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The Times would modestly direct the attention of its readers to the portraits and biographicai sketches of public men being printed regular- DN aaa county journalism, thy degenerated BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES | oo aan i oaner { 188 Dear blessed mother of Bates thas. T. MeFanand. : + 1 spirit and blunted imagination should have named some other date to. con- euton: awn <PROTRie res - _lvict. The Times editorial entitled ly in its columns. This interesting TERMS OF SUPSCRIPTION: Ie. A Tale of the Contederacy.’’ was feature of 38, pare: a a Le ae | written at Nevada on Sunday. Dec. trom all others in the coun’ ys is ad The Weery Times, published every | 4.04 1883 while on a visit totriends ded at no little expense. but the Wednesday, will be sent to any <daress 2s; 3 ST pcasea = eit’ “ aplininn pei" stage paid, tor $1.25. there, just six days before its counter i awspe ar andthe advancement in newspapers. and the syne vear, i > : ——————— ee | part appeared in pr t i At- ae ns = : : oe BUTLER MISSOURI. | Janta telegraph bureau. Times will stand first or not at all. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23, 1834. We do not know the thief who | We believe the public appreciates | ——_—_—<——— | burglarized our office or columns, our enterprise, and in the end we nig ae c “ay ee eres CaPT. F.J. TYGARD. and stole trom us our “tale’’ of the | will profit thereby. Published elsewhere in to-days | dead Confederacy. and transported : . FETs Senator H. B. Cresap ot Vernon it away down in Georgia to be pub- lished, but we kinc uspect our venerable protege down on North Main with being imp!icated in’ the crime. IME oY -ditorial no- - Tates are a number of ed : county, has published a card dechn Pe ee Doe ing to be a candidate tor Lieutenant Our much respected newspapers in the State, relative to venerable — friend. Governor. | and honored | more concerned in the care of his therds and the affairs around ‘plantation , justnow, than he is im the candidacy of our worthy tellow fe townsman, Capt. F. J. Tygard, for the office of State Treasurer. BUTLE&'S POOR. On behalt of the Democracy ot Christian people, irrespective of | politics. But. Mr. Cresap would Bates county, the Times appreciates | denomination: Mothers, | i aughte i | make an admirable President ot the | this favorable mention. but in justice | —all a have a sete : h e ott i Gedate: just as he 1s making an ad- to Capt. Tygard it must be said that a sin Casale CE REASODT Char: | micablesSeuator. ity demands it. E ye: cd himself. = 2 ‘ pee nmeera Te wintry ~The Times publishes in another ot SA AE NES GIO er may have caused you, who | column the portrait ot Senator War- Capt. Tygardis a gentleman who | are in cosy cotages, to shiver, but | ner Miller, of New York, together has large business transactions on his | alas you know not what it is to suf- | with a brief sketch of his hfe. It hands, and is, therefore, undecided] ter. Around about this Electric j will be remembered that Senator as to whether he can disolve him- | lighted city of ours are more fair! yfilter, was interested in certain rail- self from that business and devote | WOME? me bright-eyed children, ; road work in this county last sum- 2 without raiment to protect their per- mer, and was at one time in Sutler ae eng fed afipation nevesenty i aca fromthe cold, without bread to | jy company with Goy. Foster, Gen. the conduct of a closely contested | keep the wolf of starvation from the Keiter, and others. race tor the nomination. At all] door, orfuel to prevent the frost — - events his business affairs, at pres-| from benumbing their Ihmbs, than} The Versailles Gazette is out for most of you are aware of. | Hon. Thomas P. Bashaw tor Gover- Let not, therefore, a 3ingie day, or; nor. In an able editorial eulogistic hour cither, pass over your head un-/j ot its choice the Gazctte remarks til, in conjunction with the Times, H that, “like Webster, Bashaw would you inaugurate a move to relieve the | rather be right than be President.”” distressed of our city. There 1s an} We dontdoubt the application ot abundance of charity in Butler for {the sentiment, but was it not uttered all the poor. All thatis needed is | by Henry Clay instead of Webster. for somebody to callit out. Thela-} ~ - dies of Butler—God bless them for; The bloody shirt journals of the the work—are noted for their charit- | North can now commence. Another able hearts and deeds. To them we | outrage has been