The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-05-09
UNCLAIMED CHATTELS.
The "Old Hoss" Sold Out,
Hoof, Name and Tail,
Yesterday.
A Full Attendance, Lively Bidding
and Some Amusing In
cidentS.

S-o"NSu Aeh ehiohS Va iheSfSctN" Di"-
ders, and the sale was carried on with un-
Usual snap and rapiditv, BY j. r. Edgar,
the gentlemanly freight agent, and George
W. Hamel, auctioneer, assisted by busy
corps OF helpers. As the goods were sold
they were bundled off into a corner of the
roon and gradually over nearly the whole
oi the front part until wagons and uncks
could be sent for in order that they might
be removed The neighborhood Was soon
crowded with draws and transfer wagons.
and the vicinity of Main and Usage streets
never looked buster since Sedalia Was Il
town.
Many of the packages sold contained
goods
MANY TIMES THE VALUE PAID
To- the buver. and some again were a deiu-
SION and snare. One speculative youth
from the country bought what was an
bounced a. zone box of merchandise" for
three dollars, and which, upon being
opened. was found to contain only a few
bars OF common soap and several papers OF
blueing. A majority of these bitten in this
manner kept their mouths shut about it.
and declined TO make known the result OF
their ventures in sight unseen" goods,
thdbAiSS. anu ShSStS. "a JUN
die oi whitish- brown wrapping paper, in
which il Was difficult to see fifty cents in
value, sold for $50 A box of >tereo,copic
views Went 10 some artlstically inclined
buyer for S4O0 A large box of seeds, con-
iain:ng about bushel of packages which
retail for from ten to fifteen cents, sold for
Sl.5o A barrel OF vinegar WAS put up.
Bidding WAS rather slow at first, but when
some one in the crowd suggested that
1T MIGHT BE WHISKY.
there was an immediate boom. ". l..
Jackson became the purchaser, for $50.
A box of patent medicines went 10 j. II.
Mertz for S4.0o 1t was not positively
learned whether the box contained patent
medicines or only last years almanacs.
but suspicion was strongly in favor
of the latter hypothesis Mr. Merit still had
faith, however, and bid of another box,
which was said to contain drugs, at 500.
a bundle of boards. evidently signs for
some reaper and mower company, 10 he
nailed zap on country fences, was put up
and was bought by some man who needed
kindling wood i'm his business, for ten cents.
A barrel of merchandise was bought by
Doe Morrow for 81. He said he didn't
know what was in it and just bought it
Tor the fun of the thing. His friends can
learn the result of the venture bv dropping
into the Senate Five hundred feet OF cop
per lightning rod, apparently very vaiu-
able, sold ior SOD. A large box OF mer-
chandise went To determined bidder Tor
SO. 1t was light, and was found TO con-
tain a number of large-sized
ARTICLES OF TINwARE
Ben Johnson showed his faith ia his luck
by purchasing box of dry goods tor 50.
4 lot of eleven large boxes of garden
seeds was put up 10 be sold by the single
box with the privilege OF taking three.
The bid was run up 20 one dollar, and the
purchaser took only one. Mr.. Edgar then
ordered the remaining ten boxes sold in
one lot. julie Busch, OF Lamoute, Was the
highest bidder, al forty cents The lot
was knocked down to him. He thus
made So on the turn, in
proportion to the amount for which the
FIRST box sold. Each box probably con-
tanned six or eight dollars worth of seeds.
4 tombstone was then put up for sale.
There i, is, gentlemen" said the auc-
tioneer. THAT downs NE. can't describe
a tombstone to you. You can see for your
selves what it is. Tombstone, maidstone
and foot-stone, complete" The stone told
its own brief and pathetic story, as follows
"Alice A., wife OF J. w. Prince. Died,
November Is, 1873. Aged "a years, 10
months and ~ days. A bystander in
auired, with some anxiety, whether
COFFIN WENT WITH TT.
On being told that such was not the case,
he declined to purchase. THE stone was
knocked down to a man who looked alto
pether too much alive for any immediate or
prospective Use of the ornament, for seven
tv-tive cents. 1t then appeared that there
had been two bids OF seventy five cents on
il. 1t was put up again and run up to one
dollar by the second bidder. whereupon the
first remarked "I'li let him have it,"
amidst general laughter.
Billy Bagby took his chances on a box
OF merch andise for $500. A good cook stove
sold for 81 90 As illustrating the difference
between one box of garden seeds and ten
boxes of garden seeds, another box was put
up and sold for Sl.l0 A fine cook stove,
new, worth about $500, went to an
enterprising looking German for $500.
The difference between seven boxes of gar
uSn S6SOS ANU oIlt uOA Vi SduS, NdS Illus
trated by the seven being sold for fifty
cents per box, and another single box,
which had somehow
GOT LOST IN THE SHUTTLE,
MAS put up and sold for Sl.25 Some lover
of clean linen bought box of patent wash
ing machines for 1915. A healthy look
ing citizen bought box OF medicine,
enough to last lifetime, for $2.75 Three
dollars and sixty cents bought three road
scrapers, worth about S. 90 each.
The best bargain in the whole sale was
that of julie Busch. who bought fine Osh-
kosh Concord side-bar buggy for $40. Mr..
Edgar was offered $500 for it yesterday
at private sale. A buggy man, travelling
for large manufacturing establishment in
the east, asserted that the price of buggies
such as that bought by Mr.. Busch was
500 apiece by wholesale.
A box which was afterwsrd' found to