The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-19

| -Qualls are aoundans In Lawrence
county.
Fox hunting is the fsvorite sport near
Arrow Rock.
&C. L. Bartlett is preparing to open q
pork packery in Carthage.
"A sixteen pound girl baby was born in
Jefferson county last week.
The Chillicothe skating rink company
will establish rink At Lexington.
| The cemetery at Poplar Bluff is situat.
ed in the heart of the town.
| The work of doubling the capacity of
the Rich Hill smelters has commenced.
Perry and St. Genevieve counties are
shipping large quantities Of pecans.
Mr.. Gill, of Barton county, near Ar
cadia, has 2,cco lead of sheep and 200
stock cattle.
Horses and mules are dearer in Phelps
county than they have been tor many
years.
The enterprising citizens of De Soto
are going to build q twenty thousand dol
lar cily hall.
The Greenville Journal says Wayne
county has redeemed its last bond, and is
now out Of debt
| Piedmont is rapidly improving. Four
years ago the population was 700, and now
it has nearly I,5O0.
Frank Pierce sold his farm near Fair.
vile, Saline county, to John johnson for
$50 per acre.
The Ste. Genevieve Copper Mining
company. at . depth of 1872 feet, have
struck a very rich lead of ore.
| "A young married man in Howard
county attempted suicide, last week, be-
cause his first was born red-headed-
j. X. Cromwell, Macon hotel man,
is one of fifteen heirr among whom will be
divided $3.50, 600 left BY an uncle.
AN Ohio man has purchased the Wal
ter q. Num- farm Of LOG acres near An
tioch, Pike county, for $4,000.
The members of the Southwestern
Benevolent association will hold their an
nual meeting at Lebanon, December q.
Benton County is better supplied with
forests than any other county in South
west Missouri. One-fourth its area is COW
ereG with trees.
| The Wells homestead, three niles
south Of GAINESVILLE, and comprising 446
acres, Was recently sold for $4,000, being
a fraction over an average Of $50 per acre.
The average value of land in Jackson
county is less than SIS per acre. The av-
erage value of the corn crop at present
prices is $40 per acre, and Of the wheat
crop $21.
| Living is cheap in Marshfeld. Wood
is 3 per cord butter, 20 cents per pound /;
sirloin steak, 81 cents; Irish potatoes, 81
cents per bushel sweet potatoes, 25 cents.
The FL Dorado News says there is
neither s bridge nor . railroad in Cedar
county, and that there is mast enough in
the woods to fatten 500 hogs for every
farmer in the county.
Hon. Chas. III. Morgan is enc of the
lucky ones. A piece of land, over in Bar
ton county, which was bought at very
moderate pEcs year or so ago, by Mr..
Morgan and two other gentlemen, was
leased 10 coal company At what was srp-
posed to be very low royalty, but is now
yielding its owners from $500 to $500.
The dairy and cheese farm of Chas.
Adams, a few miles north of Chillicothe,
is in successful operation. Mr.. Adams
milks eighty cows, and besides buys all
the surplus milk and cream In the neigh
borhood. He churns by steam power,
making on an average 700 pounds of butter
and 500 pounds OF cheese per week.
Miss Sarah Hollensworth, of Rock
vile, Butler county, is under arrest for
fatally poisoning her babe four weeks old.
The father of the child, John Sherman, q
jeweler OF Schell City, is under arrest as &C.
/ cessory TO the crime The woman con-
fessed that she poisoned the babe and that
Sherman furnished the poison.
The body of an unknown woman,
which had been cut to pieces by . train,
was found lew days ago on the Wabash,
St. Louis & Pacific Railroad, half q mile
south OF Rennick, Mo. Some suspicious
of murder were aroused, MS an unknown
man and woman were seen walking the
track during the day. There was nothing
upsu her person BY which she could be
identified.
| Good Advice.