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The Osceola times., 1882-11-04
For Sale, Cheap!

A Horse power Well boring Machine with two
Augurs and all attachments. II is the most
complete Wel-Burer made, and has been used
but little, and Will he sold at u bargain.
For further particulars, address,
THEO. BlEHI f.
ii.I-f Plum Point Tenn.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-04
OsccOIa Rain Drops.
Show in town Yesterday.

Show in town yesterday.
Mrs. G. F. Stowell and children
arc all on the sick list.
Mary, four year old daughter of
Mrs. Bette Buys, died last Sunday.
White, Scarlet and Drab Flannels,
at SrowELL & HEINZ.
Mr.. G. r. Brickey made short
business trip to Memphis during the
week.
Ladies and Misses Hose, In large
varieties, at SrowELL & HEINz.
Mr.. T. G. Edrington handed us
the price of a years subscription last
Saturday.
Virginia Tobaococs, at
JAMES ScnNABEL's.
One hundred pupils are in at
tendance at the Osceola Male and
Female Academy.
Thurbsrs No. 8, and No. 10, at
JAMES ScHNABKL's.
Mr.. Cornelius Powell dropped
in yesterday and renewed his sub
scription TO the Times. Thanks.
Black Caahmcres, SO, 05, and 90
cents per yard, at SrowxLL & HEINZ.
We acknowledge the receipt of
six months subscription, for the
use Of the plantation, by Col. J. w.
Jefferson.
Fresh arrival of Embroideries and
Laces, at SrowELL & HEINZ.
Mr.. e. II. Wetherford, Of Louise
P.O., while in town last Monday
called and subscribed for copy of
the TINES.
Soft Finish l3leached Domestic, 36
inches wide, at 10 cts per yard, at
STOwEL & Heinz.
See notice of House and Lot for
sale by Mr.. J. b. Wynne. This is
. splendid chance to get neat and
cozy home at bargain.
If you want anything in the
Druggists line, go to
DIR. r. G. PREwITr.
DIR. F; M. Pettey, accompanied
by Mrs. Pettey and daughter, Miss
Belle, came in yesterday from Buffa'
10 Island, and are stopping at Mr..
o. f. Pettey's.
Picked Pigs Feet and Tongue,
ut JAMES ScHNABEL's.
--DIEp-Mrs. Caroline Morris,
wife Of q. c. Morris, died Sunday
Morning. Oct. Goth, at 2 o'clock, A.
M, Of Dropsy. She leaves seven
children to mourn her death.
Variety Of choice Cigarettes, at
JAMES ScnNABRL's.
The advocates Of whisky claim
that more whiskey is sold and drank
now without license. than was sold
and drank before license WAS voted
out Of Osoeola. II that be the case,
what do they want to pay the license
forP
Blankets, Quilts and Comforters,
at SrowxLL & Heinz.
The contract for building tho
Court House, will not be awarded
till next Monday, the delay being
occasioned by the illness of the
commissioner. Mr.. James Liston.
The work 10 10 be pushed with dex-
tcrity until completed.
Fresh Oysters, at SoHxAnEL's.
The whiskey men are circulat-
ing petition praying the next Leg
islature to repeal the three mile law,
basing their supplication on the
ground that sobriety sis detrimental
to the morality and business inter-
ests Of the community. &c." Did
you ever! ~
Ginger Ale and Kronthaler, at
JAMES SoHNABEL's.
We may not be cosmopolitan in
Our habits, nor entertain deep and
broad views on the subject of probi
bition. nor possessed of unlimited
capacity to chamber red liquor, but
we do believe, and say it without
boasting, that our perceptive facul.
ties are such as to enable us to see
rs far through milestone as that of
any other man. regardless Of his op.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-04
FRENcgMAN Bayou, AK.
oct the 2sth 1882,

Wv N"N = 3D. 'S'~'
Oscealo Times: mr.. editor Dear
sir will give you and ietm Of what
ocourd here the other night at Mr..
w II wilson's saloon it is the head
quarters of the mr. w B Haskin men
they would not Let man say hurah
for iiec tell Last tuesday night three
men strong Hec Bouin men went up
there and there was about forty Of
mr. Haskens men there but for all Of
that Hecs men ruled the night and
would not Let a hasking man come
in the saloan that night But we
would halow hurah for Bowen all
night Heo Bowen is not our shairf
it is true but he will be some time
YOU bet he will and the white men
will elect him the three men that
ruled that saloan ther name is W. G..
smith. II. II. Butler and Robt, Smith
all of the bayou
harah for Hec banning so remain
X. Is.
r. II. Butler
plooe Duhlisb
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

New Orleans Plaayune.

