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Osage Valley banner., 1880-09-30
LOCAL AND PBitSONAL


--Msd,ocrity is often garralous.
Six new subiohbers this week.
--Candidates will soon be moving.
--sau'l Some went to Rocky Mt. yesterday
-ReeJ's Gilt Eigo Tonic prevents. NJ malaria.
Thanks to Sir. JOEL Cooper for new cub
scribcTs.
Capt. Will y,nn has several large tie
rails on the way to Usage City.
--Read ihe sjTcrlissnsnt OF Drs BAndy
ard Vanhoosor in smother column.
Farmers 10 jim Henry are busily enga e
ed tbreshlng wheat.
Miss Mllie :Abbet gave us pleasant
oall las, Friday.
we nJteea Mr. Mtrtleny, Of st. Louis,
in town last Saturday.
--lsed'a Gilt Edgo Tonic cures Fever s.
Asue.
The paintul.duty is at hand--pulIlrf up
soYcs.
--M-. VIM. CJ,tou furnished Herman Ksl-
say with sweet cider and apPlos last Tuesday.
---The pablo school stthi' place opened
up last Mlnday with P Of Ashley as teacher,
MIR Chas. GO ,u,Ios4r reports farmers in
tho 'iclnIty Of Brumley buhIy engaged in
plowlpP.
Steamer Coleman with barge from Usage
City landed Mt orr whsri last Saturday with
goods.
The enrolm'ut 10 date at the State
University, Columbia, has been i25. AZ the
same time last year it was only $50.
Mr.. Louis Jones on the Grsvoix has n
child quite sick, DR.. MoGee was called to its
aid las, Saturday.
-Tne picnic at Biumley las. Saturday
was etloyed by all presoat. every thing passed
of lovely.
Mr.. Issac Tinsley gave us pleasant call
last Sunday, farmen In hb section are
pros orous aud all for Hancock.
Mr.. hIehI obryan of 81. Louis called
last M,ndsy, he was on his way TO bis place
IN Morgan Co. he reports business lively In
S. Louis.
John Rsdsmaeher started 70 st. Elizabeth
In Cis O., last Monday: ::Whero no is putting
upa snew stora hOuse.--o,sge Co. Nsws.
st. Elizabeth is in Miller Co. il you please
Nh. News.
--ar..Gresne Mcclure 'and Others with
their families psssed through town last Son
day 10 wagons bouna fer Eureka Springs
WI be gone hbolt five Eoek, SO Ws ars 10.
formed.
Tho "Lam'nary, IA greenbacI.pnpor pub.
hshed at Fort Worth. Tex, is on our table,
1t Is quite neat and spiry shect, full OF ad
refreshments one Of which 10 headed. "atll
FItl Come aud See Me-"
-Ds, Bandy and Vahhooser OF Mt.
Pleasant are prepared To accommodate per.
sons coming from distance for the treatment
ol 'oro eyes. They are curing many and will
soon publish numerous testimonials OF the
wonderful cures aready made.
Mrs. f. B. Wheeler and Misc Dollie Van
Wagner, OF Ulmons Ridge, called on the BAN.
NER oflce last Friday aud presented to tha
Ed. = foe 10! OF the best apples we have seeu
th's season. We return macy thanks.
-hAaRrso' By:.Rsq. Coo. II. williams
at Esq. Ii. II. jenkins 10 Jim Henry town
chip on Sept. I9.h, Mr. Thos. Jenkins 10 Miss
Bdshs Fulkerson all OF Miller county.
Read the notice oftho Democratic Execu.
tive COMMITTEES Of Miller county in this
weeks issue.
Little drops Of water,
Little drops OF rum,
Little touch Of the other stuff
DOWN she goes--yuml yuml
--LFrAncis Marphy.
Osage Valley banner., 1880-09-30
Drug Store in Brumley.

William Sksggs, informs the public that
he hss fitted up drug store iu Rrumley and
keeps all kinds Of drugs and medicines.
Osage Valley banner., 1880-09-30
E0TICE.

