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e Table Mo. Pacific R. R ANI iT OF TE An Asylum Warden’ RROR. (Lexincton & SourHexn Baancu.) rnggle with a Commencing Sunday, May roth, and Se , gotil turther notice, trains will leave ane on Butler as follows: | a GOING NORTH. A Cunning Mad ’ ; Fi 123—- Expres AM rms H No, 125—K.C. Expr pM | “ 133—Accomm nodation.. pm | GOING SOUTH. | No. 124--Texas Expres 4PM i # 326—K. C. Express 5AM The chiet r , & 130—Accommodation. 5AM night, thou All passenger trains make direct con- nection for St. Louis and all points east Texas and all points south, Colora was a life r in foe » | my father, to whom he this California and all points west and north- * he \ S ‘west. Forratesand other intormation | Ctisis of his lite shortly oe apply to I. Lisk, Agent. currence The man in questic <_< Mr. Caldwell, was then a man of et Societies. | family, twenty-seven ye rs old, wit Si hair as black as the raven’s wing. MASONIC. He held : alas Butler Lodge, No. 254, meets the first ee Oster 8 seer oto Saturday in each month. the State Asylum, at ———ville, aj > Miami Chapter Royal Arch Masons | No. 76, meets second Thursday in each place filled with every degree of in e i K sanity, fiom the raving maniac to Gouley Commandery Knights Templar nt Re eter Mar » meets the first Tuesday in each month. the babbling idiot. One cold evening in December, 1.0. 0. FELLOWS, Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- 1827, a reform officer drove out to | day night. the long, low bnck building, and Steditdcsmpment No. 76 meets the ae : | and and 4th Wednesdays in each month placed in the keeper’s charge a mid- dle-aged lady, privately telling him that, though at times apparently sane, as she appeared then, she was (0. D. PARKINSON, Attorney at | Teally a devil incarnate, and was not i op aeliebeeligua” square, over |to be trusted for an instant. The keeper took the lady, and placed her in a strong cell, in spite of her ear- | nest protestations of sanity, | variable Lawyers. eee ]. S. Francisco. S. P. Fraycisco. RANCISCO BROS. Attorneys at Law, Butler, Mo., will practice in the courts of Bates and adjoining counties. Prompt attention given to col- lections. Office over Wright & Glorius’ hardware store the in- | acteristic of similarly affected. Seeimg that was secure and well provided tor,he 29 returned to his - | the char persons | she fire remainder of e and passed the laughing and talking with and three little children. | At six o'clock the old colored mis tress, in whom every confidence was | placed, afternoon Phys DRS. RENICK & BOYD Physicians and Surgeons, BUTLER, MO. OFFICE: EAST SIDE SQUARE, Dr Renick’s residence Corner Main and Fort Scott streets. began to make the round ot the cells to minister to the wants of Unfortunately, she had not been cautioned in regard to inmate of cell 13, the inmates. the OVER LEVY’S Nearing the she heard lamentations ot pitiful kind, and told between smothered sobs that the inmate “dying for a little fresh air, and God’s sake to let her draw one breath.’’ most Dr. Boyd’s residence, : Fulton Street, north C: was P. church, was for L, RICE, M.D., Eclectic Physi- je cian and Surgeon. All calls ‘Prompt- lyattendcd to. Office up Morris’ Drug Store. pure Moved by such entr the old woman cautiously unlocked the door, and opened it a little. In stantly she was seized by the throat, jerked into the cell, choked and beat en until apparently dead, robbed of Vs Stairs over W. 1H. Battarp, DRS. CHRISTY & BALLARD, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS _ J.