/ New, orleans ficayuAe.
| III Is an especial advantage for Lon
lisiana that She is able to offer a large
variety of soil and consequent choice
of staple to the incoming agrietiltnrist.
IIf he prefers to cultivate rice, he can
without difficulty find q location ad-
mirable and excellent. Cotton, OF
sugar, need mot necessarily receive ex-
elusive or chief attention. There are
pine flats and bills, prairies of brown
loan and gray silt, black prairies,
aliuyial regions, bluffs ofrich brown
loan, oak uplands of pale yellow and
red lands, etc. We have repeatedly
urged that the beautiful parish of st.
| Landry, the bluffs of Baton Rouge,
and the Florida parishes, present OPP
portmities to immigrants unsurpassed
by those sought elsewhere; bHt VIC
have not told half the valno of the
state. You can scarcely put your finger
on. a corner of itwhich does not invite
energetic labor to come and grow rich.
There is Caleasieu, in the south
west. 1t looks like great square
field on the map. 1t has an area of
340O square miles, and within its
bounds contains woodland, long leaf
pine flats, long leaf pine hills, oak up
lands, swamp, marsh, marsh prairie,
gray, silt prairie, black ealeareous
prairie. 1t can grow cotton, corn, rice,
sugar, sweet potatoes, oranges, and
Thousand other things and yet.it
has bnt l2,484 people by the census,
considerably less than four to the
square mile, and out of about two
million acres only some fourteen thous-
and are titled, This white mans para
disc (the population is mostly white)
is abandoned to stock raising ia good
bnsiness) and numbering.
1t has not been reserved for us to
point out the beauties of this section
Of Louisiana. Prof. lIilgard has point
ed ont that the balmy climate Of the
Attakapas prairie region, tempered 10y
the sea breeaess and the fertility of its
soils, cannot fail to make it the garden
of Louisiana. The Lake Charles ECno
has repeatedly stated the chief points
Of attraction for immigration, and in
a recent article, admirably written, it
describes the climate as. "nearly per-
petual spring, so that seeding of any
but the,most sensitive vegetation may
be done at almostany time with safety"
We are not aware that yellow fever
has ever appeared nthe parish, unless
it be cases from infected localities
during epidcmies. Government lands,
either prairie or timber, can be bought
at 81 % per acre.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23
.E.nsa a., tI,s, ssose,,n rEcNotl.

The pilots Of the steam piIot-boat
Underwater report having fallen in
with vessel, bottom up, about fifty
miles of the Passes, aud read the
name Rosetta Mcneil on her quarter,
in letters painted yellow. Capt, Rid
die, Of the towboat Chamberlain, also
reports being alongside Of this vessel.
The Rosetta Mcneil sailed from Pen
sacola on the 9th inst, with a cargo of
timber, for Rio de Jauciro. She was
commanded by Cspt. Percy, and owned
and built in Waldoboro, Maine, in
1861. Efforts will be made to tow this
wreck to the PASSES. Her officers and
crew, shipped in Pensacola, we've
doubtless drowned.-Picdy'tae.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23
Parnlallon . .tl,e aLnised ssates

