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The Osceola times., 1878-06-08
Don't Touch the Radishes.

What always makes me furious
In fashionable French restaurants are
the radishes, the pat of butter, and
the half dozen prswns that arc placed
upon the table by the waiter.
these are charged in the bill about
four francs. They are the snares
for the unway. Il ever | ask friend
TO due with me in Paris, do 30 long To
beg Kim TO order whatever he likes, pro-
vided that be does not eat rsdish or a
prswn. | would infinitely rather that
he would drink an extra bottle Of the
beet wine that is to be procured, for here
there is some return for ones money
but q prawn or radish four francs II
is heartrending, Besides. no sooner il
either of the little plates that contain
these delicacies touched than a horrid
grin OF satisfaction lights up the face OF
the waiter. He has been successful.
He hes bsited his hook, and has caugh.
a fool London Truth.
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08
A COTTON FAMINE.
Ho~ This Distre .sfu, state 81 rhtngs
Nay tasac.


In the first week of this "merry month
OF May" says the Philadelf hia Press, the
return from Lancashire showed that l20, :
sos looms had stopped, out Of a total OF
1872 800; that %, ,562 were working full
time at reduced wages; AZ, $40 at full time
and full wages; 1852 on short time and
reduced wages, and 6,956 were under
notice to stop, The reduction in wages
varies from to 10 per cent. In day
OF two the total number of looms idle
would be 1924. Now, the total num-
Der of cotton looms in England, Scotland
Ireland and Wales Is 10000. When
working full time these could use slightly
over 10000 bales of cotton weekly, and
~ the l20, ,S6S looms idle at the close OF
April represented nearly 10000 bales Of
tour hundred pounds each. The present
manufacture OF piece goods, such as are
shipped to India, China, japan and Aus.
tralis, may amount To only 81 1000, 900
yards, being a reduction of from g., 500
bales TO $4,000 bales weekly. This must
make a great difference. The supply Of
cotton, chiefly from the United States, is
AK, 900 bales less than at this time last
year. The manufacturers warehouses
are full of cotton fabrics. at would be
well and good" some one may say, "if
manufacture was to be suspended until
this vast stock had been cleared away by
sales" but two evils would result from
thus making wholesale stoppage OF the
looms. In the first place, the costly and
delicate machinery OF the cotton mills
Gas the factories are cslled), would be
greatly injured by being out of use;
secondly, all the work.people thus thrown
ont OF employment would be in as bad
strait as they were in the cotton famine
time OF l86l-63; and lastly, when the mill
owners wished to resume work they
would possibly find that the former
operatives had quilted the districts,
driven out by dread of starvation. In
considering thi. subject, it has TO be 10.
membered that the fewer looms at work
in Epgland the smaller the importation
OF cstton from the United States 70 Liv-
erpool and Glasgow. So, in the leng run,
this does greatly concern not alone the
cotton spinners of England, but also the
cotton growers OF the United States,
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08
NUMBER 10.
getting out to wee how hi men were

getting cut to wee how hk men were
doing.
"God bless you, SIR" said Mr.. Moore.
=" You hsve given me the best medicine
I've had. | believe It's going to save
my life. don't know how to thank you,
but I know feel like new man."
So do I, friend Moore. So do I.
But don't thank me. It's all Toms
doing. thought was teaching him a
great lesson, but, bless you he was
teaching me greater one, all the time.
Well, the Lord has crest surprises In
store for us sometimes, hasn't Hes"
And, with fervent shake of the hand,
Mr.. Thyson got back into his wagon and
drove home.
From that time, Mr.. Moore's health
steadily improved, and from that time
also Mr.. Thyson was another man. II
was the beginning, but not the end Of his
kind deeds. .
A few years later, when Tom ana Bee.
sic commenced housekeeping On their own
account, and Clover lowed contsntedly
in her new home, Tom remarked, with .
merry laugh:
You zee, father, / was longer headed
than you thought. Twas all in the
family after ALL"
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08
THE aArHERED ROSE,

