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ry The Butler Weekly ¢ NOTICE TO TEACHERS :—Public Ex- aminations for the benefit ot those per- sons desiring to teach in Bates county, | will be held on the 3d Saturday of each month in the Ohio street school house, j Butler, Mo., and on the 1st Saturday of month in the West side school house, Rich Hill, Mo., the examination com- | mencing each day at 9 o'clock, A. M, W. W. GRAVES. County School Commissioner, | w. E, TUCKER, DENTIST, BUTLER, MISSOURI. OFFICE OPERA HOUSE. MASONIC. Butler Lodge, No. 254, meets the first Saturday in each month. Miami Chapter Royal Arch Masons, No. 6, meets second Thursday in each month. Gouley Commandery Knights Templar meets the first Tuesday in each month. | i | 1.0. 0. FELLOWS. Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- day night. Butler Encampment No. 6 meets the | and and ath Wednesdays in each month ——_ Lawyers. W. BADGE LAWYER. Will practice in all courts. All legal business irictly attended to, Office ever Bates Co. Na- tlonal Bank. Butler. Mo. ARKINSON & GRAVES, | ATTORN«YS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over down’s Drug Store. Lans- HOLcomn & SMITH, _ LAWYERS BUTLER, MO. Office front room over Bates County National Bank. T “W. SILVERS, a ATTORNEY : LAW Will practice in Bates and adjoining counties, in the Appellate Court at Kansas City, and in the Supreme Court at Jeffer- ton City. bee-Orrice North Side Square, over A.L. McBride’s. aitt Physicians. J. R. BOYD, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Orrice—East Side Square, over Max Wei: 1g-1y , Butter, Mo. DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, t om over P.O. All y or night. given to temale dis- ront roc calls T C. BOULWARE, Physician and e Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women and chil- tren a specialty. Secret Societies. DORN & PIERCE—BARBERs. Shop on North Side Square. We give special attention to Ladies and Children’s hair cutting. We keep the best of Barbers, also grind scis- sors and razors. Everything first- class. All work guaranteed. Give us a call LOOK HERE. It you want to save money get. LEE -:- CULVER te do your PAPERING, CALSOMINING, PLASTERING, AND CISTERN WORK. BBSatistaction given or no charges made. Office at Jewett & Hickman’s Furniture Store. == THE ELDREDGE. Bi: aan oat anton Cockle’s silts Pills. This old Engitsh Family Medicine in | use for S6 years all over the world, tor | Bile, Indigestion, Liver, &c. Of Pure, Vegetable Ingredients. | is sold by all druggists. One hun- | dred doses one dollar. From Mercury. per- isons were killed outright at the 2 Jnited States | wreck and six died at Waycross dur- | ste: ion has erected a monu- BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY MARCH 21, When James G. Blaine Dect WOULDN'T GRANT THE WRIT. Strawberries will grow on pumpkin vines When James G. Blaine declines Boot blacks will give us I cent shines. When James G. Blaine « courte will col nes. ‘County Judges Will Re- i, for the Present at Bat will promptly then pa. When Jame: No more will t We will all Blaine done in comn nd lemon nes. in oran for the re- There'll be twenty-five catcher. bali | * EpUS : nines leas puisoned St. Clair When James G. Blaine declin Mee een And a monk : ‘ : When James ( WV apue i for the petitioners, : ' ral and J. M. Lew hampagne will flow from resisted the peti- There is no doubt we will lose our m And be quite able to dispense with our : When James G. Biaine de hie gued and relied il for plaintiffs that ld be granted because | NINETEEN e held in contempt of the federal court for refusing to make a tax levy prohibited under penalty by the state law. The court held this to be invalid onthe grounds that fhe state, by , constitutional or legislative acts, has And Twice ws Many inj Fatally. Frightful Wreck on a Rail- Georgia road, Due to a Defective Trestle no authority to curtail the jurisdic tion of federal courts. This leaves the | judges between the devil and the deep sea. If they comply with the order of Savannah, Ga. March 17.—The first section of the mail train from New York for Jacksonville, went the federal court they are liable to | through a trestle ata point seventy- | indictment in the state court, and if | five miles south of ah this they refuse (which they have) to| morning. The entire train except | ohey the mandate of the federal the engine is demolished. Nineteen ; court they are in contempt of that people \ tribunal. killed, and thirty-five injured, ten | After Judge Krekel denied the of whom are expected to ai » The writ of habeas corpus the counsel private car of President Wilbur of | £5. petitioners made application for the Lehigh Valley railroad, with | appeal to the United States supreme Mr. Wilbur, Geo. Gould and wife, | court, and others in it, was in the train. | President Wilbur is reported to be ltled to an appeal. seriously injured. George Gould | is unhurt. Mrs. Gould is slightly injured. Relief trains out with physicians. ‘e reported to have been which was also denied, on the j ground that the case was not enti- The