The Osceola times., 1883-09-29

fact, and solicit an examination OF
the same. They carry a stock OF
Goods second to none in the county,
which they offer at prices that can
not fail to please every one who de.
sires to purchase. A cordial and
friendly invitation is extended to
the public to call and examine Their
new goods.
A young son of Mr.. Dud Lynch,
nine years old, died Of a malignan,
fever, last Monday.
"A Mrs. Scott, Of Golconda, ILL.,,
having received no intelligence oi
her husband, who had left home, on
a trading boat, with the ostensible
object of obtaining work on the
River improvements at Plum Point,
came down few days ago in search
of him, only to learn that her hus-
band had been stricken down with
disease and had been dead over two
months, and his body buried on a
sandbar, and that young man who
had accompanied him, in the capaci-
ty Of cook and man of all work, had
appropriated his money ard effects,
sold his boat, and skipped back up
the river. Mrs. Scott has made ar
rangements to have the remains of
her late husband taken up and con-
veyed home for re-interment.
FOUND-Bctwcen Osceola and
Nodena; one Satchel, which the own
er can get by calling at the Sherifl7s
Office, proving property and paying
for this notice.
We learn as we grow older, or
as a teutonic friend expresses it,
" der longer as l lives, the more l
finds, by jeminny, owt." From ear
ly boyhood, we have been taught
the proudest title that could be con-
ferred in this land of freedom was
being an American citizen," with
the right of suffrage; with consti-
tutional guarantee of freedom of
speech, freedom ofthought and free
dom Of worship according to the
dictates of conscience. All our
life long, we have been taught and
led to believe that all officers, under
our American system of Government,
were the servants of the people, chos-
en- by the people, to do the will of
the people in the performance of
certain duties, and functions, to the
proper administration Of the laws
made by the people; that their actions
represented the will of the people
in an authorized capacity; that
whenever they transcribed their au-
thority, or neglected the perform
ance Of a duty thus imposed. the
people, from whom all power is de-
rived, and in their sovereign capacity,
singly, or collectively, had the right
to censurc, criticise, and if need be,
revoke the authority thus granted
and abused. That the press, sentinels
ON the watch-towers of American
liberty, the medium through which
all public actions are communicated
to the people, and by which they are
warned of all danger, from the APP
proach of armed invasion to the most
insignificant overt act Of the hum
blest citizen. From recent events,
however, it would seem that an ef-
fort is being made in certain quar-
ters, not over thousand miles from
this locality, to impress it on the
minds of the people that this old es-
tablished principle has been revers-
ed; that the people, and not the of.
hcers, are the servants, and that any
complaint, censure or criticism of
any dereliction of duty on the part
of a public officer, is an offense, for
which nothing short of corporal
punishment is to be meted out to
that citizen who has the temerity to
publicly censure a seeming or fla
grant neglect of duty. Somehow
we can't get this new order of things
in our head-no doubt, on the prin-
ciple that, it's difficult to teach an
old dog new tricks. We have
worked too long in the old grooves,
and will, even at the risk of being
accounted disloyal, and subjected to
physical punishment, continue in
future as in the past; lie. praise when
praise is due, and blame or censure
when deserved. 1t has been, and
will no our epdeavor IN avoid ms