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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-05-19
PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKENS

For rio...........s7 90 Single birds.........3 90
For 90 Eg 81 per Dozen. 90
NJ chickens are selected from the yards of the
best breeders aud up to standard. Orders by
mail promptly attended to and delivered on cars ut
Sedalia, Mo. Correspondence solicited.
X. e.. SNEEB, Rooms l and Porter block,
2-i7y6m SEDALIA MO
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21
STATE GLEANINGS.

The Times tells of Il German in
Shreveport who drank one and Il
half gallons of beer at one drink.
and is alive and doing we'll.
The grand jury of Sabine affirm
that prohibition has vastly improv-
Ell the morals IF that parish-less
ening crime and materially reduc.
ing public expenditures.
General Grant is buried at last
and we are glad oft. We can now
hope to see some other news in the
papers except that pertaining to
the Observation-Disclosures Repier
Due respect for the iTIustrious
dead did not require tho sickenine.
ostentatioas parade over the obsi-
quies of Gen. Grant. 1t savors too
much of toadyism.
The rice harvest in Louisiana is
tremendous. It is estimated
that the yield will range from
100000 to 10000. 900 sacks. The
crop last year was 41O.276 sacks
The genuine cotton worms are
playing the mischief Oil several
plantations above and below this
city, on Red river. Several fields
have been eaten up entirely, and
others will share the same fate in
a few days. The extent of the
damage will be extensive, and will
in the end reduce the crop to at
least onc-l'alf.-Shreveport Timex,
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21
The Police Jury of Sabine parish

The Police Jury of Sabine parish
has passed an ordinance prohlblt-
inc physicians prescribing mtox''
eating liquors in larger quantities
than fonr ounces, and at no time
shall this prescription be filled
more than once by the parties deal
ing in these Intoxicating liquors.
The election for Judge OF 9th Ju-
dicial District, resulted in the trl'
umphant success OF our friend and
former townsman, Hon. G. II. Ellis.
The following is clipped from
the Morehousc Clarion of l1tl INST:
Ont of 1000 votes cast, Hon. u.
II. Ellis received ]009 ballots.
One thing can be said of the poll
teal campaign just closed by the
splendid triumph, of Judge Ellis
we can now call our friend, George,
Judge!-it has been one OF the
most exciting we ever Witnessed.
n In both OF these fights
Ellis YVES the same cool, calm, col
lcctcl, calculating man that we
have found him ever since we have
had the honor and pleasure of his
acquaintance. Not an unkiud
word have we ever heard Judge
Ellis make about those who sought
to defeat him. 70 his enemies he
ever spoke kindly. 10 his friends
he gave advice that meant discre
ton. For those who endeavOrcd
to traduce him, he had a feeling
more of pitt than contempt. Ellis
is Il masnaniInous, big hearted
Jm1ge--a good man, and We are
glad lie is elected!
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21

The depot building at Gibbs
land, on the v. 3. & r. Railroad
was destroyed by fire on Saturday
last A ear load Of wagons and q
largo lot Of other fieight belonging
e Nr. J. 1. Baker, Of Mt. Leba-
ION, was consumed. It is thought
that the binding had been robbed
and set on Gre.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21

Mr.. F. F. Claussen, recently APP
pointed to q position in the New
Orleans Mint y President Cleve-
land, on the Recommendation of
the "Gibson group,' is accused of
being q Republican and having
contributed literally to the Kellogg
campaign fund last year. That's
nothing. He is a "Reformer, now.
Lake Charles Echo.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21

Eighteen years ago, while in
good health, which had still not
failed him, Joseph Lilly, a wealthy
farmer of Davies county, Mo, went
to bed, where he has since remain
ed under the hypochoDdriacal delu-
sion that should he get out of his
bed he would die, During all this
time neither rilicule nor entreaty
could prevail upon him to leave the
bed for a single moment.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21
WHO COMPOUNDED THE FELONY

