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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-02-20

~ HFNtT Stuts OF pOstPOnes.
ITS Grand SingIe Number Drawings
take place MONTHLY.
SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY To
WIN FORTUNE. THIRD GRAND DRAW
mt, Class 4. vt NEW ORLEANS, TUES
DAY. March I3, 1859 II 5ath Monthly
Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE. $4,000.
100000 Tickets az Five Dollars Each
Fractions. I'm Fifths I'm proportions.
List OF Prizes.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-02-20
ON THE VERGE OF DEATH.
A Girl Who Has Been Like Marble
for Six Weeks.

From the Louisville Commercial.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

Edinburgh, or all the theologians of the
world. Yet men are rushing around
among the apOthecaries, wondering II this
medicine is good for neuralgia, and that
for rheumatism, and others for other DIS
eases, lest they should be suddenly
ushered into heaven. Men ought not to
go around groaning because another year
is gone. We ought to be living not ac-
cording to the old maxim, which says men
should live as though every day might be
their last, but as though we were to 1--we
forever. But don't let us be nervous lest
we should have to move out of shanty
into an Alham5ra.''
Hon. George NJ. Rose, the Speaker OF the
North Carolina House of Delegates, is
comparatively young man, having been
born in 1916. He was a cadet at the Viz
@tnia Military Institute when the war
broke out, but left that institution in 1858,
at Il years of age, and rose to the rank OF
Captain in HOke's division. After the war
he graduated in law, and has become dis
tinguiShed in his profession. For six years
he has been leading member Of the North
Carolina Legislature.
The London Fire Brigade has but fifty
steam engines and 800 firemen. The esti-
mated value of the property to be pro-
tccbeu 10 Fo,VV"'UVV,cOO, anu AOii0'OliOAS Pe'y
an insurance premium of 12Oth part OF ]
per cent. Ten years ago Capt. Shaw
asked in vain for an annual appropriation
Of 100000, which is only 100000 more
than he gets to-day. Yet, this very insult
| ticient fire service Notwithstanding, the
losses i'll London are comparatively very
small against those here, and chief rea-
son is thats rigorous building law re-
quires the party wall, dividing one house
| from another, to be carried up several feet
| above the roof. Consequently house is
! frequently burned out without its neigh
Dor being anywise injured. The roofs are
slate or tile, and unusually entirely de-
| void Of wood cOrnices.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18
Tnesdar,s Election.

The result of the municipal election ap'
pears i'm another column, the complete
returns having been made out yesterday
morning. 1t will be seen that as pre-
dicted in our issue of yesterday, the
entire regular ticket has been elected by a
very decided majority, the Mayor, Hon.
r. L. Lester, leading his ticket, with Mr..
Joseph :. Wilder, a prominent young
merchant, as the head of the Board of Al
dermen.
This is the first time in a number OF
years that a full regularly nominated
Democratic ticket has been elected. AS
far as the gentlemen who were defeated
are concerned, they were as we'll qualIhed
as those who were elected, many of them
having for years served their fellOw-citi-
zens in the City Council. Their defeat is
no reflection upon them. They stand
Just as high in the estimation of the
people as they ever did. But there was a
principle at stake which it was necessary
to vindicate-the right Of the people to a
fair vote and and a fair cOunt-and it was
with this object in view that the election
law was changed. To give the new law
its fullest sanction, it was necessarytO elect
ticket under its provision made up OF
men who believed them to be just.
For the next two years at least we shall
hear no more of powerful personal influ-
ences in city affairs.
The Citizens Democratic Club, which
has been the fulcrum of this reform move
ment, has accomplished its purpose; it
has no members to put in office, and can
now properly disband. Whenever another
crisis arises a similar club can he organ
lied. There should be no permanent inner
circle in the Democratic party.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

