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ENO. +. PARK, dealer in Staple and Fancy
~ Groceries. Provisions, Plantation and Steam
boat Supplies, Canned Goods, Wines, Liquors.
Bottled Beer, Ale ETC.. Dry Goods and Notions,
corner of Mississippi and Chetimaches streets,
opposite River Ferry.
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INSURANCE AGENCIES,

" MAURlN, General Fire Insurance Agent,
. Mississi ppi street, over Feinandez's bar
Der shop. represents frst-class companies with
over S50,OOO,GU of capital. Policies issued di-
rectly from agency without delay.
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EeOBT. L. LEE HOTEL, Crescent Place, near
Ea the Market-House, JOS. Lafarguc, propri-
etor. Bar and billiard room attached. First
Class entertainment and accommodation.
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DRY GOODS. GROCERIES. Etc.

ME ISRAEL & CO., dealers in Dry Goods,
UE. Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Saddlery, Bug
gieH; etc., Mississippi street and Railroad
AyeDue.
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GITY HOTEL, 2. Lefevre, Proprietor, Rail
" road Avenue. corner 1bervllle street. Bar
supplied with best Liquors.
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". mas street, dealer in Dry Goods, Notions
Boots and Shoes. Groceries, Provisions, Corn,
Ont oDd Ilrap
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HOTELS AND BoARD1Na-HoUsEs.

Z Mississippi street. First-rate "a accommo, ea,lt,,
dation and reasonable prices. Western Union
telegraph office in the hotel.
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EE TOBIAS. dealer in Groceries. Dry Goods,
Furniture, Hardware, Crockery, Trunks, etc,
corner Mississippi and st. Patrick streets and
No. 2t Railroad Avenue. Everything at lowest
figures.
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EOS. GONDRAN & SONS, dealers in Dry
Wine, Liquors. Boots Shoes, Hardware, Paints,
Oils, SaGdlery, Crocke1y, Furniture and all
kinds of House Furnishing Goods. Blue Store,
MisslssipDi street.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

and the flames every moment rolling
nearer to those who would flee. The
lodgers are in their night clothes, and
without their boots. Not one in ten OF
them has thought of placing garments
where 'hey can be grasped and put on
in a moment. The decision must De
made in a moment between instant
fight and terrible destruction. Rheu-
matte old ladies, corpulent gentlemen,
frightened mothers with babies in their
arms. young ladies who never climbed a
ladder in their lives, and all manner of
other inexperienced persons must rush
for the escape" or die. The possibilities
Of such descent as they must make are
nothing short of awful.
Some hotels have recently supplied each
room with q long knotted rope, down
which the guest is expected to climb, in
case of need The spectacle of two or
three hundred half-c!ad dodgers descend
ing at night from upper windows by
means of these knotted ropes will be
second in interest only to that which is
afforded by troop of monkeys in trop-
ical Jungle, swinging from trees by loose
ly-hanging vines.
as they please with devices which they
call fire escapes. The only really safe
way to get out of burning building is
to 90 down an enclosed stairway made
OF brick and iron. Hotels and factories
which have this may talk about safety
in case of fire. Those who venture thciI
lives in others, do so at the risk of being
offered up as sacrifices.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
A Wealthy Railroad Corporation.

The Canadian Pacific Railway compa-
ny is one of the richest corporations in
the world. II started out with grant OF
756 miles of road built and in operation.
Another grant of 25,OO0O0O acres Of land
said to be worth on the average % per
acre, and government guarantee OF the
clear gift of $4,000, 600, to be paid by in
stallments, so much upon the completion
of each section of twenty miles. Its
charter exenipts the road, equipments,
and capital stock from taxation forever,
and it has free right of way, with all the
materials for construction and equip
ment free from duty. TIE whole mile
age to be built by the company is less
than 2,400 miles. The eastern half of 1t
will not cost more than $4,000 a mile, or
slS,000,000. The western half, including
passage through two ranges Of noun
tains. may cost an average of $35,OOO o
mile, or 0.000, 900, total probable cost
of $60,000,000, of which the government
pays $25. .00O, 900, leaving for the company
Lut S35,OO0,0O0, which 100000 acres Of
their land grant from Winnipeg west
war. will pay They will then have left
their 6ntire capital stock and lSUO,OOO
acres of land for the construction OF con-
nections and branches and equipment,
and for the creation Of connecting lines
of steamships from Montreal to Europe
and the East, and from Port Moody with
Australia, China and San Francisco at
the West. A company so rich in funds
and exempt from all taxes forever, and
so large surplus, ought to become a
regulator of all the other trans-contincn-
tai railways and force them into reason
able and fair treatment of the people,
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
Frlghtful Death of two Aeronauts.
New York Tribune.

