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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-24
RAPPLIN0 FOR A WIPE.
"Heads You Win, Tails I Looe"-
An Invitation to Try 1latrimo-
NAL Luck ct the Wheel Of For
tune.

The BAzoo is in receipt Of . marked
copy Of the Kansas City lima matrimo-
hal edition, in which IL clearly indicate
the great advantages that will accrue to
any publisher Who will insert twenty line
advertisement setting forth the pleasant
social sensation" involved in the Times
next distribution Of Matrimonial Female
Premiums. 1t is in nowise the purpose Of
the BAzoc to say that the offer Of the Times
il any respect lacking in liberslity. 1t is
perhaps all things considered the ''hOith Of
generosity" But there il an insuperable
objection to the BAzoo taking any part in
an enterprise Of tins character. A whole
come regard for the
PEACE AND COMFORT
Of its domestic circle, will not allow it.
Every man connected with the editorial
part III the establishment is married In
this sweeping assertion the pale faced local
who is only nineteen years old, il included;
for il he has not exactly stood up for the
ceremony and had the blessings Of the
priest, he has made every possible prepare
ton to encounter that ordeal,
and in fact may be considered a. good a. a
married man. To what possible use then
can the BAzoO put the widows and maids
which il might draw in the lottery Of
its Kansas City contemporary? II y not
. Mormon and has no intention Of remov-
ing to Salt Lake. Besides, the laws Of the
country forbid more than
ONE WIFE At TINE.
The gentleman connected with the BAzOO
il is true might manage to set along With
three or four piece, and live happily, bu,
three or four ladies in one town sustaining
these relations to man are liable to get
mixed. The experience of persons Who
have held to different conclusions has been
extremely sad. 4 mans love il generally
an unknown quantity it il true. II is sue
ceptible Of frequent and intense suadivis-
ions. 1t is 4 romantic element and takes
its coloring from the hines Of its SURROUND
ings, and to flourish in all its natural and
pristine excellence il must be kept sab rosa
Otherwise the masculine reservoir from
which meandsr these different streams OF
love and happiness, is liable to be
sNArCHED BALD HEADED.
In fulfilling his uxorious obligations he
would have to keep before his mind the
pa,ernal injunction OF Tony Weller: "If
yoa see me there Samival don't rec'nize
me-" Recognition under such circumstan-
ces Is death to love. The BAzOO has the
most londer compassion for the maids and
widows Who are lingering disconsOlately in
the Tins female corral. II would collar
and harness them in minute II the thing
could be done without too much publicity.
But whatever may be said Of the BAzoO, it
IL discreet It never fails to observe the
proprieties oil life. and takes care that no
hostile influence should be engendered in
its domstic relations. Under these circum-
stances it il compelled to decline the rea-
sonable request Of its frontier contempor-
rary. However We wish il we'll and As
Rip Van Wrinkle is wont to 0hserve may
il live long and prosper
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-24
ROBBERY.
Mr.. J. D. Ceblue's Residence Bn-
tered Last Night.

The house Of Mr.. J. d. Cobine, on the
corner Of Seventh and Moniteau streets.
was entered last night, and robbed Of coat
and thirty Eve dollars in money. The thief
effected an entrance through the kitchen
window. which Vas only covered with a
musqui,o bar. The family had retired and
forgotten to iasten the window. lie took
Mr.. Cobine's pants and coat out on the
porch, and seated himself in q chair that
was standing there, deliberately went
through them. He took all the money Mr..
Cobine had in his pockets, which was about
S35; also, took his coat and pocket knife,
and left the pants lying on the porch. Mr.
Cobine thinks the house vas entered about
three or four o'clock this rnorning. No clue
to the rubber has been obtained.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-24
A FAST BOY.
A Conductors Predicament - A
Strange Scene on Q Railroad
Train.

