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District Government AfSairs

| GAS
During the meeting OF the Board OF Commits.
siohers To-Day several new pr,v lege5 for laying
ana extending gas mains Were given the Wash.
| ington Gas Company, such as laying new mains
on streets 70 be paved during the present seal
| year.
| DEFECT IN . PUHrc SCHOOL BUILDING.
Today the Inspector OF buildings visited the
frame school building, corner or l. and 4th streets
northwe,t-uSet for school-which had been
complained or as unsafe and found n slight defect
In one timber which he ordered 10 be repaired or
rather supported by an additional timber, costing
out Iriile Otherwise the building Is as strong as
ever IL was.
RECOMMENDED FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEE
The Commissioners We're In receipt to-day OF a
letter from Messrs. Frederick Douglass 1r VIM
IL H. bilch, IL ;. Laws: ID ID, and Frederick Doug
lass sr, recommending the appointment for the
position OF school trustee James j. H. smith, a cit.
lien and resident OF this city, and lawyer by pro-
iesslon, and a meinher OF the law faculty OF the
law department or The Howard University Vice W.
H. ii. Wormley, resigned.
HEBREW CONFERENCE.-The l. Stern minister
OF Washington Hebrew congregation, says that
tomorrow evening, at shutdown. the ISraelites
Will commence the celebration OF the festival Of
''Shebuoth," or PentacoSt, commemorative OF tina
Revelation or Sinai, and lasting one day, accord.
Beformed church the ceremony OF Confirmation
takes place on this festival during the hours OF
the morning service. The names OF the youths To
De con1rmed at the Sth-street temple, between
II and ! streets, next Monday morning. are:
and Max Openheimer. Services will Commence
at am, lasting about two hours
BILL FOR RECOVERY OF q. s. BoNpS.-To-dav MI,
W. Pierce Bell, for James III. Mari, administrators
OF Erharit Mack, deceased filed bill agt Edward
kuoel for the recovery or U. s. bonds. The com.
plainant st4teS that about August 2i, 1879 tho
delendant received from Mack six L. \ bombs FOR
$l,Oo0 each, TO be returned on demand, an! having
made demand for them the defendant refuses n
return them the value as assets for distribution
among the legal representatives OF the deceased
SECRETARY CHANDLER, at Concord, " IT,, yester.
ODt unia cfro
Should he be, candidate for the Senate at this
session OF the legislature.
THE NEW YORK STOCKMARKrr
11Cfollow1ng are the ODenng and closing pr1,ss
ffflp New York Mar ar To
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PHILADELPHIA. Pa, June 9-The court OF com.
mon pleas to-day annulled the decree OF divorce
obtained by Major Azor II. Nickerson, on the
ground that 1t was obtained by fraud, and dis
missed the libel and imposed the payment OF all
costs upon the HbeIlant.
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A Little Boom in the New York SsOcn
Market.

NEw YORK, June 9.-The Posts financial article
says: Die stock market was more active ana
stronger this forenoon The general advance In
prices on the active list has been " 10 Ia the lat
Yer on Erie and Union Pacific. Reading, Jersey
central and Denver were also each IL higher
1hese fve were the principal features OF the fore.
noon, though there were also some important "a.
yances In the specialtles-Alton and Terre Hauta
per cent To S3; Ohio and Mississippi. II, TO 35k:
feoria, Dec and Evansville. ~ % 22l; Colorado
Coal, Ia 10 SiH, and Louisville New Albany and
Chicago, per cent 10 81.
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COLLECTORS BOND REJEcTRD.-The solicitor
OF the Treasury to-day rejected the bond OF Col
leetor Peasants, OF Savannah, Ga, on the ground
that the SuretieS were not satisfactory.
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MISS LUsBY'S FUNBRAL-The funeral OF the late
Miss Symphronia NJ. LNsby, for many years q
teacher in the public schools of East Washington,
took place from Christ church yesterday AFTER
noon, and the church was crowded The pupils
OF her school, wearing mourning badges, ana many
her Sunday school class and host OF friends were
present Rev. c. D. Andrews, rector OF the church,
onciated, assisted by Rev. A. f. Steele, OF st.
Marks church. The fnterment was beside her
father, who was buried last Sunday at the Con-
greSsonal cemetery.
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dent to-day appointed the following commission
era on the part OF the United States for the worlds
Industrial and cotton centennial exposition tp
Hardeman, z N. Hudson, r. G. Morehead, s. H
Buck, r n. Patton, John v. Moore. 6. Kern
sheim. w. b Schmidt, Qua A. Breaux, and A.
Baldwin.
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CHICAGO, June a-Frances NJ. Scoville, who was
divorced from her husband, George ScovilIe, last
terday. to have her name changed to Frances
Maria Howe.
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Mr. BzEBE win not accompany the Greeley re.

