The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 4, 1893, Page 2

Our St Is Large. Our Methods areC And you will be ple ock asking a s Lumber Business in Butler. ased if you will of Lumber IN BUTLER, orrect. Our Prices are Right. - with us. We are hare of the Aud we hope, by the very best of accommodation and most lib- eral treatment, with as good and low prices at can be had any- where in South Missouri, to merit a part of your tra no competitition in the Lumber included. Remember the place. We fear business on earth, Kansas Cith The J. F. Boyd Lumber Co. BY J. F. BOYD. PAID HIS WARK DEPT. A Pennsylvama Veteran Has Just Re- impursed the Tennesseean He Robbed. St. Louis Globe Democrat.~ . John Railey, who resides about 4 miles from Trimble, Tenn., is one of the happiest men in the country. The cause of his joy is the receipt a day or two ago by express of $685, not a cent of which he ever expected to receive. In 1864 squad of the fifty-fourth Pennsylvania cavalry, who were out ona scout endeavor- ing to learn something of the move- ments of General Forest, camped at a spring near Mr. Railey’s residence. The following morning before de- parting from the neighborhood, they rode up to Railey’s, all but one who was walking. and he went tothe barn and led out the finest horse there. Railey expostulated in vain. “Let that horse loose! I wouldn’t take $250 for that horse, you low down Yankee thief!’ he angrily ex- claimed. “Don’t worry ycurself so, pard- ner,” replied the soldier. “You see my horse died with the colic last night and Tam bound to have an other. If I were to depend on my feet to get me out of this country Forest would get me sure.” “I wish he'd get every one of you confound you,” replied the owner of the animal. “Tl tell you what I'll do.” contin- ued the trooper, “if you will tell me your name andI get through this blamed war elive and eyer get able Iwillsend you the money for the horse.” “My name is John T. Railey, d—n you, but I'll never hear trom you again, you d—n Yankee thief.” “That way be,” smiled the soldier, “but wait and see,” and amid a roar of laughter from his comrades he mounted the horse and with them rode away. At that time Railey was well off in this world’s goods, and the loss of the horse occasioned him no pe cuniary embarrassment. But since the war he has met with many re- verses. He has been compelled to sell part of his farm at various times until he now has but forty acres, | The nomination of Mr. Joseph H. | wise to be collector of customs at | San Francisco recalls memory of the man who held the post when Mr. Wise, then a beardless boy, was sent out as deputy, says the Washington Post. His name was Hammond, he had a gallant war record, and he was better known as “Major” Ham- mond. To his nomination, made in the spring of 1853, is attached a strange and pathetic story, vouched for by many residents of the slope, but seldom, is ever published. In the heat of the struggie be- tween the United States and Mexi- co, Hammond, a harum-scarum young lieutenant, was attached to the staff of General Winfield Scott. In one of the desperate encounters which marked the steady American advance to the Mexican capital he was sent to the rear for re-enforcements. Going at full speed he attempted to leap a ravine, his horse fell, and the rider went with him. Extricating himself, and rising, he saw crouched under the bank the figure of a man. Crazed with the heat, blinded by the smoke, and deafened by the roar of the guns he had lost his nerve; “gone all to pieces,” as the veterans call it, and was trembling in hiding. Hammond felt a pity for him, drag- ging him to his feet, talked to him as a father to his son; told him that the eye of his comrades were on bim; that he must do his duty; that all Americans must stand together in that far country; gave him some water to drink, and so put heart into {him that the man was able to smile, give him a firm handgrip and mount the riderless horse that stood by. His last words ere he plunged back into the thick of the fray were “For God's sake, old man, don’t tell any- body.” “It was an experience that bap- pened to many young soldiers oth-| erwise braye enough,’ Hammond | used to say in telling it. | The man was Franklin H. Pierce. | When he was elected president of |the United States Hammond came jon to Washington. The new execu- j tive saw him and clasped both his ‘hands, while grateful tears came to his eyes. They had not met since they parted at the bank of the ravine in far away Mexico. |ter M. K. Barkley | to day, to take effect w |with the United States grand jory | and this spring he was compelled to | mortgage that for $2001n order to obtain money to purchase seed and some badly needed farm implements. | A few days ago he received a letter | “Can I do anything for you, Hame mond?” Mr. Pierce inquired. “Can't you name something I can do for you?” “Well,” was the response, “I have which read as follows: Reading, Pa., April 3, 1893.—John T. Railey, Trimble, Tenn.