The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 2, 1884, Page 4

; i f } perenne: SE oe — BO BUTLER WEEKLY TI MeFariaua,. mes, published every to y edar be sent 5 or $1.2 id,t APRIL WEDNESDAY, BUTLER MISSOURI. STILL ANOTHER. Four weeks ago the price Times of the was re- BurLter WEEKLY ot SEV- of next. duced to the very low sum CENTS from the Ist ENTY-FIV March to the rst Di people availed themselves of the op- ot January portunity to subserbe for the paper, knowing so well its superior worth as a rehhable county newspaper a correct exponant of genuine Democ- | racy. In fact quite a boom has been worked up, and its main force being just now upon us we cannot well shut it out, and have, theretore, de- termined to extend the low rate, and will send the Trars to all new sub- scribers and old ones who pay up, from April ist to January — tst, FOR “SIXTY CENTS; in advance. To all present subscribers who are will rs one year and over, w in ar give the advantage of this special of- fer, by them calling and settling up. THE JAIL QUESTION. in iess than one month the voters whether As di- ot Bates county will decide or not we shall have a new jail. a private individual we are not rectly benefited cither way, but as a -n, who feels a justpride in the institu- citiz development of out county tions, we are deeply interested, and are decidedly in favor of the propo- sition and believe every journal in out openly It new the county should come and squarely face the k if we to that question question. need a is useless to has pail, the answ been embodied in every Grand Jury, vears built? report for the past twelve or more, but how can one be The statute of the State provides f this when there is a sufficient sum in the treasury belonging to the county 4 ingent fund, but makes it a penal offense to use money out of any oth- ev fund except tor the express pur- pose for which it is appropriated. ow, there 1s rot money enough this tund to build a jail nor will there i be be for some time to come as w own by the report prepared by the county court, soon to be published. The only way Bates county can pos- sibly securea jailis by the direct voice of the people. We have endeavored as far as | possible to discover the objections to the enterprise from those who op- pose it, and learn that the main ob- the valua- jection is, that fifteen cents on ene hundred dollars assessed tion of the county will secure more Let The assessed valuation unten thousand dollars. if it will us of the real estate for the taxes tor the year 1884, in round numbers, is five and one half tons of dollars, now add to this the valuation of the merchandise and | vaulroad property as taken trom last years assessment, a half million dol- lave six millions ot dol- tars, an? we hars, I doliars valuation on would bring teen cents on the ore hun- this sum nine thousand doilars, most of this, in time, will be collect- ed as real estate will generally sel] tor the taxes. Now we have two million feur hundred thousand dol- tars of personal property which at that rate of levy would bring three thou and six huadred dollars, but We can not count on more than three tourths of the taxes on the person property being collected, which in| | ing that time a large number of | nd a | 2 | proud. | erto | the safe keeping of } to which he j bounded. Bates county | this distri {| ot the ve j | heretof | Governor Fost | ture out as far as his namesake | the minds of eyery levied anc which Bates c« It must is not mean prisoners, erect- order ed, he has the power and will all prisoners in Bates county taken to other counties tor safe keeping, this fact alone should incite a desire in od citizen to have a new jail, without taking consideration the enormous expense | of transportation and kecping pris- oners in other counties v.inch takes money directly out of the county. This is no party or sectional strite interested effects but one citizen is as much in the matter as another and every portion of the county the same. In another column will be seen an account ot md® violence in Cincin- nati. This is the most disgraceful as well as the most blood-curdling and thrilling affair that has ever occurred in the annals of the United States. The madness and unsystematic ac- tions, of the mob, the reckless taking of hfe by raw recruits, calling them- the ot reckless disregard selves soldiers, destruction property all prin ilized man and citizen goes to and ples that makes up the civ- make up a scene that beggars lescription. The