Night before last when Conductor King
train Was making lightning time across the
prairie in the direction Of the state line the
emigrant car was occupied BY solitary
woman and three little tow-headed 6hil-
dren. La occasionally passing through the
conductor had observed that his passenger
was apparently very uneasy, and frequent
~ inquired how long it would be before
they reached their destination but he gave
the matter little attention naturally sup
posing il WAS merely the outgrowth Of
FEMALE IMPATIENCE.
What WAS his surprise then when i'm going
back into the car a few hours aiicrwar,l
To have his ears assaulted by il,e lond sbrieks
81 new horn infant and Ia see the mother
completely equslto the situation and giving
la this addition Ia her family that attention
which ia. circumstances required.
why, great heavens - exclaimed the
conductor, ''what's the matter here
"Nothing at sll-the matters all over"
replied the woman a wintry smile PLAYING
around her pale lips.
"You don't mcan to tell the that child
has just been born"
"Well no. not exactly. Its something
like an hour old" and the happy mother
invested il in a bit oi ragged
calico which she had been smoothing out
for the purpose.
"But don't you need some help-some
attentiOn-the presence of some female.'
the bewildered official. Il never
heard Of anything like tins before"
'Ob no, it's all right now. I'm getting
along splendidIy."
The conductor beat a hasiy retreat and
having fi-hed M an old woman IN some
other part of the train seat her in TO attend
To his self reliant passenger. An hour ar
two afrerward he gave her another call and
found the lady
SERENE AND HAPPY.
slows that youngster getting along ?" he
asked.
"Fir-t rate replied the smiling mother.
Il say conductor this is rather fast boy
amt it,"
Il should say he was-he came into the
world At the rate OF twenty iniles an hour"
. "T'm going to make railroad man OF
him"
''Ii's good idea"
The conductor looked little embarrassed
for moment and then felt nervously in his
pocket and produced q ten dollar bill.
MADAM just take that ard buy this boy
an outfit, and when he gets big enough, dis
patch him by express to my train. I'll
make a railroad man Of him il there's any
hing in BIRTH" and with his l'olite-t bow
he conductor took his leave In a few
minutes the train reached its destination
and the woman with her baby took shell
er in the depot to await the next train to
puisue her journey westward.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-24
Freak of the Lightning.

During the storm few days ago, the
lightning struck hay stack on the farm Of
Mr.. Mason, west Of the city, aud set il on
lire. Mr.. Mason, who was sitting in his
porch at the time felt the shock, anil ne
marked to his wife, that that bolt struck
close by, and the next instant he saw blue
smoke rising from the stack, and running
down to It, found the we<, side almost en-
tirely in flames. BY the vigorous use oi hay
fork he succeeded in arre~ting the progress
OF the flames and saved his hay. The cir
cumstances, however, is regarded rs remark
able, ina<much as such an event il almost
without example in this part of the country.
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Caught in aTrap.

About ii O'Clock Sunday night Mr.. Car
ter, living near Windsor, was aroused from
a sound sleep by loud cries proceeding from
the neighborhcod Of his kitchen. Hasten
ing to see what was the matter, he found a
man standing at the side of the house with
his hand poked through
A BROKEN GLASS
in the the window, and held fast in small
steel trap which had been set to catch rats.
The trap was fastened by small chain to
the wall. Ii seems that the man was a
tramp and prospecting around the kitchen
for what he could lind, poked his hand
through the window on tou. of discovery.
Like a great many people in this world he
found something that he didn't want. The
trap was by no means strong but
ITS SHARP TEETH
penetrated the fesh and no effort OF the
vagabond could release the suffering mem-
ber.
Mr.. Carter released him from hi. mn.
pleasant situation, and giving him hunk
If bread started him on his way re.
iolcing
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EoON :sO2 July Is. 1877.

