The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 9, 1884, Page 2

Bates County Mining. St. Louis Republican. Mining Inspector Wolfe. of Bates | County, in a report to the Commis- stoner of Labor Statistics of Missou ‘BUTLER NATIONAL BANK, —iIn—l ri, gives an encouraging picture of ) the condition of coal miming in’ that Hlouse Block, favored county. In his last annual ; Oper: report he estimated the area of work- BUTLER, MO. lable coal lands inthe county at 95, as | ooo acres. nee then somany fregh | discoveries have been made and so Authorized Capital, $200,000 inatly new mines.epened, as to war- 50,000 | rant him in doubling the estimate, | Cash Capital / 1,000 | There are now 250 mines worked _ in } Surplus Fund ; : fi en the county. an increase of 55 in’ the | < F last year; the amount of capital in- eenorirae Wes ge eae vested is $1,000,000, and the num- rw C ber of men employed in them 1s The Rich Hill Mining Co., in 157- 57 the oldest and largest company DIRECTORS frenzy. It occurred in Mississipp1, and was therefore spoken of as a murderous attack of whites upon blacks. Here was an opportunity, however, for the Yazoo whice theu passionately threw away. If they had left the law to i course. as the tamulies of the siaug tne people, take its tered men smplored them to do, truth of the affair would have their vindication and a ret rising howl tor another shirt’? campaiga in 1554. ing acted as many a Northern com munity has done under ke = circum- stances, and forty or fifty enraged into been j eh] blood But hav- white men having broken and hung four negroes, they will not hear the last of it nor cease to hear hes about it till the next Presidential election is over. Thé weakness and ot the woes the business, ship 150 car-loads of coal per day, and are gradually in- creasing their They own 2,500 acres of mining land and employ 850 men, The miners are paid 3 cents a bushel for mining, and is said some of them earn $120 a month. The veins are four to six teet thick, and in most cases the roof- ing is hard slate. The coal is of fine quality,nearly tree from slate and sulphur, and is held in high esteem by the railroad companies in the West and by the factories in| Kansas City. One thing is a little surpris- mg. This coalis sold in Kansas City for 16 to 22 cents a bushel, al- though the cost of mining and deliv- ering it on cars is only 5 cents, with The fact Booker Powell, Green W, Walton, Dr. N, L, Whipple, T, W, Childs, A, H, Hump! rey, Wo, E, Walton, Dr. T. ©. Boulware, operations. R, D. Williams. Judge J. H. Sullens, A. L, McBride, q C, H, Dutche.* i Frank Vouis, OTHER STOCK HOLDERS: § G, B, Hickman, C, C. Duke, John Deerwester, O. Spencer, R. Gentry West, J, R, Estill, John B. Ellis, N. Hines, i S, Q, Dutcher, J, 1, McKee, Henry Donovan, J- Rue Jenkins. Receives Deposits payabie on demand Loans money bnys and sells exchange and does a general Banking business. BATES COUNTY National Bank. 6 cents more for carriage. that only one man in this company’s BUTLER, MO | | i ORGANIZED IN 1871 mines was crippled during the year, iH aia - and he by a premature blast, speaks ‘| aad well for the general management ot the business. Laborers are paid $1 50a day and teams $3 a day. The inspector savs the quality of coal in the new Walnut district is un- surpassed in any section west of the | Capital paid in, - - $ 75.000. Surplus -' - - = $20.000 i Large Vault, B urglar-Proof 4 Mississippi. The veins average four Safe with Time Lock feet in thickness and the coal sells in We are prepared do a general bank- bs ae fog 8! cents 8 oH Good paper alw: in higher than other coal. There is ing business. demand. Buy and sell exchange, enough workable coal in the county receive deposits Xc., Kc. +r i to supply the Western and Northern DIRECTORS. demand tor ages, and the only diffi- culty at present is the lack of trans- Lewis Cheney, ti C. Clark, To Dr. Elliot Pyle n. J B. Newberry { portation—and this will be shortly f E. P. Henry I. N. Mains. ae a sales ee, Ne eos i: De eariagher: TP. diva de, overcome when the railroad exten if W. J. Bard, sions to the county shall have been J. M. Patty, a eae ; | Geol $V. Miers, Hijo lerinn Sraith. completed. With the mines work- F. J. Tygard. ed to their full capacity they would | employ 10,000 men and turn out OFFICERS. 