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Itcontaias only the Purest Drugs, among which may beenumerated PRICEL7 AST Ba: 48D BERRIES, MAND2AEB, BUCEU, SENWA, £: {t cleanses the systema thoroughly, and as a PURIFIER OF THE BLOOD Is Unequaled. It is not an intoxicating beverage, nor ena it be used ag such, by reason of its Catharti¢ Properties, Seite 7 PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO. Soto Proprietors, ST, LOUIS AND KANSAS CITY. FACTS RECARDING Ds, Hartar's fron Toni, ify and enrich the BLOOD, regulate nd KIDNEYS, and RESTORE THE and VIGOR of YOUTH! hial!! those wiring acertainand efficien. TONIC, yspepsia, Wantof Appetite, Indizes- of Strength, etc., its marked TM fomediate ‘and ._ Bones, es and nerves receive new fore: Lis Wemnd and supplies rain Powe PoeY ens LADIES seteiis to att complaints re veirsex will find in DREARTERS TRON ToNTO 9 caret en E The it gives a clear and healthy complexion. mony to the value of DR. Mo., for oar “D: on of strange and useful information, free., HARTER'S IRON Tonic 1s FOR SALE BY ALL AND DEALERS EVERYWHERE. Mee ‘ocak lain Sealey envelope prec: f + Address OR. WARD & CO | toniai (is HRS Si nha eterna aaa BR. STRONG'S PILLS! The Old, Well Tried, Wonderful Health enewing Remedies. S SANATIVE PILLS Fes the 22vss: Regaiating the Bowels: Puriiyine Fee Br uaanal Taint A pers Disorders." — £Coughs,Cotd pear ORAL PILLS SStomecerie NRA of the bowels UA precious Boom je females, soothing and bracing the fem. and siving vigor and health toevery ody. Druggists. For ‘ampbiets, .. 18 Cedar St. N.¥-City dant VIRGINIA CITY Pierce & Aimstiong DEALERS IN NOTIONS, RY GOOD Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, , h a Groceries and Queensware, | —Also a tull line of— Hardware and Implements, Call and price our goods and examine their qnality. VIRGINIA, MO. 203m KZ % Zo Ww, DEALER IN FURNITURE, BABY CARRIAGES of all atyles and prices, Good Hearse Always on Hana COFFINS Made and furnished on_ short notice | Orders may be left at F. Evans? stabie after night oron Sunday, Butler. Mo vinl THE ACME PULVERIZER, CLOD CRUSHER AND LEVELER, For Sale at the Grange Store Lvon & Williams. (North Main St.) Two Doors South of the POSTOFFICE —Dealers in— GROCERIES HARDWARE —AND— QUEENSWARE BUTLER, MO. no tt All who have ex- } EY BS Re perienced and = “ Se Witnessed the et- fect of Hostet- ter’s Stomach Bitters upon the weak, broken down, despona = ing victims of spepsia, liver omplaint, fever ague, rh matiam, nervou debility, or pre- gv> mature decay, - know that in this LEBRATEC r4 ar there exists F reaches the very and effec cure. For A FiNE OLD FRAUD. Rudolph Smith. +~ tor’ emperance Ora —From Drankenuess and Thievery ;to Forgery—H, Last Eratie Effort. he E Rude temper »] t n causi rou Misse rn, and nota in Harnsonville, Mo., bids fair to get himself into In Harrisonville, remembered, his anthemas were serious trouble. it will so violent and his letters to a paper in this city so scurrilous detamatory, t town by the ears. About month Smith came to this the first of the city distinguished himselt by goi listing im going on He several a old bender. the red for consecutive days, was twice arrested tor drunk- eness, was charged with stealing an high town painted overcoat from the Metropolitan ho- 12th was sent to the rock pile in of the wherewith to pay court fine. This was ‘‘nuts’’ for the people he had libelled in Harrisonyille. Smith was released from the work last -Saturday. With an amount of ‘+gall’’ truly colossal he returned to thesscence of his former labors to bleed a too confiding pub- lic out of a few more dollars on the well worn temperance ‘racket.’” The manner in which he essayed to clear himselt of the imputations alluded to. may be explained by the following correspondence: East Lynne, Mo., May 21, ’84.