-M. Curisry, her keys, and Jocked in by the stran- AND SURGEONS, ger, who now by her foaming mouth Office, tront room over P. O. Ail calls answered atoflice day or night. Tele- phone communication to all parts ot the City. Specialattention given to temale diseases. and savage expression showed the Gloating over her suc- real demon. cessful treachery, she moved noise- lessly among the cells, unlocked them e _ | and liberating their fiendish inmates, AT, £, BOULWARE, Physician and eens ee ee i Surgeon. Office north’side square, | Sign, with death-like silence crept ler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- <= i = all z st Sita a specialty. into the dimly- lighted hall and stood A eagerly watching her actor. When she. had liberated forty or fifty ot those worse than savage brutes she led them atong the upper hall to the | head of the stairway, where she RUTLER stopped as if puzzled. While all this was going ACAD EMY unsuspect g warden Was EAE ENE RST on the} enjoying the peace and comfort of his cheer- ful He sat fondling his youngest child on his knee, his curls and fireside. vo stroking patting his rosy cheeks, while the two older ones, boy, and a WILL OPEN entomber 7, 86 For Particulars Address J.M. NAYLOR, Butler, Bates County, Mo. chubby girl, were scrambling for a place on the unoc- cupied knee. fair-haired Suddenly he rose to his feet, and, hurriedly placing the little one in its mother’s arms, stood mtently listen- ing, while a deadly pallor overspread his face. He quickly double locked and barred the spikened oaken door, and with his revolver in one hand PA | TEN’ I Si! and an ax inthe other, stood anx- 1ously awaiting. i e The maniacs moved slowly and with as little noise as possible till | Wm. @. HENDE ON ’ they reached the warden’s door, . Py nie when, suddenly grasping the knob, | PATENT ATTORNEY AND SOLICITOR, | they turned it quickly and threw | themselves violently st it severe | OFFICES, 925 F STREET, . " al times. Find:n secure their | . OU. Box 50, washington, ,D.c. | fury knew ro bou Some dashed Formerly of the Examining Corps, U. $.Pat madly others Patent Office Rete abner deral Courts. ala i veneed oee its | While some ot the more vicious hed. Hand Book on'Pa’ | nnexed FRE Be. Practices before the Supreme Court and the inions give Ingment of pate and promptly ith reference their cle x SECU vy rammed agains iied with the wildest 1 made way tor this m Finding their utmost en- | | deavors, however, unavailing te , burst open the door, they turned the beam aga | stantly his wife |‘ lif it were recognized of its ability to} by the tostering hand of government, ee 4 i ast the brick wall, which, } { | after a prolohged hammering, began to crumble. As brick by brick OSAGE RIVFR IMPROV MEETING. was they manifested } ess by p redo a efforts. 1 the warden perate on a te es | yy aren Opera House Bloc! k, = h ng was called to mat j by N. Johannes, and mediately | nett he oe i ae hannes, and immediately | | BUTLER, MO. . “, | the position of Congressman Stone | : Be on the improvement otf the Osage \ Es ; as discussed. His speech | i ’ z sia Cc its 3G ek lls ot congress on the river } ispecies ero and harbor sropriation bill was} SURPLUS $4.00 read, and it was the general sense ot | : --—_——— JOHN H, SUL L ENS. J. R. JENKIN Wan. EL Cc. CG. the meeting that he was opposed to | iations for rivers of the Osage S re] | Jo ies, chairman ot - : it ceria me! Bestin the World. + President e President. Cashier, t Cashier, c ee and Collector. DIRECTORS, Dr, T. C. Boulware, Booker Powell, J.M. Tucker, Green W. Walt Judge J. H- Sullens, Dr. N, L, Whipp J. R, Simpson, Cc. C. Duke, a ‘rank Voris, Wo, E, W: alton, HL. Du cher’ J. Rue Jenkins. commi then ce a ‘ ee foll lowing report: ng to force his way thro he = cegae ae i ; Four adjacent to this piace, comprising an area ot 75,000 townships 86 - ,, acres ot tilable land, at an average 4 GRAD COMBINATION Butler Wee - 86 to see the f yield of 35 bushels of corn per acre, give us annually 2,625,000 bushels ot grain, two-thirds of which is sur= plus for export. nis without a larger Ing. So again oper they seized the beam and ¢ ed pou jueG pou Another reasonable : Times c s 4 ee and careful Receives deposits, loans money, and But when their ject 1s almost | aoa ee nares a transacts a general banking business. accomplished they are suddenly in- |" a ee us a BOONE PAOS, i Wsiexteas to our ragecthis cre et } } 5-000 head of cat shi ‘ommodation consistent with sate bank- terrupted by the appearance of the cattle for shipment, Ph