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The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
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DgAR TINES: know YOU are in.
terested to hear from all portions OF
the county, and thought would
give you few items; but this being
my first attempt fear that "silen,
closet" but still, there is nothing
like trying, so here goes.
The commencing topic of young
people is, "We are having a bcauti-
ful day" of the old, "How is your
health!" but as am neither youth
full nor aged, shall not be choice OF
the two. However, this has been a
beautiful Fall-a lovely season for
gathering crops. and our farmers
seem to be taking advantage of it,
from the way they are harvesting
cotton, tkoagh the crop is short, and
corn mot much longer.
As to health: much better than
for several seasons past, and dis
tressin9ly so for the Doctors down
this way, from the long faces they
seem to carry.
Mrs. A. J. johnson / suppose is
rapidly improving. attributable |
presume TO the skill Of AN NJ. d..
from your city.
The Baptist congregation have
erected a pretty cozy little Church
buiiling on the fam OF Mr. Jesse
Ashburn, and largely due nn its con-
struction to his energy and zeal,
Miss Anderson is still holding
forth at District No. II, teaching The
young ideas how to be useful as well
AS ornamental; and frnn what our
eyes beheld a few days ago, we i'm
zginc her school is not the only at
traction here.
L. \. Barton, the little boss mcr-
chant OF Golden Lake, has rented
= hat is known here AS the J. +. Acri
farm, and will occups the first of
January next. He has gust received
a large stock Of dry goods, groceries
etc, and we suppose will put the el-
der son behind the counter, and will
ship to the farm, his present clerks,
presuming they would like to rusti-
cate for u season.
Misses Dora Davies and Ella La
font, charming little girls of our VI
cinity, have bid adieu to friends and
home and entered school at Mem
phis to prepare themselves for use
fulness. We always have a tender
spot in our soul for the orphans, aud
wish these two bonny smooth voy-
age over the sea of letters.
The melancholy days have come,
leaves beginning to turn, nuts and
other forest fruits being ripe; the
huntsma.'s gun can be h ard from
early morn till close of day bringing
down the wild game, Sunday not
excepted.
The saloon in our MIDST is dealing
out its liquid fire, by the wholesale,
about equally aud extravagantly pat
ronizcd by the whites and the sons
of Ham. They make night hideous
with their howls, and many a hem
roost, ere the night winds cease to
blow is made toquake. Such is life,
Waterman, tell us of the night"
The blow we had ON Monday eve,
whilst hard did but little damage.
But, Dear Times, as brevity is said
to be the soul of wit, please excuse
short note this time, and request
to escape the waste basket,
! remain yours,
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a CorNTERfEITER CAPTrHFD, AND
llIs NEFARIous BUSINESS,
BIoKES Ur, ny
W. Ii. HAsLINs. THE WibE- AWAKE
SHERIFF OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY.

En-. TINES: The arrest and incar-
ceraiim of Sam Jones on II charge
of passing Counterfeit money, as
mentioned in your last issue. opened
up wider field than any heretofore
presented for the exercise of the de.
tective skill of our Sheriff, who after
/, talking for six or eight hours with
Jones determined to pay Craighcad
county a visit. Jones having inform
ed Mr.. IIaskins that he obtained :hc
money from one Enoch Bcaklcy, a
resident of Buffalo Island, in that
county. Accordingly, early on Sun
day morning, the 18th. inst, Sheriff
Ilaskins accompanied by deputies
Dean, Caimack aud Reeder, started
on their FIRST trip in search of Coun'
terfelters aud counterfeit money.
After fifty mile ride through the
bottom, they reached the residence
Of Beaklcy, aud placing him under
arrest began the search; in the house
a box under lock attracted attention,
all the other trunks and boxes being
open; this particular box on being
opened was found to contain Plaster
of Paris, Cyanide Of Potassium,
Plumbago, Crucibles, small vial of
Nitrate of Silver, a large Iron l.adlc
and lot of the metal for making
the spurious coin, mixed with dross,
as it had been dropped from the la
die after making a run, but no coin
or moulds could be found in the
housc. The Sheriff being now in
hs element determined to extend
his search. After going carefully
over the yard and finding nothing,
she enoney hunters next took in the
li,mse lot, and after digging that
neariy all over, finally unearthed a
small tin box wrapped in cloth, on
, opening which, was found to contain
s27,D ID the bogus money in one
dollar, 80 cent and 10 cent pieces.
The search was continued through
the entire night up to nine o'clock
Monday Biormng, when after being
exposed nearly all night to co'''
stant and heavy rain fall, the party
tired and wet to the skin, and in fact
almost exhausted, gave up the search
and started for 0sceols.
On the way thither, Beaidey mad
I vertantly let drop some hints whlcl
: determined sheriff Haskins TO return
n and renew the search, this he did on
= Tuesday, Goth, and on this the sec
d ond trip, his efforts were rewarded
! About half a mile fro@ aseskley''
!, house and back of the field, in
!, tb;ckct, the party found the lang
II sought for mouids-three in nalabei
and of one dollar denominations, az
also about $4,000 of the unfinished
: coin. The Gud now consists OF til'
articles already mentioned, and spu
r,ous coin as follows: so3,Oin rs
10 $500 in So pieces, ungal,anized
:; IS cents in quarters, aud 500 IN u
" cent pieces; total, sl27,1o. 1t is he
% lieved that there are several partle
both in this and Craighead Countle
lc engaged in passing the counteriei
:, = money manufactured by Beakley
but he and Jones are both retlcen'
and will give nothing away. III
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ELECTION NOTICE!

