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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-13
ROASTED ALIVE,
At Harris Station, On Sunday
Night.

A log house, belonging to a negro man
by the name of Jackson, at Harris Station,
about three miles south of Pilot Grove,
was burned on Sunday night. The parents
had gone to Pilot Grove to attend church
and when they returne! all that remained
OF their home was pile Of ashes and de-
bris 1t was not known what had become
of the children, four in number, which had
been left alone in the house; but a search
was made for them far and near and, they
not being found in tire neighborhood, the
last place where they could probably be
among the remains of the burned building
was searched. The debris was turned
about and their
CHARED AND CRISP
remains were found among the ashes. The
parents are almost crazy over the matter.
1t is supposed the little fellows had gone
to bed early in the evening, leaving brisk
fire burning, which set the building ablaze
through detective fiue.
The oldest child, a boy, was about ten
years of age and the youngest about two.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-13

THE REV. GEO. II. THAYER, OF
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wife owe our lives to SHILOH'S con-
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druggists.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-13

-SHILOH'S CURE WILL Immediately
relieve Group, Whoopiug cough and Bron-
chitis. For sale by all druggists.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-13

-SHILOH'S CATARRH REMEDY-a
positive cure for Catarrh, Diphtherea and
Canker Mouth. For sale by all druggists.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-13

MEREST CLOD-H0PPER
in the most important of all knowledge,
the knowledge of how to live happy here
and possess eternal and blissful existence
in the hereafter. The sensation afforded to
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countenance of the seeker after the one
great knowledge suddenly lights up, he
springs from his knees and exclaimes !:
Saved! Saved! Glory to God" He mas
found the wisdom OF all VISIONS, yet he
cannot express it. A woman in England
had been sentenced to be hanged. When
a sentence is passed in the British empire
it is almost always sure to be executed.
There is but one person who can pardon a
criminal. That person is the queen and
she very seldom exercises that right. The
woman knew that she must hang as there
was no reason to believe the queen would
pardon her. She resigned herself to her
fate. But the queen did pardon her. Her
friends were at loss to know how to
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
Buying Bottom Lands.

A year or two ago, says the Detroit Free Press, Michigander who was in New Orleans thought it would be nice thing to own some real estate in the South, and he wasn't long in discover ing Mississippian who could accom- modate him. For what he considered an extraordinary cheap price the Vol verne took in 800 acres of what the other called rich bottom lands, and came home with his hat on his ear. This last winter he found Detroiter who was going down that way and asked him to run over the farm and see what sort of property it was. A letter was received from the traveller the other day which read
 "I didn't run over your purchase, but I did the next best thing-I sailed over it. The name of the lake is Lake Despair, and your bottom lands are at the bottom of the lake. Didn't see any signs of crop on them, but presume you will have no trouble in growing alligators twenty feet long. If you want the other p, 1000 acres I think they can be had at the same price. Please write at once."
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
Kangaroo and Young.

The old doe kangaroos have habit, when closely pressed by their enemies, of pulling their young ones from their hiding place in the maternal pouch and throwing them away and have, accord ingly, by some authors been placed at the bottom of the scale of animal life, as deficient in natural affections but this want of maternal instinct is more apparent than real, for the poor mother invariably, if she escapes with her life, returns to pick up her joey as soon as the coast is clear, having probably cast it away for time in order to preserve both their lives, knowing that the pur- suers would neglect it's slender form in their eager chase of herself, who, tenn. porarily relieved of her burden, could also more readily escape so that, in reality, it is true affection, and not the want of it, that prompts the old kan garoo to act ip the apparently un' natural manner peculiar to her race.
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
Some New Arithmetic.

