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VOL. XITI. BITTLER, a National Bank. EGIsL ATURE The Block Switch Bill Passed -Direct Tax Money to go to the Cniversity BUTLER, MO Elgg sg ’ . spector, hte 8 were susp Soak ts 1 n the sen- ieee sacs caer are es ate ye ane aud the Louse b ONLY NATIONAL IN BATES COUNTY. ~ somes BANK | powerin igthe deputy jury comm siouer of St. Logis to act im the sence of the jury a third time commis- i and pass ren CAPITAL, = - $125,000 90 Figuse bill the swle of init etic SURPLUS, 325,000 00 | butter was reported favors ably y from ae = | the committee en agriculture, F.J. TYGARD, - - - resident The house freight bill was report. | HON. J. B. NEWBERRY — Vice-Pres |ed trom the committee on internal | J. C. CLARK : : Cashier | improvement with the reeommenda- — tion that it be considered MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY MARCH 2 » 1891, FR. RR. DEACON ‘arries the Largest Stoc IN VUPEEE COUNTY. k of WARE and IMPLEMENTS: ROCK ISLAND PLOWS AND CULTIVATORS, EAGLE PLOWS AND CULTIVATORS, CASADAY SULKY PLOWS, BROWN, UNION AND U HAL UCKEYE IRON FORCE PUMPs, TRON, WARE. “IR. R. —— - | for ‘the » educational institutions was read third time ea passed. _ in cou | Vie reg ar was theu tae 75 Iq ittee of the whole. The senate re | ke n up and iG es bills dis- / < Ss mi ipa ; bill ees Atkis on wie ected the recommendation. Mr. | posed “ | Me Ginnis moved that the bill be in-| The house agreed to the iate | Ide finitely postponed hiost—-yeus, | avnendments to the & ef i 2; nays, 13. bill House bills were taken up for the! piouse bill providing that when 2: Dr Everingham’s store roome ‘tira reading and passage disposed | nersous are examined on their sanity ide - Butler, Mo. |! fas follows: : jwituesses shall be examined in the West 5! geehew bill authorizing the city of Ipresence of the person 0 tried ‘ si St. Louis to pension disablet po- | pagced DR. F. M. FULKERSON, Hicemen. Passed House bill authorizing the ap- | House bill to authorize the rangement of assessor's books in! | more than one volume. Passed. House bill empowering ‘courts to loan sinking funds on un DENTIST, BUTLER, - MISSOURI. Office, Southwest Corner Square, Pr. Tucker's old stan’ \ county hE yyern. jincumbered real estate. Passed. - \ House bill for the assessment of TON corporate property where same is) J. H. NOR used in business. Passed. Attofney-at-Law. er Barvhardt’s ore. House joint and concurrent reso lution providing tora coustitutional | jSuendinent to increase road tax. Lost. House bill requiring merchants to make an invoice of their levy of ad valorem tax. Passed. At the afternoon session senate bills were considered for the third reading and disposed of as follows: Senate bill for the taxation of rail roads at their actual value. Lost. Office, North Side, o Jewelry St Cavin F Boxtey, ee PROBKCUTING ATT! CALVIN F. BO XLEY, ATTORNEYS #T LAW. ‘ Butler, Mo. Will practice in all the Courts: ARKINSON & GuAVES, ATTORN.YS! AT LAW. Office West Side g ware, over Lans- down’s Drug Store.’ real estate under mortgages © and deeds of trust to be made under di- rection of proper court. Lost. The house amendment to the school text beok bill was agreed to. Senate bill requiring railroad com panies to block and fill frogs and AGE & DENTON: | aw "ATTOR/NEYS AT LAW, Office North Pide Square, over A. L. McBride's a » Butler, Mo. DRA M, CHRISTY, ‘HOMOBUPATHIUC SICIAN AND SURGEON, ous. Passed. Senate bill requiring foreign cor- porations doing business in this state P to become incorporated under the Ome: tront room over P.O. All calls! state laws. Passed. wered at oflice day or night. . . = : me A"Fpecialattention given to temale dis- Senate bill authorizing street rail- | eases. | ways to carry United States mail. | PRESEN Ya | Passed. H T C, BOULWARE, Physician and} Senate bill requiring probate ; e Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseasesot women and chil- | Courts en aspecialty, J.T, WALLS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, Southwest Corner Square, over} Aaron Hart's Store. Residence on Ha. | vannah street norrh ot Pine. Potter Bros.» BRICK LIVERY STABLE. An ample supply of | tobe open for the transac public offices. Passed. Senate bill increasing the annual | the board ord commissioners to $2,009. y of the secretary of BG te bill empowerit lent to revoke the | wuce solicitors s to the publ nate bill re commissioners to stat ommerce comt » when eratat Pass- that is evideuce Buggies, Carriages, |. road is overehar Phaetons, Drummei Wagons, &c. in rates nate bill empowering probate lertermine pro- Thi one of the besteqt eet eats bles in this section of the 3 > Toft; , : Fmsr Crass) Ries 9 Feavivuea vefterson Ci M ‘ : House bill appropriating Missour’s At any hour, day or night on the! sore af the mouey most reasonable terms. Farmers desiring to put up their horses when in the city will find this barn the most convenient in