The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 1, 1882, Page 8

LOCAL NEWS. Wait, gentlemen. Guiteau_ will be hung after awhile, if he’s hanged at all. Bob Catron is still gobbling up taxes. Won’t he never loosen his grip on the dear people? Ve ure going to the masquerade just to show the natives how to put in the Arkansas hicks at one of those things. Old) Mr. John Haskins has brought suit in England for three millions of dollars, with good pros- If James Brough don’t gobble. up some more of those tat gooblers soon, we will close the aforesaid Jeemes’ shebang for him. pects of success. We wish there was another daily in the city. We are getting con- founded tired furnishing local grub for three big weekli You can get asquare meal of the best ecatables the country affords at the City Hotel. That’s the kind of a hair pin Mr. Miller is. ‘The Butler Quadrille Band are in training for the grand masquerade on the 9th of next month. The Band discourses fine music and thit’s what’s the matter with the natives. We got a letter from our Jemima yesterday. The old girl is quiet now. That pull-back we promised her and didn’t get was a settler. The letter brimtull of loye words. We feel proud to-day. was Sheriff Simpson, ‘Tom Silvers and Judge Parkinson haye gone to Clin- ton to attend a trial on a writ of ha- SUNDAY IN BUTLER. OBITUARY. | DIED-—-Moton—At the residence | of her father, in Butler, on Sunday | January 29th, 1882, Mrs. J. WwW. Moton, aged thirty-three vears and nineteen days. The Churches Well Attended—Ex- | tracts From Sermons ete. | deceased was born inthis! The attendance atall of our church- | State, January roth, 1849. Shejeson Sunday was unprecedentedly was the daughter d the eldest | large. chila of A. B. McFarland. She; PRESBYTEKIAN CHURCH was married to John W. Moton, in| Rev. W. M. Newton preached Texas, February roth 1867, by | morning and evening. Text in the morning: ‘Bec sentence against an evil work is not | executed speedily, therefore the heart whom she had two children, one of | 12 years old, whom, a li sur- OY husband was imu vives her. Her dered on the streets of Butler in ly 1376, since which time she has remained a widow. « Readers and friends, it is a repiti- | tion of the same old story. Veath has crossed the threshold and taken r egos gicet > 1U- | to do evil.’’ Ecc. 8:11. Text in the evening: Parable of the Pharisee and Publican. The attendance was large evening and morning and the services very Special meetings will interesting. another of our number. ‘Only this} be commenced in the Presbyterian and nothing more.’”’ “However, the | church on Wednesday night, this sadness and sorrow is not at all am-j week. Rev. Thomas Marshali of St. Louis, Superintendent of Missions tor the State of Missouri, wi!l preach on Wednesday right. He will assist in the meetings several days. All eliorated by the inevitability of death. The vacuum left at the [fireside is not easily forgotton. The sod may : grief, but it can- within. | cover up external not that which Years have elapsed loyed ones passed out of existence lingers since other be- | Ss this morning znd hence the meetings were not announced on the Sabbath. less brilliant halo than when their sweet faces were first incased within the limits of the grave. Sister, Farewell, a long, Her portion of trouble more than is narrow CHRISTIAN CHURCH. long fare- ae Elder Reid preached at the Chris anc tian church to a large and attentive audience, morning and evening. His text in the morning was: ‘If weli! sorrow has been ally allotted to mortals; but she is through with it all now, andin_ the dim hereafter the for her patience and suffering will be gran- ted. Her devotion as a wife was extraordinary, and though the ob- usu- reward ligious and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own man’s religion is vain.’’—James, Ist chapter and 26th verse. beas corpus sued out before hi honor Judge Gantt, by J. W. Hick- Look out, ye Clintonites. General Clark, of the Fort Scott, St. Louis & Chicago company, said Friday that the profile ot the line surveyed shows that the best, cheap- man. est and most practicable route from the mounds north of the city about six miles, to Rich Hill, and thence to Fort Scott, runs east of our door fiye miles. A subscription is being circulated | among the faithful of Bates county who belong to the party of moral ideas but questionable practices, to raise the zeedful to establish another Republican paper in Butler if the requisite amount should be subscribed and paid in. That will make four weeklies and one daily that is publish- | ed in the queen city of the Southwest. We await the coming of our new neighbor with impatience. Hurry | up, gents | We hear a great deal of complaint about the bad condition of the roads leading into the city. This ought} not to be, 2nd the township boards should look after matter, and | see that our county thoroughfares are kept in as good condition as pos- sible. Snatch a road overseer bald headed now and then; it woyld be healthy, probably, if the fault lies with We don’t blame on that class at ali, but some- body is to blame, certain. this them. saddie the | We hear the remark made occa- sionally that railroads are of no ad- | ject of her adoration had