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The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
THE lNQUISITI0N IN HUNGARY.
The Prosecuted jews Acquitted After a
Disgrace fui Trial.


Disgracsfui Trial.
London Dispatch in New York World.
The ten Jews at Nyreghhaza, Hungary,
who were charged with numbering Esth-
er Solimosi, a Christian girl, in the syna-
gogue at Tisza Esslar, in order to procure
her blood to mix in the Passover bread,
have been acquitted, the jury having re-
turned verdict of not guilty. The state
was ordered to pay the costs of the trial
The evidence given during the trial.
which has lasted nearly two months, re-
vealed a story of cruel bigotry and fanat-
icism worthy of the period of the
Spanish inquisition. The strength of the
anti Semitic feeling in Hungary is shown
by the action of the Judges, the populace,
the counsel, and even a member of the
Hungary Diet. This Deputy,
whose name is 0nody, threatened the
Public Prosecutor with a stick in the
street and challenged him to fight duel.
The Public Prosecutor, a sensible and
fair-minded man, who seems to have
been determined that the Jews should
be shown Justice, declined the challenge
and demanded that the Deputy be put
under bonds to keep the peace, which
was done, The principal witness for the
prosecution Was Il fourteen-year old boy
named Moritz Scharf, a son of one oi the
prisoners. At first his testimony that
the girl Esther had been inveigled into
the synagogue, her throat cut and her
blood used TO knead the Passover bread
were circumstantial and consistent, but
as he went on day after day to describe
many similar atrocities of which he said
the accused were guilty he became con-
fused and frequently oontradicted him
self. He testified that he had seen the
murders through the keyhole, but when
taken to the synagogue and forced to put
his eye to the keyhole, it was conclusive
ly proven that he could not see anyone
in the portion Of the interior of the syn
agogue he had named. On July oath, at
the request of the Public Prosecutor, and
counsel for the defense, he was not al
lowed to testify further on account of his
cruel and irreligious conduct and con-
fiicting statements. Three days before
two other prominent witnesses for the
proeecution-JuliaV Vamosi and Q coach.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
EXCURSIONlSTS' WOE.
What Rural Couple Expected to see In
the City.
Detroit Free Press.

the City.
Detroit Free Press.
Among the excufsionists yesterday
was a fat man encased in an immense
linen duster, accompanied by scared
looking wife, whose weight would not
have balanced one hundred pounds.
At they came up jefferson avenue, the
man wiped off his heated brow and
limping on his sore corn, they turned
into store and the fat man said
eve arc excursionists We have come
to view the POINTS of interest in your
city. Can you direct me to the State
house2"
ave have no State-bouse here, sir.
lansing is the capital, you know"
"Ah so she is-ofcourse. Wife, why
didn't we go to Lansing? / expected
some such trickery all the way in:
Well, we want to go to the Morgue and
see dead bodies"
"There are no dead in there now."
"No Wife what do you say to that?
If that isn't downright robbery on us
then I'd like to knowl Where is the
grand aquarium"
IL guess its down in Lake Erie
"You have no public aquarium? Wife
how does that strike you after coming
eighty miles? Maybe you can put up
with it, but ] won't"
"Maybe they have catacombs here"'
she tremblingly suggested.
"No, ma'am."
"No! of course not" growled the old
bear. "Not catacomb in the city, and
we expected to see at least forty. My
whole country shall hear of this swim
die"
81 suppose there is no mountains
around here?" she quiried.
"No, ma'am."
"Just as | expected" blurted her hus-
band. as he mopred his red face again
"They haven't got a mountain, precipice
or avalanche in her whole town! Mary
we have been outrageonsly swindled!"
There might be some grand ruins
Richard"
81 don't believe it,"
NO, ma'am. All the ruins we have
at present are undergoing needed i'm
provements, and won't be in running or
der for sixty days"
Didn't / tell you so, Mary? | knew
the minute we landed that they hadn''
consarned ruin in the old town. Let's
go home"
"The Cooper Institute isn't here, is it?'
she asked as she rose up.
"No, ma'am."
"Just as | expected-just exactlyp
roared the enraged lion. "When yol
woke me up at 2 O'Clock this morning
and said we must not forget the Coope
Institute / knew yod was preparing q
disappointment for yourself. Come
on,''
"We have beautiful river" suggest
ed the citizen.
'Is it the Bosphorus?" she asked.
"No, ma'am."
"Nol of course not-come along! We've
been cheated and tricked and swindlec
and mopped in the gutter. The pyra
mids amt here, they hain't got no vol
canoes, and I'll bet my hat agin cent
they never had an earthquake. Wen
90 back to the depot. We hain't ricl
but we know when we are swindled."
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After sixty fears Observation.
Bosten Transcript.

