The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 13, 1884, Page 4

ES | WENDELL PHILLIPS DEAD. BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES | Wendell Philhps, New Englands | most distinguished orator and philan- | thropist, is dead. - | Boston in S11, and | tinction of being the son of that Puri- | tan city’s He graduate of Harvard and Cambridge, and practiced law till in 1539, W hen on because of “Chas. T. MeFariana. wpiTOR AND PROPRIETCK. eee bore the dis- : TERMS OF SU SCRIPTION: was a first) mayor. The Weery Times, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any iduress | one vear, postage paid, tor 51.25. i —_—————————————— BUTLER MISSOURI WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1884. he threw up the protessi ib the | an unwillingness to be bound by the |of the United States. From that 5 ._ |day on he stood with Garri- This is campaign vearin the Na- | a ae = | son, and that class of Abolitionists, tion, State and County, from Presi- advocating the most extreme meus- dent to Coroner. The interests in- | ures, denouncing the Constitution as volved will be of vital importance to | a ‘coven keep | with the dev 1.’’ Later Mr. Phillips entered the lecture field where distinguished himself upon various the people, and they should thoroughly posted. Tothat end THE BuTLer WEEKLY reduced as follows: Begining on the rst of March, the Times will be topics. The only claim the life of Wendell _._ | Phillips presents for distinction, was paper will be sent to any address till his unremitting hostility to African January 1st 1885, for sEVENTY-FIVE | Slavery. He was a fanatic among fa- CENTS IN ADVANCE, or the Louisville | natics tor emancipation absolute and He was born in} joath of fidelity to the Constitution , nt with hell and a league ; he} Courier—Fournal and the Times, for the same period tor ONE DOLLAR AND GHTY <FIVE CENTS. This is a very and all who do not take the Times should low rate, embrace this opportumty. Money must be in advance, as we cannot at- ford to make this reduction ‘‘on eredit.””, We will gladly furnish sample copies tree. WHAT WILL IT BE. What will be tne future of Butler? Just what her people make it. Thus an important question is brietly pro- tounded and as briefly «answered. And we might stop right here, and allow the reader to inter the why and the wherefore of the proposition, so plainly is it understood by every thinking. progressive individual. But we proceed. Around and about us are qyoung and thriving cities looming up, evi- dencies ot western prosperity and en- terprise. It has got to be so in this day and generation, when a town grows to the dimensions ot three or four thousand souls, commodious school buildings, colleges, stately unqualified. He equaled Old Jobn Brown in all but murder and plun- To tree the Negro was the in der spiration of his heart, the devotion of | his life. It was ot no consequence to him whether rightor wrong. Con- | was and stitutional or otherwise, Slavery against the ‘*higher law,’ as he his coadjutors put it, and which Seward reflected in the Senate of the United States, and must, there- | had no fore, be wiped out. He more regard for the Constitution and the law when a fugitive slave appeal- ed for aid, than he did for the blood- hound described in Harriet Beecher | Stowe’s mythical work. Hs object was to fire the North to action at all hazard, no matter how, and at what cost. In conjunction with others his purpose was accomplished. It would be unjust to question the motives of Wendell Phillips or at- tempt to convict him of hypocrisy. It his lite was anything it was honest. However vicious his principles they were the result ot sincere conviction. He may, and doubtless did, depart from a course of strict integrity in the many details of the long, troub- lous campaign against Slavery at the | court houses, magnificent opera tem- South; but what did that amount ples, electric light, gas and water- works are indispensible monuments of modern intelligence and material advancement. there are towns possessing less ad- j its vantages than Butler, no larger. no Allover the West | espoused every ’ism that has m to, 1f the end sought couidbe reach- ed only by such methods. Since the war Wendell Phillips de reforms, appearance. Labor woman suffrage, temperance, prohi- wealthier, no more promising that | bition have all tound a lodgement in come up to this standard in most all particulars. of being “top of the heap’’—water works and gas. These she can haye if she only wants them with ordina- ty earnestness. his heart: Butler Jacks two things capers, and one, too, that did honor to his declining years,was to renounce the Republic This in part, atone for the mischief done by the venerated dead in precipitat- | aa party. Je » sr g - 7 : : We don’t want any more ‘booms.’ ing the Rebellion and make lus eter Had too many already. What is wanted now worst ot all things else, nal sleep all the sweeter and serene. | THE JAIL QUESTTON- Mr. j The last ot Mr. Phillips’ ; may. | : dismissed the | hour the charges in ot the ordin- money in the spring out ary revenue. In 1882 the county exceeded the receipts nearly e of the penditures ! $10,cooo. How the account wil stand at the end of this fiscal year which will soon be up, we can rot say now accurately, but since the deficiency of 188 to come out of the revenue of 1853, besides the other regular expense ior the ye we imagine there will be but litte left. it indeed the county is not still me Then where in the n in debt. of commen sense is the $10,000 build a jail coming trom if it is to be us- appropriated outof the county Tr fury. As there is no jail fund in Treasury and no mone make anv after the currant expenses y with which to i of the county have Feen paid, is no othe~ alternative but to vote a essary to build the structure, THE GIFT OF FRANCE. The French Republic has patriot— ically presented the United States with a **Statue of Liberty Enlighten j ing the World’? which is to be erect- fed in New York. It is desired that the people of this country build the pedestal upon which the monument is to be placed, thereby uniting the sentiment and frien¢ship of the two | Republics. Mr. Vanderbilt gener- ously offered, to defray the expense | of setting up the pedestal, but the proposition was respectfully rejected by the French people, upon the ground that they did not want the Statue to redown to the glory of any one or number of individuals, but to all America. Theretore. the method decided up- on to raise the fund is by delegating to committees in each State the work of soliciting contributions from the masses in amounts of one dollar and under. Gevernor Crittenden 1s chair- | man of the committee in this State, and Adjutant General Waddill Sec- retary. The monument is a most elegant one in all of its appointments, French people, and their love for a Republican form of government. | Missour’ is thrown up the sponge, all the indictments against him im the ; State. The case of Frank James in the Jackson county indictment was called upon ‘court Monday an | to train robbery. The Slue Cut the ed in the State upon the testimony being imph lead Pweght of its case ict Dick Liddill, iess by reason ut he being an u- Pot of his competent W inearceration in the one time from which disabilities he was never pardoned, and Governor ty Critenden — refusing them, Prosecuting Attorney Wallace | . About the same Daviss cas county to there special levy to raise the amount nec- | and | reflects the patriotic frendship of the | and Frank James 1s discharged frou | Penitentiary at; remove |; The Trt office remain where itis, 1s a fit sub- ject for discussion after the 4th ot March ’85.°" Toenhghten the Times we are led to re that the indi tl t ren tions no idea of moving. Oi c< discussion can go on ‘afte of Mare *? but the of main, ‘tall the same,.’’ ast sav.—Record. We Were -r the impression that the present P. M's. term expired about that time. Ar we misinform- ed? Anda furthermore. tl that on a change of administration date. and from present prospects | report of the jury: there will also be a cha the po- GRAND Jury's REPORT. litical management us v then we) 7y she Honorable James B. Gantt can tell better as to whether the | Fudge of the 22d Ft , | post-office will reniaim where it is, | czit: and the discussion kept up atter the } The Grand Jury at the February | | th of March ’S5, term of the Bates county circuit OO + It may be thought « little prema- talking about Senator ‘ture to be harm come of such agitation, at all The Democrat of this city week, and | events. | noticed the subject wisely suggested that an eye be kept new Legiela- last on the election ot the ture. Without doubt, in our mind, Sen- ator Vest 1s the choice ot the Democ- racy ot Bates county far hisown suc- pre- j cessor, and it is reasonable to sume a candidate for Representative will be selected tavorable