The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 9, 1884, Page 4

ro has put his veto to such en- ae _ temperance is but a question of mo 2 eae eae als and has no place in the iopiTOR AND PROPRIFTUK. oul Fae eras. I TERMS OF SU: SURIPTION: ance can be taught m the echools by aE teachers just as any other mo ae Waste ree . but to torce it there by ang of Wednesday, will be sent to 4 son, but i , e : one vear, postage paid, tor 1 the text-book it will certainly des- troy the foundation of our public PEN meen ae ip nets school system. Let those people | who encourage this dangerous step, BUTLER MISSOURI. STILL ANOTHER. Four weeks ago the price ot | if they comprehend the character ot | their Government and desire peace the | in its progress, calla sudden hault Burter WEEKLY Times was re- | and reflect over what they are doing. | duced to the very low sum of SEv- | Is WALNUT TO ZEVIVE? #NTY-FIVE CENTS from the 1st of | During the past week telegrams March to the rst of January next. | appeared in the St. Louis and Kan- sas City papers concerning the Wal- nut coal fields and the proposed new railroad. The articles were without ‘tear-marks’’ and the writer stand the During that time a large number of people availed themselves of the op- portunity to subscribe for the paper, knowing so well its superfior worth on or writers seemed to **inside.’” The most prominent statements as a reliable county newspaper and a correct exponant of genuine Democ- racy. In fact quite a boom has been | Were that, the entire indebtedness incurred bythe late Thos. Nichol in the effort to construct the road from Walnut to Butler, was liquidated, and that another investigation of the termined to extend the low rate, and | coal land in and about Walnut by scientific men, developed the fact that the vein was thicker, the coal of better quality and easier mined than has ever yet been reported. In ad— dition to this the telegrams further stated that Gov Foster would {be on To all present subscribers who are | in a short time to take charge of the im arears one year and over, we will ot a railroad, from give the advantage of this special of- | whence or whither the public 1s not fer, by them calling and settling up. | informed. A very significant teature ot this JOHN W. ABERNATHY. briet correspondence were the con- In a brief interview with this gen-| cluding remarks that the rush to tleman afew days ago the Times} Walnut was about to begin more ex- was assured that he will positively | citedly than a year ago, but that the make the race for the Democratic | managers counseled caution and de— nomination for Congress, :n this the | liberation 1 all speculation. twellth district. The Times, there— It would have been it tore, announces Mr. Abernathy as | the ‘‘caution’’ toward the modera- worked up, and its main torce being just now upon us we cannot well shut it out, and have, theretore, de— will send the Times to all new sub- scribers and old ones who pay up, January ist, CENTS, from April rst to FOR SIXTY im advance. construction best the first, and so tar, the only avow- | tion in the ‘-rush’’ had been omitted. ed candidate from Bates county tor | Most Butlerites are pretty well con- Congress. vinced that the status of the ‘‘rush’’ Two years ago Mr. Abernathy | at present does’nt indicate that the went betore the Nevada convention | managers would be overwhelmed by | standing all that and his fiaal deteat, he developed a strength that aston- ished his competitors and which at once placed him in a position as a it formidable factor in the politics of | Y°U # "&W cis thesfutare to the name ot the proposed enter- Mr. Abernathy enters the field a this time under quite differet circum. | 2° definately advised. That which stances and more favorable AUSPICES ee ee fap ihe At this time he is the only candidate | 'S '© St#Tt some where on the Gulf isomiibates county ‘There 1s no fac- line near Pleasanton, running by way tion against him, and if no other can of Walnut, Butler and