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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21
STATE ITEMS.

A bed of pure asphalt, four feet thick
and seventeen feet beneath the surface, IL
is said, has Just been discovered I'm Vernon
county, near the Barton county line.
Clay county. No., has over 10000
acres OF workable coal lands. Twenty-four
mines were worked on a capital of $1,000,
and yielded net product valued NJ about
SoS5,O00.
Wolves are numerous in the Whet-
stone hills. a short distance northwest of
Montgomery CITY. Jackson Galloway
heard eight or nine bowling one night a
short time since.
The new Nj. +. church at Clarence is
of brick, 81 by D. feet, and has Il tower Is
feet i'm height. The entire cost of the build
ing, including the lot, furniture and the
bell, is S3,0S5.
A number of enterprising citizens of
Huntsville have organized 4 building and
loan association with a capital of $4,000.
The demand for tenement houses superin-
duced the movement.
Gu Saturday, the llth, when the fami
ly of DIR. James VI. Armstrong, of Sarcoxie,
were AT church, his house took fire, and
with all Its contents, was consumed. The
doctor had an insurance of 5000.
Last Saturday morning J. I. Gaines,
the druggist 1T Guihridge Mills, went 10
Mendon. Saturday night about 9 o'clock
his store burned, consuming everything.
Loss. about $500; insurance $500.
10 Goodman and Andrew Parker, OF
New Madrid county, went to the village of
James Bayou, Saturday the llth, in n
canoe to make some purchases at the store.
They started home in the evening, and
made the trip safely until they reached
Harrison field, when the canoes turned
over. Goodman saved himself by climb
ing thorn tree. Parker caught hold OF
bush and called for assistance several
times. Goodman called loudly for assist
ance from his perch in the thorn tree, and
after time John Aleck Champion, Par
ker's son-in-law. hearing the cries of dis
trcss, got into boat and went To the res
cues He found Parker dead with his hand
sticking up out of the water where he had
held 20 the bush, and Goodman badly torn
b, thorns i'm the tree.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21
A Journalists Romance.

John ]. Finn, managing editor OF the
Chicago News, who has lately been APP
pointed consul to- Chemnitz, and who is
well known throughout the west, has had a
romance. When he had hardly attained his
majority he contracted hasty and unad-
vised marriage with Miss Mary Talbot
Cole, a school girl, whose parents resided In
ST. Joe, Mo. Scarcely had the couple wed
when they both realized the inconsiderate
step they had taken. Without the slight
est quarrel, but fully determined never to
meet again, they separated. Her relatives
procured for her divorce from Finn,
which was not contested. The lady re-
sumed her maiden name of Cole, and grad
uated at well known collegiate institu-
tute of St Joseph. After Mr.. Finn had
become thoroughly identified with chica-
60 journalism correspondence again
sprung up between the couple, when it
was then developed that they really and
truly loved each other. About four years
subsequent to the first marriage, which &C.
cured in 1873, they were married in the
city of Chicago.
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A Card.

The following has been sent To the BAZoO
for publication, and. inasmuch rs the name
affixed to the epistle appears to Ice genuine,
the communication is published for what
it is worth, literatim:
EDITOR BAzoO: / wish you would
publish in your paper to let the people
know what Mart Ousley, the old ground
hog, is He is void of principle, or any
thing that is belonging to man. He had
Thomas Tyler arrested for taking pot
from Thirteenth street. 1t was an old pot,
from the looks of ii il was made in the
year of one and had not been used since the
year of iorty. The boy found the
pot and sold it for old iron for which he
got or is to get four cents, to j. Cook, the
rag man. Ousley heard that the boy had
sold a pot He took look at the pot and
thought that it would do to use, and
claimed it, for he had none of his own He
thought that it would be good chance to
get pot. After claiming it, the boy told
Ousley that he could have the pot, and
gave it to him. As Ousley has got the
pot / hope he will have something to
cook in it i'm the future, for he is too lazy
to work and has to live some way or other.
He thought this would be . good oPpor-
tunity to get some money, for he is about
to starve. A drowning man will grasp At
straw. ELLEN TAYLOR.
Ellen seems to be in earnest about the
matter. But Mr. Ousley has got the pot,
and that Is something.
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Gone to jefferson City With the
SMALLPOX