perpetrated down appeal. To them the worthy poor; South. The Bourbon Legislature of the city looks tor releaf, hope’s | of Mississippi has elected a negro for lite! : Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate. | This is unpardonable, and is suf- Another howl has gone up trom | ficient cause tor attack all along the the enemies of the Administration. | line. H. Martin ‘Wilhams has said that | Governor Crittenden rides over the | ent, are of such pressing importance that he can not think of entering the campaign so far in advance ct the convention. To say that Capt. Tygard has been urged by, not only his fellow citizens at home, but by those in oth- er parts of the State as well, to be- come a candidate, is not subjecting ourselyes, intruth, to any arraign- ment tor indulging im stereotype phrases. Should Capt. Tygard finally con- clude to enter the race—and we are not without beliet that he will—there will still be ample time for a canvass - — Col. Johr F. Phillips is for the such as he will make; forhe 1s not one of those who does things by railroads on a free pass. Taking | old ticket."’ In a recent interview halves this as its cue the Sedalia Democrat | with a Sedalia Democrat represen- rises to say: ‘The man occupying | tative he says: ‘Tilden would THE STORY OF A TALE. — <n i — — sweep the country and achiev ¢ for Poor old Butler Times. We the Governor) has shown himsel!t | the Democracy the grandest political hoped, but hardly expected it would conspicuously lacking in ail those victory that has been witnessed since walk right into the trap we set for it | points that go to make up s great the triumph of Harrison in 1840.7’ in our little pleasantry in regard to} man.’* the a tie we! a 5 O49 Sad o } . _ sa! et — a the lost 1 ae a If we remember aright. the Dem- A gentleman sai! to Times reply it says it expected we woulc i : yas . he papers at thathe thought he recognized the’ ‘~pounce down on our article on the | °©”@4 — ones of the papers that ee tae ae dead Confederacy.” The truth of help puthim = there, 1 should be | blossom of a candidate in the the matter is that what the Times | the last to help pull him down upon certain well knewn politician gave claims bodily as ‘‘our articie,’’ has! such testimony as Martin Williams. a Granger. in his presence a few appeared in half a dozen or more We common people down here m= daysago. Tooearly boy’s. Check papers in the shape ot a telegram it ° the southwest, have learned to look your ambition for the sake ot the from Atlanta, Georgia, under date of Dec. 29. We hardly expected that the young editor would allow elsewhere than to the Sedalia Dem- party, if not for your own welfare. craé tor a leader in that kind of ! his zeal for the lost cause to cause | Democracy which doesn’t tumble to Our neighbors over at Clinton him to thus appropriate to himself the racket of the enemv eve are re excited ov , york that which did not belong tas hime : peeey every | are more excited over water works We were mistaken—that’s all.—Ae. | time thev holler. Crittenden is) than we are here. Clinton already cord. our Governor, and not Martin) Wil- | has gas, so has Nevada, and both Alas, “poor oid Record.’ Thou | liams, or any of his Radical-Green- | are looking out for another supply. who hast been guilty of more plagiar- back-Tadpole crowd. And on this! Unless Butler comes to a realization ism, and less originality than any i rock we stand. of her senses and does hkewise, she contemporary ; whose editorial col- | SSS is a dead gosling sure. umns bristle weekly, ever and anon,; We admire Mr. Beach’ pluck > with borrowed brains from the Glode- | when he says in the hepublican of A pamphlet containing the histo- Democrat and Kansas City Journa/, | Friday: **But inasmuch as the old ry and death of William Fox, the Oh, thou intly creature, whose | worn-out, dismal, stale. tarcieal dra- Nevada murderer, 1s sent us from pettifled existence serves only to} ma of Uncle Tem’s Cabin recently | the Sedalia Bazoo office. We ad- remind us of the remains of some | filled the opera house to overflowing, , mire Mr. Goodwin’s enterprise but ancient Fossil belonging to an era} We must confess that we were don’t beheve it will meet with lucra- other this, why dy thou torture our | prised beyond measure that Schuy-' tive reward or favor trom the pub- hearts and blast our imagination by | ler Colfax could not do as well,’’ lic. flinging into our face that ‘tale’? of | This 1s as bad as the Times the dead Contederacy. said a tew weeks ago about ‘Uncle