The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 28, 1883, Page 4

t ths sae ay may be found on file at Geo, THIS PAPER Powell Gre Newspaper Kivertiaing Parent eee it IN NEW YORK: ——————— ee Chas. T. McE arsand. SpiToK AND PROPRIETOR, —_—————— pack ! TERMS OF SU? SCRIPTION: The Weery Times, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any duress one vear, postage paid, tor $1.25. For Scuoor ComMMIsSIONER, PROF. J. H. HINTON. Democratic Township Ticket. for Trustee, T. W. CHILDS. For Assessor and Clerk, JOHN CU. HAYES. For Collector, AARON H. BELL. for Constable, Wa. T. HEATH. For Justices of the Peace, D. V BROWN. N. B. MEEK, H. M. CANNON, ATHIRTY DAY OFFER. Any person who will bring or send to this office the names of five new subscribers tothe Times one year, accompanied by the cash, will be entitled toa copy of the paper tree. Subscription price $1 25. This 1s an unusual low offer, and we trust that those of our friends not getting the Trves will set them- selves to work at once with a vim. There is not a neighborhood in the county where several ot these clubs cannot be gottcn up. Please re- member that the money must ac- company the same. TWO PAPERS EOR $1 75. Wewill send the BUTLER WEEKLY ‘Times and the St. Louis Post-Dés- patch, to any address, one year, for $1 75 inadvance. This is the best opportunity you may ever have of getting your home paper and a St. Louis paper for so small amount of moncy. ANOTHER WALL. To our first call for subscription «voney on January rst, many gener- ously responded; but not all, quite. There are a few who are owing us for 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 cnough to pay all, come in and pay what yon can—every mite aids in keeping the wolf trom our door this cold weather. The Forty-seventh congress will expire by constitutional limitation at #2 o’elock, meridian, next Sunday. OTE Senator Allen, of St. Louis, has introduced a concurrent resolution, submitting to the people an amend- ment to the Constitution, extending the nght of suffrage to women. ‘This will end the clamor of the wo- man suffragist in Missouri for a sea- son at least, Robert Jeffress, a stranger hail- ‘ug from Paris Texas, committed suicide at the American House, Ne- vada city, on Thursday last. $425 in greenbacks were fouud in a_ belt BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES | | _ 4 CONTRAST. Elsewhere we publish an article | {from the Harrisonyille Democrat | which attempts to show that Butler has seen her best days—at least at | the gist of the Democrat's remarks: jocrat the virtue of sincerity, but | must be pardoned tor remarking | that its sgnorance is an evil that bor- ders somewhat upon a crime, and is as unpardonable as it is unjust. Upon what authority the editor basis his predictions, is a matter ot little con- sequence to know, believing rather. that itis more the effervescence of the imagination than any positive intormation or knowledge of exist- ing facts. | ‘Aninland town of 4,000 people | to be prosperous must have a good | country, and a good deal of it, trib- utary to it and in natural sympathy | with it, to keep it going,’’ says the Democrat. This is good theory hut its adyerse application 1s better adopted to the writers own town than to the city of Butler. Butler 1s not, any longer considered an inland tewn. We haye one rail- road with almost certain prospects of the second, while an inland town, properly speaking has none at all. The character of the country sur- rounding Butler, has very few equals if any, in the West in peint of soil and agricultural wealth. It is sut- ficient in area to warrant the growth ot the Electric city to a population of 4,000 thrifty, enlightened, educa- ted peeple and the expenditure of $139,550 11 improvements during the year 1882. The statement that Rich Hill on the south and Adnan on the north are sapping Butler, may be an appre- hensive exposition to the readers ot the Democrat, but it falls flat before the eyes of the people of central Bates. True enough these progress- ive young cities command the prin- cipal trade and business of the im- mediate neighborhood, but thev de- tract less trom Butler in proportion than Archie does from Harrison- ville. It there 1s anything in the Dem- ocrat’s article that bears upon its face the appearance ot insincerity, it is this that, ‘*Bates may be richer in mineral but Cass is a much richer county agriculturrally than Bates.’’ This is the climax, and it serves to convince us that the editor has a very limited knowledge of that about which he is writing. There is one thing we may learn from reading the Democrat?’s article, and that 1s the exceptional tact that there is one man in the Union that thinks he has found a little better place than” old Bates. A very disastrous fire occurred 1n the Missouri Penitentiary, at Jetter- son City, on the 23rd, about noon. Two buildings were burned along with their contents. The States loss 1s estimated at $100,000, while that ot the variouscompanies occupying the same willreach to about $215, ooo. As the State never carries any insurance on its preperty the build- ings will be a total Joss, but the stock and property of the csmpanies is m- sured for about three-fourth its val-/ The fire was started by a con- | ue. senience of twelve years trom Shel- } by county for robhery, who is a des- | perate character. He first tried to | | make his escape by scaling the walls, but failing m that he set fire to. the | } institution and then tried to excite the prisoners to mutiney. While in j : : | vict by the name of Johnson, under | | i ‘worn aroun 4 his body. Che Ft. Scott Herald declares in a recent issue that it will talk on the coal question from now till it be- comes a bore. The /fera/d is con- fident that a thick vein of coal under- Yes the city. The hog law adopted at the special election on Feby 6th, takes effect sixty days frem that date, which will be April Sth. Peeple should remember this fact and have thelr swine in bounds by that time. al The Times agrees with the Record that some busy body has been im- pesing upon the good nature and credulity of the editor of the Rock- ville Globe. It hasn't been six months since the Timgs sent a spe- cial representative to Reckvilie: and his report consumed several columns et this paper. _ Besides this, we have aiso had a regular correspondent at | Papinville daring the whole. winter. who has said much te the credit of that section of the county. this attempt he was captured by the guards. { The Tastes is in receipt of aneat: | ly printed and bound pamphlet of 143 pages entitled “The Christian | Religion."” It is compiled of a} j series of articies trom the North | American Review, by Col. Inger- sell, Judge Black and Prot. Geo. P. | Fisher. The book will be exten-/} sively read from the fact that 1t em- | bodies the advanced thought of the | | day on the great subject of Christian- | { ty by authors who rank first among | America’s brightest intellects. The | price of the work is fiifty cents tsold by the North Americar Re- j wew, New York. i The cotton crop of the So , 1883, vielded 6,800,000 bales. for | at Appleton en the 22nd, may work DEMOCRATIU CONVENTION. There will be a mass convention | ot the Democrats of the city of But- | ler, at the court house on Tuesday | evening March 6th, tor the purpose | The Times will granttc the Dem-| of placing in nommation a can-| didate for Mayor, Marshal, and two! Aldermen, one from each Ward. The North American Review for March opens with an article on ‘“*Moncy in Elections’,, by Henry George, who brings te the discussion | ofthat hackneyed subject a contri- | bution full of origmality, freshness and keen insight. way contributes a véry striking study | ot Gladstone as a man and astates- man, showing how eyen the more or | less sinister moial and intellectual traits of his nature, quite as much as his pre-eminent native force and ele- vation of character,conspire to make him the foremost Englishman of his Hon. Geo W. Juilian,s Influence in the Lani time. **Railway Office’’. Wm. G. Sumner of ‘Protective Taxes and Wages’’; Elizur Wright ot ‘Some Aspects of Life Insur- ance’’; and finally there is a sympo- sium on ‘*F-ducational Needs’’, by | Prof. G. Stanly Hall, Prof. Felix Adler, President Thomas Hunter, and Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi. Pub- liahed at 30 Lafavette place, New York, and for sale by booksellers generly. Eighteen years ago Judah P. Ben- jamim armved in the city of London penniless and without trends. He frst began earning his bread by writing forthe Zelegraph, a daily publication of that city, and after- wards being admitted to the English bar, by his great ability and splen- did character as a man, he became very famous and also wealthy. A few days since the public was sur- prised to see in the daily papers an announcement that Mr. Benjamin would retire from the profession be- cause of declining health. Judah P. Benjamin is known in America