WAsHNGToH, September lS.-The
Census bureau has issued a bulletin
classifying the population of the
United States in 1880 by nativity.
The number of native born We're !:
Whites 36,843, 29l, colored G,632, $40;
foreign born, 6,679,943; total popnla-
ton, so, l55, 7s3. OF the foreign born,
2,772,169 were natives of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Il 800 ,742. Of the German Empire, 7l7,-
l064 Of British America, l94,397 Of
Norway, l81 ,729 Of Sweden, LOG, 97l.
Of France, 1854 Of China, and the
remainder represent all the countries
of the earth.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

ton girls climbing the hills up here I
suppose in comparison with the beach
sand mounds they assumed the proper.
lions of mountains. Ibeg Huntsyille's
pardon if I have wounded her cities
dignity in any way, for in truth 4 am
pleased with the natural advantages =
hereabouts and the oxigenated air is
quite a stranger to my lungs even of
her hills.
Ex-Governor Hubbard was on the
| train the day I eanlenp. He is in ex-
cellent health, and has grown almost
too large for a berth in the sleeper.
Nearly six years had elapsed since Isaw
him, and the difference in his size then
and now astonished me. 50nEANDRR.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

d. SrouDENnFIgR. Denutv TINTED
States Marshal 4 ri spasa .Tevos ,vas
sbot and instantly killed Il hat nlaoe.
~ nfouday NM. s,oudepmeier was 1
character " considerable note. NM
sustained ,i,e repntatiap II as.hrayo
aud daring 1 man. q ever lived ~ lie
Te.as frostiar and tl.t nort;on af III,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

Sister Mary John, who for over
half century had been the matron Of
the ST. Joseph's Orphan Asylum in
Philadelphia, died there last week.
During her last sickness hundreds Of
wellrtp-do women, once waits nnder
her charge, besieged the asylum with
inquiries Or loving Inementpes Times
Democrat.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

On Thursday Of last week the Chat
.tanooga train On the East Tennessee
railroad was boarded BY several desper-
ale men, who shot Sheriff Cate and his
deputy, Conway, and released John
baylor, convicted murderer. Taylor
and bis brother thep stole horses and
nlade their escape.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

aB town council Of AIarksyillc,
Avoselles parish have appointed 4
cpnslablcat the munidceent salary Of
81 per month The aforesaid con-
stable oagAt to feel proud Of this gen
eraas action Of the council.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

The New Orleans States has taken
upon itself the task Of defending the
Hon. Il. JohnElHs from the strietures
Of Major n. a. Burke, Of the Times
Democrat, and the States has thus de-
Iliberately assumed responsibility that
isilikely to prove too great a lead for
even the aggressive and able States to
carry.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

HE mayor VI Brownsville telegra-
TsEls fhat yellow fever has ceased ID bc
epidemic 4 that place, and lasialnost
disappeared At Masalporas. In view
Of tbs be states thatfarther Rccaniary
al nil not be noeaed.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

AS we predicted, the Cincinnati
nHle did &lle business for the EgEp-
tisns. Ihe first consignment a8ere
placed in the English front ranks and
kicked themselves into Cairo. They
were Observation-Disclosures Orleans
Gu ITEM.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

Louisiana IS DOW Simplifying iexas
with stock cattle. Over 10000 head
have passed through during the past
yess. The tables are turning. 4 short
time agp Texas supplied ns wlih eats
tle hregeRa1i sqss agFa.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

Hssz 81 railroad from New Or
ieans 20 Chicago Is spoien of as she
aezt probable move IF Jay 6sonld, She
aipbiie anu tillio road being the tlEsti
object of attention upder this plan.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

okR hundred tbonsand dollar frc
uas ono Of the yisitaiioBs sent upon
New 0fleans onsfhe Goth inst.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

Transient advertisements 81 per inth. First
ihserziud. and 80 cents tsr each subsequent
iasertiaa Legal advertisements tone hun
|aeflfs 81 letsj 81 for first aud 80 cents
dsf aasf Subsequent Insertion.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

iir3s8nIS \. BuTIER ~ bis never
seasing efforts to secure the governor
slip 81 Massachusetts, has ag5in been
successful in securing the Democratic
nomination for that high office. De
neeraey can never be successful, any
where. with sneh d staadeFdrbearer as
Batter.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

Miss CLARA CHRIsraiAs, who it will
be remembered, mention Of which hay
Ting been made in this paper shot out
the eYes Of young man at Brennan,
Texas, for alleged SANDER, several
weeks ago, has been indicted BY The
grand jury for assault will. intent TO
murder She has given bond for her
appearance, and two gallantAf' y young
limbs Of the law have volunteered to
defend her, Miss Christmas is young
aud pretty, and it will be a hard mat
ser 70 fud = jury that viii punish her.
She might partially atone for her
yrimc ~ deyoting the balance Of her
days 70 the care Of her poor, blind
victim.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

Tow 0cHnTREE's chances for cleo
ation 10 ccngFess nttbe Galveston dis
iriet appear ID Nc growing beautifully
less every day. 4 pronounced Re-
publican has taken the field as an in
dependent candidate, which e1feetaally
fains the doughty Thomas prospects.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

sTRpAyi SEPTEMBER ~, lss2-
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-23

A.1iss N BgJ 81. g
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-02-17
Prison Life In Sling Sing.

