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Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-09
Lace Curtain.

| At prices much below value New Haven Window Shade Co.,, 194 Chapel street
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-09
The Court Record.
Superior CuurI-Civn Side-Judge 4
 6reXvs

Superior CourU-Civn Side-Judge Am
 drews.
 The case of Gardner vs. New Haven and Northampton railroad company, an action to recover $1O.OOO damages for personal injur- ies and which has been partly tried, was postponed yesterday on account of the ab- sence of an important witness. It will be resumed today.
 Shay's appeal from probate was next taken up. The facts are stated to be as follows Ellen Little, wife of John Little, died in 1880. The parties were married in 1846. John Little presented a claim against his wife's estate for betterments during Mrs LittIe's life. The statute allowing claims for betterments in such manner was passed in 1871. The court of probate in Derby allowed John Little's claim for $1,- 900. Michael Shay appealed, claiming that the statute was not retroactive, and the court having found that $90O of the amount was expended by John Little on the estate be- fore 1871 and the $10O since that date, of course the $100 had to be allowed but Shay claims that the law did not at that time per- init recovery in such case as this of Lit ties. The question was whether the statute spoken of allows the $900 to be awarded to Little.
 Mary G. Foley was divorced from Max Foley on the ground of intemperance. They were married January II, 1875. Lady's name changed to Peck.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-09

The HGtna L1fe's Gains i'm 1ssa-Summary
 of the Report.
 The following shows the progress made by the Ena Life Insurance company the past
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-09

Uae BrummeI's Celebrated Cough Drops. The genuine have A. H. B. each drop. B E. Douglass Son, E. A. whittlesey, c. s. Leete Co and Richardson Co., wholesale agents. d182m
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-09
City COurt-CI IrhinaI side-Judse stud-
 ley.

Thomas H. Fitzgerald, breach of the peace, judgment suspended; Edward Smith. va grancy, $9.73 costs, IS days in jail Andrew Healey, resisting Officer Streit, continued to February 10; Marvin H. Amesbury, breach of the peace, discharged; Patrick Bracken, same, judgment, suspended; Mary HarteR- stein, permitting an abortion, nolled AL phonsa Richardson, assisting to procure an abortion, nolled; Richard McCeuIey, viola tion of liquor law, continued to February 10: Thomas BrinIey, same, same; Thomas E. Doyle same, judgment suspended; Andrew Healey, burglary, to February 10.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-09

Court of Common Pleas-JudEe Torrance
 The case of Rowe vs. Smith Brothers is still on trial
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-09

Joseph Mcdonald, of this city, has sold the black trotting mare "Black Bess'' for $500, to Frank Stevenson, of Meriden.
 Elliott Kimberlee, of St Paurs choir, sailed yesterday for Nassau for his health.
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Coins.

Almost every town has one col
lector of coins; boys and girls even
are interested in collecting them.
The value of a coin depends on its
scarcity; thus the L. S. silver dollar
of 1894 is worth $50; of 1904, s75;
1886, So; 1888, $50; 1899, 500; 1851,
$40; 1852, $40; 1854, So; 1855, So;
1858, $50. All other dates bring
only 81 ,2o to 50. Half dollars of
1886 and 1857 are very rare and
worth from s25 to s75, according to
condition. The 1894, 1915, 1896,
milled edge, and 1852 half dollars are
much in demand, and, if fine, bring
So, and more. OF quarters, the 1896
and 1904 are highly valued, if in fine
preservation. The 1923 is very
rare and worth $50. The dimes of
1900 and 1904 are worth s5, and the
half-dime of 1902 is considered a
bargain at 500. Copper cents of
1893 may be had as low as twenty
five cents, but if in sharp uncirculat-
ed condition bring $50 or more.
Cents of 1874, 1705, 1896, 1897, are
common, but those Of 100 are worth
$50, and more, if fine. 4 fine cent
of 1904 is equally rare, and the issue
of 1900, 1871, and 1923, are not rare,
but very desirable in fine sharp con-
di,ion. OF half cents, the 1896 is
worth s25 to $50, while the other
regular issues are very common.
The small nickle cent of 1856, with
the flying eagle, is worth 81 80. But
these values are only for such as are
unworn; a copper cent that is worn
and handled may bring only % cents ;
the same clean and new may bring
50, $40, or even 500. Never carry
valuable coins in your pocket. -
Scholars Companion.
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CARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS;
Advertisers by the year will terestricte
t6the,f legitimate business.

