The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 14, 1884, Page 7

DYING IN DROVES. ~ WIRGINIA CITY | DEALERS IN in Philadelphia Rocord. **Over $20,000,000 has been spent Be as pen eee < ; : a in establishing homes for the engi- NOTIONS. | | neers and workingmen atong the ‘route of the Panama ship canal,’’ has been tor more th a@ year er \ gaged in dredging operations on the ae ats, C: canal, and a just returned home after a the dreaded swamp fever. **Pienty of moncy there, ae tian?’ “Oh, plenty. only There is one g more common than cash, and Men like Only the Italians The dead are posed of without ceremony. A sh:al- (ueensware, | —Also a tull line of— Hardware and Implements, Call and price our goods and examine their qnality. is death. die leaves in autumn. appear to live. dis low grave, no prayers, and all 1s in 203m VIRGINIA, MO.| a moment forgotten. There are aor nel 15,000 men at work on the canal. Badgley & Gipson, mostly negTOES from Jamaica | and the French West Indies. These negroes are brought over in droves as fast as those at work die, and I venture to say that not two-thirds of the 15,000 laborers now at work will be alive a year from now. It’s dreadtul. Five thousand died dur- ing the past three months; but the large pay tempts men to brave the danger. The company appears to pay off every two weeks.’” ‘‘What progress has been made in the tour years?” **Well, two miles and a_ half the canal proper has been dug out. Onginally this section was dredged to a depth of tourteen feet, but is soft swamp lands pressed down on either FOR SIXTY DAYS, of As we must reduce our stock tor other Goods. Weare always Top on Produce. Pay the now only six feet deep. the HIGHEST PRICE FOR FRESH PRODUCE. side filling in the canal from under- A great deal of work has: +r, been done with the great Competition is no bluft to We al- eath. ways meet the closest pric BS howev steam shovels in leveling the bigh South Side, Green Front. lands through which the canal 1s to pad dredging will soon be Work 1s now piogressing upon the only large pass, started in those sections. mountain which bars the way ot the canal from ocean to ocean. ‘This mountain, foo feet high and nine cut miles in circumference, 1s to be down with steam plows and carried wry at away. The company has been com- Z pelled to spend $20,000,000, as I AW TIT? > YD i YH. sk EN i £422.14] said, to locate homes through the F Sy or ich as a basi : mente ite swamps, from which as a basis. the FURNITURE work of digging out the canal can BABY STARRIAG be carried on. The work necessi- tated the building ot railroad at all styles and prices, Good Hears? Always 21 [Trax | branches into the swamps. and the COFFINS making of solid toundations with Made and furnished on short noties | stone and gravel, hundreds of teet Orders may be lett at F. Evans? stable nde ose : Bor alter night oren Sundxy. Butler, Me wide and miles in extent. Labor- ve ers get $3.2 day, and skilled me- and bosses $100 to $360 a month.” ‘Wall the canal ever be finished ?”° ‘Not, I think unless the swamps are constructed, and 5 asm | CHANICS trom THE ACME PULVERIZER, with piling, that would cost so large an amount ot money that the scheme could not possibly pay. But the company appears to have all the cash neces- | sary to carry on the work.” The Irony of Fate. From the St. Louis Breeze. There is not to-day in ali tnis CLOD CRUSHER AND LEVELER. broad land so distinguished « char- acter. upon the thought of the nation is so constantly fixed as that of Samuel J. Tilden. nor among all the great names is nor one whom For Sale at the Grange Store = there one so frequently on men’s | tongues as his. He stands « PPEEPUPCP CREE PTTL EEE EL EEE ] Tell the children to cut out and save the comic suhouette pictures @s they appear from issue to tsue They wit be pleased with the eollection His fame and = stand- from official sources, tor the highest office he has migh colossal. fang do not come filied is the governorship of his n tive state. | Onthe other hand there is no i . lan who ever neld high station so - rarely spoken of ; wh» has gone into | an obscuriry so profound, into an oblivion so complete. ss Rutherford B. Haves. And gone within less than four vears from the office the ret, however, the gift of the peopl mto this he has This space is owned by BLACEWELL’S BULL. H nation, highest m The answer to the question so ¢ ten asked, why do the Democrats of the country want Gov. Tilden for | president? foreshadowed m the attitude to-day of these two men The full | wrong was done when Tilden was eight years ago deprived ot the of- answer is i i