PosTMAsTERs COMMIssIONED.-CommisS were
issued to-day to postmasters as follows: NJ Welsh
at Wldgeon, Md. b. F. Carroll, Hurlock, Nd. Van
Llnville, Van, w. Va
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RoCK KXCAVAII0N N THB POrOMAC.
The contract for the removal OF rock In the Po-
tomac has, upon the recommendation OF Major
Hams, been awarded to the American Dredging
company, of Philadelphia for $4,000
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THE ORDERS detailing list Lieut. NJ. NJ Macomb
fourth artillery, 20 duty at the West Point MILL
tary academy, will to-day be revoked, and he is
relieved from hts present duties in connection
with the Wheeler geological expedition in this
CITY, and ordered to Join his regiment on the aoth
OF June.
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THE PRESIDENT attended the Payne memorial
exercises at4 o'clock this afternoon at Oak Hill
Cemetery. He will 60 from there to Soldiers
Home.
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LOCAL BOARDS OF ExANNKRs.-The civil service
commission to-day appointed the following addi-
tonal local examiners, which completes the list
OF local boards: New York custom house-John
n. ComstOck, of the naval ofIice; Nelson G. VIII
liams and Henry D. Stanwood OF the collectors
ONCE; Cyrus A. Stevens, OF the appraisers of1ce,
and Charles w. Mus9rave, OF the surveyors oiIice
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THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT

HE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT STATIONERY CoH-
IkACrS-Ihe following is a list OF the Washing
.oh otuuefs to whom awards have been made for
furnishing the Interior department with station
T T VII. baII ntyne Son. j. j. Chapman. VIM.
D. Gmsns = g, Fischer J. Z; Free, jr, MIS- 2.
Savage, Z. W. Thorn Co. and q. A. whitaker,
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\ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Fer BIDS-The Postmaster
General has ordered advertisement for Bids for
lurnssh1ns blanks and blank books for the money
9ruef once The bids were opened On the 9th OF
June, ana u was found that there were seven bid
uSrs, one oelns the government printer. who sub
nIItteo an eSslnlate. His estimate was not In the
form required By the specifications
COLLECTOR or CUsToas-The President to-day
appointed calvin s. Brewster, OF Laredo, Texas,
Haynes, suspended.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal reve.
nue., S47S, 1854; customs, $z53,ea07a
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I'd Edition.
AT REST!
JOHN ONWARD PAYNE
THE FINAL FUNERAL RITES.