Eay-A Advertisers by the yearwill lterestricted
Is their legitimate business.
eT-Yearly advertisements may be cnahgea vi
reset four times during the year free OF charge'
exy-parties contracting for yearly advertise
mcnts and disseminating from any cause, VIII DC
CHARGED short time rates, AZ per time ihseiteu'
SKE RATES.
,y-Foreign advertisements, sent through
Advertising Agencies. must be PAID Tor IN ad-
vance. or a deposit made with some one who'u
we may designate.
sS- Marriages and deaths, not exceealhe zen zen
lines will be published rs news, iree OF chhtge'
but obituaries tributes Of respect. funeral hoti-
cos and invitations charged as advertisements
eT-Al personal matter, letters or communi-
cations setting forth individual schemes or IN :
'terests 10 be promoted, emanating from parry
or nnrties. organizations or societies. VIII De
charged for as other advertisements
eSr"In all legitimate demands OF the uemo-
cratic or Conservative party, or OF the great ln-
terests of the general public upon our columns,
the Times will not fail of it's duty
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Official Directory.

COUNTY OFFICERS:
coun,v and probatcJuagc-s ; semnes.
County and Circuit Clerk-Ben IL Bacchus
sheriff and Collector w. B. Haskins.
County Examiner Leon Roussan.
County Treasurr ri. W Uzzeii'
County surveyor-J II. Caruthers'
County Coroner j. NJ. Lawrence.
County A sscssor---J. NJ. Rggans
aoNRoE TOWNSHIP.
Ju.tie,s Of The pcea-J mes Liston, w.
Moss
Constable George Joyner.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
Mayor-AleX Goodrich.
,y.ccordcr-IIugh X. McNeigh,
Aldermcn-James Liston, Peter Brickey' "eo
+. stowell, II. e Dunavant, Jas. ii H-miltoh
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The Pickett-FersusOn 4
uannpsOn Case.


such huge proportions that we hard
ly feel able to give our readers its
history, but we will try to give our
readers an outline of it:
Mrs. Pickett, the former owner of
the Nodena plantation, brought suit
originally in Memphis, in the Chan
cery Court of Shelby County, Tenn,
before Hon. II. Il. Elicit, special
Chancellor for the recovery of this
plantation, and prosecuted her suit
to a decree in her favor, and pend
ing the trial in Memphis, Or rather,
before her decree there was entered
of record, Mess. Ferguson & Hamp-
son applied for and obtained from
Judge Garlick, then our County
Judge, an injunction restraining Mrs.
Pickett, her agents and attorneys
from prosecuting their suit in the
Shelby Chancery Court, which was
duly served upon them. Mrs. Pick
ett's attorneys however elected to
disregard the injunction, and proceed
ed to enter their decree in the Shell
by Court and also to take and state
an account against Mess. Ferguson
& Hampson, thereby rendering
themselves liable to punishment for
contempt of our Circuit Court.
At the last Fall term Of our Cir
cult Court, the Attorneys for Mess.
Ferguson & Hampson filed their
motion to attach Mrs. Pickett and
Ter attorneys for contempt
of Court, and the motion was
heard in chambers before Judge
Frierson at Little Rock, and the mo-
ton sustained, and Mrs. Pickett and
her attorneys adjudged in contempt
of our Court, and as a punishment
were ordered to dismiss all their
proceedings had in the Chancery
Court Of Shelby County, Tenn, on,
or before May Z, and in default there
of, they would not be allowed to file
an answer to Mess. Ferguson &
Hampson's cross bill in this Court,
and that a decree would be render
ed against them. They declined to
dismiss their proceedings in Mem
phis, however, evidently thinking
that decree in hand lin Memphis)
was worth two in canebrake in Ar
kansas. Just to make things as
cheerful as possible for all parties,
Mrs. Pickett sued out an injunction
in Memphis, restraining Mess. Fer
guson & Hampson and their attor-
neys from further prosecuting the
contempt proceedings here or in any
manner seeking to derive any benefit
from said contempt proceedings in
this Court.
But Mess. f. & II. and their at
torneys having learned the lesson of
disobedience from the other side,
disobeyed the Memphis injunction
and took n decree in their favor at
this term. The case has now gone
to the Supreme Court, or will get
there, as soon as the Clerk and dep
uty can write up the transcript in
the case, which will be about 1000
pages of legal cap.
There is quite an array of counsel
in the case, Mess. Ferguson & Hamp-
son being represented by Judge U.
NJ. Rose, +. f. Adams, l.. Y. C.
Humes, l.. w. Humes, o. p. Lyles,
and G.. w. Thomson, with several
precincts to hear from.
Mrs. Pickett is represented by
Mess. Metcalf& Walker, of Memphis
and Hon. II. NJ. McVeigh of this
place.
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From DIR Matthews, we learn that
Col. Otto + ochtitzky representing IA
large corporation of capitalists, con-
templates at an early day, building
a railroad from Point Pleasant over
the old Pole road to Hornersville,
thence across Buffalo Island and the
St. Francis to Crowley's Ridge.
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Communicated
HIcKMAN, Miss. Co, Ark, MAY 2;

