The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 16, 1884, Page 4

LER WEEKLY TIMES 7 . ry BUT MeFarta Chas. T. _Uviros ASD Propritton.. iERMS OF SUPSCRIPTION: fhe Weety Times, publi Wednesday, will be sent to one vear, postage paid, tor 31.25. ned every —_———— ——— BUTLER MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16, 1854. —————— SPECIAL NOTICE. Thos. & McFarland now the Times the repre- sents on outside. col ad He is duly authorized to make lections. negotiate contracts for and ther purposes. eceive subscription. The men and the public will please note his fact thereby facilitating our busi- ertising > relations. OONSIDERABLY OFF. The following is clipped from the Plaindealer published aL Sparta, Illinois: “Mr. C. J. Denms, who moved from Steelville to Bates county, Mo. several months ago, writes us a let- ter describing the beauties of that country. He says: ‘It is the most over-estimated country Iever saw. There are hundreds of farms to rent and more to sell. Ihave not found aman, who is willing to risk the crop raised on the farm for the rent. ‘Alfwant cash trom $2 50 to $3 50 per acre. Half the tarmers have raised this year will not pay their rent. There are hundreds of men here with their families and teams, who will be entirely destitute by spring, as there are twenty men and teams here for every day’s work. I can’t see what will become of them, if they stay here. I wish you to put this ia the paper for the benefit of ether men to keep them from coming here, as it is not a poor man’s coun- try.” Mr. Dennis says he will be back home this week and will re- main at Steelville the rest of the win- ter. Now this is a very discoaraging yeport to have go abroad of our county. If it was true, then, there would be no fault to find with 1tand the stupid fellow that wrote :t. Mr. Dennis came to Bates county expecting to find the people of the jong hair kind. He, also. looked tor greenbacks on the forest and sif@et dollars’ in’ the thoroughtare. He ‘lad no and what was worse was not terprising citizen. He did'nt to work, thought was offered him, ot tus trees, public money an en- want but choose to follow the bent inclination and grumbled at every- thing around and: abot lim. Fin- ally he concluded this was no place md he picks up his traps and returns to his whife’s peo- ple. Briefly, but emphatically, we pro- nounce alt Mr. Dennis saul as a pal- pable’ misrepresentation, the natural outcropping ot an indolent, thriftless mind, and a heart chuck tull of gall and prejudice: Bates county don’t want such additions to its popula- tion, ‘These words are spoken ad- visedly; reliable men who knew Mr. Dennis well, being our authority. for a drone, “OUR MARTYRED PRESIDENTS.” The lecture of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, atthe Opera house, Thurs- | day evening, was at least equal to the expectation. if, indeed, it did not prove to be more entertaining to the intelligent listener. **Our Martyred Presidents”’ is a subject in the field | ef thought and historical | cence as vast in extent as it is import: | ant incharacter. The audience may | have been a little disappointed at not | bearing more of Garfletd, put the | omission—if it may be termed such -did not detract from the interesting j teature of the lecture, for the period of Lincoln's reign embraced features tar more important, hence more eag- erly songht to be understood by the public, than did the tew months Gar- field occupied the White House. As favorable as Mr. Colfax paints remtaise | | manner of illustrating t ny c duress | greatuess than by such | dience is ¢ and | business | ie | lished j eral” ; to be in o | Butler. the portrait of Lincoln, neither the ontlines nor the inward life and char- acter of the man is overdrawn. When | the speaker said ‘Lincoln was the best triend the South had at the! North,"* he uttered a truth that has never needed any argument to dem. onstrate. Well does the writer re- member while yet a mere child hear- ing his mother repeat in substance | the sume language. and she repre | | sented the extreme type of Southern , character. n well the sident Lin- The lecturer bad chose coln’scharacter. It was by annec- 1 10re dote, and there more his Not him comprehensive