The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 21, 1883, Page 4

THIS PAPER Pho ci's bos Sewepepee “fvertising Burcau (10 Spruce St.), where advertising savertising Burreaade for it IN NEW YORK “cha TT. MecEF ariand, wpiTGK AND PROPRIETOR, TERMS OF SU: SCRIPTION: The Weety Toes, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any cderess one vear, postage paid, tor $1.2<. BUTLER MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 21, 1833- ‘Announcements. FOR COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. ” We are authorized to announce the wame of C. P. Reeder, as a candidate tor the office ot County School Commis- .sioner ot Bates county, subject to the elec- fien ot the Democratic Convention. We are authorized to announce the name of W. W. Graves, of Homer town- ship, asa candidate for County School Commissioner ot Bates county, subject to the action of the Democratic Covention- "We are authorized to announce the name of W.G. Rose, of Mt. Pleasant township, as a candidate for the office of County Schoel Commissioner of Bates county, subject to the action ot the Dem- ocratic convention. We are authorized to announee the name of J. F. Searight, ot Grand River tewnship, acs a candidate for ‘ounty School Commissioner, subject to the ac- fien of the Democratic convention. TE Democratic Township Tieket. Wor Trustee, Tt. W. CHILDS. Wor Assessor and Clerk, JOHN U. HAYES. Ser Collector, AARON H. BELL. er Constable, Wa. T. HEATH. for Justices of the Peace, D. V BROWN. N. B. MEEK, P H. M. CANNON. 2 A THIRTY DAY OFFER. Any person who will bring or , send to this office the names of five mew subscribers tothe Timzs one year, accompanied by the cash, will be entitled toa copy of the paper tree. Subscription price $1 25. This is an unusual low offer, and we trust that those of our friends not getting the Times will set them- selves to work at once. with a vim. There is not a neighborhood in the county where several ot these clubs + €annot be gottcn up. Please re- « "ember that the moncy must ac- company the same. « TWO PAPERS EOR $1 75. We will send the BUTLER WKEKLY Ties and the St. Louis Post-Dés- patch, to any address, one year, for $x 75 in advance. This is the best opportunity you may ever have of getting your home paper and a St. Louis paper for so small amount of money. renee omen ANOTHER UALL. To our first cail for subscription money on January Ist, many gener- @asly responded ; but not all, quite. There are a few wko are owing us far over one year back subscription still waiting—perhaps till they get the money. We desire to renew the request * that, if you hav’nt means enough to aay all, come in and pay what yon , cae—every mite aids im keeping the wolf from our door this cold weather. DEMOCRATIU CONVENTION. There will be a af the Democrats of the city of But- ter, at the court house on Monday mass convention evening March 5th, tor the purpose ef placing in nomination a can- didate for Mayor, Marshal, and twyu Aldermen, ove from each Ward. Mr. Frank Matchett, of Spangle, . . Washington Terntory, writes: “I want you tosend me the Times. I ean’t do without it in the far West. Itis the best county paper that I taxe.”” Democrat, will please not clip any ‘more items frem the Trgs and give credit to the Bates county Record. BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES | —_— oo | in an article of seme length QUESTIONS ANSWEKED- 1 The Rich Mill Afixzing Review. | jail proposition as it was submitted | at the special clection om the 6th inst., | propounds the following questions : | ‘‘\Now we would ask when did| | tis $15,000 jail become unsafe? When did any prisoners escape? At what date did it become a ‘‘sink- | hole?’ What makes it unfit for priseners? Why hive grand juries condemned it? Why are prisoners sent to other counties? For what reasons has or will Judge Gantt or- der all prisoners sent abroad tor safe- keeping?" Laying aside as unimportant the mere imaginary estimate of the erig- inal cost of the present jail building, we have to say that the structure be- came unsafe as tar buck as a couple or three years since, when it was so declared by a Grand Jury, a deciar- ation that has been reitterated by nearly every succeeding body since. True enough ao prisoners have es- caped, but the reasens theretore lie in the fact that tie Sheriff has con- stantly maintained a close guard; and even then itrequirec the death of one prisoner at that efficient offi- cials hands, and atmost a second, in