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The Osceola times., 1882-06-10
Unknown Alaska.
San Francisco News Letter.

san Francisco News Letter.
When the late Mr.. Seward purchased
Alaska from the Car he was not aware
Of the fact that he was getting with his
countless ftir.seals, fisheries, mines and
icebergs, one OF the greatest rivers in the
world, and now almost demonstrated TO
be OF greater volume than the Mississip.
pi. Such is the Yukon. The vast region
il waters remains almost as much q terra
incognita as the Congo.
In fact, while the latter has been once
explored--by Stanley-from the point
where Livingstone turned back down to
the Atlantic Ocean, and by Livingstone
from its extreme sources to where Stan
ley's exploration began, no traveller has
ever yet seen the upper water OF Yukon.
or has ever been aole to enlighten the
world as to IFS length or its source, or the
region it drains. Here, then, is an open
ing for enterprise and ambition, more
fruitful OF promise than anything as yet
unrevealed in Africa or the Arctic sea,
and probably less dangerous.
That the country contains mines OF
gold and silver, we NAV readily coDject.
ure from the fact that such mines exist
on all sides of il. The river is navi gable
for hundreds Of miles 1t is free OF ice
from June 10 September. Its banks are
flanked below with Indian villages. Its
waters are filed with fish for the support
of human life, and its woods with game.
The mountains in which it rises are un-
known to white men, but, as they are
generally believed TO be stored with that
sort of treasure which led TO the rapid
settlement of California and to the ex
panslon of commerce on the south and
central Pacific, there is the strongest sort
of temptation on the part Of thousands TO
see them, test them and dig them up. il
the treasure can be found.
The government has many vessels ly-
ing idle and uselessly rotting for the want
Of action. Why not fit one of them up
for n two years cruise on this great un.
explored river of the north? The dis
covery of gold mines there would lead
instantly to large emigration from all
parts Of the world, and in few years
contribute millions to the commerce OF
the southern Pacific states and terri.
tories
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10
Bro. Gardner on Divorce.
Detroit Free Press.

'lhold heah in my ham" began Broth
er Gardner, a, he waved the missive
aloft, "a letter from Guile Clergy man in
tennessee AKIN dis club 10 use It's infioo.
ence to secure mo- stringent divorce laws
in dis varus states, and to sot its
face agin de procurement Of divorce.
except fur de very gravest reasons. Dis
cluD will do muffin of de kind. On de
contrary, it will vote solid to furnish all
facilities fur parties desirous to be on.
hitched with promptness an dispatch.
Muffin comes nearer perdition dan an un
mated an unmatched couple tryin' to lib
togeder as man an wife. I hold dat no
couple who doan lub each oder-who
doan' agree an can't forgive-who won't
excuse-should lib togeder ten minits.
II we git house we doan' like we sell it.
II we git hoss we doan' like we trade
him off, five doan' like de naybarhood
we move away. If we doan' like de nav.
burs We let 'em alone. How, den, kin
you 'spect husbands an wives TO put up
wild ugliness, meanness, drunkenness,
profanity, extravagance an all dat am
hateful in de human heart?
"Let 'em divorce. God intended hus-
band aud wife TO lub, cherish. forgive an
be all In all TO each odder. Whar' dey
can't be sich 1t am thousand times bet
ter dat dey be divorced, No man OF wo-
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10
ARKANSA
THE PENSION ROLLS.
How Much is Paid and Where Il Goes-How
the ssates stand on the Rolis-Grand Ag-
xregate o5l.s1s,a ,aO4.


How Much is Paid and where Il Goes-How
the ssates stand on the Roils-Grand Ag-
gregats eSl.sas, ,sol.
Commissioner Dudley has furnished to
the senate, in response TO resolution OF
inquiry, a statement showing the amount
paid annually n each congressional district
and county on account Of pension; also the
number Of pensioners residing in each con-
gressional district and county, and the total
amount paid on account Of srrearages Tor
the year ending Sept. 4. 1851.
II appears that the total number OF PEN
sioners whose names were on the roll sept.
4 was a6s. .s5l. the annual valne OF whose
pensions was 60, ,2e3, ,46s. OF these ls,co
were not paid. aud having failed TO claim
their pensions within three years they have
apsed: 1000 were sailors whose residences
were not known.
The number Of pensioners actually paid
was s52. .s5i, and the value Of the pensions.
Including arrears, was s5l ,2a4,204 II will
be observed In the table oi distributspn OF
pensions among the several states and ter
ritories given below that very large pro-
portion Of them reside in the states OF New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. The
largest number reside in the state OF New
YORK. over six and half million dollars
ing bethe value OF annual pensions and ar
rears payable in that state during the year
ending Sept. 4, 1881. In Alaska there Is but
one pensioner, whose pensioni Is worth Si'5
annually.
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10