awit made nt attribute that his genius great, butit wasa promine ot the man, andto arrive até , a derstanding © charac w all the p they essary to kn ate the inclination of or indica the mind and heart in no st able degree. Mr. Coltax’s attitude before an au- Tho inouri unmistak- isv and gra not by any means an o terpretation, he is avery cntertair speaker. impression umyersally tavorable. He is complete master of his subject be- cause of his intimate association with the characters and times he so vivid- ly delineates. The public schools of the city are becoming so crowded that the School Board have began to comsider the propriety of either renting additional room or erecting a building. The latter, we (uink, would be most advisable if it can be accomplished. The cause of education should not pe allowed to lag for want of suf- ficient room. If anew building is built tor pitty sake let it be an im- provement on the present structures. Give us a building that will be some credit to the town. new The Democrats have already com- menced stoning their prophets. Inthe Demecratic caucus of the Ohio legis- lature on Tuesday last, H. B. Payne Was nominated tor Senator over Sen: tor Pendleton. Payne is a millionair and is supposed to be largely under corporation influence. The pros- pect is that the Democracy will soon be fully supphed with bonanza bosses——La Platte //ome Press. We hope the result will not be so bad as our thoughitul and consider- ate contemporary appre but the action ot the Ohio Democrats in laying Pendleton on the shelt gives ends, room for rather gloomy forebodings, we admit. Down in Barton county, on the line of the new Kansas City & Mem= phis, 1s situated a little town called Liberal. name signifies the kind of people who inhabit There v pub- “Lib- Accompanying a piot of the newspaper there called the He is plain and home-like | in dress and mannets. and leaves an |‘ we think our Corresponding Secre' : ry. Mr. Couper, has already arrang- ed for a trip over the new route to Memphis and thence to Florida. colored. ri to diseri hop Turner. hy borse and retuses forted because of th made against bis people by pubiican party. In Ge tVS: would he not suci ions against make the negroes made in this country.” gemin’ can tell more about that atter ‘he gets there. Poor old He frat nothing else but that j other snipe, would article on the Confederacy. | If you had not bave done svi |! have been a sad disappointment to | lraw out necessitated | our ainbition to criticism, and would have surely another more labored effort accomplishing our purpose. toward | The Rockville Glode intimates that unless the business men oi that place come torward and contract or guarantee so much support for the ensuing year, it will decamp for other fields. The best ard surest way to get support for a newspaper ds to merit it. If the G/ode has done this—and we think it has—it will not perish whether the merchants sign annual contracts or not. Elsewhere in te-days Times ap- pears the prospectus of the Kansas City Zimes tor 1854. The Zimesis a wonder in the progress of journal- ism. Few papers on the continent surpass it for news, and the inde- pendence of its editorial thought and expression is its must prominent tea- ture. For a newsy and reliable per the public need the Kansas City 77mes none better than A negro minstrel troupe or **Un- j cle Tom’s Cabin’ will draw a $400 audience at Walton’s Opera house, while an President of the United States reaps about one third ithatamount. Is this a proper test by which to esamate the intelligence jana literary taste of our people ? ex-Vice ae | The people ir the vicinity where | Evia Bond lives and wasoutraged, | have organized a society for the pro- | tection of temules. The suppression | ot crime is the most important ques- | tion of the century. town published iu its last issue, this | Paper sa “This is the town of Liberal. where the people are prosperous, happy and pure, | without a God, Devil, Hell. preach- | It to er, priest. chureh saloon.”* this is a recommendation we fail see the pint. or “We would suggest to the Butler | press that they let up on railroad building and try their hand on jail building, an institution that seems vastly more needed in Bates county just now than another railroad. The suggestion is made ii all kindness, gentlemen, and with no desire to Provoke your wrath."’