The Osceola times., 1878-04-20

New Orleans Picayune: A Mississippi
law forbds the sale of pistols to minors.
That local regulation makes small boys send
to New Orleans for their deadly weapons.
Henrietta TEX Journal: As frequent
as murders were committed in Texas lats
year. only two men expiated their offense
upon the gallows in 1877 by order of court.
Some of the Georgia farmers, taking
into view the strong probability of a Euro.
pean war, and wishing to provide for all
contingencies, contemplate crossing their
cotton lands in corn.
The Alexandra IVA. J Gazette says the
oyster season, now nearly closed, has been
unusually disastrous to the oystermen. the
supply being larger than the demand, and
the prices very low.
The fruit importers of New Orleans
are complaining Of the quarantine regula-
tions. The funigation of their cargoes, il is
said, ruins the fruit, which the dealers hold
is not liable to infection.
New Orleans is agitated over the mur.
der of Sarah Elexson Brown by Emily Arm
sly. The latter sent some cakes, poisoned
with arsenic, to Miss Josie Lawlor. at whose
house Miss Brown was stopping. Miss Brown
ate them, and died.
A few years ago, in Comanche county,
Texas, "a number of domestic chickens, de
serted by their owner, took TO the brush, and
the woods are full OF wild chickens. They
are numbered by the thousand, hy like
hawks, and are numbered as game.
The draw-span of the Cincinnati South
ern railroad bridge at Chattanooga is 2S7
feet in length, and weighs $50, 800 pounds
The bridge proper is 1904 feet in length
from center to center OF the abutments and
the piers and superstructure cost three hun.
dred and ten thousand dollars.
The Mississippi legislature, which re-
Gently adjourned, passed resolution thank.
ing the colored members for their uniform
courtesy and manly, dignified, devotion to
public duty during the session, and congrat
ulated the people OF the state upon the se>
lection Of representatives $50 worthy from
that race, and upon the arrival of that happy
epoch when race prejudice and bitterness OF
feeling exist in our borders 10 longer"
While negro man down in Georgia,
the other day, was carrying a child in his
arms along road, large eagle swept down
upon them and endeavored to seize the
child. A lively battle eusued between the
parent and the eagle, the latter getting the
better Of il until farmer came to the rescue
and knocked the eagle senseless with an
ak. The bird was taptured, and, as 1t has
recovered, it is an object OF considerable
curiosity in the neighborhood.
The New Orleans Democrat states that
Judge Billings, OF that city, decided the
matter involved in the Gaines case relative
to the Improvements and as to the status of
the present possessor Judge Billings holds
that the various defendants are responsible
for fruits and revenues for both improved
and unimproved property, and that Mrs.
Gaines is entitled TO elect whether she will
keep Improvements placed on the properties
at either their cost or the increased value
which such improvements may have given
to the properties or require their removal.
He decides that the present possessors were
possessors in bad faith. and as such, under
the laws of Louisiana, they owed to the
complainant, Gaines, all the rents and rev.
enues of the property during the period of
their unlawful possession Of the same,
whether the property was actually yielding
the revenues or not unless it was shown that
1t was impossible, with due diligence, to
have caused the property TO have been
rented; that the defendants were only en-.
titled, by way OF Offset, to necessary ex.
penses incurred in caring for said property