on the foot-b board OF the machine, and
was slrng whirling across the barn into
a half-flled bale of hav on the opposite
side. Alighting on the hay saved him
from any serious injury, but not from
surprise. He didn't expect any such ex-
perience, and was not at all pleased at it.
Neither did he understand it; and, as $500
wouldn't have induced him to go on that
hay loft again, he didn't find out what
threw him. And fear Of ridicule pre-
vented his mentioning it. That night
two tramps tried TO sleep in that hsy-loft
and gave it up as bad job, after sad
experience. They had crawled into the
hay, and were getting themselves fixed,
when one got foul Of the machine, and
Immediately his companion heard a
whiz, a wild yell, and the calls for help
from the other side of the barn. lie
arose to 90 TO his companion, and got
there quicker than he expected. He
{ und his friend very curious to know
what tossed him and somewhat scared.
The way those tramp, fled from that barn
was caution The next day, while all
the folks were away on visit, the lad
got the machine down and set il under
the front door step. Temporarily, he at
tached the wire that set it going to the
door bell. When the folks returne d
they all stood on the door step and the
old man rangt to be letin. With so much
weight the machine couldn't throw 'em
far, but it rose up enough to dump 'em.
The old man was the first to get up. He
spraug once more on the step and rang
violently. He wasn't very big man,
and 1t seemed as though the Lord had
put that snowdrift, forty feet away, Just
on purpose to catch him, They got him
sut, and, filled with terror, went in the
back way. There they told the story,
and the boy explained, and the old man
ran him out and stood him on the ma.
chine six times, and he butted that snow
drift all to pieces. He will not patent
the machine, believing that it is too cru
ell thing for these enlightened DAYS.
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THE OPIUM HABIT.
Two Peculiar Cases In u Chicago Police
Court.

Two Peculiar Cases In u Chicago Police
Court.
Chicago Tribune.
Early Yesterday morning John 0'Neil
WAS arrested while attempting TO break
open the door of Burke's Hotel. When
brought before Justice Wallace he APP
peared like wild man and talked ac-
cordingly. lie announced to the Court
that the officers had consuired to arrest
him by representing that woman was
being assaulted in the kitchen of the ho-
tel by burly negro. When arrested he
was only going to the womans assist
ance." He stated further that he was a
notary and had an office at No. 80 Clark
street.
"Are you married ?" inquired the
Court.
"Yes," replied O'Neil, "I am married
by virtue, on contract of compatible
ty.n ,
"where we've you last night ?" asked
the Court
IL was most Of the time in a Chinese
laundry near the corner of Lake and
Dearborn streets"
Are you addicted 10 opium smoking Y'
"Yes, have smoked opium steadily
for the past fifteen years but, your Hon
or, this is base conspiracy to ruin me
and that woman in the basement | can
give You a reference as 10 my character
from the best citizens Of Chicago and
can show you, If you will give me time
to explain, personal letter from Cover
nor Cullom-"
."You have explained enough, young
man." interrupted the Court: you broke
into the place while crszei with opium
smoke. You are fined S25. If find this
hypothesis confirmed you will go to the
Washington Home if not, you will pay
your fine or go to the Bridewel."
O'Neil was not the only victim of the
opium habit brought into Court yester.
day. Henry McLaughlip, an eater Of
the drug, who has been living with a
woman named Emma Whitteford at S33
West Madison street, was sent to the
Bridewell by Justice Walsh, under fine
of $50. Officer Dudley, of the Humane
Society, was the complainant, and he stat
ed that the woman with whom McIauph-
lin was living Was a courtesaD, but had
recently fallen neir to considerable pro.
perty through the death Of her mother,
who died OF excessive drinking and de.
bility short time ago. The woman,
however, is suffering from loathsome
disease, and is so stupefied from the use
OF opium as TO be unable to handle her
property, and under the advice of Judge
Knickerbocker a conservator Of the es.
tate will be asked for. The pair had be.
come intolerable nuisances in the neigh.
borhood on account of the drunken rev.
els participated in by themselves and
others of their ilk The woman will be
be placed under proper care and the rem.
devious broken up.
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DROWNED WITH HIS MASTER.
Heroic Efforts Made by Two Dogs to save
q suicide.
Philadelphia Times