Only a ~ Sc bud sweet aud tsir,
Down by the roadside growing,
OF other flowers, rich and rare
And Gu tured, little knowing;
Content It's blushing face to hide
'Mong its own leaves. when stiayins
Becs came wandering side by side
With ssphyrs IDLY playing.
Ihe Iose bud blossomed out at last
into the perfect flower.
Aud, plucked by one who saunler u vasi
kTeit had bloomed an hour,
Was tossed erelong aside, poor thing,
Which sweeteT grew when dying,
And left, all crushed and witneriDz.
Upon the rosdside lying
You understand, you say, with seotn,
While listening W my story
You Know which rose, one Summer MON.
You robboi Of all its q oryf
Alb, man. the heart you cast away
When 20 II served your pleasure.
Ny own for many and many day
Had worshippsd without measure.
ehe knew ~ nut. IwRs lot worth
The love you held 30 lightly,
But cosld lift her from the earth,
he hower onse blooming brtshtly-
The ross you threw away-sh, wee
Agaia 10 toy with--never
But mine to worship and To bie-s,
To keep apd hold forever.
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

Col. FoRNgy, writing from Paris,
dwells upon the contrast between the
London aud Paris Sunday, and then
passes To a consideration of the apparent
condition Of the people OF the two towns.
He finds that the French laborer or
mechanic gets much more enjoyment out
Of his lite of toll than his neighbor across
the channel. He thinks, toe, that crime
is less frequent in Paris. Moreover,
he concludes that the French Catholic
religion is quite as reputable as the
English Protestant tina, the French
bave made more sacrifices for human
rights in the best sense than the Eng
lish; and that in point OF financial In
tegrity France stands in as high plane
as England.
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

RECENT experiments at the sgricuh
tursl deFsrtme ent at Washington with
tea leaves grown IN the district show
that tea Of high grade csn readily I've
produced in this country. The states
oi Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Ken
,ucky, West Virginia, Georgia, Ala
bsms, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansa,
are the tea regions OF the United States.
Commissioner lie Due is very anxious
10 get people into the business, and the
agricultural department is sbundantly
supplied with young tea plants for dis
tribution. The treuble is that too many
people will go into the business to make
It profitable
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08
SOCTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

The expenses of the municipal govern
nent Of New Orleans are Just 100000 a
month.
Eighty thousand acres OF the Grand
prairie in Arkansas, have been sold to- Cam
sdian colony.
There are ak hundred couvicts in the
South Carolina pepiteutiarv, only one hund.
psd o, whom are white.
Forty-one divorce cases were brought
In the circuit court ct Nashville, returnsol,
b the present term.
Gov. Hampton has sent 10 Mrs. Cueter
sAald,alas which toyUsrly tslaeged - Gen.
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

CITIZEN Schilling; one of the
leaders of the soScslled 4" Socialists" " in
New York City, defines the objects of
that organization TO mean ian equal
division of all the real estate on the face
of the earth to regulate wages by law,
and do away with competition In labor =
10 abolish the use of labor.saving ma
chinery. and do everything by hand; TO
shorten the hours of labor, and to in
crease the rate Of compensation"
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

Two French lsdies were looking at the
pictures in the Paris salon. " So I hear"
ssid one, "a celebrated painter has I'm.
isbed 8 picture for you" YES" he
has graciously consented 10 paint the
portrait of nv husband for my drawing
room" " Indeed" ssid the first speaker.
"a Well, for Tosm like that I thiuk !
sAculd hsvS ehcssp . carer sal3ssA."
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

THg Chinese Government has been
compelled 20 borrow 100000 tacls
lsbout ts,00O.0O0) in the shape OF for.
eign loan. The only foreign debt China
has heretofore contracted was in 1874,
when the Government borrowed a., 1873, =
375 from England, at eight per cent.
The present loan is secured by customs
dues. Tue total customs receipts of
China in 1876 were something over
10000, 600.
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