thence citber interest all subsequent developments. ——————— Citizens of Butler and Bates coun- ty, there is soon to be presented ailroad proposition. Prise and its connections, are roa the unanimous choice of thiscounty’s | 0": Altona may be a point Democracy. And that choice will Pog Oued samedi oe cies en tiie de made with an earnestness that | COURtY Along the line is $40,000, will admit of no drawback or cissat- | 7¥€7 in notes and payable when the ! jatectiane cars are running. The Times {| John W. Abernathy has heen i knows the parties conducting the bus- citizen of Butler for nearly a decaue, iness here put is not intormed as to andas a lawyer has few equals in the | “ SE southwest. He is an upright gen- | = tre that furnish the } money and constitute the company. | The situation begins to look en-| | 1 i } tleman, conscientious i the per— ormance of every and leads y private life. He an an eloquent ana logical speaker. an would carry enthusias couraging, and we are hoping soon to hear cheerful reports. > the declination of Major ! Salmon the Springtield Leader hur- | nes to the front and announces Col. Boone, of Henry county as its choice duty exemplar. is | d | can- Since ninto a sss. Coming from the richest and nest populous county in the district, Mr. Abernathy, or any other gentle- against the decree, but give the pnom- = county. it had better exercise more ‘*Mysterv, Babylon the Grea A Cassidy of Butler. is on our ta-| - It is a small book ot 130 pages | ; Carefuliv compiled and) writ- ten by the author tweniy-three years ago when in the tull vigor of This will require a Legislative en- zctment, and in certain Portions of by *he State Legislators are being sought | bie +’ who will favor this new depart- ure. Hon. W. E: Coleman, State Superintendent of Public Schools, : bar th ee not} with the full support of the Bates | tortune seekers in Walnut real estate county delegation. It is a matter of especially. There is, however, now, tact, however, that that support | another phase given to this whole was not as hearty nor as harmoneous | Walnut business providing the state as his friends desired. Circumstan- | ments hereim referred to are correct. | ces were against him, but notw.th- | The public will await with patient | didate comes to the front, he will be |" the direction of Holden or Clin-{ about 6 o'clock 4 convict was re- : tence was pronounced, and Beasley f rocks in the vicinity ot the discove . ars this city and 5 t Irwin > proposition is a refutation Mice cial train tr = Sedalia was 4 eo np A tg take the train through t CF < s Louis. The train was i H e z “uginee nber of r ilroad wf Ree Cacia as t BGtconeian: Houstan| 10 accompanied the special tra} i ' siupped 225 crs, 25 and ail signified their behet td, if, aNd v ota ete Satur. Sheldon was destined to } nt person to a earings a lage Mg city. Winner was ed at te eset oaese ea ani ©" Shetdon house and San. CL Wey 2 ese eee 22 aask . on short notice but ever equal ty x . whetah Riverside J bah a e \ y occasion, served up a meal NBIGHEORHOOD NUTES. See eae a Cc a ee . . a — sie ~_— would have done credit toa mety Waressoure 07--t)-) Rbe new Sic ciand. and ive morcon Mon Ss a pci ee veg note, Warrensburg depot will be built of! aay trom the same vicinity. with ten year-olds at $15 cach, and 5 yeai-, Harrisonville Democrat: My L j sandstone. It will be two stories} more looked tor shortly. There are hngs at $1o. © S. Cheatham, who has been feeds j bigh, andwill be the handsemest) por two or three families in thel Pieasant Hill Ateview: Mr. J. | cattle and hogs the past winter at j | depot building between Kansas Citv | jrincipally vou ugimen. AN wil lo- DP. Cooley sold this week his tarm | M. Hattons, on what is’ known 4 and St. Lous. Work will be com! this county. In the company! of 219 acres—the old Southwick the widow Smith's tarm, three menced soon and the building push- : lady 7S years of age, andthe 1 14-2 miles south of town to Mr. | north ot Harrisonville, has now ell | ed to