"We have q great deal Of trouble
with prisoners In consequence Of their
stealing" said Warden Brush, Of Sing
Sing. to q reporter recently. "a he sat
In his office In the prison at Sing Sing.
''They take to 1t naturally and per.
petually, and II Is not for fun, but for
the simple satisfaction Of getting pos
session Of some other persons proper.
ty. It may be hat they are afraid
they'll lose the knack II they don't
practice II here. They steal each
others shirts and towels and shoes, il
they get Q chance. They will make more
Of an opportunity than you q possibly
imagine. When the men are given
clean shirts they have to be watched
with eagle eye or the keeper will ind
himself out . dozen OF more gar
ments."
"Yes," remarked Keeper Fury, 81
have to put my foot on the dirty ones
as fast as they are changed, and deal
out the clean ones, one at O time very
carefully |; and even then I am liable to
lose o shirt or two. The other day l
allowed Q nan who is square and all
right TO 60 into the middle mess-room
to change his shirt. He laid the clean
shirt down at his feet and was Just
pulling the soiled one over his head,
when, quick as o fash. one OF the con-
victs whipped up the clean garment.
and 1t was gone when the fellows head
came out from the shirt. The garment
was found afterward planted in an
out Of the way place. They always
plant or hide anything they steal,
until Q more convenient season, expect
Ing perhaps that they will get away
with It when their time Is up."
mi. Fury had an interesting expert
enos some time since in the egg trade"
the warden went on, drly. 1.-THE men
arc allowed q good supply Of eggs
daily. On this occasion several Of them
savsd the shells carefully and filed
them With potato. They then sent
them back and complained that the
eggs were rotten They managed to
get about twenty extra eggs that time"
THAT happened only once" the
messsroom keeper replied quickly.
They did not catch me In that way
seAin."
ct Il really remarkable, though,
what An almost insane propensity the
man have fog stseling," Mr.. Brush said
further. II took q fancy to . colored
boy who was sent mp here Tor Q couple
OF yeAxs. and mAds him my waiter. On
the vary arst day what did the fellow
do but steal the soupi He might have
had all he wanted but NO, he must
steal It or he wouldn't be happy. We
had . fellow here who was IN for Eve
year.. who ought to have been in an
asylum for idiots. He would walk
alpps BY The tables and steal everything
and anything he could lay hands on.
cups, knives or anything else. He was
sentenced In New York because he went
up to . bakers window, thrust his hand
through the glass. took out q pie and
went on eating II In the open street. A
policeman came along and arrested him,
and he was SAINT up here. He had been
at blackwell's Island before, and he
supposed he was there all the while he
was here. Bone Of the keepers liked
him and taught him Q good deal for O
fooi--the prisoner. I mean"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-02-17