EoON aO2, July II, 1877.
The weather is exceedingly warm TO-
day.
Mr.. Browns cattage near the hotel, is
nearly completed.
Two hundred guests here to-day, and
every train swells the number.
Mr.. T. Waddell still signs for the girl
he left behind him in 81. Louis.
A wedding at the Sweet Springs in
high liie,' is ON the txpis. Particulars in
my next.
Extra help has been telegraphed for
fr.m Lexington AMI 81. I.cuis, in the cul-
insiv department.
-Wurkmen Inv. commenced an Mr.
Marmai;Ike's c"itase. Ii will b. completed
in ah"ui two weeks.
Episcopal services were held in the
Hall this morning. A vciy respectable Num-
Der oi devoted one, ~ere prescnt.
-MrCrawford isstill the life al the party
AMI his besmins coun:cnance, always smil-
ing, can IT, agreeaLIy noticed on all coca
sions.
Young narhcas;Ie returned to Se,lalia,
this evening. The young ladies are griev-
ing themselves nearly TO death over his
absence.
MIR. Tarver Waddcll has adopted the
paving system with his boats at the Black
wafer wharf-twenty- FIVE cents an hour-a
good idea.
The young ladies inform the BAzoo
correspondent that this is splendid place
for lovers, especially on moonlight nights,
and the ladies. believe. speak from expe-
rience and ought 10 know.
A horseback ride was indulgcd m by
some Of the young ladies, recently, and
created some excitement and caused some
unessine-s, as the young eqnc-irians NJ
NAMED out little too late.
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Reaper Trial.

Yesterday evening = party visited the
farm Of J. ID. Morrison, about mile north
west Of the city, to inspect the working Of \
Mccormick binder At work in field of
oats. 1t vas evident at a glance, even 10
the inexperienced in such matters, that this
machine moving through the grass 70 tri-
umphaDtly, would work revolution in the
matter Of harvesting. The binding attach
men was operated on harvester, from
which it can be removed at pleasure, and
the harvester used only as such. A No. q
wire, annealed, is used, and the size Of the
bundles regulated BY man who attends to
it. This wire is in a very ingenious way
carried around sufficient quantity of grain
and twisted together and cut of 20 rapidly
that3the eye cannot follow its movement, and
the bundles pushed to one side where they
falls to the ground. The price Of the entire
machine is $4,000, with liberal discount
on cash sales. Mr.. Herald is the agent
and If the farmers could see it, perfectnes.
the sales would be large.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-24

A Dead Young Lady tells Her
Lover Not to Marry Again, but
to Meet Her on the Shining Shore.

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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-24
County Court.

County court was in session to-day, and
transacted the following business
Ordered that warrant be issued 10 Dr.
j. r. Thatcher for S6., due as physician &,
County Poor House.
Ordered that warrant he issued to VIM.
Allen, forSa0, for keeping Lucy Boswell, a
pauper for the three months ending Jnlv
~, 1877.
Ordered that n warrant be issued to W.
r. Anderson, for Sll3 OS for keeping
County Poor House, for month ending
July Id, "a.
Ordered that warrant lie issued 20 DR..
q. F. Hughes, for Sls Is, amount due As
physician to County Jail, for quarter ending
July l6. 1877. Also for SIS, for medicine
for Buck Shelby auper.
Ordered that warrant be issued Ia
Betsy Gra,h, for 81, Tor assistance To her as
pauper.
Ordered that a warrant be issued to
Issac. Dcrrance for 81 for assistance to John
Barber a pauper, for the quarter ending
July 80, 1877.
Ordered that real estate given by W. Il.
Higgins 10 secure school money loaned, be
released.
Ordered that warrant he issued to Geo.
p. X. jackson for Sl75 COR services as
County Attorney, for the quarter ending
July L., 1871.
Ordered that dramshop license he granted
to FL. Lyon, Ohio street.
Ordered that dramshop license be granted
10 W. NJ. Moore, corner Usage and Main
streets.
Ordered that a warrant he issued to
Judge Sloan for S4OJ,ior assistance 10 Mrs.
Jamison, poor person.
Ordered that warrant Ike issued to Mrs.
Miller, for $500, for assistance to her as
poor person.
A claim presented by F. Houston, for
SOL 30, as commission for collecting taxes
against the Lexington and St. Louis Rail-
roads for the years, 1873, 1874, 1875,
was rejected by the court.
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Arrested for Theft.

