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The Osceola times., 1884-03-01
CHURCH DIREC DRY.

py M stual agreement the different tsnominH
t,sts viii hold divine services Ia The Ih!oh
church ~ follows
AxIuoDur- Rev. 7. o 2, 'ames. aTs' ana
,.1r1a s.bp tbs of each month. st ee0'A
saoopd sabbath at MIL Bayou ard Eln1t
,lta sAhbsth- at sandy bayou and Caf'o"
LAKE.
pAfu,r-Rev ". II Bmssda.o. OF Memphis
s,ooua sahbsth 10 each month
pEs.rtrnsiAs--Rt Rev. Nj. Cochran. oil Nen
,A,.. t.u,tE sunday in each month.
A.HE CAurch-Seryiess, srs' snLdsy ~
zach month Hev, ". A Lewis, Pastor
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01

THE Pine Bluff Commercial, and
Blackburn's Free South and The
Harrison Times have again found
their way TO our sanctum. What
hsvo we done, bre,heren, to be cut
off with half rations?
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01

THE Quincy Qll.) Herald is try
ing TO create a boom for Judge
Mansfield, Of Arkansas, for United
Sta.es Senator. Judge Mansfeld's
many friends in Arkansas will, no
doubt, feel "hoped-up" to see the
cause of their champion SO ably ad-
vOcated by the newspapers Of neigh
boring states, even though their
votes don't count when it comes to
"getting thar Eli"
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01
Tur National Democratic Ex ecu

1HH National Democratic Ex ecu
tive Committee IN t in Washington,
D. c., a. the Arlington Hotel, on the
22nd. inst, and decided to hold the
next Presidential Nominating Con.
ven,ion a. Chicago on the 8th. day
OF July next.
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01
II. NJ. McV eigh,
ATTORSsY AZ LAW,
0SCEOE.{,

Mississippi! County Ark.
Wall practice all the Counties Of
,his(3n Judicial Circuit, tho Su-
prone Court OF thu S,ate, and IN
tho adjoining counties Of Tonnes,
sec aaA Missouri. Special ard
prompt attention given TO col
isctions, to thepaymont of'axes,
examining an abstracting titles,
and - whatever may apportain
tos general Land Agency.
Ian. Is lf
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01

THE cflica Of the Centre Point
Tocsin, waa turned on the night Of
the Goth f February.
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01

THE trial O. Col. Polk came up
for hearing in the suprcms court at
Nashville, on the 26th. ul.,
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01

Mrs. MILLER, Of New Orleans,
after al examination as to her com
potency, was granted a license to
command her steamboat, the Saline.
She can now cuss the mate and boss
the chamber maid.
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01

Hon. JOHN q. FLETCHER, O: Lit
tie Rock and Senator Judkius, Of
Lawrence County, have declared
themselves il the race for Governor.
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01

"It is the opinion Of old river men
that the danger to the bottom lands
from overflow has passed. II Mem
Phis App.a!.
The farmers living in the bottoms
are of the same opinion. After hav-
ing enjoyed tho delights of the an
nual overflow for the past two weeks,
the water is gradually receding.
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01

TnE Marli Gras celebration at
New Orleans is described as "a
Blaze Of Glory" Mobile, Ala, al
SO celebrated the day in big style.
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01
EItIgsf Der.

Having putup Saw Mil at Gold
Dust we would announce to the citi-
zens along the River, that we are
prepared to furnish rough Lumber,
at any aud all points, at reasonable
rates. Address,
pETTIY Bros.
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01

Ar last, the remains Of DcLong,
and nine Of his comrades of the i'll
fatcd jeanette Arctic Exploring
Expedition, have reached home, and
been laid TO rest in American soil,
after two interments, year and q
halls travel over thousands Of miles
Of land and water. DeLong was in
TERED at Woodlawn Cemetery New
York, after imposing funeral cercmo-
mes. He was followed to the grave
by many prominent people.
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01

The anti-prohibitionist and poll.
ticians all over the country are con-
graduating themselves that they
have hit upon the "haPpy medium "
BY adopting the high license theory.
The TINES cannot accept any such
doctrine, for we believe that the
government only makes itself Port =
ccts crlm'nis by taking a sort Of bribe,
cr hush money, in return for throw
ing a cloak Of legality around the
traffic; and that after the high license
experiment, the liquor question will
be just where it was before, "a bone
Of contention " in every community.
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01
FOR SHERIFF