It IS twenty-six rods from Smiths house to the saloon where he takes nip SIX mornings per week. In fifteen years how far has he walked?
 If college student tears down two signs, upsets four ash barrels, rips up five rods of sidewalk, breaks two win dows and mashes the Professor of Latin all in one week, how would charge of bird-shot affect his sacred constitution the following Monday night when girdling shade trees
 How many boys three feet tall will it take to climb over wall five feet high and carry eff half a bushel of harvest apples This must be figured by the rule of three-two boys and the old mans dog.
 During 8 courtship of three years young man writes his girl 472 love let ters, calls her an angel l, ,481 times, ac- companies her to twenty-eight pic-nics and seventy-two singing schools, and then walks of on his ear and marries widow with six children. Find how much the girl loses, provided she lights on the right kind of lawyer to move jury.
 A peasant who had half cord of wood at his door desired his five sons to saw it up in such ratio that the eldest should saw three-sevenths and the youngest one-sixth. How did they divide the wood? Key: For the teacher only: They let the old man saw it, of course.
 The average woman speaks 142 words per minute. In 8 conversation lasting sixteen minutes servant girl with her ear at the key-hole catches 856 words. How many does she miss, and how did she get that black eye?
 If it takes boy 12 years of age twenty.two minutes to bring in six small sticks of wood, how long will it take him to walk mile and half to see circus procession
 A fond husband hands his wife $40 with which to purchase spring bonnet and-well, we don't remember the rest of 1t. He probably died soon after hand ing over the money, or she discovered that the twenty was a counterfeit, ol something or other happened to out the thing short. Come to think of it, { fond husband bought himself $5( overcoat and gave his wife twelve shil lings to get her fall hat clapboardee over for winter, and she thanked hin kindly, and he smiled lovingly, and thu mother -in.law went and hanged hersel in the wood house. .-Detroit Free Press
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
ADRLFT.

From Harper's Weekly,l The father, cary with labor and watching,
 slept; And the mother half slept with the babe on her
 arm. Then rang through the silent house cry of
 alarm; And there stood on the moon-lit floor little
 child. Trembling with some strange fear, calling in
 accents wild: "Father, awake awake for Christ's dear
 sake; See what Trouble is coming! Awake :! awake !! II have had such 8 fearful dream p In the
 wan moonlight She stood as warning angel. He sprang to
 the door, And listened with all his soul to the ryier's
 roar. Mother, fly for thy life! wrap the babe in thy
 breast: Bessie, keep near to mother I'll look to the
 rest. To the boat. to the hoatr " Then the chill
 midnight air \ Was dinn'd with the roar of the Flood and
 shrieks of despair. Half drowning, he clasps in his arms his two
 little lads. And shouts like drowning man: ''Oh, neigh
 bors, haste haste! The Flood the Flood! There is not a moment
 to waste" And the wild and warning clamor can scarcely
 rise Ere under the raging river the village lies. Scarcely he reaches the boat, then counts, in &
 trembling fear: Wife-baby--and Bessie-the boys. Thank God, all here!' Adrift on the raging river with drowning men and beasts, | In the cold and solemn midnight, at rising sun, The great strong-hearted man comforts each weeping one: "Patience, my little lads; patience, Bessie and wife. Let the Home go, we have saved each precious Life: What care for my labor lost, if you are here p l But he turned with an aching heart to hide a tear. These are the men that build nation-strong and kind; | These are the men that carry Hope where'er they go, Fighting the raging elements, the savage foe. Now stretch out to them Loves pitiful strong right hand, Helpfully, hopefully call to them, through all the land. Are we not brothers all-brothers if far or nigh, Under one starry flag, under one starry sky2 MARY A. BARR.
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
The Cattle Plague.

Since the law was passed in 1878, 638 infected cattle have been destroyed &C., cording to law, and their owners indem- nified at an average rate of about $50 head, which is calculated to be two- thirds the value of the animals. About 800 more cattle have been destroyed by their owners after it had been discov- cred that they had been exposed to in- lection, although the disease had not developed. A proclamation for the strict enforcement of the law relative to infectious and contagious diseases has just been issued. The ''lung plague" was known in the days of Aristotle, 380 years before Christ. Its peculiarity IS that the lung is solidified by accumuIa- lions until, instead of weighing four pounds, the organ weighs over forty pounds. The hreathing apparatus is thus made useless. The disease is in- fectlous and contagious, and cattle dy- ing of it are not fit for human food. The disease made it's appearance in Holland in 1883, and it is estimated that the damage by it in England alone has been $1O, 900, 900. It first made its appear ance in Brooklyn, in 1843, in a COW bought by Peter Dunn from a shipmas. ter. This COW infected the cattle of the end of Long Island, and thence the dis ease spread.
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
CEN N1AuR
 Iiniiment.