fong since } ig { It was pronounced an excellent returned to earth, vet her constancy | < Be | sermon by those present. His re- was unmitigated even to the last} if i See 2 marks about the use and abuse of the hour. That devotion, when com- S ° ce tongue, and the necessity ot bridic- puted in an indirect sense, was 2 ee 7 — St ing the same at all times practicable—that among the chief factors in the cause of death. Alas, for us all, we come to reckon up the influ that lead us to deaths door, we find the result 1s usually produced by our conduct sensible and we when believe much good will result there- neces ee i trom, and it is to be regretted that the rest of our citizens were not pres- ent, and especially those who are in the habit of using the tongue a little persistency in 2 line of for either good or evil, and more of- ten the But this is deaths hour, and we should not be allured too much. latter. 3 See xe The subject of his evening’s dis- course was: “The conquests of Chris- tianity.’—Text, Dan’l 2:44. Though not as practical as the superfiuous speculation in That will do to into any act t heories. abstr: grave vawns for its prey. and God’s | will must be done. : i | Sunday morning, Rey. Jno D. Wood i HEA OBITUARY. | took for his text 3 verses of the 15th OUR WILLIE IS DEAD. | chapter of rst Cor. Subject: *The Written by Mrs. Allice Jeffress, to her | death of Christ.” friends Mr. and Mrs. Lord. -| the life ot Jesus was unprecedented | in all the history of the human race, He came to us like sunshine When all the earth was brig our sad rts yet he had made a more profound his music and his mirth. Our Willie is Dead. He made merr, With jimpression upon the world by his death than by his life. Mr. Wood Twelve Summers full of joy passed by then established the following AG Pere One PaPByne | thoughts. ist, The death of Christ We're rudely turned to grief; He perished like a flower. Our Willie is Dea | originated in the love ot the Father: 2d, The occasion of his death was our sins; 3d, The object of it, our salvation; 4th, The character of 1 Volutary; 2d, Vicarious; 5th: The effect of the death ef Christ was 1st To manifest the love of God: 2d To make repentance, regenera- tion and sanctification possible, and No more the garden path shall fee! The patter ot his feet, No more! Shall those that loved him Shall hear his voice sweet, Our Willie is Dead. He perished in his childhood, While pure and tree from guile: And on his baby face, when dead, There rested a sweet smile. Our Willie is *ead innumerable company of angels and vange toa country. Our exper ience | contradicts this assertion flatly. Why H dowa South where we were raised, i there was a section ot country so | poor that when a kildee started to | fly across it, the bird always took the | precaution to put an extra crickett in } its satchel to subsist on during its pa rility of the soil, the country was so } mountainous that there wasen’t level j | nge, and in addition to the ster- | bob-tailed purp. However, in the course of human events, a railroad | was run right through that poor coun- | | ground enough on which to whip a | i | { try and is now in successful opera. tion, and the rugged mountains that milked as it were the very skies, have | been made to deliver up their ireasur- es in minerals ete., and their craggy | sides and bald tops are ornamented | hy palatal residences. These huge | lumps of dirt and stone that were considered valueless before the ad- | vent of i value. racket lroads are now of great It's all Dos our} | mend a trial of their Gold Medal | Times had to carry this , teen hands high, flat footed. ’Tis so hard to let him go, And yet, we shall not grieve, For his soul has gone to Paradise To bloom in beauty there. Our Willie is dead. blems of the broken body and the shed blood ot the Son of God. BAPTIST CHURCH. We cali the attention of our readers to the advertisement of J. Monroe Taylor. This house has been established nearly 40 years, and their goods are celebrated for | the Baptist church. Elder Burgess urity aud strength. W rould com- | z e so heed Ca nog | preached to a crowded and attentive brands ire superior cookery. 9-4m.| house. The subject of the ever | discourse was sancti Morning and evening services at to all who Valentines in town ’till you can’t rest. both comic and fancy. Weex pect a few of them, if our friends ; CATHOL Rev. Mr. The don’t forget us. ed in Evans’ One of the iv to a fair audience. aland well tor the Daily | ans toe evening’s | z issue on horseback. The bundle of papers was too heavy and toc jong to make it in time on foot. Go it, my Daily Ties. EPISCOPAL. route ~ . FS Services morning and evening at ' the Episcopal church, the Rev. Brit- ; tian officiating. The audience was large and attentive for a church so tng as the Episcopal. COLOREP. C. T. Tracy has gone and done it again. He has bought two pairs of | mammoih mules. They are seven- M. E. CHURCH. ere were morning and ever ing beat anything in the : : services at the colored M. E. chure the fact. The Rev. and Ramsey, colored, officia- | of the sons of menis fully set in them | are cordially invited to attend the | meeting, and are specially requested | | : to be present at the first service on | and beyond our