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Pacific R. R- Brant e No. facie “gaps (Lexincton & SouTut " Acnestt ams: ng Sunday,” May toth, and Commenci 4 eget ® moti turther notice, ras follows: 3 _* 30ING NORTH. of 3- Exy Te: a Ne ta3-—K. C. Express “wy 3 Accommodation | GOING SOUTI _-Texas Express.-- - 124 Be: 126—K. C. press-.--- “ 130—Accommodation 1 All passenger trains make direct con- | | nection for St. Louis and all points east points south, Colorado, | d all peeeni points west and north- California and all west. For rates and other intormation Iv to i. Easx, Agent. | ip peer | \ { ——— ———- ASONIC Butler Ledge, 5 No. 254% meets the first | " urday in each month. | aioe! Chapter Royal Arch Mas No. 76, meets second Thursday in each | ab. Goeley Commandery Knights Templar meets the first Tuesday in each month. ae which nature hy . FELLOWS. Hage egal seat cure of disease. It Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- night. utler Encampment No. 76 meets the and and ath Wednesdays in each month Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, the #reseIAL, once wrote to a fellow wie suffering from indixestion and kidney diseare “ Try Mishler’s Herb Bitters, I teaieve it will cure you. I have used it for both indigestion = after ton of the Kidneys, i a is th combination of mm MISHLER HT ap BIT? 525 Commercc ~ FF Parker's Pleasant Hee Syrup Never Es Lawyers. HOMAS J. SMITH, Attorney at Law] ButlerMo-. Will practice in the ¢ourts of Bates and adjvining counties. Office over Bates county National Bank. ee 7-tt. i (Continued from laat week.) How Watch Cases are Made. nitation always follows a successful icle, and imitation is one of the best proots of real honest merit; and thus it is t the James Boss’ Gold Watch Case has mitators. Buyers can always tell the uine by the trade-mark of a crown, from J.S. Francisco. Ss. pe omee. RANCISCO BROS. ican at Law, Butler, Mo., will practice in the courts of Bates and _ adjoining counties. Prompt attention given to col- fections. Office over Wright & Glorius’ pardware store 29 a ARKINSON & ABERNATHY, At- torneys at Law, Butler, Mo. Office | h is suspended a pair of |. <7 ji “A e 22 : RADE, St {MARK west side of the sauare 22 Be sure Boru crownand™ 5 Banaras =a | safes are stamped in the cap of the watch V.BROWN, Notary Public But- cautious abo Jewelers are very en- n article unless they not on! good, but that the characte irers is such that the quali 1 the goods will be kept fully up to stanlu Witiamsporr, Pas., Feb. the James Boss’ Gold Watch’ Cases go lie bos = Don't need ler Mo. Will draw and acknowledge dee is, contracts, leases and all papers re- quiring the acknowledgment or jurat of a officer. Phvsiciaus. L, RICE, M.D., Eclectic Physi- je cian and Surgeon. All calls prompt- Wyattended to. Office up stairs over ‘Morris’ tee Store. ialiy with the newand improved case unto beeverlasting. Jesse T. Lire, Jeu New Brunswick, NJ, Jan. 8, 1883, | a W. H. BaLLarp, DRS. CHRISTY & BALLAD, out-worn the movement, w \ | ; . ’ Ma A. Hi HOMOEUPATHICU Of Board of Directors WF BR. Hout. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Gfarm we Boss” and Keystone Watch Cases aro (Jo be Continued.) WANTED GREEN AND DRY HIDES, FURS, SHEEP PELTS. Tallow, Beeswax Wool, Feathers, Rags, |sPoT CASH PAID AND NO eptember 7,85 crumain. ster taes LEWIS HOFFMAN, J.M. NAYLOR, North Main St Ofice, tront room over P. O. All calls answered at Ofice day or night. Tele- phone communication to all parts ot the tty, Specialattention given to temale diseases. T C. BOULWARE, Physician and «Surgeon. Office north side square, futler, Mo. Diseasesof women and chil- fen a specialty. F.RENICK, M. D., Physician, Sur- «geon and Obstitrician. Office, east side square, over Levy’s store. Residence comer Main and Ft. Scott streets. RUTLER ACADEMY WILL OPEN we Butler, Bates County, Me. THE Ac ME PLVERIZER, DR. SCOTT’S WANTED £, Corsets. Samy