FOR SHERIFF
We are aut orized to announce the name OF
John A Llvc',c,l a. 4 eaudidste tor tie office 1
hera aud Collector Of Alssssippi County, at
the snsuin. Sc tsmbsr election
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Eotl-es unds. this head giving name. occnns.
;on, basinsss or profession, and location. VII!
be eh4rged s. per snnum.
The Osceola times., 1884-03-01

Gold Dust, Tenn.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08
Now only a marble cross set In q grass

Now only marble cross set In grass
plot-dark in the shadow of solemn
pews-marks the site of the butchery,
while the well itself Is u prominent OBJ
jeot in a rich and well ordered garden.
When Havelock reached Cawpore and
found this terrible truth at the bottom
of the we'll, it was too late to furnish
Christian burial to Mana Sahib's VIC
Tins. The we'll was bricked over, and
in due time there has risen upon the
site beautiful marble figure-an angel
with sad face, yet not Borrowing as
those that have no hope, but carrying
in either hand the palm of victory.
Over the gateway Of the inclosure
which surrounds this solemn burial
place is written: "These are they who
came out of great tribulation." Round
the base of the statue runs the inscrip-
ton: "Sacred TO the perpetual memo
ry of great company of Christian peo-
pie, chiefly women and children, who
near this spot were cruelty massacred
by the followers of the rebel Mana
Dhoomdopui:t of Btthwoor, and cast
the dying with the dead into the well on
the 10Th of July, 1857"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Camphor gum, when packed with
furs, is said to have tendency TO
tighten the color. Thorough cleanli-
ness and tar paper are commended as
moth destroyers.
A correspondent of the Scientific
American recommends sowing Hun
garian grass around the oufer edges of
a wheat or corn field as q protection
against the ravages of the chinchbug.
DIR. Squib has substituted for the or
binary blue and red litmus paper sim
gle color, viz, purple. This purple
litmus paper turns red with acids, blue
with alkalies. It's claimed to be much
more delicate and convenient.
Hydrophobia is said to be unknown
among the dogs of Australia, which cir
cumstance is supposed to explain the
action of New South Wales and other
colonies in forbidding the importation
of dogs from Europe and America.
The analysis made by DR.. Reusch of
volcanic ash from the Krakatoa erup-
ton shows the principal constituents of
the ordinary pumice-stone, with frag
ments ranging in size from that of i'm
palpable powder to upward of one mil
limeter in length.
The fibre of silk is the longest con-
tinuous fibre known. An ordinary
cocoon of a well-fed silkworm will
often reel 1000 yards, and reliable ac-
counts are given by Count Dandolo of
a cocoon yielding 1926 yards, or a
fibre nearly three-quarters of mile in
length.
The power developed by the explo-
sion of ton of dynamite is equal to
49, S5 tons raised one foot, or 45,675
foot-tons. One ton of nitro-glycerine
similarly exploded will exert a power
of 65, 452 tons, and one ton of blasting
gelatine similarly exploded, II, 900 foot
tons.
AS cure for pimples: Wash the face
in solution of carbolic acid, allowing
a teaspoonful to pint of water. This
is an excellent and purifying lotion,
and may be used on the most ldelicate
skin. Be careful about letting the wash
get INTO the eyes, as it will weaken
them.
NM. Houles and DePietra Santa have
communicated paper to the Academy
of Sciences, Paris, stating that they
have been unable to discover any in
furious effect produced by copper on
the health of the persons engaged in
working it, and advancing the belief
that colique de cuivre does not exist.
1t is stated that sackcloth or canvas
can be made as impervious to moisture
as leather by sleeping it in decoction
of one pound of oak bark with fourteen
pounds of boiling water, this quantity
being sufficient for eight yards of stuff.
The cloth has to soak twenty-four
hours, when it is taken out, passed
through running water and hung up
to dry.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08
The Well at CaMpore.
Correspondent London Daily News.


