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The Osceola times., 1883-01-20
Special tu th peal
COLUMBIA, Tenn, January. 13.-

COLUMBIA, Tenn, January. ID
The safe containing the county funds
of Wayne county, Tenn, was blown
open and robbed of over $4,000 on
the night of the llth. inst. A man
by the name Of G. d. Anderson, said
to be an escaped convict from Ar
kansas, is suspected. He is thirty
five years old, FIVE feet five inches
high, black hair, shingled closely,
short burnside whiskers, right hand
disabled by gunshot wound, one
eyebrow dropped by an injury.
The Osceola times., 1883-01-20
CHURCH DIREC DRY.

BY nstaAl agreement the different denonihS
lions will hold dl vine services IN the Union
sAurch As follows:
M,rroptsr Rev. r. W Toodlsy, first ana
afth sabbsths o. each month
BArrIsr-Rev. W. II BaTksdGle, oil memphis
second Sabbath In each month
CsaisuAn-Rsv. Mr.. Jones, third saboam III
each month
p.,ssrTrnrAx-Rev Mr. Cochran, OF Mem
,A,s. fourth sunday in each month.
The Osceola times., 1883-01-20

THE Steamer City of Greenville,
one of the Anchor Line boats, collid-
ed with the Laura Lee 80 miles above
New Orleans, and sank to her texas.
She had on board a cargo of sugar,
and it is thought she will be total
loss. No insurance.
The Osceola times., 1883-01-20
A PORTION Of the Planters House

A PORTION Of the Planters House,
at st. L ais, wa' destroyed by fir
on the 9TH. inst, and three lives
were lost. The excitement ran high,
and all the inmates waltzed out int
the streets carrying their clothes in
their hands.
The Osceola times., 1883-01-20

IsHAM G. HARRIS, of Tennessee,
was reelected United States Sena-
tor on the first bollot, receiving sew
enty-six votes, and afterward receiv-
ed an ovation at the Maxwell house
The Osceola times., 1883-01-20
A Vigorous Growth

OF the hair is often promoted by
using Parker's Hair Balsam. 1t al
ways restores the youthful color and
lustre to gray hair, gives it new life
and removes all irritation and dand-
ruff.
The Osceola times., 1883-01-20
Come un aud settle.

All parties whom | have accom-
modated during the year with credit,
are hereby notified that ! need the
money, and are respectfully request
ed to come forward and settle up.
r. G. PRKwITT.
The Osceola times., 1883-01-20

THE Melrose Cotton Factory at
Russelville, Ark, is in full blast, and
bids fair to be profitable invest
ment.
The Osceola times., 1883-01-20

7 HREE hundred persons persisted
in the flames of burning Circus in
Russian Poland, on the 18th.
The Osceola times., 1883-01-20

Farmers and others desiring a gen.
teel, lucrative agency business, by
which So to $50 day can be earn
ed, send address at once, on postal,
to II. G. Wilkinson & Co., 1875 and
1877 Fulton Street, New York.
The Osceola times., 1883-01-20

EX-SENATOR DORSEY has sent in
his resignation as secretary of the
Republican National Committee.
The Osceola times., 1883-01-20
Professionals.
DR.. W. D. JONES.
Physician and 0bstetrician.

errciAIrrxs; Diseases OF Women and CHI
Sren.
Ofroe, in Cissell hons., opposite ilston's
store O5CEOLA, ARK l2-lO-ly
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eUUUital not required. We viii lnfnish
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mon, and bows and girls make great pny Read-
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make great pay all the time you work write for
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The Osceola times., 1883-01-20
VOLUME XIV.
The 0SCE0bA TIMES.
LEON ROUSSAN,
Rditor and Prophet r

TERMS ~ SUBSCRIPTION. I'm adVaneeD
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,3)i FllEe8 Amefican God .,,.,.....T,,, 81, 90
Tickets, 81, Halves, 81.
The ROYAL Havana Official List De-
cides Every Prize.
Subject to no maL' pU5,ion, not controlled by
the parties in interest honestly managed, II Is
he fsiTsst squarest ami best thing In the nature
Of 8 lottery that could be conceived
See that the name Gould 4 Co. "a on tho tick
Ct J one other sie genuine
ALL PRIZES PAID on PREsENTAl ION
For Information and Il tex ets eprly tO
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i2l2 Broadway. New York City
OF 6e 2 RSndolph Street, Chic'eo, Ills
or iEo. B. FrnSAspEz.
Savannah Ga,
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RATES OF ADVERTISING;
ron TRANSIENT AND LEGAL NOTICES
LEG Il NO Il Ea

LEG NO ICEa.
IN. a,,lar per square oil one inch running
a., .i,ace oi ten lines Of this type, lor
at insertion, and sevsnty-ilve cents l"f eaoh
aubselnent insertion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04
On the Palace Car.