rapid completion. g seman about 50, and a family of | Gordon, recently arrived here from | hand over 100 head of steers, mostly) | Pilot Grove Mirror: We under-| 12 children. They were all loo Kentucky. Price $7,150. | three doped ce and over 400 hea | stend that arrangements haye been | hearty and have stood the long jour Pleasant Hill Revéew: Mr. John | hogs. ; e : — shipped & larg, | definitely completed to start a bank | nev remarkably weil. Riersey, of Jackson county sold last SO ae opens “daca the Winter, here. Stock subscrived amounting; | Sedalia Democrat: Mr. John; week his fine two-year old bull aes car taal of f t Ate shipped to $10,000,—stockhoiders, H. W.| Crump, marshal ot Fayette, lame | ++Panache,’’ to Messrs. Dorsett & | He bidaa ie iets Raped: i Gh i Harris, Lon & Speed | Stephe 1S, | down | st ni he to take charge ot j Dudley, ot Freeman. Price $250. Pe at ihe “aa aes pairs headoae | Walter Hutchmson and F. W. Mit-} John Cain, colored, who 1s wanted Warrensburg J.-D: Mr. J. J. arom nnn Raee of them aie Grove. Jasper county, was attacked following the bent ot his own incli- | Combs purchased last week of Geo. 2 Ly, Was and bitten by a rabid dog en Sunday. The animal was followed and killed. Dr. Free of Avilla, examined the nation, and stealing property that be- ; E. Brown & Co., of Aurora, Iils., longed to others. police court tor being drank and dis- | cattle; Brown | largest breeders of this stock being nm ed with much anxicty by the entire | and sneaking attempt war made up- Jno. Kersey, community. onthe Lte ot conductor Dinsmore, Carthage Patriot: ot the C.& A. Ry., last Thursday | | One o ! \ Yesterday a 600 pounds—-price. $250. soon raked in the fellow and recover- : inches in diameter, no imported ani- the landlord had ’ i; the next car, and slipping up behind showed us an old copper coin which si yer and made the tellow give up his | Warner, their’s making an average ot 1s quite a Curiosity Itus about the arms and surrender. He was turn: | over 1,200, but E. D. Saples ‘takes Willard Thompsen, of this county Sj at Cilo, Saline county, in 1882. oa Hatton tound it, together with some } Indian camp kettles, while plown na ticld in Lowa in 1851. county tarmers. The wheat which ten days ago was thouzht to be dead Osceola Sun: On last Monday | : would be ano utte: failure, has | Harrisonville Democrat: The| 4 seedy looking individual dressed in | sprung cut and never Jooked better | Grand Jury adjourned last Friday. | a long rubber overcoat, checked shirt at this time of the yea Favorable | Its work has been a general topic of | black slouch hat aud smoking a clay | weather from now to harvest and no | discussion on our streets. They pipe witha very short stem, entered | bugs ot mms will give us an im- tound about 175 indictments, and it | the county clerk’s office and made! mense of wheat. | | common rumor is to be belived, they | some inquiry relative to astray borse Henry county Democrat: Sylv 1 slich Fe Ce eer ee . H slighted but few. . Pines sav, the | which he claimed had strayed trow ter Buns soldto NM. B.C il H ci NE! c ce rE i oo | . 5 st a. - a | indictments include dice throwers, him down in Texas county, and a! , Se Clee cae : Hat ye i whisky drinkers, all devices ot gam- | trend had written him that it had | yor Sinica Tack : 6 — in ) bling, and every offence known to] been taken up by a man in this! 7 eee eal a eo, See ‘e rs j the statutes. “The next term ot our county and he wished to see if that! 2” hie € yes — ee ch dee | €ritainal court promises to be a rich man had posted the ammal in tins | YO" 45 NS farm east of the Osage, lone ; zs ec , bear Perry's ford. Mr. Burris has i county as the friend had written to iother young jack only thre | : a is him that the man had moved to Hen- : aa . < | Clinton Daily Advocate: Osage ; poten j months old, which ke will not sell | City, Mo., April 3-—This evening, | TY county. When Capt. Cornelius | tor $600 He measured twenty i .. | had finished looking over the stray |.0' z ; ie — | three inches from tip to tip of ears book, the seemed captured who escaped from the State Sead ie eee area Cc site Se, | When toaled, and was two feet eley- ——— last night, about one- ae eee oon ieee rae as pas jen inches in height. halt mile from this place, by Jack Henry county Democrat: E. Hardin, fames C animal had not been posted in this | owiey and George : . i y Springtie ynshi i Morrow. The prisoner is a lar. county which the Capt refused todo, | Journey ot Springfield township, is = 12 So is a large | _ fat Le : vey | ON Of the most successtul raisers and black negro, and will be delivered and while they were cavilling over | manuf : 1 }to the Warden, Willis Bradberry, | ‘25 minor matter Thos. Hicks--the H Picea ubete 2 OL SOT ties aa mole j to-night. The prisoner confessed | County clerk-—came in and the Capt. nee past years he has made mre oo yery gentlemanly referred the Texas | #!ons tor himself and neighbors. j ser Sta son | 7 presi! Mi. Hick The | Last year he made 600 gallons for ior a term oi fiiteen years, of which | COUMtY man to Mr. tee himse He find ey gentleman then stepped up to Mr. | Dimselt. c finds a ready market he had eleven more to serve. tor murder he committed. He aiso says} Hicks and laid out a bundle of pa- ae ee 2 ane oe ie er eam he and three others escaped at the | Pers and stated that he v Mire Me ee Cnn mane “CNS cep same time. 7 1 Gee x deputy U. Marshal and! W'thout ary interference with his! then left the room. Upon opening | 0ther cron. ; Henry Cor nty Democrat: On| the packet it was tound that it con- a2 1s ts ted that there are! Saturday a special grand jury was | tained 3 peremptory and 4 Alternate | yoy 153,00 us of wheat | empanneled to investigate rge | mandamus cnd also summons to ap-) on tana the United States, which | against George Beasley, arrested pear at the April term of the U.S.) would give 1.000.000 bush. S per Monday near Clinton, tor complici- | circuit court to be held in Jefferson! day trom March 1 to August 41. The} ty i the robbery Sunday night week | City April 21st. The vereniptory consumption ot the country averages | fro: e tor A ney hi. t le & cFarland’s store jr 2 S2 oO = . } ! ‘nan with the support of Bates coun. Attorney General. This is not of Doyle & McFarland’s store in | amounts to $34.000. just about Soo,c00 bus vill 20 into t x é doue, however, witheut a proviso, | Brownington. Messrs. E,W. - = 5 be the surplus reserve at the be ¥- will go into the cony ab | Cashman. W. UC. Edmo Big Roral World: Ringbone in colts, epee more sees AME 5 wach is to the effect that Henry and - pee Se oe Soe > c : gining of our harvest w er ne han averace pros Be 1 = | Fair, Joshua Carney John P. Leg. Svs an exchange, conics fiom per- ceed 30.000.000, ev ! ped ec a en ernon counties sert all other as- oor Faye cree Ss ye Ra an a Z 1OOS >, CVEN Suz ng the pressed with this belief, Mr. Aber- | : pine aeats aN Other as- | James Arnold, Robt. B. C BEC psc Gee ee ence EO StI DIAL WOOG | ee a now and then should aathy is inducedto make the Pirants for the Governorship and fall | FP. Munsc J A. Sisson andj €" Concrete, brick, stone. or other | i pres t f 9 is <i. Sisson : . é : z ito the present stocks o snd it will he with an obj Face. | into the Phelps ranks. | John A bradley, were ted. who | bard floor any time betore aitamin 1 eneayy: cada - ae Ss i + wh i 3 : his is a he 02 > mee ewicce te» vera The Leader appears to ignore the | "i tned true | of i about eighteen months ze. Pre- i The Eners. astures_ all So ecttots support ot other t ae th aa | burglary and grand larceny | Vious to this they should be kept on” gk > Wi ik counties i south- Oe 3 : } : . - : ‘ thathe willmeet and compete with 5 eon ; Messrs. Dic and ! pasture of a dry soil during the sum- Holstein cattle combined | sem in an open and honorable ase, West in its estimate of the strength | 4ppeared as his attorneys. a | mer, and it stabled in the winter, the | size, Mita constitution, — rapid : re : arry Gov : eae ee oor <taoae = dca loose ect rig and early maturit th Zave. and should defeat be his again, necessary to carry Gov. Phelps of guilty was entered. and his pun- eae Id be dry, loose carth. I apieltis Tre poe he emurans eit Se will be the last man to *"_’| through. If the Zeader’s Guberna- | ishment fixed at three years in the. the s re is clayey, then it ought | unequaled dairy quakes. A v Say aught | sonal candidate gets a vote in Bates} Pemtentiary. Judgment and sen. '0 be covered several inches deep common y pe antl Uiood cowniss with sand, tanbark, sawdustor straw, 1 9.000 to ‘nee bis most earnest support. pz = age } Was among those taken to Tefferson | OF Coarse hay, the two latter being der year. are pure and eee wisdom ia discussing the political | City Saturday. cut up short in the straw cutter. | Strong d transmit thei Th latest move of the Prehibj- | Situation henceforth. The Times. I cs : If this 1s not done, the straw or hay | Charateristics to thew graded off- “omststs to introduce the temper |like the Nevada Democrat, 1s for, B. outhwest ore anasinends About | gets piled up in heaps ou some parts spring. They cross well with r iper- | Barton cor lead. —t ast week, tl he floor and tl is left Preeds or nativ Weigi f ee ee = | Marmaduk = = : ad. t ek, the the Hoor and in others :t is left Pre oF nativ eights o = ~ into the public schcols Big te Ne nd Boone, too. | Missourian announced the discovery tre, renderimg it so uneven as tobe ture Holstem. cows 1,400 to 1,700 ei the State by means of textbooks, | 'S 2 candidate. ot lead on L. Ellison’s place. a mile uncomtortable and dangerous for the hundred Ibs.. and bulls trom 2,000 and a-half South ef town. oits to stand on. It suffered to run to 2,500. This breed is rapidly com that time, the owner, wit! out in the vard with open sheds, the into favor throughout the United further enhightmen > bas ins soil should be ioose and ary, and tree - There are only S.o00 of Series of investigations w 1 result- frem stones or coarse gravel Thus this breed in America. ed in establishing the fact that the *reated, colts are pretty certain to Sheldon Enterprise: The la Tg-| grow up with well-shaped. sound, tough hoofs, pasterns, legs. est shipment of cattle in one day! ankles and! from this city was last Tuesday. Irons : «Brothers shipped 15 car loads from: © very similar m= appearznce to ose of the famous Corry mmes_ in jzel. A brick building 20 by 50 feet | in howard county tor hog stealing. PJoward made a tnp to his farm, | will be commenced at once, adjoin- | The crime was committed last De- south ot Knob Noster, Saturday. 5 r ; : , i ing Mrs. Quinlin’s store, on H. W. | cember, and since that time Cam has He has 115 acres in. wheat, and re- Harris’ lot. not paternal ee in that penon of | ports ian dsne canadian = ¢ | the country. ewas securely lock- : i Golden City Herald: A son of | the country ; wail in this place for | |) Doonvule Advertiser: Joe A. E. Hall, who lies at Maple | ed in the county jail in this place fo Cain has been in| €leven head of imported Holstein the the me eal ee turbing the peace since his debut in | - a Mad tome {the city. He will have a trial in| United States. up fallen fruit quicker than hogs, ive been applied to the wound and | Fayette, and will probably cease his} Harrisonville Democrat: Messrs. | this 3s often very important, as everything done that can be and the | depredations for a while at least {Dorsett & Dudley of Freeman — worn cena —_ Ss i é = lee ie apple soon after it drops. pices eras E Sey See ae “4 vardly | township, purchased last week ot | the apy Ps. Bur result is as may be supposed watch— Fayette Advertiser: A cowardly | Ps | Siu lackion connie with either sheep or hogs, suffices f the finest and largest bulls in the state, weighing upwards of 1,- oe 5 ihe . z : night, by a tellow named Joe Pow- bd 4 —— a i ell, of Gilliam, Saline county. Pow- | Ex: _ The Holsteien breeders. = Rcd sn Jo tue foe a 1 Taek leave neice heat Missours ell who lives at Gilliam, got