The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-09-26

Watson was out. A boy with tin horn
blew q blast out the back door until he got
red in his face, and pimples rs large rs q
marrOwfat pea raised on the back of his
! neck.
Watson came to the top of the stairs, out
of breath, thinking a circus agent had
arrived in town.
Explanations followed. and all was sat-
isfactory.
We talked about Ellis.
Charlie Ware cussed Ellis.
Watson mentally thought pretty rough
things. He finally said he was the ex-
terror of a sausage link.
Mr.. Eimonds, of Carthage, Illinois,
stepped into the Office to transact little
business-pay for some cards he had print
ed. Watson took the silver and it dropped
into his pocket. We heard it strike the
sole Of his boot, but he never noticed that.
He seemed accustomed to il.
OF course, when Mr. Edmonds came in,
| all conversation about Ellis ceased, as none
present desired to force private cUnver-
sation upon the ears of q stranger. who was
in no wise interested In the matter.
Warren Lyon happened along and was
He said he had q slight acquaintance
with Ellis
Another gentleman, whose name is lost
to the reporter, was introduced. He knew
Ellis and had in,erfered in one Of his mat
rimonial speculations and was successful
In his endeavors to thwart the designs OF
the scamp.
Major Klein, an attorney, was intro.
AnnaH IT, .. NJ he, Ex.v,
men of the place He Was Ellis attorney
whisper, as he is afraid Of several infuri-
ated females Of Pike county.
Simeon Fitch, poet-editor of the Uni
corn, greenbsck paper, was introduced.
Sim. was a farmer a few years ago. He
got mad one day while cutting oats. He
threw down his implements of harvest and
said:
81 want to be an editor; 1 really do in
deed"
Sim. mounted his critter and went to
town. He bought shirt-tail full of type
of boy who had been playing "set type"
and an old cheese press, and commenced
to grind out poetry and print it.
The people got in their cellars. They
thought there was going to be a cyclone
The old ladies prayed; Sunday school
children said i'm accents wild: "NOw /
lay me down to sleep" etc.
Yellow flags were DISPLAYED from all the
prominent buildings, as an indication that
small ox, or something worse, had, or was
about, to overtake them.
The mayor issued proclamation asking
that all business be suspended, and a day
given to fasting.
The paper-the Unicorn-was finally
issued, and the people we're not hurt.
Sim. wanted money.
The man who had laid aside the pillow
and sickle was not much different from the
balance Of the people as TO wanting lucre.
The cellars were evacuated. The yellow
flags were pulled down and the mules
walked past the Unicorn Office with ears
set forward and tails erect, happy in the
thought that they still had an existence
and that ii the Greenback policy of Boss
Simeon predominsted they would get more
oats.
Simeon Fitch is not bad man. The
Unicorn is not a bad paper. 1t will not do
much hurt in the world.
Mr. Fitch said he knew Cephas A.
Leach.
The reporter told him that Cephas had
lived in Sedalia and had made the &C.
quaintance of "the woman ut the we'll"
and that was his ruin.
That night q large and fashionable
audience gathered at the opera house to
witness Humpty Dumpty. 1t was a pleas
ing performance, rendered 20 by the real
artists which the troupe is composed of.
In the audience accompanied by her
father and husband the reporter noticed
Mrs. Edmonds, nee Cora Allen, Of Car.
thage, Illinois. She is a petite brunette,
stylish in appearance, and was attired in q
seal-brown silk, with point lace neck gar
niture fastened with a cardinal rose Her
hat was q rolled brim, trimmed with long,
full ostrich plume.
That night the BAzoo man left for Mis-
souri,, with an excellent opinion of Pike
county people especially of Barry. The
citizens of Barry are enterprising and
thrifty. There is an air of all that is good
about the town. Even the school children
the half-grown misses, as they tripped
along the streets in squads. in their calico
dresses and common sense hats, under
which beamed bright eyes and intelligent
couutensnces, looked a. ii the day was not
far distant when they would make homes
happy and communities better for their
presence.
"Buchupaibe."
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