iso 1,000 head of horses and 15,000 head ot hogs. Outside of this, said territory contains S,o00 acres of good ing. litia on the scene. AND THE LOUISVILLE There 1s in-| " CORRESPONDENTS. Bank of Commerce : Fourth National Bank - Hanover National Bank - . complete lull; not g can the regular tramp of St. Louis New York as wel. as : : : comerane s they file the hall. inte as at 1,000 cars per um for the two latter articles. scuttled Courier-Journal. The report of the above committee oe otis eT. BATES COUNTY a Iving ex-| ® { was received and adopted. National Bank ; ae | Phe Committee on resolutions was Both 8 enter the wardens! tel Ww » Pre- : } and the c rman, J. . : . < 2 find him limp and mo- = 5 ee ns J (Organized in 1871.) id the following report: tionless the His features ‘ : e MO. WuHerEAs, River navigation torms BUTLER, are withered and ae and his once | the earliest, most natural and cheap ad raven black hair as white as snow.— | Capital paid in, - - $75,000. means ot above you will receive Denver News. be bar Courier-Journal, t inter-communication And »ved trom tl ard. LLM ed by Ben Hill. WHERE It is the proper sphere : | Surplus e ees $ 31.000 I 1 the other day from a high government to provide tor those Z ——— conte source, Writes & corres~ | works of internal improvement that HOS, Je MEWBERRY Hitec: pondent of the New York World, a | benefit large numbers of citizens,and J.C.CLARK - (= Cashier. true history ot the cause which led! which from their nature must be kept to the death Be Contgderate Senator | the control of confering the yreatest good upon the greatest num- to | ber; southern | | torever unvexed by Yancey. Yancey, when he from E for working people. Sea ‘ HEL 10 cents postage, and we will mail you tree, a royal, valuable sam ple box of goods that will put you in the way of making more money in a few days than you ever thought possible at any returned | corporations, thus ey 1, made For Hard" Times. a report to the | ate of his tailure > recognition of the Anxp Wuereas, The Osage river ss a ond business. Capital not required, You contederacy in England. It was ia | runs through a portion of the United TRE RUTLE? 1 > WEEKLY TIMES can live at home and work in spare time that speech that he used the oft-| States already populous and abound- ee only, or alltime, All of both sexes, of . : \ : 1D BO ue a allages, grandly successtul, 50 cents to quoted sentence, ‘Cotton is no ing in natural resources apart,whose -?DEMOREST’S== U LUSTRATED - MONTHLY ern- | are capable of indefinite increase, a —=MA \GAZINE The state’s rights theory | portion of whose productions of the | With Tweive Cot Paper Patterns of your own carried to an extreme would soon] mines, the soil, the pastures and the selection and of any size. result in anarchy. This speech was TH PUBLICATIONS, ONE YEAR, executive 3S es devery evening. Tinat all who want work may test the business, we make this unparelled otter: To all who are not well satisfied we will send $1 to pay tor the trouble ot writing us. Full particulars, directions, etc., sent tree. Immense pay absolutely sure for all who start atonce. Don’t delay. Address Of all the Magazines. Stinson & Co., CHTAINING Stories, Poems and other Litera Portland, Maine+ Seren eeriericg Artictin; Sclestifo ama Fons Veqnates Wotag "Faniy Vognalles We Grfng Pelee. eee Household matters. longer king.’’ He said then that the | ieducenes are but in the infancy of confederacy could give no guarantee | their development. but which, aided naintain a stable form of ge } torest, already tax heavily the means the | of transportation now at command, 8 5 R; During the de- | and which in the course of its tuture —FoR— 75 (TWO SEVENTY-FIVE). AEMOREST’S THE-BES made in session of contederate senate. bate w development will require a large in- j h followed he became in- | | crease in fac volyed in a heated dispute with Ben | Hill, = Dun insult was given bv es for communica- tion with the rest of the country. Yancey, or at} Therefore Resolved, That weask re, least Hill regarded it as an