James Sample, colored child five years
of age, was LETT to board by his father with
a colored family a, Chouteau and Comp
ton avenue, who undertook the charge from
stipendiary considerations. The boy be-
came sick with smallpox, and father
Sample was sent for. but failed to respond
promptly, and so, on Wednesday evening,
the colored family packed up their effects
and started for Jefferson City, To avoid be-
ing sent down to the smallpox hospital.
Before leaving, they dispatched mesSen-
ger To the father, telling him that his child
would be left alone in the cabin, and he had
better hurry up.
The health department got the child and
sent ii down In Quarantine, and the family
are probably disseminating the disease in
Jefferson City, rs DIR. Carson saws he feels
positive that one or more of them must
have been contaminated. The name and
number OF the family were not ascertained,
although DIR. Carson fumigated the premi-
ses TO that end.-St Louis Republican.
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Watch Carefully Your Health.

Are your hands and feet cold? Does
your pulse beat irregular? Does your
heart quickly palpitate at the least exer-
ton, worriment or nervous excitement
Does Your face often flush from rush OF
blood TO the head? Are YOU troubled with
dyspepsia, indigestion, or some urinary
disorder? Beware. Death NAV at any
time suddenly ensue from apoplexy. Do
not delay. Your system needs some true
medicinal tonic Nothing is so good as
Browns Iron Bitters This excellent REM
edy will assist nature in quickly regaining
her lost hold on health and life. Ii
strengthens every part of the system, and
restores the different organs OF life To their
normal condition. In diseases of an ex-
haustive nature, having a tendency to
weaken both mind and body, it invariably
acts like 4 charm Journal.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21

Because much had to be done for
the comfort of Garfield when he was
lying in the White house is no reason
why the government should be robbed
by every person who ever got within
shouting distance of the sick man.
One Jennings, of Boston, now wants
five thousand dollars for the cool air
apparatus of which we used to read so
much. Two hundred and fifty dollars
would. in all probability, we'll pay
for the trap.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21

the practical working of the national
statute remains to be seen. The pro
scouting officer of the government,
the marshal, judge, jurors and witnes.
ses, will doubtless find themselves in
many difficulties and dangers in the
strong-holds of Mormonism where SO
many prosecutions under the bill must
be had. These officers will doubtless
have the military behind them fol-
their protection, or ought to have.
They will need something more sub
stantial than the majesty of the law
or the government. neither of which
the Mormon will stand much i'm awe
of.
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CUPID'S CAPTIVES.
The Little God Gets in His Work
Out at Flat Creek.

On the evening OF the 10th of this month,
last Thursday, Mr. j. H. Shackleford and
Miss Delby A McFatrick were united i'm
marriage, at the residence of Mr.. III. C..
Mosby, living near Flat Greek. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. b.
L. Thomas, of the Baptist church. Mr.
Parks Anderson and Miss Mary b. Magee
STOOD up" with the adventures for matri-
monial bliss as the twain were made one
Hearty congratulations were shOwered
upon the newly made husband and wife by
a large circle OF loving friends who had
gathered to witness the nuptials. Then
followed regal banquet most lavishly pro-
vided by Mr.. and Mrs Mosby, to which
the GUESTS did ample Justice. The festiyi-
ties of the occasion will long be
remembered by those who were SD
fortunate as to have been
hidden to this marriage feast.
As slight token of the esteem in which
the bride and groom are held, the following
presents were made to them:
Mr.. and Mrs. McFatrick, elegant cake
for the bride, china pitcher, three stands
OF Jelly and pair of fine chickens; Mr..
and Mrs. MOsby, Il Berkshire pig and a set
oi china dishes Mrs. Julia +. Stephens,
fine oil painting and jelly stand Mrs.
Sallie Mccormick, glass fruit stand Mr..
and Mrs. Murphy, one pair LeghOrn chick
ems; Mr.. and Mrs. Colbert, pickle dish !;
Mr.. and Mrs. Wade Mosby, oil painting
and fine chicken and Il goose; Mr.. and
Mrs. Anderson, pair banty chickens; Miss
Mary T. Magee, china match holder; Joe
q. Acorn, glass set; NJ. Mccormick, two
ornamental trees; Parks Anderson, silver
dollar; Michael q. May, silver dollar.
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The Depp Motor.