OSr of the wards of New York, the
sixth, is frightfully unhealthy. The
death rate is forty in every coo inhab-
itsnts, whereas seventeen to the 1000 is
the usual rate. The people in that ward
are poor persons crowded into the vilest
tepementa.
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

A FRENCH explorer has broken In a
number Of zebrss, which he proposes to
employ as beasts of burden in a voyage
acnss Africa. horses will aot live In
the interior of the continent on account
Of the tsetse iy, but the zebra IL an
animal Of quite another stripe.
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

DURING the centennial exhibition,
samples of air from various parts of the
grounds were bottled up for examina-
tion in 1875, with view to determine
whether the earth's atmosphere ia un-
dergoing a change.
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

LARGy amounts OF Mexican dollars
have been put in circulation through.
out this country. The enterprise has
been profitable enc for some one.
But the public Is already learning
70 I've cautious about taking these coins.
Their value as quoted in New York is
from ninety-four " ninety-six cents.
Trade dollsrr nre quoted 3, ninety-nine
rsnts
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

We now have the person who can ride
on horseback the longest, who can walk
the longest, who can waltz the longest,
who can sing the longest, and who can
stay under the water the longest. What
we want next Is the person who can
keep silent the longest. No crowding
among the candidates. - Boston Post.
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08
PACTS AND FANClES.
The pse-Keepers' Asssssssssu

Come where the clover 10 kissed BY the san;
Come where the honey beer dTowsily hum;
Come whore the bumble-bee. happy Old thing
Brings up the boys with sting -s-iIng- ting.
Precious old bumble-bse. bi d Of my youth,
sharper thy tall than the arrows OF truth;
How Oft when the schooi-bcy steps Into yenv
realm,
You knock him stone bliud with touch cf yous
hAlm.
How oft when the plot nickina children oil men
Sit down ct the uass-covered door Of your den,
Yo1 will ck man across q ten a1a lot
By the lift Of your foot when It's heated rsd bot
Far worse than the ndidase's bussing TO me
Was the petulant buSs Of . boy hating bee;
Appalling 10 men and 10 gods was the sight
When bare booted boy got bumbls-bee me-.
: Burlington Havksye.
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

THERE is fish pond mania in Ken.
tucky, and many persons who own
swamps traversed by small streams, aIe
digging them out, dsmming them, and
creating artificial sheets of water which
they are stocking with fish, principally
with trout, procured from Mr.. William
Gh&tlis, the fish commissioner at Louis
Vile:
The Osceola times., 1878-06-08

SLATE wears like steel. Marble grinds
out under the tread Of passing feet,
where seemingly no impression is made
on slate. The stsirs Of the rcnnsyl.
vsnis Hospital were built of slate, from
Pennsylvania qusrries, in 1889. Recent.
Iya careful examination was made to
test the amount OF wear on the treads
and il was found to be imperceptible.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-06-08
DANVILLE.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Richmond Dispatch.]

Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]
.s. vi -s.. - JUNE 6, 1873.
The receipts from the Mofett registers
for the last month amounted to Sl.O1O.l5.
The number of alcoholic drinks sold was
81. 5S1, the tax on which was $930.523; the
number OF malt drinks was 13,460, the tax
on which was SGT 80 J; the number OF frac-
tional gallons. 33&, and the tax OIL them
$3.50. - .rnt. - :. -.
Rev. S. 8. Bryant, Of Missouri, formerly
resident OF the city, was on Visit TO 1rlends
here the first part OF this week.
Colonel J. Fl. Watson, member OF the
Legislature from this county, recently sold
four parcels Of tobacco in this market. re-
spectively, for S24.5O, $50, S64, and S72 per
hundred pounds. About the same time Mr..
Tazewell Jefferson, of this county, sold four
parcels, respectively, for S43, $3.50, S71,
and $50 per hundred.
Mayor j. c. Luck reports that the num-
Der of arrests made LAT month was 101, and
the amount of the fines imposed $137.25.
DIR. W. T.. Robinson, health officer, re-
ports that there were fourteen deaths in the
city during last month: Whites, 3-adults,
I; children. 2; colorcd, 11-adultS, 8; chill
dren, 2. The deaths resulted: White adult,
from dysentery, 1 white children, from
cholera-infantum, /; phthisis, /; colored
adults, from dropsy, L; consumption, 3;
cardiac disease, 1; inflammation OF uterus,
L; hemorrhage from the lungs, 2; scrofula,
|; colored children, still-birth, 2.
AS preventive Of disease, DR.. Robinson,
the health officer, recommends that the ra-
vines and culyerts be washed out frequent
" by full streams of water from the street
pines, and that no guano or fertilizers be
allowed to be kept within the city during
the summer months.
Officers have been elected for Dove Com
mandery, Knights Templar, for the ensuing
year as follows: C. NJ. Finn, eminent CON-
mander; j. e. School6eld, generalissimo ;
w. Z. Boisseau, captain-general; Jedathan
Carter, prelate; j. &. Enright, senior war
den; 2. II. Boisseau, junior warden; Z.
w. Ferrel, treasurer; P. R. Jones, re-
corder; j. S. Shaner, standard-b bearer; w.
J. Merritt, sword-bearer; A. T. Abernethy,
warden; R. c. Harvey, captain Of the
guard.
The work of building the Jail has been COM
menced. The situation OF it is directly IN
rear or the. courthouse.
The foundation OF the house OF worship
for the colored BaptistS, whose building was
burned down in the great fire OF the 2l>t
of March, is now being laid, and under
stand that the work OF building it will so
on without interruption. ALPHA.
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Repudiation.

Our West Virginia brethren are! as ready
to repudiase the debt theyscwe 70 Virginia.
as we are to repudiate the debt we owe TO
our foreign creditors. At Democratic
n eeting HELD II, Barbour county last Mon
day, Major REGEn offered o. rasolut aons. pre-
ceded by a long and wordy preamble, which
was nearly as follows: !.
n .sResolued, That we, the Democracy OF
Barbour, will support no man VINO iaVors
the paying OF any portion OF the Virginia
State debt. ("
The resolution was adopted, there being
few dissenting voices. Major A. G. REGER
was once member Of the Virginia Legs
llature.. Afterwards in the BARBOUR meet
| ing, says letter in the Wheeling Intena-
qcncer, T. A. BRADFORD, a prominent law
| yer, who is q candidate for the Legislature,
made speech in which he repudiated the
State debt. He was opposed to ever open
ing the question again. During his remarks
he made use OF the following remarkable
| language: "a legislator mast secare Inc
happiness and prosperity of the people ana
not care for The public credit" E
Mr.. BRADFORD is genuine repudiator
He doesn't, however, pretend to call him.
self "readiuster." And all this IN 0
county named g Barbour" after an old Vir'
I ginia gentleman. .s . -
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Friendship. A Story of Society. BY,
"OUIDA," author OF. "Strathmore,"
uGranyille de Vigne,", etc. Pbiladcl-
phia: j. 3. LIPPINCoTT d 60.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON & Co.
His Dear Little Wife. Philadelphia: j. NJ.
STopDART & Co. :.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON d Co.
HarperS Franktin- Square Library, No. 2.
Containing VICTOR HUGO's s'Htstory OF
Crime" complete.
For sale by WEST. JOHNSON & Co. and c.
T. Smith. ,s
annual Record OF. Science and Industry Tor
1887. Edited by SPENCER L. BAIRD, with
the Assistance Of Eminent Men Of Science.
New York: HARPER IL BROTHERS. =.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON eco.
Mine IS Thine. A Novel. BY L. w. NJ.
LocKHART, author OF g Fair to See." New
York: HARPER 81 BROTHERS.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON a. Co.
A Modern Minister. With illustrations.
Tn two volumes. Volume ii. ISSUED un-
der the title Of "The Cheveley Novels ~.
New York: HARPER u BROTHERS.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON Il CO. ,.
ShaEspeare's comedy Of 1s You Like IL.
Edited with Notes by WILLIAM j. RoLFE,
A. NJ, formerly Head-Master OF the High
School, Cambridge, Mass. With engrav-
inss. New York: HARPER 81 BROTHERS.
Mr.. RoLFE has presented to the public
several OF SIAkspEARE's plays edited by
himself, and they have met with very high
approval. We suppose lie will fill out the
edition with the remaining plays.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON d Co.
HARPER's HALF-HoURs.-The interesting
series OF little books with this title is ac-
lively continued by the publishers. we
have two-viz., The Coming Man, by
CHARLES READE. and The Settlement OF the
English) Constitution, 16S9-17s4, ~ JAMES
RowLEY, A. NJ. ..,....... .-. 60
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON Il Co..
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-06-08