to that sen- timent. Senator Vest has given en- tire satisfaction to the Democracy ot Missouri for the trust imposed in him, and 1s entitled to a re-election. | The long dead lock in the Ken- | tucky Senatorship has at tast been | broken, and Hon. J.C. S. Black- burn is made the successor of Gen. Wiliams by « vote of 63 against 52. Joe Blackburr, as he is familiarly known in Washington, is a native of Kentucky, and 45 yearsold. He 1s new serving his fifth consecutive ; term in Congress, a position he has ! filled with marked ability as adebat- or, giving, as the sequel shows, sat— sfaction to the people of Kentucky. He will not take his seat in the Sen- ate till the 4th of March 1885, Gen. Wilhams’ term not expiring till | then. the at The Executive Committee of Missoun Press Association met St and fixed a | i H . | program for the next meeting, which | {1 + Louis on the 5th, at Spingfield, April The Association will j take an excursion to Florida. Hon. | J. Edward Jones, of the Plattsburg ad- sto be held | 22nd and 23d. | Lever, will deliver the annual dress, and Capt. J. H. ce Carrollton Aecord is read the annual poem. Turner, of i selected to Hon. W. R. Morrison, ‘Channa of the Ways and Means Committee, | has introduced in the House his long | looked for tarift bill. It reduces the is something unquestionably solid, something of universal utility 7 | against James were dismissed also. | tx on certian articles, and places a and advantage to every citizen, Among other things the county | Thushas the prosecution im this | number on the free list. Any tariff and to every piece ot property | court did at its sitting last week was | State ended. | bill would meet with strong oposi- m the corporation. We ant to order a special election to vote an | Immediately upon his release, | tion in Congress, and Mr. Morrison’s water works, we want gas—gas aaditional tax of fifteen cents on the | James was arrested by a United | will be nv exception It may pass that will burn and wont blow | C¢ bundred dollars tor the purpose | States Marshal, and taken to Ala- | the Democratic House after some away. Such improvements will add ot building a new jail at Butler, the | bama.to answer for the Mussulls } amendment, but it will not likely go stability and permanancy to Butler | ©°St of which shall not exceed $10, | Shoals robbery comrnitted in 1881. and all her interests. Without ooo. The election was called upon them we will not undertake to fore- the request of the requisite number cast the inevitable calamities. ot petitioners, besides being a re- Citizens, you who own property | Pose tothe expressed will of a and have votes, you who have homes and business and want prosper, think ofthis, will you. The Will be a trifle contrasted with the to cost benefits, Though you rejected a similar proposition last summer, that does not sign that Sela should or would do so again, since experience, investigation and the exigencies of the situation ad- monish you to do otherwise. Let not the grass of spring grow under your teet, nor the moss of summer cover your backs. Time is precious, fast fleeting and wont wait for the spavined and strimg-halted. Be up and-a-coming or you’l get left in the race, and then farewell to all our glory. “Late improvements in the make | up, in addition to the “cutting and + ye j pasting’’ of the Times of this city i makes our neighbor a neat and con- venient sheet to handle.””— Record. Thanks, fnend Record. We be—} heve you are the only home contem- porary that has comphmented us on our improvements. large number ot citizens. The question of building a new | jail has long been somewhat of : vexed problem, tor seyeral reasons, unnecessary to be enumerated here. A vote was taken upon the proposi— tion two years ago, but owing to mis to carry pprehensions ot its terms failed with the people. Bates county would have had a jail now it the propositien to build it had been understood better at that time. The question is now put im plain terms, stating the exact amount, and no more, to be expended, and it is to be hoped there 1s left no rooms tor any exceptions. It has been often asked the county court did not appropriate the necessary amount to build a jai! out ot the countv Treasury, they having the authority under the law to do so. And we have been considerably sur- prised of late to note the verv queer and untenable position taken by one or two members of the county press against holding an election, claiming new why i that the court could appropriate the | The Ministers Alliance of Sedalia, recently passed a resolution, against the issue ct Sunday papers, and de- clining to insert any church notices in Papers oi such date. As the Demo- erat and Bazoo both publish day morning papers, they took up | the subject and ably discussed it their editorial depatment. H The appomtment of Wm. . Jackson by the Mayor and Council. to succeed Wm. Henry, resigned, xs | City Attorney and Clerk, was tainly a wise selection, and so far We have heard any expression. 