Windsor,.will soon become one OF the
wealthiest towns i'm the world her citizens
will dwell in marble palaces, with tesselat-
ed floors and frescoed ceilings; the light
will steal through windows OF frosted glass,
and through the open easement the gentle
breezes of morning will enter, sweeping
aside the lace curtains and laden with the
rich perfume of rare exotics that are seen
in the yard below, where the CLEAN OF
handsome statuary is seen amid the trees,
and soft, delicious play OF fountains is
heard. At least this is the picture brought
to our fancy by hearing a sanguine young
friend talk of the value of stock in the
Depp Motor Co., ffty-seven shares of which
are held here.-Windsor Review.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21

The largest ink house in the world
(Thaddeus David & CO.. is at 127 William
street, New York, and Mr.. George w. Da-
vids was induced to employ st. Jacobs Oil
in seeking relief from the pangs Of rheu-
matte govt, disease which he inherited,
and which at times proves very trouble
some. He has used the remedy with very
great satisfaction, indeed. 1t relieved him
within twenty-four hours after commencing
to apply it of pretty sharp attack of his
hereditary foe. He was therefore disposed
to think kindly of it a IN extremely Ell
cacious liniment. Mr.. Davids further
stated that St. Jacobs Oil had been used by
members of his family for neuralgia, and
in one case for the mumps. with the most
gratifying results.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21
THE OLDEST INHABITANT.
A Resident of Vernon County Who
Had not Been to Town for
Twenty-one Years.

In the northern part of this county, al
the village OF Metz, lives Mr.. John
Foster, who stays n home and attends
strictly to his own business. This alone
would endow him with a mark of rare
originality, but when it is asserted that he
has lived in that neighborhood, only fif.
teen miles away, since 1861, and has not
been in Nevada for twenty-one wears until
yesterday, he will become, indeed, inter
esting. Yet such is the case. He settled
i'm the vicinity where he now lives several
years before the war and since March, 1861
has not been at the county seat of his own
county. He came i'm with George Petty
and made this statement himself while
taking dinner ut the restaurant On being
asked the reason, he said that there was
no particular cause except that he had
staid at home. He said he saw but two
things between here and home that looked
familiar. 1t is not known what
these objects were, but it is fair
To guess they were the MarmatOn
river and the sky. Of Course he wouldn't
have known Nevada from an Indian war
camp. Think of the changes that have
come during these wears. Nevada has
grown from log cabin village To- proud
Young city; railroads have been built 4;
cities have risen from the waste Of track
less prairies whisky has risen from TWEEN
ty-iive cents To- six dollars a gallon; wood
en- axle wagons and reap hooks have
passed away; coon dogs AMI flint lock
guns have become almost extinct: great
men have risen, shonc. evapOrated and
fallen, the slaves have been set free, two
presidents have been a>Sassinated: Schell
CITY, Walker. Sheldon. Deerfield and Ellis
have been built: twenty-one hundred
mineral springs have been discovered i'm
Missouri alone; 1916 new patents on
pumps, churns and washing machines have
been granted thirty-two thousand liver
medicines have grandly marched To the
front the telephone. the electric light and
the krupp cannon have been invented :;
nineteen million elopements have taken
place; Police Gazette literature has been
brought out To Its present state of chaSte
perfection; thirty-one hundred ship loads
of cheap novels have been written the
Mississippi river has been bridged at st.
Louis and swabbed at New Orleans by
Eads; Nevada has built public school, a
court house and Jail; saloons, billiard
halls and restaurants have sprung up like
mushrooms behind 4 rotten log straights
in poker have been abolished shotguns
and bird dogs have been wonderfully i'm
proved the fashions have changed six
teen thousand times; the greenback party
has been born, and numerous other import
ant events have transpired since Mr.. Foster
had a sniff OF Nevada air or 4 sip OF Ne
vada beverages; and yet he has lived in
the country all these long twenty-one years.
Ii he makes his visits To- the city at regu-
lar fixed intervals of twenty-One wears,
perhaps when he comes again in 1908 We
will have gas and waterworks and a COW
and hog ordinance in force. Let IL hope
for the best.-Nevada Democrat.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21