HICKMAN, Miss. Co., ARK, May %.
Mn. EDITOR: In the Circuit Court
Items, published in your issue of the
10Th. inst, | find the following, to-
wit: estate, " VS. Thomas Musgrave.
The States witnesses not putting in
an appearance, though promptly on
hand when the defendant was to be
indicted, nolle pros. was entered
by our level-headed States Attorney.
1t is very evident, Mr.. Editor,
from the language here used, that
the gentleman who furnished these
"Items" for your paper, intended
to create the impression that the
States witnesses were the same par
ties who were before the Grand Ju-
ry, and that they had, from malicious
motives, voluntarily appeared before
the Grand Jury, at the last Novem-
Der term of the Circuit Court, and
given the evidence upon which the
indictment was founded, and having
done 50, were now unwilling to APP
pear and sustain that indictment by
proof.
Now, sir, as one of the witnesses
before the Grand Jury in that case
repel any such insinuation and de-
sire space in your paper to state the
facts in this matter.
Having gone to Osceola during
the first week of the last November
term of the Circuit Court, as one of
the Judges chosen to bear hither the
returns of this township of the Con-
gressional Election, a subpoena was
served upon me by Mr.. Haskins
commanding me to appear forthwith
before the Grand Jury. When Mr..
Haskins served this subpoena on me
was in company with his deputy
for this township, and we were both
on our way to mount our horses and
return home. AS a matter of course
| obeyed the mandate of the Grand
Jury.
| have never been, at any time,
summoned to appear as a witness
in this case before the Circuit Court,
and of course, did not volunteer my
services.
For some reason, unknown to me,
two Of my neighbors, Messrs. f. NJ.
and j. G.. Huffman, were subpupad
in behalf Of the state, in this case
BUT IT so HAPPENED that the sub
p@na required their appearance on
the 18th day of May, 1888, which
was Sunday, and / was informed that
they protested against attending any
Sunday session of the Mississippi
County Circuit Court and did not
attend on that day. These gentle
men however did put in their ap-
pearance at Osceola on the following
Monday: only in time to learn that
the case had been dismissed.
Now Mr.. Editor, if the gentleman
who furnished these items is willing
to do justice to all, and is particular
" anxious to vindcate and defend
the conduct of his friend, let him
commence in the right way, by seek
ing for the truth or falsity of the
charges contained in that indictment.
Respectfully,
CHARLES u. BrCK.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.

BY mutual agreement the different denomina'
tions will hold divine services IN the Union
church as follows;
METHoDIsr-Rcv. T. B. =. James, first ana
fourth sabbaths of each month, at osceola
Second sabbath at Mill Bayou and Elmot
Third Sabbath at Sandy Bayou and Carson
Lake.
BArrIsr-Rev. W. II Barksdale, of Memphis
second sabbath in each month.
CuRIsTIAs--Rev. Mr.. Jones, third Sabbath IN
each month
PREsBYrKRIAs--Re Mr.. Cochran, oi Mem
phIs, fourth Sunday in each month.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-26
A Model Town.