as well or better than he is in Eng- land, During the Confederacy’s struggle for lite he served as Attor- ney General and Secretary of State, and his fortunes, financial and politi- cal, were burried with its unhappy fate. The Statutes in several States prohibit the inter-marriage of | white and blacks. The lower courts have had various cases arrising be- tore them affecting the validity of the law, it being asserted that it was contrary to the fourteenth amend- ment to the Constitution- <A test case has lately been decided by the United States Supreme Court in which it was State law was valid and was not in cenflict with the Constitution. The Court held that the law forbidding such marriages and prescribing pun- ishment in cases of its violation is not an unjust discrimmation against ne- groes under the tourteenth amend- ment, tor the reason that the prehi- bition and the punishment apply equally to the white and colered. Another attempt was made Sun- day morning to burn the State Pen- itentiary. occupied a cell in the hospital threw a ball sat- A convict who | urated with coal oil and lighted, inte | a pile of rubbish, butthe act being | witnessed by a guard. litth or no damage was done by the abortive ef- tort to finish up that which the con- yict Johnson begin on Friday. previ- ous. Associaton organized ‘The Press some good to the traternity if its ob- ject 1s made a matter ot business as well aspleasure. It should uot be permitted to run teo much to the banquit at the expense ef busines: interests. Begin upon the right ba- sis it we hope to achieve any perma- nent good. Attention is called tc the change in the time of holding the Democrat- ic Mass Convention to nominate city efticers. “Tuesday night March 6th, nstead ot Monday the 5th. The object in making the change is on account of John Dillon appearing on March 5th and most people desire to attend the Opera that night. Mencure D. Con- | Richard A. Proctor writes | of the ‘Pyramid of Cheops’’; Prof. | Southern } maintained that the! Association Pre- me. | Missour: Press gra NEIGHBORHOOD N@TES. Rockville Gloée: R. W. Daniels ot Butler, is getting up a map of Sunday schools and churches of Bates county. Itis a good thing | ranged for the meeting of the Mis- , and should be encouraged. : souri Press Association te be held at Adrian Advertiser: The peti- Conber ay ang; as tion to incorporate has received 79 Capi trier nut crcmcn a 2 ‘7 Praver by Rev. Dr. Prosser. Following 1s the programme ar | signatures and will be placed into | Wel dd I f i i elcome address by mayor o ithe hands of Parkinson & Aber-; i zs | | Carthage. nathy, to present to the court, by _ : s Response hv President J. B. | tne middle of next week. = es ee Me : Are | Thompson. | Neosho } | SPE timer and Mechanic | Application of new members re- Fears are expressed that the | ' wheat crop has sustained injuries | Larne from treezing and thawing, though | Annual address by John A. Dil- it is believed that drilled wheat has Hon, of St. Lou:s Post-Dispatch. Annual poem by Mrs. Geo. E. Dugan, (May Myrtle) of Democrat. | sa ferred to committe on credentials. { suffered but little.”’ | Nevada Democrat: We this morning received a letter from our frend Carson, of the Joplin Herald, Recitations, uated Dec., 6, 1833. fust where! ness ard proposed this letter spent the winter we do | constitution. | not exactly know, but it 1s just poss- | wepnNespay, MAY 9: jtble that it has been down among} Report of committee on ‘the orange groves ot Florida. | tials. Address by Hon. H. Clay Dean; Neveda Maz/: The profits ot dealers at the Nevada grain exchange } subject—*tThe Press the Guardian ot Popular Liverty.’’ | trom Jan. 24 to Feb. 15, were be- tween $5,000 and $6,000, while Poem, J. A. McDonald, (Sursum) the losses were less thah $400. The | of the Richmond Conservator; sub- profits on Wednesday were $1,125. | ject—‘*Only a Newspaper Man.”’ This is certainly a good showing so Essay by Mrs. Jennie D. Bogie, far. ot the Richmond Democrat; sub- Nevada Democrat: Ft. Scott is ject—‘‘A Threnody of the Times.” waging a bitter war on the saloon Recitatiens by ladies. : | keepers, and every one engaged in Discussion Dy members of the | ae: the business there has been arrested secinuon: publetie ane Province funder the State or city laws of journalism. | Among others whe are in the toils is ————- a | J W. Burson, late proprietor of the Essay by A. a Leseuer, of the Wilder House. tn the meantime | Lexington Jntelligencer. | the saloons are running just the same Address by A. z J. Fleming, of as they are here in Nevada. Every Monday, St. Joseph, Me., subject the ‘‘Comic Phases ot Journ- busi- to miscellaneous amendments O'CLOCK. creden- j Et. Scott Herald The coal shaft alism,”’ | being sunk on W. W. Berry’s land, Election ot officers, and ‘-Love | SIX miles southwest of Moundville, Feast.’”’ is being pushed down night and day, and is nearly aowa to the big coal The point is in about the A $25 prize medal for best speci- mens of job printing, also a $15 vein. prize medal for second best speci- | centre of a quadrangle with Fort mens, will be offered, excluding | Scott, Nevada. Lamar and Girard at | large cities. the angles. A town will be laid off Adjournment. and a branch road built out from | ‘ Nevada. Another Rich Hull is in “Is It ‘rue. prospect. Harrisonville Democrat. A petition is We have noticed with gratification being circulated and numerously | the rapid strides of our sister city of signed requesting the mayor and | Butler. and have telt sometimes that city council to assess a fine ot $100] we were certainly going to be left against every saloon keeper in town | hopelessly in the rear. We admire j every 30 days, in accordance with j the pluck, go-ahead and hang on | the ordinance recently passed, and | that has characterized our neighbor | where any one so fined shall be ar- | for some time, but we make thepre- rested and fined under the State law | diction here that Butler is about to | to refund the money collected under | discover that they are a little over- the ordinace. It aiso provides that | done and that real estate in that city | where any sa’oon keeper sells to | has reached its acme. An i minors or habitual drunkards, that | city of 4,000 people to be prosper- ; he may be arrested and fined every | ous must have a good country, and ; hour,, If need be, until he is driven | a good deal ot it, tributarv tot and in natural sympathy with it, to keep Ft. Scott Monitor: inland out of the business. ; | Rich Hill Review: Judge Wat-| it going. Rich Hill 1s sapping But = ler from the south and will continne todo so. Adrian is developing a spint of enterprise and is building up quite a trade in the north, while it is expecced by many that the de- velopements of the coming summer north and and west of Butler will seriousty hem her in. Be that as it may, Butler has, think, about reached a breathing place in the way of cos‘ly improvements for the pres- 1 ers was in this city last week, on his | way north. ‘ihis company has been i re-organized, owing to the deathana | removal of some of the directors and j officials, and we are advised work i will be commenced ; but the report that tie and bridge contracts had | been let is all buncombe. There }has not yet anything substantial | been done but on survey ana mght ot we way, and the line of road has not Sees - ss a ent at least. How is it with Harris- j been permanently lecated. Several } = eae : 3 i onville? While we have been han- slight changes will be made irom | |. : dicapped for vears l-y obstructions to Sedalia | ; Lexington to Odessa, and no doubt } to Rich Hill. | It takes time to build railroads, +no substantial work will be com- j menced on this enterprise until the | pleasant zephyrs of spring shall have | taken the place of floods and frosts. | | throughout the line and} | prosperity which are now being rap- idly cleared away. we find ourseives i the only town in western Missourt, | so favorably situated, perhaps, that lis really behind the ccunty. Bates may be richer in niineral but Cass is a muchricher county agriculturally | Abilene (Texas) Reporter. Mr. | than Bates. It is conceeded we be- |T. A. Dodge, who has a ranch on! lieve that Saline has some ot the Brady creek, in McCutloch county, | mchest soil in the State, but men arrived in Abi.cne Thursday, with | who are unbiased judges claim that | seven car loadsofshort-horn Durham | Cass 1s the equal agriculturally of | stock cattle, cows, heifers and bulls | Saline and 1s not in that respect sur- }—130 head in all. These cattle, passed by any county im the state. ir. Dodge intorms us, were pro- | This county 1s rapidly developing, | nounced by parties in Fort Worth | and the compromise of our bonded 'to be the finest short-horns ever | debt will infuse new confidece in our | brought to Northwest Texas. They Sasa gem mapas. ig ene oe | come from Appleton oe Bo: and more rapid, yet teaithy growth for }are thoroughbred registered stock. | farrisonville. id i The bull, which stands at the head ; ie Beat jof Mr. D's. berd cost him, when| Durifg January 15.740 immigrants 'quite in St. Louis, while others | arrived in the United States. Of | could realize only 4 cents. The rea-| this number England and Wales son is that they had introduced | send 1,734; Ireland. 