A number of children playing on No
BILE street wharf recently, noticed a mid
dle-aged man walking up and down the
edge of the pier, waving his arms wildly
and talking to himself At the mans
heels walked two dogs, Newfoundland
and a Scotch terrier. A few minutes
later the man jumped overheard, and the
dogs followed and endeavored to save
him. The children notified the police
and crowd gathered at the wharf, but
the man had sunk. The dogs were swim
ming around, whining piteously. 4
boatmsn took the dogs out Of the water
and placed them on the dock, but the
terrier Instantly jumped into the stream
again and resisted all attempts to take
him out. The dog swan around yelping
and whining for nearly three-quarters OF
an hour. until he was sucked under a
ship near by and drowned. A number
of watermen dragged for the drowned
mans body until dark, but the search
was not successful. 1t is supposed that
the tide carried the body under the ship
that is moored at the pier. The children
VII, raw Il man jump overheard say he
had gray beard and gray hair, but fur
ther than tha. they were unable to give
any description of the stranger
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10
SHOOTING BY THE WHOLESALE.
Forty Rinemen Employed by California
Planter to Herd Wild Geese.


san Francisco Call
Various methods have been devised OF
exterminating wild geese without avail,
until geese-herding has become pro-
fession as distinct as herding or trapping.
In the early winter the geese appear in
the grain counties in myriads, travelling
about in vast flocks. Their hunger is in
satiable and the new wheat Is rapidly
DESTROYED. DIR. ii. J. Glenn, whose ranch
in Colusa county covers most OF the ara
BILE land in that county, numbering To-
900 acres, or nearly twelve square miles,
expends about $4,000 in herding his
geese. He recently purchased in this
city for the present season, between "
900 and 5000 worth of cartridges, about
250,0OO in number, of A calibre. He has
constantly in his employ, while his wheat
is growing, about forty men, all OF them
mounted and nearly all armed with Hen
ry rifles and field glasses, who patrol his
properly during the day and on all moon.
light nights.
These men are regularly organized into
patrol guard. They discover with their
glasses the focks Of geese, which at a
distance Of from 800 to 400 yards look like
white blanket spread over the green
wheat, and they thereupon plant a bal
let right in the middle OF the flock. This
unexpected visitation sets the flock on
the wing, and the geese herder follows
them up, keeps planting bullets among
them until they rise TO a great height,
and, disgusted, leave the vicinity. Few
geese are killed, the object being to keep
them on the wing and consequently off
the wheat fields. Those that are killed
are carried off and shorn OF their feath-
ers, but the revenue from them amounts
TO little. On DIR. Glenn's ranch about S.
600 cartridges are used in day, which
represents about 1900 geese daily put to
| flight.
Oftentimes thick fog blows in, and
this appears to be the favorite time for
the geese, and they devour the wheat
with great energy. The herders then
! fearful of shooting each other, are almost
baffled, but when the fog rises the flock
are put to flight, and for hours thereafter
the air is filled with feathers and geese
and Glenn's ranch resounds with the
clatter of rifles and the frightened cries
of the prosecuted fowls. To pay his men
buy ammunition and maintain horses
costs DR.. Glenn some $l0,000per annum
but it saves his wheat, which yields 800,
900, as without the geese-herders hal
would be destroyed. The herders be
come very expert in their business, and
are generally good shots and capita
horsemen.
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10
The Patent Catapult.
Boston Post.

A Connecticut man is never happy un-
less he is inventing something. Even
the children have fancy for the busi-
ness. Last summer a Connecticut farm
er's boy visited Bsrnum's circus, and saw
the catapult. 1t suggested to him a
tramp bouncer to be set under name
doorstep, and he at once went to work to
build one. As he wanted TO surprise his
father, he kept the matter a secret, and
worked like beaver in the hay loft OF
the great barn, building the machine.
Finally he got it done. twas a magnifi-
cent machine, worked by q spring capa-
BILE of throwing $50 pounds distance OF
thirty feet. This machine he buried in
the hay till he should be ready 70 test
II. Something possessed his fathers
hired man to 70 up in that hay Ion the
next day, and hs contrvsd 70 ses night
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SUNNI Ry.
DEADLY WORK.
Cyclone Demolishes Every Building In
McAIiister, Indian Territory.