A Pullman palace car porter has been
telling st. Louis reporter about the
earnings of the employees on those cars.
Drummers are liberal, young married
men are good, women are very bad, mil
hOnaires worst. 81 had an illustration
of that a couple of weeks ago. Colonel
Gillette, a millionaire mine owner (trav-
cling with Bonanza Mackey), gave me
a dollar. He said, with a terrible slut
ter, 1T was all the ch-ch-ange he had. ,
1t was somewhat of blow, but I went
n and got Mr. Mackey out for his brush.
He fumbled round among a lot of keys,
and finally tished out fifty cents. By
jinks! [ was mad, but l couldn't say
anything. It's so with most rich men.
There's Gov. Tabor, he's about as good
as any of EN-, but he never gives me
more than a dollar There's Senator
Jones, he went to Deming once with me-
and gave me five dollars. On the other
hand, Senator Fair, who is fifty times
richer than Jones, they say, came up
once, and he only gave me one dollar.
He was nice about it, though-spoke so
kind, and told me not to spend my money
foolishly. Politicians, when they get
money, are mighty good. There's Dor
sey, the Star route man. When he goes
down to his ranch he always gives me a
handful of silver don't stop to count it. -
The worst of all are old ladies', who want
bags and parcels carried, but never give
aught but thanks; in these, however,
hey are usually generous.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04
A California Tree.

There was recently felled in Sonoma
County, California, tree which cut up
as follows:
The Petaluma Arg,ss says that fhe de-
tails can be relied upon. The standing
height of the tree was 347 feet. and its
diameter near the ground was IA feet. In
falling, the top was broken off 200 feet
distant from the stump, and up to the
point of breaking the tree was perfectly
sound
From the tree saw-logs were cut of the
following lengths and diameters: LIST. IA
feet long, 8 feet diameter; Cd, II feet
long, s feet Iii. meter; 81, u feet long, Z
feet inches diameter; 4th, II feet long,
7 feet inches diameter; 9th, Is feet
long, 7 feet diameter; 9th, Is feet long,
6 feet 10 inches diameter; It'll, Is feet
long, 6 feet 6 inches diameter; Sth. Is
feet long, feet inches diameter: 9th.
16 feet long, 6 feet 3 inches diameter:
10th, Is feet long, 6 feet diameter; 11th.
Il feet lorg, 5 feet 10 inches diameter;
10Th, Is feet long, 5 feet 6 inches Diane
ter. 1t will thus he seen that $50 feet
of this remarkable tree was converted
into SaW-lO0S
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04
A Princciy Tutor.

The Crown Prince of Germany, who
takes deep interest in the village schools
near his estate at Potsdam, visited the
school at Bornstedt the other day to see
the newly-appointed master. He had
scarcely entered the room when a mes
senger arrived with a telegram summon
ing the master to come to his mother,
who was dying i'll a ncighboring village.
The Crown Prince insisted that the mas
ter should instantly depart But the
children-the school-how can [ leave
them % cried the agonized and perpIexed
man. "Tut never mind such things. -
answered the Prince; Il will teach the
school until the vicar comes to prepare
candidates for confirmation. Go run
and may you find her yet alive" SO for
more than an hour the heir to the I'M
perial throne examined and instructed
the children, until the vicar came, to
whose care he then entrusted the school.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04
An Honest Mans Dilemma.

A stranger who had made purchase
of a secondhand dealer vn Chatham
street grew confidential and said he
would like some advice.
"Vhell, go aheadt.
eff you were i'll my place and wanted
to go into business here, would you lend
your money and live on the interest or
would you go into the secondhand cloth
ing business p
"My frent," replied the other with a
very serious look on his face, ''let me
tole you shust like ladder. Doan' go
into de secondhand beesness yourself,
but lend me your money and become a
silent partner"
care the profits large?'
Large? How much You thinks ]
made on dot west--J sold you for So? I
make shust twelve shillings."
"Not by blamed sight, for haven't
paid for it and won't take it y exclaimed
the stranger rs he dropped the bundle
and walked out.
''VheIl, vhell!' sighed Moses as he
looked after him, ''efery times l tell der
truth l lose money, und every time lie
[ lose a customer How can an honest
man make living i'll New York p
wan Street NelUS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04
HE WOULD GO TO SEA.
The Romance of Commander GOrringe's
RcyhOOd.