1,000 car-loads a day. - President: - Vice President. Cashier. The Yazoo Tragedy. Post Dispaten. r ARK © = | “LRGNGARD- - - THE HORNS Negroes have but recently been executed by mobs in Lawrence, Kansas, famous tor its bigoted ad- herence to the Republican The pride of that community was its record for freedom-shrieking and _ its s‘man and brother’’ theories. The negroes were few and the whites many there. No struggle for politi- cal ascendency had embitered teuds hable to produce collisions between the Yet within a groes have been hung by mons there as in other Republican communities, and while nobody was punished for party. races. year ne- it the negroes we > not strong enough to avenge it, or even to make a_ fuss about it. And no Republican or- es peer gans made a fuss about it tor them, Grocery House because such outbreaks in such a lo- OF cality cannot be twisted into a shape that will fire the heart of the North A yyy against the South, or revive the lan- guishing fierceness of party passion. sp inher Geis Javelin: dao, lace But it is time that Southern com- . munities had learned th different aad onthe Kast side of- tne rule apphes to them. massa- uare, are Jeading the cre of three white men and the fatal wounding of one or two om n j Yazoo City on Christmas e by what appeared to be a premeditated | attack from a body ot armed negroes occupying a butcher shop was imme- diately seized upon as an occasion GROCERY TRADE IN BUTLER. ag < 1S composed of Feed Flour ‘and the best quality of Staple and hancy Grocerte Glass, Queensware a Cutlery, for a new bloody shirt how! from the Republican organs, and the Globe- Democrat announced it thus: i | editorially THE: ARE At LEss EXPENSE The usual Christmas nigger killing i Thav anv house tn tne city, anp a a COUN Ruse j pearefene do not fear competition Turkeys are scarce down there this | fi jey pay liberal prices for Produc > : s | ; ‘Sate brie e e. | vear, and the boys must have } 4 They solicit acontinuance of the pat. : Beene { 4 | tun.—-It made no difference that the t that ge had been committed by Yazoo City which woutd people of ' any Kansas town of the same size to ‘ ¢ of their many customers, and ladly attend to their wishes at i boot was on the other lee, a: anv and all times. ie - an outr } Goods delivered in the city bhm— } vromptty. Chas. negroe have aroused the w Denney. man of Butler who never does anything by halves, has purchased an clegant New | Buticr Mo. Bus and will run it to and from the depot i tor all trains. ble, the Laclede hotel ro Wright & Glo- tious’ will receive prompt attention. 52-tt Ireland and her utter inability to ob tain a fair hearing from her English tulers are directly traceable to the fireside war of raco and religion that has been kept up for centuries be- tween her Orangemen and the rest of her population. We have seen outbreaks of this war in where there is no occasion or excuse tor it, and only the other day the Yazoo City tragedy was eclipsed by an Irish battle at Harbor Grace, in the British-American provinces, in which ten men lost their lives. An eternal race teud at the South like this is what the Republican party re- lies on for its salvation and tor the perpetuation of 1ts power, and every Southern man or community that, under any provocation, or permits an affair hke that lynching is aiding the politi mies of the South, multiplying the seeds of future trouble in her soil and lending strength to a bad element in the politics of the whole country. our cities, engages in Yazoo al ene- A School Girl as a Bride From the Newark news A divorce just granted by Chan- cellor Runyon has disclosed a very singular courtship Thirteen years ago the plaintiff in the suit, Mr Emma Chadwick, was a school girl of 14 years of age in this city. She was quite a and marriage. belle uke to the | MEN OF NOTE. Senator Logan’s stocking held bottle of hair dye and an English grammar. a | Oscar Wilde, havi Iwi ivolume of verse vd s | eoing on the stag | _ Pere king ve recentl | ! willingly sav of him what J il jsaid of Wickliff I wish to have taught all that you have. but I wish that my soul were whee. yours is.’’ The Boston Transcript cannot | lieve that Oscar Wilde has so uw forgotten himself as to love anor President Arthur gas ter Neihe a handsome mond ear-ri and a S150 ¢ i Ins son for Christmas pre M. Gldrini, the Italian Socralist, who cut a figure in Paris as the edi- or of the Saint Public arrived yester- day at New York, there to settle a merchant. { as George William Curtis is describ- ed as a tall man with stooping shoul- caused, no | NEW HLEV ATOR WE ARE IN THE it GHAIN: MARKET, Alive and kicking. Best facilities for handling Corn in Bates County. DUMPS easyand safe, only 5 feet high. We carry our corn up by machinery, cay empty aload of corn No danger to team or wagon, Highest market price cash up no grumbling, Honest weights. Try yy once. Wehave regenerated the Grain Market of Butler, and have been worth thousands of dollars to the farmersof Bates county. In addition to corn we handle ail other kinds of Grain. LEFKER & CHILDS, in two minutes, om ESTABLISHED 1870. ders. The stoop was doubt, by his efforts to hold up the | civil service retorm movement, The Rev. Dr. Gilbert: De La Ma- tyr, ex-Congressman, who recently became pastor of a church in Den | sur- | ver, Col., 1s in the hands of the geons tor the treatment of a serious affliction. Thomas Nast, as the Boston Tran- script learns, still **sends his sketch- es to the Harper’s every week and they are pigeon-holed by Mr. Curtis, while the Harpers pay under contract $10,000 « year for lite.’’ M. Rochefoert’s son recently from him Henti. who came home the Brazza expedition to the Congo, has He was sev- with had enough of Africa. eral times nearly dead and lost all his hair. fever, Alexander Sulivan, of Ghicago, now has a very large legal practice, which is said te be worth $25,000 «| Before he was elected Presi- DE | BENNETT WHEELER &(0 DeEALrus 1 ANC GROCERIES Hrapavarters ror THE CELEBRATED Cortland Spring Wagon and Top Bueeies, The Mitchell Racine Farm Wagon Hapgood Light DraftSulky Plow, Haish close barb Steel Fence Wire. HARDWARE { among her compamons and her ad- ene the Irish-National Union his| ?rices Guaranteed to be Satisfactory. mirers were numerous. As — she | briefs used toe marked with very | NORTHEAST CORNER SQUARE, - BUTLER, MU. was on her way to school one day | giyall figures, but now he is as ry Pe she met Wilham H. Chadwick and pendent in his conduct and as. siren- | aie | he was immediately attracted by her viv pretty face and acious manner, he was a widower of 26 years did not move in the same and of young circle society as the family of the girl but he lost no time in being troduced to her. Tle met quently and betore he had her long became greatly enamored in- her fre- known of hea and her affections turned. The learned of the strange courtship and immediately took measures to put a quietous upon it, but efforts were of no avail and they were final- ly compelled to send the girl away. She did not away trom Newark long, however, and when again met Chad- On Dec. 2, 1871, they re Weed. The young bride left her home and and friends and went to with The honeymoon and were 1¢+ young girl’s family their remain she returned she wick. married by Rev. Benjamin live husband. three we left for married lite lasted but Then Chadwick unknown. suddenly The almost heartbroken, returned to parts young girl, her triends. Mrs: C that her husband was living in open Recently Iwick heard ice with a women, she uedi- ately secured the services of Michael T. Barret and obtained a divorce 12 Tum best cure for diseases of the nerves, brain, and muscles, is Brown’s Iron Bitters. Manton, Mass.—Dr. N.S. Rugzles says: “I recommend Brown's Iron Bitters a3 a valued tonic for enriching the blood and ioving alldyzpeptic symptoms. It does ious tor a fee as any practioner in the West. Tennyson is a little less than’ monomaniac onthe subject He is full to ot his professional self, and most of | of his} overflowing | writings. BI his speech bears on his intellectual | Even Wordsworth, a rabid | and impressible egotist, whom Ten-| labors. nyson succeeded fas poet laureate, was not much, if any. worse. | that the} the | A. dispatch tatherof M. deceased French statesman, has just | To mill- | the first | indication that Gambetta pere is still in the flesh. He must be at) least 80 years of age. He his housekeeper, asiunple girl of announces Leon Gambetta, taken unto himselt a wife. ions of readers this will be married mers. The late Representative Haskell is thought by those who knew tim well to have hastened his death by thie Ulis ambition was of He had the overwork. spurring sort. for persistent, untiring, unyielding He had rot other the average; yet by d work. and digging he had in six yea He was amt Ilou four months last year Haskell to the front rank. to be Speaker of the only Sve hours a day in slee p74 rest he gave to bis work. Blessing t all Mankind. 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