Notice is hereby given, That an
Election will be held at the several
voting precincts in Mississippi coun-
ty, Arkansas, onthe
10TH. DAY OF NOVEMBER, 'S5,
for the purpose of electihg one Judge
of the Supreme Court of Arkansas,
70 fill the unexpired term of the late
Hon. John II. Eakin, decd.
VoTING PRECINCTS:
Monroe Township, Court house.
Swayne School house.
Canadian Fuckers store.
Hickman precinct, Mitchel's store.
Chlckasawba Tn'p., School house.
Clear Lake School house.
West Big Lake, |. l.. Daugherty's.
East Big Lake, Sam Hector's house.
Carson Lake, School house.
Little River Tn'p., B. f. Jackson's.
Scott Louise Chapel.
Dead Timber Lake, School house.
Pecan Township, j. G. Paine's store.
Golden Lake precinct, IL. B Smiths.
Troy Township, Furguson's store.
There being no judges and clerks
appointed, citizens will meet at their
respective veting precincts and elect
Judges and Clerks.
w. B. HASEINS,
Sheriff Miss. Co.
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TInI Nor working people Send 10 cents
HHi ,Ppus,age, and we viii mail you vssE.
llOlIl royal. valuable sample hex Of g,'o'l-
,hat WI p"' yu" ~ 'ue way ~ ms.ns m.r,
money In lew days Than you rvs~ thought
possible 1T any business capital not reslurcd
You can live ut home and wrl 10 spalc time
only. ur all The time. A OF both sex, ;. OF nil
ages, grsndiv successful, 30 cenis to o. easily
earaed every evening That u who want
work may tort the business, We make this TN
parallelcd oner To all who are not well sat
isfe'i We will send ~ I" pay Tor the trouble 81
writing us Full rarlirulars. directions. etc /.
scnt Tree. Immense pay absolutely sure f"r
all WIN start at once. Don't delay. Ad,iress
~riSsoN 4 10 . Portland. Maine.
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] m DOrtant.

When yon visit IN leave New York, save
Baggage txpressage aud Carriage Hire and
stop at the Grand Union Hotel. opposite Grand
Central Depot.
Elegant rooms fitted mp at a cost of one mil
lion dollars. reduced 10 s100 aud upwards pes
day European plan, Elevator. Restaurants
supplied with the best Horse ears; stage and
elevated railroad tn all dcpots Families can
live better for less meney at the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other Grst-class hotel in the
city.
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THE OSCEOLA TIMES.
LEON ROUSSAN,
EditOr and Proprietor

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, un sdvance:) y
For a Uasm of One year. r.................Sl 90
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Official Directory.
COUNTY OFFICERS :

