The Osceola times., 1880-05-08
First being sworn in manner due.

Sworn before me, March y 1881.
ERNEST LAsoHE, Notary Public, Kings County.
The respective lawyers claim that the
complaint and answer are both legal, and
that tLey set forth every fact REQUIRED
by law TO be alleged. Whether the issue
thus joined will be presented TO the
Court in its alleged poetical shape can
not be determined yet, but the lawyers
Will, If necessary to protect their clients
Interests, present to the presiding Judge
upon the Trial complaint and answer
~ prose. The letters which passed be-
tween the parties are in the main in
poetry. The plaintiffs lawyer has 4
bundle of the defendants letters in
rhyme. They are nearly all dated J mes
Branch, Lehigh County, Pa. In one of
June 10 he writes to "Dear Arabella" as
follows:
I've spent my life in happlng, wishing.
Too true
Ia give II all for one days fishing
With you.
Then, pray will you %
Where the clear waters flow
Ana the moccaSins blow,
And the mosquitoes grow
Where the little fish swim,
The perch and the brcami
From each leaiy limb.
With the voices SO trim
The little bird swings
And whistles and sings
1lll the forest all rings
With the nice little things,
He says 10 his love,
The queen of the grove.
In poetic eiIusion of July 20, he asks
his dear Arabella" TO come
Down by the silver stream
And watch the bright reflection
or Pale Luna's virgin beam.
lie then remembers that the moon
beams he can not see, because Arabella's s
eyes eclipse their brightness, and he
Oh, darling one, now forget
The former flame Mar u,
Oh, come and ease my bosom of
Your loving j. Uriah.
Some time later he wrote the follow
ing
BROOKLYN, September 9, 1879.
MosT PRECIOUS GEN;
When first beheld thee, bright, warm and fair
with marble white forehead and pure golden
hair,
thought thou vert surely some creature of ar
| sighed to the thrill which thy hand give to
Aud felt that the light of your eyes was divine,
30 calmly, So iondly, 50 pure did they shine.
oh, when the dull cares of this world annoy
And cruelty ruin each moment of Joy
Al Thy side gain peace which no grief can de
stroy.
With thee could gladly and cheerfuly roam
From my country, my friends and my own ma
tive home.
Der lands wild and distant and oceans OF foam.
Your loving J. URIAH.
On the date of the alleged promise of
marriage he writes that when with her
earth is heaven; away from her is hell.
Mr.. Allibonc's counsel has also several
letters written in rhyme by the plaintiff,
but as the genuineness of some are
questioned, they are not reproduced. In
one she speaks fondly OF one Jimmie"
of whom she writes:
"He is always around, and when he is
not he sits and writes me such lovely
poems, generally two a day. Sore are
not quite so good as others, and / make
them into cigar-lghters for his cigars.
lie doesn't know it, and almost scream
when | see him burning up his own
children"
The person who is referred to IN the
answer'is Philadelphia lawyer, who, in
another letter, she speaks of as having
progressed so far as TO get two cases on
the calendar, which she thinks Is u great
achievement, AS "some lawyers take
years to get one"
Mr.. Towns vouches for the good faith
of the plaintiff in action. He SAYS he
knows nothing, however, of the defend
ant, except that he is rhymester.