The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 31, 1883, Page 3

A FIFTEEN INCH SHELL. Lexincron & SouTHERN Braxci. _ Trains leave Butler daily as follows: | Senator Britt’s Terrible Exper- | ienee Daring the Seige of Vicksburg and How He Lost His Leg. oplin 4 eal Freight + “GOING fexas Express (daily )- joplia & Local Freight | Jefterson City Correspondence St. Louis Republican. Dr. John Britts, the new from Henry county, is now j his first He Secret Societies. term. MASONIC. Sat E : : er Lodge, No. 254, meets the first | looking gentleman, verging on the y in cach mont h. i ani } f ray at 7 ~ , | rio gr J Ss, av r od ; { Chapter Royal Arch Masons, | period of gray hair d fine phys No. 76, meets second Thursday in each | 1cal mould, though bereft of one nonth. : Heg, lost in the dr. Britts Gouley Commandery Knights Templar 5 °©8* *O i : D ae meets the first Tue i h month. was born on the first of November, | Zc : 836, in M gomery county, Ind Bates odge No. 1So meets every Mon- ck sitedhaicins fontg fe By. ney i day night. ana, and acquired his education in Butler Encampment No. 76 meets the | the common schools of that state. ond and 4th Wednesdays in each month i : 1842 with years of age | He came to Missouwii in his father when eight and settled in Clinton, Henry coun- who served with Richard M. Jobn- son in the Northwestern campaizn of Gen. Harrison against the British and Inidans. The subject ot this sketch tookhis first course of medi- Pope of St. cal lectures under Dr. Louis, and atter the war graduated in the Missouri Medical school at St. Lous. He was engaged in the practice of medicine when the war in Cass count rais- ed acompany of wwldiers for the state service under Gen. Claib Jack- broke out, and Senator | serving | pleasant | tv. Huis father was a physician, as | }was his grand-tather before hin j was badly stunned. Dr. George _ Riggins, of Columbia, Mo., was also in the same room and was stunned and blow of the* win- | dow. Dr. Britts remained in Vicks- | bure one month after the surrender, | then went to New Orleans and Mo- bile, through the lines, to Montgom- now ut ery, Ala, and assigned as surgeon in St. Mary’s hospital till the Con- federates were run out of there by Wilson’s raid. He went trom | Montgomery to Milledgeville, Ga., Where he gave himself up to the federal authorities and was paroled. | He could’nt get away, so he took charge of the confederate wounded gutites a: | , that could not get home, in the old — | Westmoreland college. He then | e | left for St. Louis, via Mobile, and | since then practiced surgery in Hen- LIVER | KK IDNEYS STOMACH AND iBOWELS# i ry countv, Me., and now comes to the senate. Kiss Your Mother. tions, and | <A father talking to his careless gontore Itto daugnter, said: ‘I want to speak | [Strength # j to you of your mother. It may be H that you have noticed a careworn | look upon her tace lateiv. Oi | PRI oPRIOKLY, ASH BITTER and be! — et course it has not been brought there | by any act of yours, still it | duty to chase it away. toget up to-morrow morning get breakfast, and when your noth- | er comes and begins to express her ! | H I purely ¥ can times wi Itis not ae is your odertapey! I want you a BL FIER above reifaend Se et Enea Tebehasnoacon bund: ask Goer itte ce, for yo: “PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO.. SOLE PROP: ST. LOUIS ca and surprise go right up to her and kiss You can’t imagine how it will brighten her face. OR. WHITTIER her. Besides you son, and was commissioned captain, After the Fourth Missouri Infantry regiment was organized, he took possession us surgeon of the regi- ment, and remained in that capacity uniil wounded during the siege of Vicksburg. And it was there that he met with one of the most terri- ble episodes of the war that a man could experience and live. He was in the city hospital, a very large building, on the mght ot the Sth of June, when about 3 o’clock in the morning a fifteen inch shell, fired trom Porter’s fleet, which seemed to be miles away, came crashing through the nospital, carrying with it death and destruction. The schell entered the top of the building and passing