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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-03-08

The eloquent and famous DIR.
Hawks, who formerly preached in
New York, once asked fer an ID.
crease Of his salary because his "a
mily expenses we're increasing.
"Do not trouble YOURSELF" said an
officer of the church. "the Lord
has promised that ha will care for
the Young ravens when they crv.r
Il know thaf,r said the witty min
lister, 4but nothing is said about
Young IIavks.r
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4 PrIma Donna as a Poker Player.
ist. Louis Post-Dispatch.I

81. Louis fost-D1epatch.
aAh, mein Gett, that is too
goodl II is too funnyw and Nine.
Nilsson, the iolliest Of prima don
ms, threw her head back and
laughed as only she can laugh.
1t was a laugh that made the sun
lit carls on her head dance with
glee; that shone In her sparkling
blue eyes, wreathed her kindly
face in curves and dimples, rip
pied through her plump self and
made the tip of her slipper, which
peeped from under her skirt. quiv
er with delight. while the air was
full of melodious notes with face
value of about $50 each, such as
have many a time brought a house
full of people to her feet. A reg
ular Nilsson laugh shakes the
shingles of an iron bound and
ire-proof hotel aud breaks the
dishes in the pantry. just at this
time Mime. Nilsson had taken her
breakfast and was chatting with
a Post-Dispatch reporter, who had
asked her about the rumor to the
effect that she was a devotee to
and an expert In tho great Ameri-
game Of poker.
IL play pokeri" she asked.
Why, l havn't played poker
since l was In ST. Louis last,
where every body plays. OF
course, ! know what q pair is, or
three of kind, or two pairs, but
straights and ilushes and bluIllng
| don't know anything about. |
can't bluff to save my neck. |
don't know how. Anybody can
see from my face when | am going
to blnff, and that spoils 1t all. !
have played poker and IL | am In
a poker crowd | can take a hand,
but it is not my game. Whist il
my game; that is a thinking game
but poker--it IS all shrewdness'
cleverness and chance. IL is moi
my game
"But the jack pot you took Oh
four acesiv
"Oh, Jackpot is easy enough te
understand, but l never held four
aces III my life. What is the big
gest limit, do you suppose, evsl
playedr
The reporter mado wild guess
at 81.
1.-TWO dollars! Ten cents; an'
the biggest pot | ever took II
amounted to only 90 conts, so yo'
see ] couldn't make or lose for
tune at that. No, the trouble |
all you st. Louis people play pa
ker and you want to make beliov
that all the rest Of us do the sam
, thing. The truth is, | am kept .
, busy at this way Of living that
can't play anything. 1t is worl
work, work all the time.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-03-08

The flood in Ohio has been of
benefit to one man. VIM. Neal,
late Of Ashland, KY, whose COM
rades In crime were some time
since assisted out Of this vale Of
tears with a rope, is indebted to
the food for a new lease on life.
The Witnesses and attorneys in his
ease could not reach the court on
account of high water, and he OBJ
tanned continuance for six
months.-N. o. States.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-03-08

A close observer remarks that
much more harm than good comes
Of planting corn before theground
Is free from cold and damp1ess
even ifa stand be obtained with
out repIanting, the young corn is
left to struggle with the weeds till
cotton planting Is over, and tho
loss in that event is fully ono
third Of the crop. With al crops
3 good start Is half the battle.--
planfnrs Journal.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-03-08

It was a fireman's parade, head
ed BY brass band. As they turn
ed the corner Gus Cesar, who
was holding up a hitching post,
spelIed out the letters "E P-l-u-r-i-
bus U-n-u-m,u painted on the
head Of the big drum. 4Nos,
Jake, now wha. what's that r. be
asked Of lank negro standing m
der the awning, with bis mouth
open. aDon't Jer know nufla r
vas the reply. acan't yer read
Dat's de name eb de man vol
...z.s as dza.l- -'..s..............
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AsInsuIar Incident.
ITimber Trades Journal.l

Timber Trades journal.
One of the most singular Incl
dents on record recently occurred
in mill at Nashville Tenn. A
workman by some weans was
thrown toward the circular saw,
and, evidently thinking that he was
gong upon it, died from fright,
which was the verdict Of the Coro'
ners jury. When picked up he
was dead, but there was no sign OF
a bruise on his body.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-03-08

