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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-25

A sort of grim satisfaction comes
up from all over the country at the
announcement that Congress has taken
a recess of nearly a month, covering
the holiday season and good part OF
January, and it is suggested that 1t
the representatives of the people will
only pass the Appropriation bills. they
NAV at once adjourn until next De
cember without detriment to public in
terests and certain pleasure to the peo-
pie. The fact that throughout the
called and regular sessions very little
useful legislation has been perfected
confirms the impression that Congress
is a costly governmental appendage.
1t is doing the damage to the national
finances that the Legislatures have
done for the various States until the
people fairly groan under the burdens
they have to bear. but when they
murmur they are silenced by the re-
mark that they are enjoying the bless
ings of free representative govern
meut, and the lack of wisdom in the
management of affairs continues to 60
hand in hand with corruption and in
fidelity to patriotic and official pledges.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-25

An order has at last been issued
from the Postofice Department that
unsealed packages from Europe, ar.
irving in New York by mail, which
contain dutiable goods, shall be re-
turned to the foreign forwarding post
Office, marked Subject to custom d.
ties" and suspected sealed packages
shall only be delivered when the re-
ceiver consents to the opering of the
package in the presence of a custom
officer. Millions of dollars worth of
gloves, jewelry, laces and costly trim
kets and goods of every description
have been struggled into this country
through the mails, and heretofore moth
ing has been done to check it.
The practice of getting friends in
Europe to send dutiabie goods of the
smaller sort through the mails is uni
versal, and gifts from abroad are al
most always sent in that way. So sue
cessful has this sort of traffic been that
tradesmen are now smuggling large
varieties and quantities of goods in
this way, and hence the order. II
customs are to be collected, there
should be no possible way Of avoiding
them successfully.
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Great inventions, like misfOrtunes,
seldom come singly. Thought on one
invention suggests and stimulates an
other, and often leads to unexpected
results. Prof. Bells study of the me-
chanical production of speech. for the
purpose of teaching deaf mutes, led
to his invention Of the telephone. In
the same way DR.. Rosapelly and
Prof: Mary. in England. who have
long interested themselves in the
teaching Of deaf mutes, have sue
ceedei in graphically representing the
movements of the lips, those of the
veil Of the palate and the vibrations
of the larynx, SO that phonetic char
acters, produced by the VOICE Itself,
NAV be transmitted bv Telegraph and
translated into Photographic short
hand at any distance from the speaker.
The instrument is similar to the tele-
phone, but is more perfect in its work
ings and wider in its applications. So
far as learned. the deaf mutes have
not been particularly benefited by the
inventions.
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A Dcspcrndo ca ged.

STANFORD, Nv. December Is
Sanl. Holmes. the murderer "r ~..cr-
iii Nap!cv. was captured tor day by :.
II. Nickie AMI p,->c. who vii receive
the 81, 500 reward offered i'r him.
lie made no Resistance, mer ~ re-
markin. ~ the hln.!cuii, wcF.. lrcketI
III him: ..Dm't sheet ue, gentle
men. | have Jure nothing. lie was
brought here and lodged IN jill, but
for far II rescue the County .inI;.o
has ordered that h. h. ,aScI a.
Louisville iu-m"rTuw iur -;:i' k''Tids,
The crime ior which ll"lmc, i lIrl,. j.
for the murder 81 Sheriff Napier, c..:I-
mi;',L September Is. lS.iJ. while
Napier w;:> attempting h. arreSt Tor i
mi,.lemeanc-. lie also shot ut the
same time a:.d severely wCunded
Town Marshal Davidson. iiul,ac-
then Il i the c1uniry, aud Tor about :;
wear wandered over various Parts ri
Europe. and returned again TO the
United States; he Travelled over sew
cral ii the Western States, and after
"A lapse of three years came back ;o
Lincoln, and since then has roame,l
his native health at will, feared by
the people and dreaded by the officers.
To the laxity Of the law. in his case
and that Of Grove Kennedy, may be-
ascribed all the disgrace that Lincoln
county has very justly suffered. The
people are at last awakened to the true
state Of affairs. and are determined
that lawnessness and crime must
ce1Se
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quarters,