10 examine tho book upon Alcohol and
liygipe. Knowing him to be an auto
crat In his wi realm, we thought that
1t would be useless 10 apply to the
trustees. We corld not resume our
Temperance School, for that terrible
disease, diphtheriA, broke up for atIme
our public schools. And all through
the year the death angel has shadowed
our homes.
Our town superintendent of schools,
who is also a physician, after carefully
examining the work, Alcohol and Hy-
gene, heartily endorses It.: and will
use his influence to have It introduced.
He says,-."that teachers can proitably
spend a portion of each term of school
In fastening the good truths Of this
book firmly In the minds Of the chill
dren where good impressions are so II.
able to be lasting" 1 still think as I
stated In my report last year. that tho
W. g. T. u. can do no better work
than to petition every school In our
land until Temperance text books are
universally adopted. I would not
crowd already ovorworked teaoh-
ers, but l would have less Of other
branches and O great deal of total alb.
stinencc taught,-TotalI Abstinence,
not only from intoxicating drinks, but
from tobacco. Those detestable clRs.
rettes are running u little boys; chill
dren from six to eight years Of age, In
incredible numbers, are learning to use
them. IL IL no uncommon thing for
teachers In u primary departments,
10 find aud take tobacco from the little
ones In their chsrge, and yet the teach
ers In our graded school are not given
one moments time to teach them its
dreadful ELECTS upon the system,
What shall we do to ave themp
Juvenile organizations are doing O
grand work, but large numbers Of
children cannot be persuaded, or are
not allowed, to Join them. To reach
the masses, temperance should be caro-
fully and thoroughly taught In our
public schools, and II u appeals TO
the Legislature and school boards are
disregarded, l would suggest. that the
women of Vermont avail themselves OF
the law passed at Montpelier, Decsm-
Der Is, 1880. "Women shall have the
came right 10 vote as men have In all
school district meetings." In making
the suggestion l have no wish to advo-
cate "Woman's Rights" have no de-
sire TO vote on political questions or
any other, ii the men of our country
will only rally to our standard.
But children are our hope for the fu.
ture-"A heritage from the Lord" and
shall we rest at cas- when the "Arch
Enemy" is sowing tares among our
finest wheat?
"Christlan woman, art thou sleeping,
Hast not walked to watch and pray
Rise for It's thy Master apeakin9,
In my vineyard work to-day.
Amer sowing cometh reapiDg,
Not through ease are harvesh won.
Ceaseless toll, not idle sleeping
Ever brings His sweet well done"
NINA MORGAN. Sup.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-02-17
A Big Cattle Farm.

The ranches Of Cattle King Powers,
all making up river frontage Of
eighteen miles. and including q number
Of very productive meadows. are situated
on the south aide, Of the Arkansas, and
All are under fence. Directly opposite
these. beginning at Fort Lyon and
fsarhing down the river twenty-five
miles, and extending back far enough
to include IN eIpanse OF 80, 900 acres, Is
another pasture under fence, the titles
for which are In the same name. Here.
then, are forty miles Of water front and
100000 acres OF pasture under fence,
al owned by n man. The fencing on
these ranches will sum up cver 100
miles. Northvard TO and sven beyond
the Kansas Pacific, and southwark to
Omarron and beyond, into the PAN
Handle Of Texas, Craze his cattle, more
than $4,000 in number.-Denvw Repub-
dean.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-02-17
A Tramp's Phil0aOphy.

In the hip pocket Of m old warrant
pulled In by tho police the other night
was Q memorandum book full of This own
writing with pencil. and some OF his
philosophy Il good enough to be pse-
served. His first paragraph reads;
"Drinking bad whisky because Il r.
offered free Il like getting In the way Of
bullets purchassd by an enemy"
A second reads:
Honesty Is the best policy, but
some folks are satisfied with second
best II Il hard to be honest on an
empty stomach"
"a dry plank under q rain proof shed
II better than Q feather bt d In Jail, and
one isn't annoyed by the jailer bringing
In Q square breakfast"
A fourth says:
PAY ~ you 60. II you haven't any
thing 70 pay with don't 60. II you are
forced TO 60 record every indebtedness
and let your heirs settle bills."
The hfth explains:
I'VE should have charity for ali.
When the winter winds blow cold and
drear We vags should pity the poor fell
lows In India who " having red hot
weather"
A sixth IL recorded:
"Politeness costs nothing, but 1t u
not expected that You will wake = man
up at midnight TO ask permission TO 60
through his sn-house. II u more
courteous to let him enjoy his needed
rsposs."
The seventh and last was noted down
as follows:
"When you pick mp an apple core do
not find fault because il Ia not the apple
itself, but be satished with the grade
Of descent. Do not be ashamed Of
your occupation. We cannot ll be
lords, nor can We all be vagrants- A
I cannot be . lord I should mot lament
st being . vagrant. Be truthful and
outspoksn-that Il, tell 'em you are .
Chicago fire sufferer. Keep ssssonable
hours OF some ether vags will get your
plank Arst. Be hopeful, ehseSful and
good.natured. Growing won't cure q
sore heel"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-02-17

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