Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-02-12
BRKyIrLEs

AhsOclatlOn are iiQoifinK INTO the ueSi-
rabiIity Of changing the state Constitu-
hon regarding trial by jury. In view Of
the length Of this case we should think
they would inquire.
10 duus debtor on postal card has
been dccided by the supreme Court Of
Ohio 10 be unlawful Tac court held
that anything 80 written that is liable 10
ihjurc the credit CT reputation Of any one
isa crime, Tho decision was made in
tI,erasc OF man who damned debtor
for an old account Oh a postal earl and
in that manner made the matter public,
to the detrinent Of the lattcr's credit
elsewhere.
TuosE who ato weather-wise ought to
begin TO vaGeinatc for next summer. II
is great question IN natural history why
il is that the Kentucky goose bone CON
fines its attention to winter weather.
Some day, We hope, the Louisville COur-
icr-Journal, which claims, We believe,
70 own the only genuine anserine bone
in Kentucky, will turn its attention to
the great theme here suggested and give
~ an answer.
4 YoUNG lady employed in telephone
exchange in Cincinnati reported indie
cent language, and the house whence
this language came refused 10 give up the
name Of one of their subscribers who had
employed IT, Consequently the company
disconnected the telephone, and the same
afternoon notice was served upon them
that suit would be Instituted for damages
ior the unexpired contract.
TIE Pail Mall Gazette says that "wom-
en-, If really anxious, as they profess 10
be. to make the world better than it is,
might, with advantage, give up what
they term their back jacket pockets is
being almost impossible for thief TO re-
sst making grab at purse carried in u
pocket 80 fashioned that it can be
emptied without difficulty or danger, un-
less detective happens to witness thet
operation"
ARD-EL-KADER, whose death was about
month since generally announced, is
not only still living, but also despite his
IS years OF age aud his forty-fye chill
dren. is exceedingly healthy and carries
himselfas stoutly a. young man. lie
lives at Damascus, devoting his time 10
agriculture and charity. He is one Of
the handsomest old men to be seen, en-
oys life and asks fIom Providence moth
ing better than to be- able 10 read n few
more obituaries Of himself
As old troublesome question is again
revived in the California Legislature.
The bill TO compel proprietors Of newspa-
pers to publicly rclact statements pub
lished that may not suit readers has been
again introduced. In the last Legislature
the bill was promptly voted down. The
California newspapers are raising a great
row over it, as they state that lift should
become law, it would strike disastrous
blow at the liberty of the press; that it
would place every pnblisherat the mercy
of his readers.
Cart. DALLN ordered his company to
kick up all the dust they could at Yel-
low Tavern, Va, while out skirmishing
one day in 1864, while he dashed into
H,e camp of Confederate regiment
and demanded itssurrender The audac-
ity of the plan nearly insured its success
for the Captains demand was followed
bU "a surrpndpr of thc ,.olora, h,,t (ioI
Hapgood, the commander, came upon
the ground in time to send him back
with bullet wound through his body.
This is the story that Daily tells in his
application to Congress for pension for
Hapgood eorroborates It.
As 10 the possibility of substituting for
the gallows some form of death likely TO
be less painful, DIR. Henry Nachtel, dis
tinguished French physicist now IN New
York says that the garrote docs not al
ways kill the first time, and could not be
made successful except in the hands of
skillful surgeon; that administering ehlo-
roform violently Is very painful; that
prussic acid in the eye does not always
produce instantaneous death, and mast be
administered by physician; that death
by strychnine is sometimes aocompar-
led by terrible conyulsions and great
pain; and that even electricity is not sure,
for q man in England was struck by light
ming and stripped ofhiselothes aud many
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