—Nevada Democrat. True to the letter brother Crock- ett; but please erase the Times from | the list of those who z in bolstering up busted railroad schem- re engaged ers until some proof of their reliabil- Itvisgiven. The Totes for a new jail just now. stands in “Rich Hill will hold an election to | levy a tax for the purpose of build ing a jail. 12 1-2 cents on the one hundred dollars is to be the Lsvy."" Appleton Forvrna/. Oh no, triend Hilton. Rich Is NOt A County seat nor dont Hill eNpect r lite time, hence has There is a tion before the Bates County Conrt to order an election to vote upon no need ot a jail. preposi- a $10,000 levy to build anew jal at Rich Hill being Bates county has submitted a petition to the Court asking that the election be called. mn —________ Brother Mace of the Clinton 4d- vocate asks why the Missouri Association cant take an excur to Washington Territory and ali- itornia over the Northern Pacitic railroad, next spring. There could be no objection to such aj for it would be a dehghtfal i Press 0! Godless | EG Vice | and Secretary of the Sedalia Glessner, Demo- | erat company, has taken editorial | charge of the paper. We hope to see the Democrat continue to per under Mr. Glessner’s leadership. | NELGHBORHOOD NOTES. 1 Ver tles Gazette: St. Louis | making an effort to secure the Democratic National Convention. She ought to have. It is the most | approiate city m the Union in which to renominate Tilden and Hendricks. A. learn had his upper lip bitten off by a | horse at Waveriy last Sunday. He | was teazingthe annnal by siptting when it suddenly reached over pros- is next Lexington | man whose name we did Intelligencer: not | atat, ; and bit bis entire upper lip off. clean | to the bone. Oceola Sev: Hon. William J. j Stone ana Jno. W. Abernathy will the Democratic | nomination tor Congress im this Con be candidates for | gressionul distriet. | men of great promise and cither of ‘them wouta make an excellent Rep- resentative. Clinton Democrat: The Osceola Sun says Hon. Wm. J. Stone of Vernon, and Abernathy Bate ¢ in the field tor Congress, This is a generous supply of good rial. and capabic. John ot ma Both gentlemen are able Clinton Advocate: The ment just issued by the Tre AY Department shows the of | distilleries in opperation in the State of Missour: as thirteen against seven jatthe same date last year The manufacture 14,500 9 gallons. against 12,500 one year ago. Boliver Herald: Last Satirda morning burglars blow open the safe state number is ’ Perhaps the distinguished | President } Both are young , of Wm. Howard treasurer of Hic ory county, at Hermitage, and got S } sh, away with $1*500 or and a numberot checks. There was ! about $8.coo in ' Clinton Memocrat: sed . With less than 20.000, has a population of saloon ' ' pay- thirty-four 2onsS—or one to every 600 i u Fan x license of $7 | $4,080, beside the a Ezpress. The sources total | the Springtield business trom all of jcounty treasury the past year as ould | Since vember 3 trom this place to St. Louis via the ’Frisco line. one hundred car loads of fat stock, consistiug of 300 cattle. goo sheep, 45875 hogs, nearly all of which were ship- ped by Messrs, M. V. Ingram and E. L. Weaver. Choton Adszocate: We wonder how many people who handie _ hor- ses ever thinks to the bridal bits before putting them into the horse’s mouth this cold weather. If all who fail to do so will just touch their tongues tothe cold iron that they so thoughtlessly put into the warm mouths of their horses they may realize more fully the useless pain they inflict every time they do it. Dont be ‘‘cruel.’’ Nevada Mar/: of Nevada, who the stock business, trouble to count. over and warm citizens ested in the Several ure inter have te accurately cattle bemg ted for market in Vernon cour- tv. The total over 20,000 and tepresents at least a value of one and a quarter million dollars. ‘I'he hogs which are being fed with them are by rough estimate worth $300,000. Within the past few weeks, ship- been comparatively n as as possible the number of now is ments have large. A colored a Appleton Yournal: amateur dramatic company gave at Waltons Opera The play | went off smoothly untill one of the pertormance House Butler last week. sactor’’? was colare! by his Liza Jane : of Up in the gallery the youthful coons nd yanked off the stage. j Were having a picnic in more ways Finally the order to keep peace, were compell- but. still impersonators until the | than one. officers in ed to make several arrests, the Shakespearen kept the ball in closing in of the last scene. Springfield Zexpress: the circuit court last Saturday forenoon, Jim Cook,the cruel wretch who on the r9th of November brutally mur- dered his wite at the house of Frank Stepp, tree miles northwestof Cave Spring, entereda plea of murder in the second degree, and Judge Gei- ger very lemently sentenced him to | ninety-five yaers in the penitentiary. | Thus 1t would appear that. no mat- ter how diabolical a crime a cold- blooded scoundrel may in this section, there is no particular motion commit danger of him being legally hung. ElDorado Uncles Sam: Last Wednesday afternoon was the scene | R. G.| Maia | Bill Reynolds is engaged in | digging or blasting @ cistern for Mr. excitement house at south | ot quite an Burcham’s | Street. on Barcham at the northeast cornor of | journment, ai M pped |. 72 | cow noon off whizzing | his dwelling. At about ora | little after a biast was i two large rock we } up in the air and came down throughs the root of the house, only stopping when they reached the second story floor. The holes made in the roof | were large cnough foi |sized person to creep. through. | Nobody hurt and other | senous damage other than what is set and | sent an ordinary was no | ; above mentioned. Bucklen’s Arnica Saive. The greatest medical wonder ot the | world. Warranted to speedily cure Burns | Bruises, Cuts, Ulccrs Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Vancers, Piles, Chilblains, Corns, ' Teter, Chapped Hands, and ai! skin eru tions, guaranteed cure it i | Stance, or monev retuuded. Prive | per box, Forsale by F. M.C j Am’t. THE COUNTY COURT. HIP FU Amt. a + received. Ful! ‘Proceeds of a Five Days Ses- sion Last Week. $ p20, SPECIAL KAILROAD FUND. $ 2,08: ms JUDGES, CLERK AND it RY FUND, IE COUNTY'S FINANCES Anit. received, S tga 73 Amt. received, DAY. Tie Honor: County Bates county, met purs January court Ale Bal. on hand. Court of mnt to ad - 1884. All © present, 1 sheriff SALARY + reevived, rants canceled, members w uiso d Hanks An error of in the assessment list of G. F. Riffle, for 1d2 D ou hand, VAUPER AND INSANI Amt. Received, Warrants canceled, three hundred dollars was ordered corrected. issued to | wthe term) Bal. on hand, licens, 2 Curry, of Adri six months. chool toans shop STATE REVENUK - FUND, $4 FUND, $38 FUND, $ 5,198 rt 31922 $ 1,276 FUND, $ 459 99 $ 3595 WARRANTS ISSUED, The tollowing accounts wereg®, lowed and warrants ordered issay in payment of same: : M. Duvall transporting in- sane Kansas City. $ 3x T. W. Childs m’ds poor farm 11 R. j. Starke? fees, 3179 Wiseman & McGill, printing, 5 & Levy & Co. blanket for pauper ie M Duvall care of pauper 5 ay D T Braden, assessing, H Dr OF Renick at’dng pauper 30 0 S P Francisco, salary, 200 0 C B Lewss, livery hire, ay Newton & Smith, building house on poor tarm, 444 Repairing Bells mill bridge. 125 « Fulton lunatic asylum, 201% N A Wade, printing. » G F Riffle, coai tor county, yg Geo D Barnard books and sta 9 § OD Austin, printing, 34 ‘* stamps, 5o The following township assessor presented their accounts as tollows, one halt of which was paid byte county, the remaining half tobe pai by the State. J L Shaw, Mingo twp $59 & A B Wilkins, Howard, 129 & E T McKin, Rockville. 