The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
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ing.
-Buttcrcpps, violets and Hya'
cin,hs are ripe.
Don't you wish you hadn't
planted your garden seed!
Mr.. r. A. Matthews has been
dangerously i'll during the past
week, but is now on the mend.
Tom Myers, cold, was up be-
fore Squire L'ston for striking a
dark compl.xioncd female with
clri,y from tho effect OF which blood
foTed freely, and was fined Slo
ssnd tho costs.
Col. Bennett, of the q. 5.
Secret Service, who has been work
ina up the City OF Vicksburg rob
berry case, captured another of the
pirates, Copeland, and took HIM
down 10 Memphis last Wednesday
night.
A rather good communication
was received by us, but the author
failed TO send us his name. Our
rule is, not TO publish anonymous
communications unless accompa-
sicd by the real name OF the author
so, +" Reformation" send us your
name. ~
1t totk four men to sit down
on one Denton, OF Carson Lake
last Wednesday. He Eel. SO mean
after he got sober, that the }. T.
let him of for being drunk, but
taxed him four dollars for being
sat down on, q dollar tor each set
tsD.
-Cursing aud swearing IN loud
and boislcrous manner on the
streets, don't always pay; besides,
It's naughty. Sheriff Haskins and
Mayor B!ackwood were both ar
rested on that charge and fined 81
so and 81 respectively. This ia an
Innovation VIC hope will be kept up
"A young man came in from
Clear Lake, night before last. with
The hard earnings OF his daily la
bors for the past month, twenty five
dollars. After taking several snif
tcrs, he retired TO bed at the Plan
ters' house, and yesterday morning
when he awoke he found his pile
had tskeL wings and fled. Moral
never take too many sniiters, and
keep your weather eye skined.
We acknow ledge with pleasure
the receipt of choice collections oi
shrubs, plants and bulbs, from the
reliable firm of Nanz 4 Neuner, al
Louisville, Ky. They were ship
ped BY express via. Memphis, and
so carefully were they packed, that
on being taken ont they seemed as
fresh as though just out Of tho beds.
Now is the time to send your or
dcrs, and be aure to address Iessrs.
Nanz & Ncuner. Louisville, Ky.
AS a general thing the annonnc
ment that n wedding is abou 10 take
place, doesn't always make any
very perceptible change in The pub
hc pulse Of Osceo'a society. With
the fashion, bic outside world, how
ever, occasionally an event OF this
nature throws society gossips into
a frenz,ed fever Of excitement. Such
was recently the case, when Lady
Eurdette Couts, who though i'm
mensely rich, has seen CD summers,
married a society stripping who had
scarce seen the summer swallows
migrate 30 times. But such events
are Of rare occurrence, and only
prove the exception rather than the
rule. But we are wandering, and
MS comparisons are odious, we
will without further "preamble "
give our readers the latest happen
ing in that line; not that there is
any similarity or disparity Of years
10 the case above cited, bat because
the up-,oc Of exciloment was as
much tickled. and the public aston.
isbment Was iully as great: La,e
last Sunday evening, ii began TO be
whispered around that Mrs. Lizzie
Best was about TO be married but,
10 whom, was past finding out
though the county clerk was ire
queni,y interviewed upon tho SUBJ
iect-be was mute. As is the Gus.
tom here, (it should be abolished).
every man who could get a horse,
or rig up a. team-whether invited
or not, went out to Mrs. BIS resi-