Havelock was already On the march,
his nearer approach being made the
signal for an episode which is the dark
est act in the hurried tragedy. On the
eve of going out to give battle to the
English general, Mana Sahib issued
orders for the massacre of the women.
They were invited to leave the house
under pretence of being conducted to a
place of safety. But they had had
enough of the Hindoo's clemency. They
refused to move, and were shot by vol
leys fired through the windows, sepoys
entering sword in hand and completing
the work. This done, they were drag
ged out dead and dying, women and
children, and cast into a well that stood
opposite the house. There they were
found when Hayelock's men, having
utterly routed Mana Sahib, entered the
town, flushed with the generous hope of
rescue.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08

clear out Of the way. After that the
party were enabled to proceed and
reached Discovery harbor, where Gree
" determined to camp. The station
was accordingly established and the
Proteus left the party August 18th, re-
turning safely to st. John. Since then
nothing definite has. been heard from
the Greedy party.
|. Rumors circulated by Esquimaux
were plentiful, one of these being to the
effect that Lieutenant Greedy had been
murdered by his mutinous crew, but
little reliance can be placed on these
reports. The grave danger of Greely's
position was recognized by geographic
cal authorities, and In July, 1882, q
party sailed from st. John in the Nep-
tune to take supplies to Lieutenant
Greedy. The ship encountered every
adversely of wind, weather and ice in
its slow and perilous northwsrd course,
and after passing Littleton island the
way was frequently blocked for days,
and August 9th was nipped by the pack,
being so held until the 10Th. On the
Esd the vessel was forced back on its
track and the homeward voyage was
begun.
The second expedition was under
taken last year with similar results.
The present expedition, to be begun in
few days, will be by a party in the
good ships Alert, presented by the
British government for this purpose,
the Bear and the Thetis. The Alert
was the advance ship of the Mares ex-
petition in 1875, when q point much
beyond Greely's was reached. 1t is
classed as one of the strongest vessels
ahoat, and is q double-skin wooden
vessel of 1870 tons displacement and
381 horsepower. She will be in charge
of Commander Coffin, and will follow
in the wake of the other vessels, the
first under command of Lieut.. w. II.
Emory, the Thetis under Commander
w. S. Schley. The Thetis will proba-
bly, be the flagship. Chief Engineer
George w. Melville will 60 with the
Thetis. The plan of search has been
carefully considered, and will be fol-
lowed on a supposition of Greely's
possible movements in view of his
knowledge of points and stations. As
this is the best equipped expedition yet
undertaken the hope of success is pro-
portionately greater.
Greely's expedition was really in ac-
cordance with the meteorological con-
gress of St. Petersburg, held in 1881,
in deciding by a national agreement to
project expeditions from various coun-
tries to establish series of circumpo-
lar stations for scientific purposes Of
observation and practical exploration.
There were to be twelve of these sta
tons, as designed by apportionment,
and it was hoped that ultimately from
one of them q determination of the
conditions of the polar basin might be
secured.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08
The Greedy Relief Expedition.


Many are inclined to withhold SYM
pathy from the expedition undertaken
in relief Of the Greedy party, because
they imagine Lieutenant Greely's voy-
age was one of adventure. This is no
more untrue than unjust. He was in
deed regularly detailed officer acting
under government orders to establish
circumpolar stations under agreement
of the polar conference between Eng
land and the United States. July z,
1881, Lieutenant A. w. Greedy, Fifth
cavalry, acting signal officer, accom-
panied by twenty-three officers and en-
listed men, departed from St. John IN
the screw steamship Proteus, bound for
Lady Franklin bay, at q point within
tea miles of the destination. Here the
first obstruction was encountered, and
seven days passed before the ice moved
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08
Dead.
Arkansas Traveller.

hEhbueto IEdsoicT.
The alligator that was sent from
Florida to the editor of this paper is
dead. After life's fitful fever he sleeps
as well as circumstances will admit.
The gentleness and persuasion of man
have thus far failed to place an alliga-
tor on social basis. In this world of
selfshness the alligator has selected
his own course and desires to scramble
for himself. The glass tank, with q
bed of gravel where the reptile could
crawl out and sun himself, was looked
on, not in the light of great favor,
but as a matter of course. There never
was, in either one of his eyes, single
CLEAN of thankfulness. His tank was
shared passively with a brother that
came in the same assortment with him,
but there never passed between these
descendants of parent stem single
sign of recognition nor word of kind
ly greeting. They would sometimes,
in kind of dreamy forgetfulness,
bump their noses together, but they
would Immediately turn away without
change of countenance and fall into
deep reverie. Tennyson, the one whose
cold claws are now folded in death,
seemed to be in average health until a
few moments before the summons came.
He had taken a bath, and was lying
on the gravel, when his keeper
observed change of eounte-
nance. Revolution of expression,
with an alligator, has ever been re-
garded as a percusor of coming disso-
luton, The owner was summoned to
the gravel-side of the sufferer. He
seemed to be suffering with meningitis,
for his head was bent like bull-tongue
plow, and cords hitherto unobserVed
arose to the surface of his neck, so
tightly drawn that they almost cut
through the rough hide. He opened
one eye and closed it slowly. A Flor
ida man who stood near the tank shook
his head ominously, and an old Florida
dog that had doubtless gone through
many narrow escapes, walked off to
one side and shook with laughter. Ten
nyson reached out one claw and began
to claw around. He then extended his
hind legs, braced himself and slowly
turned and lay on his back. The old
dog observing this movement, walked
away again and laughed in retributlve
chuckle. The sufferer lay for time,
breathing at long intervals, and then,
turning, he raised up on his elbows,
looked at the sun and fell back dead.
This proved that he was a sun wor-
shipper and consequently settles a
question which mas long been in dis
pute, Herbert Spencer holding that ALI
gators worship the moon with the
morning star as q delegate and the
north star as an alternate.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08
ARBUrUs.