80g Jonathan Todd, West Boone 53 A G Walley, West Point,” 94 S T Brown, Elkhart, & dam West, Walnnat, ‘ P A Zeal, Prairie, , 1 J. FE. Rice & son’s, books $14 e made to W. A. vot one fhousand | . Corbin in the sum of Morrison in zAmt. on hand, $53 COURT HOUSi | Amto | Amt. Received, Warrants canceled, V hand, secur- ind all COMMON SCitOo! estate pers: 1 An error inthe assessment list of G. Manly. by the court. SECOND DAy. PALO LACHER SCS HOCRORN) a1 Gun mNE, WITN Amt. received, coding a ‘+ paid out, David Laskey, appeared signee of S. C. Edwards. and proy- edto the satisfaction of the court that he had paid all the purchase mouey on certain land belonging to said Edwards, upon which the court ordered the clerk to make « deed to said land in favor of David Laskey. An error in the assessment list ot W. W. Chandler was ordered cor- rected by the court. Ordered that R. S. Catron, county treasurer. have a credit for certain warrants canceled upon the various funds. In the matter of the road case peal from Homer township, the court reversed the decision of the Board and ordered said road not va- cated. Bal. on hand, ap- THIRD DAY. Repairing bridge near Noah Ny. harts, in New Home township $60. C R Wolfe, chairman of town- ship board of Osage township, pre- sented a certificate to the cffect that the new iron bridge over the Maris DesCygnes river, in said township was completed and accepted by the proper authorities, therefore, the court ordered a warrants to the amount ot $4,300 issued for the work. R. J. Starke, county clerk, made settlement with the court for the year ending December grst, 1883, and was by the court ordered to pay $310 into county tr asury as over plus of fees. FOURTH DAY. J. P. Pierson proved to the satis j bo faction of the court tht an erroneous | C. Tl McFarland, printing, assessment had been made on cer | Allen & Hulett, attendance tam land of bis, upon whieh the | | pauper. court ordered same corrected. i TR Jenkins, eriminal costs. 1 Allien ‘Wright, presented his bill W F Hanks, coal for county 4 for acting as coroner over the dead | Jesse Romine, keeping pau- body of Marion Cheatem. aud the} per t same was certified up to county | P J Jewett. coffin for paup- 6 w treasurer. icp a + supplies for jail « 3 9% The official bond of Sam Beall,as | WF Hanks. board for Q Collector ot Osage township, ap- | prisoners, 38 proved. [AL McBride. mdse. court house FMCrumly & Co. 1 R Jenkins, tees Mrs Patton keeping paup.. Mrs. Mary C. Hall, coal for poor farm, W F Hanks, Salary, RS Catron, 1 qr. salary R J Starke, fees, filing assmt. list. stamps and Ex. work on vault. Carns & Hall, coal for farin E K Carns, transp pauper, R S Catron. fees, | J A Lefker, transp. pauper, A Ritchey, Salary as Judge. A Neptune, ** e | J A Lefker, | M L Wolfe, Bridge Com. ** Mine Inspector fees 12 © W F Hanks Salary, 10 Oo, Contract for cleaning privy vault Treasure, | #Warded to W. W. Ross for $35 0: the county | The tollowing are the yororsdraw# | by the court: GRAND JURY. L H Argenbright Thos Courtnes ] H Shackelford i R Livingstow | P Hill Wa Bard | Wa» Jennings CB Davie |AG Ellege J A Ford V Campbell JIN Bradley. PETTY JURORS. A Hamilton John Mathers W J White H F Withite A B Robins AS Rosier SW Fry JH Elackett 2d Tones D) Mc Com) Chas Teeter John B Newher'’ Gass | TW Cuppy JIC Crosen $ 6.936 OF) A BCrawtord Richard Webb 197 OF! A Johnsen H Bodkin & & a oe | LH Stephens = J A Dillon $ 6.198 07 | A Te ecy AW Morrison ries Levi Moler ” F M Burrows $ 1.82 604 &| on hand, $ 1.223 09 DISTRICT ROAD FUND. oe SS HSS Seer + a S Riuk a es RECORDERS J R. ypson, Recorder. snb- mitted his report for 1853 as tollows: Total amt. received $4,951 25 Deputy hire 1,080 00 The Presuk of the Insaue } Asylum at St. Joc. having notified the court that Ephriam Elledge, now in said asylum, is not a fitsubject to be retained there, the court ordered * the Shenff to go atter sand person and return him to his trends in this | county. J. R. Jenkins made report with the court. REPORT 13 © 72 102 44 56 47 #8 17% 5% 5 42 85 his annual FIFTH An additional $5.00 dollars was Bell’s Mili bridgg. Contract to build cistern on farm awarded to W. W. Ross. DAY. appropriation of made to repair ov os a poor | se TREASURERS R.S. Catron, made his) report as follows: The total amvunt of revenue ceived during the year 1853. 1s $24, 345-97-- apportioned into the follow- ing tunds: REPORT, County with re CONTINGENT FUND, Bal. on hand Oct. 3. '83. $ 1.210 67 7 received since, Total amt. in Treasury, $ ; Total ant. warrants can- celed, Bal. on hand. HOOL, FUND. Ant. received. “* paid out, Bal. on hand. BRIDGE Amt. received. ‘ . . “paid out. Money ‘To Loan. At& percenton real estate time and terins to suit borrowem Sb | of titles furni-hed. J. M. Tucker & Oe 3 988 65° Butler Mo. pi Bal. » received