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We say, grub, is grub, and ittakes _money to buy it. And don’t you Rn es er Two or three small sized have quarintined, against Carthage. Well, she can stand it, we suppose. cities Crockett, of the Nevada Vemocrat, objects to the letter Y., in spelling the word Bachelory. Why, he aint one, is he? Mechanic street is booming. kenbili is happy- pounds, ar.d they say it’s a Green- backer. Sorry to hear it. Mr. W. G. Warnock is the happy father of a fine girl baby. Here’s to you Willis, and the girl shake. Can’t you set up the cigars on that? It weighs ten The cold weather retards building operations very much. We trust this is the last cold snap that we will have until cold winter comes again. What has become of Judge Waters? Haven’t heard from the Judge for some days. We hope he will be among us soon, soliciting aid for his great road. ‘Mr. J. B. McBride, nas remov- ed trom Montrose, to Butler, and will make the queen city of the South west, future Glad to have you, sir. his home. Squire Cannon’s legal mill has several grists of mechanics lien cases in the hopper. Let on the steam, Squire, and you’ll grind them out after awhile. § Rev. Jno. D. Wood has moved into the parsonage next door east of the Dakota street church, where he will be more convenient to his church and congregation. Dr. Osborn has removed his old dental office on the west side prepar- atory to commencing the building of his new business house. The Dr’s. energy and enterprise 1s commend- able. We see that thatemterprising young man, Gus S#ennert, has rigged a team up and is delivering bread and confectionaries to his customers at their houses. That’s right. Go it, Gus. Queen Victoria is now all the rage. Uther people are giving themselves more tronble about the attempted assassination of Brittain’s Queen and India s Empress than she is her- self. Old man Cooper, has completed his residence on Mechanic street. It isa very handsome house, and con- veniently arranged. The erection of several other nice residences on that street, is contemplated. Colds are getting prevalent in the city, the result of the great, sudden change in the weather The city is, singularly, free of any tatal diseases atpresent. So say the Doctors, who * are waiting for cowcumber time. When the new Stalwart gets under head-way, there will be four weeklys and one daily, perhaps | two, published in the queen city of ; the Soutwhest, and what a wool | pulling there will be. Oh! golly. Yesterday evening we just pulled off our coat, rolled up our sleeves, seized a tork, (not a table fork,) made three vigerous digs into moth- er earth, laid the fork down, put on our coat and come to the conclusion that gardening wasn’t the thing it’s | cracked up to be. We thought that ex-officio, Frank Trimble, looked yesterday morning, as though, he wanted the local to do something for him. Why didn’t you ask us, Frank? » gone on your bond for seventy five thousand dollars, but it’s «a small matter, and we didn’t think of it. In the future, us the wink Frank. just give If emigrants continue to peur into Bates co in such they have in the past few months, our population will soon reach sev- enty five thousand, it now exceeds forty thousand. As a consequence ot this great influx of people, fand is already selling at high prices. Sales have been made at fifty dollars per acre, in Hudson township. Come | We say, there is room in Bates thousand numbers, Lu- | | Senator Edmunds declines tke Judgeship. | Mr. Levi Heppler, of Putnum | | county, Indiana, arrived in the city | 'on the Wednesday, noon train. In| Bob Catron won’t receive ‘all probability, Mr. Heppler will) more taxes. Bob has | make butler his tuture home. | has. } i Rey aa 5 Pe | It we are defeated for lunch in- | Last Tusday night was very inclem- ; Spector, we will run for alderman, ; ent, and prevented the meeting of | or for dark night policeman in west | our people to consider Dr. Lee’s | Butler. We are bound to sacrifice project. ourselves, upon our countrys alter. Won’t the weather clerk be kind |enough to set us up a good day or | ‘two? We want to try our hand at | | gardening again. | If we should be elected to an office, {we don’t want the Legislature to swallow it up with another office, as | \they did that of tax Collector, and | turn us out on the range, to root | hog or die. | z fane: | accidency, Conkling declines the Judicial | sugar teat prepared for him by his | ae 3 C. A. Arthur. He's al It’s right funny to see the old bach- | spoilt child anyhow. \elors raise their hats to the local | S _ Lukenbill’s youg Greenbacker has when we meet them, if they hadn’t | 2 financial scheme already on hand | }we would have gone straightway | to extinguish the public debt. Send | into the mug making business. That! jt on to the Hon. Ira S., my child. we would. = pote Sab Jesse James, it 1s reported, was It’s alarming to contemplate the | captured in Kansas tne other day.