota, 5000. His
latest purchase is that of a tract in Dakota,
and was taken of the Northern Pacific rail-
road in lieu OF stock, in which road he IN.
vested some $4,000.
Gen. Sherman, who has just returned
| to. Washington from his ien.thousand.mile
tour of inspection Of the frontier service. ex-
presses his opinion Of the Indian troubles as
follows: "For time, at least, our troubles
with the Indians are at an end, but the final
adjustment OF difficulties with the natives
will not be made until the army is Of suifi
cicnt size and strength to hold them IN awe.
There are sufficient officers, but not enough
troops on the frontier. | am not in favor OF
increasing the army" said Gen. Sherman
"but am in favor of increasing the number
of regular troops. can make the army fifty
ner cent. stronger at an additional cost OF
five per cent, by giving to each company its
complete quota of one hundred men. A,
least ten per cent. OF this number, by reason
Of details at headquarters, are kept from ac'
tive duty"
The following is given by Gen. Crook
under date OF the oath: All arrangements
as far as possible, are completed for the re
moval of the Sioux at Spotted Tail and Red
Cloud agencies to their temporary locations
Can't Vessels, with two companies of the
Third.cavalry. and all the Indians of Red
Cloud agency will leave Thursday for place
on the White river in Dakota, about forty
miles from the Missouri river. Capt. DaN.
,ou. with two companies OF the same regi
ment. and the Indians at Spotted Tail agency
will leave there the same day for the Ponca
reservation in the northern part of Nebraska
AT The mouth of the Nebraska river, where
they will remain until spring. The Arrapa
bocs, who are to move to the vicinity of the
Shoshone reservation, are expected TO STAR
the same day. Gen. Crook anticipates NJ
trouble whatever. He says with regard to
tbe abandonment of the frontier posts, tha
Csmps Robinson and Sheridan are the only
nests 10 be abandoned this fall. He think
ihe boys will be retained at most OF the post
on ,he Union Pacific, Forts Laramie, Fetter
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nemncrncY in RMssin.

A correspondent of the London ZINES
has been in the Russian camp long
enouph to discover that 4 vast problem
in human nature is working out III
mighty nation. He maintains tha' lne
Russian people are to-day the most purely
democratic in Europe in their tendencies
and customs. There IS the form OF an
ahsoIute despotism in the government,
but this vast under current OF democracy
makes itself in the very heart OF this
despotism and really controls its action.
Il is this subtle influence which forced
the emperor into this war, and it is the
fear OF this power that prevents him
from leaving the field he bas once entered
until he can do so victoriously. The
evidences of this spirit of democracy are
plainly written in the everyday life OF
the army, aud those who choose may
read it as they go. The old-style form
of aristocracy still exists in the court
circles OF the army, but there is vas:
majority where the officer recognizes the
private rs an equal, man for man, and
the distinction between them is regarded
as an official only. Scobeletf, for instance,
shakes hands with the lowest suhaltern IN
the same manner as with colonels of regl-
ments. These young lieutenants show
no constraint in his presence; all Is eaSy
and purely democratic, and yet every
word of command or expression o.
desire frem the general is obeyed wl.n a,,r az
aIacr;ty and rapidity that cannot % sar
nsssed IN the most despotic mart'i,eisd u'sid;sr.
Vice on the globe. The private sntent
are RE- also easy, and, to q certain 49, ca, 49,
familiar with their officers, sha ye' Wy
discipline isperiect,
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Sand Showers.

The singular phenomena of sand show
crs occur every year in China. During
the showers there is neither cloud nor fog
in the sky, but the sun is scarcely visible,
looking very much as when seen through
smoked glass. The air is filled with a
fine dust, entering eyes, nostrlls and
mouth, and often causing serious diseases
of the eye. This dust, or sand, as the
people call it, penetrates houses, reaching
apartments which seem securely closed.
1t il supposed to come from the great
desert of Cobb, as the sand of Sahara il
taken up by whirlwinds and carried huG-
drels of miles away.
The Chinese, while sensitive to the
personal discomfort arising from these
showers, are resigned to them from a
conviction that they are great help to-
agriculture. They say that year OF
numerous sand showers is always year
of large fertility. The sand probably
imparts some enrching elements to the
soil aud it also tends to loosen the conf
nact alluvial matter of the Chinese val
ievs It is impossible that these showers
NAV be composed OF microscopic insects,
Ike similar showers which have been
notced in the Atlantic ocean,
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The Colorado Cardiff Giant.