A recent visitor to the Dismal Swamp
in Virginia writes that he found 1t much
reduced in extent compared to what II
was twenty years ago, and now present
ing to cultivation some of the best farm
ing lands in the State. This reminds us
that Georgia and Florida are the JOINT
owners Of one of these elephants IN our
own euphonious OkefinOkee, which is
likely TO receive similar attention before
many more decades. Okefinokee swamp,
so called, according to the survey OF Cen
eral @. A. Gilmore, contains about eight
hundred thousand acres of land, much OF
it in open prairies covered with shallow
water living upon a soil surface from eight
to ten feet deep in decayed vegetable mat
ter. When it is considered that the same
survey shows the swamp to be situated on
a summit or ridge one hundred and seven
teen feet above tide-water on the st.
Mary's river, at a point only about ten
miles distant, and that two rivers flow out
of the swamp in opposite directions, we
may well look forward TO the time when
enterprise shall invade those now gloomy
regions, dredge out those TWO
rivers, which already form a con-
Meeting water way between the At
lantic and Gulf of Mexico across
the Peninsula of Florida, empty that vast
basin into a navigabie barge canal, as
nature designed, and reclaim to the agri-
culture of the two States the finest body
of accessible truck farming lands in the
South.
1t has been shown that Okefinokee was
once an open clear water lake, partially
filled up in the course of time, and having
now only about seven feet of water as Its
greatest average depth.
Within its area are many large islands
that do not overflow. Some of them high
hummOck lands, covered. like the outer
borders of the swamp, with fine forests OF
valuable timber, while the entire region
affords perennial pasturage for the
hundreds of cattle owned by the settlers
in the neighborhOOd. The object Of
General Gillmore's survey alluded to, was
| to settle the mOOted point as to whether
| OkefinOkee swamp or lake, would supply
a sufficient quantity of water to feed the
summit leveI' section of a barge and
ship canal connecting the waters OF the
/ st. Mary's river, on the Atlantic, with
those of the Suwanee, on the Gulf Of
/ Mexico, and the survey proved both con-
clusively estimating the entire cost of such
a canal at less then $10,0OO,OOO, while
a ship canal across the peninsula of
I Florida at any other point has never been
/ estimated at less than $40,OOO,OOO. The
projected barge canal, which is also de-
signed to utilize the inland coast waters
/ of the Gulf from the Bay Of st. Marks
westward to the mouth of the Mississippi
river, is considered amply sufficient to
drain the 10000 acres of the OketinOkee
/ lying in the State of Georgia and about
10000 acres in the State of Florida. 1t
may be remarked, in conclusion, that the
cOnsummatiOn of this project would COM
pletely open up to settlement, agriculture
and commerce vast and now almost inn
penetrable and uninhabitable region,
Astounding in dense forests of timber and
valuable lands that can in no other way
be rendered accessible to the public.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18
Where They slipped Up.

I WttUuttIIFtttV ItcIOFU'
There were some foolish Democrats and
Republicans in Congress who voted
against free ships in order to defeat the
subsidy scheme to which the free ship bill
was attached. The value of the provision
for drawbacks on shipbuIlding material
was nullified by the free ship amendment.
This the subsidists knew, and they acted
upon their knowledge. The friends of free
ships who fell into the trap of helping to
kill their own whale after it had swal-
lowed the Jonah of their opponents were
not gifted with that aIertness of wit which
is necessary in dealing with the RObesons
o,,d tho
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18
Genteel Pauperism.

The Republican leaders now argue that
our domestic manufacturers cannot i've
and that even certain growers of sugar,
lemons, oranges and peanuts in the south
cannot live unless poor rates are doled
out to them out of the earnings and say
ings of every man, woman and child III the
land. AS Mr.. Belmont so clearly put the
case in his speeches during the canvas.
what would be the difference in principle
between legislation to compel this and
legislation authorizing the Federal Gov
eminent to pay these poor rates in cash
out of the Treasury to those sturdy beg
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18
Strength in Numbers.

AS the class of nOn-workers increases in
number they will become more courage
Gus, and viii begin to resent the constant
imputatiOns made upon their characters
by the brisk workers; and the drOnes will
have much better time when there are
more fellows with whom to loaf and "aim
hiUh -
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

Some Of our contemporaries, North and
south. allude to the success of Gov. Ste
phens' requisitiOM upon the President for
the surrender Of Jules SOule, the criminal
who escaped from Georgia and enlisted in
the United States army at st. Augustine,
Fla, as a very unexpected yielding of the
General Government to the State authOri-
ties. IL is, perhaps, a eOndescensiOn of
very recent revival toward a Southern
state, and, coming from a stalwart adj
ministrati0n, may be considered as an
other benefcent result Of the November
election. Ii is az least a hopeful sign Of
returning allegiance 10 the Constitution
on the part OF the administration after
twenty years riot and rebelli0us disregard
~ .-=.r~sranfe4-l-s INDEPENDENCE and
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18
Folks Politics.


Folks body was Republican and his legs
Democratic Probably the question had
better be compromised on this basis, for If
the Republicans charge his Democratic
legs with running away with the plumber,
the Democrats may retaliate by charging
his Republican hands with stealing it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18
The Figures Too Low.