New York Sun: Judge Van Brunt
says that if he had his way, he "would
have a law passed prohibiting any
newspaper from publishing any report
except verbatim one, giving all the
testimony" If a good many lawyers,
including several who have become I'M
pleasantly prominent in connection
with the disappearance of trust funds.
had their way. it would be very diff
cult to publish a newspaper at all.
While lawyers. as a rule, are amiable
men. the profession is shield for nu-
merous scamps. whose success in
achieving fortune by crooked methods
is seriously iuterfered with by the
press. We do not suppose that Judge
Van Brunt has any sympathy with
this class, but they will undoubtedly
endorse his suggestion. and nine-tenths
of the convicts in the penitentiary
would endorse it, and all the frauds.
from Hayes down. Carried into prac-
tice. it would simply mean that the
press should publish no court news,
expose no scoundrels, and gibbet no
frauds.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-25
MUCH MARRIED.
low a Woman Disp osed Of Seven
Husbands.

NEW YORK, Dee. l7.-Tae New
York Times his Il specia. from Hart
. ,rl, Ct. winch saws the town of Gov
entry has brought salt against The town
of Manchester iIs the support of an
ALLEGED paupcr named Patti Pamelis
Anthony, and the woman herself has
made "a deposition which shows re-
Iaarkable career at married life. The
case j. before Judge Carpenter. q;
Hartford. ~ arbitrator.
According to her story she WAS mar
ricd July ,. lS:55. To VIM. Bly,, eff
Springfield. who Lett her three days
after. Fix weeks later she hc..Id he
was dead, AMI on February 1 of the
next year she married David l..
Rogers. 81 Hall. me, Ct. She lived
with Rogers six months. when BY.
The dead man, appeared, but WIS
bought up, aud gave :, quit claim I"
Rogers for Il silver watch and five dol
lars.
Abcut two years after Rogers went
20 sea, and six months ioIloain. his
departure, Ms. Rogers heard he had
been hanged as u pirate. Finding
Jingle lite banging heavily ou her
hands, she marrrd, in March, 1911.
Frederick y. Wheeler. WHO now lives
IN Manchester, Connecticut.
Six months after this marriage,
Rogers. the hanged pirate, came b&ch
pu,,ed Wh,eicr. ami lived with
Pame.ia Till October. lSi9. when he
died.
liz March, 1857. she married Henry
Meyers, of Williamsburg. New York
md got divorce in March, 1851.
AMI in the same year married Jane
DAVIS and moved to Wi,cun>in. She
lived with him several years. and gol
divorced.
She then married Richard Marshall
somewhere ia Onin, l;ved with hin
seven years. aud got another divorce
,hcn cnmiu. back To- CoEnecIic',t III,
married E.nanull anthony. of Hart
turl. aud lived with him six month,
when he ran away.
. This record shows she hail seven
hu>band- in ALL Coventry owes Man
chester for her support, clin!ing bet
settlement l. In Manchester, whc r,
her husband. Wheeler. now lives
There Roger mariasei l. claim,d To b,
voi'l. Manchester SAYS Tire bly, sh'
married l. nnt Biz. who j. sud ;o b,
lead. hut another man: rtat the mar
ricd BY WIS alive when Nheelyr':
marriage touk place, which make.
that vnil. Ii i also he'll that Wheel
er's marriage i of nn effect, ursl~r th,
the Connecticut laws, from the tact
that N the time Wheeler married hcl
his father was married To- her sister
~ he was not Only marrying Ii,
moiher-in-llw's sister, hut also HI,
fathers step sister, AMI 81 on. Ii i :
very peculinr case.
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$1,000 Damages.


The trial IF the case Of Lucinda +.
Stout and Regulus p. stout, her hus-
band, against the Kansas City and
Northern Railroad Company pro-
gressed yesterday before Judge Lind
lev. The suit is for $50. 900 damages
for bolily injuries sustained by the
terrible accident at Salisbury on the
9TH Of September. 1876. by which MIR.
Taus>ig. the Treasurer Of the road,
and four or fiye other persons were
killed and q large number wounded.
Mrs. Stout had taken passage at St.
Joe for st. Louis, and ut the time the
accident occurred she was sitting next
the window, with one Of her children
sleeping ON the seat by her and au-
other resting on the floor ut her feet.
\ terrific rain-stOrm was raging. and
the water had collected ut an embank-
ment, and washed away portion Of
the track. The train was upset, and
the mother and children were buried
under pile Of baggage and debris,
and woman was thrown across Mrs.
Stout. chest. She was extricated by
the passengers, and came to st. Louis
the next day, feeling somewhat sore,
but not apprehending serious con>e-
quences from the bruises. Some days
afterwards she became sick, and the
bruises on her hack finally produced
paralysis of her lower limbs, and she
is now a cripple, unable to walk with
out assistance. The suit is based on
the allegation that the accident was
the result Of defect in the construc-
ZION of the road at the place where il
happened, the drainage being INSULT.
cient to carry of the water. A good
deal Of expert testimony was taken,
and the case is sharply contested BY
Chandler 4 Young on the part Of the
plaintiffs and Blodgett 4 Dickson fol-
the defendant.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-25
G. Z. Ellis.