COUNTY OFFICERS:
County and Probate Judge-E Revel
.CirciIii ami County Clcrk-Hugh McNeigh
]risctifl and Collector u. liaskins.
u ounty Examiner Leon i,oursan.
County Trcasur FLAMES 1.i-ton
County surveyor Thomas u. MuSgrave
County Coroner y. NJ. Lawrence.
.Cofiaiy assessor j. X Rggans
MONROE TOWNSHIP.
Justices OF The Pesce---A. j. Lynch, NJ. &
Jandy
Constable John Eddie
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
Mayor-John o BlackwO ,d.
a.ecorder-M. Heinz.
xlLefmcn--James Listoh, Jas. NJ. llsiaatoii
d II Bycchus, W %. Jones, A. u. Fields
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THE County Convention last Sat
urday was attended by a slim dele
CATION, there being but two Town
ships fully represented. Mcssrs.
j. B. Driver, DR.. II. Z. Dunavant
aud II. r. McVeigh were appointed
delegates to represent the County at
the State Convention, at Little Rock,
for which place Messrs. Dunavant
and Driver left last Tuesday.
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24

Lake; John Perry, East Big Lake
W. II. Harrison, West Big Lake; J
J. Carr, Barfeld; c. p. Buck, Hick.
man; NJ. T. Sawyer, Little River
T. A. Barton, Upper Pecan; DR.
Brewer, Lower Pecan
Ben A. BUGG,
Chairman.
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Call for a meeting Of the
County Democratic
Executive Conn
lniltcc.

The members of the Democratic
Executive Committee of Mississippi
County are earnestly requested 10
meet at Osceola, on Wednesday,
November 4th., for the transaction
business Of importance to the party.
MEMBERS or COMMITTEE:
r. Dean, Monroe; ID. l.. Furgu-
son, Troy; w. X Harrison, Scott;
j. Guth, Dead Timber, (vacant)
John Waller, Carson Lake; A. L.
Tansil, Swayne; Z. L. Smith, Clear
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UI1Mmcre money than at anything else by
M IN taking an agency for the best selling
Ulisbook ont. Beginners succeed yrandly
None fail Terms free HALLErr BOOK co.
Portland Maine.
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One dollar per square OF one inch running
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arst insertion, and seventy five CENTS ior each
subsequent insertion.
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Masonic.

.Tae stated oomulunic cations OF us'oola Lodge
No. q, A. + a \. NJ. VIII b. heid W. Moh :
,,iays on or next before each iull moon The
in.n,bers are ordered TO attend promptly.
All Ma ter Masons In good standing are
.cor,iisly invited Ia attend
I,y order Of PEER BRlCkEY. W, NJ.
uuGn X. MCNEfGH Secretary
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TO The People OfThis Go,

October 20, 1885.
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Hon. w. II. Gudgel, Evansville
Ind, writes: " take great pleasure
in recommending to the public e.. G.
y, Certain Chill Cure" My wife had
third day ague for five months and
tried different remedies without sue.
cess. After using one bottle of youl
Certain Chill Cure a permanent cure
is the result" Pleasant to take.
Sold by Gaylord & Hale, on a
Guaranteed Sale.
, 1885-05-22

I1iIpnlCAt luurfIuntra L
] wonder If the reports of the corrup-
ton Of Russian official life are all true.
! remember a gentleman connected with
an enterprise having ar establishment
in a Russian Pacific port, telling me of
the miserable condition Of the place and
the people. i m
Does the government do nothing for
themf'I asked. ID
Yes; that Is, the government gives
an appropriation, but the place never
gets the benefit OF it. f lrni
who doesf'
The officials. There was a governor
there once who received an a%ppropria-
ton of some 90, 600 roubles to DO de-
voted TO the improvements of the towns.
He had no place to keep it-no safe; 50
he built a brick kind OF mausoleum in
the garden, or back yard of his official
residence, which was completely closed
with brick or stone. It was never
opened.
II don't understand" Pos. F..
Another governor came out and took
this ones place. He did not dare to
open that ~mausoleum, so it remains
closed till this day.
''Whyg''
Because the money is not there 1t
never was put in and the officials have
to stand in with n another
, 1885-05-22
4 KING. woFk.hoP,



In a letter recenlly received from Bur-
nah a characteristic sketch Is given in
illustration of the state of tho country
under its present ruler, in which it Is
stated that ut Sagine there is what is
called the kings workshop. which was
erected at the instance Of the last ruler
at an enormous expense, his idea being
to build steamers for his Own and the
countrys use. The ship building yard
is at Mamdalay, and the place al Sagine
was designed as a foundry, in which
cast and wrought iron was TO be treated.
Two Large furnaces, fifteen boilers, three
furnaces for cast iron, seven large
engines, five rolling mills for bar IRON,
and a quantity Of other machinery Tin
GLIDING a large steam hammer, lathes,
punching and shearing machines and
stone and ore crushers) have been put
down. 'tl
All that is required is to start the
fires and raise steam, yet this valuable
property is meantime overgrown with
the products Of the soil. The large
steam hammer is twined round with
beautiful crimson creepers; from out of
n of the furnaces grows n largo
prickly cactus; the rolling mills are
shaded with large tree ferns. The ma
chinery, however. is not rusted, though
nearly ten years have elapsed since the
last king died. Tho works were sus-
pended at his death, and the present
king will neither spend more money on
the undertaking nor sell it to others.
, 1885-05-22