bloodyfmassacre ot St. Bartholo- read that mew, of which we can not without a shudder and conbt men Can so far lose their reason and become as brutes, is brought home to our very door. If this thing had happened m the South there would have been a hue and cry raised all over the land by the Republican press, bulldozing, mntimidation, etc., would have been the cry. But the shoe 1s on the other foot and ot course there will be nothing said about the matter. We learn that Major Harvey Sal- enter the coming We have ever been warm personal friend mon declines to race tor Gubernatorial hoaors. of Major Saimon and would unhesi- tatingly support him for any position He thoroughiy competent tc fill any po- might aspire. is | Sition in the State. His honor and in- tegrity as a gentieman cannot be questioned and his faith inthe dem- ocratic party and its principles is un- Yet we are glad that he has refused to become a for as tar as we can learn the peo- ple ef Bates county are strongly in favor of General Marmaduke and | with Salmon out of the race Marma- | dukes chances are increased ten fold and his nomination and election to almost a certainty. The Lamar Dem ing editorial announces Hor H. Morg: nomination on the Den rat in a flat - Chas for candidate nas a re- ratic tick into lidate { andidate cand i subsequent | id tickets for the The poll books : il election are now complete spe and wil: be promptly delivered tot | proper authorities ia every township April | before the day of election, gth 1554. Every voter should turn) out make it a point to see that his nei bor does the same and vote for a new jail on April zgth, j It Bates county has a candidate j for Congress we are for him first, last and all the time. Marmaduke will be the next | ernor of Missour:—we prophesy. We clip the following from the Kansas city Times of March which speaks for itself: Butler, March 2g—Colone! W. T. Leme:t of Bucyrus, O., arrived in the city last nightto adjust and pay the outstanding accounts ot the N syndicate, composed ot Governor Foster, nator Miller and others, who were back of tne Walnut scheme. He says that s: l 30th, on of the claims ernor Foster will arrive at Butler to take charge of the construction of a railroad east and west from Walnut. Colonel Lemert the teman who built the Ohio Central from To- ledo tothe Ohionver. General J.S. Casement, who built the Union Pa- cific from Omaha to O; will quite probaly have mana I € fr len. gement contemplated has the construction of the line. Colonel Lemert large experience in coal Ohio, and expresses selt as heing highly pleased with the outlook in Bates county Iso ha mining in NEIGHBORHOOD NUTES tising he does. Democ A Sedalix ct | Gov- | will be made in ten days, when Gov- | and four of them over his hody before Ss j ody ae broken el eae : eines t t Cha rottle valve on a co lay forgot his o doubtless have tween Monrserrat and Warrensburg, | but he was overtaken by tre or- | ders and relieved ot his engme. Appleton Journal: The city council at a special meeting last | Monday night, passed an ordinance | | reducing the marshal’s salary from thirty to fitteen edoliars per couneil | month. {| The members ot the assign | | the reason for this action, that, with- j out saloons, there is very little use of having amarshal at ail, and as aj} the streets until dead. andthen hang- fing him, and atterwards burning him. | 1 | | | | Marvs-— And now comes news from Kas., that | was convicted by a court for murder | ville. Samuel Freyer ae | A mob took him out and lynched Appleton Fournal: The aver- ie hie i \ : ' . ~ | him. This sort ot lawlessness is age life of «a merchant is fitty tive |" a PE: : ;.. | giving Kansas a sort of a black eye. years. This. however. may be | lengthened or orter min pro- =ppieto urna Browning- portion to the amount of adver- vwas visited by thieves Monday re of Doyal nda and the st idwas entered, num- made jedby our most experienced stoc | matter of economy they recuced the } sroOCK AND FIELD. r Various Thr hout the Country ore ttle Jers ot the tinwea S POR or ose } I Dew, Nr. © I We ' e: James Hamilton, Ky the largest > lealer in the world, yester- a l nee past, consisting ot the richest del St. ee ee Accounts | Castes for the little tolks, and whe eal po tre tavorable as to {the time came they fairly ture good « on of the winter | themselves loose and did ample jyy a mae ane has been | tice to ibles before them. in some quarters in the matter of sowing the spring wheat crop. Holden Enterprise: it