VIM. Hughes and wife, formerly
of Paris, now of Carthage, Ills, are
making a visit to relatives IN our
city, the first in ten years Mr..
Hughes has been a resident of Car
thage for thirty years, says there is
not drinking saloon in the place,
which accounts for there not having
been murder during that time.
Hancock, the county in which Car
thage is situated has population of
10000, yet the county Jail is, and
has for a long time been empty.
There is some beer drank in the town,
but those who indulge in it club to-
gether and order keg from keokuk,
the cost being about one dollar, and
expressage twenty-five cents. There
being no saloons in the town at which
intoxicants can be had, the boys
grow up to sober manhood Ex.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-26
Annual school Election,
District No.

The annual school meeting last
Saturday resulted in the election OF
Mr.. F. b. Hale as Director, and a
tax of 3 mslls for school purposes,
and . mills for building purposes.
Out of a voting population of about
400, in the District 50 managed to
come to the meeting. Comment Is
unnecessary.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-26

BEEF cattle were never known to
command better prices than at pres
ent, and a general boom in the cattle
raising industry is the result. 1t beats
cotton raising all to pieces. Capital
invested doubles itself every three
wears
The Osceola times., 1883-05-26

The expected and looked-for
clashing of arms, or popping of pls-
tolls, at ten PAGES, between Col. Gal
loway, editor of the Memphis Appeal,
and Gen. Chalmers, of Mississippi,
has not yet taken place. In fact,
Gen. Chaimcrs was not greatly ruff
fled by being called a "political in
grate," a"party traitor" and "slab-
sided corn-and-cob crusher," but
when the Appeal man called him a
"newspaper fie'd," he got mad and
felt like Malone was calling upon
him to remark few. And that,
perhaps, is all there is to be of it..
Fighting with goose quills across
state lines, is fast becoming a favor
ite nodc of warfare among the wah-
horses. Considered from an economic
standpoint, burial expenses are saved.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-26

JAMES GORDON BENNETT values
the New y ork Herald at Sl0,0 900,
and says it pays six per cent. clear
profit on that amount. If there are
any purchasers around, who desire
to invest in the newspaper business,
the Times will be sold for something
less than half that amount.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-26

ACCoUN,s of another storm which
prevailed last Saturday night in por-
tions of Missouri, Dakota and Hi
nois, reveal a fearful loss of life and
property. Houses were utterly
blown away and destroyed; fences
and growing crops demolished. 1t
is almost impossible to estimate the
loss in both life and property, as the
track of the storm struck no town of
any size, but spent its force upon
country farm-houses, country resi-
dences, growing crops, forests, &c.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-26

Pull. B. THOMPSON, who shot and
killed Davis for debauching his wife
was acquitted last week, at Harrods-
burg, Ky. Sensible virdict.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-26

The bane of our life is discomfort
We say we will work so long and
then we will enjoy ourselves. But
we find it just as Thackery has ex-
pressed it; "When | was bov,'
he said, IL wanted some tatfy. II
was a shilling; hadn't one. When
| was a man, had shilling, but
didn't want any faify."
The Osceola times., 1883-05-26

GEN. GRANTS mother died recent
ly and was buried in Spring Grove
cemetery, at Cincinnati.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-26
THE OSCEOLA TIMES.
LEON ROUSSAN,
editor and Prophet r

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I'm advance .
For n Term of One year. ...'''''''''@i ~ ~
SIX Months. ..... ...'.'' 10
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The storm last night blew down
considerable fencing in the vicinity.
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RATES OFADVERTISlNG:
FOR TRANSIENT AND LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NoRCES.
One dollar per square of one men running y,
measure. or space OF ten lines Of this type, lot
drst insertion, and seysnty-hve cents ior each
subsequent insertion.
c.pns AND ADyERTIS EMENTs:
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Notices under this heao giving name, occupa.
tion, business or profession, and loeHion, VIII
be charged 81 per annum.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-12
LIES ESSENCE
Riehard Raafl