Commander Gorringe. of the United
States Navy, is descended from an an
clent Swedish family named Gorings.
| His father went to the Barbados imme-
diately after taking his degree at Oxford,
and there settled down as q clergyman
of the Church Of England. He married
a daughter of fellow clergyman and it
was in this charming sea-home that the
two young people reared their five chill
dren. They had everything heart could
wish fOr-position, means, health and
prosperity. The worst troubles they had
to encounter were vicarious-for they sUf-
fered only through their parishioners-
and their days of JOY grew to months and
years, and still the sun shone.
The first jar came when the second boy,
Harry, walked into his fathers study one
day and announced that he could not
stand school going, but must he a sailor,
adding with the honesty that has never
left him:
81 tell you, papa, because if you do
not let me go, [ will run away"
Mr.. Gorringe thought it over, and
next morning had a talk with the boy
out of which grew the following treaty
He was to return to school and stay one
year, which would bring him to the age
of fourteen then, if he still felt his hap
piness lay i'll sea life. he was to be
shipped with friend of his fathers to
learn his chosen profession. The subject
was then dropped, and matters went on
so quietly that Mr.. Gorringe forgot all
about it. Not so the boy; on the last
day of the year of probation, he went to
his father and quietly said:
''The year is up, papa"
'Wh0t year, my boy?"
'My year of waiting and now 1
want to go to sea-
Poor gentleman He went in dismay
to his wife-as the wisest man will do
when family puzzles arise-and it was
decided in solemn conclave to send the
boy a sailoring under a captain who
would disgust him with seattle once and
forever. A vessel was in from England
commanded by an old commercial friend
of the pastor; and to him he unfoIded
the case. He shipped his son as cabin
boy; and after putting a sum Of money
and kit Of 'store-clothes" in the cap
tain's charge, babe adieu to him and
went home heavy-hearted.
Captain Gorringe says his first taste of
seattle came as he hung over the rail-
with lump in his throat, and looked
and looked at his home As he gazed at
| 1t through a haze of tears that twisted
and distorted its outlines into all sorts of
fantastic shapes, a rough hand took him
by the ear, and a rough foot kicked him
forward with an oath-garnished order to
go aloft OF else take taste of ropes end.
After this he did see seattle in its most
trying phases, but reached England I'M
dismayed, and was there arrested by his
uncle, and shut up until a letter from the
West Indies assured him that his nephew
had not run away, and that the whole
social system of the Barbados had not
gone to wreck, even though its pastors
son was shipped as a sailor before the
mast on a merchantmen.
By the time this letter came the first
ship had sailed; but the plucl1y boy en-
listed on another and started for India.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04
Corn Stalks as Fuel.

An Iowa farmer warns his house with
corn stalks, and claims that these make
the best and cheapest fuel he can get.
He uses a large stove and burns the
stalks in tightly-bound bundles, weigh
ing about forty pounds each. A bundle
burns three hours without fame) in an
air. tight stove.
The large stove offers so much radiat-
ing surface that it does not need to be
very hot. Five bundles day, or six
hundred for the winter, suffice to keep
the stove going ard the room warm.
The farmer Mr., Ru8gles, says: 81 can
bind up six hundred bundles of corn
stalks III two days alone. | couldn't
chop the wood to warm this room in
week. Then in the spring [ have a load
of strong ashes for my wheat-field, while
my neighbors have TO cut mp the same
corn-stalk to get thema away from the har-
row. 1t makes me smile when | hear
about those idiots up in Minnesota who
have tifty-acre cornfeIds, aud still go
cold or buy coal. Why, Pdrather burn
corn-stalks than cut maple wood within
sight of the house"
EUROPEAN CrTIEs.-According to a
comprehensive statistical return lately
published in Germany, there are III
Europe ninety-two cities with more than
100000 inhabitants, out Of which four
capitals show each over a million popular
ton, as follows: London, 1892, 40:
Paris, 2,225, $40; Berlin, 1,122, 800:
Vienna, l, JOB 10. Out Of the ninety
two cities and towns referred to. England
claims rs, Germany Is, Italy IL, France
10, and Russia s. The others are divided
among the SIN Rller States. There were
in the United States in 1880 twenty cities
having 100, 900 inhabitants and upward.
81 AIM to tell the truth. " Yes" in
terrupted an acquaintance, "and you are
probably the worst shot in America
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04
$4,000 REWARD !