The Colfax Sentinel enters the
special plea for w. II. RutlanS, tnat
he WAS not indicted for cmbezzle-
meut of the school funds OF Grant
parish, for 1879. The FarmcrsVllle
Gazette replies that may DC so,
but asserts that Rutlands told HIM
that such Indictment had been
found, though upon a compromise
the Indictment was not prosecuted:
WholIas the authority to compound
a felony?-N. o. Commercial BULL
elton.
There are at least five palpabie
errors in the above para graph. the
Bulletin is about as near the real
truth in regard to Judge E"tlaau
AZ it is to the name of this paper
It would be well for it to entleavor
to bc a little more correct and IN
form itselfa bit before it volunteers
harsh comment in Il matter 1t knows
nothing about. For it's information
We will state that Judge 4, WAS
once keeper of the school funds OF
Grant parish. During the riot
troubles of '73 lie sympa,hised with
the whites. For declining to take
part with the scoundrels who en-
sineerel the unfortunate "ColfaX
riot" he was deliberately bounded
by the Radical Republicans then
in control. In 1875 he was indicted
by an ignorant, packed and corrupt
grand jury as tar collector, IA posi-
ton he never held) and charged
with cmbezzling about $500 OF the
school funds. He was never arrest
cd, but came up voluntarily and
gave u $1,000 bond to appear for
trial, and by every possible way
endeavored to have an investiga-
ton, but it was put of; from time
to time by the powers that held coll
troll, they ,celt knowing that instead
of Il prosecution it w:le nothing but
a persecution for political effect. In
1877, after Nichols installation,
Judge Rutland came to Colf;.x in
company with Hon. Geo. II. Ellis,
and, going before our school board,
demanded that they give him the
opportunity to make Il showing.
lie accounted to the board satisfac
torily for all Of the $1,000 except
about $500, of which he claimed to
have been robbed during the riot.
The committee appointed by the
school board to arbitrate the mat
ter, were convinced Of the truth of
his claim and recommended that
lie be honorably acquitted of all
obligation, which was done. This
being represented to District At
torney L. &. Hunter, that gentle
man being satisfied there were no
grounds Tor prosecution, had a
nOlte pr0seQui cntered to the charge
of enlightenment. This is the
history of the case in Il nut shell.
Judge w. Il. Rutland was honor.
ably and legally acquitted. There
was no compromising of felony, and
no journalist should risk his repu-
tation for business and fairness by
making such ridiculous charge.
-COlfax Chronicle.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21
SHILOH ACADEMY.
HILL REOPEN ON THE 77W or
SEPT, 1855.

WILL REOPEN ON THE It'll or
SEPT, 1855.
This School is located mt Shiloh. La. in
the midst Of a prosperous and energetic
community thoroughly alive to edncation-
al interests. The moral surroundings are
good; at the late election OH the License
question the community was almost solid
for Prohibition, and this verdict is strictly
enforced, thus removing one source Of ;lp-
prchcnsion which parents have for their
boys when from home.
The Scholastic year will consist of ten
months divided into wO st ssions of five
months each. Students will he received
at any time and charged from time of en-
tcranco until the close of the session in
which they entered. The rates OF tuition
are $500 $500 $500 per month.
BOa,,i can he had at from -. 90 TO 5000
per month. For further particulars Adj
dress:
f.. NJ. CORY, Principal.
= or Rev j. Z. EVERETT.
President Board of Trustees.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21
FRIDAY, AUGUST 81, 1895

Major Burke has declined to go
to Mexico as Commissioner of the
American Exposition. The reason
he gives for this action, viz: that
for twenty months he has abandon
ell family and other duties in the
cause of the Worlds Fair, must be
conceded as sufficient.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21
Ncw Advertisements.
Notice..

\ special meeting of the B"arl of
School Directors is called for Saturday,
August %, 1885. Teachers # public
schools, who have not contracted with
the Board, are requested to be present
with prOpcrpapcrs, etc, t"matlc contracts.
Aug 9th, 1855. T., L. SELLERS,
President.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21

Capt. J. NJ. Rabun, erstwbile a
popular Onacbita steamb0atsman,
bnt now Mayor of Farmerville
was down to witness the game of
ball Monday: He is . great ad.
mirer Of the National game
Monroe Bxllet;x.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21

Dennis Boyd, the negro who
murdered Mr.. ID. Haas, in Bossier
parish was tried At Belview last
week and found guilty. The jury,
scyen whites and FIVE cOlOred men,
returned their verdict at 6 o'clock
Saturday evening.
The evidence disclosed that the
killing Of Haas was simply u cold
and premeditated murder.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21