There is no trait of character SO
trongly developed in human nature as
curiosity, and it is curiosity that makes
us listen so eagerly to everything that
is told Of both dead and l~iving-their
conversation, their disposition, character
or appearance, and we eagerly accept
it. Whether it betrue or false, kind
or unkind, is no affair Of ours; ii is
good to know hence acceptable.
f 1t is mor desirable for some people
to be able to tell you that Shakespeare
was once arrested for stealing sheep, .
or that he left his wife, or was a steady
drinker, than TO be able to understand
his wonderful mental creations. Or to
know that Pope was a mean, envious
little hunchback, than to have read his
Essay on Man Or that Dryden was
coarse and careless, and was TN ex-
tremely sober mar until he became init
mate with Addison, than to have read
and admired his magnificent ode to st.
Cecilia's day, "Alexander's Feast Or
that the fastidious Addison never was
known to lie in his bed before 3 O'Clock
in the morning, unless he was sick,
than to have studied his masterpieces
Of rhetoric and language.
The good men Of the clubs, such as
Congreve, Garth, Vanburgh and others,
do not interest us half so much as do
the misfortunes and sufferings, mental
and physical, of men of note or genius.
Byron and Burns, for instance, are bet
ter known TO the great majority for
their orrows and sins than for their
mental gifts, albeit Burns is the grand
est poet of them all, and Byron II great,
although misguided, genius.
, 1885-05-22

Valley springs OAK Enterprise.
We are informed that Mr. Matte
johnson, who lives ourmiles west OF town
was doing her general housowork when
her little daughter Annie. 2 years old, got
hold of a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, and instead Of taking half a tea
spoonful as a general dose, drank the
entire bottle. 1t cured her cough and she
is doing we'll
Mr. johnson was fortunate in having
procured Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
and the above circumstance shows eonclu-
sively that il is perfectly harmless even to
small children In doses Of sixty times
what should be given. Remember, il
cured her, and has cured thousands o.
Others, who gladly testify to its great val
ue. All druggists.
Legal blanks at the Leader Office.
, 1885-05-22

| ltoi. Dctrolt frct fTtta.I
The most wonderful transformation
scene | eyer saw in the matter OF hats
was on Fleet street, London, after
President Garfield's death. II became
known that the queen had ordered the
great bell of st. Paul's to be tolled, an
honor never before accorded except to
the memory of an English sovereign.
Fleet street and Ludgate Hill was one
mass of hats, tall, black, g~listening
hats. All traffic was suspended. The
old phrase, "a sea Of hats" was most
apt to this scene, and this was literally
the Black sea. Probably no ono in the
thousands there had ever heard the
mournful sound of that great bell.
The immense crowd waited patiently
for hours. Then came the first low,
dull sonorouss stroke Of the long.silent
bell. Instantly every hat was removed
and the change from a sea Of hats to a
sea Of heads was most magical. The
English crowd stood, while that bell
tolled, with uncovered heads, a token
of respect for the uncrowned monarch
who lay dead beyond the ocean.
, 1885-05-22


There is probably nothing of the kind
in the world equal in extent to the line
Of docks in Liverpool, presenting, as
they do, quayage to wet docks and tidal
basins alone of twenty-five and one-half
miles, and a water space of 1888 acres,
and which-lands, sheds, yards, quays,
and warehouses-cover an area OF 100
acres But these figures only apply to
the Lancashire side Of the Mersey dock
andNharbor's estate. On the Cheshire
shore at Birkenhead there are docks
with a water area of 1914 acres with
nearly ton miles OF quayage; thus max
ing in all n water area of nearly 500
acres and a total quayage Of nearly
thirty-two miles, in addition TO twenty
two craving docks for repairing vessels,
with an aggregate length OF 1oor of IA, =
600 feet, the whole estate being studded
with more or less imposing dwellings,
such as dockmasters' residences, customs
and police depots, clock towers, dock
yard Offices, and so on, and on the
Lancashire side trayersed by a double
line Of railway Eve miles in length.
, 1885-05-22
A REToRI.
Diet Of the YAnkes and HomsIy Fare OF
joy This ~caledonian Compared. It

