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VOL. XIII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY MARCHU 4 1891. NO. 15 BATES COUNTY National Bank, Pere? MO. THE OLDEST BANK LARGEST AND THE ONLY NATIONAL BANK! IN BATES COUNTY. CAPITAL, ee SURPLUS, - - $125,000 00 $25,000 00 F.J, TYGARD, - - - President. HON. J. 8. NEWBERRY, Vice-Pres J. C. CLARK - - Cashier John Atkison’s Pension Agency. Oyer Dr Everingham’s store rooms West Side - Butler, W. E, TUCKER, DENTIST, BUTLER, - MISSOURI. Office, Southwest Corner Square, over Aaron Hart’s Store. Eeeeteee:: Je H. NORTON. Attorney-at-Law. Office, North Side, over Barnhardt’s Jewelry Store. Carvin F Boxtey, PROSECCTING ATTORNEY, CALVIN F. BOXLEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Butler, Mo. Will practice in all the courts. ARKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORN«YS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over Lans- down’s Drug Store. AGE & DENTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office North Side Square, over A. L. McBride's Store, Butler, Mo. DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOBOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, tront room over P. O. Ail calls answered at office day or night. Specialattention given to temale dis- vases. 4 << BOULWARE, Physician and eon. Office north side square, Butler, aot a Diseases of women and chil- en aspecialty. i J. T, WALLS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, Southwest Corner Square, over! \aron Ha nnah street *s Store. Residence on Ha- norrh of Pine. Missouri Pacific Ry. Daily Trains 2) TO KANSAS CITY OMAHA,! COLORADO SHORT LINE and 5 Daily Trains, 5 Kansas City to St, Louis, THE PUEBLO AND DENVER PULLMAN BUFFETT SLEEPING CARS Kansas City to Denverfwithout change H. C. TOWNSEND. ST. LOUIS, MO. Mo. AN OFFENSIVE NEGRO The Appointment of Jim Hill and What is Means Cor With st The president to « 1G appou Jim Hill Postmaster at V a es, 'Miss. This appoimtment will cause consternation aud ind on throughout the commouwealss of Mississippi. Hill is one of the jand most & ans in that state | Mr. Catehings for congress in the | third district in 1888, aud, although ‘beaten by 4,000 or 6,000 votes, con- tested the clecied. He loafing here in Washington since the | most notermous ollensive colored pola Hill ran agcciust | has Leen present congress conve fied: He does not reside at Vicksburg, por in the [third congressional district His local habitation if he had any, is at | Jack-on, in that state. Heis one of the most violent of the | cians ju the south and itis generally fexpected that his appointment will} {make some trouble in Vieksburg There | publican candidates for the place, all of them tolerably men, the appointment of either one {of whom would have met with the japproval of the Mississippi delega- Hill, however, is He is agitator and what is known as a social rights hegro. were a half-dozen white re- tion in congress. ‘ very offensive. an His appointment, of course, meaus that Harrison expects 2 solid negro delegation in his favor in the national convention. It also means that there will be two republican parties in Mississippi hereafter. one white and the other black. Kissed Another Man's Wite. **Yon sconndrel,’’ yelled young Jacob Green, At his good neighbor Brown, **You kissed my wife upon the street, lought to knock you down.’’ * That’s where you’re wrong,’’ Brown replied In accents mild and meek; **T kissed her, that I’ve not denied, But kissed ber on the cheek, and I did it because she looked so handsome—the very picture of beau- ty and health. What is the seeret of it?” “Well” replied Green, ‘‘sinee you ask it [ will tell you; she uses Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I accept your apology. Good night ” Favorite Prescription is the only remedy for delicste derangements and weaknesses of females, sold by druggists, under a positive guaran- tee of giving satisfaction in every case or mouey paid for it returned. For billiousness, sick headache, and constipation, take Dr. Pierce's Pellets. Save Money and Saffering. One feature of the thousands of testimonials that have been given in behalf of S. S.S. is remarkable. In numbers of instances it is related that a great deal of time and money have been spent in a vain attempt to secure relief from