NATIONAL HOIORS TO THE DEAD POET.
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THE NEW YORK STOCKMARK-r
11ofolowlng are tile oDening and closing p-resa
g the New York Stock Market to-day as repor5si
hy special wire 10 III. II. Dodge, $50 18th strest
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SECRETARY CHANDLER, at Concord, v H. yester.
day. said he was not. and under no circumstances
should he be, candidate for the Senate at this
session OF the legislature.
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DIvoRcED.-To-day decree of divorce was made
by Judge James In the case OF Charles Gersiorn
agt. Maria Gersdorn. He charged her with hav-
Ing in the summer and fall or 1876 committed
adultery With one Bonf, an Italian, in Cairo
Egypt, while he was there in the service OF the
khediye, and that subsequently she deserted him.
and was with Boni when petitioner left Egypt
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with anguish, she will whisper words Of
comfort. Yes, sweet memory will bring
her to you. and the love you bore for her
lift your heart from earthly aspirations.
and you will long to join her id that
better land.
But weeping mother, for you we drop a
tear of sorrow. Thosgh the grief of
brothers and sisters be great. mothers
sonl is bowed with grief still greater for
.'iiie loss Of her, who like Jewel, has
hung twenty years about your neck, vet
never lost her lustre. She, your dutiful
daughter and constant companion while
on earth, will still commune with YOU. for
''there is voice from the tomb, swee,er
than song; there is remembrance of the
dead to which we turn. even from the
charm Of the living" "Then, weave thv
chaplet OF flowers, and strew the beauties
OF nature about the grave; console thy
broken spirit. if thou can'st, with these
tender UT futile tributes Of regret. but
take warning by the bitterness of this thv
contrite affection over the dead. and
henceforth be more faithful and affection
ate in the discharge of thy duty to the
living"
Sedalia, No., July 10. 1883. Ed.
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contact of the uncouth and the cult.
waited, smoothed the way for that de.
lightful meIlowness and harmony
which is now a conspicuous feature OF
our fashionable society. Like Topsy,
it grew. There is nothing native
about it-except the mule. If, IS is
The custom among the Silesians, and
the inhabitants of the Grecian Archi
pelgo, our city has a patron saint,
drawn from the superstition of the
pagans, the BAzoo insists that the
genius of Sedalia shall be the stone
wrought vessel of some ancient mule,
around whose form shall cluster the
legends of Quality Ridge But it
must not be inferred from this that
Sedalia society is essentially different
from any other. 1t has had a begin
ning aud so has all others. We know
that the first families in Virginia
sprung from a barter in tobacco. The
ancestry of the chivalry and grace of
England was ravished by Norman
Barons from the straw-thatched how
els of Saxon cottagers, or the Wild
eyed Dianss from fhe wilderness of
Wales. The grace and refinement OF
our best society is something of which
every inhabiiant has just reason to
be proud All tie rough e.lges,
which its birth among the camps had
given, has Worn away. and there is
none now so poor or so mean as not
to do reverence to its glory. 1t hasks
in the glow of its loveliness like a
primitive hollyhock. and is just as
happy as big sunhower.
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1t is said that more people die from
sheer fear Of death than from the eff
fects of disease. ltis certain that in
seasons of epidemic. fear exercises q
very fatal influence in keeping alive
the seeds of the plague and augment
ing its victims. On this theory there
are fewer people in the world who can
look death in the face with mistaken
nerves than one might be led to sus-
pect. the fact is that fear like super
stition is ingrained in every human
mind. However much We may de-
ride witches and witchcraft, there is
always sympathetic feeling in the
heart that responds wildly to any sug-
gestion Of the supernatural. No man
can pass suicides tree at night with
out a shudder-to nine out Of ten a
graveyard, after dark, is peopled with
phantoms--creatures of the imaeina.
ton if MT verirable realities. Super
stition and terror are twin sentiments
in the human breast as alive and wake.
full as that invisible essence which We
call conscience.
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OUR SUNDAY SERMON.