The undersigned wishes to employ
school teacher Ia teach 10 Dist. l, I Al, X l2.
who eau t,ach R'glish apd:G ,rmau as the
law directs.-W. .E. LU1roS,. dat. clerk. D .
Osage Valley banner., 1880-09-30
Spring Garden Seminary, Killer Co.. M,

fhe Annual Session ol lne Spring G. .rden
haol will commence on or about Sept. 6 h,
1850, and continue ton mouths--For pArticu-
lars hd1Iess SUTTON & MoLEs, l. Gust
Mound, Miller county. Mo.
u24 I'm
Osage Valley banner., 1880-09-30
MT. Pleasant Shoe and Boot Mending.

James j. Reed Will hall sole shoes and
boots fof so cents per pair till Ist March,
1881.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06
A FEMALE GAMBLER.
a Young Girl In Mems Attire
Calls the Boys and Secs
the Better,

ST. Louis, August 1.-The police
solved great mystery a day or two
ago, and solved it in an unexpected
way. About a year ago a bright girl
named Eva Wilson, rather plump and
attractive, mysteriously disappeared
from her home in this city, and.
though earnest search was made, not
the slightest trace Of her whereabouts
was discovered. Her mother mourned
her as lost, and the police could only
conclude that she had been enticed
into some out of.tbe-way place and
outraged, and that murder had fol-
lowed to conceal the crime. Months
passed and the mysterious disap
pearance kad been almost forgotten
by the police, when their eyes were
opened oddly. One night last week
a stout patrOlman arrested a slight,
but rakish looking young man in
the Third district az a suspicious
character, The fellow was taken to
the station, and in his examination
bS4oAN ehO oSl SCduN bNluVbu ueudnCe
and sharpness which showed him to
be a hardened and adroit traveller in
rough places. A policeman, watch
ing the thing closely, thought the
young fellows form an odd one. 1t
was u little broad at the hips, aud
slight at the waist and fun in the
chest queer form for Young man.
anyhow. Then the policeman de.
clared his belief that the Young man
arrested was a gQwNe, and subsequent
developments made the thing abso-
lutely certain. Furthermore Il was
soon made known that the woman was
the missins girl, Eva Wilson. She
had seen the world for year, and had
changed from modest young girl to
a yousa. When some inquiry was
made as to the late exploit Of hers, it
was learned that she had Of late been
gambling among the negroes, having
about bankrupted the colored sports
so adroit had she shown herself al
fcards.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06

Noisiel, France, utilizing the power
OF electricity for this purpose. The
machine is described as looking like
the combination of "a velooipede and a
plowi and the first public exhibition
proved a great surprise to all pre- sent.
the experiment being perfect sue
cess.
In describing the performance, it is
stated that the machine moved off at
a given signal, from the edge of the
field, leaving behind it a wide deep
furrow, and turning around at the
upper end Of the field, came back in
the same manner. The motive power
was supplied through wires by a
Grammo machine, about half mile
distant, and the plow-one of the
Fowles pattern, having six shares
did about the same work as if drawn
by four oxen. A man seated upon a
saddle guided the apparatus over the
field, controlling the depth Of the
TurrOw by means of a lever. The
Messrs. Menier have purchased the
patent on the process Of plowins by
electricity.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06
The GaIIows.


