The Osceola times., 1879-06-07
OSCEOLA, ARKANSAS SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1879

Silver spring, Fla, is one hundred
zee. ueep, covers an acre, and sends stream
sixty to one hundred feet wide eight miles
to the Ocklawaha river.
ID. 0. Moorhesd, who decamped from
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with $4,000 Of the city
money when treasurer four years ago. has
been captured in Young county, Texas.
The Telephone exchange in Atlanta
sgrowing rapidly in popular favor. Several
miles OF wire have been put up, and forty-
hve Instruments have already been received,
| A Texas preacher warned husbands
that II they permitted preachers to sneak
| around to their homes, and an, thing wrong
came OF it, why they must grin and bear Il
without complaint, for it was their own
fault
A man calling himself J. H. Ellis, of
rMrmount, Minn., arrived at Fort Worth
leIss, last week, and managed to victmize
the cashier OF the City national bank out Of
$1,000 by depositirg New York bank ex.
change and drawing on it.
Natchez Democrat: Orop prospects
continue to be exceedingly PROMISING in all
the region tributary to NatcheE The labor
Is nndlsturbed by the Kansas fever, and the
colored men have net yet begun to worry
much about politics. All are at work.
Edward B Young, president of the
Lufaula national bank, of Eufaula, Ala,
died at his home in that city last week He
was seventy seven years of age, and had
largely identified himself with the business
Interests OF Eufaula, contributing much to
its progress.
The Fernsndina Mirror tells a won.
derful story OF a boat race at that place be.
tween Mrs. Lines and Mrs. Partington,
which was very exciting, and was won by
the former by about two boat lengths. The
most remarkable part OF the story is that the
winner is said to be about seventy years old.
The Memphis theatre WAS sold at
public auction, last Saturday, to Messrs.
Leubrie Bros, for $4,000. II was built in
1858, and has been the leading theatre of the
city ever since, sometimes renting as high as
5000 per annum. Messrs. Davey / Brooks
nsve leased it for the ensuing dramatic
season, paying 5000 therefor.
Dallas (Texas) Herald Ella Rowett
has established Dallas as the great race,
horse center Of the southwest. Galveston
produces her oysters, Houston her belgian
barons, San Antonio her bulls and Mexican
lions, and Austin unacknowledged states.
men, but Dallas sends horse to Kentucky
which kicks dust into the eyes OF the fastest
courser born and reared on the turf.
Waco lTexss) Telephone: The little
town of Brownwood, 125 miles west of
Waco, has q genuine sensation. Parties Dor.
ing an artesian well discovered specimens of
ore, which hasty local assays declare to be
largely impregnsted with silver. The lucky
owner Of the ground where the silver was
discovered was offered and refused $5O,OO0
for his land. A stock company was at once
organized to work the land, and an eight
foot shaft was sunk in twenty>four hours
after the discovery.
About two years ago, Jacob Pressly,
of Corsicana, Texas, had a Misunderstanding
with j. p Anderson, and shortly afterwards
Anderson's barn was destroyed by FIRE, Ans
derson then quickly collected his mob and
took Pressly out to hang him. They strung
Pressly up three or four times, and asked
him to confess that he burned the barn, but
he wouldn't do it, and they released him
when life was nearly extinct. He entered
SUIT against Anderson. claiming 900 dam.
ages, and last Friday the Jury gave him
verdict FOR 81 500 g.