1s ap- Mr. Jack- | cer- proved by the citizens. son is an able lawyer. and a desery- ing Democrat, hence a very compe- tent man tor the place. The Ohio nver and its have been on a rampage for a week. The floods haye caused great dam- age to property, equaling om places the Previous years. tributaries many of terrible destruct Ben Hall was snmmoned to Buf- talo, Ilincis, Friday last, to the last illness of his father. died Monday. attend who Sun- i through the Republican Senate. The State Central Democratic Committee met in St. Louis on the 5th inst., but did no buisness except fix the basis of representation in the Nat‘onal Conyention. It was ex- ; pected the committee would set the day and place for holding the two in | State Conventions, but in this the pubiic was disappointed. An = ad- journment was taken subject to the call of the Chairman. Judge Gantt is not of the opimion that a bucket of slop dashed in ahus- | bands tace is sufficient ground upen | which to issue a decree of divorce. Neither does he think a wife should be separated from her husband be- cause he does not buy her a Indeed, has Judge Gantt set his foot | down upon peopie who at pleasure intending to repent at marry leis- ure. home. | | Vests successor, but there can be no} i Convyened February Disposed o1—Unteristing Session. , a tind REPORT OF GRAND ¥URY. ing tor Plaintitt. Geo W Davis vs. N M Hou _ | dismissed. ”_ has been ins session Merchants Ban! 1EOo little over a week. and a number / jury find tor Plaintiff $162.00, of cases been disposed of. The Preston Daugherty ys Grand Jury was in session several! Daugherty. Preston got Ie : livorce. days last week having received ine | ODNS Cy . 3 ‘ ii aes DC Clark vs. Rich Hill Oy € structions at length from his Honor | settled and dismissed ‘ Judge Gantt. The following is the JW Philips vs. Chas Gardine report, the court, submit the tollowing We haye visited, and examinet nd found all records several offices as were able to ascer- neatly, so far tain, carrectly kept, We find however that the law has not been complied with by the coun- ty Survevor, by tailing te file books in the Recorders office required by law, and also that have been taken from the Recorders office use, as records by the county Surveyor for his and convenience, which properly be- long in said office as public records. Our attention having been called to the action of the Bates county ceurt in the matter of the bridge across the Marias Des Cygnes river in section one, township thirty-cight, range thirty-one, and after having examined the law 1n the premises be lieve that the court exceeded its au- thority in making an appropriation to pay for said pridge, and while believ- ing that they did not act in the matter from any corrupt motive we do believe that they acted unadyisedly, and that the course pursued by the court is law should censurable and that the be strictly complied with in appro— priating the peoples money. We also visited the jail found three prisoners confined therein who are as comfortable as the surrounding cir- cumstances will admit of. We be- lieve the place unsuitable for the safe s, and that Bates keeping ot prisone county should have a new jail. Jno. B. Newserny. Foreman of Grand Jury. CASES DISPOSED OF. J B Mekeal submited to court. Jas Becrott tiff taken non suit’ S Cooper vs. T J Burke judge- ment for $2 Jno S Craig judgement for plai ima Seawell vs. vs. Emma Mekeal, Co., ye. FS pl divorce granted, State vs. Leabo for murder in the rst degree ruturned by Indictment ad jury. Jno. Atkison vs. J W Swift, judg- ment for plaintiff for $449,00 Lucinda Moreland vs Sarai) Da- rand dismissed. Jas Ballon vs. Geo E Porter judg- ment for plamtiff $115,00. R J Hurley & Covs JJ Ryan et al, judgement for defendant. Nathamel Long vs Sarah Long, dismissed. Elizabeth Hine vs. E T Hine dis- missed. } CClark Adminstrator, vs. NR Barr. submitted to court. Alice Moomaw vs. H J} Moomaw, dismissed E M Clark vs. Co., same entry. Carl Speugley vs. J A Hough. dismissed. Wm Price vs. Fannie Price, same. Court decided that one bucket of dishwater thrown on a man not good ground tor divorce. JF Bovd vs W H Sperry judge- ment for Refferee $479.00. Mo. Pacific Ry is i i ; | trotted out and divorce not grante **Ex-Governor Blackburn of Ken- | tucky was elected United States Sen- | ator on the 7Sth_ ballot Wednesday | night."’"