New YoRK, August 8, = Pietro
Balbo, was hanged here to-day for the
murder of his wife. lie remained up
all last night. About IL o'clock, for
the FIRST time, he exhibited emotion,
sobbing repeatedly. He Was unable
to procure any sleep, and frequently
pulled out his watch to note the pass
ing time. At 6 O'Clock this morning he
attended mass 10 the prison chapel,
passing under the gallows to reach
that plape. Hc gazed at the instru-
ment of death moment, and then
turned his eyes away pgilns mass
he kept HE eyes on the oruciilx, and
so absorbed was he that he did not no
tice the burning of the small vace
covered with artificial flowers and
covered with gauze. After the mass
he returned to h.r eel ll,where he again
prayed and took leave of his council
He then drank a cup Of coffee, and,
turning to his lawyer, remarked,
where's the sheriff, me want to 60, "
0n the way to the sallqws, he was per,
fectly cool in maRner although his
face was very pale. He knolt under
the beam, olasping the cruoifx in his
hand, aud recited the act of con
triton and confeitor, and made
prayer, imploring and extending for
giveness, 4hs posse was then Qd
justed end the rope cut. The neck
was not broken, and it was sixteen
minutes afterwards before lifa was ex.
tinct, death resulting from strapgula
ton. The body was left hanging six
minutes longer ard Eas then Iowertd d
into coffin and formal inquest held
Il was then removed to Che under
taker, from whence the funeral will
take place Tomorrow. A large GROVE
assembled outside tho Tombs and
witnessed the removal of tho body.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06
8UMOR on THE PLATFORM
How AIlemus Ward Lectured Ia
EOtisviIle,

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There are yet living in Pottsville
Pa, several gentlemen who never hea,
the name of Artcmus Ward without T.
smiling recollection OF pleasant night
spent with that droll genius. In the
winter of one of the earliest years o.
the war Artemus Ward was advertised
to deliver his famous lecture on the
Mormons in the town hall of Potts
vile. Much curiosity was excited By
the announcement of his coming, and
there was reason to expect that the
hall would be crowded on the even
ing of the lecture. But one of the
fiercest snow-storms that ever visited
the town ragged without intermission
all day, and the night was wildly
stormy when the lecturer was driven
to tho hall. Hg found waiting for
him only i've men who had deHed the
storm. Advancing to the front of the
stage and beckoning with the fngeras
ifto single individual, Artemgs said,
in an ordinary conversational tone:
Come up closer" Not knowing
precisely What to do the audience
compromised with their embarrass
ment by doing nothing, ATtemus
changed his tone to that used by one
who wishes to coax. and said ; please
come up closer and be sociaSlc;
| want to speak to you about
a little matter | have thought of. '
Having succeeded in getting his audi
ence to move up near to the stage, the
humorist said: II move that we do
net have eny lecture here this even
ing, and | propose instead that we
adjourn to the restaurant beneath and
have good time" He then put the
motion, voted on it himself, declared
it carried, and, to glye no opportunity
for an appeal from the chair, at once
led the way to the restaurant. There
heintroduced himself to his intended
auditors, and spent sevearl hours in
their company, richly compensatinG
them for their disappointment in mat
teY Of the lecture by the wit and hu
NOR of the stories and anecdotes with
out number that he told And thsi
is how Artemus Ward lectured il
Pottsville.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE,
Cornerstone Laid for an AgricuI-
~ turaI Hall.

To the PUBLIC LEDGER
KNOXVILLE, August 3.-Very in
teresting and impressive ceremonies
we're held this afternoon at the Uni
versity of Tennessee in laying the
cornerstone of the new agricultural
hall. Addresses were delivered by
Colonel Nose White on the part of
the trustees, by Hon. H. II. Ingersoll
as the orator of the day, and by Pro-
fessors Joynes and McBryde on the
part of the faculty. Had the editor
Of the PUBLIC LEDGER been present
to represent the board of visitors, the
occasion would have been complete
but in spite of his absence and of the
imclemency Of the weather, the inter
est of the audience was unbroken.
Agricultural hall will be hand,
some brick building 63x36 feet, Of
two stories, and will be given entirely
to the use of the department of agri
culture, under the able superinten
ence of Professor McBryde. An am
pie lecture room, with working labor
atory attached, and an agriculture
museum, for the collection and ex
hibition of implements, cereals, plant,
and specimens oil all kinds, will occur!
the building Adjacent TO it will bt
greenhouses and conservatories, aud (
handsome landscape garden will soor
surround it. All this marks an i'm
portaut era in the progress Of tn,
university, and we hope their effort
in behalf of agriculture will make th,
university, which is closely connected
with the stale, more than ever valu
able to our farmers, who are So largel.
interested in Its usefulness and pres
perity NJ. NJ.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06
The Question OF the Hour.