~ NNhoaOhAAu CohApuTtus
brooklyn Eagle
Recently United States Consul Wells,
at Dundee, reported upon the homely
fare of the people living in the city
where ne is located, under the head OF
How Working Seotchmen Live Mr..
Robert Clarke, a native Of Ayrshire,
Scotland. after reading what Mr.. Wells
had to say wrote a letter to the Rutland
(Nt) Daily Herald in which he says:
II know how working people in Scot
land live, and am sorry TO say that
now know a little about how the work
ing people In this country live, and
would like to place the diets of the two
countries together and let every one
judge for themselves which is best for
the workingman. In the first place,
Consul Wells was probably somewhere
around the house when the ~Scotehman
was ut breakfast. He has-as Wells
says-porridge and milk, tea or coffee,
and bread and butter with perhaps an
egg and a small piece of bacon or a her
ring. SO far correct, Now let us take a
look at the sumptuous breakfast spread
for the mixtures of all kinds, or, as they
are more generally called, Yankees.
First, if there happened TO be any cold
potatoes left from supper the night be-
fore he gets some Of them warmed, after
which he has tea or coffee. with bread
and butter Il do not know whether | am
correct in calling it butter or mott, with
the bacon and eggs, and if yellow meal
is not worth more than 81. % per 100,
he sometimes gets n piece of johnny
cake for a change. Irr
wow for the dinner. Consul Wells
says hat the Scotchman has Scotch
broth and beef in small quantities. This
is certainly simple and homely2 /
think Consul Wells has left before the
Scotchman finished his first course, for
when | lived there, less than two years
ago, the Scotchman had: First, sonp
Of some kind then potatoes and beef or
mutton, and On top, instead of piece
Of dried-apple pie or some such deli
cacy, he has bread and cheese and milk.
Such as this would not suit the delicate
health and weak constitution of the
Yankee. For dinner the latter has po-
tatoes and beans, and pork that he has
raised upon the water in which he has
washed his greasy dishes all summer,
and on top of this he puts a combina-
ton of compositions beyond the power
of any one but the manufactured TO
name. rll a. earslI +
"As far as eating beef or mutton is
concerned a Scotchman eats more in one
day than a Yankee does in a week. He
is not quite 30 hoggish as the Yankee,
OF rather, ] mean, he does not believe 50
much in eating boiled pork. For sup
per the Scotchman has tea, bread and
butter, cheese and preserves, sometimes
ham OF meat of some kind. The Yankee
has potatoes (for the third time that
day. and pork, and a combination like
what l have already mentioned, and
when finished he has the pleasure Of
looking forward to the next good sum-
mer when he may be able to pay fol
what he has lived on since the last good
one.N
, 1885-05-22


1t is not probable that an estimate OF
the danger point Of a current can be
made by n calculation Of the energy in
yolved. 1t is absolutely certain that
quite a powerful current can be taken
through the body provided it be per
fectly steady, while a fiuctuating cur
rent Of much smaller intensity may
prove fatal. The one implies the steady
passage of energy through the person,
while the other implies a series Of
shocks. A single blow may prove fatal,
but a succession Of them will be more
likely to do so A single flash of light
ming may kill or in some cases char the
body to a cinder, and a succession OF a
thousand or more shocks a second from
a mechanical generator of electricity
may prove 10 less dangerous. In short,
the danger lies more in the discontinuity
of the current than in its absolute in
tensity.
, 1885-05-22
lNvocA1loN.

lFreak Dempster sherman In Times-Democrai.l
Lexe, LET mo learn &C thea somaAon1 % siugi
Teach me the melody that smoothly slipi
The easy letters Of thy twin rose lips.
And ST. ais across the air soft murmuring
Delicious cadenccs whose echoes bring
a thought OF lifted oars from whence
them drips FfEnM
A liquid music, and the lark who DIPS
In dawy morning air his caroling:
Teach me a measure, as thy step i, light
A jocund pace TO match tho merry song;
And as thy smile, so let my words be
sweet;
And let me watch thine eyes the while ]
write,
l8 To guide my pen its wonderings along
Then shall my song DO worthy to repeat.
, 1885-05-22

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