A telegram from Denver, Col, con.
tains the following "Mr. Conanps dis
covery of the petrified missing link OF
statue of an ancient man was yesterday
exhibited for several hours. Crowds
poured in and gazed with varied emo
tions upon the giant as he lay on the
back on boards, encircled by sound
temporary fence, to keep hands from in.
juring him. Prof. Semper, of Wurtem'
burg, Germany, says he does not believe
the figure to be of archaeological origin,
nor a petrifaction, and says it is easy in
fossiilerous remains generally TO trace
tho outline between the bone and flesh,
the substance connecting the joints being
different from the substance on the body,
and there is more difference between the
substance on the body and limbs and
that connecting the joints than is found
in the substance connecting the legs fOr
instance. The remains should be more
shrunken, and, if a petrilaction, should
have hair. DR.. Dennison says one arm
from the elbow to the wrist is lower by
an inch than the other. The arm is Out
of proportion to the legs; also the neck
hips, and head are not proportioned
The abdomen, high in dead persons, falls
to level with the hips. The substance
ia said to dissolve in nitric acid. The
majority think it is piece Of statury o.
clay image of very ancient origin
Semper says the head is similar to tn,
heads of the ancient Aztecs. 1t is Ger
tainly a great curiosity, and, if not I
fraud, most wonderful. awe inspiring
figure. If itisa petriled human body
the four inches OF tail will go far to sus
tain Darwin's theory, and supply th'
"missing link"
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Is Mars Inhabited .

is this neighboring world the abode of
living creatures This question ia beyond
the present power OF science to answer.
But would it not be strange beyond
expression ii a world, with land and
water, and changing seasons, and appar-
emily ali the conditions required by life,
so like our earth that it is even possible
that man could exist upon its surface,
should roll on through the ages uninhab-
tied and unenjoyed? ? Our earth teens
with life in its remOtest corner, yet some
marital astronomer may at this moment
be wondering what is the Use of lts, ard
whether our planet is the abode of intel
ligent beings After the wonders that
science has already achieved, he woulc
be bold who would say that this problem
can never be solved. Unfortunately
we cannot hope for much from the i'm
provement of our telescopes snd the
increase of their magnifying power. The
disturbances produced by our atmos-
phere are aggravated by every such In
crease. But when the problem OF me IN
other worlds is splved--if it ever shall DE
it seems sale 10 say that it will be by
the attentive study of our near neighoof'
Charts ". Raym1nd.
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PARE w ELs.,
ny GEORGE ARNOLD

Summer is fading; the broad leaves that grew
So freshly Wo IN when June was young are falling
And all tho Whisper haunted forest through
The rostl,I birds In eaddenel tones Hro calling
From rustling hazel cope and tangled dell,
" Farewell, sweet summer,
Fragrant fruily summer,
Sweet larewelll"
Upon tho windy hill, in macy field,
rhe hOnoy-hcCs hum slow above the clover,
Cleaning the latest sweets It's bloom may yield
And, knowing that their harvest time Is over,
Slug half lullaby and half kncll.
"Farcwel sweet summer,
llOney-laden summer,
swest farewell"
The little brook that bubbles 'mid the ferns,
O'ur twisted roots and sandy shallow playing,
Seems inin to lingor in its oddlod turns,
And, with pIanliye purfing voice, IN saying
Sadder and sweeter than my song can tell
" Farewell, Bwcct AumInor,
Warm and dreamy summer,
Sweet farewell"
The ftul breeze awecps down the winding lane.
With gold aud crimson leaves before II ilying,
Its gllsty laughter has No sign OF pain,
But in the ldlls IL sinks To gentle slghnR
Aud mourns the sllmner'S enrly broken spell
" Farewell, sweet summer,
Rosy, blooming summer,
Sweet FAREWELL"
80 bird, and bee, and brook, and breeze may moan
with melancholy song their loss complaining;
/, too must join them, ns walk alone
Among the sighig and sounds OF summers wan
ing;
l. too, have loved the sea on passing we'll
-, farewell, summer,
Fair hut faded, summer,
sweet larewelll
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HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES,.

In the house, on the 22d, the regular
order of business, proceeded to the con.
sideraton Of the Colorado case. After MI
mcrous debates the matter went over with
out action. Mr.. Cox presented a petition
for increased compensation to letier.carriers.
Adjourned.
In the House, on the 23rd, after read
ing the journal. consideration OF the Colo
RADIO case was resumed, and Mr.. Harrison
made an address advocating Mr.. Patterson
right to the seat. Mr.. Garfield supported Mr..
Beford as having prima facic right, and
after further discussion, without action, ad'
journed.
In the House, on the 18th, Mr.. Mills
(Texas) spoke on the Colorado case. He held
that neither Belford nor Patterson presented
aprima .tacie case, and that their seats should
be declared vacant.
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WAR NOTES.