Burlington Hawkeye.l
IT General Hancock expects the
sufrages of the people of Iowa, he
will at once promptly, and without
preyarlcatlon, stand up and answer
the following questions. The people
OF the Hawkeye state demand it, the
country expects it, and the general
Will either answer or admit BY his
silence or evasion that his canditure
Is hollow fsroe
!. Who killed cock robin 4?
2 Who're were you when the light
went outS
3. Have you heard "Pinafore,7 and,
II so, how manyP
4. Did you and Wade Hampton and
Ben Hill agree as harmonionsly in
politics eighteen years ago as you now
dO2
3; If not, who has changed, yourself
or Ben?
6. Who made the world, Robert
lngersoll or Joseph Cook?
Z. What becomes of all the pins?
s. Who was the original Garfield
man2
8. Do you believe in first term?
10. Who was the inventor of sea-
sickness, and do you believe in an in
ternatiOnal copyright fer the protec-
tiOn Of the samep
IL. Does tame goat outrank eleo-
margarine?
Y. Analyze the following sentence
and parse the first twenty-three words:
Whittier, o childrenl hast thou as
much cheerfully weepest so distance
that evening at sunrise"
l3 Write in cOllequial French the
following exercise: Where is the
black cat of the widowed hus blnd of
my aunt maria's son Tom mo, but
| have the red hen of the bald headed
uncle Of my mother-in. law s fat sister
Bill
IA. Have you such thing as a FIVE
dollar bill about your clothes2
10. Who DO you think would be a
good man for quiet little consulate
somewhere on Mediterranean coast?
p. S.-You may answer this one
privately by nail, if you please.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06

WE publish to-day .notner con mu
nication from Osceola, hoping that it
will not be necessary to again refer to
the unfortunate affair alluded to. 1t
is understood here that the two prin-
cipal parties involved are prominent
citizens and brave, courageous gentle
men. The ordinary difficulties arising
; out of local politics should be settled
amicably when the excitementis is over.
Having given both sides a hearing, we
hope they are satisfied and that they
will make friends in manly, straight
forward way, as neighbors and good
citizens should.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06

blunders. Various classes deserve
the highest credit. The democratic
committee managed the canvass ad-
mirably; the merchants and business
men; the river and railroad men; me-
chanics, laborers, farmers and all
classes entered heartily into the
contest and won victory that is
something TO be proud of. 1t will
give security to life and property, it
viii give the very best administration
of law, every business and industry
will be stimulated and property is al
ready worth more than it was a week
ago in the face of public danger. 1t
was a glorious days work for Shelby
county.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06
INTERNATIONAL SANITARY
CONFERENCE.
Secretary Evarts' Letter TO ths
POwers---A System OfNOtI-
ficatiOn Proposed.

LOUISVILLE, August 4.--The Med
ical Herald for August contains a
circular letter addressed by Secretary
Evarts to all the powers owning ports
likely to be injected with yellow
fever, cholera, or other contagious
disease, asking for an international
sanitary conference, with view Of
establishing an international system
of notification as to the actual sani
tary condition Of ports and places.
The powers are requested to send
authorized representatives 20 confer
ence in Washington City on the first
day Of January, 1881, The Herald
will also contain memorandum of
the points proposed to be submitted
to the conference. Secretary Evarts'
circular is in obedience to the Joint
resolutions of congress, adopted May
q, authorizing the president to call a
conference of the diffetent nations in
terested.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06