— amount of hand-shaking, and baby | This makes the thousand and oneth kissing, that will be done between | time that Jesse has been gobbled up. now and the Ides of November next, | =e And oh, the cart loads of political | that will be dumped out on the pecple of Bates county, and Tracy’s and Shobe & Co’s. mule organ is so much out of tune that | they even can’t play the tune the old | | horse come tearing out of the wilder- i ness. literature the sixth congressional district, by | the newspaper men. It’s too sada subject to dwell upon. | | | Jacques Snyder was tound guilty | | of obtructing the highway in ’Squire | Cannon’s courton Wednesday, and | fined in the sum of twenty dollars | and costs of the suit. | Well, we believe the principal cit- } ies in the State are divided up mto | two parts. As for instance, there is | West Kansas City, East Joplin, North St. Joseph, North Spring- a Our marriage barometer indicates field, East St. Louisand West Butler. | 4 weddiag in high life in Butler and This is the latest metropolitan air | | Rich Hill soon. Look out! There that we have assumed in the queen isn’t any telling where lightning will city ot the Southwest. If there are | H organ | - would have ! strike these days, you know. any others we hav’nt heard of them. The Y. P. C., association met in the Christian church Wednesday. A large crowd was present. The fi- nance committee reported that the sum of ninety two dollars had been subscribed to the reading room. The correspondings secretary reported that he had written to the Y. P.C., association of Kansas City, and St. Louis, to secure the services of an experienced lecturer to assist the ¥, G. P., in this work. but, as yet, had received no answer. A resolution was adopted, to have a business meeting the first Tuesday in each | month. | Just tor the comfort of the doctors we announce that the seed men are | selling a good lot of cowcumber and water-million seeds now. Cheer up gents. There’s money in ’em for you. It is now thought that Secretary of the Treasury, Folger, will go on the United States Supreme Court Bench, vice Hunt, resigned, and that boss Conkling will assume the Treas- ury portfolio. The boss won’t be shelved. We are intormed that Ury & Co., foundrymen at Wariensburg, pro- pose to remove their foundry to But- ler if our people will pay the expen- ses of the removal. This is certain- ly a very liberal offer made by the company, and will certainly be ac- cepted by our citizens. A foundry would be quite an addition to the material wealth of our city. We} would he pleased to get it. The Finance Commitee of the Young Peopte’s Christian Associa- tion report that they have $91 sub- scribed to the Reading Room pro- ject. It is estimated that about $250 is required to put the enterprise into operatioa. It does seem to us that | that amount ought to be raised with- | out any trouble or delay in Butler. Any city that can sport as many Any parent who can spare one dollar | gin. - | Smiths as Butler is bound to prosper, or even a less amount, and who has | 5 Z ss ‘48 | and they all belong to the legal fra- | girls ant boys in their teens, can in-| 3 : ei isees aE ternity. For instance, we have J. no a : : “ = | TomsingSmith, T. jetterson Smith, a ~ ~ ef cla l their | = z = | — tae — = ie ie |F. Coleman Smith, A. Jackson C re aa a ea ig 1 ye. le * . a H FS ne ieaeet eee Bs ee Smith, J. Franklin Smith and Samuel i} conducted. We are anxious to'see | : ee 2 j feece | J. Tilden Smith, who 1s just crawl- | this made a success of. = ze a H i ae |ing into his legal trowsers. Surely | Breeders | Bates county is the land of the free, and the home of the Smiths’. vest their money in | We are in receipt of the | Live-Stock Journal, and a copy of | Oil Chromo representing a { $ | yes ed into a drug store, this groop of Hereford cattle. Among} We seppce Be . ‘morning to warm our hands, and cattle men there is no feature atlact- | = ‘there stood around the stove, three jof the deciples ot Esculapias, or | = | Galen, or some other person, who | old breed in England they are com- } 2 S \ : ees | has always been in cahoot with the { paratively a new one in thiscountry, | heir | ing so much attention as that of the | Hereford cattle. While they are an : | undertakers, and public administra- developing a} and the breeders are jtors, engaged in earnest conversa- | wonderful enterprise in pushing their ents |tion, just as we approached the} The leading feature ot these | B g p : | crowd, one of the doctors inquired developments is the establishment of | - = 55 : H ater in an undertone, of the proprietor; if ‘the Breeders Live-Stock Journal, | Be 3 = e. the demand