The Osceola times., 1883-07-21

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a notorious bully and desperate.
Whiskey and cards were the inccn-
tives which impel1ed the deed.
Choice Perfumes and Toilet ar
ticles at GAYLORD & HOWE
MIR. Hugh r. McVeigh, the po-
kte, accommodating ami eaicient
deputy county clerk, left last Sun
day., for hannibal, Mo-, via. st Louis,
in search Of health and recreation.
Hugh has been suffering from nafa-
ria and biliousness. We wash hin
a pleasant trip, and safe return
with renewed health.
Mr.. J. Brinkle, bad over hun
dred chickens stolen from him one
night this week from his chicken
roost. They were almost ripe, and
Mr.. Brinkle was only waiting Cor
spare time from his crop to bring
them to market. A load of bird
shot applied at shout range is a SOW
ereign remedy for this sert Of chuck
en- malady.
The Baptist doctrine, that Once
in grace, always in grace received
a terrible back set in the Church at
this place recently, when three of its
leading and most prominent mem
bers were voted out of the fold. The
Church's infallibility is apparent on
ly when a member IS admitted on
his profession of grace; when he IS
turned out, grace is wanting and fall
ibility is apparent.
A man out in Texas, writing to
a relative here in Osceola, says:
"a lady out hear in western Tex
as has got horns on hir he'd Like
Buck Deer, and each horn has Z
points. She don't shed them though"
Here in Eastern Arkansas, bug
juice causes them to see nothing
more hidcous than snakes. They
must have awful mean whisky oa.
in 'Westren Texas!
Mr.. 7. II. Robinson, of Blythe
vile, was among the visitors in town
this week. He reports considerable
sickness in his vicinity. Among
others he mentioned As being dan
gerously sick is Mr.. Robert Hardin
and several members of his family,
one having died last week-a little
boy.
Crops, he says, are splendid; that
a large surplus of corn will be gath
cred, and nearly everybody has hogs
enough to make their meat. The
prospects On Clear Lake neighbor-
hood, however, are not so fattering,
The overflow, and long continued
Spring rains rendering it impossible
for the farmers to make any head
way, and their crops are backward.
Mr.. John Martin, the man who |
captured John Smith, the mule thief
now in our Jail, two or three weeks
ago, died in Gayoso, his home, on
the 9th inst. Exposure that night,
in taking Smith in an open boat en-
tirely prostrated him, and when, af-
ter getting home, and DR.. Palmer
was summoned his malady had de-
veloped into marked case of chol-
era, from which he died. In closing
an obituary notice of Mr.. Martin,
the Gayoso Democrat says:
He leaves to mourn his demise,
his aged mother, a sister, sen and
young daughter here. They sadly
feel the heavy stroke, and hare the
heartfelt sympaties of hosts of neigh
bors and friends.
His ashes were laid in their final
resting place beside the loved wife,
in the little cemetery adjoining our
town. There are now two moands
instead of one. She who went before,
no doubt welcomed him with out
stretched arms to their beautiful
home in the Summer Land. There
is no death there, nor tears, nor sor-
row. Peace to thy name, our friend.
Henry Curtis, colored gem'en
in the employ of Messrs. Stowell &
Heinz for the past two or three
months, in the capacity of porter,
came to grief last Wednesday. 1t
appears that small articles of mer-
chandise, jcwelry, silk handkerchiefs
&C., were missed by the proprietors
and clerks at stated intervals. On
last Wednesday, on his return from
drive down to Nodena, Mr.. Heinz