This is the day of weekly reckoning,
day set apart for us TO revert to the pas
and consider the course pursued. Con
science is the Judge ard ex parte evidenc,
only is introduced. For those things vii
fully done amiss, no mitigating circum
stsnc. can be admitted. A strict accoun
is kept of Ill delinGuencies and will come
up for final adjudication at the last day
Then i, b. hooves all to keep their balancs
sheets square. Ii is dark day when
accounts are presentsd and We find tina,
We have neglected to make provision for q
prompt settlement. 1t is like the closing
of Day when our work is not done. 1t is
like the approach of death when we arr
not prepared for il; like the dropping OF
a flower neglected too long. Sunday is 3
day of grace and we are surrounded with
all the b~niAceut influences of life to
encourage us, and give us strength to
NEE, our consciences. Therefore we
should always gr' ct the good day With q
glad spirit, and with thanksgiving to Him
"who doeth all things we'll !" Each
Sabbath brings Us an offer of new life,
an offer of remission of all the errors OF
the past. If We neglect, and refuse, il is
our own fault, and the consequences tina,
:cllow are but just punishment for
criminal negligence. We rejoice at the
advent of q new life into the world, never
looking ahead to contemplate the trials and
difficulties that We know the new life will
have to 60 through. Why then should We
not rejoice at the new life that We know
has no fluctuations, life that is an eternal
spring to the soul, life that we can see ID
its clouding. nothing but Joy and gladness
The setting sun f}inging back its gorgeous
rays upon life that has accomplished we'll
its purposes.
II We neglect and refuse the offers of
mercy, life will fade away in sorrow-hope
and happiness gone; mercy will flee, like
the voice of the sweet child, once
worshiped. We will hear it growing faint
and fainter after il is on of view, and We
will long to follow it and be near it, but
cannot, and it dies away forever. We turn
in grief and heartache to q cold world
and mingle in the miseries of . misspent
life.
To-day is one Of these opportunities pre-.
sented. It rests with the reader alone when
il will be embrsced. It may be the last
You may never get SO near again. No
preparation is necessary, and no price is
asked. You may say this year" will be
plenty time enough TO think Of the matter.
You may say that 'next year" will afford
as many and equally as good. "Some
time" is the indefinite period fixed BY
some to pass through the change. "Neve
is written against the deferred purpose
the many.
"If you tarry till you're better,
You will never come at ALL,
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GETTING READY FOR CHURCH

1t has been a noticeable popularity
of women, ever since the first mother
took 80 much time to adjust her fig
leaves, that trey are never exactly
ready for church. 1t is perhaps no
exsggeration to say that more mascu-
line souls have been irretrievably
wrecked while waiting of a Sabbath
morning for their wives to get their
bOnnets on than from all other causes
combined. A man may get up in a
frame of mind as thoroughly adapted
to the reception of religious instruc.
ton as a sponge is to gather water
he may be really repentant of all the
aims he has committed during the
week, and earnestly ambitious of
atoning as far as he may for having
on a previous occasion slipp d a nickle
instead of a quarter into the contribu
tion box, resolving in his present con.
tcientious feelings to make amends
for it, when all of his good resolu-
lions are put to fight by the everlast-
ing time his wife takes to paint her
lips, put lily white On her cheeks,
curl her beau catcher. knot her rib
hons shake out The folds of her dress,
and put that jaunty little hat on the
top other head at precise sngle of
brty-two and a half degrees. 1t is no
exaggeration to say that many a man
has had his patience so utterly upset
BY these devices that be has received
the drippings of the sanctuary very
much in the spirit that his body would
have taken cold shower bath on a
winters morning. Of course it is not
pretended that women as q rule in.
aulge in this sort of practice. There
IRE some noticeable exceptions to the
yell regulated females of every COM
and it is for The benefit of
these that this article is written.
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GOOD SOCIETY.

1t is the ambition of every city to
have ton, and Sedalia is perhaps in
no wise exceptional. 1t could hardly
get along without that. In fact il
was one of the things to which the
early settlers devoted their first at.
tentions. AS good fortune would have
It. there was an organized ground
work to build on. For in early days
the aristocratic exclusiveness of its
primitive population won for the
prairie, on which the pretentious city
now stands, the awe-inspiring title Of
Quality Ridge. 1t was then chiefly dis.
singuished for pretty girls, wild youth,
and the capacity of the male and fe
male inhabitants to ride a mule. A
girl who couldn't set securely on the
hurricane deck of one Of these long
cared equines and guide him with the
graceful elegance which is supposed
70 belong to a female Centaur was no
# representative of the best society
Of these early days. The masculine
capacity for mule was simply immense.
1t was considered inseparable from
The distinguishing popularity of cop
peras breeches, blue neckties and pat
ept leather boots. The conjunctions
Of fashionable attire were equally re.
narkable. If not loud" they were
striking. No youth was regarded al
IN eligible candidate for the grsces Of
fashion and the smiles of beauty. who
hiled to adorn his heels with a pair Of
Mexican spurs, and his head with a
stove-pipe hat. But these were mere
y thegerms of an after growth al
startling as it was radical. With pop
ulation came innovation. Old things
we're swept away and all things be.
came new. Shoddy shook from her
sornucopia no end of adventure, and
. prcdigalty of cheek. Elements
that were antagonistic at first blended
r. time went on, and the constant at
triton which was occasioned by The
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A Beautiful Tribute.