"Yod think that ere woman with the
three children belongs to that man a.
talkin' with her?" asked an OLD sea cap
tain. "vo; no woman could lived so
longs that with man and appear SO
much above him in her whole make up |!
There's lot o stuff talked about folks
bc'n' mismated, but they amt nothin'
in it-nothin' genuine under cover,
mean. Folks as comes together natural,
without emmy conpulsion, as they do
round these parts, air about equal in
most respects. When a woman takes to
a low man there's somethin' low slowed
away in her cargo, and wise versa; ard
a,id when there's public sinashup, it's
the cissedness of both comm to a eli.
maxi At least that's my opinion; after
eixty years observation"
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
LOVE IN THE DEPOT.
There Was something About Her That Re-
minded Him OF Hannah.
Dctroit Free Press


minded Him of Hannah.
Detroit Free Press.
A woman arrived here the other fore
noon from the East with seven children
in tow, and at almost the same hour a
man reached the same depot from the
North with five ofIsprings of various
ages and sizes. She was widow and he
widower, and the children had not
been whipped more than once around
before there was sort cf mutual sym
pathy that begot admiration and then
friendship. One Of the widows boys
offered one of the widower's girls bite
of his fried cake, which was accepted in
the spirit rendered. and a ten-year old
girl belonging to the man made up to the
two-year old belonging to the woman,
and soon secured the privilege of wiping
its nose and combing its hair. Presently
the widower made bold to inquire:
MADAM am wrong in believing that
you are widow"
IL have been widow fourteen months
to-day she answered.
"Great Scots but it's just fourteen
months to-day since my Hammer died
Which way be you goingP"
''To Illanoy."
"Thats just where | am going, too.
Did you promise your husband never to
marry again?"
"No."
"And didn't promise my wife, either.
Fact is, | believe | shall unite as soon as
| can find some good woman"
"And my children need fathers
care" she sighed asshe pulled little John
Henry off the window sill and bumped
him into seat
The man got up and walked around
the waiting room, and took closer look
at the children. Then he said:
81 suppose you've got few hundred
dollars, belong to some church, can wash
and bake and mend, and are of a mild
and forgiving dispositionp"
"Yes, that's me-"
"Well, Pm kinder religious, ventcm-
nered, and am worth about $1,000. I'm
sort o. stuck on you. There's something
about your eyes that reminds me of Han
ner."
"And you look like Alonzo around the
mouth" she sighed.
Then he bent over and whispered
something about Chicago and getting
married. and she nodded her head. lie
gathered his children under his wing
| took them into corner, and solemnly
and impressively observed:
Children, Pm going to git married to
that woman over there and give you a
new mother. If any of you is going to
kick and boo-hoo about it, begin now, so
| can tune We down before the train
goes. Henry, you are the oldest. Are
you going to declare you'll run away OF
commit suicide? Let me know right
now, for this is good cool place to
prance we around with a shingle."
Henry said he guessed it would be all
right, and the rest of the crowd seemed
to agree. ana ten minutes later the wild.
over and widow sat holding hands and
trying to eat peanuts and the twelve
children were biting and pulling hair
and kicking to see who should have a
seat on the steam heater.
This is kinder the work of heaven p
chuckled the widower, as he hitched Il
little nearer.
"You bet, love she replied, as she
shucked another peanut with her teeth
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
The Whistling Fish of Nevada.

One of the most singular of the fish
family is doubtless the whistling sucker,
which is sometimes caught in Walker
lake, The fish when caught emits a
plaintive whistle which will almost per-
suade an angler with any tenderness of
heart TO throw il back in the water.
Charley kimbaIl has one which was
caught in a net when quite young. He
keeps it in tank and has taught it to
know him and whistle when it is hun
CRY. When its master approaches the
fish pushes its nose and mouth barely
out Of the water, and making q packer
with its lips which the human packer
does not nearly equal, whistles some
shrill notes. 1t appears TO have some Of
the parrot characteristics, and Kimball
thinks that ia time he can teach ii to
whistle part Of some simple tune.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
NOT FOND OF SENSATIONS.
Another Little War "Reminiscences Emphst-
icalIv Gou.radieted,

