The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 9, 1889, Page 2

THE DEVIL'S NUGGET. Used for Years by Its Ignorant Finder for a Door Weight. Tt ie fit that wan should mine the jawbones of earth to get metal for the teeth of man, and this he does, and. thus does the gold he gets find ité- Way back to mother earth. More gold is.buried with the dead than was lost in sea aud earth since the _argosies of Castile were sunk in Biscay and the caravals of Solomon, the Jew, were lost among the Moluc can reefs and shoals off the Malay peninsula, which was called Ophir. A‘strange thing is this gold. Gold in the hands of man is most unjust- ly end unequally distributed. In the earth its distribution is even more lacking in law and balance. The ge- ologist is yet to come who will trace, like s placer miner, its outcroppings and signs, through alluvial deposits, stream washings, ledge and vein, to the grandest pocket of the earth. What a find it will be! The philoso- pher’s stone alone could rival it. But somewhere there must be gold in plenty. Did it in the earth’s first whirl from chaos sink like a plum- met to the center? Are the outcrop- pings of the hills and mountains but flakes and wires whirled and spun upward from the golden ball thous- ands of miles below the surface? Possibly. How many hnow where the largest single lump of native gold ever seen in America was found? In Califor- nia? No. In Colorado? No. In the Black Hills, Coour’d Alene, Nevada, New Mexico? No. In old Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, in Potosi, in Venezu- ela? No. Where then? In Noysth Carolina, and its story is as weird and fateful as the Rhinegold’s. A poor and ignorant Irishman, living in the mountains, solitary and lonely, propped open the door of his cabin with a lump of metal. He had found it sticking out from a wa- ter washed gully and carried it home asacuriosity. Though no larger than a small cymling, it was a weighty lug fora mile. It was a dull yellow, irregular in shape, and pieces of stone were imbedded in it. For over two years a fortune lay upon the floor of his hovel, while he toiled early and late making a little whisky and digging ginseng root to " earna living. A companion moun taineer, who had known more of the wide world, thought this strange stone might be sold at Ashville as a curiosity fora lot of money—$10 perhaps. This was in the flush days before the war. He had seen quartz crystals from Roan mountain bring that much. A third mountaineer was called in consultation. Ten dollars was a lot of money. The third man had been a traveler, a reg- ular globe trotter. He went to Ash- ville four times a year and had been clear to Wilmington. Walking around the lump he gazed at it from every side, touched it with his toe, spat on it and breathed heavily. “Hit air wuth nuthin’, er hit air a pile,” said he. “Hit air nuthin’ but brass er hit air—” He looked around on the other two with a queer ex- pression—“goold.” “Ef hit air brass”—he drew a clasp knife and scraped the dull metal till a new surface glittered—“vinegar'll rust hit. Ef hit air goold, hit wont. He poured some vinegar from a jug which was brought him upon the fresh facing of the lump. The three men hung over it intently. Five, ten, fifteen minutes passed and still the metal shene clear and untarnish- ed. “Hit’s goold!” “And T’veheerd goold was wuth more'n $200 a pound!’ said the sec- ond. “What a —- fool I have been!” groaned the owner of the cabin. “For two years I've worked, an’ wealth I never dreamed of kickin’ under my feet.” “I claims a third,” broke in the as- sayer, “Ye'd never a knowed what hit war, but ferme.” “An’ a third fer me,” said the oth- er. The owner of the gold gave a sul- len assent. They obtained a pair of steelyards and weighed the gold. Tt turned the scales at over a hun- dred pounds averdupois, and they roughly estimated it to be worth! $25,000, over $8,000 a piece. That | Eupepsia. night all three sat up and watched ip : ? the treasure, unable to sleep from| joc and 3.00 per bottle by ail “drugg T. L: PETTYS, PETTYS & WELTON DEALERS IN Staple:Fancy Groceries, QUEENSWARE AND GLASSWARE. CIGARS AK® TOBACCO,! THE PIONEER MERCHANT. Aaron Hart, ——Has now received his—— FALL STOCK OF DRY GOODS &e. &e. Which embraces all the latest styles in dress goods. Also nice stock of Clothing, Gents Underwear and —Hats and Caps—— For cheap Goods call on the Pioneer Merchant at the south-west corner —of the squares— AaRON HART. A.O WELTON Always pay the highest market price for Countrv! East Side Square. Butler, MO cious of each other. they rolled it seeurely in a cloth and started for Ashville afoot with | the gold slung to a pole and carried | between two. It was the devil's gold. The next day | Hastily throwing his | | sister city.