disease in the usual way. A knowledge of the vir | tues of Swift's Specitic would have }saved the time and money, to say | nothing s ing jips here need be no such mistakes panies now. The great bloed puritier is for sale by dh land the S. ‘will send t ise on Blood ww jana h Rem phitet containing a fewo the thousands of uials they have received from those who have [exp erienced the benefits of this won- | derfal medicine. ts everywhere, § tlanta ) any testim Taps Sounded on Both Sides the Grant. Sherman, Logan. Meade. and The great leaders of armies are going rapidly. Sheridan. Hancock. Thomas, Hooker swered roll call confederate side ig Lee. and The fatahiy number Hardec Peniberton | ston.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. negro politi-/ respectable | x of the prevention of suffer | ir treat-| kin Disease free, j McPherson is equally Jackson. Bragg; Pope. Slocum, Pleasanton, Rosecrans sults follow the Stanley, Schofield and Hamilton are Nerve Tonic and Alterative now old men. and the same may be said about the most conspicuous con- General Passenger and Ticket Ag | federates, Longstreet and Jue Jokn-| 5), R.R. DEACON Tarries the Largest Stock of ~ HARDWARE and IMPLEMENTS = IN PEE COUNTY. ) ROCK ISLAND PLOWS AND CULTIVATORS, EAGLE PLOWS SULKY PLOWS, BROWN, UNION AND U CORN PLANTER HARROWS, HAWORTH AND BROW) TOP BUGGIES, SPRING WAGONS, BAIN & BUCKEYE IRON cae PUMPS, IRON, L WARE. ALSO, A LARGE VARIE (IR. R. DEACON MURDEREDBY A MOB. A F ROAD CARTS, BOOK PROBLEM. THE 7 | The ot) Pablic ‘School Members of the Missouri House Not achers are Pontshed. at Ail ofa Mind. | Defiance, O., Feb. 25.—Buasi- | gemorson City. Mo., Feb. 26.—The | jess was largely suspended here to- |} suse be gau the discussion of the “cay. and toa Be the auc HVE text book bills at 11 o'clock this julive with excited people. The morning and quit for the day at 5 | eel hoo's are completely demoralized? oclock this eveving with the bill not Last Saturday Superintendent But . half completed jler, of the publie schools detected The comumittee substitute for the | J. H. Mull, janitor of the Ceutral peuding bills on the subject of cheap | {building, watching him through a ‘text books was not kindly received hole in the ceiling. A war of words by the kouse. The members of the ensued and Mull went before the farmers’ alliance regarded it as prac- school board Monday and accused | tically worthless, because it fell so Butler with intimacy with three of | fanlallort of the demmnde ofthe all: the lady teachers. He named atime | ioe The Kansas City and St. Lou at which he had seen Butler caress is represeututives opposed the meas- these teachers during one afternoon. | re because its passage would cost Win. Wyant, the assistant janitor 1 aul |) each city mauy thousands of dollars eorroberate - the story. The testi | 5, Whe eee a at first looked s»> é Tho bill preyides for the appoint- that the superintendent narrowly es- ‘ : ment of a text book comission caped violence, and the ladies were | 4), ose business it shall be to select | ostracized Monday night j : aaitn | the system of text books and to let day a close investigation was made Icheucontract to) the lowest bidders and it was discovered that at the | This is the bill in brief time named by the janitor, Butle vr) The strong opposition shown it was several miles away. The indig- | to day would indicate that the house Be varied gaetall and | ; does not intend passing any text Wyant to leave town, butthey did} book measure that does not more not, and last night an armed mob | | nearly conform to the ideas of the went to Mull’s house. They claim | farmer representatives. There are they did not see Mull, but this morn- many membera of the house who b- ing bis dead body was found be-|tigve that the state should publish tween the tracks in the Wabash rail- the booke and on this theory they road yards. His throat was cut from | 1... disposed to take the “kinks” out ear to ear, and two deep cuts enter- | o¢ the committee substitute. ed the heart. He had been horribly | Wi tineneninletrone ton tenition| was mangled by the cars. A_knife was | | developed by the representatives of found near the body. Wyant is al | lthe larger towns in the state, the so missing and there is a rumor that | school boards of which object to any his body is in the canal. The