The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-03-17

probably locate here.
While trimming hedge fence J. z.
Walton had the misfortune TO be struck In
the eye with limb OF il. Il is feared he
will lose his eyesight.
On account of the strike the Nevada
Gas company were unable TO obtain coal.
aud so failed to furnish the city with gas
TO light up our streets.
H. L. Lsmey and wife, who for the
past month have been visiting relatives
Snd friends 10 Pennsylvania and Can ada,
returned home Tuesday.
Miss Jennie Brown VISITED Fl. Scott
this week with view of organizing a
painting class In that city. She is q good
artist and We hope she will succeed.
Edgar Haverstick returned Tuesday
from CnaI-qus, Kansas, where he has been
teaching school,. He Was accompanied by
his friend W. F. Shaefitr, who will look
over The country.
Mrs. w. j. Stone returned Thursday
from Washln IN, where she mad been for
hVe weeks Wis ling her husband, Hon. w.
j. StoIe. Oh, nitnessed The Inauguration
OF Pres dent &! yelind.
Mrs. Jas. y. Johnson, arrived home
tuesday mof' IDg IN answer to 3 telegram
announcing he " we're illness OF her nus
band. She Ia d been visiting friends in
Jefferson Git, f1r some time.
Irving Masters and wife, OF Indiana.
came to this city last week TO visit friends,
| and litter his arrival here he " Is AIKEN seri-
ously sick and IT Is now reported that NO
hopes are enter aimed for his recovery.
Mrs. w. l. Fisher returned home
Monday moining, accompanied by her sis
ter, Miss Lee Ming, beautiful and accom-.
plished belle of Dover, who will remain
here Tor some time visiting her may friends.
The music house of w. E. Walton.
r. presented by F. NJ. Allen & Son. has
again changed hands, we hope this time
permanently. The puIchas-r is r. G..
Jones, one o! the jolli st and best boys that
ever Travelled the commercial mans route.
Besides n is and has teen for some time
resident Of Nevada, AMI all his interests
are !denIiti-d with ours. We wish him
succ, IS, fer he deserves it.
-We,tOver & Co., wholesale LIQUOR
dealers. b We been c.Osed by the sheriff.
Their h4bllties amount TO nearly $1,000
and assets about 81 500. They have been
doing an excessive business In shipping
quor to Kansas, and claim that the laIe
decision making the practice illegal and
their inability to collect outstanding in
debtsdness j, the Cause of their failure.
Their resumption is doubtful.
Nevada can at last lay claim to an iu-
desputable right 10 The new asylum. A
man purporting to hail from Rich Hill,
srrived here yesterday and began inter
viewing our people on the subject of street
sprinklers. He at once b came an object
OF interest. and be soon hid large guard
OF hoodlums fl owing him about. OF
course be me: with large measure of sue.
Cess, and d-parted in the couldn't belief
that he had strrck a bonanza.
We find the following extract in the
Nevsda DemocIa at of Thursday: King
mud has held despotic sway for the past
week or two, but at last be is compelled to
evaporate and the highways ere once more
psssable." Well, may be so. But as We
look ont OF our window, which does not
embrace very extensive prospect, we can
see three yehicl that have ben stuck in
The mud for three days; wagons passing
Sink to the hub, and pedesir. ans to the
knees. Taken into consideration with the
fact that il hiss b n raining continuously
tor thirty-six hours we must conclude that
Crockett has been trying 10 perpetrate
Joke.
About a year ago the Gilfllian
drew their regulir agent from this place,
and their interests were LETT in charge of
B. j. McWilli. Us, ore of their former
He apparently gave satisfaction,
IS No complaints of irregularity we're
leari, either from his employers or their
customers. A few days ago he left home,
Is usual, and since tfen has not been heard
rom. A singular circumstance connected
With bis disapp >arance is the fact, that be
eft his family N very destitute cordi-
ion, so much so, indeed, that they are ob-
iged 10 be cred for by charitable neigh
'Ors. We will await further developments
'efOre Masking any comments.
The first suit entered in this section un-
Ter the Downing law, will be brought be-
ore our next circuit court. Ii is that Oh
Mrs. L. b. Benmsn against Henry Stig
nan, saloOn-k per, who has been SELL
ng liquor to her husband who is an hab-
tual drurkarG. She places damages al
800. Henry hes lem rather unfortunate
aiely. Some wees ago lie was arrested
md fined for 90 sssult on MS wife. He
Explained to the re ,rder that he thought
lie had right to administer correction in
lis own fimiIy. A few days after two
ramps went into his saloon and gave him
',rrible beating. Still sub equeni ly he
- fined Sl20 for selling liquor without
license. ard now the present suit.
Nevada certainly mas claims as pro-
ressive aud enlerprising city, but there is
ne element of It's composition which is
isgus,ing not 10 strangers alone, but to
arge class Of our own ciIizers. We allude
D the dude ell meut, who are the standing
isgust of every LAZY in the city. III there
any obi on earth deserving of cial
and unqualified deieststion it lie
he mcdern dude. He is thing made up
starch aud linen-of whalebone and cor
1.-THE dres 4 puppet of the tailor and
arber-s ] omotive antomston whose
less never rise higher than the set of a tie