Another Little War "Reminiscences Empbet-
icaiIy Contradictsd.
Gen. Jubal A. Easy in the Lynchburg News
find in your paper of this morning a
paragraph which is credited to the Rich
molid State, in which is this statement:
"On one u,casion Lee received this de-
yout dispatch from one flank: by the
grace of God we have beaten them ON
the right, and on the other wing, by
d-n hard fighting we have whipped them
on the left One lieutenant was jackson
and the other Ewell."
General Eweil was incapable of suclr
disrespect to General Lee as sending the
dispatch attributed to him, and l don't
think that there was any officer of rank
in the army Of North Virginia who would
have exhibited sUch disregard OF military
proprietv. But the fact is that General
Eyell, up to the time ofGeneral Jacksons
death. fought in no battle wlatayer, in
which he did not fight as General Jack
sou's subordinate. The only battles IN
which he fought during that time, w'aen
General Lee was present commanding,
were the seven days battles around Rich
mond. and he then fought under the
immediate command Of Gen. jackson, to
whom any dispatch or report by him
would have been sent, and not to Gen.
Lee Gen. Ewell lost his leg at second
Manassas, on the 2Sth of August, lS6.
before the arrival of Gen. lee, and did
not return TO the army until aiter zen
Jackson's death. He then came back as
the commander of Jackson's old corps,
having been appointed to the position,
as is understood, in accordance WIN the
request Of Gen. Jackson, expressed on
his death-bed. He came back as a men,
ber of the church, and remained con-
sistent Christian until his death, years
after the war. Gen. Even hlhlseii Is
hevond the reach of detraction or morti-
fication Of seeing in prnt such thought-
loss stories as the above; but he has near
reIatives and many friends, TO whom the.
circulation of such stories through the
naners cannot fail to be offensive. may
remark here that many Southern papers
are very inconsistent in publishing
stories in regard to the war, often the Off
spring of Yankee invention, merely be.
cause they are sensational, Some OF
these stories are such as would provoke
a saint. ana. not being saint myself,
am often teinpSed very sorely to express
myself in very emphatic language espec-
aily in regard to the southern pares
which reproduce then, which ! am sure ,
would meet the fate Gt unc'e lopy ;
oath.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
ALL SORTS.

Selim, Alabama, has sixty artesian
wells, the water from no two Of which is
exactly alike.
Sixteen thousand models of inpatient
able inventions were recently sold at the
Patent office for S762.
The consumption of tobacco in the
United States is said to be about ten
times what it is in Great Britain.
Charles f. Brush, the electric light
man, is worth 81 100000. He is letting
his light shine most proiitably.
A minister was refused admission to
the Ministers Association at Aurora,
Michigan, because he patronized Sunday
trains and used tobacco.
A snow white hen in Arkansas hatch
ed out five black chickens and killed
every one of them after they left the
shell. Down in Arkansas race prejudice
is strong
An Iowa chemist recently discovered
an explosive believed to be nineteen
times as powerful as dynamite, but the
secret of its composition was lost at the
time of its discovery, together with
the chemist and most of the glass in
town.
An apparatus which has been suggest
ed for the London underground railway
trains consists of a sort of sieve impreg-
mated with a with cheap chemical fluid,
through which the air passes and is de
smoked.
The sweet college student is no longer
employed as waiter in the White Noun
tain hotels, and the burly proprietors so
advertise. The college chump became
altogether too flip with daughters of the
wealthy mammas who were summer
boarders and the ebony article is used
this year
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
GROUND FOR DIVORCES.
And the Court should Have Granted Her
One without Hesitation.
n. Y. World.