The following beautiful lines were
composed by Miss Ella James, of Lexing-
ton, and rendered "A tribute on the death
of Mis- Emma Yingling, . very dear friend
who, on the 3Oth day Of June, 1888, Law
down in perfect health and the bloom Of
msidenhOod and never awoke. Miss
Yingling was one of Lexington's mos,
estimsble daughters, and her untimely
demise caused universal sorrow throughout
the city.
Miss James, the writer, is q teacher in
the Elizabeth Aull Female Seminary at
Lexington, but is we'll known in Sedalia,
and is at present the guest OF Mrs. james
X. Merri6eld. The tribute, as follows,
originally appeared in the Lexington
Register Of last week:
"Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the North winds
breath,
And the stars to set; but
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, o,
death.
So when evening shades had begun to
fall and birds to tvitter in their nests, the
brightest song bird in all the house plumed
its wings and took fight for . higher
world.
Death stole softly in upon the family
circle, and ere We knew he had been nigh,
bore away from our sight beloved Emma.
He gave Us no warning of his approach,
that We might say farewell to her, but took
her away forever.
Memory turns with lingering regret to
recall her SMILES and familiar tone
Of voice. In fancy, she will often be by
our side. but her home is on a brighter
shore.
Brothers and sisters when you are weary
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ments, and scatters with eccentric
hand, desolation upon the earth. But
those who have felt the breath of the
tornado are slow 20 believe in it's kind
ness. So society cursed with Mrs.
Grundv is reluctant to concede her
virtues. 1t would rather build for
her a grave both wide and deep, and
over it erect a monument inscribed
"Here lies social calamity"
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To the Public.

I have sold my abstract books and all
fixtures to w. F. Henry, of Monroe county,
Mo-, an attorney-at.law and practical ab.
stract man, who will continue the business
at the old stand, over the postof6ce, and
heartily recommend all my old customers
and clients to patronize Mr.. Henry in the
future. Thanking my patrons for all past
favors, am, Yours sincerly,
r. C. SNEED.
At present my law Office will be at the
same place. res.
7-20dtf
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NEW YORK. July q.
FLOCR-Market firm.
ITEMS opened q to y e hie her but ruled weaker and
reached ~ to I5sc and Closed heavy. No. 2 Spring
81 lULz ungraded red, 81 0591 II; No. sired, 81 10
No. 2, red sll7Sl IN; elevator afioat 81 IS; No.
, August sales, l,24O,0V0 bushels, 81 1891 III
closing 81 1875 September sales ls9 O0O 81 1910
%, closing at 81 1SL-
CORN-Cash sales to 1hze higher; options
opened u to 11sc better. Ungraded, 50969c; No. 8,
54@6Oc; No. 2, 6l@6l1zc; No. 2, July, 59@591@c.
closing At 594c, August, 6l96i5c, closing at 6lc;
September, 6s9621zc, closing at 621sc-
OATS-MarEet 4 to 1yc higher: mixe1 western,
a094Sc; white, 4S9Sic; No. 2, Nhc.
HAY-Steady At 55e per 100 lns.
COTFEE-Nominal.
SUGAR-Market quiet.
MOLASSES-Market quiet.
RICE-Active.
PETROLEUM-Market quiet; refined, 81 O7h@
G7H.
TAILOw-Market steady at 7k975sc.
EGGS-Quet and steady At l91sg2Oc.
WOOL-Steady; domestic fleece, 30@45c
pulled. lS6 i0c; unwashed, l2S4sc Texas, l4Sz7c.
LARD-Duil and lower at - 25.
BUTTER-Lull and weak at 992c.
CHEESE-Western, Hat at 6Se1xc.
LEAD-Dull and unchanged.
PORK-Strons and higher at SIS 75@l6 Is.
FLOUR-Dull.
TURPENTiNE-Firmer at 361.937c.
LEATHER-Steady at 2i9z5c.