The Osceola times., 1882-03-18

--t'caVh ana rum trees are ali III
bloom.
One swallow, or two martins,
don't make summer, but the mar
tins are here all the same.
The Ladies Aid Society will
meet at Miss Fannie Fletcher's Tues
day evening at B o'clock, 7. NJ
Mr.. James ID. Driver renewed
his subscription to the TIMES, this
week.
Mr.. T.. Bevills made the TIMES
a pleasant call during the week and
subscribed.
March came in like Mary's little
lamb, behaved like il SO far, and We
hope it will go out like an overflow
ed sheep.
A Lady friend of experience
suggests that those of us whose gar
dens are under water will have tc
plant our Irish potatoes in the moon
We have drawn largely from
our exchanges this week. This is
done for a change, which some of oul
readers will no doubt, appreciate.
News items scarce this week
no rows, no fights, no mass-meetings
no nothing, hence the thusness o
this weeks issue.
The old Cooke house, latel,
purchased, we learn, by Sheriff Has.
kins, is being weather. boarded, new
windows and frames inserted, ant
being otherwise greatly improved.
Catching drift-wood is about tn,
most pcrsistently followed occupa
ton along the river. 1t is almos
impossible for fence rail or stel
of cord wood to pass any given point
Spring blowing back of the lev
&c he's commenced in earnest. w
saw eight or ten plows turning NJ
the soil, a day or two since, just as j
we were not struggling with the big
gest overflow of the century.
The Southeast Chronicle says
the reason that no one is willing Il
occupy the vacant seat in the U. S
Supreme Court is that the naughty
boys Of Washington have placeC
tacks on the seat. Conkling and Ed
munds saw the point, and promptly
declined the seat.
The scare caused 10y the repor
a few days since, that another ris'
was coming down, and that g inches
more cf water might be expected
has been allayed. The rise reached
here last Tuesday night but it barely
checked the fall--swelling the river
quarter of an inch. The water:
have been gradually declining, and
as we lock up the forms, the guage
indicates decline Of 3 inches since
our last-li inches all told.
The prospects in the entire
wheat growing sections for an abun-
dant harvest, were never more prom
Using than at present. This, to the
inundated of this valley, who at pres
ent sec nothing, but dark clouds of
watery waste, should be source of
consolation--thc silver lining you
read about being attached to every
cloud. They may yet get to mort
gage their dripping farms for bar
rel or two of -four, and pull through
to the next crop of cotton.
We call attention to the article
from the Fort Smith Elevator, headed
"Political Convention" In it will
be found food for reflection for all,
and pointers for our County Demo
cratic Central Committee, to the
adoption of rules for the government
of township or primary meetings.
Read it, and then talk il over. The
majority ought to rule. Let's do
away with little cut-and-dried con-
ventions and mass meetings of all
sort. Better that everything should
go by default or unreprcsented than
that the majority be mis-represented
by the interested few.
--DIrp-B. Davis Hearn, son of
J. ]. Hearn, Friday, March l0th., in
the 21st, year ofhis age, of consump-
tion.
About one year ago Davis had an
attack of Measles, which settled on
his lungs, and has been an invalid
ever since. For the past few weeks