1t is calculated that within five or six
weeks the Russians in Asia received about
10000 fresh troops. The Turkish troops
opposing them estimated at 10000 men is
probably correct
The Hungarian government has or.
dered the sloppagc of the money relief
heretofore granted to able bodied Bosnian
iugitives. The greatest distress and NOR.
talily prevails among them.
The czar addressing the general staff
Wednesday, declared that oil the members
of the imperial family would remain with the
army to share in the labor and fortunes of the
war and witness the deeds Of the soldiers.
He concluded: {" myself will care for the
army, and. il necessary, all Russia will, as
once before, take up arms"
Two valid patents for the same inven-
ton cannot be granted to the same party.
The one last granted is void.
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The Snow Prayer.

little girl went out to play one day
in the fresh, new snow, and, when she
came in, she said:
"Mamma, ! couldn't help praying
when WAS out at play"
"What did you pray for, my dear, u
asked her mother.
"Iprayed the Snow Prayer, mamma
that heard in the Sunday school,"
"The Snow Prayer! what do you
mean, little one?"
81 mean that beautiful Snow Prayer
in the Bible, mamma; you know, 1t,
wash me, and ! shall be whittier than
snow.'n
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EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.
THE SENATE.

TIE SENATE.
In the senate, on the 22d ,bilsintroducd
and referred: The act to provide for the
resumption of specie payment approved
July ID, 1875. To repeal the act to provide
for the resumption OF specie payments 10
authorize the coinage OF dollar Of forty.tw0>
and>a-half grains OF standard silver, and for
other purposes. TO establish q pension
agent at Topeka, Kansas. Also, TO reimburse
the state of Kansas for expenses incurred by
the Etato for the United States in repelIing
invasions and supprcSsing Indian hostilities.
Also, n bill granting pensions to certain
soldiers and sailors Of the war with Mexico,
and widows OF deceased soldiers and sailors.
Authorizing the adjudication and payment
OF certain claims upon the fund created by
section Is of chapter 4j9 of the laws of the
forty.thrd congress in regard to the dist,bu>
ton of the balance of the Geneva award. To
divide the state OF Nebraska into two judicial
districts. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 23d, bills intro
duced and referred To equalize the bOum-
ties of soldiers who served in the late war
for the union. Amending the revised stat
utes of the United States in regard to the
militia. To provide lawful note and coin
currency for the United States. 70 author
ize long bond ior the.investment Of savings
70 enable the Indians to become citizens OF
the United States. Adjourned till Thursday
In the Senate, on the 18th, Senator
Conkling presented petition from the citi
zens of New York against the repeal of the
bankrupt law, and praying that it he amend
ed. Referred. Senator Mitchell submitted
resolution authorizing the committee on
privileges aud elections in the cases OF
Mcssrs. Kellogg and SpoIiord, claiming seats
from Louisiana, to send for persons and
papers, and administer oaths, that the com.
mittee may decide upon the merits of the
title OF each contested. Senator Herman, by
request, introduced bill re.estab!ishing the
court of commissioners on the Alabama
claims, and for Il redistribution Of the unap'
propriated moneys. A number of unim'
portant bills were introduced, and the senate
adjourned until Monday.
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man, Mckinney and Camps Brown and Stan
baugh, for many years.


baugh, for many years.
A special from the Sitting. Bull comms
sion, Fort Worth, British northwest terri
tory, says the commission has met Sitting
Bull, and has utterly failed to obtain any
satisfaction or terms Of settlement from him.
After detailing the difficulties through which
the commission passed before reaching the
Indian band, and the reluctance of the In
dians in yielding to the persnasions OF the
Canadians, and allowing au interview to take
place, they fearing some trap was about to be
sprung on them, the correspondent describes
Sitting Bull IA n swarIhy, black'haired,
beardlcss, purebloodcd savage, with an air
of judicial gravity and intelligence. He con.
tinually fears trcachcry on the part of the
Americans, and distrusts his own tribe when
they are near, lie refused TO shake hands
with the commissioners, and said he wanted
them TO sit out in full view, not behind the
table. They complied, General Terry nj
dressed them, stating the object ol the visit,
namely, that the president wished hostillties
to cease forever, for the sake OF all parties.
If the Indians would return, and refrain
from hostile acts against the United States,
government, a free pardon would be given
to all past acts, no attempt would be made
to punish them, and the past would be for
gotten. This the president promised. He
went on 10 say that all other hostile Indians
had now surrendered to the United States,
authorities and had received no punishment
whatever, but had been received as friends,
They had received or would receive the pro-
ceeds of the sales Of their horses and arms,
and had been presented with cows, and had
otherwise received honorable and Just treat
ment the same terms were offered Sitting
Bulls people. The savage warrior smiled
broadly at the mention of surrender The
speech produced no effect, the offer OF peace
was rejected, the council broke up and the
commissioners turned their faces homeward.
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Ar Cleveland, Saturday, while Mrs.
Jas. Timmins was filling gasoline stove,
the internal machine exploded, and set
fire to her clothing. Her daughter Eliza
ran to her assistance, and she too was
soon enveloped in flames. Their screams
brought in Mr. Timmins, whose clothing
also caught fire, and before they were
able to put it out they We're all badly
burned. None of them will die, but all
ore disfsured for lite,
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UTAH surpasses any of the states IN
,he nrnduction of lesd-haying produced
about si,c threc.iourths of the refined supply
last year.
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ORD men in Atlanta who have pretty
daughters call the young men patent
coal. burners.