The trap was set, and we walked | Tom."" There is however, a par- deliberately into it, and were caught ; donable excuse in a Democrat speak- It may make our taxes atriffle heav- ser, but cant we stand that in order sur- what ——______. Does anybody doubt that water works would be a benefit to. Butler. and branded as a thief by a detective | ing out so freely, but we imagine brought forth in a time of imiquity | there will be some tall kicking when to have our property in safer condi- and sanctified by the sin ot Jiterary | a Republican dares to do tion against fire. robbery trom the day of ats” birth. | “The dead Confederacy”’ ‘+ Jew- likewise. The Pilot Grove Airror is one Wim. R. Crockett, the able editor els oe — cause’’—tarewell for-| of the Nevada Democrat. is spoken! Bashaw for - Governor Ve ar ever! We we ; : ox ek ie : oe Stee eens e aoe as mortal never | of by the State press as a condidate not disposed to chide triend Dicker wept before! The bloody imagies | tor Railroad Commisssoner. ae Bead erson for his choice. «f a thousand battlefields stare us in | Though first announced in a spirit the face. the vision ot our every foot | of more jest than senousness by that «Among the list of candidates nam- step by day, and the ghost of our | inimitable = Democratic pohtician, ed for Stet rece by the leffer- dreams by night. Behold, ye, of | Tom Lingle of the the Clinton Dem. | son city Teibine: that of our meek and humble calling, the tribu- | ocra#, the name ot Mr. Crockett nent townsmen Ca ¢ F. J. Tvgard fations of thy brethren in high places. | spreading throughout every nook is ancladed ' ger cs Hy stop. Let us see about this. , and cornor of the Commonwealth. = We are arraigned tor gobbling and as a fit and proper subject jor the converting into an editorial, bodily | position. It Mr. Crockett will be and premeditatedly, a telegram from candidate the southwest, st least Adanta Ga., under date Dec. agth | will stand for him solid. a em: Owing to illness and unable to at- tend court, the cuse of Frank James for the Blue Cut train been discontinued tl Febr tobherv | rith. ary his | ot the earliest to announce in favor of | NEIGHBORHOOD MOTES. Joplin Herald: Fort Scott taking steps to provide the city with THE “TIMES” BOOM What The Press of the Think of Our Enterprise. IN THE FOREMOST RANK. is ate sewerage La Is NOW f Herald: . creamery Joplin The ay facon county Boonville Advertiser : ronth for crear. and Weekly Time enterprise, has : $,100 per r with comme: e and making hta past cutting attachment, and here Appleton Journal: There is quite paper will come cut and pasted. an excitement about mad dogs in the Bolivar | Herald: Tne Butler, vicinity of Lowry Catv. A rabid an- ; Bates county. Times comes to us) imal bit two citizens of that place a + with its eight pages cut and pasted | few days ago. fin metropolitan style. Butler is a Joplin Herald; Dan Kennedy, a i good town to publish a good news| half-witted hermit who lived near | paper in. Prairieville. Pike county tor 4o years, t Knob Noster Gem: The Butler | **S found trozen in hin old kety | Times refers with pride to the fact house the other morning. Schell City News: The Nevady The Gem is pleased | creamery is now finished and ready ; For The Mail the capacity of the creamery. 1s 4000 that it is now cut and pasted like the | city papers. | to note the prosperity of its neigh says business, bors. Rich Hill Znterpri pounds of butter a day. c Pater prise: The But- » ! i ustler: A man whose ler TimEs comes cut and pasted this sans ite aged ‘\ ae : week Mc. 1s ambitious. He might | 24m we did not learn, but who lives i three miles west of Lamar, shot a make another profitable improve- ment by usemg less paper and more hawk the other day that had three j type. leaded long primer takes lots pertectly formed legs. of paper tor the amount of matter} Richmond Conservator: A Car you get Charley. rolton man has been sent to jail for g + kissing his girl good night. A man Clinton Democrat. The Bates | “8 Hee i who don’t know enough to keep his County Ties is putting on metro- ga " vern is insane. head out of ac politan airs. Its eight pages are cut ne z and pasted. like St. Louis dailies. | Neosho Times: Herman ager Wi stand sccured « new lease on informed a Tunes reporter last Satur- day that in his opinion the peaches are all killed. Apgles, grapes and other fruits are still uninjured on his sence in Col- lite by his half year’s orado. Scheli City News The Butler fens Ties is constantly proving itself ‘ worthy a