The alleged st. Louis trunk muir
derer Maxwell, arrived lin San Fran
cisc0 last week, and was immedi-
ately conveyed from thence to St.
Louis, for trial. On the passage
from Auckland, he was manacletl
at night and watched day and
night by two detectives. He claim.
cd that his name was D. Angler,
and was a native OfParis, France.
He says that in due time lie will
produce Preller alive and we'll, and
show where lie got the body in the
trunk.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21
WESLEYAN
Female Institute.
STAuNToN VIRGINIA

Opens September DIST 1899. One of
the FIRST SCHOOLS FOR YoUNG LADIES IN
THE UNITED STATES. Surroundings beau
tifnl. Climate unsurpassed. Pupils from
eighteen States. Refers to one thousand
pupils aud patrons. TERMS AMONG
THE BEST IN THE UNION. Board,
English Course, Latin, French, German,
Music, &C., for, Scholastic year, from
Sept. to June, 2:S8. For Catalogues.
REV. WIN. A, HARRIS, D. D. President
StauntOA, Virginia.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-08-21

A peculiar epidemic is raging
in Indiana which has almost do,
populated an entire village. Doc
tors. were at a loss as to the cause
and were unable to prescribe any
remedies to alleviate the sufferings
of patients.
Those who have succumbed, re-
tain consciousness to the last, yet
their eyes give fol tn a wild express
soin, and, the countenance conveys
the idea IF insanity. Most power.
full, drugs have tailed to give even
temporary check to the disease.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-03
AN INTERESTING MUSEUM.
Berlin Establishment Where the His
tory of Postal Intercommunication May
BE Studied.

A Berlin Establishment Where the His
tory of Postal Intercommunication May
BE Studied.
1t is quite in keeping with the pater-
nal character OF state management in
Germany that the postoffice should have
established museum showing the his
torical development of every appliance
used in postal business. The Berlin
postoffice museum is in charge of an Off
Ger of the chief secretary's department,
and skilled mechanic waits on visitors
to furnish explanations and show the ap-
paratus at work. Here one may trace
the evolution of the means of letter con-
veyance, from the runner on stills to the
highly-developed railway sorting car
riage. All nations are represented; we
see the dashing royal mail of England,
the dome on wheels which carried the
mails of Denmark till 1912, and the
primitive means of India and Japan.
The moving adventures of the mails by
flood and field are depicted in old prints
and photographs. No detail is over
looked. Wagon-building is illustrated
down to the spokes of the wheels;
there are specimens of horseshoes
and models of the pastern; there
are saddles, lamps, horns. stamps, locks,
letter boxes, and weights of every peri
cd. Everything illustrates growth. and
also, it may be said, the immense Ger
man capacity of borrowing and improv-
ing upon the ideas of others A large
amount of space is given up to models
of the principal postoffices of the empire.
some being accompanied by photo
graphs and plans in section and eleva-
ton, so that the department, in setting
about the building of a new postOfiice,
has great wealth of experience and
suggestion at hand. Field-post and
autobiography have a section. and
corridor is devoted to a complete Rohr-
post line. which is shown at work, with
postcards of a reduced size specially
printed for illustration. On the electri-
cal side the museum is equally COM
plete. The electric light. the telephone,
the photograph, are exhibited, and the
interested visitors are presented with
strips of the platinum sheet which has
just given off several bars of WELL
known volkslied. Telegraphy is fairly
represented and there is perhaps the
greatest practical value in this section,
which shows. for example, forms of in
sulatOrs and house-top fixtures; the
manufacture of wire and its common
faults; the construction of telegraph
lines and the tools used. The various
stages of decay in poles are illustrated
with the same fidelity. One pole is
shown tunneled by the woodpecker;
another contains nest of the feath-
cred depredator in stu. 1t would, in
deed, be unsafe to assert that the mu-
scum omits anything, not even screw
nails. Criticism is paralyzed before
such perfectly realized conception
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-03
FARM AND FIRESlDE.