A Chinese Prince Beheaded foY
Loving Miss Hine and Cutting
Oh His Queue.

Miss Lillian Hine, the pretty agent for
Glazer's Sword and PEN" over whom a
large portion of the male population of ST..
Louis squandered money upon her book
simply because she canvassed for it, has
been discovered to be the heroine of a de-
cidedly original and pretty romance. The
story briefly told is as follows: Miss Hines
mother kept bOarders in the city of New
Haven, and there were among the other
bOarders Chinese prince, named Tong,
this country to be educated at Yale. Tong
met Lillian often, and their meetings were
the cause of friendship which, to use a
patent phrase, ''fast ripened into love-"
They were to be married, and all was
fixed. Tong, in order to make himself
worthy oil his bride, cut of his queue,
which is a sacrilege punishable by death.
\ friend OF Tong, perhaps through jeal-
ousy, notified the authorities ut home of
the severance of longs pig-tail, and i'm
mediately the king ordered tha Tong
come back to his own country. Tong did
81, but not without saying goodbye to his
sweetheart, the two meeting at Terre
Haute. He crossed the sea to his home
queue-lesS, much to the scandal of his
cOuntrymen. Some time ago the telegraph
brought the news OF the decapitation OF Il
Chinese prince for parting with his queue
while in America as student The prince
was Tong, the aflianced of the beautiful
book agent. Shortly after the arrival OF
this news came the announcement that
Miss Hine was very i'll, and at the point
OF death, but she recovered She smiles
not Is OF old and neither does her ewes
glisten and CLEAN, for her heart is now as
ever given to the poor Prince Tong.
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THE ONLY WAY,

The anti-polygamy bill as passed by
the senate will settle the hash of the
Mormons if its provisions are even
moderately well carried out. 1t sim
ply makes polygamy felony, punish
able by a fine of not more than five
hundred dollars and by Imprisonment
for a term not more than five years.
Capitalization with more than one
woman is made lnisdemeanor and
severe punishments are provided for
this oGense. No polygamist can sit
as juror in any case where one
charged with the offenses defined in
the bill is on trial, nor can a man who
believes that it is right to have more
than one living and undivorced wife
at the same time, or to live in
the practice of cohabiting with more
than one woman, so sit.
The bill further provides that no
polygamist shall be entitled to vote at
any election held in any territory or
other place, or be eligible for, or ap-
pointment to, any Office, or place of
public trust, honor or emolument,
under or for any such territory, or un-
der the United States.
Thus a way is provided in which
. great evil can be crushed out
of existence by the iron heel of q law
backed by the public sentiment of q
whole nation. The crying sin of
Mormon polygamy has Aourished
long enough. Now that the govern
ment has taken the matter in hand,
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21
FOR GOOD SERVICE DONE.