Information has been received in this
city of the frightful death of two over
daring aeronauts in Madrid under pc
culiar circumstances. 1t appears that
Capt. Mayet and an assistant assembled in
a balloon in Madrid, before an immense
concourse of peope, on January 2s. When
the balloon had reached height of
ab ,ut 1000 feet Capt Mayet got out upon
trapaze suspended from the basket,and
began his performances. The trapeze
was seen TO break and the performer lost
his hold. While in the air he turned
over and over many times. He struck
the stone pavement an unrecognizable
mass. A moment later the balloon con-
tanning the other occupant was seen to
descend with meteoric rapidity and it
crashed with terrific ftr,e against the
projecting caves of a house, fitting the
basket and hurling the occupant out
head first. Striking veranda, the man
was precipitated to the ground, torn, cut
and mangled to such degree that he
died in few moments. Both the men
were under engagement to Bamum,
Bailey & Hutchinson, and were TO have
performed in this city on March 26.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
THE FIRE ESCAPE.
Dizziness by Daylight and Destruction by
Night
Philadelphia Press.


The so called fire escape may answer
for the deliverance of few out of the
hundreds in hotel or factory, but as to
its utter inadequacy for the many, proof
is easily made. Let the proprietor of a
hotel, for instance, select fair and sun
shiny day, and marshal his guests for
parade out of the windows and down to
the street by way of the alleged, fire es-
cape. Let him allow them ample time
TO dress, and to descend without crowd.
ing on one another. The result will be
that many of the inhabitapts of the up
per floors will be so dizzy on touching
the ladders that they will shrink back
with fright and beg to be allowed to go
down by The way of the elevator. Pres
ently the escape will be blocked by
some scared-to-death person who clings
in DESPERATION to ladder, refusing to go
up or down or sideways or in any other
direction. The Others, who would de-
scend, can neither 60 around the person
or climb over him. Their only way to
clear the passage is to push him off into
the street, or, if more mercifuily disposed,
20 carry him down to the next landing
and leave him there.
Now. instead Of the trial of the 'cs.
cape" taking place in the daytime and
under the most favorable auspices,
imagine it at night, with rooms and cor
ridors full Of smoke, with the roof ablaze
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
4 Wonderful Fish Pond.

Travelling men tell an extraordinary
story of a fish pond on the land of Hon.
George W. Hurt, six miles from Albany,
Clinton county, Ky. The pond covers
three or four acres, and was not knoxn
to contain fish until year or two ago,
when it was accidentally discovered to
be swarming with catfish from four to
eight inches long. They say that the
fish are 80 numerous and so unsuspect-
ing that they may be taken without the
use Of the hook and line. You may tie
piece Of mutton o: chicken to string
lower it into the water and draw it out
Immediately with scveral fish clinging to
ii. This may be rcpeated as often as de-
slrel, and few minutes are sufficient to
secure az many fish as you want One
man, prompted by curiosity, stuck his
finger down into the water il was at
once seized b. fish, which he promptly
drew up and took off; but the bite
brought the blood from his finger, and
he does not recommend this method of
taking them. Mr.. Charles NJ. Philips,
Of Spurlington, having some doubt as TO
the truth of these stories. wrote to Hon.
Geo. W. Hurt with regard to them, and
received an answer to the effect that
they were substantially true. Mr.. Hurt
does not allow strangers TO fish in the
pond. The fish have been regularly fed
since their presence was discovered.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
A Milk-white Raven.

