The Osceola times., 1882-05-20
Circuit Court Items.

fact we have been unable to pick up
Il readable item during the whole
term of court. But it il not our
fault. Judge Mack has been in
good humor all the week, and the
attorneys have been too lazy or iired
TO get up fuss with each other. AT
one time there seemed to be "A s,cong
probability that there would he a
duel gotten up between Nj jor
Semmcs, of this place, and Colonel
Fred Adams, of Memph;s, bat Gen.
Thomson, upon whose brow c.c-
quently is seen in bright letter, he
words, blessed are tine peace-mak-
ers,N intcrfered, and brought about
peace and harmony once more. Those
who were anxious for some fun, t.ied
them to get up a modern Virginia
duel, one Of hose kind where con-
siderable gore is she'd betore the bat
tie, but on the field, the meeting be-
comes sort OF love feast, and evpry-
body's ionah satisfied. But Sammos
and Adams are too peactic'l for any
such foolishness.
We asked Col. Lyle, 'he n. stor
of our bar, ald one Of the ablost
lawyers in the South, why the law
yers were SO quiet at this term. He
replied, "Wcll, there is 10 money
here for US; why, sir, if all the fees
that have been collected at thi cou {
were to be equally divided between
every lawyer present, and each low
yer had just ninety days TO live, he
would die of staryation forty days
before his time When .he ,radi-
Itional "genile reader" roads the
above he will see why we 9re 20 sho Q
Of items.
About ,he only ppy man we saw
WAS Brown, The ST., eo A o.1ay,
who rakcd in morey isht eloo
from the poor fellows who bad been
tempting dame fortune with cards,
etc, etc. As Brown raled in tle
we 18th, we noticed "a sad "rar-avav
Mos 81 look come o5cr the clss ic
features Of Ne W'!G.rs and
Edringtoa his opponent, rs ;ncy &C.
Elected thst, that money Of Bgown's
woald be apowe III leve,, se sg .lst
them m the coming race.
We did hear a joke The o,he day
Here it IS: Foor young N u, one Of
whom was an office. were con, &c q,
of the oi'ense of playing poker, and
all but the Officer fined so G oh, but
the Cougt hncd uDe Office hld. tb,
Judge rem. k,rg ,lac officers SHOULD
know better. The latter then ca lee
up his companions in the game, ant
gravely in ormed them that herea' !.
ier when he playedpoker and P At
dollar on the game, they me- po
sl.5O to sort of even up things.
We believe we had a note of the
fact that tie case of the State ag2inst
A. l.. Cisscll, charged with marder
and which had been pending in The
Cross Circuit Court on change oI
venue for the past three yesrs, had
been noHe pressed. But at this term
of Court, the Gland jury rc-indic.ed
Mr.. Cissell, and he was at once re-
arrested and being permitted by the
Court to give bail, Hon. j, b. Diver,
A. L. Cisscll, w. A. Hall and j. J..
llearn entered into recognizance in
open Court for ihc appea; nee of
Cissell at next term OF Count.
A very important case was decided
by Judge Mack last Monday. The
defendant was charged with selling
liquors without license AT point
opposite Osceola in the Mississippi
river. There was no question as 10
where the saloon was located, but
the defendant claimed that the con-
stitution of 1874 declared the bound.
AIRY Of the State line on ihe east to
be the middle of the main channel
of the Mississippi river, and that the
channel was on the 30,h dav OF Oc-
tober, 1874, located on this side of
the sand-bar, and that iLc State line
is therefore now where it was in 1874,
while now, the channel of the river
is east of the bar. But the Court
decided that the east line OF the State
was shifting, and that it always fol-
lowed the main channel OF the liver.
and so instructed the jury, who found
the defendant gully and being una
BILE to agree upon the amount of the
fine, the Court fixed it at 500, and