The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-06
A Short Retrospect OF the
Dead Year Past
and Gone.
lille Stones of Memorable Events
Geographically and Brief
ly Sketched.
Some Of the Many Good Reso-
lutions Made by the
Boys.

with compliments of the season and man,
wishes fer your happiness the coming year
may the liquid drops of tears that you have she
'Resurn sfain transformed to Orient pearls,
"Adsantagingt cir loan with interest"
Many years have come and gone sine
some of us began to travel the kaleidoscope
nth of fe together. Many has heen tn
hearty laugh We have enjoyed over SOM
droll story or qua nj joke. Many the sym
pathetic tear we have shed over some ssC
tale or tragic horror. But on this one da,
Of the three hundred and sixty-6ve which
will 20 to make the year 1885, set apart TO
abs mineling of joyous congratulations anC
good wishes of all the world, there ar
many new faces set n IN our rounds to whom
our greeting is none the less warm on tina
account. We are friendly sort of heather
for though our life may have been wild anC
rugged,
"The widest waste still can but show
ttSome touch of natures genial glow"
And it is with heart full of love and
sympathy We start out on our mission fol
she coming year, determined to
Cast sunshine where we miy,
And storm clouds where we must
We trust often to meet, and that our
friendship shall grow warmer and stronger
because of the good We shall do to each
other.
in the future, as in the past, our sim
shall be to ple.se, to instruct, 10 smuse
and when duty demands to correct, and if
1t times We may seem harsh, remember
.'Cold duty's path is not so blithely trod."
For lis way is alas tco often barred by
hydra-hesded crime, gaunt ruin and want,
aching hearts ard weeping eyes, whose
nenaces and plesdings alike stern justice
and public veal d. mands shall 60 unheeded
In order that the blow may be struck which
gives possibility TO the anxiom that
"Tre greatest works of admiration
sand all the fair examples of reason
ssOut of distress and are misery grown"
IL is common mistake amor e the world
ct large to believe the newspaper man is a
hind of hyena who delights 10 delve
amid the slums of crime, and fish forth
sensations 10 be colored and seasoned to
salt the morbid appetite of the low and Ii
ceusous. But there is no solder nor yet
important and imperative duty of the press
than its censorship over public morals.
Were it not for It's careful discharge
ct this duty society and civ
liz .tion would sooa suffer a
FEARFUL relapse and the crime list would
be doubled. Criminals aud wrong doors, es-
pxcisliy the latter have greater horror Of
she press than of The Law. But the most
important fact is that law has to await the
perpetration of crime 10 take cognizapce of
IL bat the press anticipates and prevents lis
and as every one knows
.It is not enough to say
In such bush there is a thief-in such cave a
beast.
1x<..< \,
Fer shoot, else may shoot one Of my strang-
ing sheep.
Crime loves 10 hide its identity ard to
anmssk il is the duty CT the press.
But gentle RI adler We are not here to
write an homlly
Man hath weary pilgrimage rs through the
world he winds,
On ever, stage from youth to age still discomfort
abides;
With heaviness he casts his eyes upon the road be-
And still remembers with a sigh, the days that are
no more.
Thus sang Soutbey and that he sang
correctly many hearts will attest to-day
rs mid their greetings and good resolutions
they mingle reiros pection OF the year
gone by.
RETRosPECTIoN.
Speaking of retrospecton rem nds us
that il is the object of this article. A Tt
ucspection Of the past year,
Filled with its joys and sorrows,
Its memories good and i'll,
arnorg which will be found many familisr
ps mes which are all that is lett us TO recall
the good deeds snd hsppy faces ttat Cnte
owned them. Below Is given brief syn
opsis Of events Of interest occurring in this
city and vicinity the past twelve months,
cemmencii with The saddest OF all the
DEATHS.
John Wells died February End.
John Sullivan died January 18th.
Mrs. Joseph White died June 10Th.
James c Wood died January 18th.
Miss Jane Davis died February Oh.
MIS- John Bellmer died March 26th.
-Wm. F. Igenfri,z drops dead August
|6th.
Ira E. Barnes dies suddenly September
SD.
NOVEMBER %, Florence Gold, sged ii
years.
Nov M er IL, Jno. Egaleton died, aged
AZ years.
Oscar T. era ndsll died at Blackburn
Janusry 9Th.
-Msjor Weber, an old resident, died
January End.
Mich Lsmpton was killed in Texas by
the cars, October 18th.
mr.. Joseph Halstead died suddenly
April 18th, ia this city.
judge r. g. Durham after brief ILL.,
|nes died January oath.