—Review. “Take your choice,” said one. As i the other bent to lift his half his} companion split the head of the stooping man with a hatchet. With blind fatuity he dragged the second victim to the side of the road, lifted the blood-| stained treasure and went on. Ashville be took it to the bank and had it shipped to the United States i In less than a week, before any return could be had from the mint, the bodies of the murdered men had been discovered and the’ crime traced directly home. miserable wretch was thrust in jail, | feller bein’ turned gold was his. This is what you ought to have, in tact, you must have it, to enjoy tife. Thousands are searching tor it daily, and monrning because they find it not. Thousands upon thsusands of dollars are spent annually by our people in the | hope thet they may attain it. it may be had by all. We guerantee that that Electiic Bitters, if used according | to directions and the use , will bring you Good Dig 3 ae e iver, Stomach and Kidne excitement and thoroughly suspi- A reporter of the Review was ‘the guest of the Butler Commercial Club last night, and found the business men of that city working together like brethren, determined to dwell and do business together in peace At the land harmony. The resuit of the first halting place the Irishman and | club organization so far has been the second mountaineer conspired | eminently successful, and promises to kill the third, and from behind. body into a clump of bushes, the murderers faced each other Suspicion roused in each | guilty breast saw treachery in the other’s glance. “Here,” said one, forcing an un- “There's enly one way to settle this. Let’s divide the gold and each go his way.” “Agreed,” said the other. The lump was laid in the road- to continue in the good work. Rich Hill should learn aleswon from our Already the ancient observer tells us there is going to be a long cold j winter. He has said the same‘thing | every fall since the memory of man. This time the fruit skins are very thick and tough and the corn husks are heavyer than usual and the straw is tougher, and he knows this means {a hard winter, because he knows. way and chopped in two with a} Now let him try the goose bone.— | Pleasanton Herald. Bucklen’s Arnica Saive, The Best Salve inthe world for Cuts Bruises,Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum Fever Sores, Tetter,Chapped Hands, Chiblains Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi- tively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give pertect satisfaction j Or money refunded. Price 25 cts per box For sale by all druggists. First Tramp: Meta old feller up the road yesterday that thinks that when a man dies his soul goes into some machine or other. Thinks he’s got his grand-daddy in an o!d pump. Second Tramp: Well, that ain’t Thé | such a bad novion. Just think of a into a beer keg and there he died within a year. | when he died. Eb, Jerry’—Terre The witch gold fortune never cross-' Haute Express. ed his hands,remaining, I believe, in | the federal treasury for lack of own- | 3 have used your Common-Sense T. H. Jackson, Esq., Quincy, Ill. Liniment during the past month in The region where the lump was | the following cases: Ist Rope burn, found has been scoured foot by foot, | Which it cured, 2nd, for callous on but not another lump like that has | ever been discovered in that or an other section of America. the shoulders, which it cured fully _| and lastly ina case of set fast, of or 8BY | four years standing, which it posi- It is said | tively cured in ten days. 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Icould not walk except on a level floor, and then with difficulty, and for a while could not get in or*out of bed with- out assistance. The pressure of a finger on my body would leave its impression, and in short I thought I had dropsy, in addition to my other afflictions. Two doctors treated me faithfully during these four years but did me no good—the medicines they gave me were as useless as stagnant wa- ter. My friends thought I would die, suffering as I was with such a complication of diseases. In 1887 I discontinued the use of the medicines I had been heretofore taking and began to take Swift's Specific (S.S.S.) Five bottles. of this truly wonderful medicine was what worked the miracle of my com- plete and permanent recovery.” Treatise on Cancer mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Atlanta, Ga. Linville Combs Pardoned. Frankfort, Ky., Oct. 1.—A condi- tional pardon has been obtained from Gov. Buckner for Linville Combs, the youngest life convict ever sent to a penitentiary. 