through the upper stories, walls and ceiling, smashing up and destroying everything in its path. It decended into the room occupied by the surgeons. Dr. Britts and Dr. Taylor ot Paducah, Ky., were in bed and asleep in the room. The shell, instead of penetrating the floor beneath, took a circuit around the room, and exploded before Dr. Britts could get out ot the roem; but Dr. Taylor, whose bed was near the door, managed to escape before the explosion. Dr. Britts was hela down and prevented from moving by a luad ot plastering and debris that covered him, and before he could extricate himself the schell exploded noise, and filled CASH HOUSE ae cD we cD — <= cD =. —] = Kom — F<) = — Se C2 - with a deatenmng the with a hundred broken fragments, accompanied by flames and suffocating smoke. One of the fragments the burstéd shell carried away one ot Dr Bnitt’s legs, waich he had lifted up in his strug- gles Another frag- ment pierced through his right lung, and another missle wounded him in the left knee. The doctor felt him- self bleeding to death, and had pres- ence of mind, after extricating him- self, to take up the arteries and tie ‘hem, thereby preventing the flow of blood theretrom. After a while they got him out and amputated his leg. The doctor says he never lost his presence of mind, although ribly wounded and smothered by the partition wall blown down by the torce of the missle. Ae says he ex- perienced precisely the same sen- sation said to be felt by drowning men. His whole past with the ilu } sions of his early years, which 1m- pressed him as vivid as the reality. He felt no painin his dismembered room from to get loose. chloroform, he «xperienced no pain undergoing the amputation, the long months of 4 while and during re covery. There were seve al pers j ined and wounded in v believed i the = and he some | { died. or were ed outright. Dr. | | Sptvester Nileler, now of St. Lous, | i j then a st he Second Texas. was in the room above Dr. Britts and ter-j | leg, and in tact, having been placed ; Northern Democrats, the tariff ques- | i by his surgeons under the effects of | tion, it is thought being the real is- owe her a kiss or two. Away back! 617 St.CharlesStreet, St. Leuis,Mo. « - graduate \Colleges., when you were a little girl, she kiss- ‘bayer lockted than aay gener bysiciun in Seles, gs city papers showand alloid lents know. sy. - ed you when no one else was tempt- a ‘hose, moi pee ye ee or Mercur: Sf Throat Gkin or Bones cared Balely, Privately GbermatorrheeBexualbebiity « and im; = vy s inal debility, “6 sory, payelcal decay, ed by your fever-tainted breath and swolen face. Yeu were not as at- tractive then as you are now. And through these years ot sunshine and shadows she was already to cure by the magic of a mcther’s kiss the _lit- tle dirty ,chubby hands whenever they were injured in those first skir- mishes with the rough old world. And then the midnight kiss with which she routed so many vad dreams, as she leaned against vour restless pillow have all been an inter tes these long, long years. Of course, she 1s not so pretty and kissable as you are, but 1f you had done your ep Mp at old offce, at share work during the last ten years ness, Im) y atecus at Syphila. Secees Fbooa, Gleet, Ui or Biadder coeaees Te- the contrast would not have been so gentetses cured ia s fow days, rating ‘ from self-abuse, orexpeeure cured for fe with sate marked. Her face has more wrin-| msdigine, Advice free. Charges low. (Call or wr.ts kles than yours, far more; and yet MAR PTT KGE GUI GUIDE R: if you were sick that face would ap- pear more beautiful than an angel’s asit hovered over you, watching Parker's Hair Balsam) every opportunity to minister to} Rima peepee pes your comfort, and everv one of Never Fails to Restore those wrinkles would seem to be bright wavelets of sunshine chasing each other over that dear face. She willleave you one of these days. These burdens if not lifted trom her shoulders, will break her down. Those rough, hard hands that have done so many necessary things for you. will be crossed upon her life- less breast. Those neglected lips that gave you your first baby kiss will be forever closed, and those sad, tired eyes will have opened on eternity aud then you will learn to appreciate your mother; but it will be too late.”’ Fr, Bach mesic Sti many of the Lest medicines known a: bined intoa medicine of such varied and effect powers, asto makethe Greatest Blood Purifier&the Gesi Health and Strength Restorer Ever anand Itcures Dysnensia, Rheumatism, Sleepl all diseases of Bowel: Still in the Ring aA : away w mption or Cleviand Herald. | Maiclepetared piste Tews surely Washington, January 18.—The/} ae as it builds fight between Blackburn and Carl} isle for the support of the Kentucky delegation inthe Speakership con- H test assumes amusing aspect. | Blackburn has taken to writing cards ! and letters to the newspaper making | propositions fer the settlement of the | an contest, to all of which Carlisle maintains a dignified silence. Car- lisle is no wire-puller. He is still in the ring, but conducts his canvass in his own way. He will rely main- ly upon his record, and hopes to at- tract votes cnough without promius- ing every good chairmans half a a : é — vs tion, and is t Sere t dozen times over; but his free trade oe oee kaa pal ain the ce orageeoren tt a notice every patentee und aaa poy is views will count against nim = with eee ee eet chanics, in hee Geperncnt of 8 com Of sue that will be involved in the test rather than individual strength a_ andidate might possess. Were the ucus to be held to Carlisle would probabiy lead inthe race for smuch as con- | i i } day American, 261 Broadway Niendbook — patents mailed free. et the nomination: but i | here are many months yet to come before the contest will be decided, ir is more than likely that the wire- pulling to be done will change the another Congress Premature Decay, Loss of Memory. Qoth-bonnd Book of wholesome eure Men, by 3 Kesar ¥ as EE 22 ncvirts ree-cent THE WEALTH JOURNAL, MILWAUKEE, WIS. ; Situation — ere mects. AWSAS B Orr, § MO. Fi | ‘stands. i justrated news- Poel 10 cents. "pod by all news| ‘Address, Mann & Co., publishers of Scien- ' <sae ‘== BUTLER: NATIONAL BAN i House Block, BUTLER, Mo. Authorized Capital, $200,000 | Cash Capital 50,000 | Surplus Fund 1,000 | BC .OKER POW + President ice President. ++ Cashier. t Cashier DIRECTORS | Dr. T. C. Boulware, R, D. Williams. Judge J. H. Sullens, Booker Powell, | Green W. W. alton, Dr. N, L, Whipple, A. L, McBride, T, W, Childs, Gc, H, Dutecne. rte ih uae DE rey, } Frank Votis, Wo, FE, Walton, | | i OTHER STOCK HOLDERS: | G, B, Hickman, C, C. Duke, | John Deerwester, O. Spencer, | R. Gentry West, R, Estill, | John B. Ellis, N. Hines, 3, Q. Dutcher, 1, 1, McKee, Henry Donovan, Receives Deposits payable on demand Loans money buys and sells exchange | and does a general Banking bus ness. BATES COUNTY ‘National Bank. BUTLER, MO. ORGANIZED UN 1871, ee | Capital paid in, - - $75,000. Surplus - - - - $20.000 iLarge Vault, B urglar-Proof Safe with Time Lock. We are prepared to doa general bank- ing business. Good paper always in demand. BSuy and sell exchange, receive deposits &c., &c. | DIRECTORS. | ies Lewis Cheney, - C. Clark,f De Elliot Pyie fon. J B. Newberry . P. Henry. I. N. Mains, De J.Everingham, J. P. Edwards, J. J Ryan, Ww. i: Bard, Dr. D. D. Wood, J. M. Patty, Geo. W. Miers, F. Colerran Smith. F. J. Tygard. OFFICERS. | IS Cl ce President’ -CLARK - - - - Vice P.esident. 1. TYGARD - - - Cashier. ee DD) | DRUG STORE! ' | W. J. LANSDOWN, Prop’r. | | NE Ww Good Stock of Pure, Fresh Drugs. fox THE WEST SIDE OF SHE SQUARE | (IN BUTLER. MO. I will give my personal attention | to compounding prescriptions, j or night. Give me a trial trip. W. J. LANSDOWN. T. L MILLER Co., ‘HEREFORD CATTLE. i COTSWOLD SHEEP i BERKSHIRE SWINE. | Brews, Wirt Co. | i | THE MILLER BROS. 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It to ly the remedy prom; Sect of twenty years warce the a-sertion that neo: \y has ever been found thatisas obstinate cough. take readily. Croup I invatuabie nd should be car family. al Colte the Hicart: Dissiness, Detpia, — Weenate Isregularities. If you do sobhtes very well,” asingle pillat bed-time Brice, She. as Murray Mai WRITE FOR TUTT’S MARUAL reese