town. POTTER BROS. ' state by the government under the direct tax bill, as an endowment for ‘the state university, was debated for | two hours and passed. House bill appropriating money of the, Senate bill requiring al! sales of | switches to make them less danger-| tion of business the same as other | | pointine nt of a deputy mine inspec ary of $1,000 tor at ral \ | Passed. House bill giving cireuit courts eoutestedl election in cities of the jurisdiction in jcases: P: sed House bil requiring letters of ad | le ministration to be recorded and pre- iserved. Passed. Senate bill providing f ervation of evidence bill of veptl e@ preserved. in ex ! ! stock for | Specimen Cases. S. H. Clifford, New Cassel. Wis , jwas troubled with neuralgia and jrheumatism, his stomach was dis- ) ordered, lis liver was affected to au lalarming degree, appetite fell away and he was terribly reduced in flesh {and strength. Threa bottles of Electrie Bitters cured bim. | Edward Shepard, Harrisburg, Lii., jhada runuing sore on_his leg of eight years standing. j boxes of Bucklen’s Arnica salve, and his leg was healed. Catawba, O., sores ov his leg. doctors said he was incurable. One bottle of Electric Bitters and one box of Bucklen’s |Arnica salve cured him entirely jSold by H. L. Tucker's drugstore. JERRY SIMPSON TROUBLED. | Unable to Tell Whether he Owes his Fame to his Head or Meet Aunapolis, Md., March 12 —Rep- resentative Jerry Simpson, better known as the | eacsesd created a sensation yester | day afternoon among the Maryland farmers, now in c¢ the state the proceedings to deny the he did tion house, when he inte ment that not wea » reporter went b i which ha refunded to the | tar; iSimpson. Tossing his coat to one jside, he faced the convention and i spoke as follows: “Mr. President: 5. CORN STEEL, ;to this Af Puce fers to ny and a personal explanation. It has been alleved that at a eertaintimein Kan ,sus Tl hud said that the poverty jing the tin third-cluss. | withe pres | as depositions are | fellow's s¢ of the farmers was so great that they could not afford to wear socks and that I was a living exam- ple. So far as I am conce medithers is no truth in the story. The state. ment o dfrom the brain of a republiean editor in Kansas. My constituents know all about m [took no cecxsion to deny the yarn. “Tis true that owing to the high tar HY some rs could not af- of the faru ford to wear socks, and were in the nie position as was Napoleon ¢ he attempted to cross | where he was associated with the]! the fronticr to attack the Austrian | late lamented John N. Edwards, | ariny He was without arms ; Where he became master of ty When urked where he thought|of printing. After the war cl ed, he could get them id: “Take | in 1865, he established the first den- | them 13] ” The | ocratie new spaper in. Johnson coun- | nan representative of the silk stocking, heiter known as Prince Hal. time of the election T told my peo- | ple that L expected to get the other and not only did I get) them bat I get hi “I want to say that Ido now wear socks and I put them on after the defeat of Ingalls, was the is shoes as well. beginning of an era that | marked the time when the humblest Used three | bottles of Electric Bitters and seven | Jobn Speaker. | had five large fever: people can wear socks and the peo ple who sustain the government. of them my constituents, should | ar the very best. I deem in nec- | essary to explain to the people of Maryland the much vexed question of socks. Just now [am unable to determine which bas given mea greater reputation my feet or my w | head ~ This speech was greeted with tu- multuous applause, after which the business of the convention went on ‘as before. the Wonder! al Raa 5 The highest structure in the world is ! Euttel Tower, at Paris, 1,000 feet high. But the great discovery at Dr. Franklin | Miles is certain to tower far above it in “Sockless Solon from i ; did for men, i smallest, mildest, surest. This letter re- | = promoting human happiness and healths This wondertul nerve medicine build, orn out systems, cures fits, spasms. jcadache, nervous prostration, digziness pains, monthly Mrs sleeplessness, sexual ai aiso, Ind., ine , to call the atte: i Lue president to theabundauce ¢ superior judicial timber in Missou:i, PLANTERS. J. 1. CASE & EV! HAWORTH AND PROWN CHECK ROWERS “TOP BUGGIES, SPRING WAGONS, BAIN & FISH BRO. WAGONS. -onvv-m : AGON WOOD WORK. ALSO, A LARGE VARIETY OF ROAD CARTS, ALWAYS ON HAND. and I wished it read then to make , At the | which I believe | NS, STEEL . FREEMANS' BARB WIRE, BUILDERS HARD- BUTLER, MO. :: HON. Wo. DAVIS. ee Au Tateresting Biographical Sketch of } \ the Representative from | Henry County. Hon. W. H. Davis. who represents i with ability and boner, one of the! i great counties of Missouri the | j thirty sixth general assembly, was | j born in Mar duvnal in 1541, and came | with his parents to Lexingtou, this | in 1852, and was there reared | | to md anhood, being educated at the | | Masonie college at that place. He] ) chose journalism as his life profes- | sion, and before the war wax em ployed in an office in state, at Lexington, | | ty, at the instigation of Goy. Crit- tenden and other leading democrats the Journal, now Journa!