AGENTS: ee Territory vem, satisfaction guaranteed. Address DR.SCOTT,842 Broadway St.,N.Y. AND LEVELER,3 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Por Sat ve at the 4eSTABLISHED : 5 ‘The most popalar Weekly ne deroted Carangwe Store | toscience mecnasice enpneering dissoveres a= x peptipas aed patents ever published. “Every Bam— ai ber illustrated 7 iN / iWm. &. HENDERSON, ATEN ATIURAEY 4\0 SULICT OFFICEs, P.U.Box 50, Wastinsion.D. t- “information “cheerfully farnished. oe Book on Pater Teferences annexed, ce Screstunc Ad assgicas, 3a broadway, ‘New York | ment ot the first wite’s marit A QU. EER LAW SUIT. ee Strange Complications Arising From the Marriage of a Kentuckian— His Daughter-Wife’s Posi n. ee surier—Journal Joseph Haley aad ch vs. Samuel Haley, which was argued | and submitted to the court of appeals | at Frankfort yesterday, is one ot the | strangest cases that ever reached the | court tor adjudication The appeal |1s trom Bracken county and involves an estate worth upwards of $40,000. Thomas Haley died intestate in 1883. He had two wives living and | one dead. By Martha, his first wite, | he had five children; by his second | and dead wi'e 1d tour children, | and by his t t wife he had six. After birth of three children to the first wite the husband instituted | suit against her for divorce on the ground ot adulterv, and a decree in accordance therewith by the court in 1847. He then mar- ried his second wite but lived illicitly was rendered with his first wite by whom ke be- | the father ot Margaret, wh | ne his third wife. After the ai | } Vorce had been granted his second wite died, and the first wife had the | divorce proceedings set aside, ana | the case reopened for turther hear- ing, but nothing ther 1g, after was ever done toward prosecuting the suit to a termination and the case was finally tiled in the condition of a rein state- al nights. iter Margaret arrived at years of muturi- ty, she Subsequently, when the daug was duly and | married to her tather by and with her mothers consent. The marriage now ciaim to be heirs-at-law, which children ot the first the children of the other two marri- ages deny, on the ground that it can not be proved that their father at any time the lawful Marthy Haley. The children of the second marnage was husband ot claim to be the only the and issues heirs of the deceased, because third marriage was incestuous therefore Both ot the of the latter marriages are equally in- void. terested in preving the illegitimacy ot the first, otherwise the first would heirs at-law, and the two last offsprings of the biga- mous union, be held the only The singular reiation 1s then developed of a daughter at- tempting to prove herself ot ilegiti- mate birth and thereby recover prop- erty at the expense of her reputation and that ot her mother, who is also her mother-in-law. A Queer Story that is Doubtless Untrne. On the files of the war department, Governor Curtin says, are tworather spicy dispatches, one addressed to him by Secretary Stanton, and the other his reply. It was late in the war, probabiy in the spring of 1564, that Governor Curtin carne here to see the secretary har- ot war, and after giving him a rowing description of the cond:tion of tedera! prisoners in Andersonville he appealed to him to save them. Mr. did not he do anything. *‘Why,”’ he said the governor ot Pennsylvania, Eee eae Stanton said he see i how could we have thousands of contederate prisoners; let there be anexchancze. With some heat the secretary asked it he meant to propose that we diseased not the number of heuld take back « lot of and enfeebled men. who could the ranks, confederates return and give an equal althy and well-ted men,who at once recruit their armies. Curtin he was Stanton, that ‘Wiel, who Governor said was ct! afte j exact ly wi id professes to be loyal t = ie <a the man > govern- make t ought to be ashamed ch a treasonable