order to preyent an occurrence ef the kind. It became a “‘sink-hole,’’ coniemperary 1s pleased to term it, when the first Grand Jury ef the peeple condemned the structure as unfit for the encarceration of prison- ers and a disgrace to Bates cotnty and the good name of her people. It is unfit for prisoners because, in spite ot the Sheriff’s utmost efforts at much expense to the county the jail can not be renevated or repaired so as to render it cither wholesome against infectious diseases, or secure against the artifice ef bold, bad pris- oners. Grand Juries have condemned it and prisoners are sent to other coun- ties for safe keeping upon the orde ot Judge Gannt, because ot a knowl- edge of the foregoing tacts. They needed ne other reason. Further discussion of the jail ques- tion seems inopportune atthis time, but the recent deteat ef the project dees not by any means signify an un- willingness on the part ef the people tor the buildingef a new structure sufficient in capacity, satety and de- cency to the needs of the ceunty, un- less we except the Review and those who follow its blind, narrew-minded pelicy. Hencetorth the Butler jail, so-called, will be unoccupied, untile preposition to buila a new one is re- ceived by the people with a better understanding, er, when the time comes that the Treasury is replete with tunds, the County Court, with greater courage to perform duty than its predecessers, apprepriates the necessary amount for the pur- pose. | | | as our —_—__—_————E One of the most popular of the new plays now being rendered on the stage ef New York and other parts of the cast, is that entitled ‘*Jessie James’. It is a drama in which the bandit and his compeers are made hero’s and the detectives whe sought to capture them are held up for derision. All this naughty business 1s being transacted on the Northern stage for the edificatien of people. The widow of Louis J. Lull, the Pinkerton detec- tive, killed in the attempt to capture John and James Younger in the i Monegaw hills in 1874, writes as | follows to the New York Herald upen the subject: **I have not witnessed the horrible play that thus disgraces your stage. But the flaming posters which I fain would not see, but which confront me at every step, tell only too well } ef the awful crimes which your peo- | ple encourage nightly, and from one } and another I learn, though I would | gladly close my cars to all of it, | about the memory of brave men out- raged and their deeds despised. I hear of James’ famous ride from Kansas City, and sce upon the walls the pictures of *‘the detectives’’ ride to death’’—a leath made to a senseless and 1gnominious.”* her loyal ppear | | —‘dearest Bess, answer ye | years three,—can’t agree.—County | The overflow ot the Oho and | The Lexington Znteliigencer abre- | | viates the problem of life in the fol- | Mississipp: rivers continues to do | en the | lowing lucid style ;—Ceurtship and | great damage to the property in the | the arrest o: Fisher en some charge At} pending in the latter county. The | prisoner was at once taken to Bates talks— | vicinity ot Louisville and Cairo eves; (the latter place the water had not —very | reached the point attamed by the Matrimony :—*‘ Moonlight midnight walks,—longing soothing sighs,—tront gate, late.—Parlor scene ;—feeling mean, | flood of last year, but some fear was | *_kina | entertained that it would go even be- | | kiss,—olind bliss.—Interview,—pa- | yond that. The water hasbeen reced- | gf the readers ef his paper in the pa, too,—nothing loth,—happy both, | ng for several days from the inun- —couple glad,—have it bad.—Or- | dated district at Cincinatt: and other pointson the Ohio, but there is yet much suffering, and the damage to property is beyond computatien at this time. SSE The town of Braidwood III., was the place ofa disaster on the 17th, He a ieee where large mining operations are Te) tie“ hasband) | iroams wife | carried on. Theearth over one of fate eigen lose ithe shafts worked sagged or fell in Monl- When. peu wee look | burrying sixty-two men in its awful ahead,—might fall, that’s all.”” | embrace ot death. The result was ascene rarely witnessed. Frantic women and children crowded areund jthe mouth ot the premature grave rending the heavens with their wails for their entombed husbands and fathers. gan swells, —marriage bells.—honey- | moon,--Ended soon,—double Brewn | —settled down.—One_ year,—skies | clear ;—years two.-——rather blue ;— | court.