MINIsTERIALC ECoRATIoN-DAYsAT AT.
WAYSEsBoRO, LETTER FROM THE H0N.A.
. n. II. STUART ON THE FINANCIAL DISTRESS.
THE SCHOOL coaAENcEMENTs, &C. -ss~
ECorrespondence of shc Richmond D!spateh.l
IL. JuNEt7, 1873. =
Rev. Patterson Fletcher, OF this city, but,
now or, missionary work in the bounds OF
Lexington Presbytery, has received call
10 Clarksburg, w. Va. The church Is one
inst organized, and is composed OF con-
rrecation that have long felt o longing to
Get back to Che Jurisdiction of an cod
Virginia. ecclesiastical body.
Decoration-day was observed at Waynes-
boro' Yesterday by a general turning out OF
the inhabitants to put flowers on the graves.
The Vindicator this morning publishes O
long and interesting letter written by Hon.
A, H. Fl. Stuart in reply to request from
prominent citizens OF the city and county
for his views on the. causes and prooabie
duration OF the money pressure. MT.
Stuart gives very clear and succlnct MS
tory Of all the money pressures that nave
visited the country since that winch lmme-
diately followed the Revolutionary war,
showing that in each case-1Sl9, 1881 anu
1S73-the cause was the contraction OF cur
rency which followed undue expansion.
He shows tnaL III Iue ldSI lNelfc yeaio lho
currency in the United States has been re-
duced Dy the sum of eleven hundred and
eleven million dollars, and is Of the opinion
that this has brought us to the bottom, ana
that from this time forward .the financial
condition OF the country must steadily i'm
prove. He closes by urging upon creditors
the policy Of forbeaIance with their debtors,
as the latter will in all probability soon be
bettered in their condition.
An ordinance has been reported in the
City Council increasing the water tax TWEEN
ty-five per cent. in order to make our water
works more nearly sel'-supporting.
The week has been busy with school
commandments. AT the Augusta Female
Seminary the full graduates were Misses
Mary E. Blakey and Mary Tapscott, OF Fir-
ginia.. Among those who received gold
medals was Miss Constance SPOTS, OF Rich
mond. At the Staunton Female Seminary
1.-THE full graduates were Misses Lily M.TerrF,
Alice P. Terry, and Annie NJ. Dice, OF Vlr-
ginia, and Della NJ. Fuller, Of Texas.
So forward has the season been in this
county that ON the last day OF May one OF
our farmers harvested crop Of barley
something, am told, that is unheard OF Tor
this vicinity. $n fENS.
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HENRY COUNTY.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.
O4K LEVEL VA Iunn / 1878

correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.l
OAK LEVEL, Va, June l, 1878.
We had very cool weather during the
month OF May, and to-day is remarkably
cool for June. We have had very rainy
weather until a few days ago, when the
rain ceased, and since then we have had
fair weather, but very cool for the season.
Last night was the coolest night we have
had Tor several days. The people expected
to find frost this morning, but fortunately
none was seen. =. ...>.r
notice that your correspondents report
that the wheat crop in many sections has
been seriously damaged by. the rust. I am
happy TO say that have no such report to
make. No wheat-felds, SO far as am able
to learn, care red with rust" and I know
no crop seriously damaged by it. 1t is true
that some wheat in this section has little
rust on the blades, but do not think that
the wheat will be much damaged by it. At
any rate, we are expecting a good crop OF
wheat here. Grass and clover are looking
well. The farmers are planting tolerabiy
good crop of tobacco, though many will not
plant any on account OF the scarcity OF
plants and the low prices paid for last years
crop.
An kinds of fruit will be plentiful in
this section except peaches, and there Will
be "a tolerably full crop Of them in some To-
caIties. The distillers are now thinking
about making brandy. A great many would
also like to stake pull OF apnle-jack"
these cool mornings.
Colonel Morehead and his coadiutors told
the people of Henry at April court that all
they wished them to do was to stand still
and see their railroad salvation until they
bulls their Reidsville IN. CO. Narrow-Gauge
railroad up to the State line. The people
are standing still, and are anxious to hear
the whistle of the iron-borse when he shall
have come up to our county line laden with
products from the cold North State" l
think the people OF Henry will make an
effort to extend the road to the Courthouse
as soon as it reaches the county line. More
anon. a nEG;i.-ff s TERITAS.
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Hon. Joseph s. sprigg, Of Hardy; and
Colonel William French, Of Mercer. We
do not know the names Of the three COM
missioners from Virginia. On the applica..
ton of Governor Mathews, under the act OF
the Legislature on The subject, the Secretary
Of War has detailed an officer OF the United
States Engineer Corps 10. run the line at the
points Of dispute. Oneo Of these Is the east
ern boundary of Pendleton county, one the
line Of Mercer, and there are perhaps one
or two others. The labor will probably oc-
cupy considerable time Wheeling Regis
ter 9th - t.f
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The opposition to General Joseph 2.
Johnston is, am told, getting Formidable.
There are half dozen opposition candi-
dates, among whom the principal are Colo.
mel W. F. G. Gregory, Judge Clopton, OF
Manchester, ard Senator QuesenDerry.-
Richmond letter in Fdr11tuiEte Mercury.
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DEATHS.

Died. on Friday morning, June ,7lh: at Der resi-
dcnce. No. 6l2 east Leigh street, Mrs. MARIA
PARKS tcoIored): aged nearly ninety years.
Her funeral will take place from the Ihird-street
Methodist church THIS Saturday EpENlNT. At
O'Clock. Her friends and acauaintanScs arc IN
y,ted TO attend without further notice. The Daugh-
tiers of Zion, Of which she was member, are ex-
peci ed 10 turn out. ....
Died, in Greensboro. N. c.. on Friday, 31st Gay
OF MAY, 1878. JAMES f. PEARCE, In the sixty
fourth year OF his age. He was q native OF Henrico
comfy, Va, and brother OF II. A. Pearce, Of this
city.
Petersburg papers please copy
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The Lyncbburg Virginian's editor re-
Gently wrote, .s5The people OF Virginia in
their poverty and misery" &C., and the
printer made it read, .. in their pantry and
nursery In the Virginia Laao Journal
for May the Supreme Court Of Appeals is
made to say aasure pro turef"r for 4 (. 1,unc
pro tnnc.o All Of which goes to show what
bad hands Judges and editors write. & IN
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MARRIAGES..

Married. at the Moore Memorial chapel. on p the
Holm r. C. MORRIS to Miss JESSIE HELEN
.BUCKWALTER; both Of Richmend.
Philadelphia Ledger please copy.
Married, on the 4th Of June, 1873, ut the Monu-
mental church. by the Rev. j. 6. Armstrong,
THOMAS o. CHAPPELL. of Baltimore, Md: and
MARIA IT. WOLFE. of this city. daughter OF thce
late Mr.. Thomas r. Wolfe, OF New Orleans NO caros