— Thomas M. Speers, chiet of police, Kansas City, Mo. :—Is the within certificate tel, and finally, on the inst., detault a police house a genuine article from you? Please let me know by return maul, also return the certificate. W™. A. Ssirn. This letter was received by Chief Enclosed following, which the was the charac- Speers to-day. chief terizes as an arrant forgery: Headquarters Police Department, City Hall, Fourth & Main sts., > Kansas City, Mo., May 18.5 ( THos. M. Speers, } UChiet ot Police. 5 To whom it may concern. This is to certify that no such per- son as Rudolph Smith, the Journal has this correspondent in Cass county, ever been on the rock pile in city. The arrest of a Rudolph Schmidt, and the personal interference of a drunken man named W. P. Barnes, was the cause of the publication in the Times of this city. Mr. Smith is engaged inthe pub- ication of a book im this city, and as- es with our best people. The man Barnes represented himself as *-presiding judge’? of Cass county. Truly yours, SPFERS. Chief Speers aaswered as follows: Office of Chief of Police,—Kan- sas City, Mo., May 22, Wm. A. Smith, Esq., East Lynne, Mo.,— Dear Sir:—Your letter of inquiry enclosing what purports to be a cer- tificate from me regarding the char— acter of Rudolph Smith, an ex-tem- perance orator. of Harrisonville and ecently a member of our rock In regard to mor pile torce, is received. it I can only sav the certificate is a base forgery. I am_ satisfied that the old fraud Rudolph Smith **sneak- the letter head on which it is office and then It he m know at ed’”’ written, out of my forged the certificate. your vicinity please let me once and oblige. Yours Very Truly, Thos. M. Speers, Chief of Police. ith is, in appearance, fine looking man, about 55 years ot age. Chief Speers is confident that he forged his name, and says he 1s a drunkard and a scoundrel. As a temperance orator, Smith has been successtulvery . How he obtained possession of the letter head upon which his bogus certificate of char- acter 1s written is not known, but the i t he picked it up out the police station. is a s icion 1s Charles O’Conor did not desire to live anv longer. When the doctor first prescribe for him he was par- ular to inquire as to the nature of the “Ido not want to take medicine. anything which will prolong my lite : **L want only that which will keep me from pain. Tama very old man. Ihave suffered much. I want to go home _ I bave made my peace withthe E al-God, and I want to get awat he said. morning | | in readiness for his j the absence of and | Tilden at Gre ystone. From the Post Dispatch. New York, May uel J. Tilden lett | mercy Park on § sammer 8 froww and walked bri ing-room to his pleasantly to several among health os id appar Proved since he had last on seen there, x Mis form seemed more usual. A retinue ot ser- vants had arrived at Greystone | the previous day ana everything was arrival, Dur Mr. Tr ous improvements nave been in prog- ress on the large estate. Dr. Charles Simmonda, Mr. Tilden’s family phy- sician, w1ll eccupy an adjoining res- Mr. Ii. *Green will, as usual. take up his summer residence at Mr. Til- den will only receive his most inti- mate triends. idence. Andrew Greystone. He will purchase or hire a yacht, as his physician has in- dorsed yachting as beneficial to his health. Colonel Benton and his Mother. How touching is this tribute of Hon. Thomas H. Benton (who adorned the United States Senate tor thirty years) to his ence: mother’s influ- “Ivy mother asked me never to use tol acco. Ihave not touched it to the;present day. She askedme not to gamble, and I neyer gambled. I cannot tell who is losing or winning in games that are being played She admonished me, too, against hard drinking, and whatever capaci- ty for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I may have attained through life, I have attribut- ed haying complied pious and correct wishes. was seven years of age, to with her When I she asked me not to drink, and then I made « resolution ot total abstenence, and a that I have adhered to it through all time | owe to my mother.’ It would be well for the land it Senators would read this, and profit by this solemn voice, as it were, from the graye. re | than the late Col. Benton, one of the best the purest, and No man did more work most correct men that ever held position in this or any other countr Living With a Bullet in His Brain. From the New York Medical Recerd. Dr. W. P. Hartford of Beetown, Wis., sends us the history of asome- what A young man, aged 30, was shot in the face, re- ceiving the full charge ot a shot-gun His head Tare Case. at a distance of 15, yards. was struck with seven No. 4 shot and two bullets. Dr. Hartford writes: ‘*One bullet penetrated the trontai bone three-fourths of an inch xbove the right supraorbital ridge, and I think it passed nearly if not quite through the brain; it cut a clean hole through the bone. We probed the wound about an inch and a halt; it wentstraight into the brain, and there of the brain substance the where lie feil when shot. another bullet wouna just under the right eye that penetrated for about was some on ground There was The course of the bullets was trom right to left. The patient Was unconscious, and then what delirious for a He finally recovered entirely, except for in the right hand and leg.’’ an inch. some- few days. a feeling of numbness Plymouth Religion Boston Transcript- A lady entered a Plymouth store, } saying that she wanted to purchase present to her husband approaching _ birthday. what she wanted, to his shown a bible upon She was and, having made her selection. was | ; i | large, old-fashioned house, with its xubout to retire, when she suddealy remembered something else. **Have you playing cards?’ The shov- keeper had playing cards, and the lady selected two packs. As she was going out an old gentleman remarked: ‘*That’s Plymouth ligion all over--one bible and two | | to Mrs. James K. Polk, one of the packs of cards. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The greatest. medical wonder of the world. Warranted tospeedily cure Burns Bruises, Cuts, Uleers Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Cancer<, Piles, Chilblains, Corns, Teter, Chapped Hands, and all skin erup- tions, guaranteed to cure in every in- stance, or money refuuded. Prive 25 cts per box. Forsale by F. hoor | Swered by a | We sent our cz on} | den numer | ice « | | re- | | returned j the year AT THE HERMITAGE. isit to the Aged Widow of Presi- dent Polk. We rang the bel grand old mansi le servant by wh ard to Mrs. Polk, a mes sa om who 1 would On e surprised to that be »y to receive us. ing t room we were ich a youthful looking woman, who is STILL BEAUTIFUL AND GRACEFUL. Possessing a charm oi many the manner of young might envy. Said she, *¢Although I never go into society, and have not since my dear | husband’s death, J that | National Bank. OF BUTLER, Oldest Bank in the County. MO aid in, - - $75,000. - $27.000 Large Vault, B urglar-Proof Safe with Time Lock prepared to doa general bank- Good Buy and receive deposits Nc., 2 are DIRECTORS. J.C. Clark, fon. |. B. Newberry N | Lewis Cheney, Dr. Elliot Pyle 2. P. Henry, 1. . J. Everingham, J. J- Ryan, Dr. D. D. Wood, Geo. W. Miers, a Fa am glad when | not suffering from rheumatism, to | see my friends. I am have a representative of such a jour- | nal as the Inter Ocean call upon me. I read the daily papers and am_ in-| terested in the political events ot the day. Iam sometimes surprised at myse'f that at time lite I my of should be so interested inthe affairs | of state, for they are all gone of my day and generation and IL am only waiting the Master’s call. We here in the old house, my Mrs. George Falls, and their daughter, Sadie Fails.” She continued: ‘You know had no children of our own, so my niece has been mv child, and her caughter, who is now just 17, and who will graduate this summer, is our household idol. Many of these pictures you see are the work of her brush.’’ The of the beautiful daughter entered the room live niece, husband, Polk her we handsome mother and after exchanging greetings I re- marked: ‘*We were speaking of your daughter.’’ **Yes,’? said Mrs. Fal's, *‘we are proud ot Sadie. Here is her last work,’’? a painting in oil ot ‘*Psyche,’? which was artistically painted ot beauty. Said Mrs. Polk: *‘Sadie too is a fine elous and a omarvel musician, possessing ame voice. Iwish you could hear her sing. I ottencome mto the parlor to welcome her young friends, for I! want them TO FE - THEY ARE WELCOME here, and it I was not present they might think they were disturbing the | old lady.”’ During last Mrs. E summer Is and her daughter were in New York. | saw the Mora, the young lady and gained her consent »hotographer, I gray to sit for a picture. ed her hat and shoulders with white tulle, and the resembles fairy queen, ed as we were sz did not wonder at artists wanting to picture The young lady enter pleased to | President- - Vice President. Cashier. NATIONAL BANK Opera Tlouse Block, BUTLER, MO¥ Cash Capital and Surplus, $57,850. JOHN H.S T.W. CHILDS, Wa. E. WALTON 1C. ©. DUKE DON KINNEY President - Vice President. ++ee+eCashier. . -Ase’t Cashier -Clerk and Collector. DIRECTORS Dr. T. C. Boulware, R, D. Williams. Judge J. H. Sullens, A. L, McBride, T, W, Childs, Frank Votis, Wo, Walton, C, H, Dutche. T. Rue Jenkins. Booker Powell, Green W, Walton, Dr. N, L, Whipple, OTHER STOCK HOLDERS: G, B, Hickman, C, C. Duke, John Deerwester, O. Spencer, John B. Ellis, J, R, Estill, S, Q. Dutcher, J, 1, McKee, Henry Donovan, A, H, Humpt rey, | Large Fire and Burglar Proof Safe with time lock. Receives deposits subject to check at sight, Loans money buys and sells ex change and does a general Banking bus- iness. Your business is respectfully solicited THE HORNS The artist drap- } Be ying adieu, and TU; copy thut lovely face, for she is beau- | tiful. In the centre of the parlor mantle | é i i was a printed copy in frame of Pres- } ident Polk’s first to houses of Congress message of States of America, delivered at city of Washington Dec. 2, 1546. In another trame wasa printed copy of | this | his inaugural address. Beside stood a gilt frame which contained a piece of silk embroidery done at Salem institute, North Carolina, in 1518, Mrs. Polk. lite-size portrait President by of walls of one of the parlors; also por- | traits of Washington, Madison, Mon- Falls re-} the presidents ; roe and Jackson. Mrs. marked: well **You see are represented here.’’ This heavy Corinthian columns, is the home ot culture, refinement, comfort ; | and content. The garden walks are lined with blossoming tul:ps. and we brought some away as SOUVENIRS OF OUR PLEASANT VISIT most estimable and remarkable women otf America. «The preo! of the puating is In the eating,” 89 says the old adage, and so the proofof the va eaor a medicine is the opinions of those have used it. Thos. Rass, Sr., of Steel- cays, “Lh.ve used Prickly Ash Bitters a my family for? yearsfor ailments of the Llarys, liver and bowels, and find there isno remedy equal to it.” A; and j Mrs. Polk, by Healy, adorned the ; both ; the United | the | | Grocery House OF C. DENNEY AC their well known and popular stand on the East side of tne square, are leading the |'GROCERY TRADE IN tar BUTLER. os ‘Their stock 18 composed of Feed Flour -and.the best qualiy of Staple and i hancy Groceries, Glass, Queensware and Cutiery. i THEY ARE AT LESS EXPENSE Than any house in the eity, aud therefore do uot fear competition. They pay liberal prices for Produce. | They solicit acontinuance of the pat- | ronage of their many customers. and will gladly attend to their wishes at apy and all times. Goods delivered in the city mits | promptly. Chas. Denney.