The Osceola times., 1883-06-16

over half million TO try. Such jury
A set of men whom you would hardly
put to managing a saw-mill certainly
not if the machinery was at all intricate.
Coarse-featured, low-browed, uneducat-
ed. yulgar-faced men, they look as if they
had never read newspaper and never
swned an honest opinion. Five OF them
are chewing tobacco, and their jaws are
moving up and down in unison with
those of Jerry Wilson, who is now ad-
dressing them. One of them IN the back
row is asleep. and fly Is crawling on
the under lip of his wide-open mouth.
Most of the rest are leaning back in
their chairs, and six jurors have their
chairs resting on two legs.
Four Of them are negroes, and these
are the most respectable-looking part of
the twelve. They are better dressed.
They losk cleaner, and, as a rule, they
pay better attention than their white
brothers. One of these negroes-the
third from the left on the back row
looks as If be might be full-blooded
African. His skin Is as black as cake
of stove polish, and it shines With the
same sandy metallic lustre. His hair is
short and woolly, his forehead low, his
face narrow, and his eyes black. He is
not fat wears white collar, and looks
respectable.
Negro No. 2 sits next to him. He is a
mulatto. His skin Is Of d sole-leather
yellow and his face is rather inclined to
the Caucasian. His hair has hardly q
curl, and it probably takes after white
| father. No. . is not 50 clespIooking as
No. /, His frayed shirt band around his
thick fat neck has no collar attached to
it and is decidedly dirty.
Negro No 3 is also a mulatto, but he
| looks by no means intelligent. His fea-
lures follow the thick-lipped, flat-nosed
African type, and his color is ginger
bread brown. He wears a brown shirt
and laughs good deal as he looks over
the court room.
Negro No. 4 sits on the front row. lie
is the best looking man on the jury. his
features take after those of ofSenator Bruce,
but his color is darker, and they lack the
intellectual cast of the Senator'S. No. 4
has high, broad forehead, jet black
ewes, and round, full cheeks. He is as
well dressed as any man or the jury, and
his blue flannel shirt and white collar
become him we'll
10 nh mo
the stal route jury sit at the two ehds OF
the front row. That on the right facing
the Judge is lean, hatchet-faced man of
of fifty-hve, with iron gray whiskers, a
lean nose, blue eyes, and an expression
which reminds one of the resigned look
of sanctifed deacon mixed with that
Of village grocer. The man on the
! other end looks little Ike General
sheldon, now Governor Of New Mexico,
a rough looking fellow with long black
beard, mixed with threads of gray, and a
rosy face. He is not dVattdme fellow.
and lie does not care for appearances.
He leaves his vest. entirely unbuttoned,
and at this moment he has pulled up his
shirt in front so that it looks like a bal
loon with the wind half exhausted.
The two end men on the back row are
brunette and blonde. Brunette sits at
the left. Hair jet, face lean, forehead
low and narrow, jaws big and continu-
ally moving, chews tobacco continually
and spends more time looking at the
vater-cooler than at the speaker.
The blonde is of warm temperament
He sweats continually. He also chews
and spitstwice to fruDette's once. Blonde
| has a straw colored moustaehe, which
makes half crescent over his mouth
= running to the bottom of his chih. His
! hair is short, his ears large and he wears
two big rings.
: The man next to this gentleman looks
, like bruser. He has short ir, clipped
: In fact, close to the scalp. His forehead
, is high enough, but his general aspect il
. neither intelligent nor winning. He
yawns a great deal, arid his favorite po
sition is lying back in his ciiairj Will
feet on the floor, aud his head agalns
the, wall. He is about thirty years old
Thete are only three men left. They
sit together in the front row. The frs
is an ordinary looking man Of twenty
: five, wearing bunch of lilac in his but
tonhole. The next is older and look
like misanthrope, and the last is a whit,
man so yellow that he might be classed
with the negro by his side. He is al
old man, at least his hair is growinl
e gray, but it is straight, and his features
+ are decidedly Caucasian. Such is tn,
= jury of the star route trial. Such is th'
Jury to which speeches Of seven days
length are made. Such is the Jury which
4 eighteen hours out of the twenty-fOu
goes where it pleases, and talks will
whom it pleases, when on its decision
depends the fate of millionaires and the
nuritv nf tho ooyarnmnnt