McAIiister, Indian Territory.
DENIsoN, Tex, May "a most appalling
cyclone disaster occurred at McAllister, In
dian territory. Reports concerning the ex.
tent Of the disaster are conflicting, hut the
most reliable is that eight persons were
killed outright and forty wounded. Many
of the latter will die. The number of lives
lost and the casualties will in all probability
exceed the number above stated. Miles of
telegraph lines were prostrated and great
damage done TO railroads. Consequently
details are hard to collect. II seems that
two storms met and centred at the coal
mining camps, three miles from McAllister
station, on the NJ, X. and T. road. one
storm csme from the southwest going north
east from Fort Worth, passing Denison.
slightly to the west; the other came from
the southeast. going northwest, passing
Denison TO the east from Paris. Great de-
struction Is reported in the vicinity Of Paris.
The force Of the two storms met at McAllis-
ter, and wrought death and destruction,
such as only cyclones can. Every building
was torn 10 pieces. A train with physicians.
nurses and aid generally has been sent from
here, and additional details are expected to-
night. The fall OF rain was terrific, and II
was accompanied by great quantity OF
hailstones, which fell rs far north as Fort
Gibson. A washout occurred on the NJ, K.
and T. near Armstrong. in the territory. A
locomotive went down the embankment,
and the engineer was killed. Travel is
generally suspended on most Of the Texas
roads. caused by the fury of the storm.
Marshall and vicinity was also visited by
the enraged elements. Great trees, fine
houses, farm buildings. fences etc, were
torn down like toys. The buildings on Tom
Craig's plantation, twelve miles IRON Mar
shall, were demolished aud the occupant.
seriously injured. A negro was killed on
Frank Halls plantation. There were a
number of casulties, but no deaths in Mar
shall
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10
Birds Sailing South.
a-A st~s

On the last run of the schooner A.
Denike. which arrived in this port about
three hundred land birds Of different
kinds came aboard the schooner when
the vessel was off the New Jersey coast,
and there remained until the Denike had
sailed south almost as far as a point of
Charleston Bar. The birds were perch
ed in the rigging of the sails, running to
and fro absut the decks, and kept up a
continued chirping. The crew could
hardly move about without stepping on
their musical shipmates. The captain
ordered his men not to molest the song
sters, and the seainen fed them often on
sual, grain and bread crumbs, so that
the members of the feathered family
seemed TO have decided TO keep compa.
ny with the vessel all the way to Savan-
nah. But one day, when the schooner
was off the South Carolina coast, the en-
tire flock took wing; and in few min.
utes was outof sight, but heading toward
the land. TIE Ca. .ptain says it is a matter
Of common occurrence for one or two
birds to come board his vessel when at
sea, but he never heard Of or saw 50 many
OF them.
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10
ALL THINGS ARE NEW.
ELLA c. DRABBLE.

ELLA c. DRABBLE.
There's nothing new within the world
Go tol all things are fresh and new,
Say, rather, there Is nothing old
Unto the thoughtful soul and true.
The word Il new. 10. every morn
Fresh sunlight glints on field and stream,
Fresh sunsets blush athwart the lawn,
New beauties on the hillside gleam.
And life is new. Who has not known
The dawn Of powers unfelt before,
And stood, A. children stand alone,
Beside some newly opened door.
With eager heart, still halfsiraid
To try the realm but now unsealed9
hidden stair ways open laid
Osacrcd rooms to us revealed,
And love, new born each day and hour
No weight Of ycans can make II old
To din It's light time hath no power
To turn 10 dross its living gold.
IL walks the earth as glad rs when
Our parents rosmed fair Eden through,
q call Il darkest treason then
To name love old, the EVER new.
Springfield ndss RepueiicdR.
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10

man who had lub in deir heart eber yit
applied for one or eber will. Ifa divorce
could be had by simply payin' fee Of
fifty cents, no husband mated with his
wife would think Of 8 separashun any mo-
dan he does now. People cheat an de-
ceive when courtin'. Married life brings
out de faults which dey hid. 1t has al
ways been so. an will be so 10 dey eand,
an when husbands and wives quarrel an
hate, law to make 'em continue to lib
togeder am unjust an wicked. Let us
now attack de reg'lar order Of biznes."
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10
The Wrong Fur,

