The Osceola times., 1878-12-21

anu rrNeft upon tue r""i''' W
f" Hard Times" doesn't il strike you
very iorcibly that il is all bosh an
illusion the phantom of 8 diseased
imagination-an idle expression,
and that the real trouble after all
consists m the fact that too much
Of the peoples earnings goes for
whisky and trying TO be as liberal
as otners in the way of treating, or
to use u common expression. " set
hn''em.up.' This Is the trae Sc
crcs OF the so-called hard times
winch has been tortured for the
past half score years into cxcu'es
whenever honest claims were pre-
scntcd for collection. 1t is the
daily cry, after the product OF your
inbor, upon which you obtained ad-
vances, has been frittered and
-quandcred Tor alcoholic drinks!
4" Cotton" we hear you say, "is 50
low, that we cant live at raising
cotton" True, cotton 10 low, but
isn't everything else you have to
by eorrespond:ngly lowf A few
years ago you sold your staple ut
from II to 16 cents per pound; you
turned around and paid from i6 to
20 cents q pound for meats, from
50 TO Si2 per barrel for -four, and
everything elsc IN relative proper
tons. Where are ths odds now !
you get from 8 to 10 cents for your
cotton; but you also buy meat NJ
from 6 to 8 cents per pound; hour,
from IS to 81 per barrel aud every
hing else you consume, ut CORES
pondingiy low rates. Where il the
difference, and what causes you to
cry "hard times!" or how and
in what manner does the rise or
fall in cotton aud the corresponding
uctuutions in other commodities
effect the "hsrd times Do you
not aee where all the trouble lies !
Stop the leaks that is draining, not
only your purses. but your very
hearts blood. and sapping the
foundation OF all social relations
and all will be well, and the cry OF
"hard tines" will no longer be
heard in the land.
Good standard Prints. Is yards
for 81, 90, u: J. Cook 4 Sons.
shop, or Hand made Boots and
Shoes, guaranteed, ut
&. Il. Brickcy & Bro.
Next week being Christmas
week, IN accordance with u time
honored custom, We shall issue o
paper. II will afford us extreme
pleasure and satisfaction during
that time. to have those of our pa
irons who are in arrears, call and
ray us what they owe. II takes
money 10 run n paper and keep ITS
manngcr in sound and healthy
state Of mind aud body in fact the
whole paraphsrnal;a oi u printing
establishm ment, from the editor
down TO the devil aud roller stock,
have to be rubbed up and oiled"
aud there Is nothing that will lay
it on 80 nice aud smooth us u wad
OF rcenbacks. besides. like other
common folks, we are compelled to
eat to keep body and soul together
Tor which we have to pay, as well
Ms for paper. ink and other printing
material, besides wood, coal rents,
ETC., etc, all Indispensable IN run.
ming a paper. We've got no rich
uncle to leave US y fortune when
he dies, neither; 40 come along,
and let Us start square and even
the coming year
The latest styles il Ladies'
Bows and Rushinss, at
J. Cook & Sons.
In our last issue, VIZ We led to
reflect rather severely upon the
-lurr eaprsssed with the word "rab
ble," which was generally believed
by the community TO have been
hurled al the citizens assembled nj
the Reading Rooms tor the purpose
Of inaugurating the Temperance or
Murphy movement. We take this
occasion to say that the epithet wss
intended and applied to the boys
(your children. nevertheless. ladies
aud gentlcmcn) who preceded the
assembly, and were playing havock
with books, papers aud periodicals
which were on or about the tables
To these was the term being appli.
cd when the language was partial
ly overheard BY those who suppos