The commissarv of the state troops.
whose throat was cut. according To the
dispatches, was a gentleman in the
fullest sense Of the word. lie came
to Ell PasO as a soldier in the Union
army, General Carleton's command, in
1862. After the war ended. he re-
manned ut San Elizario. and opened a
store. He has occupied the Offices of
county treasurer and afterwards Of
Sheriff He was married to a Next
can lady, who belonged to an inauen-
tial family. He had many Mexicans
in his employ. by them as well as by
the whole Mexican population he was
highly esteemed. Their fury must
have turned into perfect fepzry, when
they lifted their hands against him.
We knew him well and sincerely
regret his horrible and untimely death.
-Denison Nems.
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R1ousPoIsoN1NG CASE.
A-.Dosc Of Sugar Of Lead and Gro
tOuOil.

Kansas City Times.
A domestic difficulty yesterday
morning nearly came ,oa tragic ter-
minarion, and almost b,rc.t DE. Il.
NJ. Lord of u wife and four children
Ut mother. DR.. Lord resides ius,
outside the city i'll a s"uthc"s, Girecj.un
and i the husband of' u lady III v,:y
high spirit and the father oi four fae
children. II appears tha, there has
been some domestic trouble in tie
family of a private character, but
which is said to have been caused by
outside parties. Yesterday morning
al,ou, nine ar half-past, "A messenger
called upon DR.. +. X. LewiN" hurry
with stomach pump and an,idoteS
Tor sugar III lead 10 the residence 81
DIR. X. NJ. Lord near this c,Iv.
Dr. Lewis bounced into hi
buggy and drove out IL fast "a
possible, to the place de>i-na'e.i.
On arriving there Dr.. Lord c.i..
lucied him To his wiic's room. T..;-
WAS found locked AMI bsrrica.l,i.
both the doors ani windows w,T,
nailed AMI the angry AMI su'irina
woman was inside armed with lci
husbands surgical instruments. bii
lin. defiance To outside interference
By threa,enin. to send for the Chic
OF Police AMI a posse of policemen thc
reckless woman WI, induced to l!>;oI
To reuson. She said she ha'i iaac;
a sufficient quantity Of prison I" de,
siroy life, bui had taken strong DIS,
at cr.ton oil to assist in it, operation
Ii WIS found that stomach pump
VAS no: wanted, and Tint Il few kind:
sensible words would do more than fore,
towards settling the difficulty. Tn
ladv's lie was saved. and it Is though
that the foolish e>carade will uut Ia
repeated. Such matters require nur'
serious attention th'n i general,
given to them, and this case H.!:h; Te
ceive Official attention.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-25

Since the purchase of Alaska by
the United States government. invest
ments in distant outlying islands and
promouotories have ceased to be as at
tractive as they were in the earlier
and better days of the Republic. The
country turned away with loathing
from the San Domingo project and the
Sandwich Island protectOrate. The
Samoan ambassador. who seeks to su-
gar his dose by saying that the British
Lion is very anxious to swallow it,
finds no greater favor. Uncle Sam
even refused to take back the land he
gave away to the Pacific railroad COM
panies at very Moderate price.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-25

From a prominent contractor on
the Denison and Southeastern railroad,
the Denison Neus learns that by Janu.
ary 10th, if no; sooner. the entire road
contracted for will be completed.
The track laying is now advanced to
point about four miles from that city.
and the Choctaw will be reached by
Thursday. This gentleman also said
that he received a telegram notifying
him that work on tie 4. r. & K. Il.
would begin at an early date. and that
he had made his arrangements to CON-
mence work on that railroad within
ten DAYS from date.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-25