A master there was who gave unto
his servant five talents, and he depart
ed thence, about his work, in order
that he might do what he could fol
the glory and emolument of his mas
ter. AS time went on the servant
to;led, and his toll honored the man
for whom he worked, whose purse
grew, and all was well. But in time
the servant came to his master and
said: "You did give me five talents.
One have [ lost. 1t has slipped from
me, and | know not where to find it.
/ have been remiss-great is my fault.
But if thou wilt but give me time |
will return to thee thy five talents
yea, even unto the uttermost farthing.
Then the master, who was hard and
stern, but just man, said: "Thou
hast not done nell, but thou hast meant
soeH. Go thou thy uay. for L hare
naught against thee"
Thus, from this story of the Rabbins
of the old world, is the lesson of a
generous justice to be learned. No
man of any real value has yet lived
whose faults were not thick as dust in
vacant chambers. And if he is faith
full in very many things, his work the
best the circumstances will admit of,
his faults in a few things should not
be too strongly set against him. For
good service done he should be re-
membered at his best, even in the
extremity of evaporation and disgust.
Men there are whose lot i'm life is not
what it has been. or what they would
wish it to be, and whose indepen-
dence andpride clog their way through
the world from day to day. Some
cannot learn the lesson of ready con-
formitv to the wishes Of others, es-
pecially those whose experience as an
employe is just beginning. These
men mean the best in the world, and
not infrequently do the best; and
surely the generous example of the
master of Rabbinical story is worth
initiating. That servant whose hand
never tires and whose head is amply
sufficient fo- his tasks, though he be
full of faults, we'll sometimes do to tie
to, among a hundred whs furnish no
ground for complaint, except on the
general score of their ability to do
well what they are put to do.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21

jackson county has a new collector
in the person of Mr.. Chace, vice Mr..
Greene, resigned, (and incarcerated).
The new tax gatherer has filed his
bond and is expected to take charge
Of the office without delay. The Kan
sas City Times gives the new official
some very good advice-speaking, in
quite a manly way, for the taxpayers
of the young metropolis. He is add
monished that the chief concern of the
taxpayers is to know that the public
funds are safe, and that this should
also be his own chief concern. Fur
ther that he should demand and exact
that all the balance of the pnblic
moneys yet in the hands of Greene
should be paid over to him in cash,
even if Greene's checks In this instance
are good as good can be, and even if
the money is to be Immediately de-
posted again in the very banks
against which the checks are drawn.
This is good advice, and Mr.. Chace
will do well to follow it, both for the
sake of his bondsmen, and for his
own safety and reputation, to say
nothing of the critical demands of the
taxpayers who have been undone by
Mr.. Greene.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21

Mrs. Garfield will not reply to the
letter which she has received from
Mrs. Scoville, but has authorized the
secretary of the Garfield monument
committee to say for her that she
cherishes no malice against the slayer
of her husband. and leaves him to
answer only to his God and the Ameri-
can people. For the sister, and all
the members of her family. she feels
only profound pity. Further than
this the sorrowing lady asks that she
be left alone with her grief and spared
being dragged into useless and tortur-
ing publicity.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21

The Indian commission reports that
during the past twelve years, since
the beginning of the peace policy, the
record of Indian labor shows an in
crease of nearly twelve times what it
was as the commencement, and at
this rate it is predicted that the time
is not far distant when all the semi
civilized Indians will be self-support-
ing, and that the few tribes that re-
main wild and savage will follow their
example.
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Oscar, surnamed the Wilde, says
that he cannot help being shocked at
the ridicule and mockery with which
American newspapers treat lofty and
serious matters. He is himself, pro-
badly, one of the lofty things to which
he refers. The newspapers have GER
tainly not, owing to the natura
American propensity to ridicule every
foreign ass who comes to the new
world to make money, treated Oscar
as he would desire. Oscar has been
something like Guiteau to the news
papers. When every other subject
fails, the newspaper scribe turns off a
few words about Oscar just as he
used to make the most of Mr.. Gui-
teau. When Oscar goes, who will
take his place?
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DIR. Frazier's Root Bitters.

Fraziers Root Bitters are not a dram
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Weakness or Debility caused from impru-
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Frazier's Root Bitters are especially recon-
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