—‘splendid spert,’—sorrow— | sin;—jury grin;—diverce given,— As the time approaches fer the election ef city officers, thoughtful people are casting about to find a suitable manfor Mayour. A good- ly number cf the business men ot the city appreciating the importance and necessity ot a fit person to suc- ceed Mayor Lefker, whose adminis- tration has been one ot marked ben- efit to the progress of Butler, have fixed upon judge D. V. Brown, as the individual best adapted to fill the position. fudge Brown is emi- nently qualified tor the place in ev- ery particular. Hehas the experi- ence requisite to perform its duties, and his business is such that the nec- essary attention could always be giv- en the various matters coming up be- fere the Mayor. His friends say he will yield to the earnest solicitations of many business men and become a candidate for the Demecratic nom- ination on March 5th. At the session of the Texas Legis- lature a year orso ago a bill was passed and became a law, prohibit- ing the circulation of the Poeléce- Gazette m that State. Recently Judge Cook, of the circuit court at Galveston, rendered a decision de- clariag the law unconstitutional. That its validity may be thoreughly tested, however, it will beneccessary to bring the matter before the Su- preme court. The ‘Times believes such a law ought to exist in every State in the Union. The electric hight 1s working poorly in Butler. During services at two of the churches there a few nights ago, the congregations were entirely without light, except that ef a religious character. for sevcral moments.—[Lamar Missourian. The Méssouriau has had talse in- formation imposed upon it. The Trugs is correctly intormed that nothing lke the above has eccurred. Instead of the electric light werking poorly in Butler, it is giving most excellent satisfaction. NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES. Rich Hill Enterprise: T. G. Ward last week sold to L. Peyton & Ce. his 80 acre farm three miles northwest ot the city tor $6,000. A snug sum. Kansas City Fournal: An edi- ter named Thomas hanged himselt down in Seuth Carelina the other day. This is the first case on record ot an editor committing suicide. They yenerally starve to death. Kansas City Yeurnal: Park col- lege, at. Parkville, Mo., has more than 100 students, and not one et them uses tobacco. Can any other group of roo be found in Christen- dom of which the same can be said? The nominations made by the Demecrats at the court house, Sat- urday, tor the township offices, could not have beew much if any better. The men are all wel! adapted to the positions tor which they were select- ed, and the people in Mt. Pleasant township can rest assured that the} affairs ot the various offices will be| pertormed in a manner satisfactery to all. Wanensburg Yournal-Demecrat: Somebody—Tom Cranmer, tor in- stance—sheuld introduce a bill in the Missouri legislature, making smoking and chewing tobacco a felony, punishable by transportation to Kansas. Adrian Advert:ser: Lou Page sold his cattle, 67 in number to E. A. Holt. The cattle were in a fine condition weighing 1375 Ibs each. Ed is shipping a good many cattle now and he says he would not ship it there was no money in it. Joplin Herald: A Washington county wood chopper hung his big Coalt’s revolver on a limb the other day while he was chopping a tree. The tree fell upon the pistol, caus- ing it to fire and inflict a painful wound in the chepper’s leg. The Times is 1n receipt of the Se- dalia Democrat’s annual review of that city’s business interests. It has been that journal’s custem te pub- lish a review fer a mumber ef years past, but that before us isby far the the most complete in detail and ar- tisticallvy arranged in ferm to any previous effort. The work reflects credit to the Demeocrazs enterprise. a = *P Versaills Gazette: A fruit grew- er placed tobacco stems around the trunks of peach trees and there 1s not | the sign of the borer in any of the | trees so treated. Heset the stems | around the butts of the trees and tied them at the tep. It keeps off rab- bits as well in winter. Try it. Harrisonville Democrat: Frank | George shypped to St. Louis, last | week, go head of cattle averaging 1,500 pounds, said to be the finest lot et cattle and best tatted ever The St. Louis \pectator, announ- ces F.C. Farr. Gov. Crittenden’s Private Secretary, as a suitable can- didate for Secretary ot State nextyear. The Versailles Gazette endorses the Sfectafor’s suggestion in very flattering of Mr. Farr. **How Butler envies Rich Hill.’’ This is the way the Gazette, at the city of black diamonds, alludes to terms classic, prespereus metropolitan | Butler. Yes. itis the envy of the) shipped from Archie. They were mother toward the ‘‘Infant.”” ' ted on Dr. Abraham’s farm in Bates —__—__— — ' county by J. J. Kanatzar, Rich Hill had its census taken last! pteasant Hill Review: Bates week by a couple of gentleman get- | county people laugh at the report ting up a directory for the town. | shat their cual mines were becoming The result shows a population of 5, | exhausted as stated by a correspon- 123, which is a pretty fair exhibit for | dent to tne Kansas City 7imes from 50 young a City. | Rich Hill. They say that an inves- © a new | tigation shows that the “‘mines were Harrisonville is to h eS a } bank, E. C. Deacon, brother to, R. | not only not giving out but that new - i pe vi moe i“ - bei The township convention held. ax| K- Descon of Batler, willbe Presi-|and paying deposi were being, de the court house Saturday, was abont| Ss ee ee oe nd Wee cone 2 | Congar assistant Cashier. Harrisonville Democrat:. On the liveliest te its teritorirl dimen-! = ss sions of any that ever assembled in| Clinton, | Mopday last T. Fisher was arraign- We are a little sensitive on that point. [SEE Ee Geo. W. Tuthill, of the Browns- ville Herald, is a candidate for Pub- {sc Printer in case the bill now be- x " fore the Legisiature becomes a law. | this city. The court ruom was fill- | adopted the proposition of Irland & | ed before J. W. Graham, Esq., on a ed, and the log-rolling and voting | Andrews for gas works by a vote was spirited to almost an unpreci-/ of 432 to ome against. Why i dented degree. ! icharge of stealing a set of harness not | rom Mr. Vandeventer. Owing to i lack of proof. the accused was dis- Mr. Tuthill is a practical printer and _- . would perform well the duties of the ‘office. | make it unanimous. Rockville Globe: Mr. Mat. Mi lering met with a very painful acg. dent at his mi'l, two-thirds of a mk down on the Osage river from thy place last Saturday morning, whil ott-bearing lumber from the Say He was reaching under the plan to take hold when a bad glove the righthand caught in the circ! lar saw and pulled his hand on it The middle finger was taken entire, ly off and all the others were tacerated. He was fortunate in ne’ getting his hand sawed off under y circumstances. charged. The sheriff of Bates coun- ty was on hand with a warrant for | county. B. R. Brewer, editer of the Web- ster County Vews, has taken leave following briet words: ‘I hereby | relinquish the position of editor of j the .Vews. I make no lengthy re- jhearsal. I have only to say adieu. | friends, foes, trauds, tools and finan- cial statements. I have been true to | my cause. and for the law and the | people.” i Nevada Demecrat: A. W. Pet- | ty, the dead beat who came here re- j cently and gave out that he was an experienced laundryman and intend- ed starting a laundry, has been playing the same game at Lamar. ‘The Afissourtan says that he in- duced a brother Mason te stand good for a week's ledging in that city, and the innocent brother had it to pay. There are some better men in the penitentiary than A, W. Petty. Adrian Advertiser: Nip Mc- Farland, the popular harness man of Bates county, was in Adrian, Tuesday, and gain the Advertiser a very pleasant visit. He says their harness shop at this place, uader the management of Mr. Jas. Wel- den, 16 doing far better taan they expected and if the town beoms, thev will put up a business house and increase their stock, making ti second te none in the county. Hur- ran for McFarland Bros. El Dorado News: Mr. George Wilson returned to Butler last Thursday. He says he is going to ‘make preparations to come and live with us. We hope he will succeed. Joplin Herald: O. G. Harbison, the great hunter of Atchison county, during tour days of last. week killed the following game: 4S prairie chickens, gg quails, 37 rabbits, 14 chicken hawks, and 1 bald eagle, all with the same gun and with one dog. Adrian Advertiser: Messrs Stacy and Morns, agents for Sprague & Hunter, music dealers of Butler, came to Adrian, Monday. These gentlemen have consented to aid the Adrian Sunday school in their con- certs, the preceeds of which are to pay ter an ergan. Rich Hill Enterprise: The Rich Hill steckholders in the Chicago grain exchange sat in their pews at church last Sunday and while the parson read ‘‘lay your treasures up in