Washington, ID. O., Feb. 26.-An
attempt was made to outwit the
tail-twister of the British lion to-
day. The Senate early in the af.
ternoon adopted a resolution
thanking her Majesty for her gift
of the steamer Alert, and it was
taken to the House by Secretary
McCook shortly before adjourn
ment. A few moments before
McCook came in a mysterious m-
dividual sent in his card 10 Mr.
Finerty, with d message that he
desired to see him in the corridor
on a matter Of imperative import
ance. The gallant Finerty went
out, and the mysterious stranger
repeated TO HIM tale Of suffering
and distress which he could re-
lieve by securing o place In one OF
the departments. Finerty listen
ed patiently to the story for fifteen
or twenty inmates, told the man
he could do nothing for him aud
returned to the House, wherc he
was met with inquiries as to his
absence while the resolution to
thank the Queen was under con-
sideration.
"Was it passedf' inquired Fin
erty, anxiously.
mo, old Robinson stopped it,n
was the reply.
"Thank God,' calculated the
member from Chicago reverently,
but it was only by accident that
"old Robinson was enabled to
prevent the ipiquity from being
consumated. The heartless villain
who entrapped Finerty into the
corridor at this supreme moment
endeavored to play the same game
on the ancient but emotional mem
Der from Brooklyn, and only fail
ed by reason Of the Interference
of an intruder. Mr.. Robinson,
who is deaf as a door-knob occu'
pies a seat IN the front row Of the
House, and carefully watches
every step that is taken in public
business. But he is fond Of Q
good cigar, and the conspirators
coaxed him into the cleak.roon
with O mild Havana just as the
Speaker was to lay the Alert res
olution before the House, ant
there he sat as innocent as an In
FAINT smoking away while the lib
erty of the people was in peril
The resolution had to be first read
for information, and then by unan'
imous consent II was voted upon
But Que objection carried II over
aud that is why Finerty and Rob
nson we're called out. While the
clerk was reading the resolution
some meddlesome person, VIII
was not in the secret, came int
the cloak room, aud, noticing th'
member from the South Of Irelan'
there, shouted In his ear:
"Yon ought to be out in th
House attending to business
"Why I" he asked calmly.
"The resolution to thank th
Queenis up"
Robinson is an old man 81
proaching 70, but he leaped int
the arena like wrestler, and
took him but four long jumps t
reach the scene.
IL object, Mr.. Speaker" b
shouted, ~ object" and thel
looking wildly around exclaimed
"Where on earth is that man Fit
erty,n and thus the calamity wa
ayerted.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-03-08

Preaching Ut n m. anil D. N. every Sunday
Communion isI Sunday In February, May. An
/ gust and November. l.fayer-meeline every
| Wesines'lav night Archer Pastor Sunday
school ato's Sam, Brown sup
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Msthedi.t Church

Preaching at II = m. and D. M. every sun
has. fuyer-nseilng every Wednesday nix1t.
s..an,tay-sehooi. p;1. u N siandfer, Pastor.
W u rdgg, supt
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-03-08

Senator Sherman Is reported as
admitting "That the Danyills in
vestigation does not show as con-
clusively as he expected that a
massacre was premeditated !"
"but," he adds, ut does show a
great many things that are not
creditablc to Southern ciyiliza-
tion." Suppose a committee of
the House were to go out and in.
vestigate a riot In Ohio, where ii.
OTIS have been known, and come
back declaring that, although the
investigation did not directly make
capital for the Democratic party,
IT showed a great many things
that we're not creditabIe to the
Ohio system Of civilization. What
on earth has the United States
Senate to do with the defects ol
the civilization Of Virginia or oI
Ohioi That the mere finding Of
faults which 1t can do nothing tc
amend is ft work for the Senate
is an opinion which Senator Sher
man has pretty much to himself
New York Times (Rep.)
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ne Campaign Of 1864.

