The Osceola times., 1881-10-01
lDsccOIa Rain Drops.

Dir. Z. NJ. Pcttcy and family arc
moving out to Buffalo Island
'sThc River is up, and the chan
mel is deep" and the Tiger comes
right along.
Mr.. Jesse Mallory has moved
out on Clear Lake, where he has
purchased . home.
MIR. A. ". Lucas, of Mill Bay
on. is at the hotel, where he lies on
bed OF sickness.
Corn, crackers viii be glad to
learn that Meal has taken tumble
Of 80 cents on the barrel.
We learn that a gentleman by
the name Of Smoote, is here trying
to get up a dancing school.
Isn't it about time the dog-kill-
er was making his grand rounds.
Dogs are too numerous about town,
by half.
The Jonesboro Times has chang
ed its name TO that of The Jonesboro
.Teims." Sounds more toney and
Rosfou-iike,
-Mfs Ruth Burk,..who has been
spending some time with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. John Matthews, at Fort
Smith, returned home last Thursday.
Movers from Tennessee and
other states, are coming over to our
county almost daily. Room for
them all.
Mr.. Thomas Kellums, we regret
to announce, is dangerously ill.
Since writing the above, Mr.. kel-
lums has passed from life unto death.
He died yesterday evening.
Last Monday, the stores and
business houses closed at noon and
the church bells tolled during the
burial ceremonies over the remains
of President Garfield.
We had a pleasant call from
Mess. J. Swearengen, 4. II, Mus
graves and J.. IL. Forsyth, of IIick-
man bend, last Tuesday. They re-
port good crops, plenty of corn for
home demand, with some to spare.
The steamer "Tiger y made her
first trip from Memphis to this place
last Wednesday, and came up the
chute to the town wharf. She will
ply in this tsade regularly in the flu
ture.
"A good article of butter is now
manufactured from cotton seed oil
If some ore win get mp good arti-
Gle of milk from the seed So we can
do away with cows and save winter
feed, we'll be fixed.
-Parson II. u. Moon, returned
from Eureka Springs, where he had
gone to recuperate his health, and
has so FAR recovered as to be able to
resap.e his ministerial duties as
pastor.
A little daughter Of Mr.. James
Ward, while playing with n axe
yesterday evening, let It drop on her
foot, severing her little toe. DIR.
Dunavant was sent for, who dressed
the wound, and the little girl is
doing as web as could be expected.
1t is with regret that we learn
Mrs. Cayce, wife of our fellow towns
man, Mr.. John NJ. Cayce, who came
home few days since from Maiden,
Mo-, whittier she had gone in the
hope Of regaining her health, is now
lying at the point OF death.
MIR. John ?. Miller who has
been spending the heated term in
the mountains of East Tennessee.
returned home last Thursday, look
ing much improved in health. He
reports crops in that section as COM
plete failures.
Tho trial of the two Atkinsons,
son and father, of Pemiseot county,
Mo-, for the murder of the wife and
child of the younger, took place at
Gayoso, and consumed the most part
of last week and this, Though the
evidence was only circumstantial,
yet it was so strong and conclusive,
that both were returned guilty of
murder in the FIRST degree.
Rev. Mr.. Jolly, of Greensboro,
passed through town yesterday. lie
is engaged in the work of distribut-
ing Bibles, and soliciting contribu-
tions for the American Bible Society.