heaven where thieves do not break through and steal,’’ they shed many tears, tears of sad experience in pre- curing a quick fortune. Springfield Express: Some 3 or 4miles southeast of the city last week a cow belonging to Mr. J. S. Mauzy, and one belenging to Mr. Keitner, also a fine horse ewned by Charles Bledsoe, all died trom the effects of hydrophobi1. A dog in that neighberhood had rabid fits and escaped, and itis snpposed that he bit the animals that died. It is also feared that he may have bitten other animals in which the disease has not yet developed. Walker Herald: We under- stand that drummer from St. Louis committed suicide in Schell City last Wednesday. He bought a draft o St. Louts and had it sent to his witein that city, then went to asaloon and asked for a Ger- man, walked tothe door and sat down, drawing a pistol, placed it to his head, and fired, killing himseif Osceola Sux: On last Sundy) morning a man by the name of Hy! bard, and well known to most Ot the) people of Jackson township, teund heing in the road atiff » stark in death. It zener) thought that his death was occ: ed by epilepsy as he was kaown be aftected with that disease, § body, when tound, wae consid mutilated bythe hogs. Mr, bard was a carpenter by pro and was greatly esteemed by ail knew him, as a quiet and ind ous citizen. <A ceroner’s jury impanneled, which rendered a dict in accordance with the facts. Whites and Blacks. Charleston News and Courier. The official records show that corresperdent of the New York has not only “‘made a fool of self,’’ but that he has also not the truth. His statement that South Carolina Democrats do want to educate the neero is a and malignant fabrication. Alm the very first act ef the Demoa after regaining control ot the government in 1876 was te submit constitutional ameradment tothe ple for the ‘‘levy of an annual tax not less than two mills on the doll all the taxable property’ in State, to be *‘paid out exclusi for the support of the public school! In addition te the amount re from this source the entire poll receipts goto the support of public schools, and in various tions spec.al levies are also made the same purpose. Much the’ est portien of the taxes for the port of the public schools 16 paid tne white Democratic property ders of the State, and is paid out the instruction uf the children of f State without regard to race or or, under precisely the same oo tions. In 1880-1 the school amounted to $452,965 44. school fund of 1881-82 is believed have been even in excess of # amount. In 1880-1 there were 7 119 negro children attending the poi lic schools in the state. The were 10,780 more nero than children attending public school In 1881-2 there were 80,575 children in our public schools, a0¢ cess of 15,176 negro pupils over! number of white pupils. In 13854 the amount expended tor the psf enrolled was $3 15 per capita. this rate the state, in 1880-81, ® pended for the education ot the gro children $229,104 85, or 957 more than the amount paid for the education of the white ¢ dren. In 1881-82 the State paid @ for the education of negro child’ $253,511 25, or $47,804 40 ® than was expended during the # period tor education of the children. These ase stubborn Mr. Witkevon should correct his jurious statements or apply for staff appointment on the Herald, although the paper he © resents 1s known tomany New Y# 2 2 instantly. A note was tound on his body requesting it to be sent to St, | ers as ‘the lying Sun.” Leuis. A woman went up from Sib ees Nevada Thursday morning whe | The Southwestern Zinc e] claimed to be his wife. | Company will build a zinc Rich Hill Exterprisc: Judge mill at Rich Hill to cost $109, The only one in the West now * Waters, of the C. & A., was in the La Salle. Ill. city Wednesday afternoon en route to the northern end of the route. | : He assured an Enterprise reporter A young man named Dorty that everything was in readiness as instantly killed by lightning soon as spring opened for active | struck in calcine furnace No. } work. He explodes the *‘Butler | the Desloge works, in St. Frase i idea’ of the road ever turning off | county. on the 5th inst. through Walnut from the fact that | - a the company have already secured| Lawrence county still has four | an apundance of coal land around | bonds outstanding, amounting ? Rich Hill, and passes through a / to $2,000. They will be paid 3 magnificent coal field in Vernon! vember first, next, when the county. | will be entirely free from debt-