668; Germany, blooded bulls in therr herds. It is} 3,526. Tne remainder are divided i » raise inferior stock. | tralia and other countries. as easy to raise fine cattle as it | up between Scotland, Norway. Aus- | samen | How Engaged Couples Should Act. | Of all things to be avoided shoulg | be lover’s quarrels. They impair | respect and diminish love. Of cours | engagement is the period given to | two people to learn it tney can live together through the troublous scenes j of lite. Itas not alwaysa suthcient | probation, but is a wise and uecces. And here must say j that while constancy isa virtue, we sary one. we | cannot but congratulate certain loyer | wno tind out betore marriage wha so many find out afterward, that they cannot be happy together. A broken engagement is a very sad thing, par ticularly for the lady, but it 1s no half so bad as an uncongenial map. riage. While a man is pretendenthe ; May seem very agreeable to a wo | man. Even after he has made his offer and been accepted, he may be very attractive ; but the close intimacy of courtship may prove to her that she has been wholy mistaken im her own preterence Or, aman may grow out ot love and ask to be releus. ed. Under these circumstance no person ot delicacy or honor would be ailowed by his or her conscience t continue suchan engagement. Le amanor woman invoke in these crisis allthe good sense and good feeling which exist and strive to dol a lasting good at the cost of present unhappiness. A lady should, however be ex tremely guarded during her engage ment in her manners toward other men. She sheuld not correspond with them nor permit those atten tions wnich as a belle and an affianc- ed girl, were her right. She musi avnid eyen the appearace of coquet- ry. while a lover should avoid all di» play of jealousy and all airs of may tership. He isina most delicate posi- tion. He must net be unduly familiar in the family of his fiancee ; he mus testity intarest without claiming place: he must be devoted and nd tamiliar, and remember always thit he is a petitioner and on his good behavior. He is asking the lady torher liberty, her obedience, her life. Wath her itis a far more im portant concession than with him, for, if she does not make him bappy he can employ himselt with busines and with pleasure; but with her, if he does not who will?. She cannot find her happiness elsewhere than at It she seeks it elsewhere, she is lost. Nothing can be so fook ish as to leave out of the question the **matter of money,’’ even if, as we hope, itis sometimes not the only one in our practical age. A woman's money should be settled on herself, in the care of trustees, beyond the risks of business. It 1s not a way of cheating ones creditors; for if aman has no power ever his wife’s money, certainly those who do business with And men heme. him Jcan find that out. should have their lives insured be- fore marriage for the benefit of the coming wife, and this should never be allowed to elapse. Oldest Man Living. Rockville Globe: Mr. Charles Coiliher, probably the oldest mar living inthe United States, came into town one day last week from his late home at Praiare city, Bates | county, where he has lived for 16 years. Heclaimsto be 116 years old and says he has never rode on the cars in his Ife and never been | shaved by a barber until that day by | Thos. Asbury. He was then on | his way to Illinois to spend the bal- ance ot his days with his son-in-law. He was anative of Virginia, con- | versed freely, and had a powertul | looking frame, which zave e¢w- dence of a muscular man in his early days, The old gentleman | seemed to think he would last sev¥- j eral years yet. The Globe hopes | to meet him at the next centennial. { eeceenes | As train robbers have turned up it | the state of New York, notwith- } standing Jesse James is in his grave | and Frank in jail, this latest devel- ! opment of the sort of thing, that was | invariably put to the credit of the | James boys a few years ago, must | be charged to the account of Jesse's | ghost. Disembodied spirsts are | popularly believed to do a great many things every bit as strange 4 rowbery.—[Mo. Republican. had