attorneys say, however, that original proceed- |ings will be commenced before the supreme court. have gone IMPERSONAL. —Sir Charles Dilke is one of the most skillful swordsmen in England. stone ef the four Presidents of } the F h Republic since its origin in | 1870 was born in Paris. of Beira, the little | covered from ugh asudden | THE DEATH LIST ENLARGED. A representative of the Times- | PERSONAS ASS Union sent from Jacksonville arriv- | ed at Waycross, near the scene of | the accident, at 7:30 to-night and found the ment. wild with The number of dead gates twenty-five, about equally di- town excite- | Duke aggre | vided as to color. Nineteen ese cemetery over th tes men-of-wa » there. Some of | to 1851. | President Diaz, of | shed in the City of “Friendly Home of the at which small chil- d for during the day thers are at work, y possible explanation of that 23,226 letters 4,486 negotiable pa- per found tl way to the dead- letter office, that the senders got confused studying the postal regula- The wou: at Waycr ing the afternoon. are being cared and Biackshear. Several expected to di vite of English Spavin Linir Hard, Soit, or Blemish from Curbs, Splints, S Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warran ed. Sold by W. J. Lanspowy, Drug. | gist, Butler, Mo. S-.yr. circumsiance Desperate Work of a Robber. | heart, {man’s words, enough to embri Nevada, Mo., March 13.—Elder J. N. Bunch, of this city, was assaulted at the railroad crossing near Mound- ville, in this county, this evening by | a highway robber, who stepped out and ordered him to dismount and give up his money. He replied: “I have none.” The man then seized him and pulled him from his horse. Bunch struck at the robber three times, but did not know where he! aig as ee | lately of Norfolk, Conn., makes be- . | quests aggregating $88,500 to various of a revolver and immediately two | religious “charitable and educational shots were fired taking effect in the | anata ed ages haueatd _— 7: ; Olege. Mrs. U) vi r eR OT Tt = of Joseph Battell, a se Yale $85,- 000, and after whom Battell Chapel is he was insensible and then robbed | named. him of a watch and chain worth $50) —Anent the question whether the and $11.50 in money. The citizens | German Emperor travels free of ex- . pense over the German State rail§ are much excited and are scouring PODS .Ov' ‘ rail the country. | tions and that they forgot to direct or stamp the mi s.—Boston Trans- eript. —A good story 1s told of the Lords of the British Admiralty who went down to Portsmouth to inspect a ship. The phonograph was turned on for their edification, and the first words yielded to the eager ears of the naval lords were, ‘“‘We want more pay; we want more pay.” It was the bottled-up voice of the Lieutenants. —The will of Mrs. Vrania Hum- phrey, formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y., and ways, it is positively stated that, with bu single exception, the | Ex: as well as the ial fi I I don’t know where, eel ul Vain don’t see how- of the family are, however, Spo oes deprived of this privilege. d peculiar medi- | the other German railroads—and the cine, Hood's Sarsaparilla. I want | Emperor, be it stated, always travels everybody to try it this season.” It | by extra train—he pays the regular | tariff fair for his person and suite, as well as for the baggage. — Chicago Trib- une. a wol ing that poy vein of On all | A LEAP-YEAR ROMANCE. Ernestine’s Wooing, or Love Chestnut Tree. cHar Under the drawing-room me. The young ma quickly hid his fa With took them fondly Ae and loving, gentle one she ad “Ah, love,’? she whispered, ‘look atme. Look deep into my soul and see the heart that beats its sweetest cadences to the measures of your na i took his sensi ite hands | ; in her own, and modest the daisy looks upward to the me = sun he turned i There w thrill in his an in- describable power ! upward, into a sof filled his yery b of fir and balsa: hope to the w sumptive. ng him upward, which weet air, as the fra | with life and rd wasted con- CHAPTER IIL. “With all my hears, E Sweet as the mus waters or muflled silver bells; and low | as the organ harmonies whispering to each other among the earvit and the softened frescoes of some grand old cathedral choir, were the young and they brought to Ernestine such peace and rest as until i this day her 1 t had never known. “Oh, Henry, she said, and held } out her hands to him. Again the bright young blood surged to his cheeks, an with a glad little ery he threw himself into her arms, and like a tired bird, he nestled his | bead upon her shoulder and shut his | eyes to all the world to dream of | Heaven. | | estine.”” CHAPTER IV. There let us leave them. We can ¥ cause he —particul them be- pear to be left APTER V. Thus do we see what there is in Leap Year tothe hungering and thirsting soul of the yor man who knows 2 her opportuniti them. — Washington And Critic. ein es oo KALEIDOSCOPE-MAKING. Deft Young Women Turn Out Six Gross | a Day in One Shop. “How do we make kaleidoscopes? | Come this and I will show you.” | The spe » a thin-faced German, | long