Fair play., 1880-03-06

;insn:-her, to cos, $500.
A rich deposit OF iron ore has jas;
been found IN Washington county.
Cape Girarieau has collected ever
$500 Tor the suffering poor Of Ire'
land.
Schuyler county has Only ore pau
per to every thousand OF It's inhsbi-
tantI.
Dan atkins raised 400 bashs's of
peanuts in Ripley county the past
season.
Seven thousand bales o! cotton
have been shipped from Dexter this
sesson.
Seis'is has a new daily paper,
called the News. I; is Republican IN
poii,ics.
Some st. LOUIS gentlemen talk OF
making st. Loui. a fashionable sum=
ner resort.
An experiment by Hon. J. w.
Enerfon, Of !ronton, ia@ prov en-
that brook trout can be raised IN the
ponds of Missouri.
The Iron Mountain railroad has
ordered six powerful new freight
locomotives O! the Mogui pattern.
All the judges of the Stoddard
comfy c"urt. chosen at the last elec-
tion. bave died.
The Dent county court has
passed an order that no license be
issued to saloons IN that county du.
ricg 1880.
DR.. Moon, Of Cape G,rardeau, has
fallen heir to a largo property III
En- gland. He is ono Of the heirs to
$4,000 900.
Mary. an eighteen year.old dangh-
ter OF Mr.. Barkhard,, of Jefferson
county. was accidentally burnt to
death u couple of weeks ago.
Osceola dealers continue to buy
grain, notwithstanding the fact that
they cannot get cars in which tn
ship. Ovsr 100000 bushels Of corn
are now cribbed there awaiting ship.
ment.
The farmers of st. Francois coun
ty are talking over the matter Of
organizing a JOINT stock company
for the purpose OF importing fne
stock aud Offering it for sale on sta
ted daya.
A queer looking fsh was captured
near Cape Girardeau few days ago.
Tho Ne ~ says sit il ten inches in
length. has the boiy Of an eel, snake
like head, gills Of . fish, and has two
legs"
George Forcster and tho wife OF
Franci. Wiley. Of Jefferson county,
eloped week before last. Forester
has been a willow tor three or four
months. Each ono leaves Two little
children behind.
J. H. Wilcox. o. Salem. the heav.
iest stock dealer in South Missouri
has during the ps>t sesson. bought
and shipped to tho st. Louis market
not less than &GO. 900 worth Of ca,.lA
hogs and sheep.
Sedalia gives carpet rag sunper'
and socisbles in the leap year style.
The cs~ds of tho gentlemen ara
wrapped in balls of carpet rsg1, and
the ladies' draw the balls. They ar'
expected to pay tha expenses Of the
gentlemen whose cards they draw.
There seems to DO trouble "
Commerce. Scott county. ~ to the
ownsrship Of tho old court hou'a
The county seat has been removed t
Benton, aud now the county, city o
Commerce., and tho Welburn heir'
are claiming the old court honsc, an'
n lively triangular 's~ suit may b'
the result.
Ono da7 last w,ek. near Oxford
Worth county, German namsr
Rssher, suhjec. to hsart dissas'
went ont in tho morning. to the BARI
lot to milk. Ha VISA gone ton long
and the family went out to look 70
him. They fouad the hog. draggin:
his body a-,uni the ~. AMI nearly
all the fash hal hsan eaten OIL th'
face. The man had evidently drop
ped dead.
The Potosi Independent says
The countv court At IFS Fchruar,
term entered an oriar OF record thu
all prisoners confined in the county
i,,! under sentence for m'sdemean
ora, and al.o for non-p,yment q
inea, he hired ont nv the sheriff
| Wages TO hs applied frs, to pavmen
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