Major General Sitting Bull has in
vaaed the United States with IN army
of Sioux and Nez Perces. He is now
ready to entertain company in the
Bear Paw mountains. We advise that
the War department make an attempt
to start Howard after him before
spring. for Sitting Bull is in the prime
Of life and might die OF old age before
Howard can catch up with him.
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TRUSTEES SALE OF REAL EsT.rr

Where's. Joseph Byrne and Hannah H. Byrne.
ms wife, by their certn deed OF trust, dated the
18th day of April, 1875 and duly recorded in the
Recorders Office Of 4ett!s county. Missouri, in
record book eleven tili, page two hundred AMI
thiriN-uns ~. conveyed to r. J. smith. trustee
he "ii"T Ir5 descended real estate TO wit: The
nor ii'it III The southeast quarter and the south
htii 81 tit. northeast qraTtrr, and the northeast
g u FtCr q. tEc nOTGa"as. gparter. all in section
i"uTtr"n 'lil. t"wn~h'? iur;y->ix (te, and range
twcnty-on" t2il. AS" the northeast quarter
81 ~" southwest quarter of section thirty four
t,ilt, ga township irTt! sax t;6l, range twenty
one t2ll. all IN fritis County, Missouri.
" h.ru sad CONVEYANCE was made in trust to
~eru.- The IaNm,Lt Ola certain promis<ory note IN
sui deed tu..y describe !. and Whereas S.,i note
aa~ bscosr due, at,i settul: has been made on the
H1!u' nf. AID Whereas. the said f.. J. Smith.
tru-tsc, l. uoa absent from the county of Petit,
anDl refuses &" serve. Mud whereas. by provision
contained "a. -..ti deed oi trust in the ai-.uce
rcftlSdi To serve ~ -1i trustee, then the acting
>arf Il of lvtti~ county. Missouri. j. authorized
- t!iv request %! The heal holder of said
vi. - tn. ,iuacF> .ped j. now the acting sheriff
"t f"tu~ county, NI>s0urI. And whereas, the
-ttt joe PIE EyT = now dead, and more than
''i4,' months haze elapsed since the death Of the
~1li J"~vTti l.Nrn". h"'lc" - hereby gwen that
N" UNDERSIGNED s-sIu9 -l.li,t of Petti~ county,
N,~~"ul ;hc y,'u~! af the le,! hol.ier of said
note wi'i. ~ Pursuance Of tie terms and prov,s
iDuS of said deed oi trust. on
~AIt l.Dti, TIE mi, plf OF ECENBER. ISL,
B-tse"1 he hours 1T tn q c!u.k in the forenoon
81 said j1y and toUr o'clock in Tn. afternoon of
>tit day proceed Z" sell the property h.:eIub%,f.r-
'-~'-g.'t 81 public Vei'luc tU the highest blider
- t.' fr"at door Of The court house. the of
S,.lIila IA L, - County, Missouri Tor cash for
the purposes mentioned sand deed oi trust
Dated dis IIth day Of November. Io.T
fiI-2.SjtI L. : MURRAY,
Acting sheriff. %! Pctt~ county, Missouri
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-25

The prospect Of peace in Europe.
which may now be forced upon the
Turks by the vigorous movements OF
the Russian armies or by the media
ton of friendly powers, will have its
effect upon the grain trade. and Will
probably lead to lower prices. "nen-
ever peace is proclaimed it will unlock
to the markets of the werld great &C
cumulations of grain now in store in
Southern Russia. Spectators in
Grain will not care to take very large
risks in q business liable to be disar.
ranged by peace negotiations.
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TEI-sTEE"S SALE