None genuine without trademark of the Bull. the | fore the people in proportions w ell | elected, and that the par:y which he so successfully led to victory feel satisfied until cannot night. The actior prompted for justice r qually and ! Now that dered by that cans. the centenn year and sot rsecond thought has we believe that a ity of thinking Republicans would ’ see Tilden placed in office should hav | ment made fo: wise irreparable his phy- jsical condition could make the movement possible, there other He is athorough statesman and a true representative are reasons why it should be done. American. Few men could or would have dared as he did, to attack the rings which (larg— ly in his own party,) with vast pow- er of money and minions, had tat- tened upon the city of New York ruling it with bold, corrupt and un- scrupulous sway. Yet ie drove them from the place they disgraced and brought them to punishment. In all his public utterances he has mapped out the noblest lines of true government policy, and on which ambitious aspirants haye planted themselves He has with equal clearness pointed out the dangers that lurk in and threaten our institutions, and his umtorm declarations are ac- cepted as the cardinal principles of our government, yet he declines to en- ter the present campaign, though earnestly and honestly solicited trom all quarters. He feels himself that his age and infirmities unfit him for the He may again give his consent, and ii burdens of the high station. does, it is clear to see that no other name will be mentioned. What a contrast does he present Al- though the administration ot Hayesin to his successful competitor. many regards was one of the best and mest saisfactory the country ever had yet there hangs about it an odium which nothing can remove. In it of gress was brilliantly Init the S the second century national pro- entered upon. uthern states were fully self the antagonism of sections largely era of restored to local government removed, and a new Yet it was hich he progress honey- left heritages to his successors, and which | iuangurated. comed with fra as were chiefly the handiwork of those whom he officially and richly re- warded for clothing him with honors to which he had no title, and most of them, too, are sharing his oblivion. And thus under the grim irony of fate these two names will go down the years, the unsuccessful one, ev n it still unrewarded, stul which his best friends would not dis- gaining in honor: ga the succ under a cloud | one | pel it they could, yet less blame- worthy than those who aided him im the wrong. Justice will reach its tull fruition in the future, the fame and infamy will be fairly balanced | and measured, the tions generd and what their could government stand. Worth Luughing ai. Lime-Kiln Clui b. Trustee Pullback then offered the | following resolution: ' Dat **Resoived, when 3 has bin tried in due form. convicted | by an honest jury an” sentenced to | | ple have confidence. de criminal { = | should stay dar’ untill his sentence | has expired. that vote. and this iam Jones moved Giv | roll be called upon tt i only name marked as opposing the | resolution. “Dis resolution kivers a subject of deepest interest to de people at large”? said Brother gardiner when the vote had been pronounced. “A robber or embezzler or defaulter or thief or even murderer kin sit down wid a piece of chalk in one han’ an’ that a great a shingle in de odder an make clus | De murderer makes a break. on figures dis matter. * strikes hrs victim an’ fice of president. to which he was | De papers howl. de detectives rush i rong is made ! will | 3 i wonder at what their ancestors bore, | pusson prison by a judge in whom de peo- | the | being done Shindig Watkins was the } ian’ de public t am not picke a fusilade agin’ }ed to exercised bn’ power pa j to restere a perfeckly mmmercent man to society 7" | \ Men of Mark. } Sofaras heard from everybody but Chester A. Arthur has to be a candidate for President. declined El] Mahi. who left eighteen wives ut home, says this war is the first peace he has enjoyed for the past ten years. The recent report that Senator An- thony was seriously ill is said, by the Beston Journal. to be entirely un- founded. Ex-Judge William A, Beach, one ot the counsel in the Beecher-Tilton case, is reported to be dying in New York. Wiggins has resumed business as At off a prophet ‘*This,’’ observes the lanta Constitution, ‘tis not an vear with anybody.’”’ Its stated that the late Charles Reade has not lett more £20, 000, the bulk of which goes his than to godson, Mr. Charles Liston. Adam Badeau cr the United States Government had to go under. The Governmeat would not resign. and Adam went out. Gossips are making as much as possible of the alleged tact that Sen- ator and Mrs. Logan have leased their Chic:go house tor four years. Tire late Sig, Sella, the [tahan always steadily refused to He $6, ooo diamond snuff-box from the Em- peror of Austri statesman, receive gifts. dechned a nda fine horse of- fered him by Victor Emanuel. A boxing match im a private room was gotten up by fifteen prominent Boston men, mcluding several mem- bers of the Legislature, to be fought knock-out nuinutes cach for $150. The New Haven Register of May 1 said: **Forty vears ago last mght President Woolsey elected President of Phi Beta Kappa. Last night he gave the time-honored grip | in six rounds o; three was to the initiates trom the jumor class.”’ Jules Claretie msists that the Pa- risians Co not know Paris. each one being familiar with only a certain at. A he says, tan Englishman or an Ameri- portion ot stranger,” can, after a residence ot three weeks, might serve in Paris as a guide to Parisians."’ Rabbi Gottheil says: 1 young marden and a | young were man knees and should get down on his swear that his lips had never touched those of another maiden Twouldn’t have him. I shouldn’t want any- thing to do with him.” Mr. Rabbi | takes this means ot saying he | wouldn’t marry a liar. Editorial Dots. Burlington Hawkeye- | trade dollar. ' Colonel Ingsey 1s now part owner of Mr. Dorsoli’s | New Mexico | ranche. A dime museum in Philladelp has on exhibition “the only sacred white hog.”” { Verdi plays billiards for his only He plavs the ff but that is **strictly business.” : alsa, recreation. “Little Brown Jug.”” the Tennes- see picer, is in Roboert Bonners stables. Wohatis a stable without a littl: brown. =One smile begets snot! Ohio poet. Yes, shat is the great of this ridiculous American urse vit of ‘*treating.”” { - nie : - | New York is still struggling with an underground railroad project. Everybody has a boom except the ’ sings | We suppose the burrow of public works has charge of it. Wh Shakespeare wanted to hnow what was didn’t know that Mr. Jc Groome owned a stock turn rons “St. | Hampton, Wa. A chureh ist Ve gz in some = G ll Hawley. alt “ we is sing no s > over inself, is niv, it , the joker to As ily the man addressed, “lm a wine merchant."’ Aguero is swinging through Cuba, villa | shooting spaniards, and creating as | | i | | liberating slaves, burning though he had lost the last sylable of his name. ‘Young Orator’’ wants to know what is the best exercise for the lungs. Try to attract the attention of Central’ through a telephone. P. S.—This exercise will also teach you to swear. No wonder Hon. Col. Tom Ochil- The the tree sassed Prince Bismarck. State of Texas is larger than whole German empire, its area ex- ceeding that of the **fatherland’’ 62,- 265 square miles. **Hone, I see is the best poiicy,’” remarked the new barber, carefully trying the edge of a dull razor on And sharp report of the boss’s strap rang his thumb nail. the quick, on the morning hair, and the guilty man lay weltering in his lather. John Kelly says that Tammany will support the Democratic candi- date for president, whoever he may This that the Democratic candidate have to be. means, also, will support tammany, which is # much more expensive thing. The Washington when completed, will not cost more than $800,000. It is quite possible therefore, that Cyrus Field may buy itand move it upon the spot where monument, Andre f Or mor accurately, euHere he “aropped: Mr. Franeis D. Millet says **Mary Anderson’s costumes in) Pygmalion Galatea, and the costumes in the Harvard Greek play are the only ever been correctly worn.”’ He designed them For a Clean Shave Go to Crouch Bros. eorner of the square. They have aneat, 35- } co Lyon & Williams. Main St.) Twu Doors South of the POSTOFFICE (North —Dealers in— GROCERIES HARDWARE —AND— BUTLER, MU. no tt Rege forenf systems ng froma gen- eral want of tone andits usual concommitants , dyspepsia and nervousness, is seldom deriv a- ble from the use ot a nourishing diet and stimuli ot appeti aided. je icine tI j etfect a ' of the specific } obstacle t« ewed vigor, that is a genu- | ine corrective, is the real need. It isthe | possession of this grand requirement t which mikes Host-tter’s Stomach Bitters | so effective as an invigorant. For sale i py all druggists and deaiers generally. much consternation and shivering as | shop, near southwest | BATES COUNTY National Bank. BL R, MO Oldest Bank in the County. 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