From Judge Fehner's Lee oratiOn.l
We now approach that last and
matchless campaign in which the
"consummate fiowern of Lees sol,
diership burst into its fullest
bloom, and witchsd the world
with its beauty.
The grim hero Of Vicksburg and
OF Missionary Ridge, a man of in.
flexible will and desperate tenaci.
ty who measured his own resour,
ces and those of his adversary
with merciless precision. stepped
to the head of the Army of Poto-
mac. That army was now swollen
to an enormous host of one hun
dred and forty-ene thousand men,
while bis home government, weary
Of failure and desperately in earn
est, gave him the assurance of re.
enforcement whenever required.
Lee confronted him with sixty
four thousand men, precious men,
the death or capture of every one
of whom was a loss not to be re.
paired.
No invading army ever had such
advantages as the Northern Army
of the Potomac. The greatest diff.
6culty ofa successful invasion, the
protection of its lines of commu-
nication with its base of supplies
and reinfercements, was practic-
ally eliminated from the problem
for not only we're the water routes
of the James and the York open
almost to the gates Of Richmond,
but when it finally moved from
the direction of Culpepper Court
house, its path lay across success
siye lines of communication, SO
that, in the words Of philosoph-
ic commentator on the campaign,
at abandoned one, only to fnd
another and safer at the end of
every march," AT Culpepper
Courthouse, tho Orange and AL
exandria railroad was its line.
When it abandoned that, its halts
at the Wilderness and Spottsylva
MIA Courthouse opened up a new
line via. Aqua creek. As it ad-
vanced to the Annas, the Kappa
hammock at Port Royal furnished
another efficient water line. When
il reached the Pamunkey, the
York river and Chesapeake Bay
gave it one still more efficient ;
and finally, when its last march
brought il to the James, that
great river formed a perfectly safe
avenue to Washington.
When these facts are consider
ed, in connection with the enor.
nous disparity of numbers and re.
sources now demonstrated beyond
the possibility of question by the
historical records Of the two ar
mics, Lees successful defense OF
Richmond for so long must take
its place in history as one OF the
grandest military achievements Of
ancient or modern times. Had
like success attended the Confed.
crate operations in other direo'
tions, the backbone OF the wal
would, undoubtedly, have been
broken. As it was, the trcmen-
dous blows of Lee so staggered
his adversary that the issue lay in
doubt to the very last, and at
more than one period in the con
test, the Northern cause barely
escaped collapse.
The situation was, from the hrst
a desperate one for Lee. The
odds against him and the enemy''
unlimited capacity for maintaining
and increasing them, left little
chance for decisive victory. lie
might not hope that Grant woulo
ss..s - (...oo aud osva him
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NOTARY PUBLIC !
JACOB ALExANDER.

Acknowledgements and all other No
tarial business attended to promptly and
punctually. ldec u Il
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cousrr OFFICIALS.

N or TIE BOARD or srrrnvisoms.
District, ]. w. Erwin
District, ETWorthington
District, tPres.) N Goldstein
District, w. W. Stone,
District, j. N. Collier
\ Attorney, w. r. Trigg
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the cash. Accounts Of regular easfo-
mers due and presented the lst Of each
month.
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hfNnklls or LrcisLArrnE.
pencer, j. r. Parker,
Gilbert Horton.
'xxAron FROM a9ru DISTRICT.
II. Jeifords.
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meetings second Mondays
81 January and July.
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~ Of the supreme Court.
! Campbell. Chief Justice
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hisiet Court for Southern Dts
frief of s1ixsissinni
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-22
SUNDAY SPLINTERS.

"A marriage license wes issu-l y--ter-
day to Walter d. Shaw and Miss Emma j.
Dougherty, both of Lamonte.
AT regular meeting of the Seventh
Loan and Building association, held Fri
day evening, eight shares of stock were
sold at bonus of from $40 to S23 per
share.
A drunken man by the name OF Kelly
was found in an inseusible condition in {. e
rear of the Garrison house about o'clock
last evening. He was aroused by Clerk
Fisher and others and sent home. Had he
remained there during the night he would
have doubtless been stiff this morning
The Warrensburg Standard, having
had the kindness and forethought to call
the attention of the people oil Sedalia to
their crying need of a creamery, the Soda
lians are proceeding to arrange for the
building of a creamery. The Standard
animal is nothing if not sagacious.-War-
rensburg Journal-Democrat.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-22
WHY NOT GO ?
Good Reasons for Going to Church
To-Day-None for Staying
Away
To the public Of Sedalia

/ To the public Of Sedalia:
Friends, why not attend some one of the
churches to-day. Do you think IL will do
you any harm? Do you think an earnest
address by Christian man, even although
you NAV not agree with all of 1t, will harm
you any? On the other hand, will not
some things likely be said which will set
you TO thinking, quicken your conscience,
arouse your noble feelings, and for one
hour anyway cause you to retct on God,
Christ, life death and the great eternity to-
wards which We are fastening? And are
not these important things? Can any man
afford 10 ignore them? Will not words be
dropped which will tone up yeur moral
nature and throw some light on the duties
of life? And how about reverent prayers,
and the songs of Zion, will they hurt you
any? Did they do your sainted mother,
and your old father any particular harm
Did you ever know of anv one
regretting his attendance on the sanctuary
when he came to die? Are churches a
curse to a community? Are churches good
for anything ii people do not attend them
Friends, honestly and candidly think of
these things. And, young men, surrounded
by such temptations As constantly thrust
themselves upon you, will you not be safer
and have better prospects for manlineSs,
purity, temperance, if you regularly attend
some church? Is it not trse that when
young men begin to neglec' church going
they commence to spend their Sabbaths
In an uDhallowed manner?
Parents, husbands, wives, Young people,
fellow-citizens, be honest with yourselves
and with God, and in view of the sact that
your fellow-men are falling all around
you, and you TO soon follow, ask your
selves: Ought not attend regularly some
church? Will not regret ii some day If
do not? VIII | not he better man
when | come 10 die If do?'
Your friend and well-wisher,
ALLEN J. VAN WAGNER
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-22
The Worlds Greatest and Best
Melo-Drama.