shouters expected to get if their side
won, and consequently it could be
trusted to pop up clear and distinct in
the individual minds that might be
in helpless muddle Of principles
and precedents; still, the hope OF
getting the public Offices will be
worth almost as much to the demo
Gratis, when they express it in proper
shouting shape. Fraud" is a good
word, but too badly worn to last
through long campaign; besides, it
neither promises nor frightens. On
the republican side the campaign cries
cannot promise much, for there is lit
tie left to promise, but in
scares the party bids fair to
be strong. Rebel war claims"
threatens to be the biggest of these.
Already some Of the party newspapers
have estimated editorially the kinds
and quantities of southern claims that
are going to be pressed when the ex.
exutive, as well as congress, is demo
cratic, and it will require only little
of that prophetic instinct that party
feeling so marvelously stimulates to
include all the confederate debt of
description, remuneration for all
the slaves freed and the
redeeming of confederate cur.
rency on the basis of dol.
lar for dollar at every government de-
pository. Indeed, letters suggesting
this sort of scare have olready appear.
ed in republicans journals, and it
does not take long for improved po-
litical machinery to turn a mere suc.
gestion into reliable news. True
there will be no more sense in such
campaign cry than there was in For.
~ acres and a mule" but sense is the
last thing to be thought Of in the get
ting up of a battle cry of freedom.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06
4 Further Account Ofihe OsceOlS
Difficulty.


EDITOR LEDGER-In your issue
of the End inst, | noticed o "correc-
ton of a former publication OF the
0sceola difficulty between Mr.. Thom-
son and Sheriff Uaskins, signed by j,
B. Driver and Bard Edrington, which
correction" [ herein declare incor-
rect on several points, to-wit.
First. There has been no mob on
the side of Haskips, unless the above
named gentlemen append this appella-
ton to his two deputies and clerk,
Mr.. Wynn. They were unarmed
with the exception Of Haski4s. who
had revolver with on'y two shots in
it.
Second. Mr.. Thomson being re
Quested by Deputy Dean to walk up
to the clerks Office, there to prove his
assertion or to retract shat he had
said, which invitation he declined to
accept; and then deliberately mounted
platform, where hs began to ha-
rangue upon the question at issue, in
a manner to provoke difficulty, sur
rounded by armed friepds. Now, il
Mr.. Thomason intended to act @ir
and honestly by his opponent, he
would have interviewed the court
records, before giqging among the
community story calculated te csgse
difficulty at any time, if false. Such
course would have bees proper on
the part of q gentleman, and w9qid
have spared the parties interested a
large amount of bitterness, and tbf
county the dishonor. l do not pre-
tend to defend Sheriff llaskins' rash
act, but then ] cannot remain siienI
when Mr.. Thomas6a's friends endeav
or to exculpate him from every taint Oi
guilt, and shield him from the univer.
sal and Just censure OF our citizens
which he deserves fer the part he
played in the would be tragedy.
Il is my duty to defend the charac
ter of any mau, bound to me by the
same ties of Fellowship" as Sheriff
Haskins is, when wronefqlly ira
duced, privately or through the me
dunn of the public press.
Very respectfully,
J. w. PRICE, City Marshal.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06
A FAMILY POISONED.
Mother and Niue Children in IA
Deadly Sleep.

AMERICUs, WEBSTER Co, GA,
August 6.-Last evening Woodson L
Gunnells, well-to-do farmer, living
twenty miles west of here, left home
to visit a sick neighbor, and returning
at ten o'clock in the evening found
his wife and nine of his ten small
children in horrible sleep from the
effects Of morphia, administered in
lemonade by Mrs. Gunnells. There
is no doubt she prescribed the fatal
beverage and administered it to the
children and drank Of it herself with
fatal intent. Mr.. Gunnells was mar
ried to his (his second) wife about ten
years ago, and has had by her foul
children. The other six are by hii
previous wife, and, as far as is known
the a:epmOther has been dutiful anc
kind parent to them. Medical aiC
was Immediately summoned, but Mrs
Gunnells soon died and no hopes Of
recovery are entertained for three o.
the children. The others are thought
to be out of danger. A note in
the hand writing of Mrs. Gunnellt
was found under the morphia on the
table, in which she stated that she
had deliberately administered NOR
phia to the children and herself with
the intention of destroying them all
and that she was not actuated by any
domestic troubles.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06