position in the tront rank ot Clinton — Advocate: Old Aunt One of its lat- | Rhoda, whom we mentioned as country journalism. est strokes of enterprise 1s the intro- 7 duction of machmery by which its cold weather, died all alone in’ her litle hut Monday, and was buried vesterday. having been badly frozen during the eight-page sheet is cut and pasted af- ter the style of metropolitan papers. Success to the 1':mes. State Journal, Miss Holden Enterprise: The Butler | Florence Hasser, a Inghly respecta- Times has made a great improve- ble young lady of Vandalia, Audrian ment in the paper, by cutting and | county, took poison Monday, from the effects of which she died yester- day. She was to have been married last Sunday but her lover played talse. 17th: pasting it so that the eight pages open like a book. The one great and only objection to a quarto size is The Times is a good paper and we admire its new thereby overcome. Nevada Democrat, i8th: Gover- nor Crittenden yesterday commuted appearance The Butler | to? imprisonment tor lite the death Carthage Patrvot: Tives is not only an abie advocate | sentence ot Emment Jones, who ot Democratic principles, but it is a killed Antoine Valle on the steamer progressive institution. It is now Lady Lee in St. Lous, in July, published as an octave, and is cut 1881. Jones was to have been hung and pasted, so that it may be used as | St. Louis to-day. a common book. We congratulae Appleton Journal: Samuel Bro. McFarland on his enterprise, | Levy & Co.. of Butler. make the and wish him ali the success his | harvest rich for the newspapers of genius and correct principles deserve, | that town in the way of advertising. znd this is by no means stinted. They take a whole page at a time St. Charles Vews: The Butler] and that too, nearly every week. Bates county Tims, is now cut and | We should smile to see one or two pasted. This means a great im: | such firms in this town. provement, and one thot should be Versaillex Gazelle: The Bates and apparantly is, appreciated by county Democrat is between a cold the merchants of Butler, and the | and a sweat. It has two candidates a “4 3. , ee ua (a . S people of Bates county. We be-| for Governor. and if it supports the lizve it 1s the only paper in the State that bas this improvement. Wecon- | gratulate Bro McFarland 02 the en- hope it one it will wish it had supported the other. It thinks Bates county could “he happy with either. ‘tother dear charmer away.” As is proverbial for throwing het away on the Governorship, it matters It goes as amere compliment anyway. Holden LEuterprise: Col. Nor- man j. Colman, who is pretty good terprise he has shown and merited Bates county will receive a well reward. vote Fruits of Advertising. A prominent business firm in one ot our leading cities, whu have grown rich by hberally patronizing the prin- little who her delagates vote for. ter, give to their fellow-merchants ¢ . ‘ 5 2 : authority. is of the opinion that the the following concerning advertis- | _ : : We t f | recent intensely cold) weather has ing: ‘**We have for any yea 5 many years | ited all the peach and apricot buds j | 2 : : S fand blackberry bushe~ bave also been there is not a hunared times more of | g a greatly injured, and the fruit crop it. We never knew a man to adver- : P | generally will be a decided failure. tise his wares liberally and steadily ! +, . . . ee a | The fruit crop of Missourt is a source that it did not pay. Yet there are | tre | of great revenue to growers, and the | thousands of manutacturers, and tens | 1 ot ' axe S : j loss may be Cown as runing up | of thousanes ot men, having articles | - ' hi a > Into the muuliions. | which they say ought to be sinevery | x household 1n the country.” who ad- | Versailles Gazelle: Henry Coonce killed fourteen skunks near | vertise as gingerly and closely as) \' j Versailles. the other day. } though they had no heart, no taith in it atall. How can they ex- ¢4 them al! out of one hole in the | pect to get their goods anywhere ground, and thinks tne number he j = = 7 . ” unless some knowledge of the ats. Killed was not a **parchin’’ to the cle first gets into the tamily news- | DUMber left. Henry says the smell |paper? It we waited till people | WS stifling. and that he had to put Kleamed drew thew neighbors. we Offthe skinning process until the next day. Skunk hides are worth 75 cents each. that hawi worth $10,50 to Henry—a good day's work, but a mighty smelling might wait for years betore the most and was wondertul and useful inyentions be- came known.”” 