-—Dear Sir: I suppose you remember one April morning m 1864 when a squad |. of Yankee soldiers, as you called them, came to your house and one of them rode off one of your horses, which you said was worth $250? The Yankee promised to pay for the horse ifit was ever in his power to doso. [ am that same Yankee. Fortune has dealt very harshly with me until the last few years, since which time I have accumulated con- siderable property. I am gettin, old now ea taking your ra ae as near stealing as I have ever been guilty of, and I wish now to pay for him. Ilearn from your postmaster that you are still in the land of the living, and have had pretty hard luck, which Lam sorry to hear. I send you by to day's express $685, which allows you 6 per cent interest. We will, likely, never meet again in this world, but I hope to meet you in that land where there is no sec- hatred. _ Trusting you may prasper, I remain, yours truly. Faaxx K. Watpzay. thought I would like to be custom | collector out at Frisco” | The appointment was sent in the! \ next dar | The Country Editor. The country editor is most blessed because of the opportunities for usefulness that comes to him. He lives always close to his readers. His paper is a welcome visitor in every home. At times when even the phy- | Sician and minister may not come in the country paper enters. It moulds the thoughts and lives of young and old. It preaches to a larger congre- gation than all the clergymen in town. It argues oftener and more convincingly than all the lawyers. Its words cause wounds that no sur- geon’s skill may heal. When the edi- tor uses these magnificent opportu- nities rightly, is fearless, conscien- tious, true, excludes from his col-| ums all that may vitiate and debase |and admits only that which helps | and elevates, he is worthy of much honor. Such is the best type of | country editor. Blessed is he above gg Herald. POSTMASTER BARKLEY RESIGNS | He Explains the Occason of the Report- ed Information Against Him. Nevada, Mo.. April 27.—Postmas | nation to the his sue cessor is qualified. Mr. Barkley says his wife diate change of cli resigys in order to accompany her | to Colorado. Being asked touching | the rumors regarding an information | | ‘s health demands an imme | said to have been filed against him} at Kansas City, he replied: “A cer-| |taineum is allowed by the depart ment for having work done at the office. After each clerk had agreed to work for a stated sum there was a small balance of the appropriation | left. The balance was paid to a man to act as janitor of the office who could not sign his name legibly. This amount, however, was added to the vouchers signed by Hoover and the money drawn by him in bulk accordingly, Mr. Hoover receiving his share and the janitor his. On April 1, 1892, I found it necessaay to dispense with his services and he became angry. The result is this information was filed by him.” C. B. Ingels has been named by con- gressman C. H. Morgonas Mr. Bark- ley’s successor. The position pays $2,200 per annum. A Beautiful City. Pieasant Hill Gazette. We visited our father, H. Hutch- inson, at Butler, Mo., last week, which place was formerly our home for nearly eighteen years, and we were surprised at the rapid strides and the many improvements it has made in the past few years. We can say, without fear of contradiction, that it is one of the most beautiful and well kept cities in the state. ‘The town has an excellent system of water works, electric lights, fine lake aud park, broad shady streets. hand- some churches and school buildings fine residences, and about 4,000 wide awake and energetic people who are not afraid to dive down into their pockets and contribute to the wel- fare and interest of their town. But- ler has donned a city air and the harmony and good feeling that pre- vails among her people is sure to keep her on the upward move, and eventually make her one of our most important western cities. Thought it Was a Joke. Ata receat corner-stone laying in Newark, the corner-stone was swing- ing in the grasp of a powerful crave above the hole left for it to fit in. Down in the hole an Irishman was rushing about with a bed of mortar. Suddenly a portion of the tackle slipped and down came the stone with arun. It lit on the Irishman’s back, and everybody expected to see him flattened out thin as paper when j the stone was lifted half a minute| later. No sooner was the stone clear of the hole though, than the man sprang up like a jack-in-the-box. He was covered with mortar from head to foot, and was coughing, sneezing and spitting to get it out of his nose and mouth. As soon as he could speak he addressed the men manag- ing the crane: “Here now! Here now!” he yelled. ‘“O1 can stand a joke as well as any mon, but any of yees can have me job after thot,” jand he put on his coat and went away, peruaded the highly respecta-| ble assemblage had put up a joke on him.—Argonaut. Missouri’s Game Law- { It shall be unlawful for and dur- ing the period of five years next suc- ceeding the passage of this act for any person to sell or attempt to sell for the purpose of shipping outside | of the county where killed, or buy or attempt to buy for shipping out- side of the county where killed to any other county in the state or to any point outside of the state, any quail, pinnated grouse or prairie chicken. It shall be unlawful for avy railroad or express company or agent thereof to receive for ship- ment or convey from one county to another any quail, pinnated grouse or prairie chicken killed within this state for a period of five years next succeeding this act. Any person or corporation violating any of the pro- visions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and u less than $100 nor more than $200. ate aud that he! ., Pardoned the Wrong Man. Columbus, O., April 26.