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Armed with a stone or hammer or some other availiable weight she walks cooly into the first one, then the other of these places and smashes mirrors, bottles, bric-a brac or what else | City. eas at Merchantville. closely con-! wurder of his niece was given in | : i court. { Mrs. Alexander Vaughn, wife of} The triennial general convention | of the American Protestant Episco- pal Church in session in New York Ex-President Cleveland delivered an eloquent address at the laying of the corner stone of the New York Academy of Medicine. The delegates to the Internation- aly Congress were entertained by President Harrison. An alieged “straight tip” from Springfield, Il]., name Gea. Powell as Tanner’s successor. The Anti-Mahone republicans of Virginia have adopted a series of resolutions denouncing him. Gov. Francis will probably be permanent chairman of the World's Fair Committee at St. Louis. LUMBER! H.C. WYATT & SON. Save money by calling on us for prices on LUMBER. 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BRUGLER & SON, i MANAGERS, Butler Me, This Company invests money in Teal and deals in all kinds ot good Seuuritels, FINE IMPROVED FARMS U 40 to 640 acres each, and good giazing lands from 400, to 1,500 acres in a body for sale or ex- change isi CR Order of Publication. County of Bates. ‘4 ** In the circuit court of said county, Pi Hicks, plaintiff, vs. J. W Rush, defendant: Now on this 5th day of September, Ales his petition, alleging among other that defendant. J. W. Rush. is not a resident of the state of Missouri. Whereu; it ts dered by the clerk in vacation, that said tendant be notified by publication that has commenced a suit against him in tl by petition, the object and general nature of which is to set aside a Sot oe executed by David Hawkins and Mary Hawkins, his wife, dated the 28th day of December, 1885, convey. ing to J. W. Rush the following described real ema situated in Bates county, Missouri, te- wit: Lot seven (7) in block seventy-three (73) in the city of Rieh Hill, BM i, to secure the peyment of a note for , said mo: ing recorded in book 4 page 7 of the ree- ords of trnst deeds and mortgages in the office of the recorder of deeds of Bates county, Missouri id ve the cloud on tiff’s title Pd i unie-s the sai thiscuurt at theneat term thereof, to gun x:d holden at the court house in the eity of Butler, in said county, on the fourth (4) of November next, and on or before the day of said term, if the term shall so long coa- of said term—answer or plead to the Pen 4 in said cause, the same will be taken as con- a and judgment will be rendered aceord- ingly. And be it further ordered that a copy hereof be published according to law, in the Buriar WEEKLY TimEs, 8 weekly newspaper printed and published in Bates county, Missouri, for four weeke successively, the last in- sertion to be at least four weeks before the first day of the next term of circuit court. JOHN C. HAYES, Cireuit Clerk, true copy from the record. Witness my hand and the seal of the circuit court of Bates county, this the 5th day of September, 1889. JOHN C, HAYES, Circuit Clerk, Order of Publication. STATE OF MISSOURI, as. County of Bates. = In the circuit court of said county, in vaca- tion, September 17th, Iss?) Frank Brieden, plaintiff’, ve. Mary Krieden, defendant. Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein by his attorneys, Holcomb & Smith, before the undersigned clerk of the cireuit court of Bates county, Missouri, in vacation and files his petition and affidavit, sileging among other things that defendant, Mary Brieden, is nota resident ofthe state of Missouri Where- upon it is ordered b: that said defendant be notified by publica: tion that plaintiff has commenced a suit against her in this court by petition and affidavit thi general nature and object of which is to ob. tain a decree of divorce from the bonds of mat rimony contracted and entered into by and be- tween plaintif and defendant on the 5th day of May, 1884, npon the ground of desertion and abandonment of plaintiff by defendant withe out cause for the ce of more than one year before-the institution of this suit and that un- less the said Mary Brieden, be and appear at this court, at the next term therof to and holden at the court house in the city of Butler, in said county, on the fourth day of November next, and on or before the sixth day of said term, if the term shall so long con- tinue—and if not, then on or before the last day of said term. ewer or plead to the peti- tion in said cause, the same willbe taken as confessed and judgment will be rendered ac- cordingly. And be it further ordered that a copy hereof ty ewe accordin; = Jaw, in ¢ yee ee mes, a weekly news) and published in Bates couniy, Missouri, for four weeks successively, the last insertion to be at least four weeks before the first day of the next term ofcircuit court. A Ss (3 {axav} ere of Bates county, this 17th dsy of September, i829. JOHN C HAYES Cireuit Clerk. shin cme