74- SO acres, house with five rooms, One. plenty ot water. 90 bearing apple trees, and other small truits, including black berries and raspberries. Land all in cvltivation, and under good tence. Will be so!d at a bargain. School house and church within quarter of a mile. Chnton Advocate: An Indiana paper says the largest and best yerlds of corn this vear are to be credited to the Missouri Valley, and to that studied the art of advertising, and]. ie z : 4 tad nid ia Missouri. He thinks grape vines } stil it remains a marvel to us that He twist- | section of the country Iving wes the Missouri river, which 4° yeu 8 JCa,, eved to be a usele, 2go was bel 8s ¥ an mocking desert, and from which th explorers sent out by the Zovernme, thought that settlers ought to be a cluded by law on the ground that Perig TASC Cnoyp they went there they must from utter inability tu of any thing to gather. Joplin Herald: The Frise We bound freight ran over and killed deaf and dumb man Weanesday ¥ ternoon near Sarcoxie. The thas was stopped and the remains taken, Sarcome, where ‘held. The ac tion to hold the inquest, threw an inquest ww, lent and the dete | train several hours Late. Joplin Herald: Judge Ryland « the circuit court of Johnson, Per, and Latayette counties, a recen charge to a jurv at Warrensburg, | directed the acquittal of a saloop keeper indicted for selling Tiguo: | without license, because the Witnes. | for the prosecution admitted that he was employed as a spy, and pup chased the beer for the purpose entrapping the dealer. ' Kansas City Times: | visible nightly in the southwestern portion of the heavens It 1s im th constellation of Pegasus andis abo 45 degrees above the horizon. It & a small comet and the head 15 a. parently inclined downwards, while the tail extends upward. Supers. tious people say it is headed towani the earth. The comet can be seep with the naked eye betore 8 o'clock in A comet It sets early. Nevada Mail: Probaly the fines lot of mules that ever left Vernon county, was shipped from the Ne vada depot to-day. They are sold by A. T. Wall to Messrs. Clark & Stewart, and were bought for the Harrisburg, Pa., market. The pur chase price was $135 all around, and there were 141 mules, making a to tal of a little more than $19,000 They are tour-year-olds, and a broken. Mr. Wall is one of the most successful stockmen in the southwest, and this sale places him another step forward in the ranks. Harrisonville Democrat: We see it stated thatthe breeders of short horn cattle in this county wall hold » meeting in Pleasant Hill next Satur day for the purpose of organizing 9 breeder’s association for Cass county, The Belton Leader well says: The object of the meeting is a good one jand we hope there will a good attendance, Other in the state with not near as many blooded p- m. counties | cattle have organizations of this kind | and itis time our county was getting to the front. It ranks up im the tead for thoroughbred stock. | Pilot Grove Mirror: B. F. Gates a section hand en the M K, & T. road, liying at Harriston, was strick Chrosinas en with pneumonia on dav; and suffered with that dread disease unl the 6th inst... when he | died. best of health before bis death, { her rthly support was such a shock t His young wife was in the but the loss ot husband and only 1 es her nerves, that she was seized with violent convulsions died two death. Their souls were separated but two days. and and days after his now they are sieeping the sleep that knows no awaking, side by side, the esty of the dead. nark- ently Af which 1 | Chnton Advovate: able case of trance, hended in Glasgow, is reported in the Kansas City Journal. Aw 35 vears of age bas lainsinee ta motionless June 'in a state of coma tose. with closed eves, a pulse of atwet leighty per minute, natdral tempers ture, and normal breathing. Con- sciousness was entirely absent untill the end of November sie suddenly now recovering her Dunng her tom awoke, and is wanted strength. ‘sleep she was fed daily with a stom The case account ot well is uigh ache tube unique on its duration. These trances are the puzzle of the physioligist. and similate death closely that patients have been i danger of burial alive. Md ) THE HRicMinG- FIRE £69 “ionée POWER FIRE ENGINE nearly as effect- ive as 2 steamer; about one third first cost, and less than one tenth annual €% pense tor repaits. For descriptive cireu- | lars with testimokials, address, REMING- TON AGRICULTL ©O., ILION

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