The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-03-21
STATE ITEMS.


VIM Gilkerson has filled q void in
Palmyra with wood yard.
Considerable tobacco will be cultivated
i'm Lawrence county this season.
~, Peter Rush, a rich farmer living near
Rosedale, has purchased twelve town
lots in that place.
Contract to build the new school
house at Dakota has been awarded Hand
cock X Sluth, for 50 $50.
AT st. Joe, on the 18th, st. Patrick's
band will appear with new fatigue caps
and gold lace trimmed pantalOOns.
The Newsletter has migrated from
Lees Summit to Excelsior Springs, where
it will be known as the Herald.
A bill has been introduced i'm con-
gress to pension the widow of Joseph S.
Ward, company h, ed Missouri volun-
teers.
Ella Todd, aged thirteen, is lying in
critical condition, at Kansas City, from an
accidental gun wound, inflicted by her
brother, aged twenty-one.
Hamilton high school grounds will be
enlarged by the addition of two lots on the
south. new building Tor the colored
school is contemplated.
Andrew w. Chapman, OF Charleston,
has carried off an NJ. ID. degree, and a gold
medal for second honors received AT the
Louisville medical college.
The MAYOR of Carrollton will hereafter
receive salary oil 500 per year, an in
crease of SlDO The marshal's salary has
been increased from $500 to $500.
/ The military feature has been added
To Lexington college. This institution was
founded abou, two wears ago by ;. q.
Wentworth. Fifteen oil its hfty-four stu
dents are from distance.
The Only child of Mr.. and Mrs. Vance
was burned to death ON the Turpin farm,
Que mile south OF Rattsville, Carroll
county. on Saturday, the 18th ult. Ii fell
out of a chair into the fire.
MIR. John c. Nicholson, living ON
Fourche a Renault, discovered, one day
last week, large and very rich deposit of
iron ore on the lands of Mr.. Albert Stevens,
about eight miles west OF Potosi.
The enterprising citizens OF Marshall,
Saline county, propose building female
seminary at that place, at cost OF about
$4,000. More than hall of this
amount has already been secured BY sub
scription.
-G. TAYLOR, of Dewitt, has invented
wind wheel which, being attached To the
well, draws the bucket of water to the top,
discharges it, sends the bucket back again,
and keeps repeating it. The wheel can be
stopped or started by cords reaching to the
ground.
A resident of Wolf Island, Mississippi
county, attempted TO escape the late over
flow bv rowing his wife and six children of
i'm a skifi While crossing Il submerged
field they were capsized and the children
drowned. He barely rescued his wife.
The teachers OF the public schools of
Monroe county have decided to erect n
monument over the grave of Robert T..
Bailey. one of their fellow-teachers who
was stabbed To death a few weeks ago. while
in the discharge OF his duty, by young Nc
Bride, one of his students.
MIR. VIM. Lyon. residing about five
miles northwest of Plattsburg, killed on
his farm last week "a very large gray wolf.
which had been killing his sheep for some
time. He saws there are several more OF
the same kind in his neighborh"Od. How
these wolves came there is mystery.
The business portion of Trenton, which
built AT the ensuing election her citi-
zens will vote to increase the lew for
school purposes from 40 to 100 cents on the
800, and will also vote on proposition to
borrow $4,000 to build additional school
room.
Mr. James Austin, OF Trenton, COM
pleted, last week. the largest sale of land
that has ever been made in Grundy county
for a long time. He sold Mr. George
Beard 600 acres OF land living in the forks
of Grand river. Consideration, $4,000.
Mr.. Beard is going to make an immense
stock farm OF his purchase.
Walter Gaines is remanded at Lin
neus To answer at the next term of the
circuit court for outraging the daughter of
Mrs. Campbell, near that town. The un-
fortunate widow and her two daughters
were given money by citizens of Linneus
To paw their fares on to Greencastle, whittier
they were walking from Laclede.
Mrs. Samuel Richey, of Clinton county,
has four Jersey cows-three of them =
year-olds aud one a 4 vear-old- whose
milk she has made, between Sept. Is and
Dec. %, 1882. 243 pounds of butter, receiv-
ing therefor $3.50; and from the first of
the year I'D Tco 10, uit., sue maue from the
milk of three 2-year- olds, lis pounds of
butter, receiving S34.l5.
The effort to move Franklin county
seat from Union to Pacific this summer
will undoubtedly succeed, as the latter
place agrees to furnish money for a new
building. The old court house at Union is
about ready To- tumble over, aud the town
is altogether of the line of railroad travel
Pacific is the junction OF two railroads that
traverse, the entire county east and west,
giving four-ffths of the inhabitants rapid
rail transit to and from that place.
Macon citizens have resolved that
national bank is necessary To their pros
per:ty. and DIR. BOYD, who was formerly