—Az ur- paral 1s been dis- core pet i It is no! orl than that Pres- dent Cleveland has pardoned the ~|wrong man out of the uticn. That manis Wm. Skinuer, 2 moon- shiner fr: Northern Ala . whose pardou arrived here Monday ake was t the two ay brot E and Will, were sent up at the same time for the same of-| fense and for the same length of! The au | »shington, by a sin- made eut a pardon; for Jack but Wii's name on it. The reasons en for the pardon | were that the recipient had defec- | tive eyesight, preventing him from doing farm work; that he had an) invalid wife and four small children | dependent on him, and that the sen- | tence was excessive. Will thoughtfully skipped out for Ala- bama the first train Monday night. If he discovered the mistake —which probably he did not—he failed to say anything about it. Af- ter he had gone it was discovered that while the pardon read Will Skinner the description was Jack’s. Will's eyes are as goodas anybody's, and the prison record shows that he has a wife but only one child. His wife could hardly have had three more since he left the first of last April. Jack’s description, however, shows that he has a wife a four young children, and Jack is almost blind. gular mistake, very | on Deaths From Hyarophobia . Kakoka, Mo., April 27.—On March 24a rabid dog attacked three chil- dren of Joseph Brittain on the road home from school and bit all of them Mr. Brittain is a respectable farmer living four miles east of this place. Last Wednesday the oldest mani- fested symptoms of hydrophobia and died on the following Monday. To-day the news reached here that another child is showing symptoms. the last one and he may loose all of them. The most intense feeling of sympa- thy exists for the sadly stricken fam- ily. Fear is now entertained for For years many people in this part cf the state have claimed that Dr. J. B. Marchand of Monticello, Mo.. has a sure preventive for by- drophobia in a medicine to be taken at any time before the convulsions begin. At the solicitation of promi nent citizens here Dr. Marchand was called to see these children. He failed in this case. The doctor, however claims to have successfully treated over 300 such cases and says |- that his father and grandfather in early days treated successfully hun- dreds in western Pennsylvana,wheie the fame of the remedy was wide- spread. Mr. Astor beught Cliveden, so they say, in the hope of entertaining her majesty in it. Clinton, Missouri. Mr. A. L Armstrong, an old druggist anda prominent citizen ot this eate prising town, says: “I sel! some forty different kinds ot cough medicines, but have never in my experience sold so much of any one article as I have ot Ballard’s Horehonud Syrup. All who use it say itis the most perfect remedy tor cough, cold, consumption, and all diseases ot the throat and lungs. they hayeever tried.” It is a specific for cRoup and whooping cough. It will re- lieve a cough in one minute. Contains ne opiates. Sold by H L Tacker, drug- gist. 3 seed Ra oo ath, There is grave danger that St. Joseph may soon be cut off from the Missouri river and that the million dollar bridge which connects that city with Kansas, and across which the Rock Island and Union Pacific system runs, will be left spanning}! a lagoon. For several years the Mis- souri has been cutting across the Feet narrow neck of land above the city, i and the government has had a fleet at work trying to protect the banks. | * There is now only an eighth ofa mile Re separating the channels. “A God-send is Ely’s Cream Balm. I had cavarrh for three years. Two or three times a week my nose would bleed. I thought the sores would never heal. Your Balm has cured me.”—Mrs. M A. Jackson, Ports- mouth, N. H. 0 pon | My nose and head are well. I feel his fellows.— Walter Williams in Co-| conviction be punished by fine of not |iike anoiher man.—C. S. McMillen, years so bad that there were great Sores in my nose, and one place was eaten through. I got Ely’s Cream Balm. Two bottles did ‘the work. Sibley, Jackson Co. Mo. EE THE DICTIONARY HOLDER ask another question: Have you ever noticed the manufecture by Mr. Noyes of an ornamental stan? to hod the i] dictionary? The story reads like a fable, but totell it one must j ef the Aermotor Company, which starts out as full { } ‘ ‘ i a , eX wut Liammaress (0. Ue E OAP CLAIRE = § | co L.LARS ‘ano CUFFS. Wis ye roger Mag, yeWnor TW, dean voy. Ee ~~ Mave ONty BY IRBANK & CO. A. O Welton Staple:Fancy Groceres, Feed and Provisions of all Kinds. fUEENSWARF AND GLASSWARE. CIGARS ARD TOBACCO, ST. LOUIS. Alwavs pay the highest market price for County Produces East Side Square. 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W Smith ang | having added to the same 2 number ot first-class Buggies, and horses, I can say | to the public that I now have the} : OZMANLIS Ea ‘Best Livery Barn if Hi | | In southwest Mo.* Horses and | bought and sold, or stock handicdians | commission, Stock bearded by the day weekor month, With 16 years exper- jence Mr Lewis teels able to compete with any Livery barn in this section, Call ard see him c:B LEWIS & CO