on the] association of America has voted Pacific train, the proprietor paid him | tin at Slater to go home. When | down the proposition to change wae for the coat. Suspicion pointed to the conductor calied on him for his | name of Holstein to Holand. Two Charlie Sagmar, and Policeman | 4% be was told the train could not) examiners will be appointed for | Morker sree iven the job, and he | SP 4t Gilliam, which so enraged j; naming cattle, and no annimal will male Joo him he followed the conductor into | be received having a red spot four apap oe thoten Gad a” him acteaypted to wae Ie throat. He | wee moder a year old will be accept- change the coat for cash. Charley made a coupie ot deep cuts in his | ed tor repisthy:- | pines in jail. tace and was ouly prevented from | Osceola Sun: : Uncle Johnny : ‘ accomplishing his helish design by | Kneale has sold his feeding steers’ Harrisonville Democrat: Mr. J.| the interference of passengers. The! They averaged 1120 pounds each, M. Hatton, of this county recently | conductor gota pistol trom a passen-| ditto Messrs. Jno. and Plillip sizeota copper cent and on one side | ed over to an officer at Glasgow who | the cake’? with one noble fellow that | is the profile of a man’s head, and turned him loose because he said he | reached close to 1,600 pounds and {on the fess nude female. Phe} had no right to hold him. We} sold at $6,00 per hundred. ; com contains neither inscription or] tearn he wes a‘terwards arrest. | = cee een Tee ay What nation was tssued. Nir. re or Pca Be | te! ay “ ave adce Isa s 7 ee ee Ir.) brother to the iowcti_ killed by | of dollars to the pockets of Howard | 12,000 pounds of rich), fattened for the June market. Dy ing the winter Mr. C. has used | large amount of corn and other f | most of which was purchased in thy county, thus turmishing a home ma ket for our surplus produce at Teng! merative prices. Rural World: Skeep are one oftie kinds ot stock to keep in orchard After a little practice they will pick tood must be supplied or the tree will be barked. The food thus gi en goes, however, where it will & | CEN. CHARLES G. GORDON Over in the Soudan, in Khartonm, on the White Nile, this famous ger | oy }eral is now threatened with anoihi hilation. As the special ageat o jthe British Government Genent Gordon was dispatched up the Nik ion of conciliation and ft assurance to the Soudanese, and ter a short time after his arrival in Khar toum andthe issuance of two ft markable proclamations declaring j that the rights of the natives would | be protected and the slave again a | lowed, it seemed to the world tha | General Gordon, witha handtul @ | men armed with the diplomacy @ peace offerings, would prove a com quering hero egainst the army ast cause of the talse phrophet, B |Mhadi. But a reaction occured ant | to-day the situation is of the mot | alarming character for the personal | safety ot General Gordon. Ever | While this article is in type the new | may be flashed across the Continemt | that Khartoum has tallen and with# | brave ‘**Chinese Gordon.’” General Gordon was the younget H.W. on a mis | son of the late Lieut. Gen. Gordon, R. A. After rec |miltary education at | Academy he served in the Crimeat war with great credit. In 1860 fe visited China and by a bold ant dashing, yet judicious support of the Chinese Emperor in the Taipimg Campaign he earned great honor credit trom both the British and inese yovernment, and hencetort was known as **Chinese Gordon. His reputation now grew world-wide The late Khedive ot Egypt, Ismail 7 as called General Gordon to bi 1 in abolishing the infamous slave de and strengthening his decrea® ing power. Attera labor of five years on the White Nile, in Dartow i rdovan, he had partly accom returned @ Khbedive his mission and present + as the Tewfik Pasha. was not favorable j t i The preset + compticatio induced ic to again send Gener Gerdon into that country as a com tor. His loss would be a calaak ity to his government. He i present fifty-four vears of