-Democrat. Tn 1869 he came to Clinton and pur- | chased the Henry County Democrat lwyhic bh he conducted until 1877, then \ | selling out he once \te Warrensburg. Here he continued {his journatistic enterprise going tience to Saline county, where he purchased and conducted the Derr ocrat until he moved to his farm! i near Windsor, about eight years ago. Since that time he has been engaged in farming and stock raising. Wherever Mr. Davis has lived he has been an influential party leader, and the several papers of which he, {has been the have been | vigorous and aggressive exponents | of democratic doctrines. | Although without legislative ex- perience, Mr. Davis has taken a prom-| inent part in the debates and pro- ceedings of the house and has shown | |an aptitude for public affairs w hich | }may yet serve him in higher posi- tions As the author and advocate! , of some of the most important legis- Davis bas | more removed editor lation of the session, Mr. attracted the favorable the press and people. One of the mest important bills jintroduced by him was his substi- ili, the les of} i attention become a i 1 Mr. Harrison polit nen introduced ¢ ittal. It is feared that this measures forieited its es rrepre | rossment ney stration when |! present ad i ie deleg acd knock MeRKinley on the liver, stoma the nerves. Ani ppeedily cure billiousnes did liver, piles and eo fe taste, tor pation. Splen women and children. 30 doses for 5 cents. Samples free at H. L. Tuck- *s Drug Store- tetyr bill by a} b AS i atch | j dog of the treasur is deter mined opposition to uanecessury and | jextravugant appropriations merits! the gratitude of the people of the entire state.—Jefferson City Tribune. ial ehial | | purports to NO. ~~ BRADFIELDS “FEMALE re REGULATOR ok ERSt if PripRecl ENSTR UATION = a URNS CREE Se wes eaent TANG SER SUFFERING WILL IE AVI Book TO"WOMAN Waceo seen *FADIIELD REGULATOR CQ. ‘ATLANTA GA ety iat a ME Gallatin, Mo. : March 19. The statement of chanmanCannon show jing an inerease of appropriations of about $21,000,000 less than the made congressman | Deckery was shown that gentleman Ito day. He stated that while he had not enter as fully into details as he would like to do, yet at this distance it would seem that Mr. Cannon had sialesign by | deliberately ignored the $16,000,000 jearried by the direct tax-bill, the $2,000,600 to pay bounty and back pay to soldiers and the 000,000 of the amount stated by the commissioner of internal revenue as necessary to pay the sugar boun- | ty. more thar Mr. Dockery’s estimate of an in crease of $191,000,000 in appropria tions by Reed's congress is, there- {fore correct. Mr. Cannon's result can be reached only by ignoring the ;4ppropriations referred to, and is but.a flimsy subterfuge and feeble effort to bring the appropriations below the $1,000,000,000 mark. DON'T BE. GLOOMY Those whoare the victims of mer- poisening, or are suffering rheumatism, are inclined to take a gloomy view of life when as the poet says, “Winter is folding its white tents and spring getting its thunderstorms together.’ Yet these victims have no reason to S.S.S.is a sure remedy for all forms of mercurial poisening. Though it is purely a vegetable medicine, it is powerful, indeed, when called on to chase mercury, and the last lingering effects of mercury out of the system. It per- forms the work with neatuess aud dispatch, as thousands of testimo- nials show. from mwereurial despuir. Evarts and Edmunds are recog- nized as the two greatest constitu- tional lawyers in the republican par- ty. Evarts declared unconstitution- al those provisions of the new tariff | purporting to confer on the presi- |dent the power to alter our revenue laws by treaty with foreign nations and to raise or reduce our taxes by proclamation. Ed:aunds pronoun- ces unconstitutional the provisions j of the new appellate court law which divest the supreme ;court of jurisdiction expressly con- | ferred on it by the constitution. The validity of both acts is now the question in pending supreme court and should that tribunal take lvarts’ view of the tariff act there ould be little left of the b republ ses, Now Try This it cost you ne and wilf s » you good, if you have a Id orany tiouble with the lungs. Dr King’s for Consumption, Isis guaranteed to or money will be paid sufferers from lagrippe found t just the thing and under i la speedy and per uple bottle at our expense rse If j _ — good goods untouched “Fruits and Frat Tree: Is an ten book and gives | trusty formation for all who grow fruit of any sort or kind. Stark Bros. urseries, Louisiana, Mo.. will soir to all interested — Orange Jhdd Framer. 17