.he most Powerful, Penetrating and Pain-relieving remedy ever devised by man. It soothes Pain, 1t allays inflammation, 1t heals Wounds, and 1t cures
 RHEUMATISM, Sciatica, Lumbago, Sca1ds, Burns, Stiff Joints, Cuts, SweHa mgs, Frost bites, Quinsey, Salt Rheum, Itch, Sprains, Calls, and Lameness from any cause. Suf- ferers from
 PAIN IN THE BACK. Fever Sores, Eruptions, Broken Breasts, contracted Cords, Neu- falgia, Palsy or dislocated limbs; and owners of horses, planters, me- chanics, merchants and professional men everywhere, unite in saying, that
 CENTAUR LINIMENT brings relief when all other.Lini. ments. Oils, Extracts and Embroca- lions have failed.
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
The Original Gerrymander.

Now that half dozen State legisla- lures are showing violent partisanship in recognizing Congressional districts, it is interesting to recall the history of "gerrymandering. It began in Mas sachusetts, and this was the way of it In 1911, when the party feeling ran high and voters in the State were very evenly divided, the Republican, Demo orats for the first time in number of years elected the Governor and a ma iority of both branches of the General Court, and, to preserve their power, they re-arranged the senatorial districts and made them of irregular shape, so as to give themselves a majority in as many as possible.
 Nothing of the kind had ever been done before; the move excited bitter op- position among the Federalists, and El. bridge Gerry, the granduncie, by the way, of Judge Robinson of this city, the Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury, then Governor, and for years leading Democrat, came in for great share of the denunciation. One district was made of a line of towns on the westerly and northerly sides of Essex County, forming something like an irregular let. ter F. The Boston Sentinel was the leading Federalist paper, and Russell, it's editor, to show plainly what was being done, took map of the county, colored the towns on 1t included in the peculiar district, and hung it up in his office. One day Gilbert Stuart hap pened to see it and, saying that it re- sembled some monstrous animal, took a pencil and, with few strokes, indicated upon it head, wings and claws, so that the new district looked like some kind of strange dragon.
 "There," said he, "that will do for a salamander. Salamander 1" exclaimed Russell, "call it Gerry-mander !' And so the new proceeding found 8 name. This was in the spring of 1872, and at the election of that year it ap- peared that the first gerrymandering was efectually done, for, although the Federalists elected their Governor, they got but eleven of the forty Senators, and this while they had handsome majority for their State ticket, and &C., tually cast 1,5OO more votes for Sen- ators than did their opponents, who elected so large a majority of them. This event, however, made great up- roar, and the gerrymandering was not allowed to stand.
 As the G. in Elbridge Gerry's name is pronounced hard, the pronunciation oi the word "gerrymandering" as if il began with "j" is evidently incor. rect.- Wngbinoton CdpitQI.
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
TOrturing Russian Political Prisoners

Vanity Fair, speaking of the way Russian political prisoners are tortured, says: "I can name ten men who within the last five years have endured the last refnements of torture in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. I know on indisputable evidence that a man called Antonoff had lighted tapers put to his nails, and that he was racked until he could hardly stand on the scaffold when his miserable end came. Goldenberg, the Jew conspirator, was villanously tormented until his forti- tude gave way when he had confessed and was turned into his cell he hung himself out of remorse. Starvation IS sometimes used as an agent for extract ing information.
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
A REAL SWEET STORY.