II spring has maids of honor
And why should not the spring,
With all her dainty service,
Have thought Of some such thingy
II spring has maids of honor,
Arbutus leads the train;
A lovelier, a fairer,
The spring would seek lip vain.
For sweet and subtle fragrance,
For pink, and pink and white,
For utmost grace and motion,
or vines and vines delight.
For Joy of love and lovers,
For JOY Of young and old,
No blossom like arbusus
In all that springtimes hold.
The noble maids of honor,
Who earthly queens obey,
And courtly service render
BY weary night and day.
Among their royal duties,
Bouquets Of blossoms bring
Each evening to the banquet,
And hand them to the king.
II spring has maids of honor,
And king that is not seen,
His choicest springtime favor
Is arbutus from his queen.
III. H., in Independent
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08
De Lesseps and His Health.
Courier.

NJ de Lesseps, in fact, az one of his
friends says, has a running account
with sleep. He can sleep twenty-four
hours at a stretch and then remain for
five or six nights without sleep. He
sleeps at will, when and where he
pleases. When he travels he gets into
the first compartment at hand. He
sits on the front seat Or back seat, in
one of the corners or in the middle, If
these are taken. He examines his tray
cling companions. If he recognizes
one of them, or is alongside somebody
disposed to talk, he speaks, and does
not cease talking; if, on the contrary,
LIE knows nobody, he crosses his arms,
drops his head, and the train has
scarcely started before he is asleep,
and so he remains without interruption
till he arrives at his destination. When
he went to his property, La Chesnay,
near Bordeaux, he requested the guard
to wake him in time, lest he should 60
on to Bordeaux. At sea NJ. de Lesseps
sssettles his accounts with sleep in
still more perfect fashion. He remains
stretched in his berth, and sleeps all
the way, except at meal times. He was
thus able to sleep on voyage from
Marseilles to Alexandria 107 hours out
of $50 for which the voyage lasted. NJ.
de Lesseps, at the present moment, is
the man who possesses, in the highest
degree, what we call recuperatiye
power. Till of late years he had re-
course 10 the external application of
cold, and even of iced water to main
tain himself in vigorous health. He
had been invited under the empire to
spend in November a couple of days at
Compeigne. The winter was severe.
The day after his arrival at Compeigne
a telegram arrived for him. At Z
O'Clock in the morning the valet de
chambre went to call him. He found
the bed empty and that NJ. de Lesseps
was absent. In alarm q search was
made in the park, and, after half an
hours hunt, he was seen emerging
from pond, in which he had broken
the ice to take his bath. He has now
renounced such cold water exercises,
but he continues to devote himself pas
sionately to horsemanship. He may be
seen at some hour o. other galloping
amid the troop Of his children through
the Bots de BOulogne.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08
rHE OLD COUNTRY CIRCUS.

