The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-02-27
RICH HILL LETTER.
Correspondence to the BAZoo.

Special Correspondence to the BAzoo.
RICH HILL, Feb. 20.
w. O. Atkeson, attorney At Law and
ex-editor Of the Rich Hill Gazette, left
Sunday evening for Central Arkansas. He
will visit Little Rock and Hot Springs
before he returns.
The city directory men, who have
been with us for the last two or three
weeks, have completed their work, and the
directory will be issued BY Pollock & Co.,
OF St. Louis, early in the summer.
Judge Heylmsn left Yesterday Tor
CLIFTON, Mo-, his headquarters while engi-
neering the survey vi the Kansas City 4
Southern He Informed your correspond
but Rich Hill will secure the c. Il A.
branch.
The Marie des Cyenes seems to be
comp ting with the Ohio, as it is On a
heavy boom. 1t has overHOwed ITS banks
and reaches far out in the bottoms The
railroad bridge of the Pacific, about Two
and 0ne-hslf miles north of the city, is
nearly submerged. Portions OF the track
on either side are washed gu entirely pre-.
venting the passage over trains. Pass. myers
and mil sre transferred on hand carr.
The weather Sunday was quite .
change from that oil the past week, and
every one seemed to enjoy it hugely. Re-
ligious services were held at all the church
es, and ali we'll attended. Revs. Sage and
Hyde conducted services NJ the Bapti.t
church, Rev. Reynolds ut The Methodist
church south, Rev. Spencer at the Chris
Iisn church, and Rev. Hackney. of the NJ
+. church, at the Presby terrain church. A
quiet calm seemed to have rested peace
fully over all the city. the streets heing un-
usually deserted and quiet.
The township democratic convention
met in the opera hall Saturday, ~ p. M,
w. T. Marsh, chairman DIR. w. II. Allen,
secretary; Peter Loener, serg .ant-at-zrns.
The purpose Of the convention Was to nom.
mate candidates for the township election.
W. +. rygard WAS Nominated for trustee
and treasurer, and elected BY reclamation.
X. + Brooking and Thomas CAN'T were
nominated for township c ERIK, the i,s:
ballot resulting: Brooking, 100; Gault,
lO2 For collector, Samuel Beal and John
Trabb were put before the convention, the
first ballot standing: Beal, l23; Crabb,
TO- The candidates for constable were
w. T. Mudd, present incumbent, and j. A.
Wright. The frs, ballot decided the
choice, standing: Wright, 158; Mudd. S.
For the three justices Of the peace, L. X.
Wolf, present incumbent and mayor
Samuel l. Long, T. f. Hulen. present in
cumb<nI Il. j. Ellis and L. Lampkin were
brought before the convention. The irst
bsllol stood: G X. Wolf, l29; .. L. Lang,
178; 7. T.. Hulen, l24; q. r. Ellis, 10
l.. Lampkin. 3. Wolf, Long and Hulen
were declared duly elected candidates.
Twenty delegates we're chosen for the
county convention which ccnvenes at But
Ter, Thursday, Feb. -, and were unaui-
mously ins ructed to support Prof. Hinton,
of Rich Hill, for common school COM
missioner. The ticker, rs put out At this
convention, does not give very gene raj sat-
isfaction among the democrats Two gal
ions Of iorty-rod, a few coon skins and q
knock down would have made II first
class David Crockett convention. The
highest number oil votes known to have
been cast by one man at single ballot was
nine. The machines were all in good Or
der, oiled and ran exceedingly smooth.