"Nobody's Claim" new American melo-
drama by Z. A. Locke, author of "a Mes
senger from Jarvis section, Through Quartz
Valley, &c, &c." will be produced at
Woods opera house Friday and Saturday
evening, Jan. 18th and Goth The play
comes highly recommended and is presented
by strong company of meritorious artists
under the management Of Mr.. J. :. Alex
ander. The scenic and calcium and other
effects are all new and novel 1t is stamped
as New York success. having me. with
great favor in the metropolis. A special
car, so as to permit the company to trans
port their scenery, &c. A fiery menage
horse, trained bear and intelligent dogs are
intruced during the action of the play in
striking and exciting situations.
No advance in prices, notwithstanding the
heavy expense of this troupe.
The prices of admission will not be ad-
vanced. Reserved seats at Woods drug
store.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-22
Episode on a Tre n,

On the train from Kansas City last
night were Hon. John. F. Philips, supreme
court commissioner; Hon. Phil. E. Chap
pell, state treasurer, and Mr. james E. Nc
Henry, editor of the Jefferson City Tribune.
During the trip a man stepped from one
car into TIE car where sat in group the
three gentlemen named above. He asked
them if it was true that Jefferson City was
on the line of the road. They said, Eyes,
of course it was" The stranger said they
were probably right, but he had understood
the cars didn't go by Jefferson City.
This remark was gall and NORWOOD to
the Tribune man especially, and his cup of
bitterness ram over when bystander re-
marked:
"Well, the Sedalia BAzoo. think, says
JEFF City is nothing but flag station"
McHenry was SO Disguised that he said
not word in reply.
But he sot and sot,
And he thought and thought,
And The more he unused
The madden he got.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-22
Pity the Poor.

Perhaps there is not city in the state
which has done and is doing so much 10
alleviate the wants of the poor within it,
confines as Sedalia and this, too, without
one dollar of taxation for this PURPOSE
upon her citizens.
Some time ago the mayor established a
charity fund which has since been main
tanned by voluntary contributions and by
funds raised bv entertainments given for
this purpose. The contributions, both in
the shape OF money, food and clothing,
have been most generous.
Yesterday, d. liberal donation of -four
was sent to the city hall by prominent
miller, who requested that his name be
not published. In this connection, ii NAV
be stated that such instances of unselfish
charity are very rare, and this is truly
case where charity vaunteth not itself
Although much has been accomplished.
of course in city with the population of
Sedalia much remains to be done.
There are many cases of restitution and
suffering in the city which require the
attention of the charitably disposed people
of the city
Among the may who are deserving of
sympathy and substantial assistance,
BAZoo reporter has had his attention called
to the case OF Mr.. Palmore, who during
the summer and fall months conducted
lunch stand near the Garrison house, and
who has struggled hard to make living
without asking for charity. He has a
large family to support, and for several
days has | en- confined to his house, being
in very critical condition. He is in
need of assistance and deserves help
There are doubtless a number OF similar
cases in the city.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-22
A Brutal Deed.

Yesterday afternoon as crowd of COL
ored men in Justice Halstead's court were
waiting the opening of Bells trial, dog
b longing to Nick Wurtz, came into the
room. Justice Halst lad directed it should
b removed from the room. In an instant
a burly negro, named Wade Wilfong,
( lied the dog. and flung it against the
wall of the adjoining building and the poor
of some twenty-five feet. The back of the
dog was broken, and to put him out of bis
misery he was killed by Officer Barnett.
The act of Wilfong was one of such
cruelty that Mr.. Heard, prosecuting attor-
ney, took the matter in hand, and had a
warrant issued for his arrest. The negro
had made himself scarce and was not to
found at late hour last night.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-22
SkatOrial.

The skating carnival at Sichers' Park
hotel, last night, was largely attended ny
young men and boys, but there was a
notable absence of ladies, only three par
ticipating in the amusement. Those pres
ent, ladies and gentlemen, enjoyed them
selves, however, and leaving out numbers,
the party was a success. The weather was
very cold, which accounts, in a measure,
for the lack of interest among the ladies,
they considering an evening at home prefer
able 10 Drawing the effects of the blizzard.
A pleasant skating party was given
Monday night, some half dozen couples
being present. An elegant repast was
served, and an enjoyable evening spent on
the revolving discs.