Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-04-10
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MIJLEh COUNTY MOss mAhlAs 1870
EDiToE TRiBuSs;-T write to say hsihii,
the Last week in March. finds 1he~ Gruprs
busy 10 their fields. Ost sowing will be
pretty vel: completed this week sud many
have commenced preparing grouni for plant
ing corr, which will commences in y few
days, C the weather sbca'd continue fair.
Aiyesdy tho spring songsters OF the teaibery
tribe aud the LARK 0i the mesdow are greet
ing The ears of the ploughmsn. wbest is
looking we'll and. at present there i every
indicston OF the coming season being a
favorable one Tor crops.
The low prices OF farm products seem not
to be lettering farmers from not only putting
~ iull crops, but many Of them during the
hard weather in the winter kept az wors and
the result i now shown by many very cub
stsntial fences rebuilt, fenes corners cleaned
out, and, ID mary Instance, lands cleaned
Of and Aodi,Ions made 10 thsr felds.
A few pesCh buds escaped The rigog Of the
winter, butt as a general ihibg there will be
no peaches this yesr In Miller county.
Quite q number OF the laboring men get
employment in getting out and hauling rail.
road ties 10 the Ossge river. This gives p
market to farmers for much Of their produce,
and though prices OF buth lsborer and pre-
duce THoge very leg, yet the getting out q
these tjea and eehdfbg them on their mission
to extend the lines on channels Of trade and
commerce across tho plains and into tho
mountsins, out Of whose bowel Is 30 mu b
wealth Is 10Y being dug. ruis many Gsd6ilar
into circulation In Miller county that o her
wise would not f1d IL way here.
Beeides, some lew still persist in digging
lead out oil our hiilA, noiwilhslaDdiue the Il,
price,, and earn fsis wages. Bot rome Of the
lead furnaces that used 10 be in blast here
are now running. but most OF the mineral
now dog up fhds IT, way 10 Warrants tut
mace on the south M9reau, jus. over 10 the
edge Of Cole. "
/ visited tbis furnace a few days ago; they
tell me they can smelt and turn out $500
pounds OF pure lead every "a hours. bul al
late they usually run ~ hours. just IL sight
OF the furnace, 10 Moss Roark, with ore baud
10 sttist him burrowing along under the earth
sbCut is ieet from the sufiase, snd be tells
me they take out an average Of ! 600 pounds
nf mineral daily.
This was the week for our Cironit COurI.
but owing 10 the dealh OF Judge Miller, no
court was held, but IL hot being generally
known that there would be 20 court, many
went 20 Tuseufnbia; nbd youI correspondent
smopg them, and u Is with pleasure that /
Gun ssy .hat1 saw 9uitg q change 10 the
appeafsncs OF thipgt. az far IS good behavior
OF the people wss coneerntd d. Ibstpsd Of
drinking and fighting being tbs rule, and
going 20 church TIC Exception % used TO be.
the thing Ia now reversed. On Monday night
| after eating my supper, ! went out to see the
| sights OF the village; 1 saw bu. few pefsonr
about the saloons and they we're net bolster
eus. l then made my way TO The Banner
printing osice,'presiced over by Uncle Abe
q Sons, there iSf wonder for Miller county
and Tnsenmbie In particular, all hAbds, even
down 10 the devil, bad gone 70 The Court.
house 70 hear preaching (. But go much good
taste and Judgement has been dispisy ed, BY
either the cid man or the young D1en iE III,
ofiice, thai though alone, / found Ambulance
OF Company. The Ofice IL i1rgs INC sTFaLg.
ed Win tadipg room, a collection OF sam
plea ~ tag rare minerals hat hre found
~ the Vu4ty, nd In addition 10 all this, the
walls ~ rtmpleteiy lined with Doe pictures,
and inAd4stion 10 oil This, one OF two o. the
Young fatn. being telegraph operators, they
havs pfJf1eed themselves With q battery anc
= wifeby which they have established telti
graphic Communication from the ofiee to the
lace Nllers their grub Is prepared, by which
they moi only keep posted IA The Office as u
how re pot hoils.In the. ~kilcher, lql the 90,
iu the kitchen is apt TO hear IRON the oficl
IT The eaiaor-in-chief, or any employe gel
hungFy, and they are not only Tracking IN,
ert Of telegraphi0E, bns take pleasure IL
Showing yisitOrs all about lelegrsphlng. s,
| would SAY that any ono going 70 Tuseum
bia could not possibly spend u few moments
more plaaFantly than By dropping 10 q thu
BANEkR Office; but If young ladies go, ant
should SEQ n 10 send = message 10 The cool
or the wives, lot ne advise her Eot TO addres
The said cook BY The name OF Bridget. A
soon Us pveaching WAS over last Monde.
night. quito . crowd came from preaching
directly 10 the office land not 70 The salooI
as would baye been expected . year or 1--we
ago), and omong them / oblerYed severe
lsdieg, eyideEfy OF rehnsmelt and bigl
standing, who 1Avished mary compliment
and praises on the pictures.
OccAaloEAL.