Governor Buffers idea that the man
who doesn't vote should be fined the
amount of poll tax. wouldn't avail much
in Maine. because there the man who
stays away from the polls get from 50 to
S1h for doino
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18
Lack of Lucidity.
n AdtCh VI AuSAA'
.SDria0feld ReDubIicdn.

t7IgFtFss I71'17VVVV'F'F
The Utica Herald says that Governor
Cleveland's message "is disappointing,
as was expected" 1t was Nermonter
who asked the meeting to excuse him
from serving on a committee because he
expected to be unexpectedly called away
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

The meeting of our German citizens and
others in sympathy with them at st. An
drew's Hall last evening was fairly at
tended, considering the inclemency of the
weather. But what was lacking in num-
bers was made up in earnestness. As
will be seen by cur report Of the
meeting committees were appointed
to receive contributions for the relief of
the distress in the Fatherland, arising out
Of the widespread foundations with which
some of the fairest sections OF Europe have
been visited. We have no doubt that our
citizens will respond generously to the
calls made upon them and sustain the
reputation of the Forest City, which has
ever been ready TO help the needy.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18
A Modest Suggestion.

WQSAlngEOTI JTtttc
How would it work for those States that
are petitioning Congress to prohibit the
sale of Intoxicating liquors in the District
of Columbia to send temperance men to
Congress? We merely suggest this.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

Baltimore American (Rep.).
If We force the American merchant to
buy high priced American ship. or get
his carrying done on foreign bottoms, the
experience of the past twenty years shes
how be win decide the alternative.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

Mr.. Olmstead. who wanted to be Police
Commissioner Of the District of Columbia,
bur whose connection with the real estate
pool was against him, has sensibly con-
cluded to waive his claims.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

When Gambetta died Bismarck braced
up. but the death of the Tribune seems to
have set French craftsmanship at sea. y
Republic that fears the resources of the
relies Of collapsed dynasties can hardly
last long. To silence criticism Is to con-
cede the faults that provoke it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

The dramatic critic of the Buffalo COH-
yier takes the belt. Heavers that Margaret
Mather.i i'm the potion scene in ''ROmeo and
Juliet ''acted like an incarnate delirium
tossed by a whirlwind.'
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

Tecumseh Sherman rises to remark
'sThere are plenty of good men able and
willing to undertake the Office-abler than
profess to be, and with as much patriot
ism. The President at best is but a figure
head. Congress is the real power i'm this
government, and any President who un-
dertakes to stamp his individuality will
find himself tied hand and foot by laws. I
ask you To assert with emphasis that you
know my unalterable determination, and
that it will be idle to appeal to me. The
country is perfectly safe, and no amount
of party clamOr can seriously disturb its
harmony or prosperity" Tecumseh should
keep cool. U. :. Grant hasn't abandoned
hope of getting an extension of his lapsed
claim to the White House. We are happy
to know, though, that Tecumseh is not i'm
pressed with the indispensableness of the
Go
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

1t is really delightful to hear Mr.. Msr-
rilI. who stood over the tariff with club
a few months ago, admitting now that 1t
really can stand great deal of doctoring.
The November cyclone is still held IN
memory
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

saws the Hartford Times: =" savannah :
.Sesqui-C CENTENNIAL to be celebrated on
the 18th of next month with elaborate fire
works, speeches, professions, etc., Is in
honor Of the one hundred and tiftieth an
niversary of that now fiourishing city"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

The Hon. Green b. Raum will now pur
in some solid ticks towards earning his
salary. His Senatorial dream was Sor-
geOus but brief.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

One of the worst things about Treasurer
Folks defalcation is that it is being used
to furnish whitewash for the stealings OF
the carnet-baggers.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

The .smissing link is exhibited at the
ROYAL AQUARIUM in London. 1t is a hairy
little girl, with nose flattened to the face
hair growing down to her eyebrows, and
over her body an inch and halfin length.
She is years old and can talk. She was
caught near forest ut Laos. in Siam.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

"If," remarks the Philadelphia Record,
''the J. E. Bryant who is seeking General
LOngstreet's place as Marshal of Georgia
is the same Bryant who has been solicit
ing funds in the North to support an al
legged newspaper somewhere in Georgia,
and has been filling the country with tales
scarcely more probable than Munchau-
sens, the friends of the present incum-
bent of the office need not feel disturbed.
1t was so late i'm the day to wave the
bloody shirt that Mr.. Bryant carried his
own antidote with him." We feel safe in
assuring our contemporary that its sur
mise is correct.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

Mr.. Matthew Brennan, a striker oil Lo-
CAMS, is out of job. Mrs Harlan IS
pOstmistress at Winchester, Ill. Exit
Mrs. H. Enter Mr.. b. This Is an era Of
reform.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

The climax Of meanness is reached by
those who knowingly palm worthless vac
cine virus upon a cOnfiding public. Nash
vile recently had experience with such
stuff, and other communities would do
well TO thoroughly test the supply fur
nished them before accepting it. We see
it stated that Governor stephens has or
dered a supply from the national bureau
for use i'm Georgia.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

The times are out of joint when the tai
ented author of the .. Mississippi plan Is
trusted attache of the Department OF
Vuefiea
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

Senator Butler certainly echoed the
sentiments Of the people of this
section upon the subject OF fast
mails in his remarks in the Senate
yesterday. The West is fairly entitled 10
like facilities and should have them, but
TO cut of the appropriation for the service
would be picayUne economy. Extend the
fast mail service by all means.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

France resumes her liberty of action
elm the name of the prOphet-6gs."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18
CURRENT COMMENT.
"Chet" Earning His salary.
A Regular Godsend.