engaged in manufacturing | kaleidoseopes, led the w: into a At a work bench extend- | th of the shop many | small store. ing the entire len girls were busy. “The first young woman,’ said the manufacturer, ‘wraps the black paper about the glass reflectors that produce the optical illusion. These strips of | glass, when thus arranged and fastened together, form the body of the kaleidoscope. The next girl simply inserts the united reflectors into the pasteboard cover and then passes the octagonal pasteboard tube to. her _ neighbor. Num- ber three adjusts the brass ring which secures the glass discs in the end. Be- tween the discs, or plates, are placed the scraps of colored glass, the beads and various trinkets which tumble about as the kaleidoscope is revolved, and when reflected by the mirrors form themselves into ever-shifting mathe- matical figures. The other young women are armed with hammers to break the colored glass into fragments. We obtain the colored glass from the waste scraps purchased very cheaply off? “Well, put one in your pocket to smoke to-morrow.’? — Hartford Evening Post. jley not to be positive in | doubt and uncertainty. | every thing, but in a few yea | most things as before. ainfual 7... or hie r SICKNESS. 1888. PITH AND POINT. irning—the bench, 12 son is a come iere is a teething tect.—Julitn Ht Jo t ermal. | —A man should never be ashamed | Tie toown he has been in the wrong, Ie which is bu i oO words | that he is w -day than he was | yesterday. — Pope. —Caleb Whiteford, ster, seeing s the noted pun- nestly knotting some f. what she was do- ing. ‘Knotting, she replied, and asked him: n you knot??? he answered. a smoke, Simson?” said | his friend, as he passed out a Havana. rrant “No, thank you, I've sworn —It was a shrewd 1 n of Wes- things of “When I was said he, ‘I was sure of find- ing myself mistaken in a thousand in- ces, I beeame not half so sure of ” ” a young man, —‘Did she have arawhide when she saulted you?” asked his Honor of a meek gentleman, who accused his wife with assault with intent to kill. “No, your Honor,”’ said the poor man, feeling of himself tenderly, ‘I’m the one that had the raw h in fact, your Honor, I have it still.’ —Buffalo Courier. wa kas — CrriG FoR SEEN SSS Eee: CHANGE OF LIFE. ereat stand the season of 1888, at my sta- ble eight miles due east of Butler, and 3} miles south of the Montrose and Butler road, on the following terms: $8 to insure mare with foal, $10 to insure colt to stand and suck. Colt to stand good for service mon- ey. Ifmareis parted with or re- moved from county service money will be due and payable. Price is} an all purpose horse, dark bay, com- \ing 4 years old, and about 16} hands high. He is of trotting and run-) ‘ning stock, and is a fine blooded | of stained-glass manufactories. The kaleidoscopes retail at seventy-five centS each. We can make six gross a day of this kind, and about twenty | gross of the five-centkind The finest | factory is in Providence, RL Carpet | members | gesjon any of their patterns scope.’—N. FL Mav » miserly me “Regular skinflint.’ he is intensely religiot «“That’s because the streets of Heaven | are paved with gold. He wants to go | building there.’’—Boston Courier. |horse. You are invited to call and} see him before breeding. | 17-1m. * DeWitt McDastzr. | il Settlement. in F Bates to increase Missouri, the | proposition | levy for school pu: Pr. anta,Ga | PRICE. This thorougbred stallon will 2 whe ences can have P. C. FurkErson, Tr. L. Pres't. J.Evr ‘aM, Gro. CANTERBURY -Pres't. THE BANKERS Sec'y- os LOAN & TITLE C0. “ Incorporated under s ot Mo not in : “bee 4N0) THTLEN EMAUIVED € CERTIFLEN » First 2 1 Mac 1 Farm rwho would waste 1 1 *s hand would eat are bee Bo: bag and leave the 53 es for some one else, — | Office west side square, BUULER, MOQ. STAR SHOEING SHOP, o = Z & S iS a & 2 ~~ fy Zz & eee Q South east corner square, at Butler, county, H the | to 2 cents additional | where they keep the Perkins light steel shoe for light traveling horses and the heavy Burden shoe for farm or draft horses. You ean get a first class job of shoeing done at this shop at prices to compare with any other first-class shops in town. Give us a call and try it. JACK GIPSON, Proprietor LAST OPPORTUNITY! for Cheap hh. CALIFORNIA. $72 from St. Louis vir Lron Mountain Route. Sil ftom Ransas City vis, Mo. Pac, By ave isix months, wit on Excursions GACUL “1 to sixty over privi- st bound pa Bt. y : Wy d : a ‘ Q 0 ALVLSor TWaAer ms tc te He C3 f ‘sud HOUSE HLIM ALUAMOUd ANOA AOVTd ‘OU CONSUMPTION & £pITOR— Please ave ap isease. By its timely | on the $i00, valuation, making the total levy | hopeless cases have been permanently cored I shali be glad to send two boitles of my reme- dy PREE to any of your readers who have con sumption if they will send me their express and post office address. Respectfally, T. A SLOCUM, M.C., is] Pearl st., New York. | for ranning purposes 65 cente on the $1, will be submitted to the qualified voters of said dis- trict, said eleetien to be held at the west school and to commence a7 o’clock 8.m. & 7-2." | { | i | :