The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-10-16

lion pounds Of tobacco.
An aged Scotchman died in st. Joseph
as, week, frem starvation.
The Texas fever j. very destructive
cattle, in Lafayette county.
A farmer named Inflow MAS hille
last week, by an immigrant.
The Joplin newspapers demand IN
creased protection against ire
joplin has continuous rail connecii"l
now with the rest Of the world.
The thieves are overrunning the town
Oh the north side of the river.
No lives were l,st in the railroa'
wreck, near Palmyra, Sunday.
Tie Southwestern Baptist tniverSii,
is to I've located at PierccCiiy.
Mr.. Jewell has assumed e,sitoria
charge of the Carrailton D,macIaf.
A new Christian church has been deli
Gated at WoodIawn, Monroe county.
Texas county has some two Thousand
acres more wheat this season than usual.
The negro lawyer in Joplin is taking
the practice away from the poor white
trash.
Complaints are everywhere made %
the prevalence oi gambling, al tine count,
fairs.
Matthews, the horse thief-not Stanley
is claimed by the authorities of Boone
county.
The case against Clark. the school
fund embezz.er, at Rolla, has been dis
missed.
Pike County Fair Association got If
teen hundred dollars profit ont OF the As
ISOLATION.
-Perryville claims to he i'm possession
of a sourd which measures five feet in cir.
conference.
The prisoners i'm tine Bowling Greer
Jail tried to break ont last week, but were
not successful.
A party of Cherokee Indians passed
through Brcokfeld, last week, on their way
10 Western Iowa.
The Potosi Iad,pesdeat has n new
editor, who undertakes to publish ''the bes,
paper in the State
Mrs. Colby, the trance lectures was
thrown from buggy, at Louisiana, in Pike
county, last week, and badly hurt.
The tobacco crop of Barry county has
been housed, and is pronounced the largest
and finest ever raised in that county.
Number of students in the State Cni-
versity up to the present time: Law, =!
medical, 10; academic, $40; total, :;tio.
bernard Miller cut his throat in St.
Charles, last week, and then tore off the
bandage after the surgeons had dressed II.
The hog cholera has damaged Texas
county to the amount of $4,000. The
greatest sufferers are i'm the western part OF
the county.
Macon county has her gold fields, he,
coal fields, her hay fields, her corn iilds, in
all OF which she takes great pride, and now
she is about to make "a corner" on lead.
Aug. Meyers has sued the city OF Cape
Girarieau for $1,000 damages. A sand
bank within the city limits which caved in
and killed his son. is the canse of the dam,
age.
The Stockton Journal says Mr.. II. G.
Horn, of that place, was robbed OF 81 49,
few nights siLce. Some tw" wears ago
the same gentleman lost $500 in = similar
manner.
MIR. Weeks, a farmer in Bates county
was knocked from his horse, last week. by
traps, and robbed oil two hundred dollar.
in money, and a pocke,book containing
valuable papers.
Taylor, the Hickory county murderer
was allowed 10 plead guilty 10 murder in
the second degree, and was sentenced to the
penilentiary for twenty years.
The Murphy movement is in full bias,
in Gates county. Something over $500
have signed the Murphy pledge. Among
the number are several who have hitherto
been hard drinkers.
The trial of George Hayes and Pen
Hughes, the two colored men charged Will,
the murder Of David Farmer, the negro
Voudooist, in Linn county, resulted in The
acquittal OF the prisoners.
Prof. J. W. Albert will resign in a
short time his chair in the Rolla School 81
Mines and Metallurgy. aud the chair va
Gated by him hls been rendered to Prof
Geo. ID. Emerson. who has accepted.
A few days ago thief entered the resi-
dence Of MIR. John Walk, in South lIanni-
bal, but touched nothing except a jar Of
honey, thirty pounds of butter and some
bread. He was evidently hungry.
DIR. o. b. Hicklin, Of Rails county, las
a son nineteen years Of age, who is the
champion corn-cutter in North Missouri.
He "cuts aud puts up fifty shocks day.
and the shocks will average a barrel each.
The man Carter, who recently MUIR
dered Deputy Marshal Chambers. at nex.
ter City. was captured at Gainesville, Ark,
by the sheriff of Green county. and returned
to the Bloomfield Jail in good order.
Wanted.