dis. | measure which would saddle am ad- coveries have created wild excite- | gitional expense upon them. Kan- ment. Mull had many friends and | ,., City, St. Louis and St. Joseph they declare they will have Butler's | asked to be exempted from the pro- life. Friends of all concerned are | visions of the bill Representative | armed. Women and children have | Fiorea of Nodaway wants Maryville, deserted the streets. The sheriff a town of 4,000 excepted and other has sworn in extra deputies and an | | nembars wanted the'smendment ex increased police force is on duty. | tended to apply to all cities of 2,000 Suffered for his Father. and more. Chester, Ill., Feb. 25.—T. J. San-/ The house defeated al) these ford. sentenced in September last | {amendments and also rejected an to year’s imprisonment for embez- | amendment providing for German in | the public schools. | | | 1 money stropg Yester- citizens }zelement from Christian county,was | |released to-day upon a pardon grant- | ‘ : = | Fifer. The pardon was United Siates Senator-elect Peffer } -d upon the positive evidence of | school | nd was prayed }ed by Goy. - a Missouri breaking civil war. He resided on the classic bank of Haw Creek, Mor aud was regarded as a but man. In the suun.er of 1861 he announced his candidacy for the office of county | clerk by means of closed with these ~Times | are so light and weeds so high that | | personally, f hence [ publish this circular.” It is | presumed the weeds were too high | of Kansas, was teacher at the Vs innocence jfor by many of Christian county's Sanford’s fatker held on in the n county, best people | i ottici ! d citizen | ul pos county and | became sbort im his finances. The son detected the shrinkage, and to ield his parent from disgrace and | possibly prosecution, avery ordinary hand bills which | words: assumed the | jresponsibility for the discrepancy and a plea of guilty get one year. I cannot visit = = you all The First Step. Ss Perhaps you are run down. can’t sleep. can't eat. can't think, can't do anything to your sati tion, and for Mr. Peffer, as he was lost sight | vet vou wouder what ou. You Of from that time till he sbobbed j hould heed the warni you ure serenely” up in Kausas as the editor } taking the first step into nervous of a farmers’ alliance: gan pre You need a nerve tome and in Electric Bitters vou will find the exact remedy for restoring you: nervous to its normal, Last year Missouri 035.761 barrels of beer. purchased 2, id with the | system nealthy condition. Surprisng re. exception of a few kegs at Lathrop | use of this great none of it was wasted. Your appetite returns, good digestion is restored, and the liver and kidneys | | resume healthy action. Try a bot-, Price 50c, at H. L. Tucker's | drugstore. Sedalia consoles herself reflection that postponment does not | mean defeat, while Jefferson City! lj | consoles herself with the state house: with the . J. I. CASE & EVANS, $ SHECK ROWERS, FREEMANS' BARB-WIRE, Bs AGON WOOD WORK, _ Old Residents of an Ohio ND CULTIVATORS, CASADAY EEL FISH BRO. WAGONS BUILDERS HARD- ALWAYS ON HAND. BUTLER, MO. PAYING its. BOYHOOD DE RTS. Town Re- ceive Mysterious Remittances, West Alexandria, O., Several da: the older Feb. : Sago a se ing postal notes or orders for va- rious amounts. tauce was an explanatory note say- ing that years ago the writer a boy living in this place, hud be come indebted to them for the} amount enclosed. writer stated for what he owed. [u | one ease it was for some ducks;again a few chickens, apples. petty destruction of property. avumber of ladies from $5 to $8 each ing that the writer had upset their To various sums were sent, say- in his boyhood doll houses and | broken their dishes and he thought | | by corporations. the sum sent would repay them for the annoyance and pain he had caused. Many of the occurrences j mentioned by the recipents of the money. which amounts to,in all, $500, had been long ago forgotten. The mysterious sender of the money is Dr. John Statler of Buffalo, N. Y. The Senate’s Proceedings. Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 26.