A milk-white raven with pale mink
eyes and red legs is exhibited at the
Berlin Aquarium, to the material sdg-
mentation Of that admirable institutions
daily receipts, says the Forest and Stream.
1t received admission to the great CEN
tral aviary, in which scores of beautiful
birds flutter and chirp and build their
nests in comparative freedom, but his
presence there spread such general
panic among the remaining inmates that
it was found necessary to remove him to
a separate cage. Strange as 1t may seem,
the other birds instinctively recognized
that this corvine albino was abormal
and therefore terrible. Many of them
became total abstainers from food and
drink through sheer fright while he
shared their quarters, and huddled to.
gether, shivering, at as great q distance
rom tn. fearful anomaly as the limits of
ther prison would permit them 10 at
tain. In all respects, save it's extraordi.
nary hues, this raven Is as other ravens
Ills appetite is apparently Unsuitable,
ana ne ministers to it with u formidable
peak. Neither in tone nor delivery is
there any unusual mellowness or ten
derness about his croak. His pink eve
could not be more steadrastly engaged
IN contemplating the main chance were
they as yellow as FURNISHED gold. He
was found with coal black brood of
prothers and sisters, in nest built by
ms parents, whose surprise at his pecui.
Jar appearance must, we should think
nave been considerable, on the topmost
branch 1t an old tree in the Georcentbai
valley OF Thurineia, Germpny. Doubly
an anchorism, this snow-white raven is
at present one of the ''lions" of the Ger
man calital. ' Wv
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

his deserts in dark cell, was fned " 600
and with his honor "vindicated' was al
lowed to go free.
To the day of his death Mr.. Stephens
spoke of him in terms of consideration
and forgiveness. Not long ago, referring
to the terrible struggle / have attempted
to describe, and showing me the great
hole in his hand, he said, with quiet,
far-away look in his deep, dark eyes: -,
"Poor Cone Pm sure he'd be sorry II
he knew what trouble ] have to write
with these stiff fingers of mine"
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

When the Rev. DR.. spaulding was in
stalled pastor Of a Congregational church
at Manchester, Mass, he declined to tell
whether he believed in probation after
death. In paper stating his faith, how
ever, he said: 81 am not sure that /
have any warrant for finding in the mere
element of time point, as IL fixed by
God, beyond which salvation is impossi-
BILE. 1t seems to me that this matter OF
probation finds its limit in a permanency
in character toward unchecked sin, and
wilful rejection of Divine help which are
steadily pressing man."
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

The Boston common council spent $50
900 in 1888 for "refreshnsnts and carriag,
hire" The aldermen have fallen into q
way of speechmaking and wranslins till
sa. m. So midnight suppers are neccs
sary, and the members must ride home
In carriages, occasionally taking the city''
cigars and wines along. A few years age
the newspaders showed up this junket
ing, and the board in 1873 managed tt
ride and eat only 5000 worth, but ths
figures have risen again.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

sent away, and they believed he had
actually found the mine and was digging
all around TO divert attention from his
real discovery, but this is on,y evidence
of the popular belief in the myth and the
readiness with which people in mysteri-
Gus woods pick up and preserve what Is
tinctured with romance.
In some way the belief in silver mine
has been handed down from Indians 70
whites, and a very small tributary of Elk
Run is designated by the tradition as the
stream nearest the treasure.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
An AxolOtI.

A rare an interesting natural history
specimen, known as an "axolotl," will
be on exhibition in the window of the
Michel Plant and Seed Company, lO7
North Fifth street, for few days this
week. The animal is batrachian, re-
sembling fish in general form, has
four slightly developed legs and long,
compressed and tapering tail. The most
curious part of the creatures formation
is found in feather-like gills, extending
from the sides of the head. This speci-
men was found frozen in the ice of the
Usage River about month ago. Al
though it has eaten nothing since its
capture, it still has considerable activity,
and moves about in the water with ease
and rapidity. The "axolotl' is quite
common in the lakes of Mexico, and is
esteemed as food by the natives.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
The Church as an Umbrella.
Texas sihings.

During divine services in the Austin
Blue Light Tabernacle several colored
gentleman seeking refuge from the rain,
entered the sacred edifice, intending to
remain there until the rain had subsidized,
but Psrson Whangdoodle Baxter raised
such a storm that they were glad to get
back into the rain again. "We reads" ,"
said the good man, pounding on the pull.
pit with his fist, "wc reads in de GoSd
Book oh wicked men maxim de church
cloak to cover up their sins, but you
sinners are heap wusser. You amt sat-
istied wild using de church as cloak.
You use de church as an umbrella"
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
A Novel Hunting Outfit.