for cow cumber and which is devoted largely to the in- H . water mellon seed was good, ‘terest of the Herefords. No. | No, { 2 | whic! ruggist replied. to us now in a new form, and double | which the 2 Se P : | < . . |the demand is not good, I’m sorry | The Chromo is a; eet ; j say, Doc. A look of despair It is apne workof art, - 5 crept over the taces of the trio. They | 1 to It comes |itsformer size. | to new feature. : ; creditable to the designer, to the ar- i any! petered, he | | tist, and to the engravers, betore the publica life like represent- bation of this fine breed of cattle, ! while the Journal brings forward their merits in an able and conyinc- { }ing manner. Wecommend both the Journal and the Chromo to our read- ers, both of which may be had by remitting One Dollar to the Breeders’ Live-Stock Association at Beecher, ‘Tn. We call 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 purity and strength, We would = recm-. | mend a trial of their Gold Medal brands .° all who desire superior cookery. 9-4mo- Tt brings | parted, each went his way sorrow- | ing. \ CONSUMPTION CURED. An old physician, retired from active | practice having had placed in his hands : hve an East India Missionary the formula ; a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consump- tion, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and all throst and lung affections, also 2 po: re nd radical cure for general debility and { } nervous complaints, after having thor- oughly tested its wonderful curative pov ers in thousands of cases, feels it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. | The recipe with full particulars, directions | for preparation and use, and all necessary advice and instructions for successful ; treatment at your own home, will be re- | ceived by return mail, free of charge by | ; addressing with stamp or stamped self-ad- j } dressed envelope to Dre. M. E. BELL, | and feel as well as Iever did. | your medicine one of the greatest of bles —Rev. Mr. Brown of the Baptist church of this city, returned from | Pleasant Hill on Wednesday, where he went to attend the dedication of ‘the Baptist church in that city. | —Mr. R. W. Darrew has just landed with his family from Illinois, and has settled on the farm he pur- chased last fall, about a mile north | of town. We welcome Mr. Darrow, | —Mr. J. H. Stevens, formerly of Christian county Illinois, arrived in’) the city on Wednesday with his | family. He will live on the farm he purchased of Will Cassity about six | - e miles southeast of town. have you, sir. Mr. J. F. Smith, of Franklin Glad to locate, either in the queen city of the | Southwest, or, at the infant wonder. | Shobe & Co., sold on Saturday last, a pair of mules for three hun- dred and fitty dollars, cash. That’s the way mule meat is selling in But- ler. - In spite or the cold weather, the work of grading and macadamizing | Dakota street, is being rapidly push- | ed forward. That’s right gents, keep | the ball rolling, hot or cold, wet or | dry. pa ee eae County surveyor, M. L. Wolfe, returned to the city, on yesterday He says that new comers are coming in, «and buying, almost evening. | daily, and that lands are advancing rapidly, in price. Rah! for Bates. The great George Washington, the father of his country, drew as a salary for his services during the Revolutionary struggle, a sum suffi- cient to defray his actual expenses and no more, but Grant gets $12,500 for doing nothing, as long as he lives. Carthage Patriot :—Maj. Edwards of the Sedalia Democrat, the silver pen editor of Missouri, is nominated tor Governor. You have heard the motion, gentlemen. All in favor will say I. The motion is unanimously carried, and by the powers, we’ll elect him. We are going to live in West But- ler. There we can have two offices at once, and as people are scace and offices plenty, we could in a pinch hold three or four, such as Treasurer, Clerk, Marshal and sich like. There the good people just shower honors on a feller. We move that when our county officials are retired, that we put a sugar teat in the mouth ot each and every one, in the shape of a salary | tor life. They are patriotic and de- serve well of their country. Grant tought nobly, you know, and so did they too, for office. The Highest Rank- Made from harmiess ‘materials, and adapted to the needs of fading and fall- ing hair, Parker’s Hair Balsam has taken the highest ranks as an elegant and relia- ple hair restorative, Mar. 1-1m. We learn that Dr. J. H. Christy, returning from New York, where he has spent the tall and winter in the | medical colieges, to his home in this city, reached Warrensburg Tuesda evening, where his little girl tell sick and died. We symnathise deeply with the parents in their affliction. 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