—The ore or more or itizens of this place re-j ceived letters from Buffalo contaii« With each remit-)' . When | In each case the! melons or! _-BRADFIELD'S § FEMALE- . REGULATOR 5A ie TY palN'p Pat sour Wes ial M = NS oI TR UAT GREAT DANGER i s SU Rime BE avtioen Aa Book MAN Mazeo Free PRADFIELD RE. sua von CO. ATLANTA GA 8010 BY ALL BRUGEISTS. ak ANDERSON APPOINTED. , Pie Kansas Congressman Will Go te Caire as Consul-General, The Republic Bureau, > iith st. and Pennsylvania Ave. > | Washington, Feb. 26, Isal. ) ; The president appointed Congress- imau John A. Anderson of Kansas to ‘be Consul General at Cairo, Eg sypt jtoday. This is Anderson's reward for degrnding himself, for going | idea he Cor, back upon every ever €% pressed and cvery uttered. pledge he ever ) Anderson came to cougres tirst as fependent republican. — After | he sueceeded in getting the regular republican ncmination. Last UN TG Wwur fall he was again the republican can | didate got beaten. He isa } preacher, and a bad one it is said, jand certainly his conduet while in and ‘Washington did not warrant the suggestion that he practiced what ihe preached. He pretended to be 2 j Violent advocate of free coinage, yet jhe voted against free coinage on He pretended to be violently opposed to corporations, yet supported every bill advocated In other words, Anderson is a humbug from the word go, and in consequence has received his reward from Harrison. He will go to Cairo as the repre. sentative of the United States, and the chances are that he will conform to the local institutions there more succesfully thau any man who has represented the United States in Egpyt since the days of the late la- every occasion. mented George Butler, who, it will senate committee on the judiciary | be remembered, established a harem this morning reported favorab'y the|on a maguificent séale in order, ashe bill creating the office of second as-! gid in his report to the Secretary sistant prosecuting attorney for Jack | of State, to stand in substantially son county. There ie no opposition | with the natives. to the bill and it will surely pass ( ‘atarth in New England. both house and senate. Among the bills introduced is one Ely’s Cream Balm gives satisfac tion to everyone using it for catarrb- | tainly receive his out of the} | watermelons as fre i ing January | as the be, , term of cor tom passed prohibiting such unions. which will interest the Kansas City al troubles. —G. K. Mellor, Druggist, letter carriers. It provides for street | Worcester, Mass. car lines being used in the carrying| {| believe Ely’s Cream Balm is the and distribution of United States| best article for catarrh ever offered mails. the public —Bush & Co., Druggists, The senate passed a bill appropri- gai “org i ge An article real meri ae = a ee ior Alden, Druggist, Springfield, Mass: Bester tora then public Those who use it speak highly of schools of the state. The bill now 5 y t —Geo. A. Mill, D ist, Spring- goes to the governor and will cer | field, Maca: Bi itiiccsac This signature. Cream Balm has given satisfactory will give the schools of the state |results—W. P. Draper, Droggist. during the next two years something ice Mase. ov ay $1,800. ats : i } - Louis Mere ee Protesting. 4é comluittee on education - orted favorably the bill appropri a : Boo coi g G00 Te Cue okt: ahi ishu ait suis have beer re- pean Ci us in today pro of the 97, whiel railroad com that when FA ¢ 28 to 1} should be ss ful to the demoeraet for this vai | : paieke ete ie canny ange ii without giving tlon to their big colored university. ! ‘ out gixtng ninety dar ® ‘notice. The St. Lous imerchante At the afternoon session the bill protest that this would ruin the com exempting farmers’ mutual insurane~ | ; merce of the state, companies from the workings of the insurance laws was passed. The bil! shortening the because the road outside the jurisdiction of the state |change their rates a dozen times in Open 8 | ninety days sion for the hunt: of deer by z striking out February w as g the other vieasures Fe LOINTM ENT, JOUMSTON, HOLLOW Ze foll | upor were the ginuing mf th €) ty treasurer, and ing to the discharge of sureties ¢ = it has been in use man: ‘ears, and a Tt wouldn't surprise anybody if po ced infallible in every case, Irom simple les and Blotcheson ‘the face and the facts could be known todiscoy er, Eye! ids to obstinate Eczema, reste ae hing Piles. that more cousins marry each other D gyiste. 50 in Missouri now than before the law | —_ iain Send for Treatise on Skin Diseases and Certificates of Cure,