suggestion. Curtin is an irascible gentleman, a ion. ioleric condit fter he got home he n the secretary a as follows: ‘Ia loyalty to the you rould vate I ver have secretary: left. where long j thetic little ditty as | weil to our own case. | A Good Tavestment. A gente dressed n Aust c lan, ake sir, that ist jec my “We yy itt tre a public- spitited man, and ch dis- posed? *Yes, me tely s« “Well, [intend to commit and leave my family utterly desti- tute. Of course, x collection will be taken up for my suffering tamily,and you will be called on to subsenbe You cannot get out ot it decently under twenty dollars.’ “Well.”” ‘Now, I'll agree to postpone my rash act ag muse the matter fortwo dollars. is or indefinitely. compre- That what you All I ask is the By this t you make eighteen dollars ten per cent. of would have te pay. ordinary commussion. ar- rangeme off-hand, ithout investing a cen without investing a cent. The Hopeful P. M. The toliowing beautiful and pa- the very it so appropriate that we cannot resist the temptation to publish it. prepare to shed a tear. On Spring River's stormy banks I And cast a wistful eye At postage stamps I would com In the hopeful by-and-bye taken from Carthage Patriot would apply in tact, is Let us stand, hand O, could I read my title clear To the sal’ry I desire, I'd bid farewell to ev'ry fear, And sound my tunefal lyre (liar) How tejus I now find the hours, While waiting for the scroll— 1 fear that after all—‘‘the powers’ May the other chap enrole. I wish they’d hurry up the cakes For I am getting tired; 1 fain would know how long it takes To give what I desired The World’s Champion. Mr. Ed. Hanlan, the great oarsman and until his recent contest witn Beach in Austrialia the champion ot the world, may certainly be looked upon as an au- thority in everothing effecting athle sports. Betore leaving Austrilia for this country, he wrote a letter in which be stated that he had used cobs Oil with the most beneficial results. He found if a reliable remedy for muscular pains in the arms and limbs,and trom his personal experance took great pleasure in recomemending No stronger proof of the truth of what is claimed for St. Jac- obs Oil could be furnished than this, and it will undoubtedly carry great weight with all thoughful aud intelligent people. THE CENTURY. FOR 85-86. The remarkable interest in the War Papers din the many timely articles and strong ser- ial features pubiished recently in The Century has given that magazine a regular circulatien of More Than 200,000 copies Monthly. Among the features for the coming volume, which begins with the November number, are: THe War Papers sy GENERAL GRANT AND OTHERS. These will be continued (most of them illustrat- ed) until the chief event of the civil war have been described by leading participants on both sides. General Grant’s papers include descri tions of the battles of Chattanooga and the W derness. General McClellan will write of An- tietam, General D. C. Buell of Shiloh, Generals Pope, Longstreet and others of the Second Bull Run, etc., etc. Naval combats, including the fight between the Kearsarge andthe Alabama, by officers of both ships, will be described. “The ‘‘Recollections of a Private’? and special war papers of an anecdotal or humorous char- acter will be the features of the year. SERIAL STORIES BY Howells, Mary Hallock Foote, and Geo M 11's serial will bein lig of Silas Lapham.” - and Mr. Cab: uisiana of papers on including negro ser- & w Db. t SE OES cal and Papers ntatives of va Papers on Mat SHORT STORIE. popular, on **s on Christian Un Ss Jackson Joel Chan- anvier and nk ta. 7 ) Mrs adler Harris, Julian Hawthor others: and partments— ete., will be Johr Prod - OFFER. wy a year. To the war paper: -au- r COMPANY, : ) | “:|ANTGOMERY WARD & CO. New York. | JOHNSON = Commercial College' 421 N. 3d St., St. Louis, Mo. Open All th the ‘Wear! 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