Fair are the flowers and the children. bus their
subtle suggestion is fairer;
Rare Is the rosebud of dawn, but the secret
that clasps it Is raTer:
Sweet the eXultance of song, but the strain
that precedes il is sweeter;
And never was poem yet writ but the meaning
outmasters the meter.
Never daisy that grows but mystery guild
eth the growing;
Never a river that flows but majesty ssepters
the flowing;
Never Shakespeare that scared brs strong
er than he did unfold him,
Nor ever prophet foretells, out mightier
seer hath foretold him.
Back of the canvas that throbs the painter is
limited and hidden;
Into statue that breathes the soul Of the sculp-
tor is hidden;
Under the JOY that is felt lie the infinite issues
of feeling;
Growing the glory revealed is the glory that
crowns the revealing.
Great are the symbols of being, but that which
is symboled is greater;
Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the in
ward creator;
Back of the sound broods the silence, back of
the gift stands the giving;
Back Of the hand that receives thrill the senai-
tive nerves of receiving
Space is as nothing to spirit, the deed is out
done by the doing;
The heart of the wooer is warm, but warmer
the heart of the wooing;
And up from the pits where these shiver, and
up from the heights where those shine,
Twin voices and shadows swim starward, and
the essence of life is divine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-12
The Poor at sunset.

@0f all kinds of homeless and moneyless
people on the street as the winter night comes
on, there are hundred or more at each
sunset" says Professor Swing
Think of darkness falling on such misery
and desolation, snow overhead, Snow under
foot, sharp wind freezing the blood and be-
numbing every faculty Nature is strong
death often long time coming. What wonder
that many turn in fierce desperation to crime?
Almost any one can philosophize by the CRATE
FIRE; not many when half-maddened with
famine and exposure. The finest type of
cruelty can only be found in great city
Deave the smoky walls behind Go among the
poorest of the poor and the last crust viii be
divided. Here, want is relieved with pine
coffin, Who has ever looked on sunken
cheek and claw-like hand, cold and pulseless
in death, without feeling fierce desire to curse
man for his inhumanity? The benefactor
needed everywhere is the man who can say, Il
have suffered even as you suffer; l have
known what it is to want for bread"-not Dives,
doing out a crust here and coffin there, and
surveying the wretched and unlucky as
though they were toads or lepers
l. II. HAYES
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-12
The Commercial traveller.

newspaper reporter got hold of New
York commercial traveller in Pennsylvania,
and had five minutes talk with him. The
drummer did not draw forid picture of the
delights of his profession. He said those who
engage in it have to work hard on salaries not
too large, travel much, live irregularly and
for sticking to the business, but this is because
of their proneness to believe they are fit for
nothing else, and rolling stones as they are,
they seldom accumulate enough to go into
business for themselves. Working for large
firms their ideas of business are correspond
ingly large and they cannot bring themselves
down to the level of doing a small business at
a moderate profit Being lavish IN spending
money, they soon learn how to increase their
salaries, the most prominent racket" being
the getting of reduced hotel, railroad passage
and ex Ira baggage rates, and charging up flu
rates to employers
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-12
An italian Regiments Admiration OF
aYOung Lady.
Rome Letter.


A regiment of infantry was coming down
the strada. If do not describe this regiment
as the very poorest regiment in the world, it is
because it was precisely like every other body
of italian soldiery that have SEEN The room
directly under mine was occupied by young
English lady, who, attracted by the roll of
drums, stepped out on her balcony just as the
head of the column reached the hotel In her
innocent desire to witness the military display
she probably had no anticipation of the tender
fUsilade she would have to undergo. That the
colonel should give the fair stranger half
furtive salute, in which he cut nothing in two
with his sabre, was well enough; but that was
no reason why every mothers son in each
platoon should look up at the balcony as he
passed, and then turn aud glance back
at her over his shoulder. Yet
this singular military evolution, which
1 cannot find set down any
where in Hardee's tactics, was performed by
every man in the regiment That these 1000
or !, 200 warriors refrained from kissing their
hands to the blonde lady shows the severe
discipline which prevails in the Italian army
Possibly there was not a man of them, from
the colonel's valet down to the colonel HIM
self, who did not march off with the convic-
ton that he had pierced that blue muslin
wrapper somewhere in the region of the left
breast | must say that the modest young
Englishwoman stood this enfilading fire ad-
mirably, though it made white and red roses
of her complexion. The rear Of the column
was brought up, and emphasized, if may
say it, by an exclamation point in the shape of
person so richly gilded and of such gorgeous
p!umage that should instantly have accepted
him as the king of Italy If had not long ago
discovered that fine feathers do not always
make fine birds. 1t was only the regimenial
physician. Of course, he tossed up couple
of pill-like eyes to the balcony as he struggled
by, with the plume standing out horizontally
like that thin line of black smoke which
just rhen caught my attention in the ofing