A Colorado farmer has invented duck
hunting outfit which discounts the Cali
fornia mans COW. He stripped the hide
from bullock and mounted it on wire
skeleton which looked as natural rs a
living animal. He cut away the belly Of
his wire bullock for his body and made
tw. holes in the shoulders to take sight
through. When he wants a duck-shoot
he drops his skeleton over his head and
starts out for the tules. He can walk
right into a flo:k of ducks without start
ling thea, and has on one or two occa-
sions returned home with his hiding
place full Of teal caught with his hands.
He never fails to kill all he wants when
he axes his gun, tor he marches into
flock and turns both barrels loose at
time. lie usually bags the whole flock.
He has applied for patent.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
Sea-Cows and Sharks.

A part of the Anthropological Society
T. in rapturous condition. A sea-cow
has beer caught off the coast of Florida
which nas tail of dazzling beauty and
perfect symmetry. The part of the So
cie,y which is not rapturously inclined
is that which insisted that the sea-cow
had no tail to speak Of ard would not be
able to brush the flies OF when she came
ashore to be MIXED. A new kind of
shark has also arrivsd here to delight
the souls of the fish commission. II Is
of the ridikulon sciatica pugnacia species,
and is the only one of It's kind that ever
existed New York World.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

When San Francisco reports that "the
winter has been more severe than any
since the city was settled" it does not
mean that the temperature has been very
low. I'VE account 1t quite cold around
the bay" says the Chronicle. "when the
mercury drops down to freezing point;
but for many days of the last and pres
ent months it has been 10 to Is degrees
lower than that. Ice has formed in this
city in one night over half an inch thick
and we have had the unheard of phe.
nomenon Of three-inch snowfall"
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

The tables were appropriately decorat-
cd when the Boston Commercial Clut
gave dinner TO some railroad men. The
center piece represented a complete traii
with engine and tender two feet high
made entirely of roses. pinks, viclets an
other flowers. 1t extended nearly hal
across the presidents table. The guest
Ms return compliment, invited the clu!
to winter trip through the White Noun
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

Eccentric Chadwick, of Pennington
N. H., died the other day. All arrange
ments for his funeral were found COM
plete. He had dug his grave, his coffin
he had hewn out of block of granite
and carriages had been engaged for hi
friends, including one hundred or mor
Odd Fellows and Knights Of Pythias
His wishes were honored. even to tht
eating of feast that he had ordered at
the village hotel.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

It is estimated that there are 100000
vaeabonds and beegas in the German
empire, including thieves, pickpockets
and other swindlers, and the authorities
estimate the loss to honest people by
their operations at the enormous sum Of
25,000,000 annually. Many of these
evil doers are brought before the magis-
trates from time to time, but both judge
and juries are accused of administering
too mildly even the mild laws of Ger.
many against vagabondage. The evil
has become 90 great that the government
is understood to be preparing a service
law fer bringing the scoundrels of the
vagabond class to justice.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

The chairman of fan Ohio villages com.
mittee for the relief Of the poor was in
duccd by the other members to take q
tour of inspection. They led the way di-
rectly to house which was his property
where woman was living in basement
with four children whose ages ranged
from two to eight. She was sick abe'
they were nearly naked, and there was
not cent TO buy food, fuel or medicine
the landlords agent having taken hei
last money for rent.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
A Panther Hunt In Florida,
Palatka Herald .


On Sunday last while three colored
men were out hunting near Whites log
camp, back of Rollstown, one of them
met with an exciting adventure. He
was at his stand and the dogs were beard
coming in that direction. Soon there was
a terrible commotion in the bushes com.
ing toward him. The darkey, thinking
it was deer, stopped so as to get fair
shot, when suddenly a tremendous
panther confronted him. Hearing a
noise behind, he looked around, and, to
his surprise and horror, saw another in
a tree, which he fired at and killed lust
as it was in the act of sprnging upon
him. The other one Immediately es-
capped, much. as the darkey says, to his
delight. The one killed was female
and on opening her was found to contain
two young. She measures seven feel.
and the negro estimates the male TO
have been twice as large.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

Robert Cellyer gives sound advice
when he says: "Neversny that the past
was better than to-day b; read the new
hooks, understand all the nov idoaA, and
keep to your faith in God andin man,
and in the victory of good over evil"
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