Mr.. - Morris, Superintendent OF the
Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe ,ailroad
had $40 stolen from him at Kansas City,
yesterday. and supposed negro man, a
porter on the Missouri Pacific, of being the
thief. He Immediately telegraphed to
Mr.. Berry, the ticket agent Of the Missouri
Pacific road, in this city, telling him to be
on the lookout for the negro and have him
searched. Mr.. Berry told officer Murphy
of the occurrence, and when the train ar
rived this morning he arrested the negro
and took him into the baggage room and
searched him. They found nothing what
eter upon him except his own personal
property, and turned him loose. The negro
expressed his willingness to be searched,
and said he did not know anything of the
robbery until arrested by the officer. 1t is
presumed that Mr.. Morris lost the money
somewhere and thought the negro had
taken it.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-24
THE PANIC.
Quiet Reigns in the City and the
Trouble il Comparatively Over
Run on the Banks Decreasing.
S,sei,l 4. the Hax.a

Special Z. the Raz..o-
ST. Louis July 1912 m.
Their are strong indications that the
financial excitement will he of short dura-
iion. The run on the banks to-day has
been much less intense and excited than
yesterday. and the feeling OF alarm is rap
idly giving place to sense Of security.
The banks have resor,ed to none OF those
subteriugss which usually mark
THE IXCIrIENr STAGES
81 real panic, and the impression l. grow
ing that they are strongly fortified with Ill
necessary lunis to meet any calls which
may be made upon them. At the close Of
business yesterday, the impression was gen
eral that there would be
NO MORE TROUBLE.
The principal cause IL mneasiness was &C.
ea-ione,l by the temporary suspension al a
number ii banks to make preparations for
a run. This having been done they
promptly opened and honored all calls
which were made upnn them. Yesterday
the Union Savings Bank and the Biddle
Market Bank encountered the most persist
ent siege, although several Others, including
the Boatman's and Iron Mountain. shared
with them in momentary less Of pablo
confidence But il was oaly temporary
and now everything
ArPEARS SERENE.
On change the transactions have been in
moderate volume. but the market, so far n
felt, has b~en firm. There j. every possi-
bic Indication of increasing confidence.
Wheat has been in very large arrival Tor
-ever-l days past, and has gone of slow,
but at good prices. The range has been
Tor NJ. =, cash, in large lots, 81 10 anu
81 n, and for July delivery, 81 26i tn
81 PSI.
Corn has been firm AMI has advanced !
cent. Sales ii NJ. :, MIXED, ior cash, has
brought 81 81 and II 81.
Flour is qniet and easier.
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A lady entered Main street dry goods
store the oaher day, and after the clerk had
shown her all Of the cheap goods in the
establishment she said:
"These goods are very nice and cheap
but my desire is to obtain q pair of c,rculas
elastic appendasss capable Of being Con-
tracsed or expanded BY 6urnished steel sp-
planes, and which are utilised for resting
in proper position the habilimenss Of the
lower extremities."
Jake opsoed his eyes in assoaishmens-
bot being determined not to let the youne
lady zee that he didn't understand her, h<
replied: mo ma'an; vs are just out.
After her departure be remsiked silent and
in deep thought for . long time. At las'
. new idea struck him, and be beoke ou
with, by Jimmy! IN bet that voaas
wanted pair Of ksrosm."
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-24

There has been . complete change in
the Turkish ministry.
Considerable interest il being felt in the
Convention Of Short Horn breeders which
assemblies in Louisiana. =
The Columbis Life business in 81.
Louis has had its diminished head in the
face Of financial failures.
Tow headed children, and bleak, win.
try looking parents, are emigratinS west
ward in large numbers.
"A woman named Rachel Spark.
drowned herself in the Usage last week on
account of disappointed affections.
The convicts at Talmage coal mines,
sine. the fatal accident there recently. are
avene to working under the ground.
WHEAT was cut, thrashed. ground and
made into biscuits IN Carroll county the
other day, in eleven minutes BY the witch
Six men from Vernon county Who
started for the Black Hills last fall have
not been heard from, and il is feared they
are lost.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Transfers Of Real Estate, Chattel
Mortgages-Marria &c.