is claim growers that colts should never be permitted to stand on a hard floor } such as plank, brick, stone or ce ment, until they are a year old, as hard floors are hable to ‘njure their (salary. Of course this will not ef | ° ‘ : fect the present incumbent of the j feet and limbs. office, as the Jaw says that an officer’s Fayette Advertiser: Chenault | salary cannot be changed while hold- | Todd sold a two year old bull to ing an office. But it wall cut Mr. | Thomas Drane, of Boone county, Nichols’ successor’ rations down {| last week, and a yearling to Henry | conside Hazzard, of the same neighborhood, Carthage Patriot: Can’t some- | ter which they paid $ Also a | thing be done to reconstruct Ksn | Yeatling to D. M. Vinder, of Au- fesse Thicke & oct Missippin drian county tor $1oo. He has a Mississippi. Some time since a negro | ‘€W nice ones left yet. was lynched at Ft. Scott by dragg Fix: Wt is estimated that Ver- him by rope around his neck through | mont has cut 1 9,000 tons of hay this year. The potato crop, though estimated at 3,500,000 bushels on an increased acreage, is not as large as -arly the in season. was promised The oat crop is very abundant; ex cepting corn, grain, looks finely. The favorable the and season has been tor production ‘of butter cheese, the butter product for the year ex ceeding 27,000,000 pounds. A. S. Liddle tri has returned two week’s HMlinois, } erica NEE Cenc arti were taken but away county this State He lige: Fisien and ey was fouid. One of the | 1 a thoroughbred jack, 5 hacen’ } Sandee s eniirested and gives | years old. 15 hands and Non-eoanne y Beasley. While. | excellent precder CHEE ot - Be eve r town, and} Morgan stailion, 16 hands | Appleton urnul Rev. Wm. edi they ee Drove nee | A. Newton, of Butler, Mo., who ee pos pieckonebison county is well known by many of our | been burglarized in isa matter of : vy for over a year, ming comn in this erty. pos as pastor of the Presbyterian cl town, and goes to take Nebraska to congregation Lamar Democrat: Springheld | had another suicide last week. This; jtime a woman hung herself by a/ strip of strong calico. It is an au- | j ful cold month when Green county | i don’t have a suicide. We wonder | j what there is about Springtietd that j superinduces the suicidal mania? et of s distric for Congress. Charley Morgan has made a good | Water work bias cae record in Congress, isa clever and! Nevada Vas/: The corner stone courteous gentleman and would con- ue to ably represent the people of t should he be fortunate noug! » be re-elected. There are several gentlemen prominently spo De 1 Bates county w ken of as deserving honors candid probab ave a Times can heartily support any one emen wh se ona have } heen mentioned as able ca s trom this county. —_—— We are creditably informed t! in Pleas one day last week but did was not ven- and as protige. He is reported that they have m saving } de ov ven | thousand dollars out of their land speculations in Bates county. Won | | der why they don’t use this money ; to clear up old debts and start on a would reduce it to two thousand sev- | en hundred, the collecting will cost | and fave a sum total left of a little This timate, tor some ot be returned quent, and the voter cam resi assured that this levy will make any over near three hundred dollars we over eleven thousand dollars. is very high « a the real estate will the specified aa | tor lawlessness isn’t it a !she does amount south of t . | What wou delin- | very hetle if) election to vote for new footing in the spring. es Ohno is getting her reputation good thi: not lav, Geograpbical! Mason and Dixon iine! he id Republican papers say? + Reme special 2oth +SSy 29th 1884. | ot the M. E. laid, May the aternity will perfc h, south, will be The Masonic m the ceremony, 2oth. band the occasion will be one of gen- eral interest. T K ef Kansas City will } present to take part in the exe Marl: Barton new house, e ights Temy be probably Nevada | will have n court Lama ay mourn without prospect by a g. with 1 townships polled 163 votes ag Holden We few have ast occupation for the the Repu imary iaterests of Filiey.”” Long tions heing prepared by influential Wa he edict has gone forth tha This 1s a K and we are pr scwealthy and cans’? to be sent to go. Bazoo. Tuesday ¢, Sam Allen, a bra onthe Missouri Pacific the cars while swit | \ 1 county and | to; ot wheat being 2 the cf our officer’s morals or the commur Republican Convention. i The Republicans held a conven- tion at the court