He came home with serious face.
She who was all love and smiles, saw in
an instant that something was the mat
ter. He turned his face away when she
attempted to plant the warm kiss of
greeting on his lips. Her soul sank with
in her. 1t was the first time that he had
repulsed her. "George," she said eagerly,
"tell me what il is. Has your love grown
cold? Treat me frankly. 1t is better to
know the truth than to be kept in sus-
pense.' He kept his head averted a
minute. his lip trembled, then he said /:
"Oh, heavens Florence, how can you
wear that mask of deceit when | know
all ?'
"All what ?"
Spare me the sad recital" he contin-
ued, there are some things that are bet
ter left unsaid."
Il will not spare you. | insist upon
knowing what it is you mean. Tell me,
and at once. Some perjured villain has
abused your mind"
"Alas, now he said. II was an eve
witness of it all. Do not add deceit to
your other crimes. was there and saw
IT,"
"Saw what?" she cried, "What have
you seen? Are you mad?"
Calm yourself, madame. saw YOU
YOU, the wife of my bosom-when you
did not think my eye was on you. You
were on Broadway, mingling with the
s,@!y shsoEg, Iie was aori1 ihs Oh. You
beckoned TO him. You made telegraphIc
signs until you attracted his attention"
"Merciful powers y she gasped.
"You see | know all" he continued.
'You did this on the public street. At
first he would have gone on and disre-
garded you but you were importunate.
You caught his eye, you beckoned. He
smiled, and you went down the thorough
fare together"
"'Tis false, as false as"
Madame, it is too true; | tell YOU
saw il. Let us have no nonsense about it,"
Then she sank upon the sofa. Again
he turned his manly head TO hide his
emotion. The diamond tears began to
come through her fingers. Helplessness,
indignation and shame were struggling
together in ber soul.
Suddenly she looked up. "Perhaps.
sir. YOU viii tell me who he is."
Certainly" replied the brute. "He
was the driver Of Madison avenue ON
nibus." Then he went suddenly out of
the door as il fearful that one of the
statnettes would fly after him. And she
Hred her tears ard sa;d somebody was
fool.
shs - risht, only she got the person
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
The Best They Had.
Detroit Free Press.

Between Biloxi and Mississippi City
the engine broke down and the train
was brought to stand-still. When the
conductor announced that it would be
two or three hours before we could pro-
ceed thirty or forty of the passengers
sauntered across the field to a negro
cabin and sat down in a shady grove.
There were a dozen or more dogs around
the place, and presently two ofthem en-
gagged in savage fight lasting about ten
minutes. They were finally separated
by the owner, and closely following was
a fight between boy of 8 or 8 and a
girl a year or two older. Then came
another dog fight, and then the old wo-
man stepped out and the boy and girl
pitched into her tooth and toe-nail.
The ladies in the crowd became excited
and indignant, and just as another dog
fight was being arranged for, one of the
gentlemen walked up to the colored
man and said:
1--WE want this brutal sport stopped at
once! You and your wife ought to be
ashamed of yourselves"
Lock aheah, sir" replied the negro,
rs he kicked dog aside, ''you belong
down dar', doan' your"
"Yes; the engine broke down"
AN you come over heah to res an
enjoy yerselves?'
"Yes."
"Well, sab, we's bin tryin' to make
your stay agreeable by shown off the
VERY best we had, an now if you am
gwine to fin fault an raise row about
It, you'd better trabble right back soon's
yer legs kin hurry ye up"
He went in and took an old shotgun
down off the hooks, and we travelled.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
FAMILY TOPICS.
Domestic Misadventures Related by Mar
ried Men.

Domestic MtsauNeniutte oe'''" w 4''
ried Men.
Correspondence Courier Journal.
To a quiet looker-on in Vienna there
is a great deal of fun to be found on the
wa.ering-place boats. Men with bottle
or two under their belts become garrul-
ous, are disposed to open the family
Closet and expose the foul linen. A
group of four noisy takers were quite
prominent few nights since, on a return
boat. and those in the immediate vicinity
were much amused as well as edited VI
the conversation. am inclined to thiRS
there was much of it pure invention, ans
and created on the spot for the ANUS
ment of a young lady sitting near the
group, VINO momentarily exploded with
laughter, and then checked il with sud
denness that was ludicrous.
"My wife, said stout man of mirth-
fll aspect, "likes to have me come home
to dinner"
$50 does mine.n chorused the others.
"The other night" continued the fat
man, 81 went home pretty late took off
my shoes and crept up stairs as lightly
as a caterpillar. ! opened the chamber
door, shook off my clothes and gently
laid down on the edge of the bed. 1t
was like sleeping on the edge of hair
brush. In the morning threw my arm
back and the bed was empty. III catch
it at breakfast thinks | TO myself Down
to breakfast / went, just as full of lies as
a man of my size coulG hold, and found
no wife, but a note on the breakfast table
and dated the day before, saying: Dear
Charlie: Have gone to spend few days
with mother and | had slept on the
edge of the bed when | might have had
it all"
/ never saw man enjoy ajokc at his
own expense like the fat man.
An austure-looking individual, who
would have been mustered into detect
i've force and not question asked, here
lDOk up tnt ruillliiiE'
81 have no fault to find with my wife.
She is a A copper fastened, and all that,
you know, but | have mothcr-in-law
whom / wish with satan twenty times a
day. If she should ever die tan event
which threatens TO be postponed until
time runs out of material, the devil will
shut up shop and go into the country.
The ether night told my wife that |
would take some mutton tallow and
grease the front stair carpet to see II that
old woman's neck could be broken. l
think the ancient has habit of fasten-
ing her ear to the key-hole. The next
morning | went down stairs on my back,
and looking up from the bottom, saw the
old woman grinning at the balustrade
Try some mutton tallow, dear she
yelled; it S good for b'lises.'"
The third one to chip in was gentle
man with a perfectly vl,ant cast OF coun-
tenance and apparently with many emp
ty cells in his mind where no emotion
had ever lodged. when 90 out" he
said, 81 stay all night, and my wife don't
have to set up for me. always send a
messenger boy up before | start to ask
her what she's going to have for breakfast
the next morning"
The fourth of the group was a German
of stoical cast of countenancc. you
don't commence right like was" said
the Teuton. II always has peace in mine
iireside. did not marry mine wife,"
II was curious to see how quiet and
thoughtful the four became as the boat
approached the city of Brooklyn.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
GRANpPAPA AND LIyTLE flo.