Whereas, William Ii. Gray anil Frances VI
GRAY h. wife ty their certain deed of trust, dated
the Z1th day Of August. ls7f. aud recorded in tine
Recorders office ia an.i Tor the county of P-tt-.
ausl state ct Missouri. Ia trust record
W. .. 1T page i'D, conveyed tHb,v n. cunning.
trustee the following described r,Hl estate To- Wit,
fifteen and cu~ eighth al acre. bounded and
d~S"ri' u - follows; Beginning eighty ;S0l reds
south 81 the northwest corner Of section seven ~.
township foriy-throe to, range twenty three
Is. thence east thirty t.' rods. thence south sIX
60 r',i~. th~ure east twenty -riSht AMI lsl9th>
- lJt~f rods. thence south thirty eight tJsl
rod. thrnr' west t.ty-cIght and 1919 - ls-I9},
rods. theme" north forty four 90 Iod~ Ia the
vil's "i IL s5iaiu. vhi.-h sand CONVEYANCE
uIt.- 10 tri.~t 20 ~,curc the payment Of certain
notes therein described. and whereas said notes
sad lay IT. l'uHrinE. Trustee, u HON absent rom
IN. county pt Pttft~ Md whereas. l.. =. Murray
Grfin .irTif vi H. - county. w. by the Circuit
court % -,tid county, 90 thu September tetn, 1877
thereof appointed to sell ~ad land under the pro-
VISIONS II sad t:U-td.ed Md wherea~ Nv a
provision coptaIn'i IN sail dec! q; trust IN the
aH-eur~ 81 SAID trustee, the acting sheriff
ot PvttiS county - authorized at the
the rrj1e>t ii IA" legal holder of sand notes To sell
SAIL property, or Buy part therro'. AMI, whereas
County Missouri notice j. hereby given thar the
undersigned acting ~h@rii: OF rctts County. Mis-
-"rTi, ~ the request "f thu legal holder OF sand
notes VIII IA PURSUANCE of the terms, and pro-
VISIONS If ~,tli deed of trust
SATURDAY. THE rth DAY Of JANUARY. ISIS.
between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon,
.. ld f,yr 0'clprk IN the afternoon of that day,
rr. r",d 700 sell the property hereinheiore de-
-, De i, 1T public vvn,ur, To the highest bidder
tpr 't-h- ~ the front door OF the c"urt house. IN
The e.,y 81 -"alia IA p~ttis county, Missouri, for
Oh" purposes mentioned in SAID deed Of trust
dated this ith day Of December 1871.
Li=-!wjti L. = MURRAY.
Acting sheriff ofPettis county, Missouri
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Rande or Robinson.

PEORIA, ILL.,, December l1.-Sheritf
Hitchcock received information to-
night that a man named Robinson
had been arrested in Richmond Nir-
yinia, who was believed To he the
murderer Of Belden at Gibson, the
crime for which Rande is held. The
Sherifi's information Immediately after
the crime was perpetraied lei him to
believe there were two men in the job,
and he has chung to the theory that
R,nde had a companion. Some If the
ellison people describe the tramp. who
was near ellison ON the Sunday at the
shouting. rs a very different lopking
man from Rande, and although there
is no room To doubt he was there, vet
MANY things Indicate that he had a
companion, and on whom rests the
Beiten murder is not known. Further
information respecting the Richmond
arrest is awaited with interest.
RoBINsONs ARREST.
RICHMOND, Va. Dec. IA man
was arrested here by Detective Jonn
Wren. on suspicion Of being the muir
dcrer of Chas. Belden, of Gibson.
Knox county, Illinois. while the latter
was pursuing him for burglary. The
murderer of Belden also shot three
Others of his pursuers. The prisoner
answers the description of the muir.
derer. He gave the name of Richard
Robinson and has been committed
until the Illinois authorities can be
heard from.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-25

The salt pits in San Elizaro, says a
gentleman from New Mexico now in
St. LOUIS, over which the recent
disturbances have occurred, are
vast deposits of crust salt, proba-
bly, left there by the drying out Of
what were once salt lakes. They
have long been known. and for over
two hundred years residents in the
vicinity have been in the habit Of 60
ing there unmolested for their supply
of salt. When the territory in which
these salt pits are located was received
from Mexico. the United States re-
ceived the population :here rs Ameri-
can citizens and guaranteed them all
their rights as such. It is these peo-
pie. Mexicans by birth, but made
Americans by the treaty, who arc
causing all the trouble. and not the
Mexicans from the other side of the
boundary. They believe the claim Of
the pretended owners Of the salt pits
to be fraudulent, and that over two
hundred years of free access to the
pits have made them free property,
such as not even the state government
has not got right to convey to pri.
vate individuals. The claimants oi
the pits demand two dollars per bushel
for the salt. and this has 20 incensed
the people that. failing to obtain legal
redress. they have on this. q Oh other
occasions. sought to vindicate BY force
what they believe to be their rights
in the matter.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-25

The FL Paso difficulty turns out to
b little more than . local riot. A
dispatch states that the State troops
surrendered to the Mexican mob at 8
O'Clock q the 18th. Their ammunition
NJ exhausted. and they were unable
10 hold ont any longer. After they
surrendered, Howard. Atkinson and
AsBrids were shot to death BY the
Iaxicana