-Corns and bunions may be helped
and oftimes removed by the constant
employment of the oleate of copper,
spread as plaster. Chicago Herald.
Fowls like newly-cut grass. They
should have all they want of it. The
clippings from lawn mower are Just
the thing for them. Sunflower seed,
which can be easily grown without
trouble, forms food of which fowls are
extremely fond Chicago Journal.
Stones may be made very useful by
placing them around plants and trees as
mulch. Thus used under trees, espe-
cially evergreens, they are very valuable.
One advantage over ordinary mulch in
using stones is that weeds are not &c
likely to spring up among them
Prairie Farmer.
If your children should get peas.
beans or pebbles in their ears. do not
use pins, knitting needles or anything
of that kind in removing them. The
safest way is to use a syringe and warm
water If insects should lodge in the
ear, fill the ear. with sweet oil, which
will kill the animal and float it out
albany Journal.
Roll Jelly Cake: Four eggs beaten
very light, one cup of sugar, one cup of
flour. one teaspoonful of cream of tar.
tar, Tablespoonful of soda and pinch
of salt. Bake in long tins in thin sheets,
spread while warm with jelly and roll.
and wrap in towel to keep moist. 1t
is very good. The Caterer.
-Stewed Lamb: Take the neck or
breast, cut into small pieces, and put in
stew pan with some thinly sliced salt
pork, and enough water to cover it;
cover closely and stew until tender,
skim off all the scum. and add quart
of green peas. adding more water if
necessary; when the peas are tender.
season with pepper and butter rolled
with -four. The Household.
To kill bugs in peas pour almost
boiling hot water upon them. let it re-
main about ten seconds and then pour
off This will not hurt the peas-they
will sprout all the quicker for it and it
will destroy all the bugs at once. We
have practiced this method successfully
for years, says the Orange County
Farmer. We should do it just before
planting the peas.
Professor Arnold says a COW holds
up her milk because If the involuntary
action of the muscles that tighten about
the milk reservoirs. The cow is a very
nervous creature. 1t takes but little to
excite her, and when she is being MIXED
the utmost care should be exercised by
the mixer, and her surroundings should
be quiet. Permit no unusual noises
Have no dog running or barking about
her.-Tr0q Times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-03
~Crossest Man in Alabama.-

ode crossest man in Alabama lives dar, u
said the driver as we approached a way
side home, near Selma, Ala, to ask accom-
modations for the night. At supper, and
after it, "mine host" scowled at every one,
founo fault with every thing earthly, and
was wondering if be would not growl IL
the heavenly halo didn't fit him, when in
cidental mention being made of the comet
of 1882, he said: ~ didn't like its form, its
tail should have been fan shaped!n
But, next morning, he appeared half
offended at our offering pay for his hospi-
tality! MY companion, however, made him
accept as present sample from his cast
Of goods.
Six weeks later, I drew up at the same
house. The planter stepped lithely from
the porch, and greeted me cordially.
could scarcely believe that this clear
complexioned, bright eyed, animated fel.
low, and the morose being of few weeks
back, were the same. He inquired after
my companion of the former visit and re-
GREETED he was not with me. "Yes," said
his wife, 1--WE are both much indebted to
him."
"How?" asked in surprise.
"For this wonderful change in nv hus-
band. Your friend when leaving, handed
him bottle of Warmers safe cure. He took
1t and two other bottles, and now
"And now" he broke in, "from an ill feel
ing, growing old bear, am healthy and
SO cheerful my wife declares she has
fallen in love with me againw
1t has made over again a thousand love
matches, and keeps sweet the tempers of
the family circle every where.- Copriohted
Used by permission Of american Rural
Home.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-03

to hear Of the resignation OF DR.. Pierce as
Congressman to devote himself solely to
his labors as physician. 1t was because
his true constituents were the sick and af
flicted everywhere. They will find DR.
Pierce's "Goldep Medical Discovery" q
benefcent use Of his scientific knowledge in
their behalf. Consumption, bronchitis
cough, heart-disease, fever and ague, inter
mittent fever, dropsy, neuralgia, goitre OF
thick neck, and all diseases of the blood
are cured by this world-renowned medicine
Its properties are wonderful, its action
magical. By druggists.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-03
DRAINAGE.
The Need of Thorough Drainage Fully
Demonstrated This Year.

