Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-05-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

dark horse.
Large quantities of ice still line
the shores of lake Erie.
What good does the Gio5s.
Democrat expect to accomplish by its
incorporate abuse Of B!aines
The labor troubles at Quincy
still remain unsettled and non.union
man vas badly beaten Saturday night
The question of taxing emf.
grants has been discussed and ap-
proved by the Chicago trades unionists.
We keep adding new names to
our list of contestants for the GRAPH
rc'stwenty-fve dollar prize for the best
acre of corn.
The Brook6eld GasefH has en-
tered its eighteenth year. We con-
gratulate brother Crandall on the fine
success he has made of the GGSets.
-Filley is still alive as we see by
4 circular in regard to hotel accommo-
danons at Chicago. Does the old
man never sleep!
The gathering at Chicago, June
3rd, will be grand occasion. an d will
show many new faces never before
seen in a National convention.
The Morrison horizontal
tariff reduction act was killed in the
House by vote Of I56 to ISL on strik-
ing out the enacting clause.
"A MIS-. Mary Klamroth. was
recently arrested a. Litchfield, Ills,
for screaming, shouting and using vio-
lent language in "holiness meeting"
at that place.
CHARLES Ford, one of the as.
sassins cf Jesse James committed sui
eide at the residence of his father, in
Clay township on the morning of May
9th. He shot himself through the
heart.
"a cyclone struck Davenport,
Iowa, Monday afternoon, leveling and
unroofng buildings, killing one man
and wcunding a number OF others.
A terrific hail storm visited Lit
lie Rock, Ark, Monday afternoon.
The Iron Mountain road near that
point was pretty badly torn UP in
places.
-Eugene G. Woodward, treas
urer of the board of trustees of the
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church is published as defaulter to
the amount of $4,000. He has fed.
Ii is said to be the old story-stock
gambling.
We had hopes Of the nomina.
ton OF Blaine or Logan, or some 9th.
er good man on the republican ticket
but since we have read Brewster's re.
marks, that it would by public injus.
tice to do anything of the kind, why, o.
course there's an end to it.
A large amount Of has been
sown this spring and many farmers are
now ready for corn planting as soon as
the weather permits. The constant
showers of the past three weeks have
retarded farm work greatly throughout
northern Missouri.
Those newspapers which are SO
industriously abusing the various can.
didates for president on the republican
ticket. are getting themselves in bad
fix for the campaign. Some of them
will have to swallow their words and
support very unfit men for Office, ac-
cordlng to their own account, or bolt
the ticket.
On Tuesday of this week
several bank failures took place
in New York, and among the promin.
ent ones was Grant, Ward &Co. The
firm is composed of Gen. U. S. Grant
Jas D. Fish and U. S. Grant, Jr. There
are rumors of a .defalcation and the
bank is reported 100000 dollars
short in its accounts. There was grea,
excitement on Wall street.
The fate OF the missing Atlantic
steamer, State of Florida, has at length
been ascertained. She collided with a
bark in mid ocean and both sank i'm.
mediately. Out Oh I67 persons on
board the steamer only "A are known
to have been saved. The steame,
Florida sailed from New York April
rsth for Europe. Most of her passen.
gers were natives Of the old country
going there on visit.
MIR. Brewster, our duGesque and
aristocratic Attorney General has writ.