VIII be paid for the detection and con-
viction of any person selling or dealing
in any bogus, counterfeit or imitation
Hop BrTrERs, especially Bitters OF
preparations with the word Hop OF
HOPS in their name, or connected there
with, that is intended to mislead and
cheat the public, or for any preparation
put in any form pretending to be the
same Us Hop BITTERs. The genuine
have clusters of GREEN HOPS (uotice
this) printed on the white label, and are
the purest and best medicine on earth,
especially for Kidney, Liver and Ner-
vous Diseases. Beware of all others,
and Of all pretended formulas or recipes
of HOP BrrrERs published in papers, or
for sale, as they are frauds and swim
dies. Whoever deals in any but the
genuine will be prosecuted
HoP BrrTERs MFG. Co.,
Rochester, N. Y.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04
TWO. CENT LETTER POSTAGE
A Report Giving Reasons Why the Ander-
son Bill Should Pass.

The report made by Mr.. Bingham, OF
the United States House Committee on
Post Offices and Post Roads, which
recommends the Anderson bill for re-
ducing postage on letters now sent for
three cents to two cents, comprises an
elaborate view of Post Office statistics IN
regard to rates of postage, and takes the
ground that, with surplus of revenue
in the Treasury rs well as n reported
surplus from the Post Office Department,
this is d proper time to effect a reduction
in rates. as it can we'll be afforded. This
surplus revenue from the Post Office
Department is the first reported since
the three-cent uniform rate was adopted
in 1851, with one exception, which was
i'll 1865, when there was a slight profit
owing to a suspension of mail carrying
in the Southern States. The report eX-
plains that while it is, of course, deslr-
able that the department shall be self
| sustaining, it was never intended that 1t
should become a source of revenue. III
| assumes that the department IS now on
surely paying basis, with its principal
item of cost-that of transportation
gradually growing less as the population
| becomes more evenly distributed, and
| the means Of communication more eX-
tended The statistics are taken from
date as far back as 1892, when the rate
| for carrying n letter was six cents for a
| distance of thirty miles, and twenty-five
cents for a distance of 450. There Is
| also a careful estimate based on the his
tory of reductions in the past, which s1ls-
tains the theory of the report that the
stimulus to letter writing which would
naturally be caused by reduc-
ton, would greatly lessen the estimated
loss for the first year, which mot count
! ing such increase OF letters would only
reach IS, 600, 900. The entire loss, the
report assumes, could be offset by a fair
allowance for carrying the official mail
matter of the Government. It is also
estimated that should the reduction not
| take effect until Jan. l, 1884, as prOvid-
| ed in the amended Anderson bill, the
surplus of the first half of that financial
year would balance the loss Of the last
| half and there would be ample time to
exhaust or call in the printed supply Of
| Government stamped three-cent envel-
Opes Calculations are made from which
it appears that the surplus of the Post
Office Department i'll 1882 will be fully
doubled in 1888. 1t is suggested, in
closing the report, that when the loss eX-
perienced by this reduction shall be
made up, and when there shall again he
a surplus, reduction Of postage on drop
letters should be made.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04
with spring-boards in our college gym
nasiums. Detroit Free Press.
PAYTNa A BET.

with spring-boards in our college gym
nasir1ms. Detroit Free Press.
PAYINe, BET.
The Committee on Harmony, of the
Lime Kiln Club, reported that the Lime
Kiln Club was at peace and harmony
with every government on earth except
Greece, and with every organization and
association in America except the Con
cord School of Philosophy. During the
quarter the committee had taken action
in twenty-four instances where members
of the club had differed i'll opinion, and
the only case left was that of Whalebone
Howker VS.. Clay Bank Tyler.
q" What am dat case?" softly inquired
the President
It was explained that Brother Howl1er
had won an election bet of Brother
Tyler, but that the latter refused to
square up. He was asked to stand up
and when he was on his feet Brother
Gardner said:
o Brudder Tyler, did you bet new
ntU uaJ Gle hSDuDuCftIlS "OulIl Sttll y view
York by a milIyon majority?"
Yes, sab. -
" Has you paid dat bet yit ?"
No, sab.
"Was you waitin' fur anythin' in
perticl1ler to happen befo you paid dat
bet ?''
"No, sab"
Den you had better settle de matter
befo' de mex meetin' occurs. A man who
am fool huff to bet on leckshun should
be idiot huff to pay what he loses. -
Detroit Free Press.
A PRECIOUS Boy WIS once afflicted
with Boil in that Locality Of the Anat-
omy which is seldom mentioned in Polite
society. To him a Playmate addressed
Words of Coincidence. "Oh," replied
the Precocious Boy, Tin not so Power
ful bad off After all. This boil has
taught me, in lis Quiet, nobtrusive
way, what Mantel-Pieces were Made for,
as you yourself shall Learn if you will
Stay and See me Eat my Supper" This
fable Teaches that All created things
have their Spheres to Fill in this Life.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04
FOB TROUBLEB0RROWERS.