The Need of Thorough Drainage Fully
Demonstrated This Year.
The need of thorough drainage on
farm lands has been most fully demon
strated the present season. which all
through planting time has been rainy,
rendering all low. lying lands too wet
for tillage the greater part of the time.
Hundreds of farmers have been COM
PEELED to helplessly look on while their
teams and workmen lay idle. waiting
for the soil to dry out fit for blowing.
And doubtless many cornfields to-day
have but meagre stand through the
soil being wet and cold, which might
have been otherwise had the land been
thoroughly underdrained. and the con-
sequent higher temperature existed,
which that would be certain to bring.
There are to-day many corntields
overgrown with weeds, from which the
cultivator has thus far been excluded,
only through being too wet for the work
to be done, which but for that cause
would now be cleaned out, and giving
fair promise of a handsome outcome.
1t not infrequently happens that the
start given in the spring through early
planting. and consequent early
growth, determine whether the corn
crop shall fully ripen before the advent
of an untimely frost. There are few
seasons indeed which will not favor
complaining on well underdrained
land in the late days of April, and
scarcely one that this work need be de-
ferred later than the first of May, so far
as fitness of the soil or seasonable
weather are concerned. In many fields
the present season planting was COM
pulsorily delayed until into June; the
one only cause for such delay being the
unfit condition of the soil on account of
the rains.
There is at present but slight excuse
over the greater portion of the prairie
country for the neglect of this needed
improvement. Within easy reach of
most communities. tile factories have
been established, where the necessary
materials may be obtained at but
moderate cost. Men skilled in the
business of digging the necessary
bitches and laying the line of tile in a
wOrkman-lke manner are moderately
plentiful and do the work at an aston
ishingly low price.
When understood how important a
factor corn has become in keeping the
wheels of domestic commerce in motion
and how severe is the check on all other
industries when the yield of this one
grain falls considerably below an
average, some sort of conception may
be formed of the responsibility that
rests upon those who occupy the land
as producers. to see that all necessary
means shall be employed to insure sue
cess.
In any of the several adverse seasons
of late years, in which the corn crop
fell much below an average, can any one
point to a single field of well under
drained land on which, in the season
most unfavorable, it was not practicable
to grow full crop of corn? And if
this be true, as we verify believe. does
not the single word '.underdrain"
have a talsmanic meaning. and be-
come the key to complete solution of
the whole Observation-Disclosures Ha,ck-
cue.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-10-03
FRENCH DIVORCES.
something More Than the Decree Of a
Court Necessary.

something More Than the Decree of a
Court Necessary.
One of the peculiarities of the new
divorce law is that the bonds of we'd
lock are not completely severed even
when the court has granted the divorce
To be entirely rid of his or her chains
the party in whose favor the divorce is
pronounced is required, within the
period of two months, to cite the other
one before the same official who per-
formed the civil marriage between
them. Attendance, of course, is not
compulsory, but in most cases the
citation is obeyed, and monsieur and
madame appear once more before Mon
sieur lie Marie in the same Sale DIES
Marriages where they were once pro-
nOunced an nom de la ioi, man and
wife. 1t is not unusual nowadays to
witness at the large Partisan mairies
wedding and divorce parties at the
same time, each waiting their turn, and
sometimes there are two or three of
each. The former are always in full
dress, the brides in white and
with orange blossoms in their
hair, and everybody is evidently
bent on having a good time-the
word noce in French is SYNONYMOUS for
a wedding and spree. The divorces
also make it point to put on their best
clothes on such an occasion, but black
is de rigeur for the lady, and the ex-
husband eschews white gloves Each
comes accompanied by two lemons and
their friends and relations. But il is
not good form to laugh or cut Jokes.
And they divide into two groups which
take places as far apart as possible at
opposite ends of the room. After few
minutes of waiting, during which the
divorces" remain lugubriously silent,
Monsieur lie Marie makes his appear
ance. He wears tri-colored scarf,
with tassels around his waist. and the
usher shouts out, Stand upr' an order
which all obey. The Mayor takes up
his stand behind a long, green table
and begins with the marriages. These
do not take long, and then comes the
turn of the divorces" The party
draw up in line in front of the table. the
four witnesses in the middle, the wife
to the right and the husband 20 the left
of the line. The clerk reads the decree
of the court as rapidly as he possibly
can. and then takes up collection, Just
as he had previously done in the mar
riages, for the poor of the ward" This
done, the Mayor saws: I'm the name of
the law we declare your marriage dis
solved by reason of the divorce pro-
nounced between you" This ends the
comedy, and after exchanging ceremo-
NOUS bows each go their own way,
accompanied by their friends. Paris
Cor. N. o. Picayune.