seas | that the congress of the United States } : Soeesaped apes the discussion an pcre eer pe €186,3, Fes » resented i | Raney : : i ted with Original Steel Engrave large glass inkstand aud threw it at] sufficient sum of money tor the pur-| 9 it»e We eee ng it the Mode Yancey. It struck him upon the; pose of a suryey of the Osage river COUPON E . e ection Of . spine, below the center of the back. | from the western boundary of the i in that number, 7 t | y i He fell over into bis seat and taint- | state of Missouri at least, with a view ig justly entitled est in ed. From recovered. that blow he never | to ascertain the best and most prac- His illness was a spinal | tical method of improving the same trouble resulting from the blow given | so that it would be fit for navigation him by the inkstand thrown by Mr. | In every e price and quality Made to Order be the Twenty-second year of its publication; is continually improved and so extensively in the front rank of ipo by steamboats; therefore art eue + oe Hill | Resolved, That belieying that] [ica Tae tel a fly uses Pu s nd x Gan eve ae From Alabama. |the Osage river may be easily] NO BY SPECIA, RoRetnENT COMBINED Call and see me, south room I have been afflicted with the! and cheaply improved so as to grange store. J.E. TALBOTT, Merchant Tailor Butler Weekly Times at $2.75 Per Year. rheumatism over three years. Two | be available as a 1265 years of the time I could not walk a step—could not even stand on my highway commerce and that its improvement would be of great benefit to the in- 47 1y. feet. My joints were ail swolen, | habitants of its valley, therefore we aFERR RY &i Be | : A and some of them running sores. [| will co-operate with our fellow cit:— eee 0, Og ee LADIES! me ‘ 5 ent | commenced taking S. S. S., and in| zens ot the Osage Valley in urging DES. Tete With Haxoven’s Tatton System yon fean Dresses to fit, without oral instructions. makers pronounce it pertect. a for dese Book and Donble Tracing Wheel, 5 TO INTRODUCE, A System, Book and Wheel will be semt on receipt of $1.00. Address six weeks was walking. I consider | this matter upon congress until this that I am cured of the worst case ot | great natural highway shall be open- rheumatism that I ever heard of, ana| ed to commerce, and we hereby Swift’s Specific did the work. | call upon our neighbors and fellow Ike Pruitt. Salem, Ala., Jan. 21, 1886. citizens to awaken to the importance of this matter and to unite with us in unceasing effort until we shall win final success. JOHN C. ‘HANOVER, CINCINKATI, 0, Wekn above statement to} n presents given be true. We gave him the medi-| The preamble and resolutions were PLAID SHAWL GIVEN AWAY 1 S20 ), O00 Send us 5c. | cine (S.S.S.) ‘The day we unanimously adopted as read. aetailure of alargemanue | postage, and by mail you will get free a guscaret Cashmere Pattern The ehas Sloe tata our andy package of goods ot large value, that will srart you in work that will at once bring you in money taster than anything else was instructed to forward a copy ot statistics and reso- =e bout t oo in make lutions to central committee at Jef- iu America. All about the $200. - are cae pu as: pire at presents with each box. Agents wante sta the result of | ters to ope up corres- everywhere, ot rither sex, of all ages, for ur own observati 2 all te time, or spare time only, to work for us at their own homes. Fortunes for all workers absolutely assured. Don’t delay. H.Hatvetr & Co.,oPortland, : Maine- z. 3 ti wie 3 r _ ill send ¢ shawis Apans bros. & tempo- - alee set ea hat this in general mer , Ala., Jan. 21, 1886 satise on Blood and ratv organization be made a perma- ; aoe t one to work up the Osage nver _—— rove imp matter was de- i more money than at anything ed free next meeting. \ IN=: taking an agency tor fe 5 5 » b eting udjourt < Beginners suceee: Tue Swirt Speciric Co., Drawer pone SESE adjourn- re poo fail, Bo td a 13, Atlanta, Ga., or 157 W. 23d St., | ed to assemble again Saturday, June] - a re ee N.Y é (19th Postland, itaine N. Y. (Igth. -