 had ever had, and they had had many, for she had temper, and he had tem- per, and they were both of them inn pulsive young people with very little self-control.
 'You are false, selfish, untruthful, man-ike man," said she.
 "And you suspicious, unreasonable, unwomanly woman," said he.
 "Take back your letters," she cried, finging parcel tied with hyacinth-blue ribbon on the floor at his feet.
 "I wil," he muttered between his clenched teeth, picking up the parcel and throwing it into the fire, where it blazed brightly for moment or two, and then flew away in thin uncanny black fragments up the chimney. As the last fragment disappeared. Rick turned again to Lefty, with frowning brow, and asked, as he had asked be- fore, ''Do you still persist in accusing me of deceit and falsehood ?"
 "I Ido," she replied, "unless you show me the charm"
 'I will not show it to you," he de- clared, with violent emphasis. eff my word be not sufficient, I refuse to give you farther proof. I wonder that you dare insult me by asking it. And I also wonder how you, believing me to be false and untruthful, can be willing to trust your future to me. And, to speak frankly, begin to think we have made great mistake in supposing that we could spend that future happily to- gether, for am fully convinced we are anything but
 1.-Two souls with but single thought,
 Two hearts that beat as one.'"
 (These lines were quoted with most sarcastic inhection.) "And further. more, I also begin to think that per- hars it would be better if we had never made this mistake-if we had never mel in fact"
 "Oh, indeed, sir p'-with great as sumption of dignity. "Have you just arrived at that conclusion I have long been sure of it. But therc ii nothing easier than to part. Your let ters are already disposed of. Tomorrow will send back your ring and picture And then, when am free once more, can try to please my mother (our ac quaintance, as you are we'll aware, ha. never pleased her), and in pleasing hel I may find am doing pleasant as vel as wise thing for myself"
 "Are you referring to Broughan Brown ?'
 liam referring to Brougham Brown. By heavensl' exclaimed Rick, seiz ing his hat, ''this is too much. Lefty good-by forever!'
 But Lefty began humming an air iron Patience, drumming an accompaniment ) on the window-pane, and vouchsafed n, answer. Rick rushed from the room The humming and drumming ceaset instantly, and the whilom performe , listened intently. Five minutes passed and still the street door did not slam "He is waiting for me to come out int, the hall and beg his pardon, suppose, she said, with defiant grimace, s'bu l won't," and she turned again to tn window as the door shut with bang. And then she flung herself on tn lounge, kicked off her slippers, an, cried like summer shower. Rick gone and gone 'forever" Rick, whom sh had loved so dearly, and who had love, her so dearly, for two long years. An, ! whyP Just because that silly. gigglin, Lena Yarian, with her pale blue eye
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
A Sad Story.

A little girl six years old was found lately sitting by the dead body of her father in a canal boat at Buffalo, where she had been for four days, unaware of what had happened. She said: "Four days ago pa was fixing his coat, and told me I'd better go to bed. In the morning I got up, and, as pa was sleep ing, built the fire and called pa to get up, but he wouldn't answer. felt his face and it was awful cold, so put his overcoat on him. He is awful sick, as he ain't talked to me in four days. Pa and lived all alone"
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29

HIS OWN ARK.-Jim Grace, one of the sufferers by the flood, discovered by the newspaper men in their voyage down the Mississippi, shows the right kind of spirit. His house is in the water up to the roof, his furniture is floating around the rooms, and he has lost twenty head of stock but he is not in the least downcast. He has built big raft of logs and put up shanty on it to shelter his family. There he lives in compara- tive comfort, another Noah. He calls the concern his "foating palace"
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29

CHANGERS HA1ns.-That the Gram gers are still alive in the West is shown by their ownership of ninety public halls in Michigan, ranging in cost from $2OO to $3, 900. These are used for the meetings of the granges and rented out for other purposes,
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29

The Peruvian Syrup has cured thou. sands who were suffering from Dyspep, 3a, Debility, Liver Complaint, Bolls, Humors, Female Complaints, etc hpphleag free to any address. Seth M. HuYis Q Sons, Boston.
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29

Have Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry always at hand. It cures Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Group, Influenza, Consumption, and all Throat and Lung Complaints. 50 cents and $1 bottle.
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29

WHAT is meant by "preferred " railroad stock IS that which takes the cake. The other kind takes nothing but assessments.
Connecticut western news., 1882-03-29
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1882-12-23
A Physician Convinced.

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the committee could not have selected
more beautiful or available place, and
we do hope to see the whole South take
lively interest in making Mont Eagle
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