A very excited colored brother hunted
up an officer patrolling High street, and
said that he had long borne the abuse of
a man of his color who was then ia a
house on the next block, and added:
81 doan' want to broke de law, but de
time has arrove when ] mus crush dat
pusson to the dust"
IF catch you fighting | shall have
to take you down." replied the officer.
81 can't help it, sah-can't help it,
nohow. If dat pusson makes his disap-
pearance on de street while Pm aroun',
de fur am gwine to fly, il die fur it,
He's slandered me an lied about me, an
lee gwine to k rush him same as you
would tiger"
The officer passed on TO TIE end Of his
beat and returned 10 find the crusher
with his back to the fence and woman
lending him a wet rag to bind his head
Lets see? You are the man who
was going to crush some one?" observed
the officer.
II spects are"
did he come out?"
IL spects he did"
"Did the fur ily?"
Deed, sab, il did, but de trouble was
dat it was de wrong fur De onery scoun.
drel refused TO be crushed"
And now?"
well, lee gwine to git healed up an
lick his brudder-in-lawl Pour on some
mo- water, missus, fur dis ole head be-
gins to swim agin."-Detroit Free Press.
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10
A Mysterious Disease.
Hart County Ky. Local


About three weeks ago Mr.. William
Downey, Of Blackwell's precinct, died in
a very singular manner. His strength
began failing on Wednesday without ap-
parent cause, his flesh fell away with
alarming rapidity, and by Monday fol-
lowing he hal absolutely dwinded away,
without having felt sick or suffered the
slightest pain or indisposition. When
placed on his deathbed few hours be-
fore he died he was laughing aud talk
ing. and declared that he never felt bet
ter in his life. Such singular and un.
accountable death naturally created con.
siderable surprise and wonder in the
neighborhood where it happened. But
these were increase to CONSERVATION.
when in few days after Mr. Downey's
death his daughter, Miss Salie, who is
about twenty-five years Of age, was taken
exactly as her father was, without
suffering the slightest pain or sickness
has grown weaker and thinner each day,
till she is but skeleton of her former
self, and at our last account was living
speechless upon what has doubtless
proved her deathbed ere this. The phys.
iciaus are completely nonplussed, and
are unable to form the slightest idea as
10 tho cause or nature of their very
strange malady, and to add to the con-
fusion and mystery, the sickbed of the
young lady has been almost constantly
attended by strange and unnatural
noises-sometimes seeming like the
roar of planning mill, then like a sew
ing machine. and again like many other
things, continually changing, but hardly
ever ceasing. 1t has thrown the whole
neighborhood into fever ofexcitement,
and scores of persons have visited the
house where the young lady is sick, and
are able to testify to the correctness of
4 heee etafefnents
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KEIrH is undoubtedly an artist of some

KEITH is undoubtedly an artist of some
neutrality-suspicious. is the word
but when he endeavors 10 work on our
unsuspecting bonanzaites a picture en-.
titled, Caesars Family, in which he rep.
resents that Roman celebreity in a
dress,ng'gown and carpet slippers. rock
ing the cradle with one hand, while he
holds meerschaum in the other, and
whistles an accompaniment to his wife's
performance on an accordion--why, the
time has come to hold up the condition
of this painters historical information
to the gaze of heartless world,
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10

A FASHIONABLE New York belle boast
ed, on her return from Europe, that
while there she had some of the most
celebrated men at her feet. 1t is more
satisfactory to employ first class chirop-
odist than to goad your brother to pro.
family when he uses his razor.
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10

"WHERE do people go who deceive
their fellow mem" inquired Sunday
School teacher. Sometimes to Cana
ia, but mostly they go to Europe was
the reply of a youngster whose uncle
had recently been trusted officer in a
local bank.-The Hour.
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10

THE dying patient of San Frs,icisco
doctor has confessed that he was one of
four communists who killed the French
imperial in Zululand. This let's ont the
Lulus, if anybody wants to believe the
dying patient. '''
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10

A SAN FRANCISCO jnry last week award
Ell book agent sl20 for an assault COM
mltted on him by man who didn't like
his book, and the book agent wants TO
nnd more men who don't like Il,
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10

-, Truth, like consistency, is Jewell
This is why some people are 80 penuri-
ons in the use of that virtue; thev think
Jewels are too precious 10 be used lavish
ly. NV 'SN
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10

TuK love OF money is the root Of all
evil. Itis always best TO 20 TO the root
OF things N You would succeed In life.
The Osceola times., 1882-06-10

Mrs. c. is very much disturbed as
to where she will go this summer. Ii
will afford relief, if she will visit her
creditors. and pay her small bills.