worldly sight for- | Wednesday night. Rev. W. M. | ever, but they have not ceased to | Newton did not learn definitely when live in our remembrance with any |} Rev. Marshall would arrive until any min among you seem to be re- } heart, this ; deal in during calmer moments. z 5 ac Ei eee | The funeral. cortéce acl? <oenebe | Mommne sermon, it was highly inter- | marching, while the shadows of life | esting and instructiv and death hang heavily about. The | SOUTHERN METHODIST. At the Southern Methodist church | | The preacher stated that although | finally it introduces the soul to the i ‘vy of ‘the | | ted. The house was as usual, crowd- | 'ed_ and a lively interest manifested. | SABBATH SCHOOLS. ' i The Presbyterian Sunday school | | has on its rolls the names of one hun- | dred pupils. | sistant. The Sunday schoo! of the M. E. | che on the roll. | Sunday school at the Christian | church yesterday morning was inter- | esting. Eighty-six scholars presen W.E. Tucker Supermtendent, B.-F. Flora, assista: The roll of the Episcopal Sunday | school has already forty names, and Mr. T. D. Ratter is the Superinten- dent. | The Sunday school at the Baptist dred and fifty church have one hu pupils. Dr. Wright, Superintendent and J. H. Daniel, assistant. If Butler had the scriptural num- and a few others, we would have a city of fifteen thousand population inside of three years. We could name am twelve hundred dollars more for his were built. That’s the way the weasel pops. | Sheriff Simpson, Tom_ Silvers !and Judge Parkinson got back on | Mon Clinton, whither they went to attend the trial jon a writ of corpus out by Jim Hickman before Judge ; Gantt. The Judge decided that the court had no jurisdiction that tried Hickman and discharged him, but he was nabbed by Sheriff Simp- son on the same offense, and juged n the Vernon county jail. The Ca thage Banner say from Ry =- Morning habeas sued that a to take a horse over to Joplin and instead of Jim’s the horse back to Joplin, he went to Lamar and sold it for thirty-eight dolls Jim must be a cousin te Grant’s | private secretary, Gen. ' The latter Babcock’s operations were taking Babcock. | confined chiefly to crooked whiskey, and not to horse stealing, that ' body knows of. That’s not | difference in cousins, you know. any- much We would like to borrow the face | of the Nevada Daily Democrat tellow j to mask ourself at the grand masque- We | hiding our good looks behind such a Send it up. | please, on the cow-catcher, will you? —f[Butler Times. All right. cal, in turn, be kind cnough to fo | ward by heavy freight his rubber stomach? A railroad hand, who has | taken the contr i stock of cove oysters, will paya | liberal sum for the loan ef such a | balloon like article fora few days. | —[Nevada Daily Democrat. It will afford us pleasure to for- ward to the Democrat man our ' ber stomach for the use of the road hand upon this condition: That he does not cut under the railroad | man, and take the contract himself. ' But look here, it is said one good ) turn deserves another. Will you do us the kindness to send us by the first train, your snout to use asa snag snatcher to a snag boat we will soon put on the Missouri river, and one of your eyes for a head-light to rade ball. might succeed in | mass of hideousness. just men made perfect in heaven.— , the same? Is it a whack? What | tinent.”” The February numbers contain Atter the sermon a large company | of communicants partook of the em- | say you, brother? To the Public. Gazette:—-Reports having been circulated throughout this portion of the state that the diseas: of small pox is raging in our midst, we, the undersigned physicians of Rich Hill | hereby certify that there is not, nor | has there been, a single case of said dis best of our knowledge and behet. W. Heylmun, J- 4. Errett, W. H: Allen, Geo. A. Martin, J. S. Guillett, M. C. Nuckies. G. W. Whipple, A. Trim. iJ. W. Noland, W. Black, E. S. Wigginbothain. w Your Lease. ; energy fails and a miserable feciing.c r them, mistaken tor laziness D: tks in these symptoms, a restore pert er and kidneys é new your lease of health and dvocate. net-im + blood, 4 i comtort.—. Prot. Naylor, Super- | intendent and J. M. McClintock, as- | rch, South, has sixty-five names | ber seven, of such men as boss Pace | a who asks property on North Main than he did | betore the Pace and Edwards blocks | man from Joplin hired Jim Babcock | Would the Times lo- | act to ext a bankrupt | rub- rail- | se in the city or vicinity, to the ; + AND THROAT. W .E. Scoti, M. D. | KANSAS Crry. Oculist and Aurist, of the New York Eye Ear, Institute, will visit reguiarly each menth, ) BUTLER, = = Palace Hotel.) 25 and 26. (Office at the Talmage. Nevada, Dr. Berry. Rich Hill, 24th, = - —- 2d. 23, - - ville, 27th, - ~- FOR GLASSES. Nevada, Harris EYES TESTED AT COST For 30 Days, CLEARING SALE OF goods, Noticas, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Clothing, Buck Gloves, Blankets, Flannels, Yarns, Muslins, Ladies and gents underwear, Hosiery of all kinds, Dress goods, Pant Goods, Bead Comforts &c., &c. | Now is your time to get just what | you want at wholesale prices. Come right along and don’t be fooled. We mean business. 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