For the six months ending on the 30th OF
June last, the transfers OF real estate in
Pettis county have included
500 warranty deeds.
225 deeds OF trust.
Is quit claim deeds.
40 trustee deeds.
In addition to these there have been ex-
ecuted on personal property one hundred
chattle mortgages, the ratio Of which is in
creasing rapidly.
Within the last six months there have
been lis marriages i'm this county.
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ROUND ABOUT.

They have fresh peaches in Moberly.
Joplin wants railroad to Short Creek.
ST. Joseph wants temperance revival.
-Now is the season Of green apples and
collie.
Horses are dying Of heat in Lafayette
county.
An Usage county hen has gone to rails
ing kittens.
The black leg is killing cattle in Au-
drain county.
st. Genevive county is working her
copper mines.
Barton county has bonded indebted
ness Of $4,000.
The tobacco crop is reported in . four
isbing condition.
Alexander Hamphill. an old citizen Of
81. Joseph, isdead.
Mexico ia erecting new Savings bank
at cost Of $4,000.
The jana and St. Joseph folks are to
have narrow gusge.
-Gilmore's band in coming west, and
will take in Missouri.
Governor Phelps has reached home
from the Hot Springs.
The price Of Geld hands does not ex-
coed to dollars per day.
"A Perryv,lle farmer has an onion twelve
inches in circumference.
The Moberly Grand Jury are hauling
criminals over the Goals.
Waller the Manh6eld horse thief has
been recsPtured in Arkansas.
The new channel cut BY the Missouri,
has formed lake Ut Omaha.
-Fou. prisoners escaped from the
Grundy county Jail last week.
1T took single bunch Of Ere cracken
to celebrate the Fourth in Miami.
"A Lewis county man has realized
$1,000 on HE sool clip this year.
-Wayne.ville, in Pulaski county il no,
religious enough to have church.
ALI dog in this State must Be killed
before the lss Of August or pay tax.
-KaAsas City and Sedalia have the
worst streets Of any towns in the State.
"A great number Of Missouri spor,smez
have gone to Kansas to shoot chickens.
"A couple recently married in 81
Joseph, kept and the affair secret for two
weeks.
"A man named McCann, VA killed b,
Q kick from . mule last week in Monro'
county.
Mrs. Child, Of Benton county, ha'
given birth to boy baby, weighing 2.
pounds.
"A brakeman named Chunch vas ~,
over and killed BY tie caD At Welkvill
Sunday.
-Geosxe Farrell, "the poet Of the ri,
Moody" = IL man Who = to start nev
paper in Booaville.
Ray county Aas nsvspspsr which ses
out TO offend nobody"-vhich means tha
everybody viii dit.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-24

A Terrible Crime in Howell County

1t il seldom in the annals Of crime that
. more brutal deed n committed than
the following fearful occurrence alleged
70 have transpired in Howell county. IL
seems that two neighboss. Matthias ThoDas
and Richard JONES were not On friendly
trims, and Thomas sent word 10 Jonss 70
call at his place and they would ssssls shs
difficulty. Jones agreed to this aHangsDent
and last Wednesday went 10 his ess0i0 Siam
and found his ansasoniss plowiae il fsld.
Both undentood that there ~ 10 b .
difficulty and without any preliminary
quarrel. hey proceeded q oaes 70 fght
and in the Struggle Jones Va bssssn
NEARLY 10 DEATH.
Both Of his eyes we're literally souesd out
and were left hanging down upoa hi
cheeks, and in this eondisid. b w. left 10
suffer until the following morning. Thooas
then sent word to Jones' father 70 come and
take Richard outof the feld, ashs wanted 70
finish ploving his corn. Whes IL fashss
reached the field b found his soa in
TINS NIsKRADLB FLIGHT,
exposed alike to the seosching Gun, aad .
prey to insects which vess swasnisg around
his mutilated eyes. He Aad laid for forty.
mx hours without tnod or vassr snd 1T
terly unable to help himsslf, o. obeain -
distance. The brust who pespssrsasd tAis
terrible crime and thsa Left Hi snsoy
helpless, deserves death q IL halese.