How dear 10 my heart is the show Of my
childhood,
The old country circus my infancy knew!
In these days Of three rings, Of hippo.
dromes, railroads,
How fond recollections presents thee to
viewl
For weeks, while the posters on fences and
church sheds
Portrayed to my young eyes the scenes
that should be,
No soft thrill of love-no throb of ambition,
Has since equalled the bliss 1 gained
dreaming Of thee.
The old country circus, the shabby old
circus,
The wandering old circus my infancy
knew.
How faithful worked In the ways that
presented,
To gain the few pennies my ticket should
buy!
No toll was SO sweetened-no reward so
stupendous-
No miser e'er cherished his hoard as
did,.
How fair the sun shone on the glad day ap-
pointed!
How rife with strange hustle the sleepy
old town.
And when DER the hill came the rumble of
wagons,
The bound Of my heart said: s'The circus
has come!''
The old country circus, the faded old
circus,
The one-horse old circus my infancy knew.
What pageant of now can that "grand en-
try" compassi
What wit Of to-day like those jokes of
the rings
And those divans of pine boards-such
ease Oriental,
No reserved. cushioned chairs OF the
present can bring.
One elephant only, satisfying, majestic,
Not Jumbo, nor sacred, neither painted
Take them all, and the whole gilded
fraudulent humbug, 49,
For single return Of that old honest
delight,
The old country circus, the wandering old
circus,
The shabby old circus my infancy knew.
-[P. II. WEIGH.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08

Black Saline, gored and finished with
two or three narrow killed founces, Is
most useful as an underskirt to wear
with black walking dresses, or as
Gess-skirt for the house with lighter
oNerdress.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08

The New York Telegram asks: "Are
boys getting worsep" They are not
1t is impossible.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08

EOT q uOuSuG SIG SLOOu dlOuc uuucf
the trees, with clasped hands and face
appraised to the quiet sky, and then she
turned and walked silently toward the
house. A bright light from the library
window streamed down on her, and as
she looked up she saw the shadow of a
bowed figure fall across the curtain.
"Father, you are saved!" she muir
INJURED.
A hand was laid suddenly upon her
arm, and she started with a low cry.
"Good evening, MISS May" said
Colonel Leighton; 81 have been seek
She bowed, and stood silently before
him, with a calm downcast face.
81 have just been talking with your
father" he continued, carelessly pull
ing rose from bush near them. she
told me that you have promised to
think of my proposal, and let'us know
what your decision is tomorrow. Is
there anything I can say which will in :.
fuence you to form that decision in my
favorp"
"You cannot say anything which
will influence me in the least, Colonel
Leighton. As my father has said, you
shall have my answer Tomorrow.
He glanced at the young face so sad
in its calm dignity, and then looked
down at his fingers again, which were
busy tearing to pieces the blossom he
held and allowing the crimson petals
total at his feet as if they were frag-
ments of the heart he was eaking.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08

me. Nay nay, no GnanKS. L deserve
rather to be scorned for the part Ihave
acted. l have lone favor to ask, old
friend. Will you allow me to choose
husband for your daughterP''
"You have my full and free permits
sion," said Mr.. Warren, smiling
through his tears. "But I hope you
will be more successful in your choice
than I have BEEN"
"Never fear," said the colonel, with
glance at May. Flinging open door
which led to another apartment, he
called: "Now, my boy!'' and Mark
Winchester sprang into the room.
'sBehold your future son-in-law,"
said Colonel Leighton, and ere the old
man could comprehend the scene, the
young couple knelt for his blessing.
At a motion from his friend he gave it
willingly, and never was there hap
pier party.
Through the interposition of his
friend, Mr.. Warren was saved from
ruin and his daughter made happy.
When May that morning asked for a
solution to the problem of Colonel
Lsighton's knowledge of Mark, he re-
piled: 81 did not wait half an hour in
the garden to no purpose, little one"
And she understood that he had over
heard her conversation with her lover.
Through his influence Marks talent as
an artist became known to the world,
and few years afterward he became
a popular painter and wealthy man;
and, out of gratitude to his benefac-
tor, he christened his frst-born son
Edwin Leighton Winchester.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-21
DoUBTIyG THE USE or SOME TREATIES

HARTFORD, Dec 20.-The SPECIAL meeting
OF the New-England Tobacco Growers Association at
the Capitol in this city this afternoon was attended by
few. owing the extreme cold weather. The meeting
vas called TO pass upon memorial Congress, drawn
by 8 q. Hubbard. OF Hatfield. Mass directed at the
annual meeting OF the association at Springfield. The
memorial urges tie abolition Of the internal revenue
tobacco and cigars and all the machinery OF the
law connected Herewith; the retention OF the high
rates OF duty all Imported wrapper tobacco; that
treaties OF reciprocity with other nations which are
schemes doubtful utility tn the business ana trade OF
the country that will largely reduce the revenues of the
Government and greatly ilUure farmers manufacturers
and laborers engaged In the production Of tobacco and
It's manufactured products should be rejected by
Congress. !.
The general verdict OF the meeting was III support or
the memorial and II voted To present it to Congress