house im this city | last Saturday afternoon for the pur- } -cting delegates to the Se- Nevada It} was well attended, b pose of cl dalia and conventions. eee as gentlemen, thou no hand in the game. of course. | J.C. Lane was made Charm Drotem,. Ss & ea mis Atel : jdow cene, open at the small end to- | #rdent worker > Wendell t je tary. ; : . and Lloyd Garrison in the anti-sla : | Wards the discharge pipe. The | 4" i Lioyd G : ‘ pice: After a long $ s ri hyery cz and continued to advo | Pipe trom the discharves (Out) ose trcedom forthe negro until the oF this cone through the small end. | emancipation edict gave tiem them ming | M Wilson, J M P L J Burch, Dr. E E Gilmore, H O Haynes Nevada were tes—W M Requa. Kell ER h Cope; Aiter- Dr. Ever: Constitution lave wi udb . ant e erty The revenue Ided city through this source is $13,500. gorge tormed in the Racco¢ at Van Meter at about 2 Saturday In o'clock afternoon. passing over th am it carried away a por e, and within less than an hour st fell into the strean With a terrible = crash—building, machmery and a thousand bushels totat loss. The ch $30.000. loss w rez forming a desery purposes in this coun Phey ¢ on exhibition at his barn three- fourths of a Je east of Holden. Manhattan. Natéonalist: One of our enterprising farmers, Mr. J. H. Barnes, on the Casement place, now waters his catti by steam. He ese pe still is, the Secretary of the National | Uses a “steam jet his is a smail | 3 : | Association. cylinder, about tour inches in hight, | which sets on the top of the pipe from ihe well or other source of sup- ply. Inside this cylinder is a shal- When steai is turned on it first fills | the cyiimde:, then condenses, thus | vacum which sucks the Water up tli it reaches the nozzle of | | ! Ennis: = 2 Si. oe jthe cone, when the stream catches Baile ' F | ae tie itand torces it out through the dis- | ip Mr. LB. says heats | ninety iperature degrees, aud this cold weather. the | their without being | c Any one who has ever seen the difference in the way cattle | turive on ice water and spring water, | can realize tdvantages of this method N + Vas Articles of associ- \ o and Mora Riv- ris. Monroe led with t sec- 3 capital, $102,000, paid up, composed of 1,020 In- y., New Mexico, holding 340 hares: Wm. G. Barger, Marion | county, Missou George A. Ma- ban, Hannibai, 170 shares each; David H. Moss, Paris, Monroe _ county, 340 { Re s of grea irity A lare | tr 1 ¢ : having « a oe Miss Prudice ib wae and Mrs. O. F. Renick: and the party was a at st Bt her part, havi en arranged» by her rous little out her knowledge of th 1! erself equal co the occasion } her nin e guests, and Wa : recipient of many nice and han, some presents. Mrs b Renick prepared a About 6 o’clock, themselves fter having en joved immensly, an many, man more happy birthdays, they disperse | wishing Miss Pradic each wending their way homewar- musing over the pleasure of the Past OnE Susan B. Anthony, The Great Agitator of Woman Right to be Equal With Man at the Ballot Box. At the toot of Moun- tains, South Adams, Mass., in 1820 this taithtully and devotedly championed the Green was born woman who has s | the franchise ot her sex at the ballet box. Her the Woman's Rights cause from her carly experience as a schoo gress into the ranks o ninate teacher. compensation being but Jeight dollars a month, while men re ceived tor the same service from twenty-—tour to thirty dollars, After fifteen vears of the closest econom she had saved only $200 out of het salary, she meagre ceived equal compensation tor equa ag: he con service her savings would have gregated at least $2,000. trast aroused ber conceptions of justice, and from 1852 she has been one of the leading spirits in every Women’s Rights Convention held it America; was all these vears, and A great many people suppose that oman’s rights an eccentric ‘hobby’? with Miss Anthony. Net From 1557 to 1866 she was an 1s sO. liberty She 1s also a great temper ance woike ind. t there 4 Cause in the good of all humanity the voice, the heart is involv sympath and Anthony is foremost @ of Susan B. the contest. Miss 2 la ways. but they e only exterior § Her nature is a broad, generous am she never Our like sympathetic one, t ough Pps or sentimentalizes. “Il portrays the ter of Miss Anthic ers can rely upon reproduction of z gtaph, very latcly taken. Prewitt &S dda Nelson Prewitt tarm cor acres, five miles cast of M. Barton, will take pe here once, ona most powerful invigorant ever in once here Tt BG pg ke be