WuSNttltOft 4 Oots
The manufacture and rehabilitation OF
Postmasters is now the leading industrial
pursuit at the Executive Mansion.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

Through the good offices of Mr.. Reed, OF
Maine. and other friends on the House
Judiciary Committee, the Northern Pa
eific Railroad Company is permitted to
avoid forfeiture of 4. OOO. 900 acres of pub
lie lands which it has not earned. Reed
and his partners kindly consented to
smother the report that would have
opened up discussion Of the matter.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

The population Of Dakota is estimated
at 100000, having doubled in ten years.
The amount of taxable property Is SOO'-
600 600
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18


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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

Chances in the Senatorial lottery at
Denver are quoted at 5000 each.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

jay Gould sent his check for $500 for the
relief Of the Milwaukee sufferers, and the
Mayor of that city gushingly ranks the
long headed donor with ''the noble philan-
thropists who distinguish this age above
all previous eras in the worlds history"
The practical Philadelphia Record sus-
poets that the Mayor thinks Gould has
..gOne long, on charity and intends to
corner the market
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

The Chattanooga Democrat has been
leased to L. G. Walker, Jr., and T. T.
Powell for the term of five years.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

The forty-one members of the California
senate are reported to be worth, all toid'
S2O,OOO.OO0.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

The product of the Leadville mines of
gold, silver and lead for 1882 was 81, r.
4O2. This is largely in excess Of the yield
of any previous year, even including the
period of excitement attending the discOv-
cries OF the carbonate fields. Over $685.
100000 in precious minerals have been
taken from these mines since their discOv-
cry in 1873. The total product of Colorado
for 1882 is quoted at sac, 7JO,S 9S. Thus it
will be seen that the Leadville region fur
nishes more than twO-thirds of the whole
Droduct Of the State.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

The Nashville, american ably defends its
course and that of the people Of Tennes-
see in reference to the public debt of the
State against the aspersiOns of the New
York Tribune and Times, and concludes
with the following, which we consider
well put:
''We recognize their right-as they do
from one years end to anOther-tO charge
their own Legislature and their city gov
eminent with plundering, stealing and
robbing, but such gross language about a
people, when they do not know the facts,
is out of place. We take il, they know
whereof they speak about their own folks
but the wholesale charges of dishonesty
on the part Of the people Of Tennessee are
---- !. =. - faI.-nhcolla =
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

In the Senate, Saturday, Mr.. HOar Rep,
Mass. J, introduced a bill providing that at
all elections for Presidential electors or
members of the House of Representatives
all the ballots shall be deposited in voting
machine patented last October by a BOs-
ton man, with whom the Attorney Gen.
eral shall be authorized to contract for a
sufficient number of the machines to sup
ply one to each polling place in the United
States and territories, at a cost of $50
each. The ballots must be on plain white
paper, with blank space of three inches
at the top and one and half inches at the
bottom. The ballots are automatically
pasted together and wound upon spool
in a continuous strip. George Frisbie's
zeal for reform will consume him yet.
Massachusetts may regulate her elections
as she pleases, but we will undertake to
worry along without the Boston mans
patent. But if it will prevent ''de con-
tabulatiOn oD de returns, - to quote Casa
nave, who was of service to party by
the name of Hayes, we wouldn't mind Civ
ing it trial.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

DIR. Brinton, of the Medical and Surgical
Reporter. says: First boil and then filter
your drinking water, and you can laugh
at disease from impure water.'' DR..
Thayer, of Paramount Park, Philadelphia,
says: The impurities are not destroyed
by cOoking-in fact, they are more fully
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-18

y nice question about railroads is on its
way to solution i'm the courts. When a
railroad is earning profits and there are
preferred stockholders, can these parties
claim the profits against the wish of the
directors to spend them in improvements
Judge Wheeler, Of the United States Dis
trict Court, has decided affirmatively, but
the United States Supreme Court is to
be asked to pass upon it. 1t affords a
brilliant chance for argument, which the
lawyers, of course, will not fail TO i'm
prove.