—Rockville Glode. No, net ex-Governor Blackburn, but ‘Joe’ Blackburn, who never D H Hili vs. S # Lashbrooke, dis- missed. J} P Walton vs. Elizabeth Walion, dismissed. Lucy D Bucaauan vs. Wm Buch- anan, divorce granted. William was a holy terror. MA Faucett vs. Thos McComb, | dismissed. Thos McComb vs. scett &! Staley same. WS Steele vs. JD Harper, judge- | ment for plaintiff. Chas Trotter vs. Mary Trotter, Jasper Bowman vs. Marion Bow- man, Jasper had a better case and it Was granted. A Cummings vs. | judgement for plaintiff $55.00. held any other office than Represen— | tative in the State Legislature. and | Congress. i Mary Richardson vs. | judgement for $61,00. A Davis vs JJ Lemasters, judge- ment for defendant. Francisco Ex. Rel. Bates Co. vs. 4th—Cases E R Bates! Courson, | ] y- three cy missed at cost of Defendant. RH Hayeligg vs. Ino N EF Non xt, . iii Eaty Sam Beal vs. compromised. RS Catron vs Rich Hil Coal ¢ lesse Nave, same. State ot Mo. vs. Jno Burris ay | Bud ¢ + disturbing relusion worship, fined $100 each and cost M Davis vs. Mo. Pacific Ry, ¢ judgement for defendant. T.C. Copeland vs. Thos judgemert for detendant. M O Wood vs. Barbara Woo, divorce granted. i SB Lashbrooke et Walley et al, submit W H Shelton vs. for defendant. Sam’l Mckee vs. W D Craiv judgement tor plaintiff $375.7 ‘i. 0. Ins} al Trwi {to court, vier judgmey ROBERI 10DD LINCOLa. Secretary of War, and Prominent Mentioned asthe Repubiican Nom. Inee for the Presidency. A BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS LIFE Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War, is the oldest and only surv- ving son of Abraham Lincoln and was born at Springfield, Illinois, Aw gust 13, 1343. Hereceived a gool education in the common schools @ that city but concluded his prepare tory course at Exeter, N, H. He ew Harvard College from which 1864. After be graduation he received a commission jas Captain , service in the field, but tered he graduated in and saw considerable Hecause of his youth he was kept a close com Ww House the greater part of the time at the ite panionto his father After the exciting scenes of bis tath he settled in Chi cago, where he studied law, and wa er’s assassination in afew years admitted to the bar, He then began the pi proj fession in that city and secured the | managements of several large estates and many eastern iesurance compa nies who loaned large sums of money on Chicago real estate. In attending to these trusts Mr. Lincoln developed superior executive ability. He marrie! the only daughter ot Ex-Secretary James Harlan. During the Chfcago conyentien Mr. Lincoln was an ardent advocate ot the nomination ot General Grant and presided at the immense Grant meeting beld in Chicago a few day» before the nomination for the Pres idency was made. Betore that per od his only active efforts in politicy | had been asa member of citizens’ | committee tormed in Chicago to et tect a retorination and purification it local political affairs. | President Garfield’ Mr. Lincoln tur Secretary of | was due to a determination to boner the name ot onr great War Presi ' dent. and so satisfactory was hin a | ministration of the War deps: tuner ' during President Garfield's incom ! beney that President Auther retained | Mr. Lincoln in the Cabinet and now } i stice of = his ot wa selection finds him prominently mentioned a Presidential candidate. Mr. Law 1s any ambition for furth | . but his mod indo | coln discl er political preferm est unassuming manner only ces his admirers to morc sesthy advance his claus. Secretary Lincoln is one i most popular officials tiat the Wat Department bas ever been under and in social and polttical circles, 1 ! gardless of his party affiliations, © Tn form ane the ot i he is auniversal tavorite. | feature Mr. Lincoln has no resem blance whatever to his illustriot father but in executive ability and a intuitive comprehension ot public a ' fairshe has certainly ntherited the sterling characteristics of Abyruliaet Lincoln.