Down the shady lane they go,
Grandpapa and little Flo,
Hand in hand.
Happier man was never seen,
Nor q happier child, ween,
In all the land.
See those locks all snowy white
Falling on his shoulder light
Tell his age;
Four.scOre years-aye, even more
uod has added to his store
Another page.
Little Flo, a fairy child,
With great eyes, so blue, so mild,
Leads the way.
Seeks the suoothest place OF all
For his feet, lest he should ial
By the way.
Down the Jane they always 40,
Grandpspa and lutte Flo,
When Ills bright.
And the brides IN the trees,
Fitting light above the leaves,
Bless the sight,
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
The Gentiem1n WIN the Thin Gripsack

He was greasy locking citizen. His
gripsack was SO thin that he could have
boned ham with it. As he laid IT on 4
Sixth avenue bakers counter he remark
ed to a young girl who was tending bar;
"Swarm day."
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08

John IIelman, of Lexington, Pa, stood
in the hall cleaning his ear with the butt
end of small stiff switch. A screen
door was opened suddenly against him,
which thrust the switch inside the ear,
broke the drum, caused the most intense
suffering, and made Helman a maniac.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08

As Richard Peters was at work at the
Government dixie at Arsenal Island, ST..
Louis, he reached under the derrick for
plug of tobacco. At that moment an
immense pile of rock tumbled, and his
hand was cut completely off
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08

Rolla Ste wart, blacksmith at Wolcott,
n. Y, was pounding piece of red hot
iron, when some ofthe dross adhered TO
his hammer. In raising the hammer
again piece of the dross fell down the
back of his neck, burning it severely.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08

DR.. Mary Walker has received her
walking papers from the Commissioner
Of Pensions.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-08

Selim, Alabama, has sixty artesian
wells, the water from no two of which is
exactly alike.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-07-21
immigration.

Nashville Banner.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Rec
ord notices growing disposition on the
part of the southern people to develop
immigration, and declares that before
our agricultural resources can be prop
erly developed there must beS an i'm
provement in the matter of labor.
The Record makes the truthful as
sertion that "as yet comparatively little
has been done at the south to turn the
tide of immigration that way. The
foreign steamship lines to the Atlantic
ports and the trunk railroads have
combined for years to develop the en-
igration fever among Europeans, and
having done this, then to pain t in glow
ing colors the riches of the western
states, SO that when the fOreig per pays
his passage it is for Il through ticket
direct to some point already selected
in the west, and if the southern states
desire immigration they muI t adopt
the same policy. They must borough
ly advertise their section and its advan-
tages and resources with a liberal hand
throughout the United States Ind Eu-
rope. The railroads must combine with
steamship lines to help on tie good
work, and then after a year or two of
persistent efforts in this direction we
will begin to see results that wi open
up new order of things for he agri-
cultural interests of the south
The idea expressed blythe Record is
by no means new, but it is neverthe-
less the key to the solution of the prob.
lem. The Banner has repeatedly
urged the southern states to employ re-
sponsible agents at different ports to
show emigrants that the south is the
best section for them in every respect.
1t is we'll enough to widely distribute
hand-books, etc., but there is nothing
like personal solicitation.