There's many a trouble
Would break like bubble,
And into the waters of Lethe depart,
Did we not rehearse it,
And tenderly nurse it,
And give it a permanent place in the heart.
There's many sorrow
Would vanish tomorrow,
We're W. but willing to furnish the wings;
So sadly intruding,
And quietly brooding,
1t matches out all sorts Of horrible things.
How welcome the seeming
OF looks that are beaming,
Whether ones wealthy or whether ones poor !;
Eyes bright as berry,
Cheeks Ted as a cherry
The groan and the curse and the heartache car
cure.
Resolved to be merry,
All worry to ferry
AT crosshe famed waters that bid us forget,
And no longer fearful,
But happy and cheerful.
We feel life has much that's worth living fol-
yet. -THsleys Magazine,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04
STORY OF GRIP VAN WINKLE. ,

There seems to be good reason for be-
lieving that the story of Grip Van
Wrinkle" existed in similar form long be-
fore Washington Irving gave it to the
American public Mr.. Grifis, in his
work entitled ''The Mikado's Empire, -
says: ''The story (of Chinese origin) is,
as told by japanese story-tellers, as fol-
lows: Lu-wen was a pious wOod-cutter,
who dwelt at the base of the majestic and
holy mountain Tendai, the most glorious
peak of the Naulin range in China.
Though he thought himself familiar with
the paths, he for some reason one day
lost his way, and wandered about, having
his AK with him. He did not care,
however, because the beauty of the land
scape, the flowers and the sky seemed to
possess his senses. and he gave himself
up to the ecstasy Of the hour, enjoying
all the pleasant emotions of holy con-
temptation. All at once he heard a
cracking sound, and Immediately a fox
ran out before him and into the thicket
again.
1.-The wood-cutter started to pursue it.
He ran some distance, when suddenly he
emerged into a space where two lovely
ladies, seated on the ground, were en-
gagged in playing a game of checkers.
The pumpkin stood still and gazed with
all his sight at the wonderful vision of
beauty before him. The players appeared
to be unaware of the presence of an in
truder. The wood-cutter still stood look
ing on, and soon became interested in
the game as well as the fair players.
After some minutes, as he supposed, he
bethought himself to return. On at
tempting to move away, his limbs fel
very stiff, aud his ax-handle fell to pieces.
STOPPING down t. pick up the worm-caten
fragments, he was amazed to find, instead
of his shaven face of the morning, a long
white beard covering his bosom while,
on feeling his haaI%, he discovered on it
a mass Of silken, white hair. The
wrinkled old man, now dazed with won
der, hobbled down the mountain to his
lltilINt village.
He found the streets the same, but
the houses were filed with new faces :;
crowds of children gathered round him,
teasing and laughing at him the dogs
barked at the stranger and the parents
Of the children shook their heads and
wondered among themselves as to
whence the apparition had come. The
old man, in the agony of despair, asked
for his wife and relatives. The incredu-
lous people set him down as a fool.
knowing nothing of whom he asked. and
treating his talk as the drivel of lunatic
senility. Finally, an old grandam hob
bled up and said she was a descendent of
the seventh generation of man named
Lu-wen The old man groaned aloud,
and, turning his back, retraced his
weary steps to the mountain again. He
was never heard of more, and it is be-
ieved he entered into the company of
the immortal hermits and spirits of the
mountain.
B. NJ. Baumann, a traveller, says
81 may add that during my recent
rambles III Japan, not only did [ hear
the tale, as told by Mr.. GriAis, con-
tirmed by the natives, but I was also
shown a Netsuke or ivory representation
of Rip as a very old man with long hair
and beard, leaning on an ak.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-04

One greasing lasts two weeks all others two
or three days. Do not be imposed on by the
humbug SUITS offered. Ask your dealer for Fra
zcr's with label on. 1t saves your horse labor
and YOU too. It received first medal at the Cen
tennial and Paris EXpositions. Sold everywhere
A DoCILE disposition will, with application
smmount every ditficulty.-AIanlius.
Skinny Men. "Wells' Health Remover" re-
stores health. cures dyspepsia and impotence. 81.
The only disadvantage OF an honest heart is
crueltv-Sir Philip Sidney