A woman was the only passenger in a
Montana stage, except her baby, whom
she wrapped in her fur cloak, leaving
hersef unprotected from the zero tenn
perature. The driver saw that she was
benumbcd and would freeze to death un-
len arsused to violent exercise. He
dngged her from the coach and left her
BY the roadside. "Oh, my babyw she
czied- The driver cracked his whip, and
the staee few over the snow with the
woman running after. The race was
kept up for nearly two miles, when the
driver took the mother in again and
unp9sl his coat around her. He had
J ~ - hleod ard avsd her lifs.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

A Chicago man started q business in
competition with the post Office. He de-
livcred letters anywhere in the city at q
cent apiece, and sold stamps at even c
lower rate by the thousand. He did well
until fine Of $3.50, with promise Of the
same punishment for every letter after
ward carried closed his enterprise.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

Rhode Islands reform school for boys
has no locks on the doors and no bars on
the windows. There is very rarely an
attempt to escape, though one hundred
and ATTY inmates include lads who have
been considered incorrigible.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

President White says, as to the educa'
ton of the sexes at Cornell, that in the
classes men outrank the women in study,
and that few will be far ahead, but that
women have a better general average.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14

Members of the Methodist church at
Shelton, VT, fonnd fault with the Rev.
Mr.. wildey for smoking black clay
pipe. The wmngle caused him to resign
and accent a charge elsewhere.
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
A Drawing Scene.

Mr.. A. Z. Sturtevant, the well-known
host of the Sturtevant House, provided a
public entertainment recently which
completely blocked up the streets and
sidewalks in front of his hotel.
He exhibited fire-escape of his own
invention, which consists simply of a
rope by which person can descend with
safety from a window at any height.
Mr.. Sturtevant, to make tho working of
his invention as picturesque as 1t was
novel, had trained two or three robust
and good-looking chambermaids, and
they, among others, proceeded to illus
trate the practical utility of the rope by
descending from a sixth-story window
to the ground. The spectacle was most
novel one. The young women were
dressed In skirts, underneath which they
wore tight-ftting wooden garments calcu-
lated at once to allow the utmost agility
without destroying the symmetry of
person.
As fast as the Broadway cars and
stages approached the Sturtevant House,
and the male passengers saw what was
going on, they plunged madly out of the
vehicles into the street. Men and boys
eagerly came from all quarters, and in
half an hour the thoroughfare for several
blocks was impossible.
Had Mr.. Sturtevant given this exhibi-
ton in an inclosed space and charged a
dollar ticket, he might have added ma
terially in providing for the Bartholdi
pedestal New York Morning journal.
Misdirected Poiiteness on the Road.
had an experience yesterday on the
Elevated r cd. was sitting near the
forward end of the car, when an elderly
man, followed by two pretty girls, came
into the car az the Fourteenth Street
Station. The car was comfortably well
filled. Beside me were two seats. The
elderly man and one of the girls took
them and said something about getting
home in time for dinner. The other
girl took a vacant seat little way down
on the opposite side ofthe car. Thought
it was pity that they could not all sit
together, SO rose, and, stepping across
the car, asked the other girl to take my
seat. She looked at me in blank amaze
ment, but wore smile of such inelfable
complacency that it was utterly irresis-
tible, and she rose, coloring somewhat,
and dropped into my seat. | sat down
in her place and glanced across. In a
minute saw that had made mistake.
She did not know the elderly man or
the girl at all. At this discovery l felt
lonesome and turned to the man next to
me and said
"Kinder slipped up, didn't II"
"Well, somewhat" said he, quietly.
He happened to be gentleman. ut
was weird mishap."
Iglanced across the car again, and OBJ
served look of exasperation and scorn
upon the maiden's face. The fellow who
happened to be gentleman smiled again
and said
"You are lost now. She evidently
thinks that we know each other, and
that you boosted her out of this scat so
that you could talk to me-"
The awful force of this struck me at
once, and | got cut at Twenty-third
street sad and mournful man.-Thc Ar
gonaut
The Osceola times., 1883-04-14
ITEMS or INTEREST.

The real estate agents of Chicago have
undertaken, by means of black list, to
protect themselves against tenants who
do not nav.