New Orleans Paris c. Brown, Gin,
oinnati.
CAlRo, August G.--Arrived: Al,
Baker, New Orleans Celina, Nash
vile, 2 Jacob Helperington, St.
Louis, Z. Departed Oakland, St.
Louis, 10 p. M, Baker 4 Celina,
Nashville, 10. Clear and cool,
PITTsBURG, August 6.-Riyer 2
feet 2 inches, and falling. Weather
clear and warm.
EVANSVILLE, August 6.-No ar
rivals or departures. Weather clear
and warm. Mercury g. to II degrees;
barometer 29l inches, and falling;
wind northeast; river 4! feet, and
rising.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06
Police News.

English Charlie and Mike Reagan
had little friendly fist fight yester-
day. A pair or so of green goggles will
be sported for a few days.
John Lane and his wife Sallie had
a little ball of their own yesterday.
They could not decide a disputed
point satisfactorily, and DR.. Porter
was called on to Go it for them this
morning. The stronger vessel was
fined five dollars.
Nobody appeared this morning to
prosecute Wyatt Gramlin, colOred,
charged with illegal voting, he was
discharged. Alex Sanford, same
charge, was referred to Esq Spell
man.
James Bolton, colored, will serve
forty days for being disorderly yester-
day ; Thomas Miner, twenty days Tor
lighting +. Vanishe paid three dol
lars for punching fellow citizen,
and Ed. Young FIVE dollars for general
cussedness.
The bloody first" was little to-
warm to be healthy for awhile yester
day. A vote was challenged, knock
down followed and general melee
ensued. Captain 0'Haver had his
clothing spattered with blood, and
was compelled to knock down anc
drag out two or three rowdies before
he could get room enough to have q
free swing. A relief was summoned
from the station house and the troubl,
soon calmed, the only consequence,
being few bloody noses and back
eyes.
Edward Stark, colored. started a
row in the Eighth ward yesterday
afternoon and was taken in tow b.
Officers Mcfarland and DAILY. A
short distance from the polls they me
Tom Garyey, who took Days plac,
and allowed him to go to the relief o
his comrade Brennan, whom he founC
nearly smothered in a jam OF negroes
While in the act Of clubbing a male
content, however, some one threw
heavy paving rock at him and knocke'
him senseless to the ground. BY thi
time Brennan had risen to his feet
and in few moments both the bravr
fellows were shoulder to shoulder anC
laying things low. At this opportun'
moment, when the excitement was a
its highest, deputy sheriff fred hi
pistol in the air. and the blacks scat
tered. Both officers are all right to
day.
I While walking along Bull Run yes
terday, Captain Forrest, night station
house keeper, and his son met negr,
named Bob Garnet, who took excep
tions to their assertions that Shaw wa
badly whipped, and without proyoca
ton called the old man a liar. III
Forrest blood arose to fever heat, an,
the Forrest cane descended on Garnet
Uranium. Garnet is powerful mar
however, and waFding the blow strucI
the cane from Forests hand, ant
snatching a pistol which the latter wa
attempting to draw, struck him Owe
yhe head yith it, knocking him in th'
gutter, quickly following up the at
tack by striking the younger Forest /
the head with the but end of tn
weapon. Hs then cooked j
and retreated backward and out o
sight. lie has since been arrested.
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-06
one OF the victims.

A colored man, named Dick Lyles,
who works in a coal yard, got mixed
in the row at the First ward yester-
day, and came out badly beaten over
the head. He managed to staggeT
several squares, reaching point on
johnson aysnRe, yithina a few steps
Of bis house, then fell in tie street
inSensible. After laying for some time
hes was, recognized and conveyed to
his residence. This morning tgleE
was reported considerably improved,